CHRISTMAS FARE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 26, 28 December 1932, Page 8

CHRISTMAS FARE

NEWSPAPERS IN ENGLAND

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

Received December 28, 1.15 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 27

In the absence of fresher thrills during the holiday period, the newspapers are giving prominence to pictures of the Sydney Test, including Sutcliffe’s escape and McCabe’s courageous batting. They are also debating the rights and wrongs of Bradman’s essays into journalism and whether Jardine was justified in not risking his star bowiers on the mud-ridden pitch at Hobart. Christmas Tuesday in London was raw and cold, but the fog cleared. The parks and commons are thronged and there are astonishing crowds at the football matches; 760.000 attended matches in the English League alone. The gates had to be closed before the kick-off in many cases. The newspapers are featuring the United States v. Australian tennis match, particularly Hopman’s defeat of Lines and the latter’s revenge upon Crawford.

Mr Wallis Myers, in the Daily Telegraph. says: “Tire Australians have shown that on their home courts they are in the S3me class as.the Americans. Owing to the pillar-to-post itinerary which a European tour imposes, often with a different court and a different ball in each city. Australians are rarely seen to the best advantage in our own country. The Australian matches show that Vines, with all his talents, is not yet a second Tilden.’’