TAKING IT BADLY.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6020, 28 February 1921, Page 5

TAKING IT BADLY.

HOME CPHCKETER-CRITICS IN THE PRESS.

•‘‘CROWD JEERED AT HOBBS RUNNING LAME.” (Received Feb. 20, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. '26.

Fender in a cable to the Daily News says: “The Australians bowled well. There is something wrong with us. Hobbs was given out to a very half-hearted appeal. Afterwards, nobody but Douglas looked like playing. 'A bawling, crowd barracked Hobbs for slow fielding dispite his injury.” Wilson in £ cable to the Daily Express says: “Australia is straining every nerve to win the last test. Our batting is extremely disappointing. The game went against us before good bowling and fielding. It was unworthy for a section oi the crowd to jeer Hobbs 1 running lame.-—A. and N.Z.O.A.

INDIGNATION IN AUSTRALIA

ALLEGATIONS DENIED

HOBBS GIVEN SYMPATHETIC

ENCOURAGEMENT. (Received Feb. 26. 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY. Feb. 26

Fender and AVilson’s cables regarding the alleged jeering of Hobbs were circulated on the cricket ground on Saturday even ing, and caused much indignant protest. . Fender and Wilson admitted ine correctiveness of the cables. Fender added, ‘‘You can hear more in tec j middle of the ground than from the press stand.” . Wilson maintained that a section • of the crowd was hostile to Hobo; j He now said it was a disgrace and he meant every word he caolod. The secretary of the Hoard ot Control and other leading trie hewers present variously stigmatized the cables as absolutely wrong, ridiculous. unjustified and foolish- j Thev ali a aim ou si v held that Hobbs was" given sympathetic. encourage- j ment, and in proof of this W lO 6: the fact that quite a crowd gathered earlv in the forenoon to wa’.ek ; Hobbs 'try himself out and .general satisfaction was expressed "hen n was announced that he baa come the plucky determination to pun dispite the injury. His appearances on the field at the openmg of J.e innings, throughout plav, and when he was dismissed were ail vitli appreciative applause an sympathetic comment. Another noShle feature was that whenever Hohhs was making a run no Australian threw a hall at the mckex because he was limping. . . It is ascertained that Hohhs himself made no complaint regarding his treatment. —-U.P.A.

ENGLISH DRESS VIEWS

SCATHING COMMENT BY TIMES

WESTMINSTER GAZETTE PRAISES AUSTRALIANS.

(Receive,! The Times says, “Our unfortunate cricketers go from had to worse. Handicapped by misfortune and dispirited bv defeats they, are unlikely ?o do anything exceptional again t their opponents whose belief an themselves must now he limitless. A mi cl jNLZ.O.A. A ' (Received Feb. 27 5.5 p.m.) v LONDON Feh. 2 1.

The Westminster Gazette sa V s i “The English cricketers .had bac luck im the matter ot health. Undoubtedly the hot Australian climate has severely, tried the team, the ° members of which are not notable for vouth. Neveitlieless it would ho most unsporting to pretend that the Australians have not proved themselves superior in every department. Their batting is good to the last man, their howling is more varied and effective and their fioldiim is more certain than oius. We must trust to the next season’s matches here to restore the English (cricketers’ reputation.”— —-A. and N.Z.C.A.