BRADMAN ANOTHER DOUBLE CENTURY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 15

BRADMAN ANOTHER DOUBLE CENTURY

ENGLAND'S FIGHTING CHANCE

From an apparently hopeless position England faced today s play in the cricket Test with Australia at Adelaide with a fighting chance of winning the Ashes. To succeed, however, the English cricketers have to accomplish something well out of the ordinary for the fourth innings of a Test. They enjoyed good measure of success yesterday. Bradman's magnificent innings ended unexpectedly just before lunch, when the Australian captain, having made another double century, was caught and bowled by Hammond. Wickets fell quickly after that, the remaining four adding only 11 runs. Hammond was the main source of trouble to the batsmen, his figures being excellent —five for 57. All out for 433, Australia gave England the task of making 392 runs to win. Again G. 0. Allen used Verity as an opening batsman, and 45 runs were on the board before the first wicket fell. That was a promising beginning, and when, at stumps, England had made 143 for three wickets, with Hammond and Leyland in occupation of the creases, there was good reason to regard the position more hopefully from England's point of view than was the case on the previous day. The order, however, is still tall. Much will depend upon how far Hammond and Leyland go and how the wicket wears. On thirty-five previous occasions in Tests the task of making more than 300 runs in the fourth innings has been set, but only twice has it been accomplished.