General Chatter.

NZ Truth, Issue 299, 18 March 1911, Page 3

General Chatter.

The return game between New South Wales and South Africa, won by the former by 44 rwna, cstabUwhOH another record. It i« tho Hr«t ocscasion that each team m any watch has made over 400 runs m OQJih Innings. The scoreg ware ;— -N«w South Wales, 486 and *&S , South Afri«ft, 408 and 442, For a cock-eyed, Qm*§i(tefr lot, you cftn* not beat Auckland, Even the press telft* graph /nan has got it, Wwn lUv/Ufl'ts Bay made M, &«4 Pearson got si* wickets fop JO mhS, »;$ Kerp two foe 5, that was swfttjy to sw»Hpv/ Uy wire, but l>e«*«« ittje WQVIM'Q had the audMJty tp g#il; 167 »> » seeonfl attempt, tlw WFi? §»y.« > '' t-- T.ftyk>F, ft IG-year-old J>oy, $9©k /ohp wifk«ts fef : 35." That fftmld he iiw limit.- How [every brawl- of Awk\&n4»F Who &V&F lived doc» Jo'/<? to ftfb Jf 0?, Vftim PQ& Bible. a Dunedin vnit§E informs hs ttist Mf Hiokey, the WslHflg^n fepF§S#BiAtiye player, was preset ft* gFeHHi one Saturday Iftteiy to m the loPfi-lS play. He wan «ofc''»?.§pi^rf" l/y Wlfftfc he saw m. the Wi*y of '' . Why should he be? Look flfc tl?e V/^J(§ Of "brilliant" .play and "spftikHlfg" erU-'feefc that the same Me 1-Ilckey fllld l)js team? have inflicted on a long-suflerjng Wellington public this year, it'fi a good jnli the Dimedin scribe didn't aeo uomo of Wellington's show stuP this season. Tl« would never need to apologise for Otftgo. A Christchurch writer is out will) n suggestion that a New Zealand cricket team should visit Australia early nevt season, and have a go at the crack btatft elevens just as they are getting into form to meet the Englishmen. Seeing that our New Zealand players arc not m form as early m. the season as the Australians are, and also seeing that a match between New South Wales at its best and our young players, just coming on, would probably knock all desire for more cricket out of the collective heads of the New Zealand players for ever and ever, the said Christchurch writer is hereby advised to get ice m large quantities and put it on his bead. Something strange was bound to happen In Christchurch as soon as Canterbury won the Shield.

J. H. Board, coach to the Hawke's Bay Association, lias left for England to take up the usual engagements - tuci'ci Evidently lie has some great material to work on In the province of v boodle, Judging by their show against Auckland lately. Tlicro won't be any braßH band out to meet Vo&lcr on his return to .South Africa, Neither will any |)r.oßcn tuition of a purse of soveiolftiiß bu mado to him. When ho left South Africa for Autftralia .!i« wa» culled tliu '"best; bowler In tlio world," Woud'or wlmti tiwy will cull him when ho gists back ? Still, ho hurt a good trip, Eh. what I W, A, Noble's expressed opinion that, Imvlng won Wit? Third Tust miUvh, tint B<jiil.li Afti'-'aflß would win Ui» two y Hum's rind the r\t)thar, was, of eouvse, eitblud tp pJI pftfte of Houth AfJ-'it'H. Even though the js(.ro?)g«Hfc isiippoflprs of tliti visjti'Hg (-sivm w«r§ l.ipgiiming to think Uwt -wjey wer« Iw'dJy wn to Test foim, Mobjg's eshjid opinion 6iit?t'Pd all that, J?r§e/J jnl-er§gfc Wfts ai'ous§rt m spoFtlng pm<kn i« AfFiea, and. everyone armoury th§ ra§ult of thp Pouvtli tpst.- 16 eeme, followed shorWv after l»y ife r§3Hlt of the Fifth, ami Hiq pent MaFy Ann's rppulntion n§ r prophet, rm f«F ft§ Africa \n eoiiPeniPd, wns ijnrtly IJUKt, more parHenlarly «b !h> itnim! tjj«fc Df- Heuaern wn§ not up to teet; elftiss find, therefore, the Anetc«linn howling was gi)U(U;«l, lient and ci'iiniiilod up »/ompl§t§ly. How Hnrrtern- proved himHrtf Urn grefttert "pooglpr" of Mwn nil ig history now, and fijonorni!" hppbU" ing, h§ a prophet', Nolilp'B imnw is M Mnd." Tb is quite posMililo tlmt M.A.N, w«s ft' hit rniul fit having pulled out of I lie frny, and, therefore, uwle misty "Hvcritili" romnrlfs when no one ruplitMl round and usked him to forgive mid for= mot and "como luiolf,"