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Evening Star, Issue 13002, 22 December 1906, Page 10

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HIGH SCHOOL v. CHRIST’S COLLEGE. HOME TEAM BEATEN. The Otago High School Eleven wound up yesterday's play in their match against Christ's College, Christchurch, in a fairly good position. The School made a bad start. H. Bannerman, their captain, who lias made several centuries this season, was caught at the wickets before scoring. Slater helped Reid to take the score to 52, after which Reid and W. Bannerman established a good partnership, which ended at 119. Two more wickets fell rapidly, and* then Alloo joined Beid, who was batting splendidly. The newcomer played very steadily, and the pair took the total to 197, when Reid was brilliantly taken in the slips after playing splendid all-round cricket for 135, made in about two hours. Ho only gave on© chance, at about 70, and his score included twenty 4s. It was a brilliant innings, marked' by splendid play on the off, his cutting especially teuig well executed. Alloo lasted out the innings, his defensive batting proving invaluable to his side. At lunch time the score was 236 for nine wickets, and unexpectedly the tenth wicket partnership took the total to 264, the innings closing at 2.50 p.m. Iho Christchurch boys fielded splendidly, but their bowling was not strong. Maofariane was the only one to maintain anything like a length but he was unsuccessful in getting wickets,' Cook doing the best in that respect. Chryi tall, the wicketkeeper, showed form above the average for a schoolboy. A rather novel decision in regard to no-balls was given by one of the umpires, who read the rule regarding them to affirm that, in delivering, the bowler must have one foot over the crease and the other behind, and he no-balled Macfarlane several times for delivering the ball with both feet behind the crease. In consequence some halfdozen were deducted from the School’s score, which was first given as 270. On Christ’s College going in they made a fair start, but lost about their best bat, Bruges, rather cheaply. After that Saunders could get no one to stay with him for long. At 78 Saunders wae splendidly taken in the slips after a free, graceful innings, during which he showed himself pcssesed of many scoring strokes. The last wicket partnership was the feature of the innings. Deacon, a very dlmimitivo cricketer, and Cook putting on 47 rum. Of the Scboo! bowlers, H. Rutherford and Alloo were accurate in length and direction,/and each got a little work on. Tlic rest- of the bowling was loose, and was punished os it should have been. The School’s ground fielding was patchy, but their catching was all right, some of 'ft approaching brilliancy. The CVr'leue saved tho follow-on by 1 run. The School, on going in again to bat, did not do so well, losing five wickets for 75 before stumps were drawn. —To-day’s Play.—

The game took on a different aspect today. Play was resumed at 9.10 a. m., and by 10.15 the School were out for 149. \V. Banntnrum increased his score from 28 to 35, and AUoo again played a useful innings, while Edie brightened up the tail of the innings with a rather lucky 34. The total was 149, which left Christ’s College 250 to get to win. Their first pair of batsmen, Bruges and Sannders, soon collared the School bowHng, and piled on runs at a great rate. From 10.50 to noon, when a brief adjournment was made for lunch, they put on 180 runs. After lunch tho School last 11. Banncrman’s services as a bpwlor, as ho kept wickets in place of Slater, who, in missing a catch from Saunders, damaged his hand. The pair soon put up 200, and two runs later Bruges was run out through smart fielding at cover by Smart. Two runs later again W. Banncrman clean bowled Saunders. Both batsmen played most attractive cricket, the bulk of their runs coming from boundary hits. Bruges gave no chances, though some of his strokes, especially to leg, were uppish, and lucky in finding gaps in the field. Ho drove ono right over the pavilion. Saunders gave one chance behind the wickets when m the seventies. The next pair kept up the scoring, hut with tho score at 254 Macfarlano was run out, and Davison and Chrystall were immediately bowled without scoring. The winning hit was made at 1 p.m. by Basset, but it was also a* chance to Slater at mid-on. Christ's College thus won by five wickets. Score: Otago High School. First Innings 255 Bowling Analysis.—Cook. 4 wickets for 41 runs ; Parkinson, 2 for 42 ; Rutherford, 2 for 72; Davison, 1 for 36; Macfarlane, 0 for 45.

Second Innings. H. Bannerman, c Davison, b Mac

farlane 16 Reid, b Rutherford 0 Slater, c Chrystall, b Rutherford ... 15 W. Bannerman, b Rutherford 35 Prain. ■ u Chrystall, b Rutherford ... 4 Boddington, b Cook 3 Alloo, c Davison, b Parkinson 16 R. Bannerman, c Saunders, b Parkinson 5 Smart, b Parkinson 6 Edie, b Rutherford 54 White, not out 3 Extras n Total 149 Bowling Analysis. Rutherford. 5 wickets for 56 rims; Parkinson. 3 for 28; Cook, 1 for 4; ..Macfarlane, 1 for 46; Davison, 0 for 4. Cubist's College.—First Innings. ’Rmg'os, b H. B.uinonnan H Saunders, cW. Bannerman, b Alloo ... 40 Macfarlane, c Edic. b 1 1 . Bannerman 0 Bridges, Ibvr, b Alloo 12 Parkinson, Ibw, b Aloo 3 Chrystall, b Alloo H Bassett, e Reid, bH. Bannerman ... 4 Davison, b Allr>o 17 Rutherford, b H Bannerman 1 Deacon. <■ 11. Bannerman. b White ... 30 Cook, not out 27 Extns 19 I otal 165 Bowling Analysis.-—Alloo, 5 wickets for 47 runs; H. Bannerman, 4 for 54: White. 1 for 1: W. Bannerman, nil for 30 ; Reid, nil for 14. Second Innings. vv. Bruges, run out 90 Saunders, hj W. Bannerman 92 Bridget;, not out 22 Macfarlane, run out 17 Davison, hj Reid 0 Chrystall, b Reid 0 Bassett, not out 8 Extras 23 Total for five wickets 252 Bowling Analysis.-—Reid, 2 wickets for 22 runs; W. Bannerman. 1 for 57; H. Barnerman, nil for 45: Alloo. nil for 55; White, nil for 54; ■Smart, nil for 11; Edie, nil for 8. CANTERBURY v. OTAGO. [Special to the Star.] CHRISTCHURCH. DecemW 22. Malone, not Matin, will fill Lawrence's place in the Canterbury team. This greatly strengthens the team's bowling.