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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 543, 25 June 1909, Page 5

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'■■'. YORKSHIRE MATCH ABANDONED. ■ .-• (By v.Toleirajh.-Wcsa ABsqc'itttion.-gopyrteetX' '':.'- : ": '. ; ■'' ':'.'■'■■ ! 'London, Juno 23.;':' ..Wlien ; play . was resumed to-day in .thp niatch 'Australia.>i. Yorkshire, tho-weather waa ,Biinny, and "a ,brc6?p >vas drying tl)6 : wioket. . About; 'three thousand . spectators wpro prosont., V : '. "' ; '.■■ ' : . ' :.' ; ' ; r :.. slJA.listor.arid Bardsley went to'.tho ,wickots...to: open: .'.tho. -■ Australians' . innings. .Hirst.';openod tho, attack, '.'and';.M'Aljat'qr,' playing -forward, placed tho second ball in' Myers's' hands, short, leg. One for. i)ii, • ' Rhodos'removed Bnrcjsloy's leg stuinp when, tho :soora .ptoqd ;at : 12, and Noblo was dismissed by a;>unning catcli at , long-off', by .Rptbery; off Rhodes, the, third wicket falling: for 40. ' .!.■.' ; ■'. •':,'■'.".'■: ...'■.■." ■■ ['-". ;.,'. '■

Ransford playod a vigorous, resourceful garno, raarrod by two chances. He was missed at tho wicket by Hunter when ho hnd mode 4, and by RpdclifFo at mid-on at IQ, At two o'clock rain stopped play, and as it continued the match hnd to bo' abandoned. Tho full scores wero as follow:— - YORKSHIRE. First Innings ' 290 AUSTRALIA. FniST Innings. M'Alistor, o. Myors, h.- Hirst 0 Bardsley, b. Rhodes '/' 5 Xolilo, c. Itothory, b. Rhodes .~. ■ ",', 27 Rnnsford, not out 32 Armstrong, not out )"■ 12 Extras ... '. ", 2 Total for throe wickots 78 BowiiiNo Analysis. Rhodes, two wickets for 45 runs; Hirst, one for 19; Haigh, 110110 f0r.12. YORKSHIRE-LANCASHIRE TEAM. ' ■ ' (Ree. June 25, 0.50 a.m.) ' m . „ . .„ London, June 2-1. The following will constitute tlio combined team, Yorkshire and Lancashire, to play tho Australians :— A. H. Hornby, Lancashire A. Hartley, Lancashire W. Brcarley, Lancashire. G. □. Hirst, Yorkshire. J. Sharp. Lancashire. W. , Rhodes, Yorksliiro. J. T. Tyldesloy, Lanoashiro. ' D. Donton, Yorkshire. ys. Huddleston, Lancashire. S. Haigh, Yorkshirp. D. Hunter, Yorkshire.

.■■■•;; ;;- : :, '•■■ •. notes.: ;.-■ /./',■■ 1 . ; v, H-γ , ?\ fitfqw "pome, I thing to beat" proved thp rain, which fellah auch consistency as to prevent;"the tourists from completing a single innings, ~ The "Brad.ford wieket iti an .easy first in the White Koso oounty tor: its-drying iproolivities,- but the deluge, which came on. >nfter lunch, has caused one of the most unportant of tlic sninor Ansr trahan engaßoraonts. to lie lvritten pit as drawn; and Yorkshire. _The match, Australia it. ipnoneljira,■ and Yorkshire,.if, the elements irere favourable at Manchester, wasi in, wh,en this iesuo wont to .press. The union of the Two' Hoses is iinlliiio thp present Australian ■»i'py(<n. . Thw. Will lie thn first oconsion the ralomnls linve met a conibiiisd tenm from-these two slurcs, and the match should prove inter eating, provided the rain holds off. :