AN INNINGS VICTORY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1939, Page 5

AN INNINGS VICTORY

ENGLAND WINS THIRD TEST SOUTH AFRICA OUTCLASSED. CHANCELESS INNINGS BY .. MITCHELL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) DURBAN. January 23. England won the third test match against South Africa by an innings and 13 runs. Mitchell played a chanccless innings, which lasted 190 minutes, he hit fourteen fours. Rowan was on the defensive for 20f minutes and did not hit a boundary. The bowlers were in command after tea, when, despite the poor light, the batsmen continued, apparently being under instructions not to appeal. ENGLAND. Ist Innings, 4 wickets for 469 SOUTH AFRICA. Ist Innings 103 Second Innings. Van de Bijl. b Verity 13 Mitchell, c Ames, b Farnes 109 Rowan, c Ames, b Hammond 67 Nourse, c Ames, b Edrich 27 Viljoen, c Hammond, b Farnes .... 61 Melville, b Wilkinson 10 Dalton, c Hammond, b Verity .... 8 Wade, 1.b.w., b Farnes 2f Langton, b Wilkinson 12 Gordon, c Edrich. b Verity 0 Davies, not out 2 Extras 16 Total ' 353 Bowling—Fames, 3 for 80; Edrich. 1 for 16; Wilkinson 2 for 103; Wright 0 for 56; Verity, 3 for 71; Hammond, 1 for 11. LORD NUFFIELD’S GIFT. TO ENCOURAGE SCHOOL CRICKET. (Independent Cable Service.) DURBAN, January 23. It is understood that a special meeting of the South African Cricket Association decided, subject to Lord Nuffield’s approval, to use his gift o £lO,OOO to finance the annual interprovincial schools tournament to enable boys to develop the “big match temperament.”