DEFEAT THEORIES.

Northern Advocate, 15 February 1912, Page 5

DEFEAT THEORIES.

ENGLISH PRESS COMMENT.

(Received Feb. 15, 12.20 p.m.)

LONDON, Feb. 14

The "Times" states that there is little room to dispute the English superiority over the Australians, whose bowling was lacking in variety. The management of the game in the Commonwealth was also distracted by the none too seemiy controversy. The "Morning Post" declares that Australian cricket is passing through one of the lean seasons which periodically overtakes sport. It welcomes the absence of barracking in the later matches.

The "Daily News" says that probably the unfortunate dispute, which threatens to oeprive the Autsralian team in England, of its most brilliant members, upset the team.

Major Trevor, in the "Telegraph, ,, attributes the defeat to Noble's absence and the lack of really first-class bowling, but the, Australian bowling will not be so severely tried in the triangular tests.

The "Sportsman" says that for once the colonials' proverbial pluck deserted them. The friction between the Board of Control and the leading players was doing incalculable harm Hill has the sympathy of the South Australian and Victorian public, and if he receives an equally cordial reception in Sydney it should act as a warnirg to the 80.ir.-l that its policy i s not acceptable in cricketing circles. "Sporting Life" declares that England can look forward to the triangular tests with tranquillity