OLIVER IN FORM.
ALL-BLACK VICE-CAPTAIN. GREAT DOUBLE FOR SYDENHAM. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. Cricket matches commenced on Saturday were finished to-day. The day was fine and the grounds and wickets were in perfect order. Sydenham. 205, and 178 for eight wickets (Oliver 111 not out), beat Old Collegians, 196 (Dunster. 40. Ollivier 42). Alpers took four wickets for 49 runs and
Lester four for 47. Butterfield took four for 35. Oliver (vice-captain of the 1935 All Blacks) also scored 80' in the first innings on Saturday. West Christchurch, 220 and 53 for no wickets, beat Old Boys, 223 (Menzies 95, Nixon 48). Lancaster Park, 276 (Dryden 83, McEwen 53), beat East Christchurch, 190 and 125 for eight wickets. St. Albans, 138 and 141 (Crawford 48, O'Brien 61 not out), beat Riccarton, 137 and 122 for four wickets (Powell r 53. Rose 40 not out). Mulcock took two for 47.
C. J. Oliver was a member of the 192526 New Zealand cricket team to Australia, and the first side to England in 1927.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 297, 15 December 1936, Page 16
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