THE LAST TEST

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 10

THE LAST TEST

HOBBY'S CENTURY,

"A MASTER CRICKETER"-

(Received 9th March, 2 p.ni.) „ . < LONDON, *Bth March. -

With the heading to an article, "Ag« Cannot Wither Him Nor' Custom Stale llis Infinite Variety," P. F. Warner, in tho "Morning Post," says that he saws Hobbs's first Test century at' Melbourne in 1912.. Now, seventeen yeari after, 'at an age when inexorable time has generally laid a' withering blast on a cricketer's ■ skill, he scored his twelfth Test century.. Against every sort of bowling Hobbs is a master. Warner suggested that this may be Hobbs 'a last appearance in the Tests, though there is a question' whether futuro selectors will agree. • His fame is for all timel—"one of the few immortal names that were not born to die.". Though he/had received ,niore flattery, adulation, hero-worship,.' and praise than'any other cricketer, he^was always most modest and unassuming, concludes Warner; . •