SPORT OVERSEAS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 215, 11 September 1925, Page 7

SPORT OVERSEAS.

FIRST-CLASS CRICKET. CONSISTENT SUTCLIFFE. LONDON, September 10. In the cricket match between Tennyson's team, composed mostly of players who made the South African tour, and Gilligan's team, composed mainly of men who toured Australia, the former side lost one wicket for 201 runs. Bain stopped play with Bowley (81) and I Hanimdnd (113) batting. j In the South v. North match, the former made 219 runs for eight wickets. : McDonald has now taken 200 wickets; this season. j Playing Against Marylebone, York- p shire lost four wickets for 299 runs. Sutcliffe made 17; i. and completed' 2000 runs for this season.— (A. and N.Z.) GOLF IN VICTORIA. STATE AMATEUR CHAMPION. MELBOURNE, September 10. Alexander Russell won the State amateur golf championship. — (A. and N.Z.) PASSENGERS IN DISTRESS. HELD UP FOR THREE WEEKS. (Received 1.30 p.m.) j ADELAIDE, this day. ■ j A deputation of passengers aboard the P. and O. liner Barranald, held up owing to the strike, waited on the Premier to ( ascertain whether the Government could do anything to assist them in getting to their destinations. It was stated that the steamer had been held up for three weeks, and the position was becoming seTious. Of 500 passengers who arrived, 370 are third class travellers, and are still on the vessel, many of them entirely without means. The company had offered one pound sterling to each passenger for Melbourne, two for Sydney, and three for Brisbane. It cost considerably more than that for them to obtain transport. The Premier, replying, expressed sympathy with the unfortunate passengers, and promised to get in touch with the authorities concerned, to see what could be done. — (A. and N.Z.)