FOURTH TIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 269, 12 November 1937, Page 15

FOURTH TIME.

AT MELBOURNE..

STRONG HOME BATTING.

HENDRY'S TRIPLE CENTURY.

To-day'■* game nt. Melbourne is the fniirlh occasion that a representative Mew /on I Ind team luis played Victoria on the historic cricket ground. Two 111afolio* were easily won hv the Victorians. The third was drawn. Dominion enthusiast* devoutly wish Cow ie and I'arnloo will not l>e treated as left hander Krankisli wan thirty-eight years ago live chances mi«*sed off him alone. Tlio Canterburian died a few yearn niter hi* return — the wliitti ncourge accounting for hiin in the prime of a vigorous manhood. When Ed star Mayne's Victorians •visited New Zealand in 11)25 they heat the Dominion by six wickets at Wellington and htul the better of the. draw at Christchurch. Wood fill I scored two unbeaten centuries and Ponoford one. The Pioneer Eleven.

The New Zealand team which played Victoria in IMHO—the first New Zealand team to go on an outside tour—was defeated bv an innings and 132 runs. The New Zealand team comprised Hugh Lusk, Ash bo It, Prankish, Baker, Sims, I. Mills, I'pham, Dowries, Cobcroft! Hoxshull and Reese. Cobcroft and Roxshnll were Australian players, who had settled in New Zealand, the latter being a first-class wicket-keeper. The New Zealand bowling was strong, including as it did I'phani. n f Wellington, the best fast-medium right-hand bowler that 1 Now Zealand cricket has known; Ashbolt. a slow right-hander, also from Wellington; Frankish, the best left-hand bowler of all time; and Downe«, of Otago, a medium slow right-hander. Reese, Sims and Baker were the leading batsmen of the period. The sole Aucklander in the side was I. Mills, although 0. Mills, who was in charge of Eden Park for so many years, was. also a member of the touring team. New Zealand put np a score of 317, but tho Victorian T«?ply was the big total of fio2, McAllister leading the way with 221. Jle had played for Australia, and other Test players in the team were WorraJl, leaver, Graham and Armstrong. Tarrant, another noted all-rounder, who played most of his 1j»-t cricket in Kngland. was also in the team. New Zealand's second innings produced 153 runs. But for poor fielding and missed chances tho New Zealamlers would have | done better, but they certainly met a very strong team, and on a much faster wicket than the Dominion player* were used to. « Three Auckland*!*. In the 1914 season another New Zealand team went across, ami were defeated by Victoria by an innings and 110 runs. The New Zealand team which played Victoria on that occasion comprised HemiiM. Snedden. Tuckwell. Hickinott, Heese, Patrick, Sandman, Taylor, Robinson, Bnxsliall ami Carlton. Reese and Boxshall were the only two who had been with the previous team, and there were three ex-Australians on the side—Carlton. Tuckwell and Boxshall. Auckland was represented by Hemus, Snedden and L. (1. Taylor. Patrick, of Canterbury, was the K-ader. Hickmott was a brilliant Canterbury colt of that period. The bowling of the team was good according to New Zealand standards. There was Robinson, of Wellington, the fnstest bowler New Zealand has produced; Bennett, of Canterbury, who was a model medium-paced right-hander; and Sandman, also of Canterbury, a very clever slow right-hand spin bowler. Carlton was a left-hander with the ball, and Snedden could be trusted to keep a good length. New Zealand made 141 and IRB, Snedden in the latter, innings leading the way with .*>l. Victoria scored 43?) runs, Kiernan (01) •ml Matthews (03) leading the way. Allcott's Century. High scoring marked the match which New Zealand played in the Victorian capital in 1025. The Dominion team comprised Worker, Blunt, Lowry, Allcott, Dacre, Oliver, Crawford, Alloo, Patrick, Cunningham and Hope, and six of them went to Kngland with the pioneer New jfaaland team of 1927. Cunningham was tile best New Zealand medium-pace right-hander of that time. Hope was

decidedly fast, Allcott was a mediumpaced left-hander who kept a splendid while the change bowling of the side \v,m fairly strong. \ New Zealand opened with a score of 314. Allcott (107) and Worker (S9> taking the honours. In their second inniiiy>« New Zealand lost six wickets for 231, Oliver getting "»8 and Blunt 37. The Victorians, in Mayne, Hendry, Hansford and Kheling, had four Australian Eleven players, and scored 592 for the low* of #4>vi n wickets. Hendry took ♦•iiarjre of the bowling, arid put up tlie gir.it si ore of 325 not out. The Victorian team to play Jfew Zealand Is:— K. H. Khelinn (captain!. K. R»tfg. L. 08. Klcotwood-Smith, B. A. Barnett, E. L. Mi-Co!inick. A. \j. Hassett, I. Lee, ft. H. Rrotnley, K. Gregory. J. D. LedWaiil. M \V". Sievers. W. K I'eursou is twelfth man.