THE SHIELD MATCH.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1038, 30 January 1911, Page 7

THE SHIELD MATCH.

CANTERBURY AND AUCKLAND, HOME TEAM'S FINE START, (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, January 28. 1 ine weather prevailed for tho match between Auckland and Canterbury for the Plunket Shield to-day. Tho wicket was true, but a little slow. The attendance numbered about 2000. The teams were as follow :— Canterbury: D. Reese (capt.), J. H. Beu?i u /, Boxshall, A. Sims, A. Norman, w Patrick, D. Sandman, W. Carlton; 'J.'. Carlton, and H. B. Lusk. ' Auckland: L. J. Hemus (capt.), W. Brooke-Smith, G. Hayward, A. Iladdon, L. V. Sale, O. Olliff, A. Anthony, N. C. bneddon, 1. A. Pearson, A. Kerr, and E. iloispool. Auckland won the-toss, and batting first made good use of the wicket, stay'J! j 1 th& wliolo afternoon for a total of 349. Henius aud Anthony opened to tho bowling of Bennett and Sandman. The bowling was' good, both trimdlers being on a length, but tlio pace of tho wicket troubled them for a while. Tho batsuion were very- cautions while tho pcrtoct nelding of the visitors also helped to craiup tho scoring. Runs came chielly m singles, and tho first half hour only produced 18. Play then livened a little, and

At 32 the first change was tried, T. Carlton replacing Bennett. The score, assisted by an. occasional boundarv, crept slowly up. Sandman was breaking rignt across the wicket, and was apparently difficult to score oil". Hi? in us reached the liult century after an hour and tewuty minutes play, and then began to score at a iairly last rate. With tho total at 95 tho Auckland skipper lifted ono into tho lougficld, but Patrick misjudged the chance, only getting one hand to it after a long run. The century camo for ninety-live minutes play, aud eight runs later, off the last ball of the morning, Anthony pulled W. Carlton hard to silly mid-oil where T. Carlton brought off a splendid catch. The retiring batsman had played sound, but very cautious, cricket lor his

After lunch Pearson joined Homus, both playing, much freer cricket than in the morning. Pearson .'scored '-3-threes inquick succession, but at fourteen, Bennett got him. leg before. Salo followed, and in tho next over from Bennett, Ifemns sent along an'easy chanco to Lusl; 'in tho slips, but the fieldsman dropped it. After this let-off Homus continued to bat confidently, and reached his century amid great applause, after 2J - hours' plav. After notching fourteen Sale hit a slowleg break from W. Carlton on to his pad, when it cannoned into tho wicket. Sneddon was next man in, and a lively partnership followed, tho second century being hoisted for 2 hours' play. Both batsmen slammed all the bowling, although Reese maintained a policy of quick changes, resting each bowler after three or four overs., AVith tho total nt 230 Reese who, so far, had only bowled two overs, put himself on again. ; Homus hit fivo'oft his first over, but shortly after the Canterbury skipper beat his brijliant opponent who snicked ono into his wicket

