TEST CRIKET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18463, 26 January 1922, Page 5

TEST CRIKET

- » . ■ ' ■ , "V'" THE AUSTRALIANS’ TOUS. SPEECH BY LORD HAWKS. \ . i-f'-Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright^ 1, LONDON, January 24. .r. ; Lord* Hawke, in addressing the ■> annual meeting of the Yorkshire Cricket *<Slnb/,<bf. which he, is ’ the president, welcomed - the Advisonr r Committee’s rejection oLtpii absurd ~proposal ” to play test matches .to a finish. County cricket, herald, ■Was the most vital part of the game in Eng*, land. , Though the tests might be tem- . porarily supremo at present, 'they ipust never be allowed unduly to interfere with c&unty- cricket. t The climatic conditions . in Australia were'adverse to long playing,' hours, And, apart from the test nna interstate matches, there tiros no important; cricket. . . ’ ■ The personnel of last year’s Adstraliatt ' team was excellent he Added, and .the, visit was marred only by Armstrong’s in- 1 discreet remarks in attempting 1 -the tone, of English professionals-and-, bar ! his suggestion that if umpires for fha ■ whole test series, were anpmntec m ad vance they might be influenced by tho betting. , .. i > , ' / ‘ • <, .Lord Hawke said that Armstanng’s assumption that betting occurred ' in. modem cricket in England was entirely without foundation. Happily, - theAus- - tralian representatives- at IIA Imperial Conference had' entirely dissociated IhcnL- 1 selves from Armstrong’s remaiks. He hoped there would be. no bickerings, oyer ‘ thee hours of, play when the Australians came to England in 1926. There Ought! not to be any misunderstanding in regard ’ to conforming with English hours-and conditions as readily as the Englishmen ; had conformed with the Australian coo/-' ditions.—A. and N.Z. Cable. , .. "• 1: ■ . . r RUMOUR REGARDING MAILEY. ’■ - . ’ ——- ' . LORD HAWKE’S COMMENT, v; '■ .V. ;■■. . ■< LONDON. January 25. (Received Jan. 25, at 10.25 p.m.) < 1 LoM Hawke, in referring'to arumoui*' -that Mailey, the Australian bowler, was returning to England for the purpose- pt - qualifying for Middlesex, askedf- .yflipliv credit could Middlesex claim for cham- ‘ pionship honours won ■ by such I methodksf! He said he hoped that Yorkshire would • always rely on players taught within tha corifines of Yorkshire.—A. and N.Z. Cabl'd^