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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7892, 7 August 1905, Page 3

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AUSTRALIA Y. fIeRCRSTERSHIRE. Trumper and. Hill Ceotunes. LOXDON, Aug. 4. A start was made to-day with the match Worc<>ster v. Australia. The weather is boisterous and the wicket drying. Hill was taken at mid-on wtaen 87 was on the board. Tramper ran up his half century in an hour and 40 minutos. Tnuiipt-r 'batted for IBS minutes, and hit 14 fourers. Throe /or 181. Tho fourth ivickct fell a t 301, Noble plnying a faultless innings, la.st-f ing 215 minutes. The weather w a s Squally) and the bails wer? frequently blown off. Scores :

AUSTRALIA.—Ist Innings. Dull, c Cuffe, b Burrows 11 Hill, cG. Foster, b Burrows ... 5 Trumper. b Wilson 110 Soble, c Hutchings, b Wilson ... 113 Armstrong. • Bowley, b R. Foster 55 Ochre, b Wilson 1 Laver, b Wilson 0 Cotter, c Hutchings, b R. Foster . 10 Newland, 1.b.w., b Wilson ... ... 2 Hopkins, c Wilson ... B Howell, not out .., 9 Sundries 11

Total 830 Bowling analysis.—Wilson took six wickets for 80 ; Cuffe, none for 106 ; Pearson, npne for 42 ; Burrows, two for 53 ; R.,Foster, two for 38. (Received Aug. 6, 4.33 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 3. The match was resumed in show r rry weather, with the wicket soft. Worcester in their first innings had lost no wickets for 14 (W. Foster niW Mowley batting) when the rain stopped play.

THE H&ICB DRAWS. (Received Aug. 7, 0.11 a.m.) LONDON*. Aus. 5. After the <lelay through rain play was resumed at 3.20 p.m. Excepting R. Foster, wfjio played «n excellent game, none of the batsmen could make any stand against the bowling of Armstrong and Cotter, the latter be*i*j especially effective. The first -wicket fell at. 24, the third, fourth, end fifth at 64, and the sixth and seventh at 66. Cotter captured the last for an addition of thirteen runs. In their second innings Worcester's first wicket went down for 7, the second and third for 10. and the fourth and fifth at 35. W. and G. Foster were disposed ol their first balls, and 11. Foster '>y his second ball, tin the first innings the last-named succumbed to his first toll. Bowley and Pearson shape"! well, and were together at the end of the day's play, whaa hoe match was declared drawn. Scores',:— '. WORCESTER.—Ist Innings.

W. Foster, 1.b.w., Armstrong. ... 10 Bowley, 1.b.w., Armstrong m ... 0 U. Foster, o Trumper, {I Cotter 81 H. Foster. C, Hill, B Cotter ... 0 HutchmSjs, b Cotter m •«, ~. 0 11. Foster, bCotter m mt m n IVarson. 1.b.w., Armstrong ... f> Burrows, h Cotter .-„ m ■» ... •"> Cuflo, b Cotter ... , A m m ... I

Wilson, not out ... ». .« ... Ainley. b Cotter ... .» mm— 0 Sundries . .., « ... ... "

Total ... h. « » ... 70 Bouiing analysis.—Cotter. ' seven for l."> ; Armstrong, three lor 21 ; Laver. none for 33. WORCESTER.—2nd Innings. W. Foster, c Newland, lb Cotter 0 R. Foster, b Cotter .„ , 4 G. Foster, • Howell, b Cotter j... 0 Hutching** b Cotter 14 IH. Foster, c Noble, b Cotter .... 0 Bowley, not out ... .- 18 Pearson, not out ... 12 Sundries 3 Total for five wickets.,.. 51 Bowling analysis.—Cotter, five for 19 ; Armstrong* noncifor 24 ; Howell, none (or &