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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 276, 18 November 1905, Page 12

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AUCKLAND SUNDAY SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION DRAW. November 25 — Ivanhoe v. St. John's, Do main: Central Mission v. Excelsior, JUNIOR GRADE. November 18 — Central Mission v. St. John's, lolanthe ■ v. Eden Terrace, Franklin v. St. George, W.Y.M.I. v. St. David's November _5 — Central Mission v. St, George, lolanthe v. W.T.M.L, Franklin Ed. v. Eden Terrace, St. John's v. St_ David's. December 2 — Central Mission v. Eden Terrace, lolanthe v. St. John's, Franklin Rd. v. vT.Y.M.I., St- George v. SiDavid's. December 9 — Central Mission v. W.T.M.L. lolanthe v. St. George. Franklin Rd. ; v. St. John's, Eden Terrace v. St. David's. Tbe second series of matches in tbe district cup competitions were commenced on the Domain and at the North Shore on Saturday. The wicket was fast and true, and with an equally fast outfield the conditions were decidedly in favour of tbe batsmen, Tbe weather conditions were perfect, and there was a very large attendance of cricketers and their friends. Ponsonby met Grafton directly in front of the grandstand, opening their innings with Cummings and Wilson, to the bowling of Sloman and R Williamson, -who -was making his debut in senior cricket, and made an excellent start by f-ecuring Cummings' wicket before the Ponsonby batsman had scored. Mason followed, but Wilson, after scoring three, returned to tbe pavilion, bis stumps having been scattered by a fine ball from the same bowled. Ponsonby had lost two wickets for 16 when Mason and Woods made a stand, though the former seemed rather troubled by Sloman at first. Woods played steadily, and Mason bit j out freely until he had reached 43, when he was bowled by D. Hay, who had gone on in place of Williamson. The partj nership had taken the total from 16 to 62. Francis then joined Woods, and both men scored freely, taking tbe score from '62 to 177 before F^ancis , wicket was secured by Williamson, who had taken the I ball again. The outgoing batsman had I played a gpod all-round innings, giving only -two chances. His off and on drives I were particularly fine. With 77 to his ! credit Woods stepped back to a full toss , from Williamson, with the intention of I avoiding it. but the ball glanced from his I batting glove on to the wicket. He playj ed some nice leg strokes. Included in h ; s ) score were six fours, 14 twos and one I three, Sims, a promoted junior, followed. Gavin and Braithwaite, who put up one and ten respectively, and made a stand, putting together 45 before being I bowled by SlomnTr. P. White made 15, when he was caught by Sloman off Clayton. Clarke and S. White, the not out j men. had twelve and three to their credit j when time was called with nine wickets I down for 273. Grafton tried nine bowling changes, of I whom R Williamson proved most sueI cessful. fully justifying his promotion to the senior team. Altogether he secured I five wickets for 46. Although bowling I very consistently, Sloman took only one I wicket, at a cost of 45 runs. D. Hay took two for 34. j North Shore met Eden at the Shore,! and the visitors, winning the toss, open- \ I ed on a good fast wicket with Elliott and ! Lusk, The former soon succumbed to I Miller, and Lusk was joined by W. B. j j Smith. The two carried the total to 50,' j when Smith, with his score at 20. was j bowled by McNeill. The remaining bats- j men were not at all at home against the Shore bowlers, with the exception of H. B. Lusk, who was hitting well all round \ the wicket and scoring freely. He was at | the wickets for two hours and a quarter, i .md did not give a chance. His score of j j 107, tbe first century of tbe season, included fifteen fours. G. Eoddis (10) was tbe only other oi the Eden batsmen to reach double figures, the innings closing for 17C. Of the Shore bowlers, McNeill headed the list, taking four wickets for 54. Miller secured two for 37, and Wallace two for 33. North Shore opened with J. Hussey and L. Prime, Stemson bowling the latter almost immediately for a single. A Haddon joined Hussey, p.nd the two brought up 62 before the latter was well caught by Elliott off Fewster for 24. Haddon put up 41 when he was well taken by Dazely in the outheld off the bowling of W. Fewster. The outgoing batsman put in some p_j-ticn__-ly good pulling and cutting, his score including six fours. When time was called Shore had lost five wickets for 89 runs, W. Fewster was most successful with the ball for Eden, taking three wickets for 14 runs. T. Elliott secured one for one, and W. Stemson one for 19. In the City v. Parnell match the former won the toss, and sent in Fryer and Hemus to the bowling of Howell and 01----liff. The first-named batsman, after making four, was caught by Philson off Olliff. E. MacCormick joined Hemus, and a good display was witnessed, both men scoring freely until after a careful innings MacCormick, who had scored 42, was run out, and shortly after Hemus, with 43 to bis credit, was given out leg before to Howell. H. Renwick and R Neill were then associated, but the former was stumped by Cromwell off Howell when he had made seven, and his partner, who put up ten, was caught by Sale off Oliff. The same bowler secured the wickets of D. K. Porter and H. 0. Audinwood shortly after for six and four respectively. The remaining wickets fell fast, and the innings closed for 130. Both Howell and Olliff bowled well, the former taking four for 52 and tbe latter three for 40. Parnell opened with L. G. Robinson and R Barry, who soon commenced to hit out, the call of time finding Parnell with 58 runs to their credit, and no ■wickets down. Of this total Robinson made 16 and Barry 39. In the hour during which Parnell were at the wickets five changes of bowling were unavailingly tried. City's prospecte looked very bright - when they only nad one wicket down for 9*2, but their tail again refused to ; W__. Hemus (_3) play-ed a fine i-arings-; it i was characteristic, for Ms clean driv*- ! ix-jr. , MacCormick (42) played good cricket, ~ -rls defence in particular being -ntj

