"SCALES EVENLY BALANCED”
TEST CRICKET PROSPECTS REVIEWED
ONUS ON BRADMAN, O’REILLY
AND HAMMOND
(Received October 5, 10.10 p.m.)
LONDON, October 5
R. G. Robertson-Glasgow, in an article in the “Morning Post” on the coming cricket tests in Australia, says: “I consider the scales have seldom been so evenly balanced. Almost everything depends on three men, namely, Bradman, O’Reilly, and Hammond. They are the three most important cricketers in the world. Grimmett’s admirers will probably demur at this judgment, but this wonderful little man cannot for ever refuse to be elderly. “Bradman is terrible in the way that Walter Lindrum is terrible; his dismissal always appears to be an act of Providence, not df man.
“O’Reilly combines pertinacity and guile in a manner seldom achieved.
“Hammond has mellowed since he first went to Australia and is now even more dangerous. I cannot think that Voce will succeed without the inspiration of Larwood. Fames tends too often to bowl into the batsmen from the off, a method on which the Australians almost teethed. Robins is not the bowler Of five years ago. Sims is brilliant, reliable in success, and negligible in failure.”
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21906, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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