UP AGAINST IT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIIII, Issue 3625, 11 September 1912, Page 5

UP AGAINST IT.

AUSTRALIA v. SOUTH OF ENGLAND. HOME TEAM MAKES GOOD START. [UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION COPYB.IGHT] t '"•ucy Sept. 9. For the match Australia v. South of England the weather was fine and the wicket easy. Webster, Emery, Wliitty and Smith were omitted from the Australian team. Chaplin won the toss, and the Englishmen batted. Hobbs’ first hall hit the wicket. Barrett showed fine driving, and made eight fours. He played a clianceless innings. Fifty appeared in 55 minutes, and 100 in iOO minutes. Simms batted splendidly all round. Re]f gave, a brilliant exhibition of driving. He scored a sixer and seven fours.

Two hundred appeared in 160 minutes'. Vine hatted for 260 minutes, and hoisted his eenturv in 235 minutes. He showed splendid defence and good driving. He got 14 off one of Minnett’s overs. He played a chanceless innings, his score including a fiver and 14 fours. Kidd, after being howled bv a nohall from Kell-ewav. was missed at 2 before scoring. He made 60 in 65 minutes. Hitch did a big driving score of 10 minutes. Matthews howled splendidly. Kel'eway gave eight no-halls. The attendance was good. Followin''’ were the scores:— SOUTH OF ENGLAND. First Innings. Hobbs, b Maclaren 0 Woolley, b Matthews 25 Barrett, c Carkeek, b Matthews 51 Simm, b Kellewav 39 Relf, on played, b Kelleway ... 41

Vine, b Matthews 107 Kidd, lbw, b Matthews 63 Hayes, c Jennings, b Matthews ... 8 Chad in, c Macartney, b Matthews 16 Hitch, c Mayne, b Matthews ... 27 Tufnel, not out 2 Extras 41 Total 420 Bowling Analysis.—Maclaren 1 for 78, Hazlitt 0 for 70, Matthews 7 for 143, Minnett" 0 for 28. Macartney 0 for 40, Kelleway 2 for 30 The wic-kets fell as follows: 1 for 0, 2 for 38, 3 for 126. 4 for 183. 5 for 249, 6 for 354, 7 for 359, 8 for 368, 9 for 402 10 for 420. SOUTH AFRICA v LONDESBOROUGH’S TEAM. , LONDON, Sept. 9.

The South Africans commenced a match against Lord Londesboro'ugli’s eleven. The South African tea in batted. their fii’st innings closing for 100 —Taylor, c Ranjitsinhji, b Barnes, 5; Strieker, c Spooner, b Hirst. 15; Nourse, b Hirst. 0: White, c Rhodes, b Barnes, 20; Tancred, c Denton, b Barnes. 22; Faulkner, c W. S. Bird, b Barnes. 0: Pegler, lbw, b Barnes, 13; Ward, b Hirst-. 0: Carter, not out, 4; Mitchell, b Hirst. 4; Cox, b Barnes, 5; sundries, 12. Bowling analysis: Barnes 6 for 32. Hirst 4 for 56. Londesborough’s team have lost four wickets for 63 runs—Spooner, b Faulkner, 23:' Rhodes, b Pegler. 4; Mead, not out, 23; Denton, e Mitchell. b Faulkner, 9: Douglas, lbw, b Faulkner, 0; Raniitsinhii, not out, 3. Stumps were then drawn.