LOCAL CONTESTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 18, 22 January 1927, Page 8

LOCAL CONTESTS

PLAY IN DULL WEATHER

The Wellington Cricket Association is taking advantage of the holiday to push ahead with its championship competitions in all grades.. A complete series of games is being played to-day instead of carrying on with the usual Saturday arrangement providing for afternoon play only. A start was made at 10 o'clock this morning under fair conditions, and the indications were that if the weather held good the day would be profitably spent by players and followers of the game. So far as senior cricket was concerned there were two matches at the Basin Beserve, one at Kilbirnie, one at Petone, and one at the Hutt.Recreation Ground: Several of the teams were without some of their more prominent players, the Plunket Shield match in Auckland accounting for the absence of M'Girr from Hutt. Brice from Petone, Badcock from Kilbirnie, Kortlang from Thorndon, James and Lambert from Old Boys, Henderson from V.M.C.A., Hiddleston from Wellington, and Hollings from University. V.M.C.A. AND MIDLAND.

The V.M.C.A.-Midland match was played on No. 1 .wicket at the Basin Reserve, V.M.C.A. winning the toss, and taking first strike. The. first wicket fell cheaply,, but subsequent progress was good until the score had been taken beyond the 100 mark. ■ Theii there came a. slump, during which White was unfortunate in losing his wicket, as the result of an appeal for lbw. The decision must have come as a big surprise to the batsman. J. Lamason, making his reappearance with V.M.C.A. after a sojourn in Marlborough, held his end up splendidly, and it was mainly from his bat that the runs came, although Birch and Virtue made useful contributions. Lamason played attractively, and gathered in runs at a good rate by strokes all round thfe wicket. His off-driving was particularly good. Browne made a serviceable stand with Lamason, and after batting well for 2S was unlucky in being run out. Lamason had kept his score moving at a fast rate, and seemed to be well set for a. century. This honour, however, was not achieved, though Lamason played a splendid innings. His score of 94, made in 110 minutes, included numerous boundary shots. When the ninth wicket ' foil V.M.C.A. were one short of the second century, but a couple of runs from the last wicket made the total 201, a moderate tally considering that at the fall of the third wicket the total was 119. The most successful bowlers for Midland were. Baker.and Judd, each taking three wickets. The scoring was made at a good rate, Y.M.dJL's total

of 201 being compiled in a little over two hours. Details:— ' V.M.C.A. . , ...; first Innings. Smith, c Baker, b Judd 5 Birch, c -Baker, b Judd ..... 28 J. Lamason; c Spence, b Judd ..... 94 Virtue, b Baker 30 Westbrook, cJ. Hutchings, b Baker 1 White, lbw, b J. Hutchings 6 Turner, c Dind, b Baker ......... 0 Browne, run. out 28 Haughey, not out „. 4 Atkinson, b Spence 0 K. Lamason, b J. Hmchings 0 Extras , g j Total ; _. 201 Bowling analysis: Judd took three wickets for 64 runs, J. Hutchings two for 69, Spence one for 28, Baker- three for 35. Before the luncheon adjournment was taken Baker and Doneghue put on 29 runs for Midland-without loss—Baker 15, Doneghue 13, extra 1. At 2.30 p.m. Midland's score was 85 for two wickets (Baker 24, Doneghue 46, Dind 11 not out, J. Hutchings 2 not out). THORNDON AND WELLINGTON. The match on No. 2 wicket at the Basin Reserve was between Thorndon and Wellington, the former having first use of the wicket. The opening pair, Roberts and Gibson, dia- excellent spade work, Roberts in particular batting well. Before a separation was effected Thorndon's total had reached 71, and it was then that Roberts lost his wicket, being caught by Monkhouse. Matters then took a turn for the bad so far as Thorndon were concerned. Mason and Gibson carried the score to 92; at which point Gibson was dismissed. Five more wickets fell for a matter of only 24 runs, O'Connor being mainly responsible for this batting collapse. At one stage' O 'Connor had taken six wickets for 31 runs. After the fall of the seventh wicket Phillips and Bull steadied up the position, and settled down to make their partnership the best of the innings. Phillips was showing a glimpse of his old form, and Bull was shaping.very well. Both scored freely, and were unbeaten when- the luncheon adjournment was taken —Phillips 35, 8u1135.

Details:—

THORNDON. First Innings.

