HOOTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 7

HOOTED

Victorian Cricketers “Get the Bird”

KEEPING OTHER SIDE IN

At the end of Queensland’s innings at the Exhibition Ground, Brisbane, last week, the Victorian cricketers were

hooted because the crowd believed that after the home team’s collapse they had not tried to get the “rabbits” out. Ryder and Ellis were picked out for most of the barracking (.says the Sydney “Sun.”) The scene as the players left the field was the climax to two or three outbursts during the last few overs of the innings. Queensland wickets had been falling too quickly for the liking of the crowd. Hubbard. Goodwin. Mossop, Hurwood, Gough, all had gofne without reaching double figures—fallen to the wiles of the left-hander. Ironmonger, and the medium paced bowling of A’Beckett. Then the Victorians seemed to want to let the remaining batsmen stay in. Once one of the fieldsmen held the ball while Marshall got safe. COUNTED OUT Hornibrook was dismissed in trying to hit A’Beckett out of the ground. The ball went safely tp Hendry. The last man. Thurlow. came in. and the crowd became angry because it appeared to them that Ellis refused to stump each man in turn when the opportunity offered. The crowd shouted its disapproval., and kept up the barracking, eventually counting Ellis out. Then the innings came to a close. Marshall, while facing Ironmonger, appeared to get entirely fed up with the whole thing, and deliberately knocked down his wicket. The shouts and jeers were largely directed at Ellis and Ryder. Fortunately the crowd restrained itself to words and shouts. Tea was taken, and when the Victorian opening batsmen came on to the field the crowd did not murmur. Ironmonger, who was not one of the bow. ers selected to tour England, had the remarkable average of seven wickets for 3o runs. And that was on tvhat could be called a typical English wicket.