AUSTRALIA'S PROWESS.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13050, 9 March 1911, Page 4

AUSTRALIA'S PROWESS.

TRIBUTES FROM SOUTH AFRICANS. (Received March 9, 0.25 a.m.) Sydney, March 8. The South Africans have left for Adelaide. A large gathering faro welled them. . Tho springboks are enthusiastic regarding their treatment on the tour, and the sportsmanlike qualities of Australians. Sherwell paid a tribute, to Australian cricketers He said there were no two ways about it that in every department of the game they were superior. In batting they were head and shoulders above the South Africans. Australia was the greatest hntting side in the world, but in bowlin" which the South Africans thought was their strength, they were not good enough.