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Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1929, Page 3

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THE FOURTH TEST. HAMMOND AGAIN. MAKES MEMORABLE STAND. (Australian Press Association) ADELAIDE, Fob. 5. Australia’s first innings ended quickly to-day in the fourth test match against England. After only four runs Imd been added, Tate shattered Oldfield’s wicket. England was. thus 39 runs behind Australia on the first innings. In bowling Grimmctt and Oldfield, Tate had obtained two cheap wickets, and he thus finished with the best average, viz., four wickets for 77 runs. The weather to-day was bright and hot. Play started with a gusty wind blowing, which some thought would help Blnckie, ‘but the wind died down when the Australians took the field. The attendance to-day was the smallest for the match to date, only Jive thousand people being present when play began. The attendance swelled to nearly ten thousand after lunch. England began their second knock in an unpromising fashion. Hobbs was out to a brilliant catch bv Oldfield with one run scored, and only 20 runs later Sutcliffe departed, Oldfield again shining behind the sticks. England thus had lost two valuable wickets without their first innings deficit being wiped off, and the Australian stocks rose. The spectators then saw some dull cricket, with Hammond and Jardinc associated, but they also saw England’s position improve slowly under steady scoring by this pair. Fifty runs came up in 73 minutes. Hammond gave another fine display of batting. Loud applause signalled his arrival at 50 runs, in 124 minutes. His was an admirable effort. Tic looked like performing the rare feat of compiling a century in each innings of the test match. The pair made their partnership worth 100 runs in 123 minutes, and they wore hatting soundly at the ten adjournment, with the total at 129. Hammond and Jardine carried op after the tea adjournment.' Jardine’s innings was a stodgy one. He scored only off the balls which were perfectly safe to hit. They did not come often. It took him 157 minutes to reach fifty. After the tea adjournment a new ball had to he used, because the seam **' +l>e old one had split. Quiet cricket followed, a though the even pace of t.ho scoring was maintained. Hammond’s century came after 230 minutes’ batting, and it. include' 1 seven fours. Hammond had thus established a record which is not likely to bo equalled for some time. He ll*w| IWI the feat of Sutcliffe and Bardsley in making two centuries in one test, and had also established a record in compiling four scores over a hundred in succession. Jardine was then 65, and the partnership had produced 171 runs. Jnrdine continued to bat without ento;prise. and his slowness earned him some barracking. With two hundred posted in 248 minutes, he had scored 69. At the drawing of stumps six runlater, the scores stood : ENGLAND —First Innings. Hobbs, c Ryder, b Hendry 7<’ Sutcliffe, st. Oldfield, b Grimmett 6-' Hammond, (not o”t) Jardine, l.b.w. b Grimmett ! Hendren, b Blnckie 10 Chapman, c A’Beckett, h Ry'Vr 3° Duckworth, c Ryder, li Grimmett 5 Larwood, b Hendry •- Geary, run out 3 T ’" 4 m li Grimmett- - White, c Ryder, b Grimmett ... 6 Extras H Total 334 Bowling analysis: A’BeekeH nil for 44, Hendry 2 for 49, Blnckie. 1 for 57 Grimmett 5 for TO2. Oxenhani nil for 51, Ryder 1 for 20. Fall of wickets: One for 143. two fiv 143, three for 149, four for 229. five for 245, six for 263, seven for 270. eight foil 308, nine for 312, 10 for 334. AUSTRALIA—First Innings. Windfall, e Duckworth, b Tate ... 1 Hendry, c Duckworth, 1> Larwood 2 Kippax, b White 3 •Jackson, 1.b.w., h White 164 Ryder, 1.b.w., b White Bradman, c Larwood, b Tate ... 4 n A’Beckett, b White 3f : Oxenliam, c Chapman, b White ... 15 Grimmett, b Tate 4 Oldfield, b Tate 32 [Blackie, (not out) ... 3 Extras o Total 369 Bowling analysis: Larwood 1 for 92. Tate four for 77, Whit© five for 130. Geary nope for 32, Hammond none for 32. ENGL \ ND— Second Tunings. Hobbs, c Oldfield b Hendry ... I Sutcliffe, c Oldfield, b A’Beckett 17 Hammond, (not out) ...I 105 Jardine, (not out) 73 Extras 10 Total for two wickets 206 Fall of wickets: One for one, (wo for 21. JACKSON’S PERFORMANCE. The success of A. Jackson in his first test match against England will doubtless lie hailed with delight in Australia, hut for the selectors there must V this fly in the ointment, that they did not pick him for the earlier tests. His innings of 164 is imost meritorious, for in the early part of it lie had the trying experience of seeing older and supposedly better batsmen than himI self being dismissed cheaply.

Jackson is the seventh Australian batsman to score a century in his first test against England. The highest scoro of the other six batsmen was 165 (retired hurt) made by Cr Baiun-rrnan in the very first test ever played between Australia and England. That was at Melbourne in the 1876-77 season. Though lie is not vet twenty (be was horn at Newcastle on September 5. 1909), this is Jackson’s third season in Sheffield Shield cricket. His ability as a cricketer developed eanlv. At. the age of fifteen he won a place in the Balmain first eleven, and before lie reached his eighteenth birthday he was in the New South Wales team. For such a young batsman Jackson has a very fine record, and has scored the following centuries in Sheffield Shield matches:— 1926- ... 100 v. Queensland. 104* v. South Australia. 1927- ... 131 v. South Australia. 122.. v. .South Australia. 1928- ... 162 v. South Australia. The two centuries made by Jackson in 1927-28 were compiled in the one match. He came near doing the double in the game this season between New South Wales and South Australia at Adelaide, when he made 162 and 90. In all first-class matches this season Jackson has made 831 runs in fifteen innings, and. with one not out. his average is 59.35. This includes his innings for 164 against England. Jackson was a member of the Australian team which toured New Zealand last season. He finished third in the batting averages for the tour, his figures being eleven innings, one notout, highest score 110. total runs 474 and average 47.40. His single eentnrv Cl 10) was made against Southland. He nlayed in the first test, when lie- made 35, but he (I’d not take part in Jhc second. His first encounter with tlm New Zealanders was , against Tom Lowry’s team, when tbev plaved a match at Sydney on October. 1027. on their way home from England. For New South Wales on that occasion he scored 104. Jackson’s admirers claim him as n second Trimmer and in this connection a recent article in the Sydney “Referee” is interesting;— “Archie Jackson, the young S-vrlncv batsman, has accomplished bigger things in first-class cricket, measured hv mere fi<rur°s. than Victor Trumper had done at his aero. But Trumper i” 1897-8 was unbeatable for his club, Paddington. Every innings save two he played in the first grade that season was three figures, and those two were in the eighties, and in one of them lie was run out. Jackson stands a clianc*’ of developing into a Trumper of the future. He has great natural skill and a wider range of scoring shots that Kippax. But a man must possess no ordinary conception of batsmanship to become truly Trumpermn. The cham - pion was essentially a match-winning cricketer. He played to win, and no man ever helped the chap at the other end as Trumper did. It is utterly impossible to measure the greatness of such a batsman as Trumper was ly a mere contemplation of futures. They do not tell the story at all. If Jackson develops along the lines of the Trumper conception, Australian hatting, aye, that of the world, will be onc-e again enriched beyond dreams. lB”t. of course, we all say the world will never see such another as Truinper. He was unique.”