LOWER GRADE CRICKET

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 156, 29 March 1926, Page 9

LOWER GRADE CRICKET

JUNIOR B. University and Y.M.C.A., the two unbeaten teams in the Junior B championship, concluded their game on Saturday, ’Varsity winning the championship by securing a three-point win by 123 ’Varsity made 254 and Y.M.C.A. 131 (Tilyard 21, Holtz 26, Hayden 49 not out). Bowling for ’Varsity, Duff took four wickets for 34 runs, Hain three for 19, and Mason three for 19. THIRD A. Y.M.C.A., 162 (Mabin 68) defeated Old Boys, 73 and 66. Bowling for Y.M.C.A. Green took six wickets for 13 runs; and for Old Boys, Eliott three for 48. Old Boys, batting . first against Y.M.C.A., made 73 (Sadler 16;. Tn their second innings Old Boys made 59 runs /Elliott 11. Sadler 10, Pengclly 10); total 132 runs. Henderson and Green ware the most successful Y.M.C.A. trundlers. Y.M.C.A. made 165 (Mabin 68, Henderson 28), and thus gained a four-point win by am innings and 33 runs. THIRD GRADE. Railway, 213 for nine wickets (Kelly 104, Giel 62 and Howell 23), met Wellington College, 129 (Lynch 25, Cutton 21, Brinsden 18). , FOURTH GRADE. Technical College, four for 127 (Cleverley 30 not out, Bilby 28), defeated Institute, 107 (Clay 73 not out, Wright 14). Bowling for Technical College, Clay three for 6 and Wright five for 24. INTERMEDIATE. Stop Out defeated Trinity on the first innings by 10 runs. Stop Out (67 and 132); Trinity (57 and 130 for four). Moore (28), Laming 1(55), Williams (20), Dunn (27) bowled best for Stop Out. Bowling for Stop Out, Fittes took five wickets for 20 runs. WELLINGTON LEAGUE. In the final of the knock-out competition G.P.0., 142, defeated. Selwyn, 17. Bowling for G.P.0., Nansett took four wickets for 5 runs, while Wilson secured five for. 9. MERCANTILE LEAGUE. Gollin and Co., 158 (Warwick 33, Everton 22, Ogilvie 19), defeated Post and Telegraph, 135. This results in Gollin and Co. winning the League and Knockout Cups. , , , City Council Electric Light 192 met Stewart’s, 129. Double-figure scorers for City Council were: Holmes 45, Faulkes 33, Tice 17, Morgan 22, Winter 14 not out. For Stewart’s De venport made 60 Davies 19, Bradley 10, and Wilson 7 not out. Bowling for City Council; Holmes three wickets for 22 rtins, Tun three for 5, and for Stewarts: Devenport four for 31, and Bradley two for 34. INSTITUTE v. Y.M.C.A. Two matches between the Boys’ Institute and the Y.M.C.— A were played nt the Basin Reserve on Saturday morning. Institute won tho senior boys match by 53 runs, there now being a win and a draw to each institution. The cricket shown by the respective teams has been of a high. order, anil there is some most promising material available in the future. In the, junior grade gams Y.M.C.A. were agarn successful in winning, Wriglev contnbuting 95 not out. This player made 108 not out the previous week. Tho senior scores were as follow: institute. first innings. I'l6 (C. Bilby 30, Clunie 28. Jeffries 19, Baker 17, Jepson 12). H. Bolt took four wickets for 28 runs for Y.M.C.A. Y.M.CA-. first innings, f 1.3 (G. Cleverley 19, Koroneho 14, C. Johnson 13, Tilsley 10). HOUSE MATCH. At Wakefield Park a friendly game between J. G. Marshall and Billiaids, Ltd., was won by the former on tne first innings by 22 runs, in an aggregate of 79 to 57. Double scorers or Marshall's were: —Melville 25 and Burke 17; and for Billiards, Ltd., Dunne 15 and Cummings 31. Dunne, of Billiards, Ltd., had the best bowling average, receiving five wickets for 23: and Burke, of Marolinll's, took three for 39.