The team stopped in
California in the
United States on their way to New Zealand, playing against a California XI at the
Presidio Athletic Ground in San Francisco in front of five-hundred spectators. A non-first-class game, California were entitled to play eighteen players, with Bosanquet taking 11 of the wickets to fall as the hosts were dismissed for 125. Hawke's team made it to 155/8 thanks to half-centuries from Bosanquet and Warner, having been allowed to bat on beyond the winning total.
New Zealand Hawke's team landed in New Zealand and played their opening first-class game against
Auckland on 19 December. Hawke's team took an innings victory, with Fane scoring 82 in their first innings total of 321 all out. Auckland, with scores of 120 and 72 following on, fell to a heavy defeat. Five minor provincial matches followed: Taranaki, North Taranaki, Wanganui, Manawatu and Hawke's Bay all played the touring team and were all defeated, with Bosanquet scoring a century in the last of these matches. The Wellington match drew 15,000 spectators, and takings of 650 pounds, a record for a cricket match in New Zealand at the time. Four more minor provincial games followed: Wairarapa, Marlborough, Nelson and Westland. and then
Otago by an innings and 230 runs on 13 February, with a five-wicket haul for Burnup and a double-century for Warner. There was controversy during the Canterbury match. Bosanquet was the fourth bowler used in by Hawke's team during the second innings and with his third ball, it looked as if he had bowled
Walter Pearce behind his legs as he attempted a big hit. However, both umpires were unsighted and the
non-striker Arthur Sims, who also had his view obscured, urged Pearce not to leave the middle. The tourists' wicket keeper,
Arthur Whatman, Bosanquet and other English players surrounded the umpire, who decided Pearce was not out. Bosanquet then turned to Sims and said: "You're a nice cheat. I bowled him round his legs. Anybody could see that." After defeating South Canterbury in a minor match on 25 February, Hawke's team played two games against New Zealand. The second match on 4 March saw a century from New Zealand's Daniel Reese, and another for Warner, before Burnup's 5/8 from 4.5 overs handed Hawke's team an innings victory.
Australia , photographed by
George Beldam in 1906. His actions in New Zealand caused controversy, while in Australia many admired his delivery to dismiss Trumper.|alt=A cricketer about to bowl. Hawke's victorious team landed in Australia later in March, and played the opening game of three matches on 13 March at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground. Hawke's XI had greater difficulty contending with the Australian
Sheffield Shield teams, and were defeated by
Victoria. Many critics were impressed by the wicket-taking potential of googly bowling on hard pitches, and Warner later described Bosanquet's bowling as causing a sensation. On 27 March at the
Unley Oval,
South Australia defeated Hawke's XI by 97 runs despite following on. Burnup and Taylor made centuries for Hawke's XI. In the second innings, South Australia's
Henry Hay took 9/67 for the host team. ==References==