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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1926, Page 5

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CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS. . TO-DAY'S PLAY. \ Cricket matches in all grades were j played to-day. The senior championship i competition Urafton v. North .Shore was ! resumed at Dovonport and University v. : Ponsunby at Edeu Park. The grounds | were in'good order and there were fair , attendances at the matches. i GRAFTON V. NORTH SHORE. | Grafton won the toss and batted. Horspool and L. Taylor opening to the bowl-, ing of Cati's* and Player. Horspuol j scored a leg single and Taylor a pair in \ the slips off (urates' ojienin;,' over. Aj single to each batsman and Jour byes ; came oft" Player. The wicket was fast and easy, and there was a light cros>- ; 'ireeze to help an occasional swerve. In ; his second over, Player had Horspool j caught at first slip, 11 —I—2. Allcott | filled the vacancy and a spell of slow scoring ensued. With 13 runs up. Johnson took the ball from Coates. and at j once the runs started to eomo, Taylor j driving a two and a four and cutting a boundary, as well as adding a. single off the over. The slow bowler improved in his next over, only a couple of singles pominff off it. while Player was still ' keeping them quiet. In .Johnson's tuird j over. Taylor, who had been showing a ■ partiality for the slow stuff, survived an : appeal for a catch at the wicket, but ' next ball was caught in the slips, I 33—2—18. ' I Early Trouble. Sloman was next man. and started with a single and a three off Hip slow bowler. By cutting Player to the boundary. Sloman brought 40 up. but three balls later Player had his revenge by bowling the batsman with a ball that ' came back a little, 42—3—8. With the first of his next over. Johnson yorked I Allcott and four wickets were down for j 42 runs. Worse was to follow, for tlio I next man. Leech, was beaten in feeling forward to a good length one, ami was bowled. A Breezy Ex-Junior. "Dykes, a. promoted junior, started by j driving a two and a single off Johnson. He brought SO up by square-cutting j Player to the boundary. After Sned- j den had got a single, Dykes pulled one from Johnson to the leg boundary, cut a brace, and drove a two and a four Player bowled a maiden to Snedden, and i at 64 Coates came back to bowl, vice Johnson. The change slowed Dykes j down, but he got three off the over. TownshenJ was tried at the other end. vice Player, and he had Dykes stumped with hia" first ball, 67—G—24. A Sudden Finish. Osborne, the next man, had only made a couple of runs when he was clean bowled by Coates. 74 —7 —2. Goodwin started a hitting policy, but it did not last, for after lie had made a single he lifted one from Townshend to Elliott on the boundary. 77 —S—l. Pope was the next man, but before he had hit Snedden was stumped off Townshend, and, Rountree being absent, the innings closed for 77 runs. Shore Start Well. With an hour to play before lunch, Elliott and Frater opened Xorth Shore's innings to the bowling of Allcott and •Snedden. Runs came very quietly at first, a boundary past point by K'.liott off Snedden bringing 10 up in four overs. With nice slip shots, Frater scored three off Allcott and lie swung one from , Snedden to the leg boundary. He, drove a boundary and hit two leg singles off Snedden. Elliott brought 30 up by i driving Allcott for three, and then he knocked half-a-dozen off Snedden. An ' overthrow gave him five off Allcott. At 4:i Goodwin relieved Snedden, and off his fourth ball Fratcr had a narrow escape! from a run-out. Elliott twice drove Allcott to the boundary in the next over, bringing r>o up in 40 minutes' play. In Goodwin's next over Frater cut a. boundary and got another to leg. At 03 Horspool relieved Allcott, and a leg boundary by Elliott and three singles in his first over saw 70 up. Elliott knocked half-a-dozen off Goodwin, and Frater three to leg off Horspool. With a shot to the leg bonndarj-, Elliott reached his half-century for SO minutes' play. Dykes had a try with the ball when the score was 88, and eight came off hie first over. A leg boundary by Frater off Horspool brought the century up for an hour's play. In Dykes' next "over Elliott concluded his innings by miss-hitting a full-pitched one to Snedden at mid-on 106 —1—54.. Scores: —■ GRAFTON'—First Innings. Horspool. c Xownshendv b Player 2 Taylor, c Townslipnd. b Johnson ....'" is Allcott. b Johnson H Sloman. b Player s C. Snedden. at Scott, b TownsTiPncl '.'