BEFORE THE GAME

Evening Star, Issue 19329, 16 August 1926, Page 3

BEFORE THE GAME

LENGTHY QUEUES LONDON, August 14. Lengthy queues were waiting at tho four entrances to tho Oval at 1 o’clock this morning. A workless Vauxhall man secured first place at tho Harloyford street entrance. Ho said he was keeping it to sell in the morning, but he would give it to anybody for a job. Other unemployed expect to get from £1 to £2 for a place in the queue. “It is worth £2 to stay here all night,” said one. Tho ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ says; “ One or other team must leave tho ground, so to speak, as a corpse, which may suggest that snow-sweepers will be required in the later stages and arrangements made for tho rival teams to sit down to their Christmas dinner together. Having stopped our clocks we can concentrate upon the players that intensive publicity that has tended to exalt the Australians into almost supermen, but they do not reach tho 1921 standard. Similarly it would be difficult to name supermen in the English XT.” The * Morning Post,’ commenting on the tost match, says: “Doubtless some of the critics would be better satisfied if the Australians allowed us, like the Public Schools, to play fifteen men, but those selected are thoroughly representative of all that is host in modern English cricket.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.