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Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 156, 23 November 1896, Page 2

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+ _ Tha Wellington-Phoenix and MidlandRival heats for the Senior Championship were continued on Saturday afternoon. MIDLAND-EIVAL. On the previous Saturday, each of these teams had conoluded its first innings — the Midland for 88, and the Rivals for 60. On Saturday last the Midland representatives started their second innings, one of the early features of which was the batting of Warren and K. Tucker, who carried the score from 43 to 131 before Tuokersucoumbed to Newbold, after an innings almost free from blemishes. Another stand was made by Laws and Warren, but when the latter had put the century to his name, and the score stood at 188, he received a nasty knock on the knee from a ball from Newbold, and had to retire. His display inoluded leveral fine strokes. He showed solid defence, but with perhaps a weakness for leg glide strokes. Holdsworth and Laws took the score to 277, the former batting spiritedly for 42, on one occasion sending one of Dryden'6 to the Caledonian Hotel, while Laws (72) gave a particularly good all-round display, marred by his chance to Gibcon. The innings closed for 313. The Rival bowling as well as the fielding was poor. The Rival team has now 342 to make tp win. The following are the scores :—

PHCENIX V. WELLINGTON. . The Phcenix "team's first innings closed for 73, and, being in a minority of 107 on the first innings, they had to follow on. Their second essay only produced 77 runs, so that the Wellington players thus secured an easy victory by an innings and 30 runs. Scores : — "Wellington. First Innings 180

JUNIOB CHAMPIONSHIP. Midland defeated Eival by six wiokets. Scores — Midland 86 and 112 for four wickets, Rival 85 and 111. For the winners Hempton made 32, A. Smith 17, R. Carswell 15, Huckaon 43, and H. Taylor 48. Taylor was unfortunate in slipping when running between the wickets, and was stumped after playing fine cricket. On the Rival side Glasgow (46 and 20), Henderson (10), Liddle (14), Withers (20), and Morton (16), were the chief contributors. For the Midland team Hempton (four for 26 ancTtwo for 1), C. Taylor (four for 26), and Carswell (two for 15) bowled well, as did Morton (five for 32), Liddle (two for 30), and Glasgow (three for 16) for the losers. The Wellington-Phoenix heat for the Junior Championship was continued on No. 4 wicket. The Phoenix first innings closed for 155, the additional scores being Staples 19, Wallace 47, Harris 35. Cuff took two for 21, Bethune three for 38, Whitehorn two for 29. In the second innings the Wellingtons made 207— Weybourne 56, Cuff 31, Wood 30, E. Whitehorn 17, Wilson 15, and Bethune not out 84. -"Wallace took three wickets for 27, and Stevens two for 17. The game will be resumed this evening at 5.20, when the Phoenix, requiring 263- to win, will commence their second innings. In the Junior Cup match on the College ground, the first innings of Kilbirnie closed for 151 (M'Menamin 32 and Mowbray 20). Messrs. Gilmer, Firth, and M'Kenzie (captain) bowled best for "Wellington College, whose second innings realised 82 (Firth 21, M'Kenzie 18, and Wills 15, not out) Greenfield, 6 wickets for 36, and Chapman, 4 for 20, divided the wickets on behalf of Kilbirnie, who knocked up the required 67 runs for the loss of four wickets. Hutchings played a fine innings for 42, not out. The Kilbirnie Club during the next three months will feel the loss of Messrs. Baron and M'Swigan, whom business has called to Masterton and Kaikoura respectively. Thibd-class Championship. The Uniom beat College B team by nine wickets. Scores— College, first innings, 8.3 ; second innings, 124 (Jacobs 61, Weddo 11 not out, Swan 10). Unions, 185 (Drummond 73 not out, Garnham 26, Clayton 28, Anderson 22, T. Hurrell 10) ; and 23 runs for one wicket (Garnham 11 not out). The Karori-Pbamix heat for the Thirdclass Championship resulted in a win for the former by ten wickets. Karon's first innincrs closed for 118. the additional scora

