CRICKET.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 6 May 1912, Page 5

CRICKET.

THE SOUTH AFRICANS.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, May 5. There was no.play in the South Africa v. Derbyshire match yesterday, owing to rain. THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM. Sir Thomas Dewar banqueted the Australian team in the Hotel Cecil. He said that the visits of cricketers were creating history, not only of cricket but politically, as they were assisting in unifying the Empire. Mr Grouch, responding for the Board of Control, said that the Commonwealth had sent a young side favorably known .in the Inter-State game. They hoped to show that the youngsters were able to play the game.