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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 59, 14 March 1904, Page 2

CRICKET.

KN'ULIttIIMKN' IN AI KTIiALIA. LAST JIATCII Ol'' Till'" TOIiH. (Received March l.'i, !).;V.t a.m.) AIIKLAIDIi, March It!. The Knglishinen commenced the last match of Ihe lonr in line weather and with a (food wicket. The litthlic attended in fair nuniliet's. (lelirs played a line resourceful innings for the colonials, anil Newland showed slashing cricket. making 51) in minutes. SOI'TII AI'STiiALIA, First innings. Hack, b BosaiU|iiet l.'i (leln's, I) llirsl (iij Hill, c Strudwick, )j llirsl 22 Jennings, c Strudwick, h J lei f 31 (-'laxton, c Strndwick, h Hosant|Uet 10 I'ellew. b Keif -1 Evans, c and b Braund 2St H. Hill, I) Bosanipiet o Newland, b Fielder 50 Travel's, run out o Combe, not out o Extras 7 'l'ot.al 2o'J Howling analysis : Hirst two for ii'.l, Fielder one for <lO, Hosnnipict three for 72, Rhodes nil for 18, Bruund one for HS, Keif two for 45. KNC! LI SHM K\', l''irst innings. The Englishmen have lost one wicket for nine. Foster, c Hack, b ('laxton 2 Warner, not out a Bosampiet, not out 5 Total for one wicket (Notes by Cover Point.) After a record season for rain, the test matches have lihislied. Ilie scores standing Knglantl M, Antral.,l ;>, Till! luck of tile noble giune has been equally divided. Warner himself prognosticated that a wet season would be in his favour. Yet, we lind that in the two last matches Australia, if anything, negotiated the treacherous wicket better than the visitors. There now remain only two matches to be played, one witii •South Australia and one at. Perth ; anil Hie team have then to rush oil post, haste for the county engagements in England. The last, test calls for little commerit, all interest having apparently ceased when the rubber went 10 Knglund. Tnimble's bowling average for a tust was marvellous, but that of Uraund, eight for HI, on a perfect wicket (vide cable) should rank us phenomenal. Excepting Trurujer's H 8 in the first innings, the low scoring heftrs testimony to the excellence at both the bowling and tielding of tho visitors. (iehr.s, who took. S. Uregorv's place, was 11 complete failure, and will have to improve to gain a place in Hie 11)05 Australian lentil for England, X forgot to mention, lo show the luck of cricket that the mighty Trumper was clean bowled by Hirst's lirst ball. Mr Keginahl Studd, whom the Xew Zealand papers tire announcing as about to deliver a series of mission services in Xew Zealand, is not by tiny means the brilliant cricketer some give him credit for, lie lirst appeared for Eton College ill 1690, scoring 12 against Harrow in the lirst innings and four in the second. He was not played against Winchester college in the same year. In 1891 against Harrow he scored 17 and 1, and against Winchester i ami 17. Going to Cambridge iu 18>):1, he entered Trinity College contemporaneous with such "big guns" as Knngitsinghji, F. S, Jackson and Bruce. His average for seven .innings was 17.5. In ISM his average was 17, i! for seven innings. He gained his "blue" in 1895,-his average for 16 inningH being 135.0, In the University match the same year his scores were 28 and 9. This was his first, and only uppearance for Cambridge University. He urn: n member of Mr F. Mitchell's Anglo-American team, averaging J-1.0 for five innings (once not out). For llauioslure in 1895 he had an average of .T1.5 for four innings. Ho was never in the .same street as a erieketer with the 4 celebrated 0.T., «M\., and 0.8. of that ilk.