GALLANT 'GENTLEMAN'

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 208, 2 September 1932, Page 7

GALLANT 'GENTLEMAN'

South Australian Tops the Century Against Players. N.Z. CRICKETERS COMING HOME (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, September 1. Replying to the Players' first innings score of 194 at Folkestone, the Gentlemen made 277. B. W. Hone, 130, was top scorer. Freeman took five wickets for 100. In their second venture the Players lost six wickets for 228. J. W. Hearne 70, and F. E. Woolley SG, did best. There was no play at Scarborough in the match between Yorkshire (320) and M.C.C- (one for seven). Playing against the Indian Gymkhana the All-Indian eleven "declared" at 343 for four wickets (Wazir All 141, Nayudu 104 not out). Gymkhana ran up 320 (Contractor 80, Malik 75), and the game was drawn. W. E. Merritt, the Rishton player in the Lancashire League,' sails for New Zealand by the Tainui on September 9. It is understood that he will be returning to England in 1933. C. C. Dacre (Gloucestershire) leaves for Auckland shortly. Brian Hone, the South Australian Rhodes scholar, with a great innings of 107, saved Oxford from defeat by Cam- j bridge when the light blues put up the record score in this year's 'Varsity matcl MAILEY'S CRICKETERS.

CANADIAN GAME ON UP GRADE. SAN FRANCISCO, September 1. Prior to A. A. Mailey's team of Aus- ; tralian cricketers leaving San Francisco by the Monowai for Sidney, via Wellington, the players expressed gratification at the reception accorded to them on their tour of Canada and the United States. Arthur Mailey and Victor Richardson spoke highly of the manner in which the tour was conducted by the Canadian cricket organisations. Richardson said cricket in Canada was on the up grade. He suggested the creation of a governing council for the Dominion. WALKER CUP GOLF. U.S.A. LEADS BRITISHERS. (Received 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 1. At Brookline, Massachusetts, the United States Walker Cup golf team annexed all four Scotch foursomes with the British challengers, by decisive margins. Victory in three of the eight 36-holes singles on Friday will give the Americans the seventh successive 1 triumph. SOCCER RESULTS. ENGLISH MATCHES. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, September 1. In the Third League, southern division, Queen's Park Rangers 2, drew with Aldershot 2. In the northern section Carlisle 2, beat Crewe 0.