ANOTHER VICTORY

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20498, 14 May 1938, Page 8

ANOTHER VICTORY

4.30 O’CLOCK EDITION

AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS INNINGS AND 426 RONS MARGIN GIBB'S GOOD BATTING FORM Unite i Press As*n.—Elec. Tel. Copjrrigrr 'Received May 14. 3.15 p.m.) LONDON. May 13 The Australian cricketers gaiend their fourth successive victory to-day when they defeated Cambridge University by an innings and 425 runs. Cambridge were dismissed to-day for 163 runs after having scored 120 in their first innings while Australia de D for 708 runs in their first innings. At stumps yesterday Cambridge had lost two wickets for 73 runs in their second innings. Details:— AUSTRALIA First Innings 708 for 5 wickets decl.) CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY First Innings .. 120 Second innings Wild, b Ward 18 Gibb, not out .. .. •. 80 Langley, c and b Ward .. •. 0 Yardley. b O’Reilly .. .. 20 Packe, c Flngleton, b Ward .. 15 Mann, b White 1 Studd, b Badcock .. .. 4 Kaye, c Bradman, b White .. •» Bannister, c Brown, b White .. 2 Jameson, b Ward .. - - 4 Rees-Davies, st Barnett, b Ward o .. .. .. 10 Total 163 The Australians have won their first four matches by wide margins, the first against Worcester by an innings and 77 runs, the second against Oxford University by an Innings and 487 runs, the third against Leicester by an innings and 163 runs, and the fourth yesterday by an innings and 425 runs. The highest Australian total in England was 843 against Oxford and Cambridge Past and Present, at Portsmouth in 1893. Australia's four innings to date are: v. Worcester 541, all out; ▼. Oxford. 679 for seven, declared; v. Leicestershire, 590 for five, declared; v. Cambridge, 708 for five, declared. So far Hassett has made 557 runs for three completed Innings. Bradman 453 and Badcook 451. Fingleton has aggregated 310.