THE THIRD TEST MATCH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 317, 16 January 1908, Page 3

THE THIRD TEST MATCH.

AUSTRALIAN'S' GREAT INMXGS. irt . __ tIELDEU 506. ENGLISHMEN LOSE FIVE WICKETS FOR 139. O'CONNOR'S DEADLY BOWLING. Received Jan. 15, 9.10 p.m. Adelaide, January 15. .The Test match was resumed in terribly bot Weather, with no stir in the air. The attendance was iOOO, and the gate £215. Hill, after his great effort and under severe physical disability on Tuesdar, paSsed a fair night, and felt a little' better this morning. Fielder, having a heavy cold, was unable to take his place, and ioung acted as substitute. Barnes and Crawford were the bowlers.

Crawford'* first ball was hit bv Harti--8" *>r four - The same over he drove a ball to Barnes at mid-off, but was let on,. Hi had then made 110. In Barnes' «ext over, when he was 112, the same ' Mtaman should have. easily been ■tumped. ■ When 116, the (Queenslander was easily taken at point He was at the wickets for 4 houre 14 minutes, •ad played a grand innings, being sound ia defence, with fine forceful strokes all awund the Wicket.. He hit twelve fours. The wieket fell at 423, so that the partvera hip. produced 243 runs, beating the reeow by 22 tor any wicket in a Test match. Hartigan received an ovation. . V" 1 arttr several singles were atolen. Rhodes relieved Crawford at <33.

HBI hit h : s finjt ball for four. Braund replaced Barnes at 439. Off his second over Carter hit three fours, two byes wiring M off the over. Runs came fast. Just before luncheon, Hutchings relieved Braund. Off his first over six . byes and a fourer by Hill gave the Ans- . Italians a lead of 400. At the adjourn*ent the total stood at 40/—Hill 148, .Carter 24. Crawford and Barnes bowled when the game was resumed. Hill, with two strokes, got to 150, which were made in CV7 minutes. Five hundred runs were completed in 549 minutes. In thi same over Hill was caught on his right hand, Ugh, by Uunn at mid-on. His magnificat innings lasted 32u minutes, and ineinded eighteen fours. It was probably ihe grandest effort of his career. He fc(gan a little streakily on Tuesday L but •fter the first hpur played grandly and under extreme difficulties. The crowd rose to him when he came in. The ninth wicket fell at 501. Five more runs and Saunders was run out. The innings lasted 549 minutes. The Englishmen worked grandly under the extreme heat, which reached 111% in the shade. Their ground fielding was good, but they made serious blunders with the chances. England required 429 to win. They began with Hobbs and Fane. O'Connor ana Saunders bowled. Hobbs .got a single off O'Connor, but Saunders' first ball struck him on the groin. He was in such pain that Noble offered to let him temporarily retire. The offer was accepted. Guna filled the gap. He got one and then a four off Saunders, but the lefthander, in his second over, beat Fane Kith a break. Hutchings was almost caught and fowled by O'Connor, who, falling for-1 wardj just failed to take it. The next ball beat the Kent amateur.—Two for K

Bnumd joined (lunn. A spell of slow followed. (>unn got 10 in 25 mantes. With the total at 15 Guns ■rw easily caught at extra cover. O'Connor had then bowled six overs tor three maidens, three runs, and two jrfckets.

Hards tafl was the next man. He Spooned np a hill from Saunders, who, tuning in, just failed to grip it, although it toothed hj» fingers. Hardstaff, when he settled down, tatted rigorously. He got two fours off (launders. As the half-century approached, Arm•ttong and Macartney howled. Four to Hards tail, off the latter, made the score Mb N mingles.. Hards tail drove Macartney for fonr.' 1 -At 77 Noble replaced Macartney. Rons CUM freely off Armstrong- Hardstaff completed his 50 in #8 minutes. The century went up in 110 minutes. At 111 Saunders relieved Armstrong. Off the new bowler Hardstaff made some tie drives. With the total at 128 Hard•tail lifted a ball to long-on. Macartney ran nearly forty yards and reached the tab lost when it was at the height of kit left shoulder. He held it, amid tamnltuous cheers. It was a marvel-loaf-catch.

