CRICKET

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 January 1926, Page 5

CRICKET

N.S. WALES v. VICTORIA.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

SYDNEY, January. 27. Playing New South Wales, Victoria in the second innings scored 322 (Ponsford 138 and W)oodfull 126). Everett took five for 91 and Mailey two for 94. New South Wales won by an innings and 96 runs.

The weather was hot, but the wicket was good. Ponsford played a fast, chanceless innings, scoring rapidly, but Woodfull was the only other batsihan to withstand the bowling. He played slow, careful cricket. Everett bdwled magnificently, the majority of the visitors finding him unplayable.

HOBBS AS CAPTAIN.

LONDON, January 27.

“I know it is touching on delicate ground,” says Bardsley, in his fourth article in the All Sports weekly, “but the Australian system of choosing a captain on his merits is preferable to the English system of selecting jin amateur, often at the cost of passing over a proved tactician like Hobbs. -It seems to me that the rigid adherence to the idea, a professional must, not lead England may one day cost England dear, as it had already done more than once? My knowledge of Hobbs, .who knows .Australia and Australian cricket, as few living Englishmen do, suggests he would make a more formidable leader than an amateur who has not been to Australia. Collins has Australia Jbehind him, the,ref ore we shall be a happy band and that is three-quarters of the battle.”

AUSTRALIAN SELECTIONS.

SYDNEY, January 28.

The cricket selectors have chosen A. Richardson, Ellis, and Woodfull to participate in the English tour. The selectors have suggested to the Board of Control that the team should consist of sixteen players, and that the sixteenth should be a fast bowler to help Gregory. SCHOOLS’ MATCH. AUCKLAND, January 27. In the Heathcote Williams Shield match, Auckland Grammar School defeated Chirstchurch Boys’ High School by 85 runs. Grammar made 155 in the first innings, and 122 in the second (Watkin 51, Matheson 39). Christchurch made 104 in the first innings, and had to make 174 to win. They were dismissed for 88 (Merritt 43). Bowling for Auckland, Matheson took four for 20, and Kasper four for 35.

The following teams will represent the Cobden Club in its games on Sunday :— Seniors v. Runanga at Cobden, at 1.30 p.m. : —Barlow, Gillin, E. Dewar, C. Dewar, Knapp, S. Smith, Hugh, Mathieson, Todd, Thomas, O’Connor, and F. Eggleton. Juniors v. Bruqner B at Brunner (bus leaving at 12.45)—Pike (captain), Gilmore, Smith, Eggleton, Baird, Rose, Forbes, Keith, Johnson, Hyndman, R. Barlow, and Henderson. The following will represent OmotoWaterside Seniors against United B, at Omoto on Sunday, 1.30 p.m. : — Guider, Tomkies, Crankshaw, Clough (2), O’Connor, O’Loughlin, Jackson. Austin, Comerford, Wilson. Emergencies : Hogan, Maloney, Crooks, Cashmore.

The following will represent Runanga for the week-end ; — Seniors v. Cobden, at Cobden, 1.30 p.m. : —Hunter, F. O’Neill, White - head, Bearden, T. O’Neill, Garvey, Desmond, Hall, Harrison, Armstrong, Topp. Juniors v. Brunner, at Dunollie, at 1.30 p.m. O’Brien, Kusick, Chainley, Duggan, G. Manderson, H. Uadcroft, H. O’Neill, Hands, Hawk/ins, R. Smith, Purnell, Maddison’.