DODGING THE SHOWERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 987, 2 June 1930, Page 9

DODGING THE SHOWERS

AUSTRALIANS PLAYING HAMPSHIRE TEAM BRADMAN REACHES 1,000 LONDON, Saturday. The Australian cricketers today began the 10th match of * their tour against Hampshire at Southampton. The visitors’ team comprised Woodfull, Bradman. Jackson, Ponsford. Wall, Fairfax, Grimmett, Oldfield. Uorni- j brook, Kippax and McCabe. The county team was Hosie. Brown. Lowndes, Mead, Kennedy, Newman, Lord Tennyson. Creese. Boyes, Her- j man and T. O. Jameson. Lord Tennyson, the county captain, i won the toss, and sent his men in to 1 bat. j After making a good start Hampshire was dismissed for 151 runs. I Grimmett was again deadly, and took ; seven wickets; and has taken move ; than 30 on the tour. An overcast sky, j heavy rain clouds and a cold wind made conditions far from ideal. Brown, who made the only stand for j his side, gave a delightful display and j scored nine in one over from Wall. . He is a left-hander, and succeeded in j punishing the bowling. WICKETS FALL RAPIDLY Grimmett broke the opening partnership at 60, Wall taking a splendid one-handed catch high up, dismissing : Hosie. As was fitting. Brown’s brilliant innings was concluded by a ma- j nificent piece of fielding, when Bradman threw down Brown’s wicket from 50yds, after stopping the ball with his foot. Spice went out of the game when j Brown left, and wickets fell rapidly. In Grimmett's second over after lun- ! cheon he secured his 50tli wicket of the tour. Tennyson showed a disposition to | hit, but the bowling baffled him. Grimmett continued the rout, and the \ natural wicket enabled him to spin the ball tremendously. None of the I later batsmen offered any serious resistance. His triumph was largely responsible for reviving the hope that Bradman would score 1,000 runs before the end of May. Bradman opened with Jackson. Jackson tried to hook Herman’s second ball, which caught the top of the bat and was skied to short square leg, where Boyes took a simple catch. RAIN STOPS PLAY Bradman wanted 46 to reach 1,000 runs. He and Ponsford dealt severely with loose balls. Then the weather 1 threatened to deprive Bradman of the distinction so eagerly sought. Drizzling rain caused a delay of a quarter of an hour. Ponsford was bowled shortly after tea. Bradman crept up to 997. Then with rain again imminent Newman obligingly threw up a full toss, from which Bradman reached 1,001. Before the players had left the field rain pelted down, and play ceased for the day. The 9,000 spectators gave Bradman an ovation. The scores are: HAMPSHIRE First Innings HOSIE, c Wall.'b Grimmett 3 2 BROWN, run out 56 LOWNDES, e Woodfull, b Hornibrook. 5 1 MEAD, c McCabe, b Grimmett . . . . * O' KENNEDY, b Grimmett 5 NEWMAN, c Fairfax, b Grimmett .. 10 f TENNYSON, c Jackson, b Wall . . 15 i CREESE, lbw, b' Grimmett 9 \ BOYES, not out 4 1 HERMAN, c Hornibrook, b Grimmett 3 j JAMESON, st Oldfield, b Grimmett 27 Extras 5 Total .. 151 Bowling:—Wall, 1-36: Fairfax, 0-22; Hornibrook, 1-49; Grimmett, 7-39. AUSTRALIA First Innings JACKSON, c Boyes, b I-lerman . . . . 0 BRADMAN, not out 47 I PONSFORD, b Newman 29 i KIPPAX, not out 3 Extras j Two wickets for S2 j TEST TRIALS MATCH BEGUN AT LORD’S LONDON, Saturday. i The cricket test match England v. The Rest was begun today. Rain caused stumps to be drawn early. There were several thousand specta- j tors at the opening of the match at Lord’s. The wicket was protected by a tarpaulin during a downpour of rain on the previous evening. Robins and Geary were the most destructive of the bowlers. Robins, who is a splendid fieldsman as well as a batsman, seems certain of inclusion in tlie first test match team against Australia. He bowled better than Peebles or any other slow bowler so far encountered by the Australians. The top spin he imparted to the ball caused great speed off the pitch. Larwood, Tate and Geary were played with comparative confidence. A critic describes the match as being “the old men’s triumph.” One of the features of the game was that no semblance of a catch was missed. Another was Duckworth’s brilliant wicketkeeping. But there is no sign at present of an English Bradman. The scores are as follow; THE REST First Innings. JARDINE, c Geary, b Robins 15 STEVENS, c Chapman, b Tate .... i DULEEPSINHJI, c Geary, b Larwood 12 WYATT, c Duckworth, b Geary .... 23 i LEYLAND, st Duckworth, b Robins 1 AMES, c Duckworth, b Robins .... 23 HOP WOOD, c Chapman, b Robins . . 17 WORTHINGTON, lbw, b Geary . . . . 29 WHITE, c Duckworth, b Geary .... 7 ALLOM, not out 0 CLARK, c Duckworth, b Geary .... 0 Extras 5 Total J 33 Bowling: Larwood, 3-21: Tate. 3-IS; Geary, 4-20; Robins, 4-69; Woolley, 0-5. ENGLAND First Innings. HOBBS, not out Cl j SUTCLIFFE, c Ames, b Alloxn .. .. 2. HAMMOND, not out 49 Extras _6 ' Total for one wicket 11S ! OVATION TO BRADMAN j LONDON, Sunday. ! The newspapers pay generous tri- j butes to Bradman for liis fine batting 1 feat. It is agreed that lie lias achieved cricket immortality by joining the famous four —W. G. Grace, Hammond. Hallows and Hayward—in this particular distinction of making 1,000 runs before June.