SPORTS AND PASTIMES,

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 October 1899, Page 79

SPORTS AND PASTIMES,

successful, but there has been no particular > individual brilliance. Messrs. Trumble, Jones, I Howell, Noble and — towards the end of the \ season — Mr. McLeod, have done a lot of I hard work, and taken a number of wickets. \ When the final averages are published, howi ever, I am afraid the bowling statistics will \ compare rather unfavourably with the records -of previous Australian visits. The hardest i worked trundler of the team has been Mr. \ Trumble. Every bowler has at times come I off, but, generally speaking, there has been I nothing out of the way brilliant in the

Australian attack. Mr. Darling's bowlers included no Palmer, Boyle, Spofforth. or Turner, or the English county teams would not have been able to score so freely. A man of the calibre of those former heroes to help the 1899 team, would have turned the majority of the drawn games into victories. The fielding of the Australians has throughout the tour been, quite up to tho best traditions of the game, the activity and smartness shewn calling forth the highest praise and admiration from expert English critics.