CRICKET IN NORTH

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 81, 6 April 1943, Page 5

CRICKET IN NORTH

GALLAUGHER SIX FOR 18 BUTLER, BLACKIE, BAXTER EXCEL ; (0.C.) WHANGAREI, Monday. ' 'Teams fully up to Auckland senior club standard 'met at Kensington" Park on Sunday in.the firs.fc 'g'am£"t6 'decide 'the championship of a northern 'division. Divisional troops scored a comfortable !win .over Southern Brigade and in the final next week-end at Whangarei will meet the victors in a match between Fortress Troop and Northern Brigade to be played at Kaikohe. The Brigade attack felt the absence of Foster and Sorby, who have reaped a harvest this season. , , Lusby, the Papatoetoe express, found the approaches difficult for his run In, and Andrews, who flighted his leg spinners well, was unfortunate in encountering a team including seven left-handers. Andrews will be remembered as the wlckt-keeper for E.,,A..Beale,'s team. which toured Fiji und played twice against ,Sir_ Julicrx Cahn's XI. in 1939.7 '"V'. ."«- ~ . Lieutenant-Colonel Potter captained the Brigade, and Sergeant Winter Divisional Troops. For next week's game Brigade hope to have the services of Haliday and Partridge (who were representing the New Zealand Army team at Christclrurch). and H. B. Jones (injured). Southern Brigade.—Eccles, c Gallaugher, b Easson, 2: Lyle, lbw, b Gallaugher, 11; Andrews, b Alexander, 4; Eamsay, b Alexander, 5; Davys, lbw, b Gallaugher, 19; Gall, b Gallaugher, 0; Lusby, b Gallaugher, 6; Potter, b Alexander, 3; Hbldcroft, 'st Morris, b Gallaugher, 9; Thompson, bGaflaugherl" 12; "Clarke, not out, 0;, extras, 6; ' ' Bowling: 'Alexander took three for 25, Easson one for 4; Gallaugher six for 18, Meltzer none for 22. Divisional Troops.—Butler, c —. b Andrews. 64; Hampton, b Thompson, 7; Nicoll, c Potter, b Thompson, 13; Meltzer, o and b Andrews, 13; Winter, lbw, b Lusby, 14; Alexander, c Gall, b Clarke, 8; Blackie, retired, 39; Baxter, not out, 27; Morris, b Eccles, 8; Easson, b Davys, 0; Gallaugher, not out, 11; extras, 25; total for nine wickets, 229. __ Bowling: Lusby took one for 45, Thompson two for 27, Gall none for 6, Andrews two for 55, Clarke one for 12, Ramsay none for 8, Davys one for 22, Eccles one for 15.