being Campbell, 14. Millar took four for 35, and W. Stevens two for 21. The Phoenix, batting one short in the second innings, totalled 79— Andrews 19, Houston 17, W. Stevens (not out) 18. Spiers took four for 27, and Lowe four for 29. The Karoris made the 7 required to win without the loss of a wicket. The Midland defeated College No. 1 team by 56 runs. Griffiths, 21 not out, was the highest scorer in the Midland ranks, while Odlin, with 24 and 23, batted well for the College reps. Bowling honours were secured by Bourke (Midland), with 5 wickets for 40 runs, and Odlin (College) 6 wickets for 45. The match at Kilbirnie between the D Battery and Kilbirnie second resulted in an easy win for the latter. The losers scored 27 (Dobbie 5) and 22 (Broome 13). Anderson took fourteen wickets for 22 for the winners. Junior Association. Johnsonville defeated the Unions on the first innings by 14 runs. The winners put up 37, and the Unions 23. J. Moore for Johusonville and Young for the Unions (10 each) were the only ones to make double figures, jj'or Johnsonville Moore took five wickets for 5, and Darmody five for 11. Haslem for the Unions took six wiokets, and Young four wickets. The Vivians defeated Kaivrarra by 164 runs. Kaiwarra, 30 (Overend 11) ; Vivian, 194 (H. Davis 94, Wilson 27, R. Davis 21, and Fraser 14). Fraser (5 for 8) and Godber bowled exceedingly well for the winners, while T. Fitzgerald was the best of the losers' bowlers. , School Matches. Mount Cook Boys beat Te Aro by an innings and 80 runs. Mount Cook made 115— Midlane 64, and Harris 27 not out ; Te Aro, 10 and 35. Thorndqn defeated Newtown by an innings and 36 runs. Thorndon, 112 — Smythe 43, and GambriU 28; Newtown, 47 and 36. Terrace won by 9 runs on the first innings from Clyde-quay. Terrace scored 80— Thomson 22, Davidson 24 j Clydequay, 71— Me«k 22. Miscellaneous. The St. James's Choir Boys beat St. Mark's Choir Boys by an innings and 25 runs. Wright and Haslam did most of the scoring for the. winning team, while Goldfinch scored 21 for the losers. Wednesday Competition. The drawings for next Wednesday are as follows : — No. 1, Tradesmen B v. Union ; No. 4, Hairdressers v. St. Patrick's College. Both games are to start at 2.30 p.m. sharp. OTAGO DOING WELL AGAINST THE AUSTRALIANS. [by telegbaph— pbess association.] Dunedin, 21st November. The match Australian Eleven v. Otago Fifteen was commenced to-day on the Carisbrook ground. The attendance was about 4000. The- visitors went in first, and treated the bowling of both Fisher and Downes with respect. The play throughout the innings was in fact slow, except when runs were now and again stolen. With 20 up, Fisher found Darling's weak spot on the leg side, but. Iredale and Giffen carried the total to 52 before Fisher tempted Iredale, Downes having in the meantime given way to Hope. The new bowler's slows were not relished, and Fisher managed to get rid of the veteran, who had been 50 minutes compiling his 13. Hill and Graham were not associated long when the latter was out leg before. The partnership of the Australian captain and Hill was the most interesting of the afternoon, both showing pretty cricket They caused Fisher to retire by stealing runs from short ones. Wells, who took his place; was more to their liking, but he got rid of a dangerous batsman in Hill. Downes resumed at his old end, and got rid of Trumble by a smart one-handed catch. With Sady in the score mounted rapidly, and nothing short of 200 was expected, but Fisber having resumed, Downes dismissed the Tasmanian with a beauty. Trott was disposed of, caught, five runs later, after a nice exhibition, and the end came almost at once, the total being 130. With about half an hour to play the Otago captain sent in Baker and Johnston, two wicket* falling for 30 runs. Baker fell a victim off Trott's slows. Clark made a weak stroke to Giffen after scoring two pretty 4's. The ball was a short pitched one. Stumps were then drawn for the day. i The scores are : —

rage, b Holdahip Benbow, c Ashbolt, b Holdship Burton, b Ashbolt Webb, c Howell, b Holdship ... Waters, b Ashbolt Roberts, b Ashbolt Naughton, c and b Hales ... Topp, c Niven, b Hales ... Chisholm, c Holdship, b Hales MHler, c Levers, b Hales ... Hilhvard, not out 6 3 5 5 9 16 5 X l 6 3 Total 73

.shbolfc [oldship ... Halls. 114 66 Ins. . 4 2 Huns. \ 36 25 Wkts. 3 3

LtUUeibS, U XLBUUUIU ... „, Page, c Hales, bD. Niven ... Burton, 1.b.w., bD. Niven .., Benbow, o Niven, b Hales ... Waters, b Ashbolt Webb, b Ashbolt Popp, st Niven, b Ashbolt ... S T augliton, o Hales, b Ashbolt... 3hisholm, c Niven, b Hales ... Mill ward, not out ... ... Miller, c Ashbolt, b Hales ... Extras ... „, »•• Total r

[ales ... >. Niven .shbolt Coldship ] Balls. . 71 30 64 12 Mdns.l 2 0 0 0 Runs. V 31 15 19 9 3 2 5 0

Phcenix.— First Innings.

BOTVIJNG ANALYSIS.

Second Innings.

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

Warren (retired with an injured knee) Staples, c Dryden, b Newbold ... Williams, c Jongs, b Dryden ... S. Tucker, run out K. Tucker, b Newbold Laws, c and b Dryden Holdswortb, 1.b.w., b Dryden ... Weybourne, b Howard , J. Smith, not out , Upham, 1.b.w., b Dryden ... Lash, absent « Extras ... ..< ... )... 100 ... 0 ... 4 ... 10 ... 49 ... 72 ... 42 ... 3 ... .13 ... 8 ... 0 ... 12 Total ... ... 313

Balls. Mdns. Runs. Wkte. Dryden ... 178 4 119 4 Newbold* ... 78 3 41 2 rhawley ... 72 1 34 0 Howard ... 84 2 38 1 lones 60 1 31 0 Puller 36 0 16 0 Sibson* ... 48 1 23 0 * Newbold bowled three no balls and Gibion one.

Midland.— Second Innings.

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

Darling, b lasher Iredale, o Rattray, b Fisher Giff en, b Fisher... Hill, b Wells Graham, 1.b.w., b Fisher Trott, c Spraggon, b Fisher Trumble, o and b Dowries Eady,b Downes Kelly, c and b Downes ... Jones, b Fisher M'Kibbin, not out ... Leg-bye ... ... ... 6 ... 34 ... 13 ... 34 ... 0 ... 31 ... 1 ... 10 ... 0 ... 0 ... 0 ... 1 Total ... 130

Fisher Downes Eope... IVells Balls. 1 164 ' 144 54 36 Mdns. J 5 3 0 0 Runs. \ 39 42 24 24 Wk 6 3 0 1

Jaker, c and b Trott ... ohnston, not out' "lark, c Jones, b Giffen Byes 11 9 8 2 Total ■ 30

Australians. — First Innings.

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

Otago Fifteen.— First Innings.