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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 142, 18 December 1905, Page 2

CRICKET.

* SENIOR GRADE. SOME INTERESTING GAMES.

Senior championship games were continued on Saturday afternoon on the Basiti Reserve in fairly good weather. Tho spectators had the most interesting spqrt provided for them that had fallen to the crowd's lot this season. Centuries were scored by Hutchings on No. 2 wicket and by Brice on No. 3,' and several other good scores were compiled during the afternoon. The fielding generally was of a very poor quality, and the only good bowling was that of the Phoenix trundlers. Had the catches offered — and the majority of them were simple enough — been accepted there would have been nothing like the totals which, with luck, , were piled up by the Midlanders, the Gas Co., and Phoenix. When stumps were drawn Midland had scored 303 and Wellington seven for one wicket; Old Boys 189, and the Gasworkers two wickets for 133; Newtown 82 and Phoenix 200 for eight wickete. Captains of teams should see that in future less time is wasted by batsmen filling vacancies at the crease. There is no reason why ingoing batsmen should not pass the outgoing batsmen before the latter gets off the ground. The championship contests are not to be resumed until after the matches with Canterbury at the beginning of the New Year. THE SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP. NEWTOWN v. PHO3NIX. The Newtown team, losing Coninghain at the very beginning of the heat, failed to make anything of a stand against the bowling of Gibbes, Bricej and Hickey, plus a bad wicket. Gibbes's performance with the ball (five wickets for 9) was good, and he "yorked" three of his wickets. In tho beginning of things it looked as if the Phoenix team I was going to fare badly, with four j wickets down for 31; but when Brice i became associated with Gibbes the New- ! town fieldsmen had a hot time in leather hunting. Rarely has more rapid scoring been seen in Wellington, thirty-six overs (only three of which were maidens) yielding 200 runs, of which Brice, who hit hard and very often, claimed 113. His score included fourteen 4's. The BriceJ Gibbes partnership added 141 runs to the score. Percy Smith, who sent along fourteen overs, captured six wickets for 63 runs. Scores : — NEWTOWN.— First Innings. Coningham, b Brice 7 Plimmer, c Little, b Hickey .. 9 G. Day, c Wright, b Brice . . . . 0 Waters, c Cobcroft, h Hickey .. 5 Sisson, b Gibbes ». ■ .. ..20 Frank Alpe, c Brice, b Gibbes .. 11 Fred Alpe, not out 8 Spraggon, b Gibbes 3 Charltun, b Gibbes 0 Lax, b Gibbes 0 P. Smith, c Hickey, b Bride .. 9 Extras .* .. .... i.» 10 Total .. .. *. -. .82 BOWLING ANALYSIS. Overs. Mdns. Rns. Wkts. Hickey .., „. 12 1 -29 2 Brice .. 15.2 4 34 3 Gibbes .. ..8 3 9 5 PH(ENIX.— First Innings. Cobcroft, b Lax 18 Barton, c Spraggon, b Smith .. 11 Gibbes, c and b Smith .. .* 32 Watson, c Charlton, b Smith .. 0 Waters, b Smith, .. .. .. 0 Brice, c Coningham, b Smith „. 113 M'Lennan, lbw, b Waters .\ . . 13 Wright, c Waters, b Smith * . . . 0 I Little, not out 0 i Extras 13 1 Total for eight wickets .. ..200 MIDLAND v. WELLINGTON. Wellington was* kept in the field from 2.30 t6 6.30 o'clock by the Midlanders, Claude fiicksoh (74) and Hutchinga (122)' building up a stonewall which the attacking fdrce besieged for hours before the strong defence was broken down. Hicksoh's scores this season have been: —62, 11, 19, 5 riot out, 109, and 74, or an average of 56. Hutchings has an average of 35. Quee was the only Midlander who failed to score. Six Wellington bowlers had been tried before Stan Hickson was put on as a forlorn hope, and got the be»b average, capturing the highest scorers. With ten minutes to go, Wellington went in to bat, and in three ovefS had lost a wicket. The Wellington fielding all round was very poor, add the backing up a disgrace to a senior teairtj arousing the laughter of onlookers. Scores; — MIDLAND.—First Inning*. C. Hickson, b S. Hickson ... 74 Mbwatt, b Halea 15 Williams, b Hales 12 Staples, b Hales 7 Hutchings, c Levers, bS. Hickson... 122 M6Ss, c Robinson, b Hales ... 9 Quee, b Luckle ... 0 Uphiwn, c Richardson, b S. Hickson 23 Murphy, c and bS. Hickson ... 13 Stepnehson, c Weybourne, b O'Shefc 4 Atkinson) not out > 7 Extra* 17 Total '' * 303

