CITY CRICKET

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3025, 12 March 1917, Page 3

CITY CRICKET

. GREAT BATTING BY EAST ! TWO CENTURIES > Playing against Old Boys at tlio Basin [ Reserve, on Saturday afternoon. East j made 415 runs for tho loss of four ■wickets. Dind, Oiblics, Baker, and Mid- • lime made nearly all the runs, and they avernjred about a century each. Baker 1 and Gibbes put on. ItK) for tile first •' wicket, and Gibbes and Midlnne added > 83 for the second wicket. Baker and ' Gibbes reeled- off the fiTst hundred in I an hour. Baker trot his 9D in an hour , and 45 minutes; Gibbes reached bis cenj tury in 2 hours 25 minutes; Jfidlane ; mdfl his 64 in about 45 minutes; and r Bind compiled his 116 in the very fast time of 54 minutes. Dind's was a sreat , performance. He batted freely, and his ' total included fiflecn fours and three • sixes, so that 78 of his total came from ! W? nits. North, mado n poor showing against ■ the Petone bowlers. Brice a"d Bennett. 1 ?o far. Petone have done'little better. They have made 105 for eigbt wickets. , and 'Robinson lias accounted for all the . eisht. A friendly contest betn-Pon. PeathersI ton Camp Artillery and University was n!so commenced o« the Basin Preserve. University are kitting, and have six wiilrete down for SRS. 1 Institute defaulted to the Hutt team. EAST ANH OLD BOYS. East —Pirst Innings. Gibbes, st. Williams, b. Beechey lit Biker, b. Lambert 09 llidlane, c. T.usk. b. LomWt 64 ■ c. Bonaldson, h. Beecney .. " Bind, not out lift Bruce, not out 13 Extras 39 Pour wickets for 4.J5 NORTH AND PETONE. North.—First Innings. 1 Buldlestone. b. Bennett 1 1 Barker, e. Burton, b. Brice 33 Burton, b. Brice 2 Wilson, I>. Brice fl Hickson, b. Brico i« Bobinson, b. Bennett 5 b. Bennett 9 Pateron, c. Stevens, V. Bennett .... 11 Crombie, b. Beinott 1 Windley,-not out , 7 JfaoVie, b. Bennett -. G Extra 1 Total 88 Bovs-iiiHr Analysis.—Brice took four 'rickets for 21 runs; Bennett, six for 66. j Petone.—First Innings. J Borers, b. Robinson 0. Nicholls, c. Crombie, b. Bobinson ... 14 Cate, 1.b.w.,b. Bobinson 2 Brice. b. Bobinson 33 Stevens, b. Bobinson 3 O>)os. li. P.obinson 17 Bennett, b. Bobinson 7 Powell, c. Wilson, b. Bobinson U Senior, not out -.1 Extras 15 Eight wickets for 105 FEATHERSTOM CAMP ARTILLERY & UNIVERSITY. University.—Pirst Innings. Dxvyer,.- b. Broad : 77 Ward, c. and b. Dally 17 Benton, b. Pauvel ....'. 97 Smith, b. Ciisaek 1 \ 70 George, b. Broad 25 Brown, not out 29 Duncan, b. Cusack """" "7 Burns, not out "."".'.'. H Extras , [~ 52 Total '.....J 38S BOYS' LEAGUE. Senior.—Boys' Institute, 175 (W. Hart 57. J. Smith 38, A. Spolskv 41). v. St. David's, 19 and 102 (Wvlie 28, W. Thomas 25, Pere 17). Bowiin S for Institute, H. Hanson took five wickets for 11 runs, and J. Smith five for G. Boys' Institute won by an innings and 54 runs. Junior,—Boys' Institute (A Team), 68 and 61 for seven wickets (Dempster 31 and 33, Tarrant 15. Cunningham 13, Allan 6 not out), v. SI. Cuthber's. 69 and 48 (P. Hester IS not out, C. Hester 15). Boys' Institute iron by three m c ™ antl U TUns ' ■ B °y s ' Institute (B Team), 121 (G. Burt 17, Tillev4B), v. Athletic, 79 and 109 (Solway 29, Henderson 29, Carey 20, Bowker 21). B.oys Institute won by 42 runs on the first innings. Boys' Institute C Team, 21 and 18. v. Hutt, 53 and 110. Hutt won by 124 runs. ' ~ r