COMING TESTS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18672, 22 April 1926, Page 9

COMING TESTS.

ritfffW W ENGLAND o&** m LONDON ' DIB IINOmSHED HOSTS. „«, ABWCUtIM-COmiOHT . LONDON. April 20. .„rtr»lian cricketers were the * *? tendon District Institute :i>lS;^cb W n ( at which there ; distinguished company. nil?* «*«'<* BM ™i< « r *!'£ the Prince of Wales, conand hoping to meet * rSicitoua terms, recaUing the l!f i.p«t, and adding that nointo Australia from g'ST had flourished like S The other great Engluh w--2 which, although it flourished in L«M» had nevertheless been kept JTiJ; team, waa rabbits. Headllu Mr Warner not to allow his 21 to be rattled by the Press barJ He hsd hirawif passed through £ barr»ff«a unscathed; He hoped fan* wuld be played out to a io the most sporting manner, and ,ut the best side would win. JJr B. U Collins, the Australian capUln, i relponding, referred to the ftiobittip, **A said that he had nob dortftaln articles, but the team was bio tin responsible for them. Mi gldn«7 Smith said that the team 0M (o England with an optimism fo of'the fact that it bad kept the jAk alios 1913. The players did not fctfltthst they faced a etiffer proposij* in 1938 fir Junes Bfcrrie, in an amusing iffeh, proposed the toast of "Cricket." Hi fit atoorded an ovation when he ul "Hot mnch sweeter the apZ would be if I could have received Star lifting Mailey over the ropes," Mi 'iiliea ef the tremendous demand fttmatdh tickets is shown by the jfo s»t J. B. Hobbs, who is one of (to lectors, asked for and was refused Jidditional ticket for the first Test. Drib thereupon purchased one after ffftlf&Ue difleulty. • I it* ' - i A "SCOTTISH" TEAM. k,' —— Untjm,Ua> *j. cum assooiatkw.) SOSW 7Sb p.m.) [^^cflnftllltft 4 reception to the MflfrWfr 1 ' J* l2l6 * BaVrie made a jpjjjfoij yhflhumorous speech in which sVpsjsf i^P l wft t^t I "*.' He Wttft s'Test match and declared f fsjsijf to announce that the SelecIttJilmgft on the newi m>sk„ *» kept hidden away in .bowler, Mr W. K. "was never known Hlpfettfltpiwhen someone mentions Wpfy u'a fast bowler. As far as concerned he only needed Hobbs was twelfth |tof&&'jrtrsssed the opinion that slPfc4:s season of one .syllable KMfcljFr'"teat," "toss," and iattfiralians did win the afltnother rod in piokle choose his own wnely Gregory, whose iflfosly McGregor, also iarfoey, Msoaulay, HenOut, Douglas, Lyon, jHwng.' With this ScotJttld eneltage any Ausplayiyn tlie nativeScot«id that after reading pes of the Australians, id, .despondent until he WO n.m. on the third «Test. Hobbs had hit «' ptd had iron by nve S. Jackson, M.P., deSir James Barrie added to the Selec- <■, He strongly eupportfofcr the Teste. Vu--1 ?»re an abomination, esches. referring 1 to the death "Mown, cricket writer, . .Pardon,, uid it *"*% HebeIJ»«omewhere looking •k&uiw Mr Pardon's Jtforehediei *BB COMMENT. JWDON, April 20. ; £*>•»•»•« that the "Evening •*#'«. ;* " e batting .*'*'•' scoring of * *h««e days' « r Counties at fc*&»- SiTfi f)%-* ??**• »