OUT TO WIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1927, Page 7

OUT TO WIN.

■ ' I N.Z. BATSMEN EXCEL.! Lowry and Page Score Big Against Worcester. COUNTY 403 RUNS BEHIND. j (By Cable—rress Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.SO a.m.) LOXDOX, June 0. ■ The second day's play of the match I ; Worcestershire v. the* Xew Zealand | : cricketers saw the colonials gain a I winning position. The Worcester- | shire side -was dismissed for 222 runs, land the New Zealanders knocked up 1 349 for five and declared, getting tv.-o of the home players out for 31 runs before stumps were drawn. Henderson, the fast left-hand bowler I from Wellington, was getting a good pace oft* the pitch, and when he bowled Coventry he broke a stump and sent a bail flying an unusual distane?. Allcott maintained a good length, while Merritt offered the most tempting of well-pitched balls. The fielding of the New Zealandrrs is sharpening as the team gets more accustomed to the pace of the English grounds. Lowry, in making his century, gave several chances. He was missed" at 44] and at 52 gave chinces off two consecutive balls ni the longfield. He got most of his runs by daring pulls, and with Page, scored 129 to 65 minutes. LowryV 100 was compiled in two hours, out"of 18S scored by the side. He hit one sixer and fourteen fours. Page reached his hundred in 110 minutes, driving well, and also playing accurately-timed turning shots to "tine leg. He hit eighteen fours. His 14J occupied 135 minutes. Merritt gave his side an excellent start in the second innings by securing two of Worcester's most valuable wickets. Dempster strained a shoulder and will not play again for a week. Scores: —■ NEW ZEALAND. First innings 270 Second Innings: Mills, b Price SJ James, Ibw, b Tarbox i) Lowry, c and b Spencer .....* lOti Pago, not out ." 'l4'i i Daere. b Tarbox 10 Allcott, h Gibbons 2J.\ Oliver, not out 20 Extras . > Five wickets (declared) for .'.. . .">4r> Bowling: Tarbox took two wickets fur I2S runs. Price one for 65, Wright none for 5, Gibbons one for 68, Coventry none for 41, Spencer one for 34. WORCESTER.—First Innings. King, b Merritt IS Wright, Ibw, b Allcott 7 Spencer, b Merritt 2ti Gibbons, b Allcott 10 Fox, Ibw, b Merritt .. 7'.' Tarbox, run out 1. 1 Shakespeare, c Page, b Henderson .. •"> Coventry, b Henderson ■• 7 Foster, not out 11> Garratt, c Lowry. b Merritt V.I Price, st James, b Allcott 4 j Extras U Total 22Bowling": Merritt took four wickets for 83 runs, Allcott three for 33, Henderson two for 6ti, McGirr none for 0, Bernau none for 3,,Pnge none for 22. Second Innings: Wright/ st James, b Merritt - i ! Gibbons, Ibw, b Merritt 17 i Fox, not out ! Extras 3 Two wickets for 31 I