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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1914, Page 6

SUNDRY SPORTS.

OLYMPIC GAMES. [bt jm/botbio 'i*blkoraph—coptrlghrj , JUnitbd Press Association.] (Received 10.0 a.ip.) Sydney, February 10. Mr Braddon, chairman of the New South Wales committee which was formed to raise funds to send a team to Berlin Olympiad in 1916, says the question of a national advertisement for x Australia arouses interest through being represented, and the better this representation is carried out the higher will Australia ha held in the estimation of older countries. ATHLETICS. THE HANDICAP SYSTEM. AMERICANS COMPLAIN. (Received 10.25 a.m.) Melbourne, February 10. The American athletes object to the handicap system. They complain that in order to win most races in which they have competed it was necessary for them to bleak world's records. It is difficult to convince America, where all races are scrathch events, that they are not a badly beaten team. Parker's opinion is that the handicap system tends to keep second-raters in that division. CRICKET. AUSTRALIA v. AUCKLAND. Auckland, February 9. The Australian team's innings finished, very suddenly this morning, the last two wickets falling nine minutes after the re-commencement of play, # and the visitors were all out for 658 runs. Aucklajid commenced their second innings at noon, and were all out for a total of 186, being thus beaten by an innings iand. 221 runs. The Aucklanders could not withstand the Australians' bowling, and three wickets fell for 90 runs, four for 92, five for 104, six for 119, and seven for 122. Then Brooke and Smeeton made a stand, compiling 55 runs between them before they fell victims to Noble. fi '