"WELL, I DECLARE"

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1937, Page 11

"WELL, I DECLARE"

PRESS COMMENT AT HOME WORST GENERALLY FEARED LONDON, January 2. The newspapers describe the third Test as sensational. The "Star" has a cunning poster, "Well, I declare." ~ Mr. H. A. H. Carson, "cabling the "Evening News" from Australia, considers that the prospects of an English victory are not bright. Monday should be one of the most interesting days ever seen in cricket, no matter what the, weather.

Cricket writers generally fear the worst. Mr. E. H. Sewell, in the "Sunday Graphic," says Australia is now piping the tune with an invincible lead, England having received a dose of the nasty medicine it gave Australia

at Brisbane and Sydney. "We must steel ourselves for defeat. The Englishmen revealed that as a side they are no better than Australia on a sun-and-rain wicket," he says. The "Sunday Times" laments the absence of batsmen equivalent to J. B. Hobbs and H. Sutcliffe, who rose to true greatness on such hideous wickets. "Until we find a sound opening pair the English team cannot be regarded as ranking with the previous great sides," the paper says.