THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 29, 1938.
AUSSIE BOWLING GETS ITS DESERTS
C.B. FRY SAYS-Fingleton, On The Card,
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Bats No. 7
So the morning has not gone 80 England selectors were in-, esting. Bradman of course may not badly. We have lost a good man; fluenced in their final team choosing adhere to it, but it shows Fingle- we have two better men still
these and Maurice has 35.
there.
that.
The total is 89.. Hutton has 30 of (says Bruce Harris) by the fact ton, one of the usual openers, at I wish he would not jest in
that Hammond, who earlier in the No. 7, with Badcock as Brown's perilous manner. Young Hutton has played confident, season strained a leg, would be opening partner.
Each batsman" marks 113. That graceful, attractive and efficient able to bowl again.
Both Badcock and Fingleton have usually means mischief. But Maurice cricket. I give him high marks.
calmly beats the covers gate with a Maurice Leyland has exhibited that
done moderately in previous Tests; punch off O'Reilly and Hutton clears he is still the batsman who has saved
a change may be good for both. the gate with a single. So all is well. and won Test matches for England.
Bradcock has had lots of experience The sight of his sturdy skill is a
as an opener. pleasure; he is a visible sheet anchor of hope.
Escape For Hutton
To return. Hutton has given us an immediate shock. Young Hutton, the Herbertian, the cool, the collected
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The problem was to compensate in batting for the absence of Ames, and, at the same time, make the fielding as strong as possible.
Hence the decision to play Hard-f staff, a fine outfielder.
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If Peter Smith or Goddard had been brought in it could have been done only at the expense of Farnes or Bowes.
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Hutton danced out yards at Fleet- wood, missed his drive, and escaped.
To-day in the pavilion I picked The ball beat Ben Barnett as it beat
If the lad does not get his up
sixpence. Sir Pelham the bat. century now he ought to be ducked Warner was standing by "Let me under a waterfall in Wharfedale.
give it to Hammond for luck," he said.
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In the interval an Australian told me that there is nothing the matter with McCormick. He is just left out. Well, I am surprised; and I should that the South Sea selectors are led astray by some recent successes of Waite against the Counties. Hutton celebrates his escape by *a couple of lovely drives. Nor ไส sturdy Maurice behindhand with heavy strokes. So un goes the hundred in a few overs. This is much more fun.
Where is McCormick? Another shock. Maurice dips at one of O'Reilly's dragged temptations. He is clean bowled--but the ball is no-ball. and our shock was a fake.
The Don realises that he has to rely on O'Reilly for all the real work. He
is finessing with him; a short spell and then a rest.
Maurice is well on the move.
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We are having a prolonged spell of O'Reilly-and-Fleetwood. They do not look like ejecting either batsman; but no doubt the Don is tired of his second O'Reilly, in dismissing Edrich, line of trundlers. -And no wonder. secured his hundredth wicket in Unremitting O'Reilly is accorded
He has bowled with admirable
watching all the time.
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England v. Australia Test matches.rest.
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Only eight bowlers have done this-Rhodes (109), Barnes (106), and Peel (102), for England; Trum- ble (141), Noble (115), Grimmett (106), Giffen (103) and, Turner (101), for Australia.
When the total reached 218, Hut- ton and Leyland had achieved an English second-wicket record for matches against Australia. The pre- The Australian batting order as vious best was 188 by Sutcliffe and printed in the score card is inter-Hammond at Sydney in 1932.
To Hammond it went.
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to bowl with no man straight in
As, by Australian request, this deep.
match has no time limit, I suggest Otherwise the arrangement of posi-that our side may as well make some Just unconventional eight hundred runs. Such a score is tions is clever. enough to be both economical and on the cards, against such bowling as
troublesome.
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Hutton pushes up the 150. a
with only one wicket down, is healthy.
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The Don is persevering with Waite and O'Reilly. The Irishman is maintaining his perpetual round
this.
By the way, I suppose our visitors are not kidding us, for fear we should come to regard the "ashes" as ein- ders not worth collecting?
