CRICKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 106, 5 May 1923, Page 21

CRICKET.

I V.\ 1.. Tlarvie, \'in> was 0110 of the mainstay* of the Eden Club in the season before last, and tvhosa bowling was greatly missed by that club during the season just over, has returned from I'iji wiiii the idea of taking residence permanently in the city. I Mr. J. Watte, who ' has for many I years held the office of lion. sec. :ind [treasurer to the Auckland Cricket Association, and who recently severed his (runnection with the Telegraph Department, has .started business on his own account as a sports outfitter. The champion lives a long time in averages on rliib play are (■'. Ciunmingii iKden). A. Anthony (Parnell), and L. H. llemus (I'arnelU, all of whom have 1..-1, playing fir3t-cl«isa cricket in Xew Zealand for over twenty years. 7t t*BoinotUing approacliing thirty years since .1. Baker, of (irai'ton, played hi« first game among the seniors of Auckland. -As good to-day as ever he ut.~, if he only had tile nf youth." cnrnnicnlcd an enthusiast on the grandstand on Hern us' hatting in tlie iinal match against Grafton. With an average of 50.40 run? in seven innings, .7. Sjheplipvd w:is the mo.-;-, prolific scorer for the Albion (Dunedin) C ricket Club in the season just ended, lie whs also pneond ill the bowling li3t, \ , itli 11 wickota at, an average cost of !>.fi:>\ K. Mclvnr took F.ix wickets for :\'.\ average of 4.."i1l run*.

i>. .1. Meßoth tops the bowling averages for Grange, the North Dunedip rriekot club. Mcßeth took -J. wickets at n cost of H.l-J runs apiece. He bowled H ."..."> overs, including 24 maidens, for -JO.l runs. A. Onlland, second on the li<t. took :S4 wickets for 10.73 runs as an average. A. Knight headed the hatting with an average of 30.29 for seven innings. Jltißeth's average was 14.r>0 for three innings. 1., de n. Worker bends the batting averages for the ( arishrook Cricket Hub (l)unedin). He played in only one innings, and made 51 runs. Of the'batsrr.eii who played more than one innings, If. C. Alloo iiad an average of 4.">.s.'t in -even i>!nii!"s. K. Harraway headed the bowling with seven wickets at 10.71 apiere. A. \V. A Hop took 20 wickets for an average of 11.77.

The. Derby shire County Cricket Club ended 1111 the Inst season at Home with

i< loss of £SO.t. r;. R. Jackson ia again L'ouijT to captain the side this year. The Leicestershire County Club was £436 (i/j to the bad. fC. ALLC 0T T, Auckland's lefthanded tnindler. would go a long way in cricket, had he but the opportunity. Hie expression is as you will notice not of the happiest; but it is nothing to the pained look thai comes over the liatsAllcott scatters hi, J T"(|*JHBHBP"etumpe. Arcliir Mac ~IJ c I-are;i proclaimed ji.i.n as one of tho Dominion's besi iliowlcre. ( ; There is every likelihood of Warrer H«rdsley, the clever Australian left • linudcr, appcarinj; in a few matches witl the Keighley flub (Lancashire) n* at i amateur in i !ie forthcoming t,ear.oi isaye a Manrhpster writer:. Some wvck a«o the chairman of tiie Keijjhlci '.ricket < iuli's executive received a lette": i from an Australian who played wit) I Keighley the season before last, inform ! in.' him that Bardelev proposed niakin; I business trip to England next summer i and intended playing a little cricket a< i riii amateur when business permitted ITlip chairman of the executive accord ! incly wrule In the Australian nskinp ; him" when Rardsley proposed leaving foi iKnsland. and received th o followinf reply by cable: "Bar-Isler Icavms j March. i3usinesa trip only. « "11 play « J few mntche. with Keighley."