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HE CHINA MAILA MARCH 7, 1939
Praise For South Africans
Season's Remaining Soccer Ties
The following are the remaining football fixtures for the rest of the
season.
Eastern
Middlesex
Police
Kowloon
: Club:..
R.A.O.C.
Royal Scots Engineers Kowloon
Kwong Wah
South China
China
MARCH 18 First Division
v Royal Scots v St. Joseph's
v South China
South China "R"
V Kwong Wah
Second Division
v St. Joseph's ▾ Eastern
Kowloon: Middlesex St. Joseph's
Kwong Wah 5th R.A. St. Joseph's
MARCH 25- First Division
South China V Eastern
v Police
Second Division
v South China
Eastern RE
MARCH 26
Lai Wah Cup (Final)
V. Civilians
Chinese
APRIL 1
v. Middlesex
First Division
5th R.A
Kowloon
v Club
Club
Second Division
v Police
Police
RE.
v. Club
APRIL 2
MARCH 19
Sunday Herald: International Charity Cup (Semi-Final)
v England
vEastern
Straits Chinese Visit
The following games have yet to bз re-arranged;
"Can Face Final Test
With Confidence"
NEWSPAPER AND PLAYERS'
COMMENTS TOUBER
(By AIR MAIL)
THE South African newspapers and critics regard South Africa's performance in the fourth Test as very encouraging for the final Test which begins at Durban on March 3.
Some of the comments are:-
Royal Navy Eastern Royal Navy
Royal Scots
South China.
v Kwong Wah
V Eastern y Kowloon APRIL: 7
Junior Shield—(Final) APRIL 8
Senior Shield (Final) APRIL 10 Sunday Herald. International Charity Cup (Final)
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NATAL MERCURY It may justly be said that South Africa were always the better team, and for the first time Melville more. than matched Hammond's leader- ship. The team has settled down into one which may surprise everybody at Durban.
Rand Daily Mail The events in this match, in which the Springboks.: have called the tune, must have greatly increased their confidence. They have a 50-50 chance of-saving the rubber by winning the last. Test. South Africa had much the worst of the wicket, but that disadvantage was evened up by England's inexplicably bad fielding.
Louis Duffus (in the Jonannesburg Star) The South Africans played heroic and efficient' cricket with the toss, weather and wicket all against them. Melville's, generalship was sa perb, and his fielding and defiant bat- ting helped to hoist the South African- team back to the pedestal it has not reached since Lord's in 1985. The gripping events in this abbreviated match. were a strong vindication of the. M.C.C.'s decision to leave the wickets. uncovered.
The Afrikaans Press says that out for the rain South Africa would un doubtedly have won. They were the better side, und could face the final test full of confidence.
SKIPPER'S COMMENTS
A. Melville (South African .captain) "We took all the chances in the field.. That made all the difference between this match and the last.".
H. G. Deane (ex-South African cap- tain) It is the best-balanced batting
we have had for years.
Pitts (vice-chairman of the
South African Board of Control)"The chief feature of the match was the poor. performance of England in the first innings, and "their unaccountable fai-- lure to dismiss South Africa for abo small total on a bad wicket on Monday.. The South Africans did well, and might have had a good, win if play had been possible on Tuesday, but it is most unlikely that England will again be dis- missed for under 300 Praise must be given to Langton and Gordon for their excellent bowling throughout the. match. A large number of runs canı be expected at Durban.
W. R. Hammond doclined to “com- ment.
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TEST TOUR WAS NOT TOO STRENUOUS
Sydney, (By AIR MAIL). Mr. Sydney Smith, who man-- aged the Australian team which · toured England in 1926, told the New South Wales Cricket Asso ciation that the 1938 tour - of Bradman's team was not too strenuous.
He was criticising W. J. O'Reilly, Australia's lending bowler. and several other Test players who, following the tour, did not appear for New South Wales in the Shof- field Shield competition
Ata public meeting recently, O'Reilly said that he was of n_galley staye” „during
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