OVERSEAS SPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 287, 4 December 1930, Page 7

OVERSEAS SPORT.

HOBBS ON TOUR. - " Barndoor" Cricket Creates Comment in India. PLAYING TO ORDERS. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Cop7ri£hU ■ i (Received 10 a.m.) DELHI, December 3. There has been some caustic comment on barndoor cricket as played by Hobbs and Suteliffe, following their stolid exhibitions. In Calcutta both adopted "Johnny wont hit today" tactics. At Bangalore Hobba batted nearly an hour and a half for 38, then retired. SutclifEe after two and a quarter hour's play made 56. In the first innings both were run out, when Hobbs was 46 and SutclifEe two. It is felt that England's first cricket pair are not giving of their best, possibly at Maharajah Kumar's orders, as the Vizianagram wants to win matches. In Calcutta, when asked why he scored snly five runs in an hour. Hobbs replied that he was playing to orders, just as be was accustomed to do for the county.

SUTCLIFFE'S DAY. - CRICKET IN INDIA. CALCUTTA, November 28. While crows and farmyard fowls pecked with great unconcern in the cutfield, and Indians crammed the windows, balconies and roofs of the threerstoreyed houses that hemmed in the small ground of the Sporting Union C.C., HerbertSutcliffe knocked up 110 not out for the Vizianagram team. It was his first century in India. It was a one-day match. An immense! crowd was inside the ground. Thousands of half-dressed urchins and Bengali babies encroached on the boundary. Everybody displayed the greatest interest. The score at the close *of play was: Vizianagram two wickets for 209; Sporting Union seven wickets for 10S (Sutcliffe one for 15).' It being Sunday, Jack Hobbs did not play. FOOTBALL" ENGLAND.

SOCCER AND RUGBY RESULTS. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON", December 3. Soccer Cup replays resulted: —Gateshend beat Trenmere by three goals to two, Fulham beat Wimbledon by six goals to nil, Halifax beat Mansfield by two goals to one. In the Rugby county matches Eastern Counties beat Surrey by 11 points to 0. and Sussex beat Kent by 9 points to 3. In the Northern Union Club competition Salford beat Keighley v by 44 points to 7. R. PEARCE IN CANADA. ABOUT TO BE MARRIED. (Received 10 a.m.) HAMILTON. December 3. Bobby Pearce, the Australian sculling champion, will be wedded here on December 10. His fiancee, from Australia, will arrive at Vancouver on December 5. After competing at the Empire Games H. B. Pearce remained in Canada, in a position as University rowing coach.