CRICKET

Evening Star, Issue 19772, 24 January 1928, Page 13

CRICKET

SATURDAY'S FIXTURES

First Grade.—Albion v. Grange, North Ground; Dunedin v. Carisbrook, Carisbrook No. 1.

Second Grade A.—Christian Brothers v. Dunedin, Oval No. 1; Old Boys A v. Albion, Caledonian No. 1; Valley v. Old Boys B, Valley; Grange v. Carisbrook, Carisbrook No. 2. Second Grade B.—Christian Brothers v. Kaikorai, Kaikorai No. 1; Albion v. Dunedin D, Albion; Carisbrook Dv. Training College A, Carisbrook by default; Dunedin C v. Grange, Oval No. 2; Training College B v. Port Chalmers, Port Chalmers by default; Valley v. Carisbrook C, Opoho; Dunedin B v. Y.M.C.A., Oval No. 3; High School v. Old Boys, Old Boys by default. Third Grade.—Christian Brothers v. Carisbrook G, Oval; Carisbrook E v. Carisbrook F, Carisbrook No. 3; Valley v. Kaikorai A, Kaikorai No. 2; High School v, Te Taumata, To Taumata by default; OJd Boys v. Port Chalmers, Port Chalmers; Albion v. Grange, Logan Park No. 1; Kaikorai B v. M'Glashan, Kaikorai by default. Fourth Grade.—Christian Brothers v. Dunedin, Oval No. 4; Technical College v. Albion, Albion by default; High School A v. Grange. Grange by default; High School B v. M'Glashan, play later if necessary. Unofficial Games.—Second Grade If: Old Boys v. Carisbrook D, Caledonian No. 2. Fourth grade: Albion v. Grange, Logan Park No. 2. BOYS' MATCHES The two teams of boys selected by the Canterbury Boys’ Cricket Association to retrieve the laurels wrested from them last year by the senior and junior teams of the Otago Boys’ Association arrived in Dunedin by the first express to-day. The matches will bo played on the Caledonian Ground on Thursday and Friday. In the match at Wellington for the New Zealand Boys’ (under sixteen) Challenge Shield between Wellington and Canterbury (the present holders), the latter, on Saturday, made 285 (MTCernan 46, Cobden 38, M'Nish 37, French 36, M'Namin 33, Grimmer 32, Wise 25, M‘Ra© 26). Wellington were all out for 114 (Cook 38, Griffiths 21, Liddicoat 18, Leggatt 10), and following on they were dismissed yesterday for 133 (Wrigley 62, Griffiths 23, Cook 14). Griffiths and Brooks, for Wellington, and Cobden, M‘Rao, and Blackaby, for Canterbury, were the most successful bowlers. Canterbury won by an innings and 38 runs.