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Up By Singles
of Maurice is now 98 and
Off the first over of deputy Waite our Maurice made up the yield of the Yorkshire partnership to the fine total of 250 out of 279 runs. Alas, that this pair were absent from Leeds and their own home ground when batsmen failed for runs!
both
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We are on the edge of our 800 runs for one wicket. Hutton still playing his sound, attractive game. Leyland playing as usual in Test matches;
of in complete command
the they bowling and, I hope, realising have all next week before them.
The thought that we went down for want of runs against bowling such as this at Leeds tastes like aloes. What were we at?
300 Goes Up
At 299 we see the new Sidney Barnes revived and, of course, up goes the 300 at once. I have asked Arthur Matlev about him. Arthur says he sometimes bowls for his district club, but is now rather out of practice.
At this point Maurice ran a ghastly | short run from a hard hit straight to wide mid-off. ·· He looked easily out, Curator but escaped, I believe, by the accident swift of the bowler breaking the wicket with
Now, deputy Waite goes back to his first
He variations; always on the spot, ever Waite serves him up with a is all his old self. A nice batsman to sanguine, unremittingly energetic. bumper that clears his head and the his leg. omit from an England XI? He is Waite, in the double guise of fast'keepers for boundary byes. at 49. and Hutton at 47.
medium and slow, is causing no one He steals a single off McCabe and
person and fast pace. He may scoop a chance again faces Waite, whom he can play spinners did not do any good, except Hullo O'Reilly has only changed
any anxiety. ends. He is on instead of Fleetwood wicket; that is his limit.
with a toothpick. However, he does and bowls at Maurice, who tickles
nothing but bag the over with another to the batsmen. (the modern term) a single to fine leg,
The and registers half of his
He has wasted time, century. Good lad. And he has played proper.
about time. schoolmaster O'Reilly reappers; monly cricket; steady but firm.
wish he would back up, say I couple of feet.
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More luck. for voune Hutton. 48 he cuts McCabe clean through the wicketkeeper's hands for the required connie. A very fine cut; a hard tickle. But it would have been brilliant catch if held.
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single. Now Fleetwood is encouraged with a pat on the back to relieve O'Reilly. But to-day Fleetwood is not the gay guardsman; he is just an industrious and somewhat blase pedestrian.
True, he has had poor luck, as two stumpings have gone astrap: and he He is, has no help from the wicket. however, not going to win this match for Australia.
Call On Barnes
The Yorkshire partnership has to realised 150 out of the 179 runs on the im-board.
Australia, the country of great bow- lers, have called upon their S. Barnes. He.bowls slow-medium right-hand dinaries.
Maurice has started trying horrid little short runs. I hope nothing un- toward will occur.
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I like Maurice more' sedate. has not the figure for jockeying.
* * This Hutton uses a very pronounced overturn of the wrists as bat meets ball; what Dr. Forrest calls "Wring- ine the Towel.”
The knack of this overturn
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accelerate the bat on impact; it gives 辑 very lively fillip to the stroke.
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By all the omens Australia are now Barnes has never in for an outing. bowled before in a first-class match in England; he opens his career in a Test match.
He may get a wicket; but I would like to have a bat at Barnes myself; just to see if any of the old strokes are still available.
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The O'Reilly is another proposition altogether in the nineties.True O'Reilly offers a no-ball as his first but Maurice hits the air too hard and it 'keeper's for boundary byes.
Our Maurice is not going to hurry for anybody or anything.
His slow
Our Maurice is ap- proaching his 150 and is putting a deal of beef into his off drive.
This leads to some more McCabe in the bright evening sunshine. The arm of Stanley is not as high as of yore, but he keeps a nice length.
With Barnes and McCabe bowling. for Australia on a good wicket at the Oval and 300 runs. on the board for one wicket I cannot feel that my cham- pionship of the relative merits of our batting and their attack has altogether missed the mark.
Before he can escape from his 95
When cooling drinks were served at his young pal, Hutton, has made good a 200 partnership. And. Maurice this stage by a butler in full canoni- tells us in strokes that in the nineties cals Fleetwood took occasion to be Here a one amusing. But I wager none of our he believes in singles.
visitors are really amused. and there a one; and no larks.
They all But, by Jove, what a batsman he is! feel this is Nottingham over
again without the easy exit. The idea of leaving him out of England XI.!
