THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 7, 1938.
Relentless Bowlers Hunted
Them Home
PITY THERE WAS NO BRADMAN
C. B. FRY Says--
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C. B. Fry, the well known authority on international cricket, cou- cludes his series of comments on the England-Australia Test matches, on the fourth and final day's play in the Fifth Test match.
When W. A. Brown 29 not out and S. Barnes 25 not out resumed Australia's innings on the fourth and final day's play at the Oval, Australia had lost three wickets for 117 runs in reply to England's mammoth total of 903 runs for 7 wickets dec.
Oval, August 24.
We "share the cinders." The final Test match has been won by England by an innings, three wickets and 579 runs. If we allow Don Bradman 150 runs in each
in-
innings, and Fingleton ∙100 per innings, we still win by an nings and 79 runs.
We would far rather both of them had been here to make the
runs.
the
To-day has been the same as other days. A shirt-front wicket, plea- and lots of sant summer weather, people. A centre of gravity and a circumference of gaiety. Latent gaiety, but present.
and
We
We resume with our Kenneth Farnes and William Bowes to Brown Barnes. Both bowled well yesterday evening; both are bowling well' to-day.
The batting is sound and firm. await the runs that are coming.
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S. G. Barnes is a fine young bats- He man, brimful of confident skill. has what I call the "wipe" as distin- guished from the "whip" stroke. He swings with easy forearms, and his. bat engages the ball with a modulated circular approach.
Leyland bowled by a no-ball from O'Reilly on August 20 during the first day's play in the Fifth and final Test match at the Oval. (Copyright, Fox, By Air Mail).
almost like Gilbert Jessop.
He is sturdily agile, but he has not that lift from the waist that informs the poise and elegance of the Don or Walter Hammond.
He is a manifest threat to bowlers of the future. To-day he looks like runs in plenty.
At the other crease Billy Brown is batting away as usual; unhurried and attentive to detail; safe in his defence, He is more of a McCabe than a and ready for a safe scoring stroke Bradman. He has a crouching stance behind the wicket.
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BRITISH ALGENER BEFF
SOLE AGENTS:-
REASSURING MRS. BRADMAN
Mrs. D. G. Bradman, now in a liner and on her way to England, received the following message from her husband to-day:
The O'Reillyhats off to a bowler- is now swishing at Bowes. But fatal- ly. Two balls, and another catch at the wicket.
Bill Bowes has bagged his fifth.
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Now emerges in state the sleek, black head and tall square-shoulders of Fleetwood. Hats off to another bowler. And Fleetwood, to a reward Bill of cheers, plays two balls from and enables worthy Billy to land his individual fifty.
* * * Fleetwood then jests. He whirls. his bat at Edrich, hits a straight four
the Australian and signals to closure. He has a bet on. But I do not think he will win it. He has un- ...жПç@@...@}]dertaken to lift a ball into the said
enclosure for a sixer.
"X-ray shows slight chip frac- ture of the right ankle. I may not play again this tour, but shall be perfectly right when you arrive, Quite comfortable."
The total has reached 145 with both individual scores at 41. And Edrich takes over from Farnes.
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I draw a veil. Our young hero, Hut- ton, kicked a ball he could have saved and turned a simple into a boundary.
Bowes Rings The Bell But the umpire gave five runs, so the
The very next over Barnes cuts, and cut too stiff; he knocks the ball down into his wicket, Bowes the bowler, and Bowes deserved the wicket; he is keep- ing a pattern length and is knocking at the door all the time with his swing-
ing vigour.
runs did not give the next chance at Fleetwood.
over
Bowes "Knocked Off”
a
Fleetwood meanwhile is acting con- trary. He has assumed correctitude, and is exhibiting style.
Fleetwood has knocked off Bill In the same over Bowes again rings Bowes, or will say he has. Walter the bell. A grand fast ball flicks the Hammond has taken over at the Vaux- edge of Ben Barnett's defending bat, hall end. and. Arthur Wood does the rest. With a shrill "Howzat.”
Five Australians are out for 147 runs. Bowes owns the fate of three
of them.
This is the bowler we did not call to our aid till the third Test match. He is the best all-round bowler We possess; quite visibly.
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Six young British workmen are on- Joying Fleetwood's play from a glant bucket hauled to the head of a giant crane over Lambeth way. The crane I thought was a junior relation of the. television mast.
So well is Fleetwood playing that we have to call on Maurice Leyland. Fleet- wood has erected 200.
Apparently Curator Waite is going to have a whang. The little Souther- Maurice has engineered a catch off ner is slogging. He is, as it were, Brown's bat into Wood's gloves, and shooting his tongue at our William. thence into Hammond'a hands. What ho! He will not last long, un- less he recollects that he is a-curator.his bat.
Doubly Misnamed
When I said that S. G. Barnes made his mis-stroke by cutting too stiff, 'I mean that he chopped the neck of the ball with an axe instead of flicking off!!« its head with a wand.:
So Billy Brown just failed to carry
He deserved to have succeeded. His 69 was an excellent Billy Brown inn- inga.
Fleetwood was not out for his record core of 16. And he played quite well
Australia, bereft of their champion. Bowes, has clean bowled that mis-, and of their other No. 1 batsman," fail-
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD. named curator. Doubly, misnamed; heed to save the follow-on by 559. Aus-
would not wait for the right ball to tralia are 702 runs behind. hing
slog, and he would not take care.
Bix Australians out for 160, runs. Bowes now has knocked out four,
I must send a cable to the Australian ladies, who will still be undismayed.
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