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Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1925, Page 3

CRICKET.

’NOILYTOOSBV HTHVO ’Z'N (INV NVnVHJSai 11A AYR K CUP. NELSON. Jan. ft. Nelson are all out for (.Max 22. .1. Newman (not out) 7. extras 20), Bowling: AlcYicnr 0 for 41. Hope I lor Jo. .Mullins 1 lor I.A. Gallerhan 2 Cor 27. .McDonald 0 for 0. SHEFFIELD SHIELD. ADELAIDE. Jan. ft. The Sheffiield Shield match. X.S.W. against South Australia was commenced in fine but hot weather. South Australia won tbe toss and batted first. They have lust ft for .47.4 (Orimlnett 48, .Murray 16. Pritchard 101. (■iinii not out 12i.) Stumps were then drawn. YIKWS O.E ENGLISH CRITICS LONDON, January «S. -Mr R. F. Warner, writing in the Morning Post” states: ”The Alar.vleboiie team kept the issue an upon question until the seventh day of tbe lest, after Australia bad scored six himdred. ’lbis will increase the reputation of the Learn, but. despite the fuck of tbe toss, we should have won il Hobbs ami .Sutcliffe, and, to a lessor degree, W oolley, had been adequately supported. Our unequal batting lost us the match. We do not regard tbe chance of winuL.g the rubber as hopeless, especially if llearne returns to bis best flatting lorm. If wo win the toss on the sixteenth, and if our batting gains in consistency, there is no reason why we should not be successful. Kilner is almost certain to play, and Freeman is also a strong, candidate.”

COLONEL TREYOR’S COM Al ENT. LONDON, January S. Colonel Trevor, writing the “ Daily I olograph” says: "Our horse cracked >M> badly ill tbe straight for home. We have got to take our beating like men. and not like grizzling infants. W ith JBD on for six wickets, the whole team should not have gone out for 200 runs. Tbe English team lias got tbe better cricketers, except for tbe test matches. Sutcliffe is tbe sort "of man thal is wanted for the test. He has shown pluck and grit. Hobbs. Tate and Strudwiok come next, llearne bowled well on two days. Woolley did lairly well, and so did Gilligan and Chapman, as fielding counts, but for I lendren it was not a good match. For Tyklesley and Douglas is was a bad match. The Australians carried mi passengers.” Al AI LEY’S PART. LONDON. January 3. Mr Wilson writes in the " Daily Express”: " Mailev was too much for our tail. Despite Australia’s six hundred. England at three stages bad tbe better ol the game on Saturday; on Tuesday when Australia were 11 IS for (>. and at tea on Wednesday, but Collins is the equal of Armstrong as a tatician. Me handled the bowling excclle'” !y. The Australians’ victory is due to their consistency in baiting. Gilligan made a mistake in putting Ghnpman in ninth. Tbe leg before derisions in England's second innings may arouse comment. especially as Woolley has always I cell an unlucky cricketer. It annears that lie was the

victim of a mistake, but umpires i :ill- - please both sides. Some of the Australian umpires lack tbe experience of English umpires. but there is

nothing remarkable about these four decisions.” NEXT TEST PROSPECTS. LONDON. January 3. Air Barnes, writing in the "Daily Chronicle” says: ‘•England went down in the test match like the lizzie of a wet squib. The most credit is due to Sutcliffe. Hobbs and Tate, aided by llearne. Woolley and others with a world-wide reputation failed dismally. Tills is a disturbing element. 'I be only excuse is that Ibe wicket crumbled to such an extent that it became unplayable. 4!m luayei s will find a dill'creiil al niospliel'e in Adelaide. In ideal wea I her. lie sky is disconcert ing there. There is never a bint of a cloud to give the fielders a line ul the ball, while the heat haze may (lame over tbe ground all (lav long. Tate should have assistance. Possibly Gilligan will include in tbe team Howell, abo puts more devil in his bowling than Douglas. We are also forced to t.lio conclusion that Freeman is a boltoi man than Tyldeslcy on Australian Rickets.” BRITISH PUBLIC OPINION. LONDON, January 3. Not for years lias a. test match so gripped the British public. It was almost the sot topic of conversation in ihe trams, trains and buses. Editions of the newspapers were rushed out with long descriptions of the play and also prophecies by former players. The evening journals which yesterday published photographs of the remaining batsmen as the English hopes, to-dav"appeared with large headlines all alluding the England's limp tail, but they agree that England went down gloriously. Tbe papers feature Gilligan’s message: ”1 am sure 1 will win the toss in the next three tests.” Cabled reports of the cutting of the wicket led to abundant suggestions that Australian wickets are too perfect. Lord Hawke declared: ” t deprecate these easy wickets, which are such a handicap to even the best bow bus. Air Jessup said: ”If seven day matches are to continue. I suggest a change of wicket every third day. Sir /.acharniah "Wheatley cabled an order for a gramophone with ” I’hysi- ,.;. 1 Jerks ” records to be delivered to Gilligan in order to keep the team lit for their return. SUTCLIFFE IN THE BHOAf. LONDON, January ft. Competent cricket opinion, while disappointed at the weak finish by a team that is regarded as: the strongest bailing side that ever k-f' England, wecoined Sutcliffe's truin.ph, which is all the more praiseworthy, remembering the cast-iron character of the wicket, nnd the totally different light conditions as compared with those to which lie is accustomed. There is intense enthusiam, in Yorkshire, where Sutcliffe has been elevated to ail unprecedented position. Captain Jackson, in a speech, said he considered the English team ns .mod as the Australian team and that it ought to win the rubber. He voiced the Yorkshire opinion that the team should include more Yorkshuvnien. _ Naturallv. this feeling is not uiuversallv accepted, hut there is n belief nevertheless, that the team is capable of being strengthened. MELBOURNE. January 9. I„ recognition of the splendid performance of Sutcliffe in the second t 1 . 5. match, a shilling fund has been opened for him, and cricketers and the public are subscribing freely.