SPORTS AND PASTIMES.
“The lengthening of the hours of plav owing to the Summer-Time Act led to a large number of new members joining,” said the report £>f the EdgcAvare Tennis Club, presented at the annual meeting the other night. “The way our Australian Avickets are prepared is •scandalous,” declared A. L. Johns, the Australian international Avicket keeper, in an interview' in London this month. “I agree with Hobbs that they are grossly unfair to English boAvlers, Avho are accustomed to wickets that are almost the same as the natural turf of the outfield. As a result, the reputations of many English boAvlers are buried in Australia. “It is impossible for spin boAA'ler.s to get results on Australian wickets. This is why the recent test matches have been so drawn out. Protracted tests are good for the gate, but ruinous to good cricket. Our game is uoav excessively -commercialised. “We should revert to natural Avickets and ha\'c a time limit as Avell, and thus encourage more daring displays of batting, better boAV.ling and more brilliant fielding. Test matches in Australia are simply tests of endurance, which are so boring to Australian croAvds that they indulge in barracking to break the monotony. ’ ’
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 June 1928, Page 3
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