THE CRICKET TOUR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 149, 18 March 1908, Page 7

THE CRICKET TOUR.

ITS CONCLUSION. DEPARTURE WITHOUT THE ASHES. BY TELEQRAPE—PRESS ASSOCIATIONS-COPYRIGHT ',! i; ~,t i.P.erth,.March 1 17.,. Tho English cricketers sailed by tho Ophir. In West Australia's second innings tho bowling average was Crawford, for i* 52 Barnes, one wicket for ' 31 ' r : Rhodes', no wickets-for- -..-.-i. 39 Hutchings,' no wickets for ... 24 . Gunn, no wickets for ... ... .25 Braund, no wickets for FIGURES OF THE TOUR. (Br "The Blade.") , results' of"matches.. The matches played..by:-the English,. teamduring tho. present ' tour' haVe'.'resulted aS' under' Western Australia.'.- '.?«• Won<- : byi an-,innings '■ ■ ' 1 and 134-runsiv. Soutli Australia. ~i M; -,Wqn by an'innings , .'and''lß3Vruns'.''. Victoria.' ' ... "/.T' , Drd'(i'h: :, ''^'. ,H > r New South Wales.Won by '408 runs. • y Queensland; ' '•".•>v*vWptt-:,hj!r on, innings. i . ' jrflp'v.N.i."; An Australian Eleven. Drawn. First . Test Match, .' " , ' (Sydney).' ' ' ■ LosMyj 2! wickets.' Victoria (second match). .Drawn. Bendigo Eighteen. ■ _ .-Drawii.,,Second Test Match (Melbourne). , Won ,by 1 wioket. ; Third ' Test'.' Match?**-' t-f. .- (Adelaide). Lost by 245 runs., Northern Tasmania. , 4 _ Won by 120 runs'... Tasmania. t '■■"* -D'fawri.' Victoria (third match). '- "Wpn by 330 runs. .. Fourth Test ..Match . i. :(Melbourne).' : Lost' ,'iun& : . 1 Now South Wales'.(second ' J" ". match). ' a Fifth Test -Match.,: (Sydney). Lost, by 49 runs; South Australia (second • . match) Drawn Western' Australia " -. (second liiatch):' Drawn. . . • I Synopsis Played. 19, won; 7, lost 4,; drawn 8. • '.Warner's . team, "vthi'ch J-rfqbvbrei "\The Ashes" from i Australia'' viai"?; : '1904;i "played"- 20 matches during the tour.-' Of this number 10 were won, 2 lost, and 8 drawn. The . two losses wero the Third Test at'Adelaido and ,tho Fifth Test at Melbourne. ENGLISHMEN'S AVERAGES FOR TOUR. Batting— ■... ■ Name. n. Inn. Not ..out, Runs._ _Av'ge. G. Gunn ... ... 18 ' ""3 817' 5i.46 J. ■ Hardstaff ...28 2 13G0 52.30 W. It. Rhodes. , 27 B.'-- V ; 92O:H '/48.65; J. B. Hobbs ...' 22 . 1' . A. O.'Jones .... 15 1 .; '.'5lB. i 37 iL. C. Braund ... 25 3 . 783 ;35.59 IC. L. Hutchings... 28 - 0 953 34.03 e. L. Fano : ... ,21 ,- a,-rh >.:774 ■•' " 35.65 J. N. Crawford ... x 2 ■ ;il -.' 610 - 26;52 S. F. 'Barnes ... 19 ' i 342 '22.'8 " R.' A. Young. ' ... 15 ; .' 0 - 2CO , ' :;17.33 A., Fielder, ... 16-. ''8- . 134 : - 16.75 E. G. Hayes ; . ...'M': ?..:0 230' 16;42- ! C. Blythe -.1. ...»11-. ,yi 145 11;15: J. .Humphries, .'i. .J3 -:. , 1 : ■ 92\: v. 7.66

