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Grey River Argus, 11 February 1941, Page 8

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WELLINGTON, February 9. Because of enlistments for military service and the fact that Wellington will be playing Auckland ..at Auckland on Saturday, some new faces W'°re seen when the second round of matches in the Wellington Cricket Association’s senior championships competition began on Saturday. Results were: Kilbirnie (Russ 40, Wrigley 30, Mooney 53, Church 42,’ Eaton 41. Parry 28, Pike 23) met Wellington College Old Boys 13 for one wicket. For Old Boys, Bird took four for 79, L. Lamason two for 72; for Kilbirnie, Wilson one for 7. Midland 205 (Crawford 30, Donald 40, Bush 21, Hepburn 33, Upston / 30, Buddle 28) met Wellington 76 for three wicket s (Kerr 21).. For Wellington, Morgan took live for 63, Symes fouiyfor 52; for Midland. Foi/tune two for 24, Watts on,® for Institute Old Boys 290 (McCarthy 56. Bilby 55, Dalton 25, Du Feu 30, Reid 34, Ormiston 30) met Hutt S 3 for no wickets (McLeod 49 not out, I Jarvis 25 not out). For Hutt. Champj ness took four for 87, Buchan three | for 55. Muir thre e for 68. UniverI sity 178 (Boyd 38 not out, Craig 33) ,' met Karori 89 for two wickets (Coupland 41 not out, Duffy 39). Foi' Karori, took four for 11. AUCKLAND, February 9The first series of games in the I second round of the Auckland cricket j championship concluded in fine j weather yesterday. Results: Univer- ] sity 306 (Eell 95. Cooper 54; Burke six for 92) beat Grafton 201 and 65 for four on the first innings. Middlemore 262 (Pearson 79, McMahon 48, I. Cleal five for 73) beat Ninth Shore 202 on the first innings. Eden 287 beat Papakura Camp 163 (O. CeaT 47; H. Harrison eight for 61) and 72 for four on the first innings. Young Men’s Christian Association 328 for three declared (Scott 102 not out. Lund 70, McCarthy 75 not out) beat outright Training College 154 and 137 (Mackie 53 not out; S. Harrison eight for 35). Parnell 323 beat Pon-sonby-Balmoral 187 (W. Rowntre? 64; Clapham five for 13) and ISO foi eight on the first innings ” CHRISTCHURCH, February 9. The win of Harewood over West Christchurch was the feature fl/P-*- 1 / in thp fourteenth round ol matches in the Canterbury Cricket Associa-

tion’s competitions on Saturday when play was curtailed by heavy rain which started shortly before 6 o’clock and caused the abandonment of all matches except that between Old Collegians and Army, which • went the full distance. The<- Harewood and West Christchurch match was the only one which had a definite result, and Harewood had its . first win of the season, just as it was West Christchurch’s first loss. With the representative side away in Dun- ■ edin, many teams were not. at lull ■ strength, but the play generally wan full of interest and th e scoring was fairly high. The only century of the afternoon went to C. J.. Oliver who gave a sparkling display in making 128 not out for Sydenham against Old Boys. He was in for a little more than two hours and hit 19 fours. The results of the matches ' were:— . Sydenham 253 for seven wickets (declared) drew with Old Boys Tl-. for three wickets. , Lancaster Park 196 drew with East Christchurch 96 for seven wickets. , . . 1 Harewood 138 for • eight Y n defeated West Christchurch 12-1 on the first innings. Old Collegians 276 for eight ■ kets (declared) drew with Army for eight wickets. . ■ ( St. Alban, 297 for seven ’ (declared) drew with West Ok. 93 for three wickets. , Riccarton 199 for mne wickets Glared) drew with Wigram S 6 lot ! four wickets.