MIDLAND CLUB.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 71, 21 September 1905, Page 5

MIDLAND CLUB.

In the twenty-third annual report of r he "Midland Cricket Cluo, which will be presented at the club's annual meeting to-morrow uignt, the Secretary (Mr. I Hyams) 6tates that " the season 1904p5 was in every respect a successful on© from the club's point of view, and at *he present time the club is as strong as it ever has been, both as regards membership and/ the good feeling existing among its members. The senior team vraa again successful in ■winning the championship -with a record of six wins *nd no losses. While the batting of most of ifhe members of the team was not up to the usual standard the bowlIng and fielding was of a very high-daes *ad had much to do with tho success of ihe team. Mr. Upham was tho most successful bowler of the season in the wnior competition. The second eleven hardly occupied tho position in the jnnior competition whteh they should viavo done, owing doubtless to their fielding not being up to the usual standard. Of the seven completed matches engaged in they won five and lost two. Messrs. Atkinson, Ballingall, and Moss idok part in the junior, representative match against Wairarapa. Tho third sloven attained a good 'position in their competition by tiemg for second place, iheir record being : Matches completed sight, won six, Tost two. They were '•he only team to beat the ultimate "winn&rs (College Old Boys), who are to be <ongratulated on their success. A team jf junior members was entered for the fourth claea competition and showed good form, but owin^ i-o the forgo »mrtunS of travelling involved a full team was not always available. Six matches were played, three being won and three lost 'Messrs. Hickson and Upliam were selected to represent the colony against the Australian Eleven and both did wood -Service, tho former having the best batting average of any player who played m more than one .match against the visitors. Tho membership of the club id as follows : Active forty-eight, life three, honorary twelve, practice seven. A new set of rules -will be eubmlttcd to .tho annual •neetittt. The club has £4 3s 7d cash in hand, and £41 3s 7d surplus of assets over liabilities. Upham topped both batting and bowling for the first eleven ; in bowling he took more than half the wickets talcen by his team at an average cost of loss than half tho average cost of the other wickete..