THE FOURTH TEST.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 175, 9 July 1912, Page 5

THE FOURTH TEST.

SOUTH AFRICA v. ENGLAND. ENGLISHMEN ALL OUT 242. USEFUL INNINGS BY WOOLLEY [PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] (Received 9, 9.30 a.m.) London, July 8. Dull weather prevailed for the commencement of the test match between England and South Africa. The following are the teams : — SOUTH AFRICA ENGLAND. Nourse Fry Snooke Spooner Pegler Foster Carter Hobbs Taylor Rhodes White Barnes Ward Woolley Faulkner Smith Stricker Dean Tancred J. W. Hearne Cairnes Jessop The wicket was softish and a shower fell during the morning.

Fry won the toss and decided to bat, Rhodes and Hobbs facing the bowling of Nourse and Pegler. In the eighth over Rhodes made a wretched stroke and was cleverly caught and bowled bv Pegler.—l for 20. Spooner filled the vacancy. The bowling was very good. Hobbs was taken cleverly on the leg side at the wickets. He gave one other chance and batted for forty minutes. —2 for -14.

Fry was the incomer. The fifty was hoisted in 48 minutes.

Spooner was caught by square leg fielding deep. He gave a chance at stumping when he was 14. —3 for 67.

Hearne was next man and one run was added when Fry got his leg in front of a ball from Pegler. The batsman was always uncomfortable ami was beaten by each bowler. — 4 for 68.

Woolley filled the vacancy and the best stand of the innings followed. The century appeared after 93 minutes’ play. Faulkner relieved Nourse at 101 and Carter relieved Pegler at 122, but the runs continued to come. At the luncheon interval the score was —4 for 148.

On resuming the weather was brighter and the wicket seemed faster.

The attendance bad increased to 7000.

Nourse and Pegler had again gone ot> bowling and at 179 a seperation was effected, Hearne playing back, being bowled by Pegler. The batsman gave, an uneven and batted for 95 minutes. His hits included five fours and ho gave three chances.—s for 179.

Jessop was next man and in the following over Woolley attempting a drive to the on was bowled. He was at the wickets for 95 minutes and gave one difficult chance. The feature of his innings was his strong driving, and his leg hitting showed line judgment. —6 for 181. Foster was the incomer. Faulkner relieved Nourse at 186. Off four balls Jessop hit ten iuds and playing back to the sixth was bowled.—7 for 198. Smith filled the vacancy and the 200 was hoisted after 170 minutes’ play. Smith made 13 and was run out. White, stumbling first, returning the ball smartly.—B for 226. Barnes filled the vacancy and was bowled in the next over without scoring.—9 for 227. Dean was the last man and after lie had survived 11 overs Nourse relieved Faulkner and Foster was taken at mid-off off the bowler’s first ball. The innings lasted 200 minutes. SOUTH AFRICANS AT THE WICKETS.

Taylor and Tancred opened the innings to the bowling of I‘ostcr and Barnes.

The afternoon was new sunny and the attendance increased to 8009.

Taylor hit a single off the first ball and then not a run was scored for 45 minutes. It was an exhibition of most unenterprising cricket. At last Tancred misshit a ball to cover point, fielding deep. One for 18. Nourse filled the,vacancy, but only seven runs were added to the score when he was bowled. Two for 25. Llewllyn was the next man, and was caught second ball. Three for 25. Faulkner filled the vacancy, and was nearly caught in the slips off his first ball from Barnes. Barnes subsequently caught Faulkner off his own bowling. Four for 43.

Stricker filled the vacancy. Dean now replaced Foster, who had bowled ten overs which only realised fourteen runs. The fifty was hoisted in 80 minutes. Woolley relieved Barnes at 66. Stricker fell to a ycrkcr. Five for 69.

White was next man. He did not last long, and was taken at mid-off. Taylor was then 30. Six for 76. Snooke filled the vacancy. Four runs were added, when Taylor attempting a leg hit was caught at cover point. He batted for 110 minutes, and played an excellent defensive game. Seven for 80. Pegler was the incomer and a better stand ensued. The century was hoisted after 125 minutes’ play. The batting was now bright. Foster relieved Dean at 105, and Barnes relieved Woolley at lt»0.

Snooke scored freely and Pegler went in for some hard hitting. Snooke made 23, and was then bowled. Eight rcr 130. Carter was the incomer, and with Pegler played out time. Scores: —

ENGLAND. First Innings. Rhodes, c and b Pegler 7 Hobbs, c Ward, b Naurs.e 27 Spooner, e Strieker, b Nourse 21 Fry, 1.b.w.. b Pegler >0 Woolley, b Nourse 57 Hearns, b Pegler 13 Tesscp, b Faulkner 16 Foster, c Pegler, b Nourse —- 30 Smith, i mi • ’ Ra.-ncs. b Faulkner De.an. not cut 2 Sundries To! al 242

How the wickets fell: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-10

20 44 67 68 179 181 198 226 227 242 Bowling analysis :

SOUTH AFRICA. First Innings. Tancrcd, c Spooner, b Barnes 15 Taylor, <• Hobbs, b Dean 31 Nourse, b Barnes 5 Llewellyn, c Smith, b Barnes . - 0 Faulkner, c and b Barnes 5 Stricker, b Dean 10 White, c Barnes, b Woolley .... 6 Snocke, b Barnes 23 Pegler, not out 30 Carter, not out 2 Sundries 7

Total for eight wickets .... 141 [The cabled scores and total disagree. J

AUSTRALIA v. SCOTLAND.

COLONIALS PROCESSION OF DUCKS.

BARDSLEY AND KELLEWAY TO THE RESCUE.

(Received 9, 11.30 a.m.) London, July 8

The Australians commenced their match against Scotland to-day in fine weather. There was a large attendance of spectators.

Some remarkable cricket was witnessed, no fewer than six of the colonials failing to score. The Australian innings realised 295.

•Bardsley batted for 270 minutes and hit two sixers and fourteen tourers.

Scotland had lest one wickets for four runs when stumps were drawn. Scores:— AUSTRALIA. First Innings. J ennings o Mayne, 11 Macartney 0 Bardsley 149 Kclleway 64 Minnctt 21 Smith 0 Hazlitt 0 Whitty 26 McLaren 0 Webster, not out 0 Sundries 24 Total 295 SCOTLAND. First Innings Total for cue wicket 4 SURREY v. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. (Received 9. 10.50 a.m.) London. July 8. Playing against Northamptonshire, Surrey had scored 86 for one wicket, but the whole side were out for 95, Thompson and Smith dismissed the last live batsmen for two runs.

Xourse O. 26 M. 8 R. 52 W. 4 Pegler 25 6 112 3 Faulkner 13 2 50 2 Carter .. 4 0 14 0 Byes 13. , leg byes 2.