CRICKET: Torrential rain holds up play in Third Test (1938)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Manchester lives up to its reputation as torrential rains hold up play in Third Test. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Good Test for Ducks ENGLAND: Manchester: Old Trafford: CU placard ’England vs. Australia, etc.’. Semi view people arriving pan to puddle. Semi view rain in puddle. Pan people outside ground. CU man in sou’wester & mac. CU woman in mac. Long, semi & CU views of policeman directing traffic by amplifier on rostrum. CU notice ’No money returned, etc’. Gen. view empty stands. Pan from college boys in stands to gen. view wicket. Semi view McCormick, Hassett, & O’Reilly on balcony Semi view & CU Aubrey Smith. Long view men draining water off wicket. CU College boy reading newspaper. CU headlines.. ’No Play Before Lunch’. Semi view players returning from lunch. Pan from college boy to players returning from lu