ENGLAND ELEVEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 September 1934, Page 5

ENGLAND ELEVEN

BATTING ON EASY WICKET WOOLLEY STRIKES FORM (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 4th September, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, 3rd September. The match between Australia and an Eleven of England commenced at three o'clock The wicket was easy after rain, consequently Chapman on winning the toss elected to bat. Hobbs and Waiters by delightful plav raised 52 in 40 minutes when EleetwoodSmith, who morn than once troubled Walters, bowled him The same bowle- continued to trouble both Hobbs and Woolley. _ Thr former was out attempting to drive a good length ball. He batted 110 minutes. The set re was tv'o for 111. Woolley found form and notched 50 in 70 minutes, after which he and Hammond raised 150 in 140 minutes. Then Woolley was clean howled, liaving hatted 95 minutes and hit 9 fours. Three for 150. Hammond and Ames continued steadily until stumps. Scores : ELEVEN OF ENGLAND Fiist Innings Walters, b Flcetwood-Smitli Hobbs, c McCabe, b FleetwoodSmith Woolley, b Wall 56 Hammond not out 43 Ames, not out 9 Extras 3 Total 3 for 186 KENT BOWLING ANALYSIS (Received 4th September, 10.45 a.m. LONDON ,3rd September. The Australians’ bonding analysis in Kent’s first innings was: Ebeling took no wickets for 21 runs; O’Reilly one for four, Fleetwood-Smitli one for 0.

THE RECENT TESTS

LEG THEORY CONTROVERSY FRIENDLY SPIRIT NEEDED LONDON, 23rd August. “Cricket is becoming too much of a business, and needs to he played in a more friendly spirit,’’ said Sir Stanley Jackson, selector and member of the Marylebone Cricket Club, to a representative of the “Evening News” today. Clark’s leg-trap, lie said, was quite legitimate. “You cannot play cricket purely by tin rules. A large part of the public demands the clearing up of leg-theory, but most people do not comErchend what leg-theory is. We have to ring the game hack to its proper level.”

Sir Stanley hinted that a statement <?n leg-theory might he made later. He deprecated talk about had luck and said: —“Our players.were a splendid Jot and deserved selection. It is unfair to say that the side was not representative. It was the best ..available. “The difficulty has been to get players of a reasonable age. The selectors had a trying time and )t has been a difficult reason. ’ TEST SELECTORS’ DIFFICULTIES Referring to Larwood, Sir Stanley said: ‘ ‘He has always been perfectly fair whenever I have seen him. He simply, was not available.” Percy Fender writing in the “Evening Nows” says he does not think anyone can make out , a real case against the test selectors. They were handicapped by some kind of fast-bowling limitation. Everything they did seemed to indicate the existence of some sort ot line beyond which they were either nor willing or not r.llo.ved to go. Nothing else can explain their persistence in rejecting slow, bowlers, who proved useless from the first. Mr S. Soulherton writes in the “Scotsman” :—“The Australians are justly entitled to congratulations. They outplayed England in the.oiie test which mattered. I do not absolve the selectors from blame. I consider that they showed a reactionary spirii and an unwillingness to ’.ry young players. ENGLISH PLAYERS CRITICISED “It all boils down vo this. Our bowlers ware not good enough on d hard, trua wicket. The batsmen never •recovered from lli.rir awe of Grimmett and O’Reilly, which they inspired at Trent Bridge. The fieldsmen did not back the bowlers when they played well.”

Mr Soutlmrton adds: “Clark bowled a good length, apart from occasional bouncers which could be ignored. It was not body-line but legitimate legtheory.- ’ ' The "Scotsman” cays that Woodfuil deservedly ends his career in a blaze of glory and carries the good wishes of England in nis retirement. Wyatt’s explanation vliat easy-paced wickets handicapped England amounts to the admission that the Australians played better and giosccs over the astonishing feebleness of England’s batting, which was strong on paper, but proved weak and unreliable

MR BUSHBY’S VIEWS

DISCORD DEPRECATED SUCCESS OF THE TOUR. LONDON, 23rd August. The manager of the Australian cricket team, Mr H. Bisliby, interviewed by a representative cf the “Daily Mail” said : "The winning of the ashes does not count for everything. Now that the tumult and the shouting have died let us remember that the tour lias been the means of cementing friendships. More than 2,000,001 people have seen the Australians. It has been a mission of goodwill as well as a cricket tour. “1 have had letters suggesting that Iho tests should be stopped because they cause misunderstanding-. Let ns be sensible and i< member the absence of 'millionaire patrons. A tour must be run on a business basis. Moreover, when have Britons refused (o settle their differences amicably “We realised cur essential Britishness when we saw the King at Windsor Here was a personality, of us, yet detached from us, and transcending social and geographical differences He made the boys feel that Windsor belongs to them. We got the samp fooling of kinship at Aldershot, Tile bombers overhead and tl'! irooos lining the ropes made us think hard.”