CHAPMAN'S BILLET DOUX.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 285, 1 December 1928, Page 9

CHAPMAN'S BILLET DOUX.

CLEM H 1 '-Tf ON THE WIQKSI*

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, November 30.

The news that Chapman had won the toss in the first Test match at Brisbane was received in London at 1.45 a.m. to-day. The "Daily Express" publishes a cablegram from Ben Travers to the effect that English mail had arrived at Brisbane and contained one solitary letter for Chapman. This was from tbe income tax authorities demanding an increase in his assessment.

Travers comments that for the Home Government to badger Chapman and at the same time expect him to win the toss must be about the brightest thought that ever occurred to an official mind. Clem Hill, in a cablegram to the "Daily Telegraph," says he doubts whether the wicket will last out four days. He says it is interesting to see how Ryder arranges his team. It is most important who shall field at cover point and who is

in the slips when

Gregory is bowling: Hill adds that it will be pleasing to watch a match played strictly under M.C.C. conditions with no covering of the wicket after the start and a six instead of an eight balls over, as adopted by the Australian Board of Control. Why this was ever brought about ha does not know, he says, for he never met a batsman, bowler or fieldsman who said he favoured it.