TEST CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1382, 7 March 1912, Page 5

TEST CRICKET.

THE RECALCITRANT SIX. HILL STATES THE PLAYERS' CASE. By Telegraph-Press Associatlon-Oopyrlcht Sydney, March 6. Clem Hill has written a long letter to the pre3s, detailing tho player*' view regarding the cricket dispute. He attacks the personnel of the Board of Control, and etatcs, in reference to Frank, Laver's refusal to hand to the board the books relating to the last tour, that they v«e laver's private property. M'Alister, as treasurer, had failed to keop books, and desired Laver's books in order to give tho board information. Lavcr had nfurwards offered to show M'Alister his tt'oks in order to dispel tho grounds i'jr insinuations that something was wrong. M'Alister had then replied that he did notwt.nt them, but that" as Laver had teen disloyal the board would not confirm his appointment as manager. Melbourne, March 6 A' movement is afoot to present Mr. if'Elhono with a testimonial. The I'nirersity Club has resolved that such action in singularly inappropriate, THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM. London, March 5. The "Pall Mall Gazette," discussing the Australian Board of Control's selection of a team for England, says that Minnett, Kelleway, Hazlitt, nnd Matthews particularly, and Jennings may well rise to the occasion. Whitty is likely to improve vastly when fully recovered from his attack of appendicitis. The bowling vill not lack variety. "The combination," according to the "Gazette," "is one of ini.M<y)se possibilities."