BRAMALL LANE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 175, 25 June 1926, Page 8

BRAMALL LANE

HISTORIC CRICKET GROUND. MEMORABLE TEST RECALLED. Cabling to the Sydney Sun on the eve of the Australian match with Yorkshire at .Bramall Lane ground, and which had to be abandoned owing to rain, Mr M. A. Noble stated: Yorkshire lias the enviable record of being undefeated in 49 matches,- which adds zest to the meeting. Ydrkshiremen are renowned for their pluck, resource and doggedness. Fielding their strongest side, they will have to be dug out. » With Rhodes and Kilner they possess a brace of left-hand bowlers who, under present conditions, might upset the calculations of any combination. MEMORABLE TEST. Tho Bramall Lane ground was the scene of the memorable third test in 1902, the first of tho series to be finished and won by Australia. Barnes, in England’s first innings, took six wickets, and it always mystified me why he was omitted from the fourth' test at Manchester, the most exciting of the series. The Australians won by the narrow margin of three runs, which gave them the rubber. England won the fifth test at the Oval by one wicket, when, after Jessop had played Australia out of a winning position, into a losing one, two great Yorkshiremen. Hirst and Rhodes, .pluckily cqmpleted the task. AUTOGRAPHED TROUSERS. Thomas Glossop, a Sheffield cutler, aged 73, whoso' recollections of Bramall Lane include tho visit of the Australian aboriginal cricketers in 1868, reminds me of a forgotten incident, when the 1909 team autographed a pair of cricket trousers of Bert Hopkins, one of our team. Glossopis admiration of tho trousers resulted in .Hopkins exchanging them for one of Glossop’s safety razors. Hopkins afterward found that he was unable to work the safety razor, and wanted the trouseis back, but Glossop still preserved tl)em. YVe had autographed Frank Laver s oldest favourite bat back and front, to prevent further use, and we did the same to Hopkins’s trousers. ■ Macartney and Taylor are tho guests of Mr Glossop, who always generously gives gifts of cutlery to the Australians. SECOND TEST SEATS SOLD. All'-seats for the second test, at Lord’s, have been sold. There is accom mod at ion for 9000 in tho 3s part of tho ground. “INVERTED COUES.”. NOBLE ANiTkELLEWAY.

ENGLISH SARCASM

LONDON, June 9. “The spectacle of Satain rebuking sin is always entertaining. Therefore Ivelleway’s strictures on the dull English batting are particularly delightful since ho is ono of tho world s most unenterprising,” says the Daily News in a leading article on M. A. Noble s and O. E. Ivelleway’s gloomy propheCie< They are obviously prejudiced,” continues tho article, “and have adopted the role of inverted Coues. They do not say the Australians a-e getting better and better every day, but that the English team is getting worse and worse. It is an ingenious of auto-suggestion.”

HENDRY’S ILLNESS.

EAR OPERATION. LONDON, June 10. ’ H. L. Hendry, the Australian cricketer, who - has been ' in hospital- for nearly a month suffering from scarlet fever, has „just undergone an aural operation successfully. He can now get up for a few hours a day, but he will remain in tho hospital' for another fortnight, after which he will go to the seaside for a holiday.