NOTES ON THE GAME.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13348, 13 February 1909, Page 10

NOTES ON THE GAME.

(SPECIAL TO "TUT. TRESS.") -I r" DUXEDIX, Februaw l£ -J Canterbury's iiuiiugs was a disappointments, atoned for by a Kn*liaiit wind up. Although Otaeoni* tlie,m xn after winning the *«» £*""= home team were inclined to regret not • having made first mc of the uidje* h "" instead of being tricky, as pected, it played perfectly Utte fiS'/ iJic start. * w *|-< . The choap dismissal of the . Canterbury crack* canait be the w» ket. TJie wicket ccrtainlvli*» .Hi a itilo raster att«r lunch ' was all. It looked as if the OantwCv Mi-p.eion. and u-.to ovcr-cautioneTrht! wont in very hu\> for lor«ard nlaT- ?T tact, until Orchani and tiioro «a.s poetically uo dnrui«» tneS .' of tne runs counuj? trom cute aau'nnh. '" l'o>siL»ly tins U'liuenpv rt o ir,f-,Tr' > ball am, pl.y back Jed to «re2u,£----in.-n bv:n.; <ai:-iu behind the ' iMini «as given out in thi* ' the {ionv>i-.ii op:n.on is that the ' wa ( > ~ miMauo. Sims huiaoU > Una k> k-.ivo, aj:d ho v not •"' man to lio.sh.ik> .alter the umpirejH* swvr to an apical. " i l , »"-*aa. At lunch uuu. ihe visitors had aada moderate start, thanU chicllvtA , patient innings by strength and ivoakms at onw a«SS to Ix- in I..rein- a straight ball teife '.n, for he sco.xd lJuw hits with this stroke, and fiualivfrS vis wiciiot by altoaipitng U. - It was not until Oicjjards adnat' that, iho C.a, : ,t«>rmuy outlook bHghttt! .!t He and UeiuH'tt became aseSsS wJion. the score wa.s oS lor oigljt ami the pair added nftv by cJicket. iloth men drove Jkmnoit hft..ng i- isher to long Sfel , six. Bennett was a shade iuekyVf* - some or his oiF strokes, which iurfiiT - over cover-point's head; but no actual cjiance, and his • invaluable. Ho was givan out W* • The nest partnersuip, the lut'ijn. k«t, was doubly as productive Cβ tt« " s . ta " d lo , r the ni "th uicket, shall and Orchard added 88 runs jSt " thall opened quietly; but. bad a slice of luck, with the «««; '- at 121, hoxshnll, who had ' 1, lifted Fisher straight into iiands at long-on. It was not a hlah*'hit, and the neldsmanhad not hut ho dropped it. li,» Otago So runs, for the batmnea pflad? , on tne runs rapidly. *-T~?i Orchards driving, both on "tt& ground aud in tho nir, was and well-timed. Ho sooted freAlr «l|r both eidee of tho wicket, and cmeb4 in front of it, though more ho passexl tho fieldsmen with a preS?#' cut behind point. H© fiar* VffyimM a chance behind the nicaets befo»MJss reached double figures, and Tvbea.iieS had made 37 he mishit ono hijth th© off, -which Eckhold reached but not hold. Otherwise his inninge" 1 Tlva batsmen seemed to htrm. the Otago bowling, which waa aesJ rate but rather lacking in ranettS properly collared. WoroWorth irtaS! close to both men's wickets balls sent down with a rauctt lower <2*-l livery than usual: but tho coon dropped to the ruse. - '/-'■ pi Just as hope -was sinking Joar ""jas Otago players, Rutherford straight one past Box&haU, and tibe\w4 Dings closed for 200,' obtained by ihms and a half hours' play, finished 78 included of which wont bumming To the dary at a raro paoo, and ho rpconfajp a regular ovation. , Otago's ground fioldipg was foicimS thoir catching was weak. SjS*N»lfi Of the bowlers. Torrance tras alifewM on the «pot, and sent down Wordsworth did not keepjKfial?! a good 'length, but his occasional vbrltfi'M rrquired watching, and Humphreys (who had passed « -Jj»i||: night with toothache). Fisher niedo so much use of ac usual. v rather rare thing for him—-dia~7la>tjj|p capture a wicket, though he chanoe missed off him. , '~® Williams'a keeping of wicket* V**M no». up to interprovincial form. ".--?§ In the ono and a quarter hour* ltmainpd for play Otaeo did not compli«h much. Humphreys,' ■fbfll started the bowling with Bennett/ zlod tho home batsme/n. with the 4tfC» leiving in from the off. Wilson vriBtAJM a. ball two feet to the off back - snto<|| his wicket, and Hopkins, tho «x-SydttstW bateman, after mukin? eumo off stnokes, played all round one. Hhimphrovs's. After getting threSp wickets rapidly and at email Kumphreys gay© -way to Orchard. trNJUs completely beat Watson just ac fe*t|| player, whose off play was finished, seemed to be shapine ecoro. Eckhold was very emwWgt stumped by Boxshall. and was bowled with the last ball day, Otago having then lost five,me>f-|K keis for 50 Tuns, or just on© run inoq*4jg than Cantorbury had scored loss of five -wickets. rrvv/^j