with his total at 142, made in 3V hours. The score was 257 when Broote-Smith the hero of the Wellington match; canio iu, but he only survived a couple of balls, and then sent a soft ono back to Reese, and made the first."duck" of the match. Horspool and Hadden then took . tho score along by free cricket, but with two wanted for the third century, Hadden stepped in front of ono -from Reeso aud retired for a chanceless 61. Sneddon raised 300 for- 41 hours' play, but had only made five when T. Carlton knocked down his off-peg. Olliff and Horspool, mostly by singles, scored in a deep-placed field, raised tho total to 342, when Horspool, after. scoring 36, missed a well-pitched ball from W. Carlton, and was clean bowled. After Itecso had dropped an easy chance off ICerr, he got a fine, fast, low ball past Olliff, and, one run later, ended the innings by clean bowling Kerr. Reese bowled very well indeed. Canterbury had the good fortune - not to require to go in in the fading light, and after an afternoon's fielding. The ■following are the details: — Auckland. —First Innings. L. G. Hemus, b. Reese 142 A., Anthony, c. T. Carlton, b. W. Carlton .' ' 39 F. Pearson, 1.b.w., b. Bennett 14 E. V. Sale, b. W. Carlton 14 A. Hadden, 1.b.w., b. Reese 61 W. Brooke-Smith, c. and b. Reeso ... 0 Sneddon, b. T. Carlton 1 ; 5 E. Horspool, b. W. Carlton 30 E. Olliff, b. Reese ; 11 A. Kerr, b. Reeso 2 G. Hay ward, not out 0 .Extras 25 Total 313 How the Wickets Fell. 1 1 2 3 4 5 G 7' S 9 10 . 108 136 IS3 257 257 29S 313 342 318 349 Bowling Analysis. 0. M. R. W. Sandman 27 6 80 0 Bennett ,31 8 72 1 T. Carlton 23 II 41 1' W. Carlton 17 (1 70 3 Reese 21 8 43 5 Patrick 6 1 18 0

THE SOUTH AFRICANS. HAMILTON SIXTEEN BEATEN. By Telcsrraph—Press Association- Copyright. (liec. January 30, 0.55 a.m.) Melbourne, January 2!). South Africa beat tho Hamilton district sixteen. South Africa, made 229 (Comliiaillo not out 31, Campbell 23, Sherwell 28). Hamiltnn, in their second venture,, made 120, M'Donald (22) being top scoror. Llewellyn took three wickets for 24, Voq)or seven for 53, and Schwarz 5 for it. The South Africans thus won by an innings and fifty runs. i MATCHES ELSEWHERE. (By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) Pcilding, January 29. An .exciting game of cricket was played on the racecourse on Saturday afternoon between the two local rivals . for the Guthrie A and Park A loams. ;It was a bowler's day, both teams getting in t«'o innings during tho. afternoon. Batholomcw was the destroying agent for the l'ark eleven, whilo Ouglev and Elliott (lato of Wellington) shared the bowling honours for Feildiiig.

7 Thfc~Tnftor~~loam iwl their opponents by cino run on the lirst innings, and by seven at the finish of the game. (By Telesrapn-Press Association.) Christchurch, January 2S. Fine weather prevailed lor the continuation of grade cricket. In the gamo fliccarton against Linwcod the lirstnnmecl eleven, despite the absence of three of their team in Auckland, had no difficulty in passing Li ri wood's score of ISO, the total reaching 339. Bix wn* top scorer with Gi, not but, A. Norman 63, and "\V hitta 41. Kiccarton 'won on the lirst innings by 159 runs. St. Albans A scored a three-point victory against W«st Christchurch. Tho hut-named team were in a minority of \1 on the first inning.-", and declared their second innings closed for 158 for. eight wickets. St. Albans hit up the required runs for the lo>s of five wickets. East Christchurchwas in u hopeless position, having only made sil in tlieiv first innings, and 20 for three wickets in their second innings against Sydenham, who had made 278. East's second innings closed for 37, Sydenham thus winning by an innings and 189 runs, Dunedin, January 29. Cricket matches were continued yesterday in perfect weather. Grange beat Dunedin by 38 runs on the first innings. Grange made 175 and 116 for nine wickefs (Popple 57). Dunedin .replied with 137 and 201 for five wickets (Torrance 61, Condliffo 56, not out). Carisbrook A made 31)0 in their first innings against Albion (Hopkins 71, Baiuierman 75, Cameron 57, L. Watson 45, Rutherford 4-1). Albion made 234 for five wickets (J. Shepherd 74, Wallace 6S). Carisbrook B. in their first inuings against Opoho, made 319 (Drunim SS, • Austin 55). Opoho compiled 201 for five wickets (Callaway 121, not out). Catcli of the Season. Laws and Manning's splendid stock of cricket materials. Courtsnay Place. Repairs a speciality.*