TEST CRICKET
HOBBS’ GREAT PLAY. A FINE RECORD. NEWSPAPER’S TRIBUTE. oY CAHIiB—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Dec. 27, 12.5 p.m.) SYDNEY. Dec. 27. Commenting on the test cricket, the Herald says: “The successful partnership of Hobbs and Sutcliffe was the leading special feature of the batting. In making the opening partnership of over 100 in each innings of the match the pair achieved something that has never been done before. If there is one present-day player more than another with whom one associates the words ‘A hundred’ it is Jack, Hobbs. A glance at statistics shows occasions on which he has helped to put up three figures for the first wicket in first-class cricket number 97. This is an experience altogether 'unique. Even Dr. Grace jn his long and wonderful career took part in no more than 69 partnerships, but it is possible that he did not do so owing to the fact that he did not get players to stay with him so consistently as Hobbs.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 December 1924, Page 5
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165TEST CRICKET Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 December 1924, Page 5
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