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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 November 1925, Page 6

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THE COM PETIT LON S. SATURDAY’S PLAY. In contrast with the great weather of tht previous Saturday, conditions in Hawera were very unpropitious for the cricket fixtures on Saturday, and this marred the piay in the Midlands 'v. Stratford match. .Ln Eltham the weather wais perfect and in Okaiawa only one heavy shower was experienced. Excelsior scored a, three point win, Okaiawa, beat JVXanaia on the first inning’s .score, and Stratford and Midlands each played an unfinished innings. A feature of the Midlands’ innings was a fine score by Monaghan, who had fifty opposite liis name when time whs reached and he was still unbeaten. Lambert and Dobbs made a fine stand for Stratford, the former hitting hard for his 76 and the latter making a good 53. Penny and Brooke were the outstanding batsmen for Okaiawa. who ran up 172, while Hobday. H. Hughes and Bairstow made the bulk of the Manaia total of 104. Excelsior were in a winning vein and easily disposed of Eltham for 23 and 16, Lay securing the great average of five for seven and eight for seven. In the north conditions were good and scores were all fairly good. MIDLANDS V. STRATFORD., Heavy rain in the early part of the afternoon de'ayed the opening of play. Stratford brought down a full team, but Midlands were short several players apparently assuming that there would be no cricket. Batting first. Stratford ran up 1.95 for six wickets, of which Lambert (76), Dobbs (53) and Cole (28) were the best. Walk-ley and- Monaghan securing the best bowling figures. Midlands, with the exception of Monaghan, who. scored 50 not out, Entwistle 10 and McKenzie not out 13, made a poor showing against the bowling of Lambert and Dobbs, and had seven wickets down for 104 at the call of time. Scores:— STRATFORD. —First Innings. Cole', h Monaghan 26 Massey, 1.b.w.. b Monaghan 4 Court;- b McKenzie I Lambert, c aiid b Gib I ,in 76 Dobbs, b Walkley 53 Wood, not out 5 Cott'er. b Walkley 0 Extras 28 Total for S wickets 195 Bowling.—Monaghan, two for 48; McKenzie, one for 26; Giblin, one for 43; Walkley, two for 8 ; Vowless, none for 37; Plank, none for 4. MIDLANDS. —First Innings). Dalgleish, b Lambert 8 Monaghan, not out °d Vowless, b Lambert . i 0 Walkley, c Young, b Dobb s ■? Plank, b .Lambert- * Giblin, b Dobbs ® Bigham. e Williams, b DoJjbs 0 Entwistle, st., b Cole ; 10 McKenzie, not out 13 Extrts 14 Total for seven wickets 104 Bowling.—-Lambert, three for 55; Dobbs, three for 9; Cole, one for 26. ELTHAM v. EXCELSIOR. The Excelsior bowlers were ,on thq spot against Eltham and disposed of their opponents very cheaply. The wicket was very rough and the outfield was like a hay field. Lay and Machin were almost unplayable,' and both secured excellent bowling figures. Machin in the first innings took three wickets for only a single run. Lay’s total was thirteen wickets at a cost of just over one each. It was a grout performance. McCarthy was the most successful batsman for Excelsior, running up 25 by good cricket. Lay, Jennings, Bernard, Mills and Maloney all got double' figures. Scores:— ELTHA M. —First In n i ngs. W. Little, c and b Lay . . 2 Ansford, c and b Lay 12 C. Little, b Lay 6 Soundv, e Lav, b Machin 0 Hemingway, b Lay ! 1 Page, b Machin 0 Carey, 1> Machin 0 Harrison, run out 0 Thompson, c and b Lay 0 Townsend, not out t. Extras 1 Total "'Si Bowling.—Lay five for .7, Machin three for 1, McCarthy none for 14. Second Innings. Harrison, c Jennings, h Lay 6 Townsend, e and b Lay 0 W. Little, lbw, b Lay . 2 C. Little, c and b Lay 3 Ijago, e Hammond, b Lay 1 Ansford, not out 2 Soundv, b I.av 0 Thompson, b Machin i .... 0 Cooper, e McCarthy, b Lay 0 Hemingway, b Machin '1 Carey, b Lay .....' 1 Extras 2 Total 10 Bowling—Lay eight for 7‘, Machin two for 7. EXCELSIOR. Galvin,, c Ansford, b Soundv .... 0 Hammond, b Soundv Lay,’ b Soundv . .* 15 McCarthy, b 0. Little 25 Jennings, b Page 11 Little, b C. Little 2 Bernard, <• Townsend, b Hemingway 12 Mills, b Hemingway 12 Maloney, not out 10 Machin, h C. Little 3 Grindlay, b C. Little 1 Extras 4 Total .- 102 Bowling.—Soundv three for 31, C. Little four for 44, Hemingway two for* •31, Thompson none for 6, Page one for

MANAIA v. OKAIAWA. Okaiawst continued the success of the previous Saturday by gaining a win over Manaia at Okaiawn. Penny (42) was in fine hatting form, apd he was well assisted by V. Betts 20, Thomas 23 and Brooke not out 33. The total of "172 was 68 ahead of Manaia. For the latter H. Hughes and Hobday made a good opening before the latter was out 1 h.w.. and the former with Bairstow made a fine stand. The rest did but little, and the innings just topped the century, 82 of which were scored by the three mentioned. Pratt and Thomas were the main destroying agents, each taking five wickets. Scores were as follow : MANAIA. Hobday, 1.b.w., b Thomas 20 H. Hughes, c Crawford, b Thomas 32 B. Hughes, c and b Thomas 0 Stephenson, 1.b.w./ b Thomas 9 Bairstow, c Penny, b Pratt 31 Roberts, b Pratt 0 Gaskin, b Pratt 1 C. Watson, b Pratt , 4 Sherlock, b Pratt 0 Spooner, e Linn, b Thomas 0

