JOB FOR INDEPENDENT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1926, Page 11

JOB FOR INDEPENDENT

LONDON, 27th July. The^ fourth Test has finished another clinching argument for tho abandonment of the strangling time limit. Knowing there were only two days' play, both sides set their stride accordingly. A story is going tho rounds that Hobbs on Monday morning said to Boot: "How long can you bowlt We want yon to keep the runs down." Boot replied: "AH day if you like." Thus it was that he kept his end going tho greater part of the Australian innings, but when it was England's turn there was nobody in the Australian sitlo to bowl negative off-wicket stuff, henco Hobbs and Sutcliffe once again begun laboriously safe tactics to give England a start. They seemed to bo influenced by tho despairing note struck by the many sporting writers, who wrote: "Can England save the followon 1" Mailey tied Suteliffe up and soon had Tyldesley guessing, with the fieldsmen close in, as if for a novice, but the Lancashire idol gpt through the rough waters till lunch, after which tho interest of the public and the vim of the player* had appreciably waned. After Leeds, it was an uninspiring and hopeless sort of Test. P. F. Warner, chairman of the English Selection Committee, in the "Morning Post," does not conceal his disappointment, which is general, at the indecisions of the Tests. He says: "It will be particularly interesting to see what happens when a match is played to a finish in this country. My feeling is, that after the Oval match, the cricket public will demand, in no uncertain voice, that Test matches should have more than three days. My impressions at Manchester are: First, England did splendidly to dispose of the Australians for 355 after the great stand for the second -wicket made by Macartney and Woodfull; secondly, the Australians at the moment seem to rely, to the largest extent upon the batting of Macartney and Woodfull; thirdly, the introduction of a leg-break bowler strengthened the English attack; fourthly, England again proved itself a reliable batting side."

LANG GETS ABSOLUTE MAJORITY.

(Received 29th July, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. A. D. Kay, Independent member of the Legislative Assembly, has resigned his seat in order to be appointed to the reconstituted Meat Board. Ho will be succeeded by Mr. Arthur Tonge, who stood in the Labour interests at the last elections. The Government will now have an absolute majority in the Assembly.