CRICKET.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 287, 8 June 1909, Page 5

CRICKET.

AUSTRALIA v. HAMPSHIRE. Press Assn — By telegrap^— Copyright (Received this day, 9 a.m.) LONDON, yesterday. Hampshire, in their first innings, scored 131. The' principal scores " -were;.. Mead 39, White 21, Llewellyn '9, Evans 7, Stone 10i Brown 7, Remnant (in) 11, sundries 9. Layer took 6 for 53, Whitty 3 for _J6, MocArtney, 1 for 17, Noble, 0 for *.20, Armstrong, 0 for 6. (Receiv.edr- this day; 9:35 a.m.) v LONDON, yesterday. A downpour of rain' at the start * delayed the opening;;" ■ ? The attendance was 1000. The County made a bad start. Bowell . succumbed to the second ball. Mead knocked three fourers off one •over. ■ < . - , ■ .. , Llewellyn gaye ; a poor- display, and took 40 minutes to. make 9. The fifth wicket, fell -for 89. Btowii was disposed of. at 109, aaid at tho same total Layer captured the ninth wicket. ■•••..-» The innings lasted 170 ininutos. (Received this' day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, yesterday. Australia had lost two wickets, for -34 when stumps were drawn — Trumper played Newman oh, 9; Bardsley (in), 21; Noble (run out), 8; Whitty (in), 0. ■. LONDON, . yesterday. . Up to the present, this season, 'Hobbs has compiled 1009 runs — an -average or 67 a<n innings.^