AUSTRALIA'S SECURE GRIP
HIGH PRAISE FOR MACARTNEY
:THE< HOBBS INCIDENT.
(Received February 28, 11 a.m.'j
SYDNEY, This Day. The Telegraph says-:—lt appears that Australia's grip on the Fifth Test is secure, though with England handicapped by the lack of *S. ' fast bowler, more t runs should 'have been scored. England's position is unenviable, and is not improved by the indiscretion of Wilson and Fender cabling that the crowd jeered Hobbs, for whom the utmost sympathy was displayed. An irritated crowd is certain to-day. Macartney's was one of the most masterly innings 'he has played. He was the champion of old back-cut-ting and leg-glancing, picking holes in the field Ijke an- artist.
The Herald says : Australia's total was an ordinary score on such a wicket against a moderate attack. The outstanding feature was the. MncartneyGregory partnership. It causes no surprise when the former makes a century. He has given many fascinating displays on .that ground, but Saturday's was one of the best. Only a. midget in stature but a giant in grit and selfconfidence, for his inches he is the most daringly aggressive batsman, of the day. His was a sparkling exhibition, free from mistakes and blemishes. Gregory went for the bowling all tha time, but the proximity of his century beckoned him into caution, and was his undoing.
Fender in a letter to the Herald reuflirms his cable, statin" that he- is glad to leaiMi that the public, through tha press dissociate* itself from that portion of the crowd whose behaviour actuated
the cable. The editor in a, footnote adds that it was improper journalism, Fender not mentioning the great reception accorded Hobbs, even assuming the barl'ackiug did take place. The weather is fine, and inclined to be cloudy.-
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 50, 28 February 1921, Page 7
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