BRILLIANCE CF BRADMAN

Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1934, Page 5

BRILLIANCE CF BRADMAN

DAZZLING CENTURY MADE NEARLY ALL BY BOUNDARIES McCABE BATS VIGOROUSLY-LEVESON-GOWER'S ELEVEN By Telegraph —Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 6.30 p.m. London, Sept. 8. Bradman gave a dazzling display in compiling 132 runs in 90 minutes in a cricket match between H. D. G. Leve-son-Gower’s eleven and Australia at Scarborough. McCabe, with 123 not out and Ponsford with 92, contributed largely to the total of 442 for five wickets Australia had reached when stumps were drawn for the day. Tire teams are:— Australia: Woocuull (captain), Ponsford Brown, Bradman, McCabe, Darling, Chipperfield, Oldfield, O’Reilly, Fleetwood-Smith, Ebeling and Barnett (twelfth man). Leveson-Gower’s: Wyatt (captain), Human, Fames, Sutcliffe, Leyland, Verity, Hendren, Townsend, Nichols, Bowes and Duckworth. The weather was delightful and the wicket good. There was an attendance o f 14 > 000 - ' J . Woodfull won the toss and batted. Brown was early dismissed by one of Leveson-Gower’s fast battery, after which the amazing Bradman gave one of his most exhilarating displays, scoring 132, comprising 24 fours and one six, in 90 minutes. It was a fitting climax to this great batsman’s display on the present tour. He is also the first Australian to complete 2000 runs. Fames might have had Bradman at 14, Wyatt in the gully missing a difficult catch. Thereafter he punished all the bowlers mercilessly, taking 19 off one of Verity’s overs. He has thus scored a century on each appearance at a Yorkshire ground in the current season. He was stumped in trying a bit hit off VerPonsford went on quietly and soundly. McCabe when six was missed by Verity, who started too slowly. Ponsford went out when he drove one hard back to the bowler, Nichols. He batted 150 minutes and hit ten fours. Woodfull was unhappy against Bowes and fell a victim to Verity after a dull half hour. Darling hit right across Bowes and lost his off stump. Chipperfield was at first subdued, but eventually settled down. He and McCabe were batting vigorously when stumps were drawn, although McCabe was badly missed at 92 and 111 off Verity and Bowes respectively. The scores are:— AUSTRALIA. First Ponsford, c and b Nichols 92 Brown, b Fames : 3 Bradman, st. Duckworth, b Verity .. 132 McCabe, not out 12 3 Woodfull, 1.b.w., b Verity 9 Darling, b Bowes D Chipperfield, not out 51 Extras J 3 Total (for five wickets) 442 Bowling: Fames, one for 113; Bowes, one for 111; Nichols, one for 99; Townsend, none for 23; Verity, two for 83. GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS ONLY ONE MATCH DECIDED Rec. 7 p.m. • .London, Sept. 8. At Scarborough Gentlemen in the first innings against Players made 205 (Verity six wickets for 57 runs). Players, who made 363 for eight (declared) in the first innings, in the second lost five for 65 and declared. Gentlemen in the second innings lost nine for 203 (Wyatt 99). The match was drawn. In the match between Gentlemen and Players at Folkestone Players, who made 186 in the first innings, in the second made 280 (Geary 109). Gentlemen, 258 in the first innings, in the second lost seven for 212 (Garland Wells 52, Tennyson 50 not out). Gentlemen won by three wickets. Playing Kent at Folkestone, Marylebone in the first innings made 380. Walters scored 63, Human 52 and Hearne 111 not out. Freeman took six wickets for 199.