ENGLAND BREAKS AUSTRALIA

NZ Truth, Issue 1203, 20 December 1928, Page 16

ENGLAND BREAKS AUSTRALIA

Sensational Scenes Mark Second Test When Crowd Takes Charge of Ground

"MY KINGDOM FOR NEW BOWLERS"

(By Cable— From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Sydney Rep resentative) . The second test match at Sydney between England and Australia will go down m cricket history as a game of incidents both sensational and amazing. The fickle crowd hooted the great Englishman. Hobbs. and then lionized him. Then the hillites took charge and staged a' near riot.

ONE couldn't have named the odds on England when the second Test began on account of the debacle m Brisbane. And when Larwood broke Ponsford's hand the AUssies seemed to have gone to the clouds. With Australia all out for 253. the Englishmen appeared to have a cakewalk, but Hobbs and Sutcliffe went comparatively cheaply on Saturday and chen a storm threatened. Jardine and Hammond, who had followed, . appeared about as comfort-, able against Grimmett as> a Rechkbiteat a flappers' party, but they managed to stay till the storm came. During the two hours' break, caused by ..the rain and 7bad light amazing scenes were witnessed. A world's record crowd of fiftyeight thousand took charge and counted out the players, scaled the fences and putAl Karasick grips . oh -the police who frustrated, them. They. also threw bottles on the •ground. Upon the resumption of play on Monday,; a different,. Hamnjond faced New Zealander Grimmett .The Gloucester pro. 'scored all round the wicket and with. Hendrenj whoViriade 74, he car-' ried the score t0. 293. :' ■ -, "Patsy" batted, beautifully and when he went Chapman arrived to clout two sixes and become the first favorite m the Test Stakes,. He went for' twenty, I but Larwood came m and though he's a great fast bowler; he 'could be even a greater bat if he liked. The Nottinghamshire pit- boy played stylish 'cricket and at stumps on Monday England were 167 runs ahead and had half their wickets intact. It's apparent that Australia will have to dig up some fresh bowlers for the

third Test beginning at Melbourne on Saturday week. A'Beckett and Ebeling will be. watched keenly between now and then by the selectors and it is probable that Ironmonger and Blackie have played their last Test match. Neither troubled the Englishmen at any stage of Monday's play. The only man who had' them thinking was Grimmett. ' , When they w«re not bowling, Ironmonger and Blackie were , painfully slow m the field. Be-

tween them their ages total nearly a hundred and they're past Test cricket. "Cable _ Mac Donald. Put the umpires on.' Where's Mailey?" were a few of the suggestions made to the selectors or, Monday when Hammond and Hendren looked like leasing the ground for the rest of .the season. Freak Ponsford is on tne snelf for a month or more ' with a broken hand, but he is still' writing for vie press. It is a pity Jhat he ever .made derogatory 'remarks about Larwood's

bowling, for the express merchant has practically bowled him neck and crop three times for nothing, besides accidentally maiming him. "Truth" understands that the Board of Control is considering the playerwriter's position. - The comment by some players about their colleagues has caused bad feeling. The Australian players can write during the Tests m Australia, but not while oversea. j Chatting' to "Truth," Hobbs said: "I shall never forget my forty-sixth birthday. Tell my New Zealand friends that Australia did me. right royally. I might have been the Prince of Wales." On Saturday, during the adjournment caused by tlie storm, Hobbs was presented with a cheque from-his many admirers m front of the membersstand. The hiilites counted Hobbs and Noble out. "This is no good," said. Jack. "I'll go round and say good-bye to the boys on the hill. I'll never see them again." Round he went arm-in-arm with Noble and' he was cheered to the echo. • • ♦•. ■ Some jumped the .'fence 7 'to shake hands with him. kids bailed him up for autographs and he returned amid tremendous cheering. Sutcliffe and Hobbs have slipped badly as batsmen and Jardine, against slow bowling, is about as happy as a Scotsman during a bob m. Lioylandis likely to get into the third Test. He is a sound left-hand batsman and he opens for Yorkshire. ling-land ap2:>ears to have a mortgage on all the Tests unless tho Australian selectors eliminate some of the elde.ly gentlemen and ' replace them with worth-while talent.