CRICKET

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1926, Page 4

CRICKET

FUCLL SENIOR ROUND UNLIKELY

Repoi'tiiiß .on behalf of the Senior Championship Committee lo the Wellington' Cricket Association's Munagc_me«it Cottmittea last evening."' "Air. H. .1. Buck stated thiii the senior competition had i_o.w reachedv'a. s.taso at.which, un alteration, to the) fixtures /was necessary. With the loss of H .playing Saturday, various represen-tativeI.'-matches ahead, and the coming of the: South Australian team, it -was practically- certain that the eighth and ninth rounds-would not be played. Thc'Champiopsljip Committee, therefore, was going" tfV arrange as far. as possible to place the.' matches having most -attraction within feas'y reach of the cricket public. The question of travelling out of town had been considered,'ami. as Midland and AVellingtort; were"-unlikely to go to the.Hutt' by reason of- the eighth and ninth rounds not" being played the committee had decided that tho match between these two teams be transferred to the Hutt, so that travelling for teams would be evened up as as possible. The Old Boys-lustitute match would be transferred'to the Basiu Refcerve, and the V.M.C.A.-University majtch', which was to have been com-menced-at Kelburn last Saturday, would alsiS be played at the Basin Reserve. TJie" fourth, series of matches, commencing'next Saturday, is as follows:— Sietone v. Hutt, at Petone. Thorndon v. Kilbirnic, at Kilbirmc. Midland v. Wellington, at Hutt. Institute v. Old Boys, at Basin Reserve, University v. V.M.C.A., at Basin Ite- . serve No. 1.