THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 2, 1937.
LAST FIVE WICKETS FALL
FOR SEVENTEEN RUNS STOP PRESS
Supreme Court Bill Signed
Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt yester- day signed the Summers· Bill, permitting Supreme Court jud- ges to retire on full pay at the age of seventy-Reuter.
ACTION AGAINST NEWSPAPER DISMISSED
"No Boxing To-night"
An action against the South China Morning Post, Ltd. brought by Mr. S. M. Fernandes, physical culture specialist, was dismissed by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac- Gregor, at the Supreme Court this morning.
ENGLAND COLLAPSE ON
SOAKED PITCH FOLLOW-ON FORCED
O'REILLY ALMOST UNPLAYABLE THIS MORNING
MELBOURNE, TO-DAY.
FOLLOWING ON WITH 365 RUNS TO AVERT THE INN- NINGS DEFEAT, ENGLAND ARE IN AN ALMOST HOPELESS POSITION IN THE FIFTH AND DECISIVE MATCH.
WITH THE WICKET BEARING A STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO A MUD BATH; AUSTRALIA HAVE VICTORY WITHIN THEIR GRASP.
AFTER OFFERING A STUBBORN RESISTANCE WHEN PLAY RECOMMENCED THIS MORNING, THE VISITORS SUD- DENLY CRUMBLED BEFORE THE BOWLING OF O'REILLY, THE LAST FIVE WICKETS FALLING FOR ONLY 37 RUNS, THE TOTAL REALISING 239. DON BRADMAN IMMEDIATELY DE- CIDED TO ENFORCE THE FOLLOW ON.
SCORE-BOARD
AUSTRALIA.—1ST INNS.
17
A crowd of 4,000 was present when Hardstaff (73) and R.E.S. Wyatt (20) resumed England's in- nings, which stood at 184 for 4 wickets at the close of play yester- 28/day. 112 The weather was still sultry and the sky overcast, and further rain was thought likely.
169
The claim was for damages al- leged to have been caused to the plaintiff by defendants by falsely and maliciously publishing and printing in the "Hong Kong Tele-J. H. Fingleton, e Voce, b Farnes graph" of June 1, 1936, an article D. G. Bradman, b Faznes
K. Rigg, e Ames, b Farnes
with reference to a boxing exhibi- S. J. McCabe, e Farnes, b Verity tion organised by the plaintiff to C L. Badcock, e Worthington, take place of the night of June 1, R. S. Gregory, Verity, b Farnes 1936, with the following headings: W. A. Oldfield, Ames, b Voce. 21
L E. Nash, c Ames, b Farnes... "No Boxing To-night."
W. J. O'Reilly, b. Voce "Final. Decision Is "No."
Voce
EL McCormick, not out by L. O'B. Fleetwood-Smith, b Farnes
Extras ·
Mr. George She, instructed Mr. M. W. Lo, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Eldon Potter, K. C., and the Hon. Mr. Leo D'Al- mada, instructed by Mr. R. A. Wa- deson, was for the defence.
Total
118
80
17
1
:
The wicket was soft and the out-
field damp, while the bowlers kick- 17 ed up chunks of mud as they ran 13 to bowl.
11
604
HARDSTAF GOES
The 200 was sent up after 258 Fall of wickets:-1 (Rigg) for 42; 2 minutes of play but two balls later (Fingleton) for 54; 3 (McCabe) for a hard and lofty drive to the on 303; 4 (Bradman) for 346; 5 (Bad
Mr. She outlining the case, said cock) for 507; 6 (Gregory) for 544, by Hardstaff was caught by Mc- that an exhibition did, in fact, take 7 (Oldfield) for 653; 8 (O'Reilly) for Cormick at mid-on, who 1 place in a modified form and the 571;9 (Nash) for 576; 10 (Fleetwood- several yards to take article was published without Smith) for 604.
BOWLING
ANALYSIS
plaintiff being consulted as to the truth of the statements. Plaintiff's claim was based on the fact that Allen the public was led into the belief Farnes.
Voce that no boxing of any description Hammond would take place at the Lee Thea- Verity tre that night.
Worthington Leyland
(202-5-83).
