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Otago Witness, Issue 3148, 15 July 1914, Page 57

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THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN. SYDNEY, July 3. Hazlitt has informed the Board of Control that he will not be available for the South African tour of an Australian Eleven. July 4. Armstrong, Bardsley, Carkeek, Kele■way, Ryder, Andrews, and Park have decided to accept the Board of .Control’s invitation for the South Airican tour. Baring and Macartney are still undecided as to whether they can make the trip. July 6. Moyes and Kelleway have informed the Board of Control that they will accompany the Australian Eleven to South Africa. July 7. Baring, Campbell, and Mayne have intimated their intention of joining the Australian Eleven of cricketers for the South African tour. CRICKET IN ENGLAND. LONDON, June 29. Worcester made 493 against Hampshire. Surrey put up 544 against Middlesex, A. Ducat contributing 102 and C. T. A. Wilkinson 135. Middlesex were dismissed for 267. Notts scored 267 against Sussex for the loss of three wickets, J. Hardstaff not out 141. June 30. Notts, with 501 for three wickets, declared the innings against Sussex closed. Hardstaff was not out with 213. Surrey scored 308 for seven wickets in their second essay, and declared. Middlesex put on 393 for five wickets (J. W. Hearne not out 191). The match was drawn, the first innings scores being : Surrey, 544; Middlesex, 267. July 1. Sussex made 499 (H. Chaplin not out 213) against Notts 198 for three wickets. The match was drawn. Playing for M.C.C. against Oxford University' at Lord’s, S. J. Pegler to.uk five wickets for 32. Against Lancashire, F. R Foster (Warwickshire) captured five wickets Jtor 19.

July 5. Middlesex, who declared at 314 runs for five wickets, beat_ Worcester by an innings and 21 runs. Tarrant made 110 and J. W. Hearne 103.' Middlesex leads ip the championship, with a percentage of 78, Surrey being 70, Kent 63, Hampshire 61, Warwickshire 60, and Yorkshire 40. July 5. In- the University cricket match Oxford scored 239. G. A. Fairbairn took four wickets for 74 runs. Cambridge had made 40 without the loss of a wicket when stumps were drawn for the day. July 7. Yorkshire were dismissed for 101 end 100. Blythe, in the second innings, took eight wickets for 55 runs. Kent made 126 and 77 for five wickets, winning by five wickets. In the inter-University match, Cambridge scored 225, and Oxford in the first innings have five wickets down for 166. July 8. Oxford’s innings yielded 253. Cambridgd were dismissed in their second venture for 73. July 10. In a match against the Gentlemen on the Oval the, Players made 327 runs. Hobbs, Tarrant, and J. W. HeSrne were dismissed for 12 runs. Hitch and Strudwick scored 122 for the last wicket in an hour. Lancashire has unearthed a new medium-pace bowler —Parkin, who, playing against Leicestershire, took seven wickets for 65 runs in the first innings, and has taken six in the second, which is unfinished. Playing against Hampshire, Gloucester scored only 34 runs. hiewman took six wickets for 14 runs, and Kennedy four for 19. (Received July 10, at 10.40 p.m.) G. H. Hirst (Yorkshire) has completed his thousand runs for the season. July 11. In the match between Gentlemen and Players the former made 237 runs in their first innings. Spooner made 71. In their second innings the Players have compiled 143 for three wickets. July 12. The Players declared their innings closed with 6 wickets down fdr 502 runs. The Gentlemen in their second essay compiled only 151 runs, .and were thus beaten by 241 runs. N Eton defeated Harrow by four wickets in the match between those colleges.