TURF IN AUSTRALIA

Evening Star, Issue 22248, 28 January 1936, Page 4

TURF IN AUSTRALIA

WILLIAMSTOWN MEETING MELBOURNE, January 27. At the Williamstown races the principal results were as follow: C. F. ORE STAKES, 500sovs. 1m and 55yds. CARDINAL, 8.9 (M'Leod) 1 Petit Fils, 8.4 (Preston) 2 Press Gang, 9.0 (Skidmore) 3 Five started. Won by half a length, with three lengths between second and third. Time, Imin 44Jsec. AUSTRALIA DAY CUP, 750sovs. 1m and 3f. ALLENBY, 6.13 (Mornemont) ... • 1 Dick Devon, 9.2 (Voitre) 2 Ruach, 8.5 (Taylor) 3 Nine started. Won by half a head, with a long neck between second and third. Time, 2min 22£sec. THE MAN HAILEY HATED A TEST MATCH INCIDENT A South African paper reports that when the Australian cricketers arrived at Johannesburg for their match against the Transvaal Arthur Mailey, who is accompanying the team as special representative of the ‘ Herald,’ looked hard at a man on the railway platform and remarked; “That’s a familiar face.’’ “ Don’t you remember;. Chaxlie Frank P” asked someone in the crowd. “ Remember him?” replied Mailey. “ I shall never forget him. How I hated him!” and. with a broad smile, he walked, up and shook the man warmly by the hand. It would be strange indeed if Mailey or any other member of the 1921 Australian team ever forgot C. N. Frank, for in a certain test match there they saw far too much of him for their liking—just 8£ hours too much of him. And they saw him pull from their grasp what looked like a certain victory. The game was played at Johannesburg on Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, November 12-16. The Australians began by making 450, H. L. Collins scoring 203 and J. M. Gregory 119 of them. Then they dismissed South Africa for 243, Frank being run out for 1. In view of what followed it was perhaps just as well for our men that he was run out, for they might not have got him otherwise. South Africa followed on, and then it was that Frank earned Mailey’s hatred, and that of the other Australian bowlers. Gregory, M'Donald, Mailey. Hendry, and three or four others—even Edgar Mayne had an over —did their darndcst, but, so far as Frank was concerned, it was like hurling the ball against a brick wall. For 8i hours he defied them, batting throughout the whole of one day, and 152 runs stood to his credit when Collins qaught him off Mailey. Dave Nourse came along with 111, Herby Taylor made 80, and the innings was

CRICKET M.C.C. TEAM V. TARANAKI [Per United Press Association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, January 27. A match was commenced at Pukekina Park between the above teams. The weather was fine, and the wicket in good order. Details ; M.C.C. First Innings. Smith b Dormer 47 Sims Ibw b Pritchard 51 Hardstaff b Dormer 0 Lyttelton b Pritchard 0 Human c and b Christensen ... 30 Langridge Ibw b Christensen , ... 12 Mitchell-Innes c Priest b Dormer 34 Griffith b Pritchard 12 Powell c Pritchard b Christensen 7 Head b Christensen 4 Baxter not out 0 Extras 18 Total 221 Bowling Analysis. Christensen, four for 49; Betts, none for 37 ; Pritchard, three for 51; Dormer, three for 40; Groombridge, none fo 25. Second Innings. Sims not out 8 Lyttelton not out 5 Extra 1 Total for no wickets ... 14 TARANAKI. First Innings. Nasmith c Griffith b Baxter 1 W. Barker b Baxter ... 13 Betts b Baxter 0 Larkin b Baxter ... 6 H. Barker c Human b Sims 6 Donnelly b Sims 4 Priest Ibw b Sims 2 Pritchard b Sims 3 Dormer run out 7 Christensen not out 13 Groombridge b Sims 0 Extras ... H . Total 66 Bowling Analysis.—Read, none for 19; Baxter, four for 14; Sims, five for 19; Langridge, none for 3, SHEFFIELD SHIELD SYDNEY, January 27. In the match against Victoria New South Wales in the first innings scored 325 (Chilvers not out 36. He was injured and unable to play to-day). Ebeling took three wickets for 52 and Welch three for 98. Victoria in the first innings scored 165 (Rigg 68, Scaife 32; White three for 25, Hynes six for 25). New South Wales in the second innings has scored 84 for no wickets (Pallowfield 45, Mudge 39).

closed with eight out for 472. The Australians, of course, had not sufficient time in which to make the required runs, and when only_ 7 had been scored without loss bad light put an end to the game. Yes, Mailcy, who bowled 43 overs in that innings, had reason to remember Charlie Frank, but his hatred should have been tempered by the fact that lie obtained his wicket in the end.