Tan -in the ball
Hardstaff had batted for 240 min- 0 M R Wates and had hit eight 4's. He was 17:0 990 28.5 5 96 6 given a huge ovation
.29 3 123
.16. 1 62
41 5127 60 60 -30-26
ENGLANDIST INNS.
Shapes he return-
3 ed to the pavilion.
0
1
83
Broadcast Message Plaintiff tried to undo the dam- age by removing posters and also
C.. J. Barnett, c Oldfield, b Nash 18 went to the Radio Office and asked T. S. Worthington, hit wkt, b that a message be broadcast to the Fleetwood-Smith effect that an exhibition would take J. Hardstaff, c McCormick, b.0-
Reilly place.
W. R. Hammond, e Nash, Plaintiff had spent something O'Reilly over $1,000 and expected a capacity M. Leyland, b O'Reilly
As RES. Wyatt, e house of about 2,200 people.
O'Reilly the result of the article, only 150 L Ames, b Nash turned up.
J. O. Allen, c Oldfield, b Nash The next day a further article H. Verity, Bigg, b Nash appeared in the "Telegraph with W. Voce, st Oldfield, b O'Reilly
K. Farnes not out the headings "They Boxed After Extras All" "Programme On And Then
Off."
Total
Bradman,
Wyatt was then joined by Ames
and after three quarters of an hour the score had been taken to 222 for
5, Wyatt being 36 and Ames Z
ROT SETS IN
The crowd by now had increas- ed to 10,000:
An amazing collapse suddenly set bin, Ames being the first to go when 14 Nash uprooted his middle stamp.
7
His had been a patient innings oc- 38 cupying 39 minutes (286-6-19). 19 The next blow to England came when Don Bradman caught Wyatt at silly point for 38. His courageous oland stubborn innings had taken him 13 127 minutes, and hitone A
239
Fall of wickets: 1 (Barnett) for 336-7-38).
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ENGLAND 2nd INNINGS
21 for 2
TEA SCORE
ENGLAND: 101 for
wickets.
Barnett Ibw 41-
Worthington 6.
Hardstaff 1.
Hammond 47 not.
Leyland 5 not.
Shanghai, To-day.
Mr. W. Kirkpatrick, special
representative in China of the
British export credit guarantee
department, left for Hong Kong
en route to Canton on the Nal-
dera to-day. Mr. Kirkpatrick will
spend a week or ten days in
South China-Renter.
NEW CMS.N. CO. SERVICE
Manila, To-day. The China Merchants Steam Na- vigation Company is inaugurating an express service with Amoy and Manila this month, according to Mr. William P. Hunt, American ad- viser to the company:
The s.s. "Haichan" will open the
The English skipper was next dig-service, arriving at Manila
March 28, after which the company In order to support his claim 2 (Worthington) for 96; 3 (Hammond) missed for a duck with no addition said Mr. She, he must satisfy is for 130: 4 (Leyland) for 140: 5 (Hard- to the score (236-8-0).
will maintain a regular ten-day schedule. Lordship that the report was un- staff) for 202-6 (Ames) for 236; 7
Voce came in to join Verity and It is understood that the chief true, that it was published unjus- (Wyatt) for 236; 8 (Allen) for 236, 9 tifiably and that plaintiff had suf- (Verity) for 236; 10 (Voce) for 289. the Yorkshireman was caught by object of the service is to enable fered special damage thereby.
Celly
BOWLINGANALYSIS
51
Bigg at third slip off Nash (236-9- 10).
local Chinese, most of whom are
W With Oldfield dismissing Voce, Fukienese, to visit their homes
In the course of cross-examin- ation by Mr. Potter, Mr. Fernandes revealed that no Filipino boxers appeared against any local men as was originally advertised and that although an identical article ap- peared in the "China Mail," and two Press Associations, cabled to should Manila that the fights were off, no quit action had been taken against After Mr. She had quoted num- them
No Malice
the law was
erous authorities in support of his
who was well out of his crease when the stumper whipped off the bails, the innings came a close after 324 minutes.
NEW ITALIAN COINS
Milan, To-day New silver nickel and bronze
case, His Lordship gave judgment coins will be issued by Italy on Mr. Potter submitted that the as stated and said that he could not May 9, the anniversary day of the
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