1938-09-06 — Page 19

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 6, 198

YORKSHIRE CONTRIBUTE 600 RUNS

C. B. FRY SAYS--

(Continued from Page 18) ̧.·

ton needs 88 for his 400. Amusing figures. Where is “I'l 'ole man' Grimmett?

He

But Hutton never made that 36. He was caught at cover point next ball, by Hassett off O'Reilly. slightly mistimed that square drive which has yielded him so many boundaries.

off-

Well, 364 is a decent score and 700

a decent total. Our hero now ranks with the great batsmen.

*

* *

Arthur Wood is no mean batsman. Leslie Ames quotha! And he bangs Fleetwood to the boards. The Don fancies to catch him at silly point off O'Reilly. But Leslie Ames quotha! He bangs O'Reilly_to_the_boards.

Arthur Wood is rounder than Maurice Leyland and as obstinate, but not quite so clever with his cue. He backs up even less.

Hassett is now bowling instead of O'Reilly. We do not know why. Per- haps as a reward for not missing Hutton, Hassett bowls right ordinaries.

踴 *

*

hand

We now need 19 runs for our 800. Barnes is the other bowler. We have a chance, even though Joe is unacount- ably quiet while Arthur Wood rattles the ring.

MALA

Don Bradman, the Australian Test skipper, who set a magnificent example in the field against England in the Fifth Test match, was hit when bowling on August 23 and had to be carried off the field. (Copyright, Fox, By Air Mail).

bowler he ought to be called upon to 5/13918¶¶¶ come and bowl on this wicket.

And I wonder whether the score board has a full-sized 9 to put up in the hundreds space. I doubt it.

Verity's forehead, when he is bat- ting, shines more brightly than the forehead of any bowler I have ever seen.

Bradman Hurt

The Don again took the ball. As he delivered his second ball he drop- ped like a stone. The team crowded round. He was carried off to the pavilion. Hassett carried his boot. He has evidently sprained his ankle.

*

*

Bradman Bowls Cheers; the Don lets us see him as a bowler. He has taken 12 wickets for 25 runs apiece in first-class cricket in England. He once bowled out Walter Hammond in a Test match. From Hassett's next over we beat He bowls right-hand slows, meant the highest total ever in England, to be leg breaks. His first over is a viz., 887. Two more balls, two more maiden.

of Joe's drives, and we need four runs for our 900.

* *

*

So our 800 goes up by a blow of sorts by Joe Hardstaff off Hassett.

The drum of the score board has no figure eight on the hundreds band, A baby eight has been improvised. This has cheered up Joe; he has started his strokes again.

This is prodigious.

Off the last ball before the tea in- terval Verity loosed a fine off drive, and lo! the big nine appeared in the hundreds space.

Don Bradman's ankle is badly swol- len. This, of course, spoils our satis-

This evokes the O'Reilly in place faction in the match. But, equally of Hassett. The Dragoman there- of course, we had already won, Don fore bowls his 84th over of the match. or no Don. Fleetwood has bowled 85 overs, and has had 294 runs hit off him.

Arthur Wood thinks noat of O'Reil- Iy. He bangs him for fours; he has rattled up 84 in no time.

Fleetwood, 298

O'Reilly retires. Waite is deputis- ing from our end, Fleetwood is at the other end; the Don bowled only two Fleetwood now needs two runs to complete our 300 against him, and has also retired in favour of Barnes.

overs.

I now think that the little eight looks like our Oxford Eight' a few years ago; and Wood is nearing his half century.

Yorkshire has made 598 runs in this match, with Wood still there and Verity and Bowes to come. · Verity has walked in first for England and has made his 50.

My rain has not arrived yet; it is a blazing sunshine.

*

*

Talking of vast scores, which we're all doing during the tea interval, Mr. Ferguson the scorer, tells us that in 1914 he scored in a match in which an Australian eleven made more than 900 runs in one day!

The match was against Temuka, South Island. 350, 84 of them by sixers; and Vic- J. N. Crawford got tor Trumper got a century, too.

England Declares

And now England have .declared, 903 for 7. So my thousand runs has gone west-it certainly hasn't gone south.

By the way, this is what I've been taking about all the summer.

* * .*

During our innings of two days and three-quarters there was a Yorkshire- man batting all the time.

Records To-day

August 23.

Test match records broken at the Oval to-day, the third day of Hut- ton versus Australia:

At 659, England beat her pre- vious highest score against Aus- tralia (658 at Nottingham this year).

At 711, Hutton reached 336, beat Bradman's individual Australian Test record of 334 (Leeds, 1980).

At 715, Hutton beat the highest individual record in any Test (W. R. Hammond's 336 against New Zealand at Auckland in 1983).

At 730, England passed the high- est score ever made in the Eng- land-Australia series (Australia's 729 for 6, Lord's, 1930)..

At 742, Hutton and Hardstaff, with a stand of 187, beat the Eng- land sixth wicket record, held by W. R. Hammond and Ames (Lord's, this year)..

