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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1938, Page 5

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V. GENTLEMEN

AUSTRALIA WIN BY 282 RUNS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.!

(Received this).day at 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, June 17.

Australia beat the Gentlemen by 282 runs.) Australia, were 431 ahead at lunch, and declared the innings closed alter 265 minutes. Badeock battetl lor 175 minutes, and hit twelve lours.

The Gentlemen opened disastrously on a wicket beginning to break up, McCabe getting Wilcox and Wyatt in the first over. Chalk and Hammond tailed to stay long, and with 4 for 67, tiie Gentlemen were lighting to save defeat..

Gibb made a correct, vigorous fifty in eighty minutes, and with his fellow Cambridge player, Yardley, figured in a useful stand. The spin howlers, however, were getting assistance from the pitch and were not to he denied. The last five wickets fell for twentyfour runs, and the Gentlemen were all out in 120 minutes, Australia winning with an hour to spare. ' t,

AUSTRALIA, Ist. Innings '. 397 AUSTRALIA—Second Innings. Bradcock (not out) ... 112 Waite run out 32 McCahe c Meyer, h Brown 5 Chipperfield (not out) 20 Extras 15

Total lor 4 wickets declared, 335 Howling—Stephenson 0/69, Maclndoe .1/53. Brown 1/97 ; Meyer 0/57, Wyatt 0/17, Hammond l/27 t GENTLEMEN. Ist. Innings ... 301 GENTLEMEN—Second Innings. Wilcox b McCabe ... 1 Gibb b Flootwoocl-Smith 67 Wyatt c Eingleton b McCabe ... 'I Chalk I) Kleetwood-Smith 11 Hammond c White, b FleetwoodSniith 12 Yardley lbw s Ward .22 Valentine b Kleetwood-Smith ... 10 Brown e Waite b Kleetwood-Smith 4 M ever (not out) ... () Stephenson c V bite, b FleetwoodiSniith ip * Maclndoe I) Kleetwood-Smith ... 0 Extras To Total 149 Bowling-—Waite <J tor 17, McCabe 2 lor 14, Kleetwood-Smith 7 for 44. White 1 for 23. Ward 1 for 41. Australia won bv 282 runs.