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He now has a chance at. Fleetwood; who comes on instead of Waite. needs four runs. He takes a single. Then he has another chance, but over- forces a full pitch without result.
So he digs out another little single, This puts him opposite O'Reilly, with two runs to make. Of course, he pushes a single to extra cover, and has allow this team to walk away with to look at Fleetwood again.
Well, I never!
And this is the team we allow to divide the "Ashes" with us; unless we
Lucky or no, this Hutton lad is a the bin.
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Off him, after a killed stroke or
beautiful batsman, and quite indispen- Consequently Hutton, flogging a two, he scores a grand four past mid- sable to our England eleven. Why long hop, reaches 97. Fancy being hod he got to be crocked for Leeds? at 97 in a Test match and being Whack! Maurice has punched a favoured by the bowling of batsman confidential straight drive off Waite: Barnes! and that bowler just asks for such treatment. How dare, he serve up this ordinary practice stuff,' with, no man in the outfleld? No one but an
Australian would have the impudence. More Like England
off, making his individual score 108. He has played a great, and charac He has got back teristic innings. that off-drive of his which for a time he forgot how to reproduce.
And within
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five minutes. down Hutton is now at 98, facing Fleet- comes an April shower which empties wood, but plays a maiden over. Mauri- the field. ce scores a single. Then Hutton goes to 99. Then he has another chance at Barnes, and easily walks home.
Real Sidney Barnes
So he has blooded himself well in During the shower Douglas Jardine prolific told me that he asked the real Sidney
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These Tykes!
Now each batsman stands at 144. Marvellous how these Tykes keep in step. Like the Green Howards on parade. I should say that a feature of the afternoon has been the delicate Hutton. and adroit late cutting of The youth has a lovely pair of wrists. and a nice poise into the strokes. No dipped right shoulder here.
Hutton makes his 150 first. after they had advanced stroke for stroke . It was an over- and run for run. fine cut off the edge, but it travelled. Now He is tiring and hope he will absolutely sit down for the remaining 20 minutes,
Barnes is still bowling so Maurice, who is not a bit tired, can make runs quite fast enough all by his sturdy. self.
"Now comes the last squeeze out of O'Reilly. Again he leads off with a no-ball, Off this, Hutton's slog is harmlessly caught. I do hope the Our pair are scoring neck and neck.
lad will not sit tight. Both register 60 runs with the total runs as an earnest
Now, too, we have a last-squeeze oût 140. This is more like England; future at the expense of Australia's Barnes the Old 'un, what he thought of the genial Fleetwood. .Fitteen more like the deserts of this
Aus- bowlers, He is a thoroughly first- of the new Sidney 24; a bowler. - The minutes to go! I am glad two level- tralian bowling-bar O'Reilly.
rate bateman, with style, confidence Old 'un replied: "All right, just for headed Yorkshiromen are in charge. and resolution.
passing the time.”.
If Maurice now tries any funny stuff
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Waite is now exploiting his
I hope Horbert sends him a telegram They are out again now, and no in the way of short runs I will cane style;, he is figuring as, a round-the-saying, Bravo, Len." Or whatever sawdust. Fleetwood in Pavilionising, him. Maurico wants a single for 150.
O'Reilly Vauxhalling. We are wicket off spin bowler like Tom God- the phrase is.
His ap- and cannot get the bowling. dard. He does not look to me much
proaching 360 for one wickets, Up mate, perhaps, dose not trust him. of a danger, Perky, of course, and Meanwhile the 200 is up and Mauri, goun that hondurable figure.
I would not say that even the great But where is the spin off ce is at 87. But Maurice expectant.
in not. Nothing occurs of note or of change O'Reilly is not a trifle tirodi He has the pitch?
favoured with any more of Barnes. except that Maurice, between his best been severely worked. McCabe takes over. So with
strokes, cuts and drives, runs short It is off. Fleetwood that Maurion, at the other end we cannot call runs, without calling sand gives us the last tops his 180 with. anoat store. Maurice unfortunate.
@momentary needle,
round the corner.
The Don in first-rate tactician as to the placing of the field,, Quite ox cellent except that he allows Waite
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