TEST RECORD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1938, Page 8

TEST RECORD

SEVEN INDIVIDUAL CENTURIES

TRIBUTES TO AUSTRALIA’S GALLANT EFFORT ESCAPE FROM THE GRAVEST PERIL (Recd This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, June 14. The seven individual centuries scored in the England-Australia match constitute a test record. Mr Howard Marshall writing in the “Daily Telegraph," says: “Although the wicket developed a spot at one end it failed to crumble and left the bowlers helpless against defensive batting of the highest class. Let us pay a tribute to Australia, who struck back so bravely and escaped from the gravest peril.”

The Australian Associated Press says: “The match has done much to end four day tests in England. Even conservative critics are now joining in the demand for an extension of play to five days, after a demonstration that four days, with only ten minutes lost owing to rain, is insufficient to assure a finish. Though it was noticeable that the wicket was wearing on the last day, the magnificent example of leadership, with the captain and vice-captain playing contrasting hands, enabled Australia to obtain a draw. Bradman limped wearily from the field tonight with a strained groin, conscious, by revealing another facet of his greatness, that he had finished, the work begun by McCable, Brown and Fingleton.”