ENGLAND DEFEATED

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7020, 7 January 1910, Page 8

ENGLAND DEFEATED

IN FIRST AFRICAN CRICKET TEST. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. CAPETOWN, January 5. In the first test match against South Africa at Johannesburg, the English team in the second innings made 221 runs, bringing their aggregate up to 534. The South Africans thus won by 10 runs. Thompson, in the Englishmen's second innings, got 63 runs. He made a great effort to save tho game, and was the last man out. Vogler and Faulkner took all the wickets, Vogler securing thirteen for ISI and Faulkner seven for 160. Simpson-Hayward, ill tho first innings, captured six South African wickets for 43. . FAULKNER AND VOGLER. A BFiILLIANT PAIR.

G. A. Faulkner is one of the most reliable run-getters at the Cape. Ho exploits the "googiy" a la Rosanquet, but with more pace, and mixes a deadly fast 'Yorker with his slow balls. As a batsman he is strong in defence, very skilful on tho leg side, and a powerful driver. In tho 1907 tour of the South Africans in first-class matches he aggregated IITJ3, and headed the batting with «n average of 29. He exceeded three figures on two occasions—lo 6 not out v. Lancashire, at Manchester, and 101 not out v. Essex at L;yton. As a bowler ho took C-i wickets at a cost of 15 runs a piece—in tho Test match at Leeds capturing seven wickets for 17 runs. He is twenty-nine years of ago. A. E. Vogler, who is six years older than Faulkner, went to England comparatively unknown in 1905 with a view to qualifying for Middlesex, and secured an engagement on the Lord's ground staff, in ISOS he bowled well on several occasions for the M.C.C., in ten matches capturing 58 wickets for 19 runs each, and obtaining a batting average of 17, his top score being a hard hit 85 off Worcestershire's bowling at Lord's. That winter he returned to South Africa and ■played against Warner's team, but not with success. Instead of returning tx> the Mother Country in 1907 to play for Middlesex under the residential qualification, he joined the South African eleven which visited England that season, and vied with R. O. Schwarz the honour of being one of ths finest bowlers in any visiting touring eleven, not excepting Spoftbrth, Boyle, Turner, Trumble, or Ferris among Australians, and J. B. King among Americans. His record during, the tour in first-class matches was 119 wickets for 15£ runs apiece, while in batting he compiled 723 runs, with an average of 21. His only century was v. Scotland at Edinburgh. He runs up to the wicket in a jerky style, but his ease of delivery enables him to bowl for hours on end without tiring or losing his strength. He follows also the cult of the "swerve," and occasionlly sends up a alow which appears to hang in the air. The flight of this ball is very deceptive, as C. B. Fry found in the Test matches at Leeds and the Oval in 1907, •in both matches losing his wicket to this particular ball. Vogler has been described by no less an authority than R. E. Foster as "the finest howler in the world." VICTORIA v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. (Received January 6, 11.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, January 6. In tho match, Victoria v. South Aus-i ir-alia this visitors' second' inningp| closed for 223—5. Hill 58, Quist 24. Victoria thus won by 81 runs—2o6 and 458 to 366 and 223.