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Evening Star, Issue 15139, 22 March 1913, Page 12

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VICTORIA COLLKUK v. OTAGO UNIVERSITY. The match Victoria College v. Otago University was begun at Wellington yesterday in beautiful weather on a good wicket. The home players batted first, and were disposed of for 151 iJJempsey 36. Ho-.ve 21, Atmore 14. Duncan 13 not'out). A. W. Alloo took four wickets for 41, Tweedy one for 41. Childs three for 32. A. I'. Alloo two for 14. At the call of time Otago University had made 104 for four wickets. Scores': Nugent b Dempsey 22. A. Alloo c Howe b Dempsey 11, Reid not out 27. H. Alloo b Duncan 2. Dave not out 5. extras 11. THl', HAWK)'. CUP. A great deal of interest is being taken in the linal match for the Hawke Cup tournament", South Auckland v. .Marlborough, which is to be played at Hamilton to-day and on Monday. The cup was presented by Lord Hawke. the famous Yorkshire, cricketer, for competition amongst the minor associations affiliated to the New Zealand Cricket Council. The results of the tournament so iav are: -First round—South Auckland beat Rangitikei by an innings and 116 runs; Yv'a.ngaivii beat South Taranaki by an innings and 594 runs. Second round—South Auckland beat Wang-anui by an innings and 163 runs. NOTES BY "ONLOOKER." Mr D. Reese, who lias captained the Canterbury team with success for a number of years, is to be married in a few days. The Otago team, now in Christchurch, will, during the progress of the i'lunket Shield match, present the popular "Dan," one of the most yenrai souls-who has ever donned the flannels, with an afternoon dessert service, one article of which _ bears the inscription: "Wedding present, to Dan Reese from the Otago cricketers." The ex-president of the 0.C.A., Mr ,7. .1. Clark, will act as spokesman. 1 join in felicitations to Mr Reese and his bride-elect. Owing to the absence from town of one, ot the tirade Committee no decision has been come to in the dispute ovet the linal of the second grade premieiship. Possibly the most satisfactory solution would be to order the game to'be continued at tl<e stage reached when stumps were drawn after the first day's play. St. Kilda would not feel much satisfaction in being declared the winners on the "default" of Carisbrook C to play on the wicket prepared, even though "in equitv they are entitled to so claim the match. " New South Wales has now won the ShelHeld Shield twelve times, Victoria six times, and South Australia [present holders) three times. .Macartney, with the line average of 130.33 for tour innings, heads the batting averages for this season's contests, Barbour mverage 75) coming next, followed bv Trumpet- (68.33) and iMiiyne, S.A. (68.00)' The following three-figure scores have been made in tnis seasons grade competitions : —First Grade.— 144—Tuckwell, Carisbrook B v. Carisbrook A. 152 M'Farlane, Albion v. Carisbrook A. 130—Higgins. Opoho v. Albion. 129-A. P. Alloo. Carisbrook P. v. Albion. 116—Bruges, Carisbrook A v. Albion. Ill—Brinsley, Albion v. Opoho. 105*—Bannerman, Carisbrook A v. Albion. —Second Grade.— .134* —Patterson, Grange v. Opoho. ICl*—Kggleton, Dimedin C v. Albion. —Third Grade.— lOOt—White, High School v. Christian Brothers. *2sot out. -(-Retired.

In view of the Plunket Shield fixture on Saturday, it may be interesting to state that D. Reese bead» the "Canterbury batting averages with 686 runs for 15 completed innings—an average of 52.7—and he also made the highest score (209) of the season. Sid. Orchard follows with 466 runs, average 42.3: C. A. Beale scored 41.1, an average, of 41.1; Hayes, 569, average 41.0; Bishop, 491. average 40.9; Paterson. 473, average 39.4f and Carlton, 337, average 57.4. There was a battle Toyal for first place in the bowling averages. D. Sandman took most wickets (76), his average being 12.1; G. Wilson captured 57 wickets, average. 12.0 ; Joe Bennett, 36 wickets, at an average of 12.1'; and Orchard 22 wickets, at a- like cost. Paterson captured 20 wickets, average 13: Dan Reese, 40, average 14.8. The tours of, the Australian and Sooth African teams are fullv dealt with m ' Wisden ' for 1913, as well as the nine test matches in the triangular tournament. The total receipts were £12,643 4s 2d. The Australians received as their share of the gate money, £2,986, and the South Africans £1,878 10s. Deducting th.es© sums and all expenses, there remained for appropriation to English clubs £4,665 16e 2d. The editor (Sydney H. Pardon) refers thus to the triangular nfcvtch.es :■— " The result is. that the experiment is not likely to bo repeated for many years to oome—perhaps not in this generation." With regard to the Australian team he says : " There was no way of making tip for the absence- of Trumper, Armstrong, Ransford, Cotter, and Clem Hill. Even Australia cannot manufacture champion players at five minutes' notice. "When the wet weather came Bardsley and Macartney, with Kelleway to help' them, had m match after match to carry the rest of the side on. their shonlders."

At W r arrnambool, Vic., on Saturday, the Bth hist., A. P. Officer and M. Hemmons went in first for CoJlegians against Imperial in the Humphreys senior competition trophy, and had, 585 up by the time the partnership Officer made 185 and There was no play at Sydney on Saturday week owing to the storm. The competition results will accordingly be worked out on the first day's plav. North Sydney are thus saved from what looked like an inevitable defeat and their being dispossessed of the lead in the premiership competition. The scores were : North Sydney 139, Glebe 98 for two wickets. Thus ' Felix ' in the ' Australasian ' : "Suffice to say that the final match of the season for the Sheffield Shield was won by J. N. Crawford. It is a great thing to be able to say that one man won a match: but in this instance I think there will be no one to enter a'contradiction. There were some good performances in the contest, notably E. R. Mayne's century in the second innings of South Australia; but all the deeds that were done wore overshadowed by the glorious double of J. N. Crawford. It was the old story over again—Eclipse first, the rest nowhere."