THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11524, 9 September 1899, Page 5

THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, September 7.

/The papers, in reviewing the tour of the Australian cricketers, pronounce it to be an unqualified success and a veritable triumph. The main characteristics of the visitors, they say, are their determination and allround consistency, which was excellent. The Daily Telegraph says-that no better' team Isas visited England since 1882. The Sportsman declares that it was no fault, of the visitors that the four test games left drawn were not played to a finish. The Sporting Life says that it is a great distinction to' .have lost fewer matches than any previous colonial team. . ' * (Received Sept. 8, at 10.50 p.m.) At the farewell banquet to the cricketers at the Inns of Court, Lord Jersey presided. He said the team would carry away, besides an extraordinary record, the good will of the people of Great Britain. . Lord Carrington congratulated 'them on the gentlemanly and sportsmanlike way they had won their games, which was a characteristic of the way Australians play the games of life. Darling's team had set Australia a good example of federation.