ENGLAND'S GREAT LEAD.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 13, 16 January 1912, Page 5

ENGLAND'S GREAT LEAD.

368 AHEAD

I>RESS ASSOCIATION.! '([Received Jan. 15, 10.10, p.m.) ADELAIDE, Jan. 15. The match was resumed in ".00l weather, before an attendance of '5000. The wicket was still excellent. Cotter, and .Hordern bowled, but tthe .batsmen . were ultra, pa-utibus. They would not try any forcing shots, •and in half, an hour had notched only 15 singles. At last Foster,cut.Cotter for .2, and.Mead drove him f0r..3. The 350 came up in 374 minutes.. , With the. score unaltered Hordern accepted aji easy. return from Mead, who had batted for 107 minutes. . Hprdern's wicket had cost 100 rimsi: . Douglas was . next, _ and Matthew? replaced, Cotter.. ,'. Foeter w,as in 66 minutes before 10, appeared for him. Douglas dxoye Matthew^ for 4, un-J then.thebattine became' more tedious than .ever. The batsmen simply blocked ifoe, bowling.. Hoi'dean, after bo-.vling 12 overs for 17 Tims,'resigned to Kellew:ay, whom Foster late cut: to the boundary. At the luncheon^adjournment the score was; 398—Foste.' 33, Douglas 19. . ; „ . and • Hordern . bowled attelunoheon, and the 4Ooy Was tele- • graphed after .426 minutes. Evoii with a new ball the bowlers couk] make no impression. The batsmen let the ball hit the .."bat with -patient stolidity. , . . Minnett tmd Armstrong wero •called on, and Foster reached his M in 114 minutes.' In Minnett's second over ■ Douglas- played on. The English captain had. batted with vnand' was at .thin •; wickets^ only ;75Vaninutes.:, _ ; '•■■_" ' ■Woolley- ,w<;s^ next, and Foster -opened out and hit. Minnett for three fours in One over. Then Armstrong bowled him. Foster generally hits, "but to-day was most watchful, though when he hit he put a lot of wrist power into his strokes, and placed cleverly. His innings occupied' 134 minutes, and* included 6 fours, Woolley and Smith shaped Well, and Cotter and Hordern were soon bowling again. Smith punished Hordera s slows by jumping out to I;hem. When WooiUey was 16 he slammed th© ball back to Cotter with terrific force, and the bowler, who tad followed up, was lucky to nave his head and leave alone the catch.' In Cotter's- next over* Woo Hey pulled a 'short? ball into his stumps. He took 40 minutes .to make* 20 runs. Eight for-492. With Barnes in, Smith cracked -seven off Hoixlern, compiling the fifth -century for 508 minutes. One run later Smith skied Cotter, and-.was nicely caught at mid-oil by the Englishman Vine, who was fielding for Ttumper, whose knee was injured" while fielding. Hitch lifted his first ball 1o Macartney on the boundary. The innings lasted 514 mimites. Cotter bowled well, but Hordern, except for the first hour to-day, did not trouble the batsmen. The fielding was patchy. With 95 minutes to bat Kelleway and Bardsley faced Foster and Barnes. Kelleway sfwung Foster tb the leg boundary^ andl Bairdisley cover hit Barnes for 4. The bowling was exceedingly accurate, andl witli Ihe fielding dose the batsmen found runs .hard to get. Snicks off either bowler yielded seven to Kellewr-yj though the second went dangerously neair to Gunn in the slips. A double change, Douglas and Hearne, was tried at 39, and 12 runs were scoi'ed off their first two overs, which, brought up 50 for 56 minutes. . Hearne's third over cost 12. mostly to Bardsley. Kelleway snicked.one luckily through tho slips. At 68 Hitch replaced Heamie, andl 14 runs came from two overs, but in his second over Bardsley, when 10, was badly missed by Foster. Then Kolleway played on tofDouglas. He wan 'batting 82 minutes'—one for 86. Bardsley and Gaarfcer steadily played out time. - . The innings lasted 96 minutes. ENGLAND—Ist Innings. Hcbbs, o Hordern b Minnett ... 187 Rhodes, b Cotter f9 Gunn, cHill b Cotter .../.. ... 29 Hearne, c Hill b Kelleway ... ... 12 Mead, c and b Hordern ■.. ... 46 Foster, b Armstrong ... 71 Woolley, b Cotter 20 Smith, o sub. b Cotter ... 22 Douglas, b Minnett ... ...... »5 Barnes, not out ... ... 2 Hitch, c sub. b Hordern ... ... 0 Extras ... ~. ... ~)g Total ... ... ... 5 01 _ Bowling Analysis: Cotter 4 for 120, Hordern 2 for 153, Kelleway 1 for 46* M.i.tthews 0 for 72, Minnett 2 for 54* Armstrong 1 <br 33. .This leaves the Australians 368 behind1 on the first innings.. AUSTRALIA—2nd Innings. 1 Kelleway, b Douglas ...... £7 Bardsley, not out ." "'" \a Carter, not out ... .'■' 4 Extras ' 9 Total for one wicket ....... 96