CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1925, Page 1

CRICKET.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION ROBB’S COAIMENT. '.Received this day at 9.45 a m.) LONDON, May 4. Hobbs, in hi.s third article: —The Australian passion for cricket is evidenced by the enormous crowds at tho tests. The crowds thoroughly know the game and their sense of humour depends upon how you receive, it. They can amuse or irritate according to a man’s temperament. Tt you get in their bad hooks, heaven help you. The best thing is to laugh with tho barrackcr, but if you lose your head ho wilt worry you to death. Any new player would find the harrackers’ humour rattier trying, hut would eventually get to hear it quite cheerfully. The only barracking that annoyed mo was the crowds cheering "hen we justifiably and unsuccessfully appealed. They do it out of sheer devilment, hut 1 wish they would not.

The newspaper “Standard” says that if any proposal is made regarding the toss it is preferable that it should emanate from Australia who never winced when Jackson won five times in succession. It is well to remember that in 109 tests Australia has won tho toss only once more than England. On those figures, the paper asks, is the change worth while. It is an axion. that luck levels itself, so let us rather concentrate, as sportsmen and cricketers. on the development of players capable of winning when the toss is lost. The “Evening News” declares that if any serious proposal for compensation for losing tho toss reaches Australia it "ill raise a smile. Had England won seventy per cent of the tosses in the whole series wc might say something. but to propose an alteration when the spin of the coin is against us is neither particularly sportsmanlike nor diplomatic. AVe are out to play the game hv practically declaring that the Australians toss better.

LONDON, May 2. The cricket, season opened in.cold showery weather everywnerc. For Leicester against Sussex, King made 114 securing the first century of the season.