CRICKET

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 290, 7 December 1928, Page 4

CRICKET

AFTER THE HAWKE CUP TARANAKI AND WANGANUI HATCH ON COOK’S GARDENS At Cook’s Gardens at 10.30 a.m, today the Wanganui representative cricketers will commence a match with the Taranaki cricket team. The winner of tve match will have the right to challenge Manawatu, the holders of the Hawke Cup, which trophy was wrested from Wanganui last season by Manawatu. {Starting at 10.30 a.m., the players will adjourn at 12 45 p.m. for luncheon, resume play at 1.45 p.m., take the afternoon tea adjournment at 4 p.m., resume at 4.20 p.m., and play will then continue until 6.15 p.m. Last evening seven of the members of the Taranaki team arrived by the 6.9 p.m. train from New Plymouth, while the South Taranaki members will arrive in Wanganui by motor car this morning* The personnel of the Taranaki team has undergone slight alterations since it was originally announced, the members of the visiting combination being as follows, though not in batting order:— W. E. Alexander, North Taranaki. H. W. Brown, North. O. Foreman, W. Hayward, North. H. D. Hughes, 8. A. Lay, South. O. M. Nasmith, North. L. Pcttv, North W. H. Quickfield. iDr. Loudall, A* B. Wilson, Umpire: Mr G. BraumL Manager: Mr D. F. C. Saxton. The Wanganui eleven will be as follows: — E. H. Bernau (United) captain. R. Coupland (Wanganui). A. J* Darby (Wanganui). J. E. Giesen (Collegiate School). C. A. Holland (United). F e C. Hutchison (Old Boys). J’L. Kerr (Technical College)* R. P. London (Old Boys). R. I. Sewell (United). C. F. Treadwell (Old Boys). L. A* Wood (United). D. Barton (Technical College), will be twelfth man. Umpire: Mr K. H. Cave. Official scorer: Mr L. S. Gordon. WANGANUI ASSOCIATION SECOND GRADE TEAMS. The following will represent Wanganui against Railway, on Peat Park No. 1 to-morrow, at 2 p.m.:—A. Dymoek, G. Eeles, P. Francis, R. Francis, W. Francis, E. James, D. Livingstone, R. Orlowski, E. Purser, W. Thrush, E. Wahlstrom. D. Sullivan is twelfth man. FOR THE SECOND TEST WHAT WILL AUSTRALIA DO? LONDON OPINIONS ON SELECTORS’ TASK f Australian Press Assn. J Received, Dec- 6 8 5 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 5. The Daily Chronicle in an editorial says: “A narrow victory over an unweakened Australian team would be more glorious than a record margin in the circumstances, but the English team proved to be without a batting tail, while the bowling has shown resources and a variety of power, unequalled by any English team for years. We take off our hats to Chapman and his men.” Australia’s Resources “Plum” Warner in the Morning Post says: “We must not cxepct that tho Australians will take the blow lying down. They will strive from their wide resources to strengthen the weak

points of their armour. Doubtless there will be several alterations in the Second Test. I hold such a high opinion of the English team in Australia, that 1 am hoping it will return with as fine a record as any team has ever done.”

“The selectors have been sitting for some hours, but have decided on a night’s sleep before deciding on Australia’s Second Test men. Unless they have a bowler in the backblocks whom they are hiding it is difficult to know what team they will pick,” says Clem Hill, in the Daily Telegraph. He adds that they first must bring youth into the side. Mai ley must bo invited. Grimmett has not Mailey’s ginger- It must either be Andrews or Richardson for the vital position ol cover. He also suggests Nothling and Bettington, and concludes: “Ryder must be in as he was appointed captain for two matches/’

A MATTER OF PSYCHOLOGY HOW AUSTRALIANS FAILED SYDNEY PAPER’S COMMENT [ Australian Press Assn.—United Service ] Received Dec. 6, 10.50 p.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 6. The Sun in an editorial says: ♦‘Unhappily the student of psychology will see more in thig landside of Australian cricket, prestige than mere luck. The failure was in morale, as it used to be called. It was in something else, too. It was a failure reaching back along way into Australian traditions that native genius must always triumph oyer sheer hard work.” Proud Parents. Mr F. E. Chapman and Mrs Chapman, parents of the EEnglish captain, arrived by tho Oransny to-day. Both expressed sympathy with the Australians. The father added that if circumstances combined against the Englishmen as they did against tho Australians one never heard the last word of it in England. “The luck of the match was with us. Winning the toss was a big factor,” he concluded. The parents aro naturally proud of their cricketer son, whose photograph at two and a-half years, holding a bat, is one of their treasured jtbssessions. AUSTRALIA’S TAIL WAS DOWN REMARKABLE BOWLING. (Australian Press AssociaJlon). SYDNEY, Dee. 6. “Tho Sydney Morning Herald” says: “Australia had the worst of the luck in the Test, but this is no excuse for the failure. It seems that Australia got its tail down. Not the least remarkable feature is the recovered standard of the English bowling. The English fielding and team work are unsurpassed. Every critic was wrong in the surmise that the English team has a tail. It has none. Gregory’s injury is a calamity to Australia. The Australian second innings, although a forlorn hope, was a shocking submission to the Englishmen’s dominance.” “The Telegraph” says: “England’s victory was too decisive to aliow of excuses. Luck was on the side of the visitors, but their superiority was beyond all cavil. However, the margin of difference between English and Australian cricket is nothing like what the Brisbane scores suggest, and the destination of the laurels has still to be decided.”