CRICKET.

Evening Star, Issue 12762, 15 March 1906, Page 8

CRICKET.

THE MELBOURNE TEAM. The members of the M.C.C. team, who are to play against Otago to-morrow, Saturday, and Monday, arrived from the Lakes last evening, when they were driven to Wain's Hotel and officially welcomed. Mr A. C. Hanlon, president of the Otago Cricket Association, in welcoming the team, .said that though the members of the MiC.C. team must have had many receptions of a similar kind, so much did cricketers in Dunedin appreciate the team's visit that even at the expense of boring them they could not let the opportunity pass of at least extending to them a welcome to the City. The M.C.C. team had shown on the present tour how cricket should be played. He hoped that, notwithstanding the defeats inflicted on the other provinces, Otago would give them a good game. Whatever happened, the match would be played in a sportsmanlike way, and Otago, if defeated, would take the beating in the way it should be taken. Mr Aitken, the manager of the M.C.C. team, briefly replied, thanking the Otago Cricket Association for the welcome extended them. The team fully appreciated thss honor. If Otago won the match, it would, he felt sure, do the province a great deal of good, and would not do the M.C.C. much harm. They, too, could also take a beating. The weather experienced on the tour had not been of the best, and his own experience of Dunedin was that the climate was very moist. If a little sunshine could be provided during their stay they would go away with a good impression of Dunedin after all. Schools' Cricket Association fixtures.— Junior grade: Union street v. North-east Valley, at Opoho; Forbury v. Kensington, at Caledonian; Caversham v. Arthur strot, at North Ground; Mornington v. Albany, at Mornington; Kaikorai v. High street, at Mornington.