Roberts, c Monkhouse, b O'Connor 40 Gibson, c Airey, b O 'Connor .... 39 Mason, b O 'Connor 19 Ellerm, b O 'Connor 5 E. Foley, b Plant 6 Caulton, b O 'Connor .4 Phillips, not out t 35 L. Foley, c Monkhouse, b O'Connor 0 Bull, not out 35 : -Extras 17

Total for seven wickets

At 2.30 p.m. Thr^idon were all out for 218 (Phillips 40, Carruthers 13 not out, Hyder 0, extras 14). Bowling: O'Connor six for 40,; Cousins three for 22. . - ■

HUTT AND KILBIRNIE. Hutt met Kilbirnie on the Hutt Recreation Ground to-day. Hutt batted first, H. .Nunn -and R. M'Kay putting 154 runs in 90 minutes before the first wjcket fell. Nunn hit ten fours and M'Kay fourteen, before the former was bowled by Morris. Aldersley followed, and iwas run. out after contributing 15 to the total. Tattersall then joined M'Kay to see him add only one run before being bowled by Morris. M'Leod, Watson and Lees failed to stay for long, but Gwilliam made good with Tattersall, and at the luncheon adjournment the partnership had produced 50. Details:— ■ HUTT. First Innings. M'Kay, b Morris .x.,... ' 84 H. Nunn, b Morris 66 Aldersley, run out 17 Tattersall, not out .............. 41 M'Leod, b Morris 1 Watson, o Greig, b Laing ........ 9 Lees, b Laing .: - ' o Gwilliam, not out 15 Extras 11 Total for six wickets ..: 244 INSTITUTE v. 'VARSITY. Institute opened out. against 'Varsity on the Kilbirnie Recreation Ground in good style, and at the luncheon adjournment liad made the very creditable start of 278 'for seven wickets. ' The wicket was very fast and the light excellent. With the exception of Calvert, Malcolm^ and Barr, who went back very promptly, each of the morning batsmen ran quickly into double figures. Foley sent out fours.' twelve of them, in a lively session, putting on S3. Burt's score of 51 included eight fours, and Baumber, going in at about 12.30, had 60 to his credit, including four sixes and eight fours, when he arid Ward, with 24, spelled off for lunch, but it was during his first' twenty minutes | that he rattled on most of his 60. • Details:— INSTITUTE. First Innings. Banks, c Wilson, b .Mackay .... 24 Foley, b Mackay 83 Bilby, b A. Tripe .......;...... 21 Calvert, c Mackay^ b Leys ...... 2 Burt, c M'Kenzie, b Leys 51 Malcolm, cE. Tripe, bA. Tripe .. 4 Barr, cA. Tripe, bR. Tripe .... 2 Ward, c Leys, b -A; Tripe .. 49-

Total for eight wickets PETONE AND OLD BOYS.

The match between Petone and" Old Boys was commenced at the ■ Petone Oval. Old Boys won the toss, but their start was far from favourable. At, stages some improvement was effected; although only two batsmen managed to get -going to any extent, Bailey and Dustin- making useful contributions. With little more than a hundred runs on the board for nine wickets, Old Boys were in a bad way. Lusk and Windsor then came to light, and'netted- quite a few runs for the last wicket. ■ The principal bowler for Petone was Fialayson, who, in one maiden over, disposed of three batsmen. At 12.45 p.m. Windsor had made 18 not out and Lusk 10 not out. Details follow:— OLD BOYS. First Innings. Ronaldson, b Eeyling ; <j Bailey, b M. Nieholls 34 Fitzmaurice, c Cate, b Smyrk 10 Duncan, c Cate, bM. Nieholls .. .6 Dustin, c H. Nieholls, b Finlayson 29 Barclay, b Smyrk ; \ Windley, b Finlayson '5 Pope, c Cate, b Finlayson 0 Patrick, c Eeyling, b Finlayson ... 0 Windsor, not out ; 13 Lusk, c Hamilton, bM. Nieholls .. 12 Windsor, not out 24 Extras 9 Total ;...' 142 Bowling Analysis.—Finlayson took four wickets for 31 runs,, M. Nieholls three for 29, Smyrk two for 18, Eeyling one for 17, Connor none for 38. Fall of Wickets.—One for 11, two for 49, three for 61, four for 62, five for 67, six for 89, seven for 89, 'eight for 89, nine for 99, ten for 142. PETONE.^ First Innings. H. Nieholls, not out ." 1 Patrick, c Barclay, b Duncan ...' 5 Capstick, not out 1 Total for one wicket 7