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Grey River Argus, 10 January 1928, Page 6

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Plunket Shield. CANTERBURY DEFEATS AUCKLAND. BY ELEVEN RUNS. AUCKLAND, January 9. At 12.30, Auckland had scored 73 for one wicket (Bowley not out 39, Mills, e Page, b Read 7, Cooper not out 23, extras 4). At the luncheon adjournment Auckland were 128 for 3 wickets. (Bowley b McEwin 41, Cooper not out 46, Anthony, b Read 4, Gillespie not out 23, extras 7). McEwen, Canterbury’s slow right hand spin bowler, was tried for the first time in the match, vice Newman. His first hall was well up on the leg side, Bowley failing to connect. The second was similar but fatal to the batsman. It came off the pads and hit the wickets. 75/2/41. Anthony started ‘with a single, and Cooper cut Read for 4. With five men on the boundary it was difficult to get McEwan across the line. After scoring four, Anthony was beaten all the way by Read. 86/3/4. Gillespie filled the gap and was not happy to McEwin. He cocked one up into Newman’s hands at short forward leg, the Englishman dropping I it. Gillespie saved himself a pair of specs by driving Read for two. McEwin was obtaining a good spin and had the batsmen completely tied up at this stage. LATER. With the issue in doubt right up to the fall of the last wicket, Canterbury beat Auckland by eleven runs, at Eden Park to-day, and in so doing won two out of three of the Plunket Shield matches.

After a bad start, Mills going cheaply, Bowley and Cooper made a determined stand, but Bowley and Anthony wont in rapid succession. Gillespie played bright cricket for 25, and then followed a sparkling partnership between Dacre and Cooper. Dacre was at his best, and scored rapidly with good shots all round the wicket. He scored 76 and Cooper 80. They left Auckland with 70 to get, hut Read came to light with a new ball, and his fine bowling, coupled with the foolishness of Matheson, who tried a big hit off Merritt when ho and Player were batting well, and needed only 25, meant Auckland’s downfall. Canterbury deserved the victory, but Auckland, although beaten, were not disgraced. Scores: — CANTERBURY First Innings 244 Second Innings 251 AUCKLAND First Innings 198 SECOND INNINGS. E. IT. Bowley, b McEwin .. . . 41 J. E. Mills, c Page, h Road .. . . 7 T. W. Cooper, b Read 80 A. Anthony, b Road 4 IT. I). Gillespie, c Page, b Nixon .. 24 C. C. Dacre, c Hamilton, b Read .. 76 D. R. Garrard, b Newman . . . . 1 A. S. Player, not out 16 G. L. Weir, b Newman 1 A. M. Matheson, b Merritt .. 15 A. IT. Scott, b Read 8 Extras 13 Total 286 Bowling analysis: Road 5 for 77. Newman 2 for 62, McEwin .1 for 30, Nixon 1 for 39, Merritt 1 for 65. Newman bowled two no balls, McEwin two, and Nixon one. BRICE’S NOTABLE DISTINCTION. WELLINGTON, January 9. By taking five wickets in the recent Canterbury v. Wellington match at Hip Basin Reserve, AV. S. Brice, the Wellington captain, achieved a notable distinction for Plunket Shield cricket. At the end of last season, his bag of wickets for Shield games totalled 95, so that he has now reached the one hundred mark, a feat which has been performed by only one other player — S. G. 'Smith (Auckland). Brice’s figures for the match with Canterbury were: One for 45, and four for 44, giving him a grand total of 100 wickets for 2166 runs. Sheffield Shield. SOUTH AUSTRALIA v. N.S.W. BRADMAN’S SPARKLING DISPLAY. (Received January 9 at 10 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 9. The weather was fine, but after the heavy rain yesterday, the wicket was dead. The batsmen, with the exception of Bradman, did not offer much resistance to the bowlers. Both Ratcliffe and Jackson were no sooner in then they -were out. Bradman played a sparkling innings and partnered with Jordan, completely altered the aspect of the game. Bradman’s innings was one of the best seen on the cricket ground for some time. He scored at the rate of almost a run a minute, using his feet well, and making capital boundary shots all round the ground.

