CRICKET

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 178, 26 February 1906, Page 2

CRICKET

♦ — Melbourne v. Wellington Telegraph Press Assodatioa Copyright Wellington, February 28. Tho match Melbourne. Olub v. Wellington was resumed to-day in perfect weather. The heavy rain which fell last night had not affected the wicket, which was again in firstclass order. The visitors, held the wickets until a little over an hour to the drawing of stumps, their score being 880, towards which Armstrong contributed 175, Mailer 67, MoLeod 85, Wilkinson 19, Ransford 10. Aitken 16. The skipper, who had such a large share in the compilation of the runs, was at the wickets just two hours and twenty minutes and only one possible chance was debited against him. He batted beautifully, each .ball being accurately gauged, and where necessary plenty of power was applied. His chief scoring strokes were the pull and forward on and off drives. Mailer batted nicely, his action eliciting admiration from the spectators. The MoLeod • Armstrong partnership realised over one hundred runs. Monaghan was by far tbe best bowler on the looal side, and his performance of seven wickets for 97 was full of merit. All tb.6 batsmen, with the exception of Armstrong, treated him with the greatest respect. Tucker secured two for 61. Wellington made a promising start in its second essay, Redgrave and Hickson in the 70 minutes left for play amassing 92 and being undefeated at the olose of the day's play. Redgrave has 64 to his credit, obtained by forceful batting, while Hickson, who adopted cautious tactics, has 84 to his credit. The remainder of the scores were made np of extras. Tbe attendance during the after* noon's proceedings numbered about 8500. and L 174 represents the gate takings to date. This Day. At 1.30 p.m. Wellington had lost tour wickets for 172— Redgrave, 66 j Hatchings, 7 ; Hiekson,39; Barron, 21 ; J. Blacklock (not out) 88.

The match between the Cheltenham C.G and Mr Cnrrin's team of shearers, which was played at Cheltenham on Saturday, 21st inst., resulted in a win for Cheltenham by an innings and two runs, Mr Currin'a team scoring 28 rans in the first innings and 71 runs in the second, to Cheltenham's 101 runs. For the shearers W. Milner (19), H. Brown (18/, and W. Howell (18, not oat) scored double figures in the second innings. For Cheltenham, C. Millen (32), J, Hare (25), and W. Banks (19 1 reached their two figures. The following have been seleoted to represent the Cheltenhamm C.C. in their match against the Marton C.C, on Saturday, March 3rd :— 3 Hare, A Barrow, J Mills, G Hare, G Day, C Millen, M Goldsbury, G Oliver, R Newman, H Lance, and F Boss. Emergencies: W Banks, G Mayo, W Milner. The match will be played at Cheltenham r and com* mencss at 11 a.m. sharp. The match between the Feilding Cricket Club and Bunnythorpe Club resulted in an easy win for Feilding by 61 runs on the first innings, the visitors having to play with five substitutes owing to several of the team failing to put in an appearance. Feilding batted first and scored 99, Govern 18, Chriatensen 16, F Mason 15, H Hill 10 and Shirley 10 (not out) being the highest scorers. Bunnythorpe could make no stand against the bowling of Govan who secured nine wickets and were all disposed of for 88, Trevena (11) being the only double figure scorer, and on following on the last man was disposed of with the score at 86, G. Bartholomew 14, Jansen 20, little 14, and Price 14, making most of the runs. Govan and Mason bowled. best for Feilding.