CRICKET

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10510, 23 December 1911, Page 6

CRICKET

ENGLAND'S DEFEAT.

VISITORS OUTCLASSED

(United Fress Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright J

(Received December 22, 9.15 a.m.)

SYDNEY, December 22

The Sydney Morning Herald says j to* at no stage of the Test match d'id the Australians look like losing. Tlhoy hatted, bowled, and fielded bettor than the Englishmen. In recent years English critics considered that the only "tay in whirelr a, visiting team can hope for success against the Australians is bv sound defensive, rather it)han brillia'iit baitting. The South, j Africans liasit season also adopted these Lactics, but Australia has won. nine j out of the Ikast eleven Tests, proving that an enterprising batsman, as re- ■ presented by Australia, loses nothing bv comparison. 'The Telegraph states that considering that the English team was not | representative and that P. F. Warner was unable to play, they caii be congratulated on the good fight. If England is to win in Australia she must send her best team. It is open to argument even if the best team could win. The visitors may do better in the renaming matches, as many of them are young, players in their first Test match. This is more serious to _an Englishman, than to an Australian as cricket is sacred to the English, and no sport is sacred to the Australimns, who have no traditions to live up to.

The following team will represent St. Matthew's Club against St. Mark s (Wellington) in a match to be played on ithe Masterton Park Oval on Boxing Day :—B. Wlalk&r, J. Stewart, H. Riussell, A. Styles, T. Miller, F. Crosbie W. Morris, A. Ibbetson, b. Temple, E. Perry, and A. Thompson. Play will commence at 9.30 sharp.