AUSTRALIA WINS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 74, 30 March 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIA WINS.

THE TEST CRICKET MATCH. A TAME FINI. 1 - The aecoml Tent match fizzled out dully on thft Bawn Reserve j'esterday, when the Australian*) won comfortably by 262 rnne. It was a tame finish to a quiet match, and New Zeaknders, for onereason or another, never extended their f opponents. Brice and Sim«, assisted by Wfarnc, t madft a nice partnership. Things were 4 going badly (as reported in The P<»t yesterday) until Sims began to bang 'Warne's curly Rtutf in an enterpriwng jWay. As a matter of fact, Sims showed ihimnelf (*o far as this match wns con•cerned)) t-o be the most resourceful bat in the team. He stood up to the attack well, and treated Warne most dis- ; dainfully, inching Brice to do likewipe. Armstrong obligingly kept the C'arkonian goigg, with the result that l)h* score was largely increased. Emery fi»»By clean bowled Simu with a bailer, a*d Whitty, who was put on to ttnish otf tke little buriwes, had Price caught iv the outfield by Kelleway.'towards the end the fielding of Facy »ikL Kelleway was not very whole-heart-ed. The former missed three in succession,, and Kelleway let slip one between his feet to the boundary. The thin crowd, if it did not take the game very seriously, enjoyed the little dash of Brico and Sims. Aftc»r the tea adjournment, in Emery's first o-rer three chances were given : one over tho bowler's head from Brice, Annstrong-:* miss off the next ball played in the abps, and finally Sandman's chance to Bardsley, which was accepted. Sale, it appears, did not touch the ball he was given out on, and Reeeo played the ball op. The only other thing wortihyof not© was Wbitiy's bowling — it was very good all the time. As was anticipated, Brice and Sims received the two presentation bats : the former for his consistent bowling into the wind on Saturday, and the latter for his batting. His aggregate beat Reese's by a single run : 75 to 74, with Ree>e only once out. Extra details are as follow: — AUSTRALIA. First innings 260 Second innings (declared at 5 wickets) 232 NEW ZEALAND. First innings 177 Second Innings. Lusk, c Armstrong, b Facy ... 0 Hemus, c Armstrong, p Whitty ... 0 Sale, c Gorry,»b Warae • 21 Haddon, 1.b.w., b Whifcty 12 iteese, b Whitty " 5 Siedeberg, c and b W*iitty ... 7 Sims, b Emery ... >. 38 Brice, c Kelleway, b Whitty ... 43 Sandman, c Bardwle^, b Emery ... 4 Bennett, b Whitty 0 Boxshall, not out ... ... ... 1 Extras .... ... ..„ ... 22 Total 153 BOWLING ANALYSIS. ov'raimd'ns runs w'kts Facey 8 2 28 1 Whitty 16 0 28 6 Emery 8 2 20 . 2 Armstrong ... 2 — 6 — Warne 7 — 49 1 BOWLIN-G AWESAGES. Tho following bowing averages of the Australian team inckudc the match just concluded :— runs w'kts.. av'ge. D. Smith ... 10 3 3.33 E. It. Mayne ... 10 2 5.00 A. C. Facy ... 217 21 10.33 W. J.' Whitty ... 621 58 10.70 A. J. Hopkins ... 250 20 12.50 C. Kelleway ... 150 12 12.50 S. H. Emery ... 503 39 12.89 T. S. Warno ... 190 !) 21.11 W. W. Armstrong 367 16 . 22.03 C. E. Shnpnon ... 92 4 23.00 Hopkins nnd Wnrne will be absent from the twun that plays Hawkes Bay at Napier on Friday.