CRICKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3164, 9 March 1911, Page 6

CRICKET.

OTAGO v. SOUTHLAND. [PER press ASSOCIATION.! INVERCARGILL, March 8. The annual match, Otago v. Southland, begun to-day on a fairly fast wicket. Southland made 127 (D. Hamilton. 67. Gilbertson 17 not out. Stewart 16, and Kavanagh 10). Torrance took six wickets for 42 runs. Otago, at the call of time, had eight wickets down for 121 (Shepherd not out 49, Co ml 1 iff e 24, and Rutherford 13). The game will be continued to-morrow. THE SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETERS. LEAVE SYDNEY FOR ADELAIDE. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.! (Received March 9, 1.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 8. The South African cricketers have departed for Adelaide. A large gathering farewelled the “Springboks,” who are enthusiastic over the treatment they received on the tour, and the sportsmanlike qualities of the Australians. Slier well, the captain, paid a tribute to the Australian cricketers. “There are no two ways about it,” he said; “in every department of the game they are superior, and in batting they are head and shoulders above the South Africans. Australia has now the greatest batting side in the world, and as to bowling, in which the South Africans thought lay their strength, it- was not good enough.” NEWSPAPER COMMENT.

The “Herald” states that the last victory puts to rest all doubts as to the superiority of the local cricket champions, but the Soxith Africans maintained their reputation by putting up a good fight. The present serthe Australians acknowledged premiers in the world’s arena of ill? great English game. AUSTRALIA’S LEFT-HANDERS. DEMORALISING- FACTORS IN THE TESTS. Chatting to a “Sun” reporter, several of the South African cricketers made it clear that the great demoralising factors in the tost matches were the Australian left-handers. They recalled the magnificent partnership of Hill and Bardsley in the first test match on the Sydney Cricket Ground, the fine form of Bardsley in the entire series to date ; and the return to form of Ransford in the fourth test match. The googly bowler, according to the Africans, is less deadly to the left-handed batsman than to the right-hander, and the present tour has thoroughly demonstrated the fact. The visitors are doubtful who is Australia s greatest left-hander —Hill o r Bardsley.