CRICKET

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 276, 18 May 1912, Page 7

CRICKET

THE AUSTRALIANS' FIXTURES. MAY. 20—At Lord's, v. M.C.C. 23—At Oxford, v. Oxford University. 27 SOUTH AFRICA, at Manchester. 30—At Birmingham, v. Warwickshire. .JUNE. 3—At Lord's, v. Middlesex. 6—At Cambrige, v. Cambridge University. 10—At Bradford, v. Yorkshire. 13—At Manchester, v. Lancashire. 17—At the Oval, v. Surrey. 20—At Bath, v. Somerset. 24—ENGLAND, at Lord's. 27 —At Leyton, v. Essex. JULY. I—At Sheffield, v. .Yorkshire. 4—At Liverpool, v. Lancashire. B—At Edinburgh, v. Scotland. 15—SOUTH AFRICA, at Lord's. 18—At Leicester, v. Leicestershire, j '22—At Portsmouth, v. Hampshire. ! 25—At Brighton, v. Sussex. 1 29—ENGLAND, at Manchester. AUGUST. I.—At Derby, v. Derbyshire. S—SOUTH5 —SOUTH AFRICA, at Nottingham. 12 —At Worcester, v. Worcestershire.

15—At Cheltenham, v. Gloucestershire. 19 —ENGLAND, at the Oval. 22—Cardiff, v. South Wales (provisional). 20—Norwich, v. Mr. L. Robinson's Eleven. 29 —At Canterbury, v. Kent. SEPTEMBER. 2—At the Oval, v. Surrey and Middlesex s—At Scarborough, v. Lord Londesborough's Eleven. 9 —At Hastings, v. South of England. 13—At Glasgow, v. Western Union. 16—At Inverness, v. Northern Counties. 18 —At Aberdeen, v. Aberdeenshire. 20—At Dnndee, v. Forfarshire. Thus "Wallaroo," a returned footballer, I writing to a Sydney paper:—"The average Sydney 'barracker' is a gentleman compared with the rooter of EngTand." And yet the delicate-eared Cricketer Hobbs objected to the cricket barracker of Sydney and Melbourne, who, compared with the fooball article, is a Sunday school teacher in the class room.