City practically have only got two batsmen of any value in their senior elevea. i HoweH and Ollifle both came out with good averages, they being four for 52 and three for 40 respectively. Robinson (16 not out) played a good defensive innings. Barry (39 not out) Ls begmniiig to show some of his old form that secured him his position in j the Canterbury representative team. Barr-Brown had very hard luck bowling last -week, as he beat both batsmen several times. F. J. Cossey, although he has been absent from the cricket field for a season, bowled exceedingly well. Parnell first juniors put up 124 against City first juniors. The game ?hould prove a very close finish, as City have lost five wickets for OS. Cull erne (41) played p gooC defensive innings, and gave the City bowlers a lot of trouble. Restfiaux (IS) and Andreae (23) both played aggressive innings, although they could hardly be called chnneeless. Lambert (22) showed fine form, his driving being nice and cri -p. K-avanagh (24 not out) batted in his usual perfect style., and gave a really fine exhibition of cutting and driving. Sam Magee (five -wickets for 29) bowled exceedingly welL Hellaby (26) gave a fine exhibition of driving foT City HI. against Eden A. Gold water (23) got his runs in good style City have got hold of some good boys this sea-on, and wi'.h a little more co— cbing will find some big scores after their names. The gross gates of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club during the past season amounted to £10,0S1, and the balance on the total turnover about £ 1000. irrespective of the amount due iroiD the Test matches. Northamptonshire Cricket Clnb have refused permission to Thompson, their professional, to go to South Africa with the team which will go out there under the readership of P. F. Warner. With the £250 subscribed by the Lancashire County Club, the amount at the close of the meeting totalled £360. Sub seription lists have been issued, and doubtless, some will be sent to the Mcl bourne Cricket Clnb, so that AustraHans may have an opportunity of contributing to the fund, Kelly, who has filled the position ol wicket-keeper in the New South Wales team so ably for so many years, has under medical advice, decided to refrain from taking any further part in repre sentative cricket, says an exchange. Th« strain of having to keep wickets while he was physically unfit has told its tale on Kelly's system, though he looks well ••Mother.-' as he is known to many., had his finger hurt early in the English torn by a hard return from Duff, and througl Newland's non-sn-ceess he had to keei. wickets when he should have been rest bag. One can easily imagine what Keih had to put up with when Cotter was bowling. It showed he possessed anj amount of grit to agree "to take" Cot ter with an injured finger. Then, again Kelly received a severe blow in the re gion of the heart from a hall delivered by Brearley. In the Country CarnJvaJ or crickel played in Sydney last week sensationa' run-getting o<*c_rTed, mostly against th< Country bowling — seventeen bitsmer made hundreds, and three of them ex ceeded 200. J. C. Barnes, the Redfern representa tive in the team, made his first appear anee against Queensland last Easter. Hi is batting well, his biggest innings beins the 192 of Saturday last. Barnes is alst coming along as a bowler, and is a dis ciple of Bosanquet, though at present hi does not seem to have much confidence h his abHify in that direction. THE UMPIRES' ASSOCIATION. (To the Cricket Editor,) Sir, —Some misleading remarks bay ing been made in a contemporary abou' the dispute between the Umpires' Asso elation and the Cricket Association, . •would be glad if you could spare mi space to state the facts of the matter. A few years ago there was a breach be tween tbe two Associations, and ti avoid future trouble an Umpires' Selec tion Committee was appointed by th Cricket Association with the approva of my Association. The arrangemen worked satisfactorily until the Aus traTian match last season. When the question of umpires for thi match came np. I -was asked to submi the names of those members of my Asso (nation who would be able to act. Fix names were submitted to the Cricke Association's Selection Counnittee, am Messrs. Stephenson and Hamme! wet chosen. This apparently did not mcc with tbe approval of some of the official of tbe Association, and a gentlema' outside of our Association was reconi mended to the Australians by the off cials in question. These gentlemen ar now endeavouring to throw dust in th eyes of tbe public by two ingenion quibbles. The first is that Mr. Wat was not officially recommended by thes officials, but all the same the Aus tralians understood that it was the re commendation of the Cricket Associa tion. The second excuse is that the Aus tralians were anxious to have Mi Watts; that, too, hardly holds wateas Mr. Hi 1 and other members of th visitors assured mc that they bad n particular choice and that they did no know of the existence of my Associatioi . otherwise they wou!d certainly not, hay [ gone outside it for an umpire as the believed in such bodies as ours and i | supporting them. I Out subsequent action was taken as protest against the Cricket Assoeiatio i being dominated by a clique, who coul ride roughshod over the wishes of oul ■ side Associations and their own commil ! tees. T_e members of the Umpires' As scKdation have the interest of the gam at heart, and are prepared to assist th players in advancing the game in Au_fc .land. When tbe players wake up ti !ihe true facts and send a. few live dek | gates to tbe Association there will b (Borne chance of getting fairplay a. rannd. —I am, ete_L___Y M__TC__E__ Hon. Sac_ Auckland Unsnies-' AjsaosLa'.sa_. ' _;_