CRICKET.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12498, 26 March 1909, Page 1

CRICKET.

The senior championship matcl Kamura v Brightwater, postpone from Saturday last on account of th wet weather, will be played atTrafa' gar^tfarJs to-morrow. Except for th matches to be played at. Easter, thi tures re UP the season> 5 fis Of tho Australian team, which lef ThoL? l ' e Cnck . et of the ne "' <*unis Cw&aVwPV Milliter, Ransford Pan wi'-? awls \ cy ' Macartney, Harti W'^ hlfcy an ? O'Connor-includ. u-IoW if men> two hollers and on* I; W f keep^; •• ' • Taki »g °™ con. olfd on™ iT lth ar> I ° ther the team is * We a * U ™md, and, barring accierlff" 0 f eck <* uite h °V* m of i ts >*■ 'ernational p^spects. . W,,-,,, J -«e>" in the "Tasi: iv.ihii *£„'• writes :— "Norman Dodds who pl*-' J ..'Sfnted Tasmania in iho ivront .est match at Melbourne, in which he performed :so brilliantly as batsman md wicket keeper, returned to Hobirt on Saturday night.He was met at ihe railway station by several prominmt cricketers and supporters, who :ordially congratulated him upon the ;iiccess he had achieved. They also ex>ressed regret that the selectors ap)iouted by the Board of Control had lot give nhim a 'fair- deal' when makng the final choice for the English bur." J. A .Prout, for -Wesley College v. xeelong College at Melbourne on Satlrday last, scored 459 out of 710, in >i hours, hiting seven 6's, one 5. ixty-two 4's, nineteen 3's, eighteen !'s, and seventy-one singles. He gave our chances, the first at 190. It is the ourth highest individual innings ver placed, 628 not out by A. E. J. Jollins at Clifton College, England, 66 by C. J. Eady at Hobart, and 465 y A E. St(ddart, being tho tlneb ighest scores.' Hitherto W. W. Armtrong's 438 for Melbourne v. Melourne University stood as the Ausrahan record. O. H. Dean's 412 for lie S.O.E.G.S. v. Newington College s the Australian Schools' record. The Lesley College total of 710 is also a 3hools' record for Australia, 700 y Prince Alfred College at Adelaide nd 670 by the S.C.E.G.S. at Sydney eing the best in the other States."