CRICKET.
The fixtures for the Thursday Championship, which were to have commenced to-day, have been postponed until Thursday next. Owing to the Thursday Cup con test being postponed to-day, the Carlton Cricket Club will hold a net practice. As the Saturday and Thursday Championships are about to start all members are requested to attend. The negotiations between the Wellington Provincial Schools Cricket 1 Association and the New South Wales Association in reference to a visit from a team of New South Wales teachers have resulted in arrangements being made by which the New South Wales teachers will leave Sydney for Wellington on Saturday, December 21st. The team will remain in New Zealand for about twenty-seven, days, and their tour will be confined to the North Island. The suggested itinerary is:—Arrive Wellington December 25th, reception, and begin match with Welling- j ton district teachers December 26th, and continue match, and dinner in the evening, December 27th; play outside team, and theatre, December 28th; drive, December 29th; leave for Wanganui via Wairarapa, December 30th; excursion on river and plsy Wanganui," December 31st. The rest of the tour will include visits to New Plymouth. Mount Egmont, Auckland (where a match is to be played against the New Zealand teachers), Thames, Te Aroha, Rotorua, and Hamilton. The team will leave Auckland for Sydney on January 20th. About eight cricket matches and four tennis matc'ies have been mapped out. The Minister of Education has been apprised of the forthcoming visit, and has been asked to endeavour, to obtain reduce'd fares on the Railways for the visitors. G. L. Jessop gave a remarkable display of "hurricane" scoring at Hastings recently. Playing for the Gentlemen of the South against the Players of the South, he scored 191 runs out of 234 made while he was at the wicket in the remarkably quick time of 90 minutes. He scored his first 50 in 24 minutes, after which he proceeded to punish Relf, the Sussex bowler, for five 4's and a 6 in one over. After completing his hundred in the wonderful time of 42 minutes, Mr Jessop hit five G\s. Such a wonderful display of hitting has, says the Loudon Daily Express, never previously been witnessed in a firstclass match.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8863, 24 October 1907, Page 6
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372CRICKET. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8863, 24 October 1907, Page 6
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