AUSTRALIA ON TOP
ENGLAND'S OWN F/UJLT
(Received February 27, noon.)
LONDON, February 26.
"We have only ourselves to blame, as missed chances put Australia on top," says H. A. ,H. Carson in the "Evening News." "It is galling and surprising that ■ our catching should be so faulty and the ground fielding so safe.
"As soon as Bradman is out it will become an ordinary game of cricket in which the Australians were lucky enough to have an excellent start, but in which they will be unlikely to make another hundred..
"I have witnessed most of Bradman's centuries, but of the others none was played so easily, naturally, 'and faultlessly as was today's."
The "Evening News" cartoons show old gentlemen of Lord's in a state-of collapse, saying: "What is to stop 'em getting 1000?" Also Allen, with goofy fingers, dropping Fingleton and McCabe.
The "Star" has the following headlines: "England captain has.nerves after losing toss." '
There is nothing snappy in the evening, newspapers' posters on the cricket: "More Bradman Records" and "Record Test Stand" are the only variants of the general prominence given the two Australian centuries.
The English cricketers' letters home, notably in Allen's and Ames's, testify to the splendid sporting spirit of the whole^ tour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 9
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