CRICKET.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14276, 17 August 1910, Page 5

CRICKET.

SUCCESSFUL AUSTRALIAN. Tress Aisocialiun-Bv Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, August 15. Tarrant, the Australian cricketer, who plays for Middlesex, has scored 1200 runs and taken 100 wickets so far this season.

THE SOUTH AFRICAN" TEAM. The ••Morning Post"' says that the Smith African team controversy is somewhat unsavoury. The demand for a financial guarantee was quite unexpected, and the expenses must have been calculated on a liberal scale when £'")00(l is required for a three to four 'months' trip. The refusal of the guarantee caused less surprise, but it is unpleasant to hear that one reason was the far that when the money was safe the visiting team might be weakened by the withdrawal of prominent players.

NOBLE ON DIGNITY. SYDNEY. August 16. In view oF the visit of the South Af- l j riciin team Noble was interviewed on the question of re-entering cricket. Pie! said: "I still love the yreat national game, but when I reflect upon the he- I littling methods of those' governing j cricket in New South Wales I feel I '. cannot with dignity agaia play in big cricket under their auspices."