CRICKET

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10450, 3 December 1927, Page 9

CRICKET

SHEFFIELD SHIELD MATCH

VICTORIA v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA (.Received b 3. 1.15 a.in.) A OUT A JDK. Dec. 2, In ii Sheffield Shield mutch Victoria v. South Australia, Victoria, in the first innings, have lost two wickets for 305 (Woodfull 43, Ponsford 13-j, Hendry not out 95, Ryder .not out •id). Rain foil in the morning, but did not dam]) the covered wicket, hut tlie outiield was slow and dead. A short drizzle in the forenoon made conditions tricky. After a slow start brilliant and interesting cricket ■ was witnessed. Rons ford and Hendry for tlie second wicket added IG4 in quick time. Hendry and Ryder were keeping things moving merrily vheji ram stopped plav for the day at ->..30.U.T.A. • WATERSLD'ERS CLAIM LOCKOUT. WILLING TO WORK TILL I*’IVE O’CLOCK. OWNERS MUST BEAR BLAME Of TROUBLE. (Received Dee. 3. .1.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 2. Air Seale, secretary of be vntorsiders, chums that the ".wnorr action is *a lock-out. So far as they are concerned there is no strike. They are willing to keep the wheels of industry moving till live o’clock, but tlie shipowners are determined to indict great hardship and loss on tlie community by enforcing their demands, and they must carry the blame for the trouble which Ims arisen.— UP. A. M AUNG AN U,I AND MARA VIA LEAVE FOR NEW ZEALAND. PORTION OF CARGO LEFT BEHIND. (Received'.December 2, 31 p.m.) SYDNEY, Deo. 2. The Maunganui left Sydney at 4 p.m.' for Wellington, and the Mamma at 4.45 for Auckland. Both got away on time, the only trouble experienced as the result of the strike being that the .Mamma was compelled to.leave behind some two hundred tons of cargo, and the Maunganui a small portion. All the iiiter-State ports report complete cessation of waterfront activity and that cargo is piling, up on. the wharves, which am already congested. The railways are reaping the benefit of a large amount of passenger and freight traffic intended for sea' transit." hut which now is diverted to the railways.--<U.P.A. ’ ANXIETyIn BRITAIN.

ONLY SHORT DELAY TO MALOJA ANTICIPATED.

(Received December 2, 10.40 p.m.) LONDON, Deo. 2.

British shipping and commercial interests are watching the Australian strike anxiously, and newspapers am giving prominence to the cables. It is a tragic coincidence that, while the news from Canberra reports Mr. Bruce’s reference to thousands of boxes of butter being left -unloaded, a full column advertisement is appearing in the Daily Herald urging housewives' of workers, to buy_Australian blitter, the host value altered. The Peninsular Company informed tlie' Daily Chronicle that it hoped the Maloja would not, be delayed more than a few days, as it was thought unloading .would he able to proceed in the day time. No decision had been taken regarding other liners now en vo-vage to Australia'. The Daily Express, under a front pa<>’6 streamer heading, recalls that tlih 1925 strike, which cost millions before its- collapse, was' caused by the seamen, this time tlie dock- worm ers tiro responsible.—~A. and O.A. .