VICTORIAN CRICKETERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 11

VICTORIAN CRICKETERS.

win by imni wickets. MAYNE HITS A "FOURTEEN." (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Wednesday. Bright weather and a slow wicket prevailed for the second day of the match, Hanawatu t. Victoria. Victoria, after their shaky start, eight wickets being down for 56 runs, added 136 for the last two wickets, Mayne playing bright cricket for 94. Manawatu, with a first innings lead of 14, went to pieces, and were dismissed for 69 runs, the two youngest players of the side scoring 33 of the 53 made off the bat. Requiring 84 runs to win. the visitors got them with the loss of one wicket. „ When the board ehowed 170. Mavne hit Hope to the long-off. Donaldson "chased the balh but was beaten by a fox terrier, which secured it and carried it around the paddock, the Manawatu eleven In hot pursuit. Mayne - and Austin ran ten before the dog was chased to the cycletrack, when a boundary was signalled. The manager, Mr. Bean, claims that the stroke produced 14 runs, but after a consultation, two were entered on the score-book, the same as if Donaldson had secured the ball. The batsmen readily entered into the spirit of the occurrence. Scores: MANAWATU. First innings 205 Second Innings. Daniels, b Liddicutt 2 Perrin, b Ebeling l Mc Vicar, b Ebeling 10 Eyre, b Liddicutt 0 Gallichan, c Ebeling, b Liddicutt .. 13 McSweeney, c Hartkopf. b Liddicutt 1 McDonald, c Millar, b Liddicutt ... 20 Ongley. c Willis, b Liddicutt 4 Donaldson, not out 1 Trevena, b Hartkopf .1 Hope, c Ebeling, b Hartkopf 2 Extras * 14 Total 69 Bowling: Liddicutt took six wickets for 21 runs, Ebeling two for 27, Hartkopf two for 5. VICTORIA. First innings 19 \ Bowling- Gallichan took six wickets for 71 runs, Hope three for 74, MeVicar one for 23, Ongley none for 10. Second Innings. Mayne, not out 43 H. M. Austin, lbw,»b Hope 14 E. T. Austin, not out 21 Extras 7 Total for one wicket 35 Bowling: Hope took one wicket for 37 runs. Gallichan none for 16 (seven overs). MeVicar none for 13, McSweenev none for 12.