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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 October 1924, Page 8

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. THE ENGLISH TOUR. GILLIGAN SCORES A CENTURY. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPVRIGHT PERTH, Oct". 26. England i s playing a return match against West Australia. The visitors, who batted first, were all out for 397 when stumps were drawn. The weather was fine and the wicket good. Hearne and Chapman played stead’,-, correct cricket. Gilligan and Tate, in a brilliant partnership, put on a century in 63 minutes. Gilligan batted with the greatest freedom, hie score including five sixes and ten fours, but the display was marred by several chances. He was at the wicket for 130 minutes. Tate also had more than one let-off. The fielding was poor, and with ihe exception of Blundell, who secured the fine average of five wickets for 59, the visitors made the bowling look easy. Details:— ENGLAND—First Innings. Hobbs '... 17 Whysall 32 Hearne 54 Chapman 44 Douglas 9 Bryan 20 Gilligan (captain) 138 Tate 44 Freeman 8 Strudwick, not out 16 Howell ‘ 4 Extras 11 Total 397 SEASON OPENS LOCALLY. The opening matches of the season were played on Saturday in weather which was rather unpleasant. A cold westerly blew all the afternoon, and towards 5 p.m. rain set in. In the match on the local ground Excelsior had an easy win from Midland, and demonstrated, that they will be a hard team to beat. McCarthy, who is captain again of the former team, won the toss, and decided to bat on a good easy wicket. The batsmen grasped their chance with avidity, and ran up a total of 187 for, five wickets, when the innings was declared closed. Fulton 79, Bernard 45, Monaghan 31 and Lay 15 (not out) were the principal scorers. Midland responded, with 110, Nielsen 35, Dalgleish 16, and Tiddy 13 being the double figure scorers. For Midland, Nielsen three for 52 did best of the bowlers, while for Excelsior, McCarthy took five for 20, Hendry two for 34, and Fulton two for 0. Scores and analyses: EXCELSIOR.—First Innings. Fulton, 1.b.w., b Nielsen 79 Crombie, st. Thomas, b Nielsen ... 0 McCarthy, b J. Davies 2 Monaghan, b Goring 31 Bernard, b Nielsen 45 Lay, not out 15 McNaughton, not out 3 Extras 12 Total for 5 wickets (declared) 187 Bowling analysis: Nielsen three for 52, Davies one for 26, Goring one for 26, Oakes none for 18, Tiddy none for 32, Vowless none for. 21. MIDLAND.—First Innings. Dalgleish, 1.b.w., b Monaghan ... 16 J. Davies, c McCarthy, b Hendry 7 Vowless, c Bernard, b McCarthy 5 Nielsen, 1.b.w., b Fulton 35 Goring, c and b Hendry 5 Oakes, b McCarthy 4 Plank, c Bernard, b McCarthy ... 0 Thomas, c Lay, b McCarthy ‘ 6 Tiddv, b McCarthy Owen, not out 0 Cheevers. 1.b.w., b Fulton 0 Extras 19 Total ; no Bowling analysis: Hendry two for 34, Monaghan one for 14, .McCarthy five for 20, Lay none for 23, Fulton two for 0. In the junior match Excelsior B went down to the Midland B by 12 runs, the scores being Midland 72,' Excelsior 60. V inn i coni lie 43 (not out) hit out freely for the Midlands, while McCarthy, junr., 21 (not out), Soundy ; 16 and Mills 13 got doubles for Excelsiors. Mahoney three for 3, Busing ' three for 30 and ‘Wells four for 23 for the winners, and McKenzie five for 20, Muir one for 28 and McCarthy one for 5 for the losers, were the successful bowlers. Eltham drew with Stratford on their own ground on Saturday. Hie end of the day’s play proved rather exciting as the last two Stratford men were at the wickets with 10 runs to get when time %vas called. Eltham made 105 k runs, of which Philpotts made 37 ir good form and C. Little 34. Hemi»o-. wav (10) was the only other douhle fior_ ure .score. Stratford made 96 for nine wickets, Cole contributing 31 and ] Furrie 25. No others scored double figures. The bowling for Stratford 1 was done by Cole, five for 26, Young ' three for 11, Syme one for 34: and for ( Eltham Little took two for 8, three for 18, Philpotts two for 25. 1 Donnelly one for 14. ] OKAIAW A v. MAN AT A. , A very close game between Man na and Okaiawa at Okaiawa. resulted in a win for the visitors bv one run. the scores being Manaia 76, Okaiawa 75 < r 1 NEW PLYMOUTH RESULTS 1 High School 1 If) (Maliraj 05) v. Old 80-c four wickets for 35. 1 N«w Plvmouth 47 and 59 for three v. Western Park 98 (Fuller op) 1 for New Plvmouth Qumkfali 1 four for 10, Macdonald four for 26.