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Australian Bowlers Master
NINE OUT FOR 161.
Fine Performances by Wall and O'Reilly.
FAVORABLE POSITION FOR VICTORY NOW.
MELBOURNE, Sunday.
2?OR the first time on its tour the English test team has ceased to be supreme. The initia-
tive was wrested from it by the Australian eleven in dramatic and startling fashion
on the Melbourne ground yesterday, when 36,'949 people saw the second day's play of the
second test match, and were given food for cricket talk for the remainder of their lives.
Four Australian bowlers - Wall, O'Reilly, Grimmett and Ironmonger, but more
particularly the first two - proved the vulnerability of the English batsmen by dismissing
nine of them for 161 runs, five being clean-bowled, in slightly over four hours. From
practically the first ball the attack was on top, but Australia's most optimistic supporters
could never have dreamed of the swift change that came over the game after lunch. Now
Australia is in a most favorable position for victory. England has only one wicket in
hand, and is 67 runs behind Australia's first innings score. Australia must bat again
to-morrow, and England will have to fight hard for every tun on Tuesday or the next
day, on a wicket that is certain to have spots on it to assist the bowlers.
»THlE wicket tvas hard and easy yes
tcrday, and tho summer sun shouo
brighter. It was a perfect pitch for
batting, but also it was evident from
tho start that it would suit Australia's
throo spin bowlers. O'Reilly, Grim-
mett and Ironmonger could turn tho
ball sufficiently to worry every bats-
man, but it wasAVall who burst into
tho picture lato in the afternoon with
an inspired patch of bottling that but-
tered the English defence to pieces.
In half an hour ho bowled six
overs for 12 runs, and took the wic-
kets of Sutcliffe, Jardine and
Ames. O'Reilly, who had previous-
ly tied up all the batsmen, started
tho wrecking, and finished it after
Wall had played his big part.
Accuracy Was Strength'.
Tlic strength of tho Australian bat-
tery ti as its «ccuracy. In the 42 min-
utes that Sutcliffe and "Wyatt wero at
tho wickets before lunch they scored
only 24 luns, and six of them were from
ono hil over the fonco by Wyatt, off a
no-bull from O'Roilly.
Por the 105 minutes ^between the
luncheon and toa intervals only 67 runs
wero made, but throo wickets-thoso of
Wyatt, Hammond and Pataudi-fell.
Between 4.15 p.m. and two minutes to
six the score ttas advanced hy 60 runs,
and six moro batsmen-Sutcliffe, Jar
line, Ames, Leyland, Larwood and
Voce-wero sent back to the pavilion.
Allen is now loft with Bowes lo do
it lint they can to soften tho blow lo
Kngland's baiting prestige.
The English batsmen, with nothing'
lo "fear fiom fast log theory bottlers,
scored at a much slower rato against
tho finger-spin ai tisis than did the Aus-
tralian batsmen on friday, when they
had to struggle along defensively
against a licrco barrage of speed trund
lers, operating in short relays, and tak-
ing moro time over every over than
the slow bowler.
Including the finish of tho Austral-
ian innings in tho morning yesterday's
runs amounted to 105, or only one more
than on the previous da}', which was
ono of tho slowest in" Test records.
Tho slow scoring reveals how tho
bowlers dominated tho position.
Sutcliffe and Wyatt were never at
home to Wall, O'Reilly and Grim
mott. Morally Sutcliffe lost his
wicket twice before he fell to a
magnificent catch at square leg by
Victor Richardson.
"Wall bowled with rare fighting spirit,
and directed his attack straight at the
wicket. Ho maintained his paco ro
mnfkably through 21 overs, but lato
in the day he tvas almost run to a
standstill. His greatest triumph was
in clean-bowling Hammond before the
champion batsman could got set.
Demonstrative Crowd.
Australia's innings was completed 'n
half an hour after the resumption of
play. Probably because the Bradman
magnet was missing tho crowd was not
nearly so large as on Friday, but it
was nono tho less demonstrative over
overy run by which Australia's small
score was advanced. The day was
clear and warm, and the wicket was
casv.
Prom tho previous scoro of seven for
194 Oldfield, who was 13 not out, coil
tinned with Wnll. When the latter
had made ono in 10 minutes, Oldfield,
through n foolish blunder, was tho
cause of throwing away "Wall's wicket.
Oldfield chopped tho lull down hard,
and it hit his wicket without dislodging
tho bails.
The ball was only a van. of two
from tho wicket, but Oldfield called
Wall for a run. Allen fielded the
ball and pulled tho stump out of
tho ground to make sure' of tho
run-out. Wall was yards away.
O'Reilly joined Oldfield at 200, and de-
lighted tho spectators with his freo
hitting. They added 22 in a quarter
of an*hour, and O'Reilly mudo Iii of
them before ho was bowled by Lar-
wood.
Ironmonger, tho last man. square cul
Larwood to the fence and then had hip
wicket shattered by the fast bowler, the
innings closing for 22" runs at 12.3-1
p.m.
England Opens.
