CITY CRICKET

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3013, 26 February 1917, Page 9

CITY CRICKET

BRILLIANT CENTURY BY TUCKWELL BATSMEN'S DAY OUT Saturday's cricket at the Basin Reserve provided some good batting. Tuckwell, playing for North, rattled lip one of the fastest ceuturies ever made in Wellington, and his batting was so good all round that some of those on the ground consider it the beet hundred they had ever witnessed. One estimate of the performance put the time down as 45 minutes. Robinson once left the threefigure mark behind in a shade over forty minutes. Another indication of the speed of Tuckwell's scoring lies in the fact that he reached the century when the total for the side was 130. Another fine batting performance was put ■up by C. G. Wilson. The veteran can give every man in Wellington points in the highly usefuj art of running between wickets, and his batting is always of a quality that makes it attractive. J. Hutchings played a (rood innings for Bast, and sjtved his side from what looked like an imminent "rot." Dwyer played an excellent innings for University. He is easily the best bat of the side. Robinson, the fast bowler, was in eood form with the ball, and in the early portion of Institute's second innings had t.wo wickets to his. credit for no runs. In Institute's first venture he took five wickets for 29 runs, and, with Hiddleston routed the team for 60.

Old Boys batted first and put up 257 runs, the biegest scores being made by Ronaldson (92). Baker (S6), and Lambert (25). Hutt then started their innings, but only had seven wirkets taken when stumps were drawn. They put ut> 102, the biggest fores bein? made by A'ldersley (25) and Hnehes (18). Byes amounted to 34. Details of the scores follow:— EAST AND UNIVERSITY. East—First Innings. Baker, b. Fenton 9 Gibbes, b. Duncan l Nash,, b. Duncan 13 J Hutchings, b. Fenton 59 Bruce, b. Fenton 5 Dind, b. Fenton 48 Walters, b. Duncan 11 H. Hutchings, e. Burns, b. Smith ... 14 Osborne; b Fenton 8 Hylton, not out 2 Huffman, b. Smith . 8 Extras 12 tfotal. .....180 . Bowling Analysis.—Fenton took five wickets for 66 runs; Duncan, three for 58; Ward, none for 28; George, none for '12: Smith, two for 4. University First Innings. Dwyer,' not out 54 Ward, c. Baker, b. Gibbes 18 Smith, b. Hutchings ' 6 George, not out 13 Extras Total for two wickets 105 NORTH AND INSTITUTE. Institute—First Innings. Howitt, c. and b. Hiddleston 1 Buck, ■b. Hiddleston 19 Tyrrell, c. Robinson, b. Hiddleston... 9 Guise, b. Robinson 5 Twomey, c. Patterson, b. Robinson... 1 Garrod, b. Robinson 13 Wilton, b. Robinson .' 0 Reid, c. Windley, b. Robinson 0 Ryan, b. Hiddleston 0 Fisher, c. Robinson, b. Hiddleston... 2 Keys, not out ; 3 ' Extras 7

Total 60 Bowling Analysis—Robinson, five wickets for 24 runs; Hiddleston, five for 29. North—First Innings. Tuckwell, b. Buck 102 Barker, b. Garrod 10 Burton, b. Twomey 34 Hiddleston, run out 0 Wilson, c. and b. Twomey 28 Hiokson,- b. 11 Robinson,' b. Twomey 0 Crombie, c. Howitt, b. Garrod 3 Wagstnffe, absent — Patterson,. c. Keys, b. Twomey 11 Windley, not out 6 Extras . 21 Total 226 Bowling Analysis.—Garrod, three wickets for 33 runs; Twomey, four for 54; Ryan, none for 34; Buck, one for 43; Keys, none for 41. Institute—Second Innings. Twomey, b. Robi'ison ' 1 Reid, b. Hiddleston 0 Tyrrell, b. Robinson 0 Fisher, c. , b. Robinson 6 Howitt, not out 4 Wilton, not out 7 Extras 6 -.- Total for four wickets 24 , BOYS' LEAGUE. Bovs' Institute A team, 141 (A Tarrant 12,-& Bing 12, S. Dompster 44, P. Ward 13, E. Cunningham 13, A. Douglas 26. not out)' St. Peter's, 46 and 25 (R. Allan, six for 10). R. Allan took four wickets in succession. Boys' Institute won by an innings and 70 runs. Third Grade! Boys' Institute Old Boys, 84 and 102 for tliTee wickets (Mence 54, M'Farlano 16, Ward 17; Bell 13, not out). Wellington College B, 83 and 58 (Lamb nine for 37, Ward se-ren for 45). Boys* Institute Old Boys won by seven wickets and 45 runs. Senior Boys. Boys' Institute, 31 and 61 (J. Smith 41, not i out), Hutt 90 and two for 5 (Sclater 32, Baumber.' 16, Grierson .15). Hutt won >by eight wickets. Thoradon, 173 (O'Neill 90, Stanton 19. Morgan 18, Sisson 14), Y.M.C.A., 20 and 61 (Bennett 30, Young, not out Id). Bowling for Thorndon Morgan took five wickets for liino. runs, ana six for <11; Bramlev, three for 11, and two for 23; for Y.M.C.A. Young took four for 5, and Tucker four for 63. Thorndon won by an innings and 92 runs.