Hardstatf batted brilliantly for 90 jßiantea, and hit seven fours. ' iWith Rhodes in, O'Connor relieved Noble. EMei cat kim for four. At 138 Rhodes kit straight off O'Connor. Armstrong, running in a long way, effected a tine catch at knee-high. Crawford Bade a (ingle before stumps ■en drawn. Vraund played a fine defensive innings, hating 139 minute*. He hit five fours. She fielding of the Australians was O'Connor bowled splendidly. He bowled 13 overs for five maidens, It in*, and three wickets. A »)»Hm e subscription to provide ttxmnin for Hartigan and HOI yielded itax

SCORES: EM GLAND. Bnk Innings ..383 AUSTRALIA. j B&t innings 285 Second Innings. (table, e Gunn, b Fielder «. .* 69 ' {Trooper, b Bvin .. ». 0 Macartney, b Barnes 9 IfeAliiter, Lb.w., b Crawford .. 17 ' Ametiong, c Hutchings, b Braund-. 34 . O'Connor, b Crawford .» •• 20 JUwford, c Rhodes, b Braund . • 25 Hartigan, c Gunn, b Barnes . • .. 116 ffin, e Gunn, b Crawford . > .. 160 CaKer, not out 31 Bunders, run out 0 Extras 29 Kl Total 506

fowling analysis—Fielder, one for 89; ffcrncs, three for 8i; Crawford. thrs« lor 113; Branni, two for 85; Hutchings, ail for 34; Rhodee, nil for 81.

Ei<GLA.>D. —Second Innings. Bobbs, temporarily retired .. 1 Vane, b blunders ■ • 0 Uua, c Trumper, b O'Connor .. 111 Hrtdloie»> b UConnor .. 0j not out ' 41 Hards tall, e Macartney, b Saunders \i Jthodes, e Armstrong, b O'Connor .. 9 .""•awford, not out •• 1 ** «s*tra» .. ... .»• Total ® Te w ' CKeti " " 13:1

CHEAT LY."®" 581 LN EXOLA - NU

,'ondon, January 11. . _ , , . England are shoffr«opU> tkroughout test fag p«t intcreatin the will win . Ul* predicted that Aueti

Tha glorious uncertainty t . JVio would have believed it po. . the Australians lo have cban& „(_v whole aspect of the third Test »- in «o striking and sensational a man If they have done? Who would ha» , thought the "tail" would have produced £M nuul Verily, the "tail" has wagged | the body and palled the match out of the fire for the men of Kangaroo Land. A greater performance than that of Bill and Hartigan has not been seen in » Test match. Between them they rattled np 27#. , w-rfipn has been in great batting lorn this aeason, and in the abandoned I natch at Brisbane, an Australian Eleven r. the English team, on the eve of the Orst Test encounter, scored 65 not out. By hie wonderful innings Hill ha« brought up his Test match average. It was at low ebb. tor instance, his contributwn* for his last four innings only I ■mounted to 25—an average of 6J!5. In the first Test game at Sydney he com- I tiled 87 and 1, at Melbourne in the wcond Test his scores were 16 and J, and at Adelaide he made 5. To find a parallel for Ilill and lfarti gin's performance one has to go WV to December, I!W3. at s . v,lm ' } . " Suit two wicket« aikled 3** run. B. E. Foster and W. R. Rhode* l' u,tl "r on 130 for the tenth wwkel. In county cricket the record for » *"" tb wicket partnership » 341, jitsinhji and V>- >e»'i.un • wainst Essex, at ueyton m '»[- '« highest total for the sixth w "J"' mSTbv M A. Noble C»t> a' l ' l w - X ,V Armstrong (172 not out) for ! against Suwes, at Brighton in WTlhe bree*t number recorded for one wSjtTm, Captain Oat« (313 on oat) and Private titagerald <2Bi not nut) playing for the let Royal, Minister fusiliers against an Army Service Corps Curragh in 1835.

| Trumper's double failure is the most pronounced one debited against him in Test cricket. He was out at Leeds last Australian tour for 8 and nil, but the wickets I here are not comparable to those of the South Australian capital. ■Six years ago Trumper made <SS and 25 at Adelaide, and two years later 1 l;j and 59.

The Englishmen require to make 290 to win. With practically all their best talent dismissed, the task before them teems an impossible one; vet who can tell? llobbs and Crawford are men who can get runs, and they might perform the needful.

Fire Brigade team to play High School I>n the school ground fill's afternoon (match to start at 2.ls)—Clark, Marnev, Lye, Douglas, Sadler, K«w«am, Mclsaac, RuHot (31. and another. The match between New Plymouth and I'renui juniors, which should have ueen played this afternoon at New Plymouth, has been postponed till later on in the season.