COMMENT IN ENGLAND

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 150, 31 December 1928, Page 10

COMMENT IN ENGLAND

TRIBUTES TO AUSTRALIAN- GRIT Australian Press Association. (Received 31st December, 8 a.m.) -.' ;■ 'LONDON, .3Oth'December.;--. _ "Australia Hits Out," "England's Bowling, Mastered," are typical headings in the newspapers, which pay full tribute to the dramatic Ryder-Kippax stand. The '' Observer says that the third Test is evidently going 'to be worthy of its critical importance.- Australia's 276 for four wickets creates a solid position, both arithmetically and morally. The match might easily become one of memorable scores and duration. .Both sides should'now be in good nerve Both have batsmen whose "weapons have not yet "smoked with bloody execution." ■The "Evening Standard" says: "It was a fight for the Ashes deadly'and earnest, '..'ho; figures -show' how dourly Australia will fight every step. Eyder gave the critics tho retort, courteous with 111. Kippax's'stolid work drove home the lesson that: these Australians, when fortune is reasonably kind, are worthy foemen. of 'Chapman's strong eleven.' " The "Standard" has a cartoon headed "Australia Going, Going— But Not Nearly Gone," depicting a ertcketer-auctioncer; disposing of a "Genuine Woodfull" for-7, a "Very Bare Kichaidson" for 8, a'Tino Hendry" for 23, aJi'd' fifinally a "Perfect Kippax" for. 100. " Now we are doing some business." , Colonel Philip Trevor, in the course ■of;, a wirelcssf talk on Test history, eaid.j

that tho present "game should show "the danger: of being cockahoop. too soon. It was : on'o more,, demonstration that England's bowling: is .not .-unplayable.".. Colonel Trevor, however, repeated his .prophecy of many/lnon tlis ago -V at England would bring homo. th j laurels. He expressed his opinion, that the most perfect 'all-round team ever seen was that from Australia,' led by Warwick: Armstrong, iv 1920-21., '-. . . ' '„ Tho "Sunday-. Express says: "It may- seem unpatriotic to. hope that-Aus-tralia will .win.'the third Test. We do not .wish to-lose the hard-won Ashes, but we secretly hanker, for a' dramatic finish." . -v ..-■■■" ... . . The "News of'the .World" says thatKydor's.success is particularly pleasing, in,view of the rumours that h would be deposed from the captaincy. .