AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS
RETURN MATCH WITH YORKSHIRE. Press Association—By. Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July 21. (Received July 22, at 9.20 a.m.) The weather to-day was bright and the wicket fair. Macartney and Cotter opened the bowling against Wilson (8) and Rhodes (11), the v.vernjght not-out men. Macartney trundled with accurate length. Cotter tried the off theory, the crowd ironically cheering. Ihe batanan showed little enterprise, taking seventy-five minutes for the half-century. When he was 35 Rhodes made an awkward attempt to off-drive Cotter. Hopkins, at square-leg, missed the catch, but a dozen run 6 later remedied his mistake by capturing the wicket, Rhodes, who had latted 105 minutes, playing him on. One for 70. Denton followed. The batting became lifeless against the steady bowling and smart fielding, Wilson showing ridiculous caution. The second wicket vent just before iuncheon. Two for 92. —Cotter Baus Three Men.— Cotter's .first over on resuming proved fatal to Wilson, who had been at the wickets 140 minutes. Three for 92. The next two wicket 6 fell at 97, Cotter disposing of Wilkinson when he was 5, and Hai'disty with his first ball. The Sydney bowler was showing great pace. —A Useful Partnership.— Hirst and Rothery now became partnered. The former was lively, and knocked 13 off one over of Macartney's. The century was hoisted as the result of 155 minutes' play. At 127 Rothery retired leg before to Cotter, and four runs later Broadbent was taken at second slip Seven for 131. —Hunter "Declares." Hirst and Newstead carried the total to 172, when the Yorkshire captain declared closed. The innings lasted 215 minutes. Hirst showed resolute play. He batted seventy-five minutes, and hit six '4's. Newstead gave a chance to Trumper when he was 6. A DRAWN GAME. DUSKINESS STOPS PLAY. <Receiv?d July 22, at 11.5 a.m.) The match was drawn. The Australians, requiring 251 runs, <-> nd with two hours to play, began their second innings with Gregory and Bardsley. Both men showed steady, skilful batting, and were unheaten when duskiness put an end to the game-after fifty-five minutes' play. The attendance to-day was 7,000. The following arc the 6Cores: YoRKSniRE. First inning 346 Second Innings. Rhodes, b .'lopkins 45 Wilson, c Trumper, b Cotter 31 Denton, b Macartney 15 Wilkinson, o Cotter 5 Hardisty, b Cotter 0 Hirst, not cut 50 Rothery. lbtv, b Cotter 11 Broadbent, c Trumper, b Cotter ... 1 Newstead, not out 11 Sundries 3 172 Innings declared closed. Bowling Analysis.—Cotter, five wickets for 44 runs; Armstrong, nil for 47; Macartney, one for 40 ; Hopkins, one for 38. At one time after lunch Cotter's record read five wicket 6 for 21 runs. Australians. First inninjs 267 Second Innings. Gregory, not cut 26 Bardsley, int out 25 Sundries 2 No wickets for 53 Bowling An ah pis.—Twenty-four runs uere knocked off New stead, 20 off Broadbent, 7 off Rhodes. NOTES BY "ONLOOKER." After the second day's play it was anticipated that the game would end, as it did, in a draw. The Australians made a good start in their second venture—ss without disaster There was a.n hour to play when duskiness caused stumps to bed rami. Rhodes followed up his century by making 45 in the county's final strike, and Hirst was unbeaten 'with a half-cent urv when Hunter "declared." Both are likely to be opposed to the Australians in the Fourth Test at Manchester ou Monday next. Cotter tried the off theory, the crowd ironically cheering. This is "reminiscent of Armstrong's introduction of the "googlies" when a similar late befell him. But there is no ironical cheer raised nowadays when the big Victorian bowls. Nor was'there, 1 should say, when at one stage of the game yesterday Cotter's record was five wickets for 21 runs. His ten wickets—five in each innings—were obtained for 136 runs. The glorious uncertainty of the game. Hardisty, who made 72 on Tuesday before being thrown out, was dismissed first ball <ju the following day. The match just concluded was remarkable in that it saw three batsmen—Rhodes (Yorkshire). Armstrong, and Ransford (Australia.) —attain their 1,000 runs this season. Warwick Armstrong and Noble had their bowling averages considerably damaged. The first named had 114 runs hit off him in the two innings without gaining a wicket, while his captain's only try (first innings) ■cost 50 Tuns. To-day's match is against Derbyshire, a particularly weak county, whose record in 1908 was 5 wins, 13 losses, and 4 draws. Advantage will probably be taken of the oppoitunity of resting some of the "big guns," in view of next week's important fixture.
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Evening Star, Issue 14118, 22 July 1909, Page 6
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758AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS Evening Star, Issue 14118, 22 July 1909, Page 6
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