The Test Match We cannot even turn with complete relief
to Australia's popular ambassadors now in England, for the last Test Match was unsatisfactory. The beginning looked like a melancholy defeat for England, and the weather robbed us even of that pain, without giving us a victory. It was also distressing that the heroes at one time of a fickle mob, .Hobbs and Sutcliffe, were booed by the Crowd for appealing against the light : in Leeds ! where sun-bathing is sadly unknown even when the heavens are not overcast by storms. The century of Hammond and the captaincy of Mr. Chapman (with his batting and fielding) were bright spots on our side, but the chief and unalloyed delight for everybody was the success of the young Australian, Bradman, whose huge innings was as near the perfection of batting as one can hope to see.
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