LEATHER HUNTING

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 672, 2 January 1926, Page 5

LEATHER HUNTING

FOR NEW ZEALANDERS N.S.AV. Team Hits Out BROWN AND RADCLTFEE GET CENTER IKS. By Telegraph— Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. (’able). Sydney, January 1. The weather was fine, with a. cool breeze, when New Zealand met New South Wales at the cricket ground to-day. The wicket was in excellent condition and the outfield was good. The attendance was 3000. Play was rather slow after the dismissal of Phillips in the first over. The first 100 took 90 minutes. Brown played seratchily, and was lucKy to be missed l>y Patrick (captain) hi the slips when 13. The New Zealanders fielded excellently, and few balls escaped them. The bowing also was good, particularly that of Cunningham and Allcott. All the bowlers maintained a good length. Rome of Blunt’s deliveries had the batsmen tied up, but bis loose ones, of which there was a good many, were severely punished. Shortly afto r tea Dacre dropped an easy catch from Brown off Patrick. In the latter’s second over after tea, Browii hit him to Dacre at cover-point, and the latter accented it. Brown received an ovation on returning to the pavilion. Me hit 21 4’s. The board read : Three for S 3, and then four for 312. Brown bad occupied the crease for 234 minutes. Dacre, AVorker and Lowrv were the outstanding fieldsmen, hut all were good. Blunt proved a very expensive howler blit Patrick persisted in using him. Four hundred appeared for 28-3 minutes. N.S.AV. —First Tunings. Phillips, b Cunningham 1 Brown, e Dacre, !> Patrick 168 Sonnes.* h Allcott I” Morgan, c Oliver, b Sunn high inn 29 R a tel i fie. b Allcott 128 R. Bradslev not out 54 Punch, c Allcott 128 Vaughan, 1) Cunningham VI Nicholls not out Iff Extras 1° Total for seven wickets ’ 441