CRICKET

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 5

CRICKET

LUCK OP THE TOSS.

•,.4USrKALIA.S-.S'EW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received 4th May, 10 a.m.) - LONDON, 3rd May. J. B. Hobbs, in his third article in'the "Daily News," comments on the Australians' passion for cricket as evidenced by the enormous crowds at the Test matches, crowds that thoroughly know the game. "Their sense of humour depends on how you receive it," says Hobbs. "They can amuse or irritate, according to a man's temperament. IE you get into their bad books heaven help you. The best thing is to laugh with the barracker, for if you lose your head lie will worry you to death. Any new player will find the ban-ackers' humour rather trying., but eventually they <r e t to bear it quite cheerfully. The rm'y barraifking that annoyed me was tlio cheering of the crowds when we justifiably but unsuccessfully appealed. They do it out 'of sheer devilment, but I 'wish they wo'dd nut." The 'Evening Standard" says: "If any proposal is made regarding tile tcss it is preferable that it should emanate tram Australia, who never winced when Jackson won five times in succession It jr well to remember that in 100 Tests Australia- has won the toss only once more than England. On these" figures one asks is a change worth while, for it is an ;u\"iom that luck levels itself Let us rather concentrate as sportsmen and cricketers on the development of players capable of winning even when the tosp is lost. The "Evening News" declares that if any serious proposal in regard to compensation for losing the toss reaches Australia it will raise a smile. "Had England won 70 per cent, of the tosses during the. whole series," says the writer we might- say something, but to propose „„ alteration when the spin of the com ir. against™ is neither particularly .sportsmanlike nor diplomatic We -ire mil. to play tlu> game by pradieallv do-