The Englishmen. 1 scored 8819 runs off "the J bat during the tour'(Bendigo. match excepted);! "sundries', produced 344 j and-these two totals equal the gross l English figures',"of;9l63l ..Thecabled totals have ch.efckedvto the -conclusion : of ..the, -~ South Australian match. Tftß Dominion readers. :will ;n6te that, Georgo Gunn, tlio "siok man of ,the ;team," has supplanted J. Hrtrdstaff : (popularly known to the Australian publiolas " Hot. Stilff")V'hisCounty- colloague,- :fjrom;>tlie : (top of .thevlist... W. K. Rhodes, ~ .the... popular Yorkshiftman, scored well in the; minor- matches, .but, with the exception of his. last innings .in the .'Fifth Test,.lie failed .in, the Hobbs/ came with .a .' rattle as • the' tohr 'i processed .The. Surrey'. player is.' eSpeftted. to';, takfe ,; part? in the Tost .Matcheslvhbxt li'ill, tell.\' Brauhd -sand .''Butchi'ngs'J'batt'ed': ;'ill' "patches. v ' Both .players:;, were-i brillaint' .'on; occasions,: but, the-lventr man-rlinS; not, flattered' his numerous admirers to the extent that was expected of the Hop. County player.- ,E. Gi Hayes has proved 'another'W. Brbokwell Jwitk, the bat, and-was -distinctly under a, cloud during, the tour. ' The Surrey player,: it .is, alleged,, failed to . gauge " th6 r( pace; 'ofjtlieV Australian wickets: The " Open-LctterS,"* which in the English Press, the merits of the team ' prior ;to ; , their departure','-' havo:, .been rtalisod by the .writers, .who openly, avowed thor-. were not expected to hold '.'The : Ashes." ' Tho illness of A. .0. Jones is .to bo deplored. On the : crickot displayed-by' the' 'mafQj : tralian •: colts . proved . coholtsively..-'that'''the' giuno is not; on .tlio wane in\ the Island.lC.orir. tinent. . The M.C.C., as is always expeoted, has given Australia's . national i.game ,> another spurt, which,. it is; to,, be .fondly" 'hoped,' V.will extend to .the winter' months of next year, when tho world-renowned "fij[lits "Those' -Allies" will be renewed. "When the next English team visits Australia it. is-to'bo sincerely, that the M.C.C. , will, subsidise..,the_proT fessionals to, .a largeF extent ; than was offered to the players' who are ,now heading for England, Homo and beauty./ Bowling— . ■ '- .; j r f Name.. ■ Wickets. !Rnni. f Av'ge. S. F. Barnes . ... 61 r 1185- 21.94 C. Blytho ... .i.' : 41 935- 11 22:80 A. I'ieldei .. ,50,., ,1208 241& >T. N. Cl'iUvford ... C 3 . J. 663 ; ' 24.45 J. B. Hobbs ... ' ... 4 -128 '- '' 32'' L. C. Braund : ... 50 ~ ■ 1644 .32.88 W. R. Rhodes • ... ,29 " '3069. : 38.86 J. Hardstaff 2 -■■■-' - -8G / 43 ' G. Gunn ... ... 1 • 43 4;l E. iG. ~ 3 158 52 60 K. L. Hutchings ;;;r 3 - 280 - 93.33 . Tho cabled bowliiig'anftlysis oV'the Engiislimeh?s .second- attempt-to "turn' thb "AVe'ste'rii -Australasians out discloses ..a... shortage-0f...67-runs. In consequence, a slight alteration will .bo when Austriilian?. files' riachnVellirigton. .The.above table;proves itselff-By the fact that the grossltAufittaliori scores amount to 8324. • Of, this number, 358 are sundries, and 67 not bowlerswere ■ "pelted" to , tho lively tune of 8399/Barnes, Fiolde'r, ahd A Crawford .bore tlio brunt of the attack, and;! their;,i figures are hifjliljcommendable for Australian wickets. Mr. E. H. D. Sewell,- in a~recent article',- is very severo on Fielder.-ani! ; Barnos, but their bowling, figures should change'; this wpiter's views, of - the two players!:in question. : , ■ r