SUNDRY SPORTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 9, 7 January 1913, Page 5

SUNDRY SPORTS.

TENNIS. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, January 8. The Australian Tennis Association has decided to challenge for the Davis Cup in 1913. CRICKET. OTAGO v. SOUTH MELBOURNE. Dunedin, January 6. The cricket match South Melbourne v. Otago was continued to-day. Light rain set in at one o’clock, and at 4 it was decided to abandon the match for the day. The position then was: —South Melbourne Ist innings 227, Otago 3 wickets for 109. The Dunedin Star is very plainspoken on the subject of the New South Wales cricket team which will not now visit New Zealand. While regretting that the tour will not bo made, it expresses its opinion that “the New Zealand Cricket Council cannot be blamed for the stand which they took. They should, in fact, bo highly complimented for having opposed demands which, in a game presumably amateur hi its basis, savor of professionalism. One would think that a trip through. New Zealand, involving not only cricket, lint a good deal of sight-seeing and some hospitality, would suffice as a holiday for any young player in Australia. Seemingly it is not so. There is no gainsaying that beneath the financial stipulations put forward on behalf of New South Wales there lurks only too transparently the desire to make a little money out of the trip. It is a great pity. It may bo in keeping with the spirit of the times, but it does not harmonise with the old traditions of amateur cricket, though it is not at all inconsistent with the undoubted tendency which has bn. rayed itself in Australia—increasingly, we are afraid—in connection with international cricket. It is good to see that it if not proposed to give this moneygrabbing evil any encouragement from New Zealand.”