FIFTH TEST MATCH.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5668, 16 August 1905, Page 5

FIFTH TEST MATCH.

CABLE NEWS. UNITED PUESS ASSOCIATION. —BY EI.ECTKIf TELHOHAPh.. COPYKICHT.

HOME TEAM BATTING. SEVEN WICKETS DOWN FOR 381 RUNS. FINE INNINGS BY FRY. LONDON, August 14. At tho Oval to-day the final test ! match of the present tour, Australia v. England, was begun. The weather \.as delightful throughout the day, and the wicket was good. Eighteen thousand five hundred people paid for admission. THE TEAMS. AUSTRALIA. ENGLAND. J. Darling F. S. Jackson (' Hill A. C, -MacLaren li. Duff C. F-. hh'y A. Cotter R. H. Spooner J. Kcllv W. Brearley M. A. Noble J- T. Tyldosloy F. Laver T. Hayward W. Armstrong G. 11. Hirst A r . Trmnper AY. R. Rhodes C. McLeod A. A. Lilley J. Hopkins E. Arnold THE PLAY.

England won tho toss, and elected to hat. Colter and Noble opened the attack. and shortly after beginning .MacLaren was easily taken in Hie slips olf a short-pitched ball. One for 12. Tyldesloy hit 3.1 off Cotter, but the bowler had his revenge in tho same over by bowling him. Two for 32. Fry joined Hayward, and tho game livened up, half a century being hoisted as the result of fifty-five minutes’ play, and a century went up forty minutes later. Both batsmen were playing steady cricket, marked by sound hitting. Several changes in the bowling were made, but without the desired effect. Hayward was nearly caught when ho was 35. Ho placed one dangerously near Laver in tho slips olf McLeod. Fry’s half-cen-tury took him an hour and a quarter, and was compiled in his best stylo. Barring two bad strokes, the display was without a blemish. At tho luncheon adjournment tho score stood at two for 125.

On resuming, Hopkins and Cotter were bowling. Hayward escaped being caught and bowled by the former. A little later, in pulling a ball from Hopkins, ho trod on the wicket. The retiring batsman had played a splendid innings of two hours ten momites, during which ho hit one fiver and eight tourers. Three for 142.

Jackson, who filled tho gap, appeared uncomfortable at the first, and when ho had hoisted 11 ho was beaten by a shooter from Hopkins, but the ball missed the wicket. At 27 lie gave Kelly a chance of stumping him oil Armstrong, but the opportunity was not taken. Duff was thou tried, and Fry hit three tourers off his first over, and 200 went up for three hours' play. Fry was hitting out freely, and got 12 off one of Noble’s overs. AATien a brief adjournment was made for tea the score was three for 269. In tho fourth over after resuming Cotter dismissed Fry, who put up a “skier” deep behind the bowler, where Armstrong made a good catch. He had played a fine innings, lasting three and a half hours, during which ho hit twenty-three fonrers. Four for 283. Spooner joined his captain, but after the latter had added 8 the newcomer was dismissed without scoring. Five for 291.

Hirst’s was only a brief stay, ho being soon taken in the slips, and the board showed 306 as he retired. Arnold came in, but soon lost Jackson, the score standing at seven wickets foi 322. When stumps were drawn for the day England had lost seven wickets for 381. Following are the scores:ENGLAND, —First Innings. MacLaron, c Laver, b Cotter ... 6 Hayward, hit wicket, h Hopkins ... 59 Tyldeslcy, b Cotter ... ... 16 Fry, b Cotter ... ... ... ... 144 Jackson, c Armstrong, :b Laver ... 76 Spooner, b Cotter ... ... ... 0 Hirst, c Noble, b Laver 5 Arnold, not out ... ... ... 25 Rhodes, not out 32 Extras IS Total for seven wickets ... 381