U 12-IS Sutcliftc and AU itl be/in
1 ngland's innings the foimer taking
the still c to "Will, ttho bottled from
the îiKiiibeis' tiid O'Rcillt 0|Cii<d
igain t A\tatt mth a maiden nid tti
oon h lil that bitsmin looking uncom
Foi table When ho had made iivo 'io
lut ont up at fortt ird lee- whe-c
O'Bncn tt is fielding The litter mot
ed in too (|uicklt, ind the ball piss d
oin Ins litad
In his fourth o cr O'Rcillt bottled i
no ball nnd W> lit sttunj it otcr the
fence at "-qu ire leg for si\
Crrimiuctt lclio ed Will at 22
and lit and O'Reilly bottled si\
Miecossitc m iidciis lirfon lunch
When 1 hey idiourncd Lnglnnd li id
-1 nins ti)i, Sutcliffe being 12 uni
Wt itt ii
O'Rcillt continued to boni jf-oi
lunch nul in i qtnrti i of an hour «lis
misled V.fitt let; before after luting
failed titito prctlotisly to got the um
pro's t ci diet lu Oh minutes the fir->t
tt iclcct had put on )0 inns md Wj itt
li id nnd i 11 of them It tt is the
.«et cut h time on the tour tint he his
lost his wicket on ni 1 b tt ippeal
Haiuinoud came next and mude three
scoring stiokes in one otir from Will
Ile lui ned one for ttto swished a no
ball and flicked it behind tho ttieket 'o
the feme nul iii iced another p ist mid
on foi ttto
Two for 43.
AVall in his fourth over after
lunch gaye the crowd n big thrill
when he I'leaii-bowled Hammond,
Inking the off slump.
The Gloucester man had baited for
only nine minutes, and tho cheering of
the crowd was a spontaneous tribure
to the bowler's success in getting rid of
a dangerous opponent so cheaply. Two
wickets had gono for 4'S runs, and the
Australian bowlers had tho batsmen
subdued.
Roon after Pataudi had joined Sut-
cliffe tho i'rst ."iO of tho innings was
reached in 77 minutes. Then Giim
tuclt went to tho crcaso in place of
__J, and a great duel bogan between
him and Sutcliffe. Grimmett's second
ball completely beat the Englishman,
who edged it into Itl'Cnbc's hands at
slip, but tho fieldsman dropped it.
The miss was a bad one, apart
from tho fact that its acceptance
would have meant Sutcliffe's dis-
missal for 28, and throe English
wickets down for 52.
Pataudi liad an uncomfortablo time
against O'Reilly," and was struggling
hard for runs. Ho was batting for
nearly 40 minutes for his first ten.
SutcltfTe's Charmed Life.
At 30 Sutcliffe was badly missed
again, also at Grimmett's expense.
Ho ran out to tho hall and missed
it, and so did Oldfield behind tho wic-
ket. M'Cabo, at slip, gathered the
ball and thretv it underarm along the
ground at the wicket from three yards'
distance, but Oldfield was appurciitly in
the way, and the wicket wns missed.
Sutcliffe was yards out of his croase at
the time. Ile seemed to have a charm-
ed life.
O'Reilly was on again at SO, in placo
of Grimmett. This timo ho was bowl
W. J. O'REILLY, whose bowling on Saturday con tributsd in largo measure to Aus- tralia's favorable position. Help
W. J. O'REILLY,
whose bowling on Saturday con
tributsd in largo measure to Aus-
tralia's favorable position.
ing into the breeze. Tho second bal!
of his second over accounted for Pa
taudi, who had been batting scratchily
for an hour for 1.1. It was a dropping;
ball outside the off stump, and Pataudi
hooked it into his wicket. The third
wicket fell at 83. and Sutcliffe, who had
had two "lives" in 130 minutes, was
then 40.
Jardine was expected next, but Ley-
land went out to join Sutcliffe, and
Wull came on in Ironmonger's place,
to botvl an over before the tea inter-
val, it was au electrical over, as
Sutcliffe narrowly escaped cutting the
first ball into his wicket. Tho next
was a no-ball, and tho crowd, not hav-
ing noticed tho umpire's signal, scream-
ed with delight ti hen Sutcliffe played
it. into Richardson's hands at square
leg and began to walk ait ay.
Sensational Bowling.
At tea tho score was three for 91,
only 07 runs having been made in the
105 minutes sineo lunch.
Wall's bowling developed a sen-
sational turn at this stage.
Off the second ball of his fourth over
after tea, Sutcliffe was beautifully
caught at square log by Richardson. ',
It was a perfectly-timed stroke, and
tho catch was equally brilliant. The
fourth wicket fell at 98, and Wall had
two of thom for 37.
Jardine followed, at 4.30, Ho had
scored ono in 11 minutes, and then ho
tried to Glance AVall, and Oldfield, mov-
ing across swiftly, took the ball. Tho
appeal for a catch was almost unani-
mous, and the umpire raised tho finger
of assent. England's fifth wicket fell
at 104, and Avail's figures wero three
for 40.
Ames was next, but ho lasted only
nine minutes for four, when a mighty
roar from tho crowd proclaimed that
ho had boon skittled by AVall.
England by 4.30 p.m. had lost six
wickets for 144. Lcs'land was filling
tho breach admirably, and ho and
Allon carried on until'3.13, for 12 moro
runs. Then Leyland, who had made
22 in OS minutes, was clean-bowled by
O'Reilly, in his ¿8th over of tho day."
Larwood, who joined Allen, was
struck on the fingers by the first bal!
from O'Reilly, and portion of the
crowd cheered. Larwood lifted a ball
from Ironmonger over the bowler's
head, and Bradman, íunninp; across for
fully 40 yards, mudo a brilliant at-
tempt to take the catch. He just man-
aged to touch the ball, but could not
hold it.
Larwood's life was II short one of
II minutes-for nine, however, and
was ended by O'Reilly hitting his
middle stump. Eight wickets wore
then down for 13S.
Aroco held on for nearly half an hour,
until the Inst over of the day, bowled
by Grimmett, when ho edged a ball to
Al'Cabe, in the slips, and the catch was
taken. The ninth wicket fell at 5.3.S,
for 101 runs, and stumps were draw«.
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