LANCASHIRE LEAD

Grey River Argus, 2 June 1937, Page 7

LANCASHIRE LEAD

ON FIRST INNINGS 32 Ahead of N.Z. (Special to Press Association.) LONDON, Alay 31The New Zealanders bowled pertinaciously on a wicket as hard as a concitete road, but success depended too much on Cowie and Roberts- The former had another good day, never beiilg mastered- He opened, with nine overs, thre e maidens, sixteen runs, two iviekets, one being caught at square-leg,, and' the other! bowled with the next ball, besides having a catch dropped in the slips. Lancashire topped the century without further loss, but after lunch Tindill smartly stumped Paynter, and Wallace brilliantly ran out Oldfield. New Zealand then gained a grip on the game, five wickets falling in two hourls for 109. Roberts was rewarded for his strenuous striving with two wickets, another chance being missed in the 1 slips off him, Weir proved an effective changeHowever, Phillipson, who played really well, Duckworth, Pollard, and Wilkinson saved 'the County by determined batting, and 44 were added fon the last-wicket stand, which was broken only by a fine catch off his own bowling by Aloloney- Except for two dropped' catches, ( the fielding was generally clean, and sometimes brilliant, but slow bowling did not disturb the batsmen, and the bowling was almost wholly left to the faster menNew Zealand was again unable to get a good start Page, falling in the first over, snicking a bumper which he itrlied to hook- Hadlee and Moloney carefully played out timeThe attendance was 3000- Scores:— NEW ZEALAND—Ist Innings. Page, b Wilkinson 13 Hadlee, c Wilkinson b Watson .. 24 Aloloney, c and b Pollard 77 Vivian, c Duckworth b Pollard - . 2 Wallace, c Hopwood b Phillipson 46 Weir, b Wilkinson 11 Roberts, c Wilkinson b Hopwood 8 Donnelly, b Pollard 13 Lamason, b Hopwood 26 Tindill,; b Phillipson 47 Cowie, not out 4 Extras 11 Total ..: 282

Bowling: Phillipson 2/75, Pollard 3/62, Wilkinson 2/72,, Watson 1/22, Hopwood' 2/40LANCASHIRE—Ist Innings, Paynfer, stp Tindill b Roberts ... 51 Hopwood, e Lamason b Cowrie ... 19 Iddon, b 'Cowie 0 Oldfield,, rlun out 66 Watson, lbw b Weir 13 Place, c Cowie b Roberts 5 Lister, c Tindill b Cowie 31 Phillipson, not out 70 Pollard,, stp Tindill b Weir 14 Duckworth, lbw b Cowie 20 Wilkinson, ei and b Aloloney ... 7 Extras 18 Total 314 Bowling:, Roberts 36/14/69/2, Cowie 31/6/60/4, Wei,. 16/2/39/2. Vivian 19/3/67/o,’ Aloloney 14-3/0/53/1. Donnelly 3/1/8/0. NEW ZEALAND—2nd InningsPage, c Duckworth b Phillipson 0 Hadlee, not out 9 Aloloney, noit out 8 Extras 1 Total for on c wicket 18 TOURS AND IMPORTATIONS. LONDON, May 31The spouts editor of the "Daily Sketch, ’ ’ L.' V. Alanning, predicts an Imperial cricket conference in midJune, to tackle the evil of unofficial cricket, which give the English player 3 chance of a restHe also mentions that as the result of Sir J, Cahn’s recent Ceylon tour, 'two Leicesteit-born players will have to stand asid'e in 1939 in favour of the Australians Mudge and Walsh- "The time has. come 'to make a repetition impossible- The home supply is not so thin that we need recruiting- expeditious overseas,” he adds.