CRICKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10520, 8 January 1912, Page 5

CRICKET.

[CABLE NEWS

I (United Press Association—By ElecI trie Telegraph—Copyright.)

AUSTRALIAN TEAM FOR ENGLAND. QUESTION OF A SECRETARY. LEGAL ACTION PROBABLE. (Received January 6, 10.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, January 6. it, is stated that the cricketers intend to take legal action i;; connection with the Board of Control's; proposal to send a. Board's representative with the team to England, on the ground that such action would constitute an abrogation of an agreement between the team and the Board.

AUSTRALIAN BARRACKERS.

CLEM. HILL'S OPINION

(Received January 6. 10.20 a.m.) ADELAIDE, January 5. Clem. Hill, the Australian captain, commenting on the cable sent by\J. B. Ho'bbs, of the English team, to an English paper, complaining of the barracking of Australian crowds, considers that Hobbs-acted unwisely." Nothing, says Hill, could be fairer than tho treatment of uho Englishmen in the. First Tert\ At the Second the crowd was good humoured; ib was in nowise hostile. The Australian' players were barracked just as much as the Englishmen.

SHEFFIELD SHIELD MATCH. NEW SOUTH WALES v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) ADELAIDE, January 7. Tn the Inter-State match for the Sheffield Shield, New South Wales >v, South Australia, the latter in theiij,; first innings made 261—Doi;;: ; g 105, Murray 48. Cotter took 4 tickets for 67. Kelleway 3 for 44, «nd Emery 3 for 63. New South Wales have J osty one wicket for 19 runs. M.C.C. v. GEELONG (Received This Morning, 1 o'clock) MELBOURNE, January 7. The match between the Englishmen and a Geelong team, at Geelong, was declared a draw. Geelong in their first innings mad 277 runs, Liddicut 129, and Baker 34 heing the chief scorers. Hitch took three wickets for 71 runs, Gunn 1 for 22, Woolley 1 for 44, Vine 4 for 56, Curwen 4 for 23. England scored 118 for the loss of four wickets (Woolley 23,. Curwen and Mead, not out, each 33)/ Cur-wen, the Governor's aide-de-campe, played for the Englishmen. DUNEBIX MATCHES. (By Telegraph—Fress Association.) DUNEDIN, Last Night. Cricket .matches were resumed yesterday in fine, warm weather, hut owing to the recent rains the grounds were on the soft. side. » ..'

Caris'brook A , made 94. against Grange (Hopkins 33). Downes took 6 wickets fdr 38;.-Grange made 172 for 8 wickets (Popple 81). ' _ *- Albion compiled 109 agabst Oarishrook B. Ramsden too,k 7 wickets for 57. Carisbrook compiled 171 for five wickets (Barron 38. Alloo 34). Dmiedin made 83 (Oondliffo 47) against. Opoho. Casey took 4 wickets for 5. Onoho. made 110. Torr.voe took 8 wickets f<v t,.