AUSTRALIA BEATEN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1502, 26 July 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIA BEATEN.

HAMPSHIRE WINS BY EIdHT WICKETS.

By l'elejrraph—Press Association—Copjrtelt London, July 24. Hampshire beat the Australians by eight wickets. This is tho county's first victory-over an. 1 Australian Eleven. . i Thoro was mi attondnnce of COO per- j sons. The woather wne wiu'in, and tho wicket good. Ivolletttiy (85) anil Gregory (14), tho partners overnight, added 17 to tho score* when Kelloway was run out oil a ntwko of Gregory's to mid-on, Brown throwing tho wicket down. Tho partnership had put on 102. Gregory nnd Matthews mndo a good stand, tho seventh wicket adding 58. Two hundred was hoisted in three hours. Gregory, after making 85, was caught by Stone at tho wickets, after a chanceloss innings, in which he ehowed splendid pulling and cutting. His sooro included cloven i> , Matthews carried his bat, tho others making no 6tand. > ; Hampshire, requiring 83 .to win, got tho runs in 45 minutes. After Whitty. had bowled Bowell, Mead got d single and three 4 J s off tho remainder of the ovor. Ho played a faultless innings for 33, not out. Stone mas bowled by an Eniery full j toss, tho batsman ducking his head to escape the boil, which, shattered hie' wickets.

Details are as follow:— HAMPSHIRE, First innings , ;.„„ 371 Second Innings. BoweU, b. Whitty 20 Stone, b. Emory 20 Mead, not out ....1.............;. 33 Fry, not out , 12 Sundry , .„! 1 Total for two wiokcts 80 Bowling Analysis. Minnett, no wickets for 19 runs; Matthews, nono for U; Whitty, ono for 29; Emory, ono for 23. ' ■ . .: AUSTRALIA. First innings 197 Second Innings. Jennings, run out M Mayno, c. Stone, b. Newman,... 32 Smith, c. and b. Kennedy 9 Bardsley, o. and b. Kennedy ; 2 Kelleway, run out , 4G Gregory, o. Stone, h. Brown 83 Minnott, o. Mead, b. Brown ~„..., l Matthews, not out , ~.,;, 45 Whitty, b. Kennedy 8 Emery, c. Stone, b. Kennedy ; 0 Carkeek, c. Brown, b. Kennedy 0 Sundries „.„ , 0

Total 256 ■ Bowling Analysis. Brown, tiro wickets for 82 runs; Kennedy, five for 91; Newman,.one for 48; Remnant, none for 26. AFRICAN MATCH ABANDONED. London, July 24. The Africans' match, against the Woodbrook C. and Q., at Bray, woe abamdonod owing to rain. . Details are aa follow:— . . .' SOUTH AFRICA. First innings ~„„„ 82G Second innings ("declared" for 212): Taylor 71, S'nooke 11, Beaumont 33, White (not out) 39, Faulkner 6, Pegler 0, Carter 28, Weird (not out) 9. • WOODBROOK.' First innings' .........»..„„...,.,„,... 290 RANJITSINHJI BATS WELL. - London, July 24. Ranjifcsinhji, playing for Sussex against Lancashire, 6cored 176.

THE SUSSEX TEAM. (Rec. July 25, 10.45 p.m.) z London, July 25. The Sussex team to meet Australia will comprise the following:—Ranjitsinhji, Chaplin, Simins, Fender, Hollcway, Vino, A. Relf, R, Rolf, Killick, Cox, Street.