Sydney, Feb. 6, New Soutit Wales retained the Sheffield Shield to-day by defeating South Australia in' the decisive match by 98 runs. "The scores at Roe close of play esterday were: New South Wales, Ist innings, 118 South Australia, "ist innings, 114: New South Wales, 2nd innings, 284 for. five, New South Wales completed their innings to-day fora total of 366, thus "getting their opponents the task of getting a similar number of runs to win, but South Australia ority could muster 267, in spite of brilliant 105 by Nitschke. The only other batsmen to come off were Richardson with 35, Lonergan with 20, and Ryan with $3.—Reuter,
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