At 850, England reached the highest total ever made in any Test 849 by England v. West Indies, 1930).

At 888 the previous highest total in a first-class match in England was beaten (887 by Yorkshire against Warwickshire in 1890). Highest total. in any first-class. match is 1107 by Victoria against New South Wales at Melbourne.

Edrich relieves Farnes, who must be kept fresh. Our little Larwood has lots of speed, but not the height to make the ball lift. William Bowes is still lolloping up and swinging when 50 runs is registered.

The wicket is still untarnished. No- thing for the bowler to aim at except variation of pace and accuracy.

Of the first 60 runs Hassett 'claims 27 and Brown 11. Both are playing

- well.

Of the two I would sooner see Brown out; he is less likely to com- mit an error.

Arthur Wood is smart behind the wicket; the fielding is keen.

A Splendid 42

Six more runs and Hedley Verity appears in place of Bowes and en- larges a full pitch. Probably his one and only.

"

So out goes one of the gamest and brightest batsmen in the game. A splendid 42.

We now see S. G. Barnes, of whom many big words are spoken; and I must say he has the looks of a young champion.

Kenneth Farnes returns to the mill, and Billy Brown patiently essays to tame his vigour. Queensland Billy feels he has a long row to hoe.

Hassett is going Gatling guns; strokes in all directions; severe on Edrich. In two twos he will noteb his half century unless-unless Comp- ton holds this high catch at long leg off Edrich. He has it.

But Barnes is a traveller and hur- ries up the figures. He has jostled up the hundred and overtaken Brown In fact, he bodes mischief.

For the last overs Bowes is recall- ed; he has bowled well and given no runs away. Meditative and deliberate, he is none the less hostile. One ex- pects wickets from him.

of

A notable day in the history Hassett ig away with brilliant cricket. And in closing one should strokes to the on boundary off Far- remark that, throughout their long and nes; he just shifts hit neat feet and trying task no single Australian bow- flashes a short turn of the wrists and ler, no single fielder, showed the least the ball is gone past overtaking. A sign of wilting. very game fellow this, with an eye rivalling the eye of Don Bradman.

I do like the way these young Aus- miles while bowling and took three tralians stand up and swing their hips wickets for 178 runs. Fleetwood did into their strokes. No reaching and not canter as far, and missed his stabbing, three hundred runs by two, for his one wicket.

O'Reilly galloped

more than four

The light roller has been over the

We paused for lemonade. Then Wood smacked an old-timer to leg, and Barnes nearly jumps the catch Yorkshire wants a single for her 600 runs when Joe sends up our 850. pitch. When "Bosser" Martin brush- We have four wickets in hand; my ed out the holes the dust went up in thousand is not so fanciful after all a cloud of rosy smoke, as though the

And now Wood, in one stroke, scores turf were on fire. his 50 and Yorkshire's 600.

*

I have met Mr. Weigall; he con- siders Joe Hardstaff a better bat than Hutton; he likes. Joe's forward defence.

Д

* * * Jack Badcock and Billy Brown aro now facing Farnes and Bowes in glaring light. Farnes is bowling full Speed from the Pavilion end, to three slips and a backward point.

I have asked Arthur Mailey to cable Bowes, the blonde giant, is fiercely for his friend Clarence Grimmett, but Nordic from Vauxhall. He has two he says he wili cable for Tom Gar-slips and a backward point. He has rett and Charlie Turner.

Young Hotstuff

called

captured Jack Badcock, caught at short leg, off" his third ball. There are no runs on the board.

Pretty Fast

In Australia the larrikins Jos's father Hotstuff. I wonder what Stanley McCabe, hero of Notting- they would call Joe. Anyway he has ham, comes in first wicket. He is made a century and a half.

nearly caught in the slips off Farnes. back at Barnes, who has held it. AI advise you, our Kenneth is pretty first-rate innings of 58, made in fine fast this evening.

+

form with off drives and real leg. Within a few minutes, after a few hits. The total is 878 for 7. If we strokes, Stanley McCabe played his mako 12 more runs it will be the furcing stroke to log square, off: Far- highest score-over made in England nes; and Edrich held a smart catch. in first-class cricket.

Two for 19. **** Enter Hedley Verity to slow music. Next we have the nimble-footed The latest idea is that "Bosker" Hassett. Billy gives him good ad- Martin, the groundsman, may now vice; and he starts with some natty: bon roller, but as he used to be a quick strokes on the leg side,

When stumps were drawn at the conclusion of to-day's play, Aus tralia had lost three wickets for 117 runs in reply to England's mammoth total of 903 for 7 wic- keta dec Copyright.

PHILIPS

AIR-RAID PROTECTION LAMPS THE LAMPS WITH THE “DARK” LIGHT! SPECIALLY DEVELOPED FOR USE. DURING “BLACK-OUTS"

Obtainable from

ANDERSEN, MEYER & COMPANY. LTD.

Phone 28091,

David House.