CROWDED MEETING

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10574, 4 March 1912, Page 5

CROWDED MEETING

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CRICKET TROUBLE IN AUSTRALIA ADELAIDE CONDEMNS BOARD'S ACTION. I CABLE TO MARYLEBONE CLUB. (Received March 2, 9.45 a.m.) ADELAIDE, March 2. In the Adelaide Town Hall a crowded public meeting was held to discuss the cricket crisis. The Mayor presi ded. The board'.s action was strongly condemned, and the meeting expressed sympathy with the six. MELBOURNE, March 2. In accordance with the resolution at the recent public meeting in Mel« bourne, a cable has been sent to the Marylebone Olub, protesting against the Board of Control's team being received as representative, and suggesting that the Marylebone Club should stipulate for a representative team to foe sent Home.

WARNER'S REGRET. HILL WOULD BE MISSED IN ENGLAND. TRUMPiER THE IDOL OF THE PUBLIC. (Received March 2, 11 a.m.) SYiDNEY, March 2.

At the "social" after the Test Match, the English captain, P. P. Warner, replying to a toast, said he regretted that the best Australian team would not compete in the first triangular matches. Hill would be missed in England; Trumper was the idol of the British public He considered that the present English team would beat any _„that had previously' visited Australia. ' TWO ALTERNATIVES; j-:;\;THERESTTJEAM : (m;NONE;,...' j o'clock. : , .;;. ; MELBOURNE, March. & •?, A protest meeting against the Board of Control's selections has declared that one of two things must happen, either that Australia puts her best team in tlie field or that no team shallgo to England. It is stated that prominent cricket supporters intend to apply for an exparte injunction, to prevent the Board of Control from proceeding further with the despatch of the selected team, after it had taken itihe conditional acceptance of the six players, who have refused invitation.