SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Mataura Ensign, 9 November 1908, Page 3

SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

CRICKET. THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN. BY ELECTRIC TELEGEAPII.—COPYRIGHT. FEU UNITED PBEfeB ASSOCIATION. ; LONDON, Nov. 7. Thirty-seven matches liave been arranged for the Australian cricket- . ers, | 'including, two each against , Yorkshire, Surrey, Gloucester, Essex and iYorkshire and Lancashire i combined, and one each aaawßt the . rest "of the first-class countiesl^Scot- , land, Cambridge, Oxford and West of [England. The tour will commence at Nottingham on May 6. ■ VICTORIA v 'SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE, Nov. 8. The inter-State cricket season opened yesterday. Victoria, in the first innings made 219 (Carroll 80, Vernon 57, being the chief scorers), South Australia has lost one wicket for 37 (Claxton 23, Mayne 11)., FOOTBALL TWO AUSTRALIAN VICTORIES. 'LONDON, Nov. 8. The "Wallabies" scored six goals and three tries; Cheshire a try. The game (was less one-sided than the scores indicate. The (Australian Leaguers team scored three goals and two tries to Hunslet's goal and three tries. Even play was witnessed in the first half, and exciting play in the second spell.