Three more tour matches against Tasmania and Victoria were played before the fourth test in Melbourne where the Australians won the series by 530 runs.

[5] In response, South Australia could only get 183 which meant that they held a fifty run lead with Reggie Schwarz taking six wickets.

Dave Nourse and Louis Stricker then guided the South Africans on Day 2 with a 242 run partnership with the first 100 of those being scored over 67 minutes.

After the first day play was mainly washed out except for a brief period in the morning,[8] the South Africans could only score 189 which was aided with a 106 run partnership between Nourse and Aubrey Faulkner.

[10] Victoria was then set a target of only 125 runs when the South Africans were all bowled out for 236 with Matthews taking another three wickets while Frank Laver had two chances go begging.

New South Wales in response got off to a good start by the end of the opening day at 70 without loss in what would be later be a 122 run partnership between Victor Trumper and Warren Bardsley.

[14] The crowd applauded the Bert Folkard performance on the third day as he took a six-wicket haul with him being a major assistance in restricting the South Africans to only 198 which the hosts would go on to win the match by three wickets with Trumper again top scoring with 78.

He finished ahead of South African bowler, Reggie Schwarz who took 25 wickets with Tibby Cotter rounding out the top three with 22.