SUNDAY SPORTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 24 February 1912, Page 8

SUNDAY SPORTS.

SIX-DAY CYCLING CONTEST. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Melbourne, February 23. In the six days’ race another team has dropped out. Dottzauor lost two laps. The others had covered Idteen hundred and two miles at midnight, twenty-nine miles behind Sydney.

DISGRUNTLED CRICKETERS. (Received 22, 10.20 a.m.) Sydney, February 23. The weather is dull and threatening for the cricket.

Hill, speaking for the rejected players, declared “We are very sorry at this turn of affairs, but have done all wo can to secure a settlement. The Board still objects to Laver as manager, though I offered them all the books and papers of the tour and to let McElhone be appointed arbitrator and to abide by his decision as to whether Laver has been disloyal. Ho refused, repeating that Laver was disloyal. Why don’t they select the whole team and allow them to select a manager?” Mr McGowen and Mr Holman yesterday night had a long interview with the six players. Mr McGowen subsequently said he would see the Board of Control with a proposal which he hoped would settle matters. Hill subsequently stated that he only wanted peace and the best team to go to England. In the event of McElhone being prepared to compromise, he still demanded unconstitutional acceptance. If the selectors chose Laver as a member of the team, the players would make no further protest. Melbourne, February 22. Mailer, one of the Victorian representatives on the Board of Control, declared that the 'secretary had no right to take action as the players had been accepted conditionally. He will want to know why the secretary took the action he did without a further meeting of the Board. The way the players were treated was downright dishonourable. Players should not be asked to sacrifice their principles.