A SORRY SHOWING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22325, 27 July 1934, Page 9

A SORRY SHOWING

DURHAM OUT FOR 73 AUSTRALIA THREE FOR 314 (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, July 25. Losing the toss for the ninth successivel time Australia took the field against Durham, the first minor match of the tour. The Durham batsmen made a sorry . showing against I'leetwoodSmith, who was helped by a dampish pitch. The innings lasted two and a-haif hours. Fleetwood-Smith always had the batsmen completely at sea with his vicious spin, and at one stage had taken five wickets for eight. , After lunch 10,000 saw Australia open. Brown was out first over. Then the dashing left-handed partnership of Bromley and Darling added 98 in 80 minutes before Darling was easily caught.

Bromley seemed certain to secure, a century, but when trying a big hit he was bowled after a chanceless, brilliant innings of 125 minutes. He hit one six and 11 fours, his off-driving being particularly powerful. Kippax showed, excellent form after his illness.

A CENTURY TO KIPPAX LONDON, July 26. (Received July 27, at 1.30 p.m.) Australia declared with three wickets for 314.« , Following are the scores:— DURHAM. First Innings.

Bowling Analysis.—Ebeling, 2 for 34; Darling, 0 for 3; Fleetwbod-Smith, 7 for 21; Chipperfield, none for 10. AUSTRALIA. First Innings.

TEST MATCH AVERAGES The averages for the test matches are as follows; — AUSTRALIA. Batting.

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE SUGGESTED NEW LAW (British Official Wireless.) 1 RUGBY, July 25. At a meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference, under . the chairmanship of Lord; Cromer, a suggested new law pro posed by Australia in regard to the bowling controversy was considered to be impracticable, but the conference unanimously passed the following resolution :—“ That this conference affirms the principle already laid down by the M.C.C. —that any form of bowling which is obviously a direct attack by a bowler upon a batsman shall be an offence against the spirit of the game. This conference is further of opinion that the controlling bodies of cricket would not permit or countenance such a form of bowling.” Messrs Arthur Sims and Harold Gilligan represented New Zealand at the Imperial Cricket Conference.

The following tours were confirmed;— 3934-35: England in the ,West Indies. 3935; South Africa in England. 1935-36: Australia in South Africa; England in

New Zealand. 1936-37: England in Australia. 1938: Australia in England. 1938-39: England in South Africa. 1939: West Indies in England. 1939-40: England in India. 1940: South Africa in England. 1940-41 ■: England in Australia. 3942: Australia in England. THE FIFTH TEST MATCH ~ D. R. JARDINE’S VIEWS LONDON, July 25,. Beneath the heading “ Play Larwood!” D. R. Jardine, writing in the Evening Standard, suggests an eleven, including Larwood, Voce, Bowes, following Sutcliffe, Walters, Hammoijd,- Hendren,. Leyland, Wyatt, Ames, and' Verity in the batting order. “ With such - an eleven one might be pardoned for thinking that there is nothing to fear in the fifth test.l unhesitatingly state that the English teams so far selected against Australia have never had a chance of winning any match played throughout on an easy wicket.” PLAYERS v. GENTLEMEN LONDON. July 20. (Received July 26, at lO p.m.) : . In the match at Lord’s Players in the first innings' scored 263 (Leyland. SO, Ames 76; Brown four for 106). Gentlemen none for 35. , ■ ENGLISH WOMEN’S TEAM TOUR OF THE DOMINION LONDON, July 25. The Women’s Cricket Council decided on a uniform dress for the team for Australia. It will be a'white divided skirt and blouse with sleeves to the elbow, and stockings. The council approved of a month’s tour of New Zealand from January 2$

Adamson, b Bbeling 23 Gibbon, run out .. .... .. 3 Hickman, st Barnett, b FleetwoodSmith .. 16 Johnson, b Fleetwood-Smith .. .. 0 Dobson, b Fleetwood-Smith .. .. 4 Elsdon, b Fleetwood-Smith .. 14 Carter, b Fleetwood-Smith .. .. 4 Carr, b Fleetwood-Smith . .. .. 0 Howell, c Brown, b Fleetwood-Smith 4 James, b Ebeling .. .. .. .. 0 Ellis, not out .. .. .... .. 0 Extras .... . • 5 Total .. .. .. .. ... 73

Brown, c Gibbon, b Howell .. > . 0 Bromley, b Carr .. .. . . . 97 Darling, c Johnson, b Adamson . 34 Kippax, not out .. . Pongford, not out ... .. • . 16 Total for three wickets . . 314

Inn. N.O. H.S. Runs Avge. Bradman .. .. 6 — 304 437 72.83 Ponsford .. ..5 1 181 281 70.25 M'Cabe .. .7 1 137 403 67.16 Brown .. 7 — 105 289 41.28 Chipperficld .. 6 1 99 181 36.20 Woodfull .. .. 6 — 73 166 27.66 O’Reilly .. ..6 3 30 78 26.00 Grimmett .. ..6 1 39 66 13.20 Oldfield .. ,.8 1 23 66 13.20 Darling .. 6 — 37 77 12.83 Wall .. .. .,5 I 18 20 5.00 Bromley .. .. 2 — 4 5 2.50 • Not out. Bowling. * Runs. MBits. Avge. O’Reilly .. 24 22.79 Grimmett .. 17 . 29.47 Chipperficld ,. .. 200 5 40.00 Wall .. .. 472 6 78.66 M'Cabe 2 96.50 Dai-ling 0 — ENGLAND Batting. Inn. N.O. H.S. Runs Avge. Leyland .. ..6 1 153 351 1 70.20 Allen .. .. .. 1 — 61 61 61.00 Sutcliffe .. ..5 1 69* 238 59.50 Walters .. .. 7 1 82 336 56.00 Hendren .. .. 6 — 132 298 49.66 Verity .. 5 3 60* 91 45.50 Ames .. .. 120 228 38.00 Wyatt ., 4 — 44 96 24.00 Geary .. 3 — 53 62 20.66 Keeton o 25 37 18.50 Hammond .. 6 — 37 104 17.33 Pataudi .. 2 — 12 22 11.00 Bowes .. 2 1 10* 10 10.00 Mitchell .. .. 3 1 9 14 7.00 Hopwood .. ..3 1 8 12 6.00 Clark -.1 1 2* 2 — Fames ., 3 — 1 2 0.66 * Not out. Bowling. Runs . Wkts. Avge. Verity .. 24 17.08 Fames .. 10 22.80 Bowes 10 26.40 Geary .. .. 203 4 50.75 Hammond .. .. 293 5 58.60 Clark .. .. 116 1 116.00 Allen 1 136.00 Mitchell ., 1 225.00 Hendren .. .. .. 4 —:— Leylapd .... 35 — Hopwood .. —