1 Jorgenson' not out 1 I Extras 6 Total 104 Bowling: Pratt five for 25, Thomas five for 28, Crawford none for 19, Penny none for 13. OKAIAWA. Pratt, b Bairstow 8 .Penny, b C. Watson 42 A. Betts, bH. Hughes < 1 V. Betts, b C. Watson 20 Thomas, c Bairstow, b H. Hughes 23 Crawford, run out 18 Linn, run out 8 Barclay, cC. Watson, bH. Hughes 0 Kasper, b C. Watson 0 Brooke, not out 33 Atkins, run out 15 Extras 4 Total 172 Bowling: C. Watson three for 37. Bairstow one for 29, B. Hughes one for 40, H. Hughes two for 27, Gaskin none for 7, Roberts none for 11, Sherlock none for 13. IN NORTH TARANAKI. NEW PLYMOUTH LEAD WESTERN PARK. The best-score for the New Plymouth Club was a well played- 53 by C. G. Clarke. Kingston, also batted well for liis 22. Hart, Jones. Quickfall and Robertson, all got into double figures for the Park, but the rest did very little good.

New Plymouth scored 135 and- Western Park 93 in the first innings. The former will therefore, go to the second innings with a comfortable lead of 42. OLD BOYS v. HIGH SCHOOL. The result of the day’s play was that Old Boys have a' good lead, of GO on the first innings and have two down for 27 in the second innings. Batting first Old Boys ran. up 141, of which Botta-ill led' the totals with a good score of 43. Brown 26 not out, Lash 14, Kerr and .Earl 11 each being the other double figure scorers. For School, McLean 24, Grant 20 and K. Eookes wore the best scorers in a moderate total of SI. SENIOR B GRADE. The results in. the B grade were that Urcnui 110 beat Western Park 49, and Old Boys 90 (for eight- wickets) beat Waitara 33. JUNIORS. High School beat New Plymouth A by an innings and 35 runs, and Old Boys scored 1 a close win. by three runs from Borough Council. METROPOLITAN COMPETITIONS. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON - , Nov. 8. The cricket cup matches were continued on Saturday. In reply to Old Boys’ 158, Wellington (three "wickets for 9*B) resumed and made 256 (Badcock 71. Wagstaffe 62, Bruges 45).- Blundell took four wickets for 97. Old Boys have lost loui wickets for 98. Maxwell took three wickets for four runs in five overs. Wellington secured a three-point r w in. Institute made 309 (Bell 79. Dempster 67, Burt 56) and scored a threeooiht win over Midland, who made .219 (Dind 64, Patrick 50, Clark 38). Bowling for Midland, Patrick took three wickets for 63, and Bruce three fof- 65. For Institute Foley I 'took four for 53 and Massey four for 62. Varsity scored a four-point win over Thorndon. Varsity made 174 and 174 (Leys 60, Bollings 30, Berry 25 not out and Wilson 20); Thorndon made 109 and 104 (Coulton 25, Harris 19, Roberts 26, Phillips 25). Bowling for Varsity, Bollings took five wickets for 40, Gray four for. 41, Wilson three for 3, ’and McKay five for 26._ ; Petone made 150 and Kilbirnie 99. Petone, in the second innings, lost six wickets for 123 (Brice 17) and declared. Kilbirnie were all out for 111 (Lang 37). Petone secured a fourpoint win. At Hutt last week Y.M.C.A. made 163. Hutt had 42 runs on for three wickets. Hutt continued and made 185 (Tattersall 67, McGirr 31). Bowling for Y.M.C.A. White took three for 38, Haughey three for 23 and Grant three for 39. Y.M.C.A. made 106, The result was a three-noint win for Hutt. * DUNEDIN Nov. 8.

Owing to rain on Friday and Saturday all outdoor sports were postponed here.

NEW ZEALAND TEAM. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. S. J. E. Banks has notified the New Zealand selectors that he will be unable to make the trip to Ausjralia. THE GAME IN AUSTRALIA. WESTRALIA v. VICTORIA. <Y CAUIiK-I’IiKSS ASSOCIATION— COPYBICiHT N MELBOURNE, Nov. 7. Victoria, in their first innings against West Australia, scored 536, of which Ponsford i.made 158, Love 103 Willis 79. Bowling for West Australia, Inverarity took six wickets for 163 runs. West Australia, in their second innings, have two wickets down for 12. DETAILS OF GAMES. ' MELBOURNE, Nov. 7. Playing for St. Kilda against North Melbourne, Levin made 184 and Ellis 153. For University against Richmond Moulton made 133. For Collingwood against Carlton Ryder scored 104. For Brunswick City against Adjax Foru took eight wickets with eight halls in one over. SYDNEY, Nov. 7. Playing for Petersham aaginst North Sydney, Sneddon made -100 not out. For Gordon against Balmain. Tvelleway made 106. For Mosmaii against Marriekvillc Dyer scored 119. For Western Suburbs against St. George, Long took seven wickets for