ENGLAND'S NEW BOWLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 6

ENGLAND'S NEW BOWLES.

(By "STNBAD."y "^frll Oh Englishmen are confident, »ni | Englishmen are gay, declaring that for j Aussies now they do not care a hoot;; | for they unearthed a bowling wonder, | new the other day, on whom they're placing all their hopes his moniker i» Root. "Oh Collins, you can amble \ home," the English critics cry, "f° r t' win the toss or lose the toss, it will be all the same; on Grimmett and on | Gregory although you may rely, the | way that we will clean you up ie eer« j tainly a shame. Although Roy Kilner is a dud and you arc wise to Tate, though Richardson and Ponsford may | hit Douglas oft for six: your hour of ; triumph will be brief, old "man, for you j just wait, we'll put on this new bowler { Root, and you'll all go for nix." O'ui ! crashing inthe coming tests, the Aussie , hopes will go, if one the chorus of the eeribes implicitly believes; but still I ; have a notion * shrewd that one can never know—the Aussies have a trie* of holding jokers up their sleevei.