He knocked up 18 in one over from Grimmett. South Australia commenced cautiously, runs coming very slowly. Schneider and Richardson were the only batsmen ) to display any confidence. Details are as follows: — New South Wales, second innings 368 (Jackson 122, Ratcliffe 30, Jordan 31, Bradman 73). Bowling analysis: Scott 5 for 108, Grimmett 4 for 137. South Australia lost 6 wickets for 189 runs (Schneider 54, V. Richardson 86). Stumps were then drawn. WELLINGTON v. OTAGO. WELLINGTON, January 9. Facing a deficit of 509, Cherry and Knight opened Otago’s second innings. McGirr opened the attack, and in the first over Cherry was caught by Tattersail. 4/1/1. McMullan was next. Fifty appeared in half an hour. Badcock clean bowled Knight, 58/2/38. Cavanagh filled .the gap. Scoring slackened down. Tattcrsall took Cavanagh smartly off Badcock, 88/3/10. i Alloo was the newcomer. The hundred appeared in 78 minutes. McMullan caught McGirr in the slips, off Brice, 106/4/4. Galland. came in. Both batsmen got a six off Badcock, the batsmen showing enterprise. At lunch the score was 171. (Alloo 44, Galland 43, extras 6). BLACKBALL B V. WAIUTA. The above match was played *t Blackball during the week-end, and resulted, after an exciting finish, in a win for the home team. Scores:— BLACKBALL B. F. % Smith, c Cameron b O’Donnell 22 M. Anderson, c and b Fitzgerald 19 Weir, lbw, b Collins 12 Mason, c Brough b Paul . . . . 6 Cutbush, c Cameron b Paul . . 43 Perrie, b O’Donnell 4 Kirk, lbw, b O’Donnell .. .. G Balderstone, run out 9 Taylor, b Hannah r, Mountford, e Fitzgerald b Cameron 6 R. Smith, not out, ] Extras 12 'Fol.’ll 136 Bowling analysis: Paul 2 for ,11, Fitzgerald 1 for 34, Hannah 1 for 20, Cameron 2 for 18, O’Donnell 3 for 11, Collins 1 for 24.

WAIUTA. Paul, lbw. 1> Anderson .. . . o O’Donnell, b Weir 19 Hannah, b Andersn 3 ( ameron, c Perrie b Mason . . 35 Thorn, c Taylor b Anderson . . 1 Fitzgerald, lbw, b AVeir . . q Brough, st Taylor-b Mason .. 14 Read, lbw, b Mason q Collins, I) Anderson “3 Malloy, lbw, b Anderson . . , . 20 Woods, not out 3 Extras -j Total 233 Bowling analysis: Mason 3 for 30 Anderson 5 for 32, Weir 2 for 31’ Kirk 0 for 22, Perrie 0 for 7. Smith 0 tor 2. RIMU V. KANIERI. The crisket match between Rimu and Kanueri, played at Rimu on Sunday, resulted in a win for Kanieri by 20 ;runs on the Ist. innings. The following are the scores:— RlMU—lst. INNINGS. S. Ogilvie, b Webster ] S. Dale, run out 11 W. Knowles, c Wells, b Morris .. 7 AV. Mills, c and b Morris . . . . 0 J. Boyd, run out 1 AV. O’Connor, b AVcbster .. .. 34 Al. Stephens, not out 25 F. Gan Tyne, bAV ells .. .. ~. 10 T. Boyd, b Wells 0 K. Ogilvie, c S. Flcmminfi, b Milner 6 AV. Agnew, bS. Fleming . . . . 2 Extras 15 Total .. .. ..112 Bowling: AVebster 2 for 19, Milner 1 for 1,7, C. Fleming 0 for 24, Morris 2 for 15, Rooney 0 for 13, Wells 2 for 8, S. Fleming 1 for 0. KANIERI—Ist.’ INNINGS. J. AVebster, c O’Connor, b Dale .. 10 11. Wells, st. Ogilvie, b Dale . 45 S. Fleming, b Knowles . . . . 10 J. Morris, l.b.w. b Gardyne . . 7 C. Fleming, b Gardyne . . . . 7 E. Rooney, e T. Boyd, b Knowles IS W. Miller, c Ogilvie, b O’Connor IS E. Pfahlert, c Dale, b Knowles .. 4 E. Howatfc Dale, b Knowles .. 9 G. Atoms, cT. Boyd, b Knowles 0 R. Drummond not out 0 Extras Total 132 Bowling: W. Knowles 5 for 41, A. Dale 2 for 32, J. Boyd 9 for 12, F. Gardyne 2 for 26, W. O’Connor 1 for 12. RlMU—2nd. INNINGS. S. Ogilvie, run out 42 M. Stephens, c Morris, b Debater 0 A. Dale, b Webster 0 AA r . Knowles, c Drummond, b Wells IS AV. O’Connor, c Fleming b. Rooney 4 T. Boyd not out 7 'W. Mills, run out F. Gardyne, b Pfahlert .. • • 3 Extars ' 10 Total for 7 wickets .. ■ • 84 Bowling: Webster 2 for 13, Morris 0 for 2, C. Fleming 0 for 5, "W. Millner 6 for 12. Rooney 1 for 14. 11. Wells 1 for 12, Flahlert 1 for 16BLACKBALL A V. BRUNNER B. The match between Blackball A and Brunner B, played at Brunner on Sunday, resulted in a win for the former by five wickets and four runs. Details are as follows: Brunner, first innings 02 (Greer 7). Todd took 8 wickets for 13 runs. Blackball first innings 56 (Clunan 12). Allan took 6 wickets for 24 runs and Hunt 4 for 28. Brunner in the second innings made 70 (Harper 24 Smith 15, Allen 11). Clunan took 5 for 18. Blackball in the second innings made 40 for 5 wickets (Clunan 18, Hinton 14 not out). Hunt took 3 wickets for 15.