A marked improvement came when, with the score at 67 for five wickets, Brown (Hampshire) joined Douglas. The pair played confident cricket and put on 98 for the sixth wicket. Douglas's 75 was made in very steady fashion. Tennyson, who succeeded him, had a bandage on his damaged hand, and the crowd gave him an ovation for his fortitude. He made a brilliant all-round display at the wicket, hitting up 63 in an hour and 10 minutes, 40 of his runs coming from boundaries. Brown also batted in excellent style for 57. Thanks to these three batsmen the innings, which had started so badly, realized 259, but it was an additional blow to England that Hobbs was unable to bat. Australia's two fast bowlers, McDonald and Gregory, shared six of the nine wickets.
The Australians—148 runs ahead—opened their second innings with Bardsley and Andrews as before. England was fairly lucky to dispose of Bardsley and Macartney for 25 and 30 respectively, but, thanks to 78, not out, from Andrews the innings total had reached 143 for two wickets when stumps were drawn. setanp's Bap Lucr.
London, July* 5.
Sunny weather prevailed to-day at Leeds where the third test match of the present Australian tour ended in a victory for the visitors by 219 runs. England's bad luck was consistent from the time when, with only 50 runs scored on the opening day, the captain, Major Tennyson, split a finger in fielding. Their greatest misfortune was, of course, in being deprived of the services of Hobbs, on account of appendicitis. To-day Douglas did not take the field, owing to his wife's having to undergo an operation for the same malady, while dwing the English innings Brown was rendered lame by an injured thigh.
"When stumps were drawn last, night the Australians had the comfortable lead of 29) runs, with eight wickets in hand in their second innings. This morning the pitch was still in good condition when the not-out batsmen—Andrews (78) and Carter (3)—went to the wickets. [uns came easily. Andrews was bowled after adding 14 to his overvight. s His 92 included eight s, and was the best effort of the innings. Carter made 47 by unorthodox methods, and was lucky to reach that figure.
When 130 runs had been added for a further five wickets, Armstrong declared the innings closed. The English fielding was distinctly good, and the bowling of White, the Somersetshire amateur, who took three wickets for 37 runs, was most accurate.
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