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CHAMPION'S REMINISCENCES
obe, Saturday, July 4,1031
Jack Hobbs's Test Career
Champion Tells Story of Stirring
Games
"i-V By J. B. Hobbt — No. 1
A-.TOUNG batsman is walking wife
^/Msceptain to the wicket They are
cp^lg'the timings far England at Mel-
— in the vanished past, under the
.southern skies.
'the earnestness on that young
i>t sun-tanned face. I under-
'sttBd the expression in his eyes. Intkfed.
I know better than anyone how
anxious and determined he is to make
good With the bat he carries, because that
l man is myself as I used to be, and
; the first in which I ever
vividly H all comes back; He
tall away from me; more than
r yean of endeavor in the best
,— toost lovable of games.
_i:-waz 25 when I first batted for England,
.and bad played only a brief white
brainy sort of blgcricket It was towards
thread of my third summer with Surny
that the newspai*rs spoke of me
•L* likely member of the next M.C.C.
'team for Australia. . « e,
'•Otis when I got fairly going f
mrand the critics put my name toward
u t candidate for the next tour "down
UB&r." did I begin to dream of the possi-
^And there I was, in the winte of 1307-
8, a full-fledged All-England player!
The match was the second lest of the
Wits, though; not the first I had not
struck form at the start of our Australia
campaign, and like JSrme Hayes,
also of Surrey, and another slow starter,
T was left out of the opening game at
Svdnev. ' ,
"At the back of my mrnd, I harbored
an uneasy suspicion that A. o. Jones,
our captain, did not feel particularly en-
thuidasac about me. Jonraw Bottte
captain however, with whom l openw
He" had'fallen ill
to that first innings I scored 83. I m
determined to do my very best so I took
ot the slightest risk, and batted for three
hours. . . . i. .
This first Test match of mine is a vivid
memory to me for another reason than
that I made a decent score. It had the
most thrilling finish I haw ever known
in international cricket
I. No man has anything approaching the wonderful recort of
> Jftck Hobbs, one of the greatest batsmen of-aH/tiBejii^wt
cricket. Against Australia alone he has made 5636 ninsatan
>v«age of 54, and in all Test crickct has made considerabh
. more than 5000 runs. „ .. „m:n;e.
V Herewith we present the first instalment °^o b b^remmK
looses of the Tests in which he has played. They.mske fwan
reading, and will be enjoyed by all followers of the game.
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