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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23914, 5 April 1943, Page 6

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SERVICES’ MATCH CONCLUDED

ARMY WIN BY 203 RUNS The New Zealand Air Force team found the Army side too strong for them last week, in the match played at Lancaster Park, when the Army eleven won by 203 runs. The young Air Force player, B. Bezzant, distinguished himself in both innings by making 63 an'd 78 respectively, giving him the best batting average of the match. Saturday saw Air Force trying to make the 480 runs Which they' required to catch Army. The New Zealand express bowler, T. L. Pritchard, once again proved himself too good for most of the batsmen, Bezzant being the only one to play him confidently. O. L. Wrlgley, batting with Bezzant for some time, became associated with N. R. Hoar soon after Bezzant’s dismissal, in a lively partnership. Hoar scored rapidly, his driving both to the off and on being pretty to watch, and productive of boundary after boundary. The partnership, when it had yielded 90 runs, was broken at last by the wily Cromb, who had Wrlgley caught and bowled off one of his flighted deliveries. Hoar, who had made 28 when Wrlgley went out, continued to score rapidly until Dunnett snapped up a chance behind the stumps, to dismiss him for 67. The remaining batsmen put on only 20 runs, and the side was all out for 277. Army’s fielding was keen, and Milnes, in particular, very sure. Throughout the game scoring was fast, more than 1000 runs being scored in the three days of play. On a batsmen’s wicket, and with many of the best batsmen in the Dominion included in the teams, the bowlers of both sides had a difficult duty to perform. While Pritchard, who took four and five wickets in the first and second innings respectively, was the most successful bowler, mention must be made of the Air Force bowlers, particularly 'Lemin and Parkin. Against a really formidable battjng side, the Air Force bowlers kept up at all times a vigorous attack, and troubled even the most experienced of the Army players. Saturday’s scores were ARMY First innings 294 Second innings (for seven wickets) ~ 315 AIR FORCE First innings .. ... .. .. 128 Second Innings B. Bezzant. c J. L. Kerr, b Pritchard 78 C, Kerr, c J. L. Kerr, b Pritchard .. fl W. Dustin, c Cromb, b Anderson ~ 12 R. Crawford, st Durtnett,’ b Cromb .. 7 O. L. Wrlgley, c and b Cromb .. 52 K. Parkin, c Cromb, b Pritchard .. fl G. Churchill, b Pritchard .. .. 0 N. R. Hoar, c Dunnett, b Anderson ~ 67 C. J. Oliver, not out .. .. .. 17 W. Bird, c Partridge, b Pritchard .. 14 G. Lemin, run out .. .. .. 0 Extras .. .. .. .. 30 Total .. ..277 Bowling: Pritchard, five for 50; Weir, none for 7; Partridge, none for 35: Anderson, two for 30; Cromb, ‘ two for 77; Page, none for 48. Umpires: Messrs H. Wilson and G. Falgar> DRAW WITH WEST COAST CANTERBURY GREYMOUTH (0.R.) GREYMOUTH, April 3. The West Coast cricket representatives played a meritorious draw with a strong Canterbury side at the Recreation Ground, Greymouth, on Saturday. Heavy rain overnight, made the wicket and outfield slow, and scoring was not high. Canterbury won the toss and elected to field. West Coast had lost four wickets for 109 at lunch, but wickets fell quickly after the resumption, and the side was dismissed for 159. Butterfield was easily the most dangerous bowler, and he secured five wickets for 14 runs off 20 overs, 11 of which were maiden. Canterbury had a little over two hours to make the runs. Uttley and Smith gave them a good start, putting on 75 for the first wicket. From then on, the home side gradually assumed the upper hand. With seven wickets down for 100, Butterfield and Lohrey dug themselves in and they carried the score to 138 by careful batting before Lohrey was dismissed. Butterfield took the remaining over without attempting to score, and the game was drawn, Butterfield showed solid defence at a critical stage. D. Knapp bowled 20 overs unchanged for West Coast, finishing with five wickets for 42, after his first two overs had cost 16 runs. , Scores:— WEST COAST First Innings T. Dennehy, b Butterfield .. .. 4 W. Meates, c Uttley, b Proctor .. 26 O. Morris, b Roberts .. ..29 D. Knapp, c Uttley, b Butterfield .. 28 J. Haglund, c Hadlee, b Proctor .. 5 H. Westwood, c O’Brien, b Butterfield 12 E. Taylor, Ibw, b Butterfield .. 3 R. O’Callaghan, Ibw, b Roberts .. 9 T. Mclntosh, not out .. ..14 A. Knapp, Ibw, b Lohrey .. ..8 J. Russell, Ibw, b Butterfield .. 3 Extras .. .. 18 Total IS9 Bowling: Butterfield, five for 14; Roberts, two for 26; Proctor, two for 51; Lohrey, one for 26. CANTERBURY First Innings K. F. Uttley, Ibw. b D. Knapp .. 38 J. Smith, run out .. .. ..35 L. Newman, c Russell, b O’Callaghan 4 F. P. O’Brien, b Knapp .. ..6 M. Stanley, b Knapp .. 0 W. A. Hadlee, c Mclntosh, b Knapp .. 2 A. W. Roberts, b Knapp .. .. 7 L. Butterfield, not out .. ..25 M. Lohrey, b Russell .. ..14 I. Proctor, not out .. .. .. 0 Extras .. .. .. 12 Total for eight wickets .. 143 Bowling: D. Knapp, five for 42: O’Callaghan, one for 66; Russell, one for 23.

SUBURBAN GAMES

MERIVALE WINS JUNIOR A The Suburban Cricket Association brought its season to a close on Saturday, when in addition to the two postponed junior games, a team selected from the lower grades defeated the’ senior representative side by nine runs on the first innings. The senior team was the same as drew with Ashburton the previous Saturday with the exception that L. Stead was not available and was replaced by E. Brook. The junior team batted first and made 104, S. Knight, of the Army team, topping the batting list with 39. G. Cockle (New Brighton) made 36 and R. Lloyd (Marathon) 31. Bowling for the seniors, N. Stokes took six for 67 and M. Scoon two for 36. The seniors replied with 15S, N, Davidson 38, E. Brook 18. Of the junior bowlers, F. Campbell was the most successful, taking four wickets lor 28 uns. P. Lloyd took four lor 52. In the i iecond innings, the juniors made 131. P. Campbell 31. H. Sail 23. For the seniors, V. Spicer took two for 17, E. Brook two ; or 16, and F. Davison three for 31. j JUNIOR A GRADE The postponed match between Merlvale * ind Oddfellows was won by Merivale, < vho made 231 (Haase 53, Gillies 38, Boyd 1 4), and beat Oddfellows 82. For Merl- 1 'ale Haase took five for 24 and Hardy 5 wo for 26; and for Oddfellows, Cole took * our for 30. Merivale who was two 1

points behind Marathon, gained five points and won the Junior A competition by three points. JUNIOR B GRADE Beckenham, who were sevein points behind Shirley in the Junior B competition. with one match against Templeton to play, succeeded in obtaining an outright win and won the grade by one point. Scores:— Beckenham 103 for seven wickets declared (Wornall 20) and 45 for one wicket declared (Taylor 28) beat Templeton 79 (Chatterton 53. Meyer 21) and 50 by 19 ; runs. For Beckenham, Hay took four for i 21 and seven for 30, and Taylor four for ; 21 and three for 20; and for Templeton j W. Alsop took four for 22. I