CRICKET.

Evening Star, Issue 14187, 12 October 1909, Page 3

CRICKET.

[By Onlooker.] A start was made with the grade competitions at Christchurch on Saturdav. In the senior game 6 Linwcod scored" 142 (Howell not out 46 and Thomas 37 being the principal scorers). West Christchurch, which included H. B. Lusk and D. Reese, succumbed for 53, A. W. Thomas getting the fine average of seven for Al° bans totalled 148, and Sydenham had 52 on for the loss of a' single wicket when stumps wore drawn.—-East Christchurch knocked up 221 (Addison 93),' to which RiccaTkm Tephed with 58 for two- wkkete. ■ ife&uith jtrade A - Dobba fa

J&Mi Chrfctcrrm-eb. against Riecaxton, registered the first oeutmy of the season. Tie amateurs edected to accompany the Marylebone team to Sooth. Africa are hardly up to test form, bat fortunately the pros— Hobbs, Rhodes, Denton, Woolley, Thompson, Backenham, Strudwick, and Blythe—are real top-v,otchers, and with the assistance of F. L. Fane, Captain Wynvard, Simpson-Hayward, and M. C. Bird ought to do well. H. D. G. Leveeon-Qower is the other member of the team, and as captain will probably play often, to the exclusion of better men. The performances of Woolley and Bird will be closely watched in Kngland. as they are two players whom many critics think may be among candidate* for test honors in 1912. "Ransford is the finest left-hand batsman ever produced by Australia," states the Manchester 'Athletic News,' a cricket airthority, "and we make the statement after mature consideration. Harry Moses, whom wc taw at the Oval the other dux. looking quite the picture of health, was treat, but Hem. Hill was greater. Bardsley we should bracket with Darling, just a little below Ransford."