Sport: Cricket

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season. He played with the English team in Melbourne last week, received a tremendous ovation for his 49 runs made in England's final innings.

Later, interviewed concerning his reported retirement, he repeated his willingness to stand down and give others a chance if England should win the third test.

*In 1882, when Australia won her first match on English ground, cartoonists pictured an urn containing the ashes of British cricket. Since then the teams have contested for the "ashes."