CRICKET

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 March 1943, Page 3

CRICKET

WIN FOR WEST COAST

CHRISTCHURCH, March 8

Canterbury's Brabin Shield team met the West Coast representatives at Hagley Park oval on Saturday. Flay began at 10.8 h.m., West Coast winning the toss and batting. Canterbury’s fielding was poor at first but improved later. The first 50 runs took 70 minutes, and in this period three wickets fell. Taylor, the West Coast captain, was caught by Leggat on the boundary before he could score. After Dennehy’s dismissal, with 46 to his credit, the scoring became more rapid. The fifth wicket fell at 136. Snook was a valuable asset to Canterbury, his bowling being very accurate. West Coast was dismissed for 185.

Canterbury's innings began badly, Leggat being caught by O’Callaghan in the slips without scoring. Soon afterwards Whitford was bowled before he could score. Careful batting followed, and little was added to the score for the next hour. After the tea adjournment play continued slowly. Newman proved the mainstay of the Canterbury team with 26, the Canterbury innings ending with the score at 66. Canterbury followed on, Davey and Newman opening. The latter asserted himself once more, and facing the bowling of Knapp and Barlow, scored a good 30 not out. The innings closed with the score at 58 for two wickets. Scores:—

WEST COAST

First innings.—W. A. Meates, lbw, b Small 12; T. F. Dennehy, c Whitford, b Snook 46; J. R. Haglund, b Stanley 2; E. N. Taylor, c Leggat, bMacbeth 0; O. J. Morris, c Davey, b Sheppard 80: H. E. Westwood, c Newman, b Snook 5: J. Russell, c Davey, b Whitford 9; D. Knapp, b Sheppard .13: R. T. O’Callaghan, st Davey, b Whitford 3; T. Mclntosh, b Whitford 6; R. Barlow, not out 0: extras 9. Total 185. Bowling: P. Small, 12 overs. 4 maidens, 34 runs, 1 wicket; C. Snook, 16 overs. 4 maidens, 33 runs, 2 wickets; N. Macbeth, 12 overs, 1 maiden, 39 runs, 1 wicket; M. W. Stanley, 10 overs, 3 maidens, 19 runs, 1 wicket; O. Whitford, 9.i overs, 36 runs, 3 wickets; P. Sheppard, 3 overs, 15 runs, 2 wickets.

BRABIiN SHIELD TEAM

First Innings.—R. Davey, b O’Callaghan 5; G. Leggat, c O’Callaghan, b Barlow 0; L. Newman, c and b O’Callaghan 26; O. Whitford, b Barlow 0; F. Sheppard, lbw b O’Callaghan 11; M. W. Stanley, b Knapp 0: W. Vivian, c Westwood," b O’Callaghan 0; N. Macbeth, run out 0: C .G. Snook, st Mclntosh, b Knapp 5; I. Cummins, c and b Knapp 0; P. Small, not out 1; extras 18. Total 66.

Bowling: R. Barlow, 7 overs, 1 maiden, 11 runs, 2 wickets; R. T. O’Callaghan, 16 overs. 4 maidens, 26 runs, 4 wickets; D. Knapp, 12 overs, 6 maidens. 11 runs, 3 wickets. Second Innings.—R. Davey, b Barlow 7; L. Newman, not out 30; N. Macbeth, b Knapp 1; G. Leggat, not out 12; extras 8. Total for two wickets, 58. Bowling: R. Barlow, 2 overs, 10 runs, 1 wicket; D. Knapp, 7 overs. 1 maiden. 19 runs, 1 wicket; E. N. Taylor, 3 overs, 19 runs; T. F. Dennehy, 1 over, 5 runs; R. T .O’Callaghan, 3 overs, 12 runs; O. J. Morris, 1 over, 5 runs. West Coast cricketers and visiting officials were entertained at lunch on Saturday by members of the Canterbury Cricket Association. Returning thanks for the invitation to Christchurch, Mr. W. H. Meates said that the West Coasters had accepted it with great pleasure. The visit gave them a chance of meeting Canterbury’s crack Brabin Shield team, and enabled them also to renew old friendships. He hoped to see such games, on a home-and-home basis, arranged every year. They were of great benefit to cricket. Mr. I. M. Willoughby said that the Canterbury Cricket Association welcomed the West Coast visitors enthusiastically. He hoped that Canterbury would visit the West Coast text year, with an even better Bra-

bin Shield team —if that were possible. MATCH WITH AIR FORCE The West Coast eleven yesterday played a match with Air Force at Wigram, making 106 for eight wickets declared. Top-scorer was D. Knapp (38, not out), other scores being: Meates 20, Morris 15, Russell 2, Mclntosh 0, Westwood 4, Taylor 1 9, Haglund 11, Dennehy 2 (not out), and O’Callaghan 0. For Air Force. Doidge took 4 tor 23. In reply, Air Force made 122 for 8, thus winning by 16 runs. Their top-scorer was A. Knapp (32), Ritchie (24) and WalkIm (20) also being useful contributors. D. Knapp was the most successful Coast bowler, taking three wickets for 47 runs; O’Callaghan took 2 for 34, Barlow 1 for 6, and Russell 1 for 15. WEST COAST “B” WIN’ A West Coast “B” team defeated Technical by 32 runs on the first innings. Coast batted; first and compiled 82, (Emmerson 2.1. McHugh 18, Hornsby 16, J. Knapp 10). Bowling for Technical, George took 2 for 14 off 13 overs, Stevens 3 for 23, Saunders 3 for 4, and Pethig 1 for 6. Technical, in their first knock, scored 50 (Stevens 14 and Pethig 12). Munn, Roberts, Hornsby and Kelly each took 2 wickets. In their second innings, Technical scored 91 for 9 at stumps (George 33, Dewar 12). Emmerson took 3 for 14, Munn 2 for 15. and Knapp, Sansom, Garforth and Hornsby one wicket each.

ST. BEDE'S v. ST. ANDREW’S

CHRISTCHURCH. March 7

The annual match between St. Bede’s College and St. Andrew’s College was played on the St. Andrew’s College ground on Saturday. The r>ame resolved itself into a race against time, and some hard-hitting gave St. Bede’s a win by five runs, with two wickets in hand. St. Andrew’s made 187, Grimmer being top-scorer with 41, and St. Bede’s 194 for eight wickets. O’Malley (92) and Shaw (47) making most of the runs. For St. Andrew’s, Bascand took two wickets for 29 runs, and for St. Bede’s Debenham took five wickets for 56 runs.