CRICKET

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12140, 30 December 1933, Page 6

CRICKET

WELLINGTON v. WAJAPU. HOME TEAM IN GOOD POSITION. TUHEKE’S FINE FORM. (Special to. the Times) TOKOMARU BAY, Dec. 29 Very boisterous conditions were experienced! for tlie opening of the match here to-dav between A, Doneghue’s touring "Wellington team, and the Waiapu representatives. A strong southwesterly wind, approaching gale force at times, seriously interfered with the cricket, but despite this factor( which shou’d have favored the reps., of the "Windy City”) the home team had established a solid' advantage at the close of the day’s play. Waiapu scored 214 in the first innings and the visitors -replied with only 32 for the loss of four wickets. An outstanding feature of the .play was the exoel’ent all-round form shown by IF Tuheke, of the Waiapu team. Waiapi' won the toss, and had first use of tlie wickets. Joe Moody and Akers opened for the home team, and run s came steadily for a time, but at 34 Griffiths skittled Akers with a good hall, the retiring batsman then' having reached 11. G. Mill stayed for a. time, showing sound defence, and leaving most of tlie scoring to Moody who was playing good cricket. With the total at 60 Mill was oleivnbo.wled by Griffiths after making eight. Tubeks joined Moody and-a very good good .stand resulted) both men appearing thoroughly at home- to, the .bowl-' ing despite several ' changes. ' Tens came'up regularly,' but.’ at’ 131, when.’ tlio pair 'had aidded’ 71; :Moody 'was well caught by A'len'olf J. C. Dow, tlio former Poverty Baj- rep.' Moody played very fine cricket for' bi s 51, and liit 'one'very' good l sixer. ' J. Date's followed and showed - useful form,'’getting away several good ones to the 'Teg side'. At 159,' however, . the Coast' keeper ' was ou t for TJ,. Griffiths securing an l.b-w. 'decision agatnst hini.' IV. Oates filled the vacancy, Ijut in the sulisequeht over, without addition to the' score; he: was brilliantly caught by Aitkeji off Aldridge.' Half the side' ‘were jVtlien out for 159 and only 2 had been added* when Tuheke's fine innings closed at 58. The Maori player .gave a dashing •dispjay. N ; _ . (i . ,■ - , ' * McCaljum - and Bar bon- .wore ./then. associated and l they appeared thoroughly: s et after adding 33, when Lu-

bransky howled MeCallum for 11. Jack Moody, a schoolboy, showed gooct form for a time and Cottle offered the bowlars resistance also, but they had both been dismissed when the score had reached 199. McCaffery rattled up 10 quickly, hut the innings closed at 21.4 when Barton uas howled by Griffiths. Burton, played well fur hl s' 23 and hit one fine sixer, Griffiths was the outstanding bowler for the visitors and his 23 overs six maidens, yio’dcd him live wickets for 38 runs. Aldridge Look two for 16 and Lubran-sky two for 33. \\ 7 tTi about 30 minutes to play, Wellington opened their first innings, but the total was only live, when Tuhokc bowTc-J Allen. Lawton also did not stay long. Tulioke seeukuj an l.b.w. decision against him when the total was only 19. Seven runs later Tuheko howled Luhransky and just on time the same trundler had Griffiths caught by C. Mill- Griffiths wa-; than 19 and had appeared the on'y man likely to make any runs. Tnheke sent down eight overs in all, three being maidens, for four wickets at a totaf cost of seven runs. His form with bat and ball was outstanding. The match will he ■ continued tomorrow. This evening the visitors were entertained at a largely attended cricket dance in the local ball. Today’s scores were as follows:—• WAIAPL. —First Innings.— Joe Moody, c Allen, h Dow 51

11. M. Akers, b Griffiths l'l G Mill, b Griffiths 3 B. Tuheke. 1.b.w., b Aldridge ... 5o J. Oates, l.b.w. b Griffiths 11 W*. Oates, c Aitken, b Aldridge ... 0 A. McCalluiu, b Lubransky ... 11 \V. Barton, b Griffiths 23 Jack Moody, b Lubransky 2 N. Cottle, st. Gray, b Gin'llitbs ... 3 N. McOaffsry, not out ... JO Extras 26 Total 214 Fall: 34 00 131 159 159 161 193, 196, 199 214. Bowling; B. Griffiths 23 overs, 6 maidens, 5 wickets, 43 runs; 11. Lubransky 17 u 2 33: A. Doiieghue 17 5 0 34, 3 no bulls; J. C. Dow 6 2 1 17 ; N. Aldridge 7 22 16; IV. Aitken 5 0 0 12; R, Allen 3 0 0 19; J. Fortune 3 0 0 7. WELLINGTON. .—First innings— B. Griffiths, c Mill, b Tuboke ... 19 R. Alien, b Tuheke ..; 1 S. Lawton, 1.b.w., b Tuheke ... O H. Lubransky, b Tuheke 2 W. Gray, not out ... >' Extras ! > Total for four wickets 32 Fall: 5 19 26 32. Bowling: B. Tuheke four for 7, McCaffory none for 19, MeCallum nojie for 6. AUCKLAND COUNTRY TOURNEY. P.B. COLT’S ELIMINATED. ,E. JAMES BAT'S WELL , The Poverty Bay Colts team, playing in the third round of the Auckland 'Association’s country wee].-, tournament. ,for the Hidlaby County Shield), .were eliminated ", by South / Auckland,, which! had -the) invaluable icinforcempnt of Badc’ey and Aitkenj the .Plunket- Shield players. ’ Up to this, stage the two. teams wer© equal . in points, so this game’decided which side .should enter tlio semi-finals. Poverty Bay, batting first, made only GO,. T. While scoring 16 and V. Mahoney 10- Aitken (six for 30), auj B'.utcley (four ‘for 17), bowled unchanged. South Auckland replied with 160 for five wickots declared, .Badelsy monopolising the scoring with tlio line’ 'tally of 99. -E. James: (four for 55) and' D. "Wells (one for sti), sccured;the wickets. Largely through a good innings of 52 by E. James, tho- Colts scored 336 in tlie second minings. ' Other useful contributions were "mind©'' ,by Mahoney 19, White 11, Cl Brew 11 and B. Scholium 11. Bade; ley (four for 20)," and Aitken" (thros for•• 20) were again the mainstay ot the”.South’ Auckland A attack. Time: did 1 not permit- of South Auckland batting again, so they . won on the

first .innirigs and thereby qualified to enter the semi-finals.' Commenting on Poverty Bay's .second innings, the Auckland Herald said: “Poverty Bay fought game! y .-and,' saved an outright win. E. James was the most- successful batsman. He played attractive, cricket, his forceful cover drives earning him the majority of his runs.” • n • ‘ • North . Augklamd,’ meanwhile, were playing Whakntauc and wore' -very fortunate to heat, that side on the first innings,, thereby beating Poverty Bay. by. one point for a" place in the semi-finals. Points at; the end of the day’s p'aiy were-as'follows-. —South Auckland 10North Auckland 8; Poverty-Bay C-olts 7 ; Whakatane 3. i d M.C.C BEAT COMBINED TEAM ; ; .. u I . /- r; _ (U.P.A. -by Elec. Tel. Copyrights CALCUTTA, Dec. 28 v . In a pue-day match, Combined Indians and Anglo-Indians in the first made 123, Nichols taking' four fior 31. ' . Marylebono in the first lost ' six for 179, Baker making 54. Marylebone won on the first innings.