.'.". S Leech, b Johnson ] ] " ~ I Dykes, st Scott, b Townshend ...... <M I Osborne. b Coates " " "•> j Goodwin, c FJliott, b Townshend '.'..'..'. 1 Pope not out ' ' I, Rowntree, absent n Extras !..;;:;:: & Total - 7 Bowling.—("nates one wicket for nine , runs. PUyer two for 14. Johnson three for i US, TownshenrJ three for eight. PONSONBY V. UNIVERSITY. J Ponsonljy (■■povip'l their innings on a ,liiird v. -i-kf-f. at K.iou Park. Suedden and jßrinsden facing the howling of Mathieson land R. Garrard. Scoring freely fnr the ' ):a!f-!"v>ir, the batsmen linil 33 on \ the bonrri when bmeeton relieved Mnt.hvI -.on. The change was disastrous for Rrins--1 (icn. i. ho was tempted into skyinp the j :.".st of the over to give Wells v e-irrfort- ; ai.'le catch at 41—1—23. j Die joined Sr.edden. and the pair s«t ;'o work to do some lively run-getting. ! -litid'lf-n si'ori.'sa well through the open- ; ings in the field. When the score was- ! 7?. and Snedden hid reached 20. Dee now . being \'j, Saundors took the ball from !'Jarrard. Again the chanage was sue- ; !-*»»sful, and the fourth ball broke ! ■hr-:u2h Dee'ii defence and nipped up to s>i»t the middle stump. 77 — 2 —17. Smith and Snedden went carefully for ! a while, but the hitter pot hold of a I couple from Saunders, sending both to 1 the boundary, and then miming three off ' another, while Smith guL three and :>. . single in the same over. A cut through ! the slips to the boundary by Smith i hoiftec! the century. Sneddon was now ! 45. ] A ten minutes' spoil was called at 11.30, I when the score was 124. Snedden. who I was 52 had passed his halt-century j with four singles; and Smith had mean i while reached "IS. Off Gee's second ball [in that bowler's first over he was dropper by Bannister at point. Gee. repiacinj; Saunders. sent down a. maiden. VT. (Jar rard was given a try. relieving Smeeton at the Kingsland end. Smitl • glanced W. Garrard to the boundary, am Wells, the University left-hander, vra: then brought on to bowl at the Dominior

Road end. Smith scored slowly, but Snedden added runs fast in spite of frequent changes of bowling, chiefly in twos and threes, and had reached 91 when he lo=t Smith through missing a straight [one from R. Garrard. The partnership 1 had lasted an hour and a half, aud had j added 93 runs. 172— i— 2s. McLeod began well, and included a ' square cut to the boundary off Garrard ;in his lirst ten. Sneddeu went slowly , jin his early nineties, but got one away |for three off Wells at l>s. and. getting two 'singles otf R. (iarrard, received a wellj deserved ovation from the stand for t i reaching his century after two and three- \ j quarter hours' play. The total was now \ , 102. Wells' next over yielded a couple i lof braces to the centurion, and McLeod ; ; continued his score with boundaries and 1 singles to 2ft. when he was caught by 1 Bannister oil Burbiilge in the fifth bell ! lof that bowler's lirst over. McLeod'9 j total included four fours. Sneddeu was ; : now 113 when the adjournment whs ' ! willed. 224—4—29. ; : Sneddon's partner-ship with Taylor 1 after the adjournment carried the total," Ito 2il, when t'lie latter was clean-bowled j •oy Saunders. Snedden had added nine j since the resumption, and was now 122.: 1 241—.-)—8. I J Wheeler went in six: wickets arnl ; '. reached double florures with braces and ] ■ singles. Snedden meanwhile passed l-°>o. j '■ including a full to the 'boundary. With l< I the total at 270 Wheeler was bowled by i ' Saimders. Snedden was now 138. Scores: — ' { ' POXSOXP.T.—First Inninsrs. ! ! Pnedden. not our IMS ,' j Briiis.len. <• Wolls. b Smei-ton s: i , ' Dee. 1) Saunders 17 i j : Smith, b R. (Jarrartl 2S , ! Mrl>orl, c Bannister SV» , ' Taylor, h Saunders s " I Whcpl.T. h SaiMi.lors 14 J . Kemp, b Rauudors 0 1 j Extras 'J:: ! Total f..r s«vrn wickets 270 The tenth wicket fell without any .' addition to the score. 1