INTEREST IN ENGLAND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 7 January 1929, Page 5

INTEREST IN ENGLAND

RESULT OF OTHER TEST’S

DISCUSSED

(Australian Press Association)

LONDON,’ sth January. “Our Ashes” was the most pithy red poster confronting tiie / eye this morning. Everywhere talk, centred less on the obvious triumph than the prospect of England winning the next two- tests. Everybody seems to regard it as a foregone conclusion. Most newspapers publish photographs of Darnlcy’s “ashes.” while the “Standard” reproduced a snap of the smiling Chapman within the frame of a horseshoe and transfers Collins’ sobriquet to him.

“England keeps the ‘Ashes,’ Australia lias the sackcloth,” is how the “Standard” leads off tlio story, adding Macartney’s comment. Bradman’s despairing chase and the winning fourer exactly typified the nr.tch for Australia. Sutcliffe’s wife and Hammond’s sweetheart naturally had interviews, likewise Sir Granville Rvrie who wants to see some young stuff tried, including Bettington. “Bravo Both,” says the “Observer.” “England’s victory was extracted-in the teeth of adversity. It was a climax to one of the greatest weeks of combat and vicTssitude- in snort any one remembers. Its fame will be related for generations. The Australians made a splendid fight. They had their turn before the war, and now we have ours. Bradman and a’Beckett foreshadow what is to come. There should he a glorious struggle of youth against youth at Lords wvai in 1939 which should he witnessed by crowds never before known in cricket.”

“TOUCH AND GO FROM START TO FINISH”

“We had to fight every inch of the way in this third game/' cables Maurice Tate to “Reynold’s News.” “It was touch and go from start to> finish. It was a sort of struggle in which cricketers revel, though it tires. Don’t forget to give thought and cheer for the gallant losers.”

A. C. MacLarcn in the “Sunday Times” says: “Australia suffers at the moment from the lack of younger players, and some of her bowlers are lacking experience in test cricket. Time will allor this. Australia will bo hard to heat in the last two tests.”