Total for one wicket ... ... 1 OLD BOYS v. GAS. CO. This engagement took place upon No. 1 wicket^ and also supplied some .interesting! aiid, - ifa its flhal Wage, Btirprlslng play. Interesting, in that a good start was made by Tuoker, Difcoh, and J. P, Blacklock, the latter pldying a flfcerllßg game, and the effective wag of the tail of the teantj surprising; hi the statid made by Redgrave and Lawfii Redgrave played with a latge share of luck —three easy chartces being declined with the usual thanklesaness (or id it carelessness?) of the Old Boys, Montlghah's bowling, as well as the fielding of other members of the team, was expensive Jacobs and Tucker were bright exceptiohs to this latter rule. Rodgers, who was the most successful of the Gas Co.'s bowlers, v/tia promoted ffotn the third-cias* grade. Scores:— OLD BOYS.—Fhst Innings. Tucker, b M'Kay 23 Dixon, c M'Kay, b Hawthorne ... 19 H. P> Bkckloclc, c M'Dermid, b Rodgers 64 Hay, b Lingard 9 C. P. Blacklock, b Bfedgfave ... 11 Beechey, b Burke 12 Lomax, lUw, b Burke ... *.. 0 Spi'ott, cTledgrave, b Rodgers ... 1 Monaghart, b Rodgers ... .•'• ° Jacobs, not out 1? Clelund. c and b Rodgers IT Extras .». .•• 8 Total m ... m ... *87

