SPORT OVERSEAS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1925, Page 7

SPORT OVERSEAS.

FIRST-CUSS TENNIS.

POPULAR AUSTRALIANS.

CSy Cable.—Press Association.—CJopyriglit.)

(Received 10 a.m.)

NEW YORK, August 6.

The Quebec Lawn Tennis Club hopes that the Australians will play here after the Davis Cup matches in the United States. Montreal dispatches state that the demand for tickets for the approaching Australia-Canada match is unprecedented, necessitating the construction of a new stand, doubling the present capacity. William Johnston, who dropped out as a singles representative in the 1924 Davis Clip team, will fight to regain the position from Richards on August 15, when they meet in a match for the best three out of five sets. The Forest Hill 3 winner will lie named number two in the United States Davis Cup teani. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

BRIGHTER CRICKET.

30,000 AT THE OTAL. A RECORD GATE. LONDON, August C. There were amazing scenes at the Oval on the second day of the cricket match, Notts v. Surrey, when the latter eide Wnsdue to bat. There were 30,000 spectators at the start of the day's play, (md the crowd encroached for 20yds 'round the boundary, After lundiieon the attendance hnd' reached 34,000. This constituted ft record, Many of the onlookers left when Hobbs Wa3 dismissed for 54. The match Was drawn.— (Retitei\)

BRITISH BOWLING TEAM.

NEW ZEALAND IN DECEMBER. (Received 12 lioon.) LONDON, August 0. The British bowling team has 'been completed, and comprises 36 players. Twelve ladies will accompany the team, which will Sail by the Nftlilera on August 25. and leave Sydney for New Zealand on December 11. The team will return by the'Tainui on February 10, 1920.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)

QUEENSLAND TEAM.

BRISBANE, this day. the Queensland team against New Zealand on Saturday will be: Fullback. Frauenf elder; three-quarters, Horder, Mcßrien, Gorman, Ayneley; halves, D. Thompson. C. Thompson; forwards, Potter, Parry, Stiipenen, Steinorht, O'Mal-a. Arttibrustef. Emergoncies: ft. Brown, Lindsay, Craig, Parcells, Henderson, and Holt. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)