ENGLAND
HE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST
BATTING FAILS Nothing But Praise For BOWLERS
W. A. Brown, the Australian open ing batsman, bowled by Wright in the first day's play in the Fourth Test at Leeds (Fox Copyright By
Airmail).
"The story of this match is that our batsmen failed to make enough runs to give our bowlers a fair chance.”
C. B. FRY Says-
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Leeds, Monday.
caught by forward short leg.
It was Walter's first ball. I fancy the top spin caused. the ball to cant up with extra zip so that Walter had to hurry his defensive stroke.
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Another tragedy. Fleetwood has pulled Edrich into a forward push at the ball which breaks away. Edrich misses the ball and
Ben Barnett whips off the bails. Fleetwood
ap- plauds. Edrich goes.
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We have lost four of our six real batsmen for 73 runs. Our lead is 64 paitry runs for this heavy price. Not what we hoped.
The plain fact is, the situation need ed the very best sort of resolute bats- manship, and we have been found wanting..
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be that there are worn patches where the ball has been pitching.
Certainly O'Reilly's bowling has been excellent, and he has bowled as though he felt the wicket would im- plement his spin.
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Out in the field they know the facts; nobody here in the pavilion ex- cept the batsmen who have returned to their box can gauge the events at their real value. I do not see how batsman after batsman can have been pinned and bothered unless the wicket is helping the bowlers,
Price is facing the situation calm- ly enough till he obstructs a straight one from Fleetwood. Paynter re- mains,
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Hedley Verity cannot oblige us to- day. He finds Fleetwood too much for him, Fleetwood is thoroughly on the
Fleetwood is now rivalling O'Reilly job with his twisters. in insistent endeavour; he is fancy-The next ball from him in fatal to ing his chance and trying all his young Wright, who steers a simple tricks.
catch into the gully.
him.
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O'Reilly is pulling Compton for- When Farnes strides out to bat our ward in search of the ball. I hope lead is 97 runs for eight wickets. But our young free lance is not, as we Fleetwood does not do the "hat-trick." say, playing at the bowler's arm in- Farnes clouts a fine off-drive to the stead of at the ball judged upon its boundary. flight. In between. his alongations, however, Compton is hitting boun- daries; so we may be thankful for For our tall fast bowler O'Reilly spreads wide his field-wide and deep. Fleetwood is making the ball talk; He could have saved himself the trou- his quick spin is biting into the sur-ble. He bowls Farnes's middle stump face of the wicket. I do not like the out of the ground. look of things.
Slowly Bill Bowes accepts the York- Within three minutes Compton has shire cheers, slowly he wends to the to leave. He touched one of O'Reilly's wicket, slowly he takes guard, and The total is 60 for one strong man ged the catch. Five wickets down for
legbreaks, and the wicket-keeper bag-slowly he is 1.b.w. first ball.
England all out, for 123 runs. 96. A lead of 77; and we have ar- O'Reilly has done one of his great rived at batsmen from whom we can- bowling performances. He has been not expect much. Paynter remains. too much for our batsmen.
And Paynter it is who sends up. BOWES -NO SCREEN the 100 with a swift square cut off We cannot contemplate the Fleetwood.
after- noon otherwise than with mournful WONDERING WHY
minds. We have got some bowlers; We are all wondering what the we have not got a medium pace bowl- truth is about the wicket. Is it more er of the class of O'Reilly nor in favour of the bowlers than
slow left-hander with the finger-spin suppose? If so, why? Nothing has of Fleetwood. happened to alter its state.
It may
gone.
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Joe Hardstaff comes in to bustle for his start. I never like Joe till he has scored about 20 and made a couple of full drives,
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After half an hour Fleetwood called to O'Reilly's end. O'Reilly, of S: none of_the_rain-storms, Cormick-
course, is transferred to relieve Mc which from time to time Joe Hardstaff has scored a single, yesterday swept over the sur- and is causing us a hollow feeling in- rounding moors and dales, are side by tentative tipsómeness until at last he fetches out a fine hook off choosing Headingley as their dumping ground, we sit down to a day of cricket which promises an uncommon amount of interest. Things are sure to happen.
The first over is bowled by Mc- Cormick to Charles Barnett from our end, and Charles times a fine square cut. Edrich has blocked a fast yorker. Good,
The second over is with O'Reilly to Charles, who clouts a no-ball to the on boundary. Also good.
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The wicket is playing as on the. first two days. The pace of it is dead. The ball does nothing in particular. Only a short ball can be made to rise high..
We note that McCormick is being bothered by his foothold. He has be- gun to bowl no-balls and is gardening
O'Reilly. I dare say he is all right, but for a first-rate batsman he
BATSMEN CHEERED FOR PLAYING THE BALL!
At one stage of to-day'e play, batsmen wero cheered for. Just stopping the ball.
The Australian players dashed, to shake hands with O'Reilly when the England innings ended, and the England players applauded their old enemy from the balcony of the dressing room. He had tak en 5 for 45 this morning, including 16 hit off no-balla, and in the match 10 for 122.01.
The ground field and catching- the effort by Brown, which dis- missed Hammond was a wonder ful one were magnificent.
altogether too disturbing in his open- ing phase,
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with his boot round the worn patches. has been performing up to the bow- All this time the great O'Reilly He is, none the less, with his freely-ler's name. If anyone wing swung high delivery, plugging some match for Australia it will be O'Reilly. pace out of the dead turf.
The result is that Barnett tries a incomparable Don Bradman.az
I fancy he would bother" even" the sort of tennis stroke at a short rising He has now bothered Joe's balls
into a somersault. Joe, took the break. On whole Joa played like a boy whipping & top. Yet he is, we kno batsmar
bell about head high, and succeeds in ing up a catch towards fine leg, the wicketkeeper reached on
ONE STRONG MAN
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