BOWLING ANALYSIS. j

GAS CO.— First Innings. Dredge, c Tucker, b Monaghan ... 7 Redgrave, not out 73 Laws, c Monaghan, b Tucker ... 60 Hawthorne, not out ... „. ... 0 Extras 3 Total for two wickets ... ' ■„. 133 JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP. In the Thorndon-Newtown heat Thorndon batted first, and made 113- (Sampson 28, not out, Payne 27, Roberts 13, Sutherland 11, M'lnerney 10). Newtown's first innings realised 101 (A. Day 35, Humphries 29). Thorndon, in ite second innings, have lost two wickets for 34 (O'Leary 14). Rothe (four for 35), and Miller (three for 19) for Newtown, and Smythe (six for 19) and Woods (two for 15), for Thorndon, were the best of the bowlers. In the Albion v. Wellington match, played on the Athletic Park, the Albions scored 66 (Cunningha-me 17, M'Gill 13), and two wickets for 46 (Jamison 20 not out, Cunninghame 11 not out), and Wellington made 119 (De May 32, Organ 27, Niven 15, Taylor 13). Niven (four for 16), and Jackson (three for 10), for Wellington, and Collett (four Hor 17) and Wilson (three ibr 38) for Albion, were the best bowlers. Rovers compiled 176 runs (Neweon 67 not oUt, Brisbane 22, Bolton 18, Bathie 18, Grinrod 17), against Old Boys, who responded with 109 runs (Wills 30, M'Gowan 27 not out, Meek 27). Bowling for Rovers, Condliffe captured five of the Old Boys' wickets for 29 runs, Brisbane two for 15, Bathie one for 28. The Old Boys' best trundler was Bell, who got seven Rover Wickets, whilst M'Dougal, M'Gowan, and Mason secured one wicket each.' THIRD-CLASS CONTESTS. - Thorndon A v. Seatoun. — Seatoun 34 (Hylton 17) and 29 (Gilison 9). Thorndon made 96 (Hendle 30, Thorley 16, Everett 12, extras 10), and won the match by an innings, and 33 runs. Hendle (eight for 19), Connell (seven for 26), Arnold (two for 9) were most successful with the ball for Thorndon, and Morrah' (four wickets), Hylroii (three), and Pearce (two) showed best form with the ball for Seatoun. Albion v. Gas Company. — Albion, 65 (G. Guise 19, M'Dougall 11) and one wicket for 45 (Cunninghame 23 not out, C. Williamson 17). Gas Company, 126 (Stevens 28, Currie 27, Burges 24, Waugh 16, Jones 10). Currie secured flour of the Albion wickets for 10 runs, and Duff captured four of the Gasworkers' for 25. Newtown A V. Newtown B.— The B team scored 36 (Bethune 10, Grant 10) and 22 for four wickete (Adams 13), and A team 113 (Hogg 19, Temperton 12, Edwards 20, and Ridyard 33 not out). Anketell (five for 19) and Walden (four for 16) bowled best fof A team, and Castles (four, for 17) for the B team, which played one man short. Thorndoh By. Old Boys.— Old Boys scored 42 (Smith 11) and 28, and Thorndon made 21 ahd two wickets for ' 9. M'Morran (six for 18), Gapper (twelve for 30), and Shaw (two for 16) bowled best for Thorndon, and Male (fljur for 8) and Morrah (four for 11) did best for Old Boys. Kilbirnie defeated Wellihgloh third by eight wickets. Scores: KilbTrnie, batting two men short, made 58 and two wickets for 28 runs (J. Cowan 13, Dixon 11, G. Cowan not out 14). Wellington, 41 and 44 (J. O'Connor 15 and 12, Lucas 10). Hylton and Laydon Phillips bowled best for Wellington, and G. Cowan (seven for 8), W. Church (seveni for 12) and J. Cowan (four for 18) for KilbirHie. Phoenix, aflter scoring 62 (Wilson 14 not out) spent the remainder of the afternoon in the field, during which period Karori compiled 280 for the loss of six wickets. J. Pye-Smith was unbeaten with 84 to his credit, h. Hill made 66 and E. S. Pearce 36, T. Lewer 22, G. Warren 19, C. Spiers 16 not out and E;. Atkitt 14. E" .S. Pearce (six lor 26) and L. Hill (four for 31) bowled unchanged for Karori. The thii'd-elass cotitests will not be resumed until the 6th January. fdurth-clAss Contests. fhorndon A v. Giood Templars.—Thorndon made 42 (W. Robinson 11) and 45 for nine wickets (Park 16 nbt out, Loohey 12). Good Templars, batting one man man short, 70 (Grey 31, Whiteley IS not out). Looney took six wickets for 1 26, ahd R. Robtosbh (two for ll for Thorndon, and Ddbley (six for 15) nnd Parris (five for 5) took the nlo&t wickets for the Good Templars. JUNIOR ASSOCIATION. Harbour Board disposed of" the Times team fof 41 runs (M'i'arlane 15), atid the men oD the water front lost six wickets ,for 214 (Pike 52, Probyn 40 hot out, Bownesa 35, Fdrber 18, Edwards 17, Williams 16). Bowling for Harbour Board, Clark secured seven wickets for 10 runs, and Pike three for 24. Mifafefcti and Coghan bowled best for the Times. The- boys' team from the V.M.C.A. beat the NevHown Congregational Junior Christian Endeavour team by 92 runs. INTER-STATE MATCHES. [PRESS ABSOCIATION.I SYDNEY, 17th December. The first innings of the New South Wales second eleven, playing 'against Queensland, closed for 208— Bubb 57, Bardsley 64. Queensland, in the second innings, haa lost nine wickets for 122— Carew 21, Thompson 24. ADELAIDE, 17th December. South Australia's first innings produced 359. New South Wales has lost two wickote for 367— Waddy (not 6ut) 62, M'Kay 90, Diamond (not out) 164.

DVJ y v run vi /in t\\i x axa. Overs. Md'ns. ft'ns. W'lrts. Ludkie ... 16 1 78 1 Hales ..i 24 5 80 4 O'Shea ... 9 0 45 1 Kobinso.il ... 4 0 17 0 Richardson ... 5 1 20 0 Willis ... 2 0 11 0 S. Hickeon ... 14 1 35 4 WELLINGTON.— Fifsb Inning*. Luckie, not out A O'Shea, b Upham 0 Robinson, not out 1 Extras ... 2

I'Kay tedgrave iurke ... lingard Lwthorne lodgers Overs, si. .. 8 ... 20 ... 14 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5.4 Mdns. 0 3 5 1 0 0 Runs 29 58 30 5 25 32 is. i Wk 1 1 2 1 1 4