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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1938, Page 4

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j AUSTRALIANS SCORE AVELL, t [UY CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.! I ; LONDON, September 3. While the effect of the dew lasted the festival match between Australia i and an English eleven at Folkestone threatened to become anything hut . festive for the Australians, who had to fight desperately for runs against accurate bowling on a type of pitch on which Tate would have been deadly. But thanks to the solidity of Barnes/ and to superb confidence and freedom of Barnett’s hitting Australia extricated itself and again the tail-enders drove home the advantage the score at. stumps being 366 for eight wickets. The Australians lacked a twelfth man. McCormick appears to be bordering on a breakdown. He strained a leg muscle at Blackpool. Valentine captained the English eleven, and lost the toss. / Fingleton failed to settle down and j repeatedly mistimed. The BarnettBarnes partnership was worth 115 in 70 minutes. Barnett, hit nine fours in a chanceless innings. Barnes drove with tremendous power. After passing 50 he hit 10 fours. McCabe, still wanting 26 for his 1000 runs in firstclass matches on the tour, was stumped off Wilkinson. The attendance was only 4000. Scores: — AUSTRALIA —First Innings. ( Brown, b A. V. Pope ' 3l' Badcock, run out 31 Hassett, b Todd 18 L Barnes, c Woolley, b Todd .. 91L Fingleton, b Compton .. .. 12 .

Barnett, b G. Pope 82 McCabe, st. Levett. b Wilkinson 26 Waite, not out. 50 White, lbw., bG. Pope. '.. . . 27 O'Reilly, not out 28 Extras .. .. 8 Total for eight wickets .. 366 Bowling: A. Pope, one wicket, for 73 runs; Todd, two for 86; Wilkinson one for 75; G. Pope, two for 88;

Compton, one for 19; Woolley, none for 17. CENTURY BY HAMMOND. LONDON, September 3. lu a cricket match against Yorkshire, at Scarborough, the Marylebone Cricket. Club in its first innings lost four wickets for 190 (Wyatt not. out 85). Against. Sussex, Gloucester in its first innings lost seven for 417 (Barnett 63, Crapp 65, Hammond 116, Neale 54.) ENGLISH WOME N ’ S TOUR.

LONDON, September 2. Ihe “Daily Mail” states that the Womens Cricket. Association will not permit relatives' to accompany the touring team to Australia. The treasurer (Miss D. Snell) said: “It is distracting to have ‘hangers-on’. We can t have husbands, mothers, and babies. It would be. hopeless.”