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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5,. 1938.

B. FRY Says

(Continued from Page 19)

Hassett scored 33, and he has figur- ed as the match winner. He played with determination: and was not afraid to chance his arm.

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When Barnett arrived the end was only a matter of a few overs. Ben Barnett soon gets a full pitch from Wright, and clumps it to long leg.

The total is 96. Runs wanted .9. And the rain has come. A mere shower one supposes, which will soon be over

The story of this match is that our batsmen failed to make enough runs to give our bowlers a fair chance.

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Even the 19 runs we were behind on the first innings made a difference. In our second innings we ought to have scored at least 200; the wicket did not help. O'Reilly and Fleetwood enough to explain our poor total of 128;

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There is nothing except praise duc to all our bowlers, Wright at times was a bit wild in his length, but he got: 'his wickets, and good ones.

FRED

TO

ASTAIRE

RACE

IN ENGLAND

Fred Astaire, the film star, is to take up racing again in England next year, when he will be here on holiday from America. Jack Leach, the Newmarket trainer, has bought on his behalf, a yearling by Truculent-Wiry, and will train the youngster and possibly one or two others for him next

SYMON'S SPLENDID

The match has been played in con- BOWLING

ditions which are in our favour. It' was a much closer match than the margin of wickets suggests. But as we had the advantage of the toss we cannot but acknowledge that Austra~ lia won on the merits of the play in the match..

I still think the England eleven at its full strength is the better team. But we were not the better team in this match because our batsmen were not good enough.

So much for theory during the in- terval. Now the field is set for the coup de grace. It will not take long; the ball is slippery.

Farnes bowls a maiden to Badcock; and a good one.

Dundee, To-day.

Despite some splendid bowling by Symon (5 for 33) which dismissed two-day game against Scotland, the the Australians for only 213 in their tourists are once again practically assured of victory.

So well did Symon bowl that only Stan McCabe (62) was able to make anything like a score. Scot- land, however, failed badly with the bat against Fleetwood-Smith (4 for 21) and were all out for 88.

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The Aussies had scored 21 with-

Bowes is swinging fiercely at Ben out the loss of a wicket at close of Barnett, but the blue-eyed left-hander

is not to be hustled; he remembers play.

his former prowess.

Scores:

Farnes keeps on bowling maidens. Australians-213 (S. J. McCabe 62; So does Bowes.

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At last Ben Barnett makes successive cuts off Farnes and we are beaten.

Two sides who cannot but bat better than this ought not to need more than four days for a decision in a Test match.

FOURTH TEST SNIPPETS

England's total of 123 in their se-

Symon 5 for 33) and 21 for 0. Scotland-88 (Fleetwood-Smith 4

for 21)-Reuter.

Amar Singh Scores 120 In 68 Mins.

Then Does Hat-Trick

London, July 4,

cond innings against Australia at In an eventful day in the Lanca- Leeds is their lowest total for 17 [shire League there were two indi- years. In 1921 at Nottinghamvidual centuries, two hat-tricks and Gregory and M'Donald bowled out a most surprising result in the England for 112. The Australian crash of Nelson, the leaders, whose victory means that Leeds retained its defeat at Haslingden enabled East reputation for being England's Lancashire to draw level with them "hoodoo ground.” Of eight Tests at the top. played there, Australia have won six After six and two have been drawn..

Verdict on the Test match Victor Richardson, old player:-

by Test

Aus-

"I think Hammond made tralia's victory possible by taking so long to introduce his spin bowlers

successive victories, Nelson were dismissed for 42, their lowest aggregate for six years. Eight of their wickets fell for as many runs, the damage being done by Headley, the-West-Indian, who finished with six for 23.

Even Nelson's fall could not over- Amar

shadow the great feat of Singh, the Colne professional,, who accomplished his best all round

in Australia's second innings." performance since he joined the

League. He hit up 120, a hundred of which came in boundaries, in 08 Don Bradman's 103 for Australia minutes, and then captured eight against England in the fourth Test Rishton wickets for 22 after taking match at Leeds was his fifteenth the first three with successivo halls, against England.

The other century-maker was He scored 144 at Nottingham, 102 Hira Ramsbottom's Australian, not out at Lord's this year, whose 128 against Burnley enabled This is his twenty-sixth Test him to become the first player this match against England, and his season to top the 600 aggregate: forty-fifth innings. In them he George Macaulay, the former Yorke ling shire player, who is now with Tod- morden, performed the other hate

-has scored 3,824 runs,

neven dou

Kota Lov & ruNE,

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LAWN BOWLS TOURNEY

Fürther progress was made in the Colony Lawn Bowls Singles Championship yesterday, decided at Craigengower Cricket Club.

S. Eccleshall beat E. W. Lines on the 16th head by 21 shots to 10, while W. Gill heat R. Ellis 21-9.

FIC

England's New Wicket- Keeper

Fred Price has been on the fringe of Test match honours for several sea- Bonis.

Price, who is 36 years of age, suc ceeded Murrell as the Middlesex wicket- keeper in 1927, and since then has helped in the dismissal of batsmen, besides scoring more than over 750 7000 runs. Recently he took a benefit in the match with Sussex at Lord's.

Although not such a consistent bats- Gibb's equal as a wicket-keeper. In his man as P. A. Gibb, Price is at least favour is the fact that he has "kept" to more varied bowling than Gibb, as, in addition to their regular profession- als, Middlesex, call upon many amateur bowlers in the course of a season. Against Yorkshire, at Lord's, last sex- son, Price created a wicket-keeping re- innings, cord by catching seven men in one

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