21 FEBRUARY 1925, Page 3

Mr. Gilligan's cricketers in Australia have earned our hearty congratulations

by the very handsome manner in which they beat the Australians in the last Test match by an innings and twenty-nine runs. The game was not nearly so exciting as at least two of the earlier matches, for the Australians never looked like winning ; but it was glorious when the spell against us was broken—not since 1912 had we won a match—that it was broken so de- cisiVely. True the weather helped us, but Spofforth, the Australian " demon bowler " of an earlier generation, Said that it made no real difference. Hobbs and •Sutcliffe are, of course, great batsmen but we have a -great • bowler in Tate. "So there's something in the English after all.", * * * *