COLONIALS MAKE 285 RUNS.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10498, 14 December 1903, Page 4

COLONIALS MAKE 285 RUNS.

iSYDNET, December* I2i ! Onl .l'ielsluimiing itiot-dSayj the weaitheir was fine but hotl. The wicket was a bit ©ratio, fromi last night's rain. Noble .<anidl Layer.'began, but tlie latter aiftar «ooring four mMiit Rhodes, and) was oaugiht at tihe wiaketa Kelly followed), and opened lively, but soon lost Nbble, who was oaaight at leg. The retiring batfeimaini bad played' il brilliant innings, and was i ihouiiia 40 minutes at the wickets—9 for 271. Saunders and Kelly icainriedi the total to 285, w&eni the! latter 1 wiaa taiken low in the slipsi,xthe dbubtfiil nart.ure of <t(he catahl .oaiusing some^ of the speotatotfSi to hootThe following are the scores: — ' AUSTRALIA—Ist Innings. Trunniperl, o Foster, b Arnold 1 Duff, a Lilley, b Arnold — 3 Hill, a Lilley, b AirnoiM 5 Noble, «s Fosteii, b Atmold ....133 Aa-mstrong, b Bosamqxie* 48 Howell, a Relf, b Arnold) 5 Hopkins, b Hirs.t 39 S. Gregory, b Bosamqu'et 23 Layer, o Lilley, b Rhodes 4 Kelly, a Biranxnd 1, b Rhtodes 10 (Blafumdietra, not out 1.1 '.Bxtirae 3 Total 285 Bowling analysis: Relf, 0 for 27 ; Rhodtes, 2 for 41 ; Bosanqueti, 2 for 52; Braumd, 0 for 39; Arnold, 4 ior 76; Hirst, 2i fo* 47.