CRICKET.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 November 1926, Page 6

CRICKET.

PLAY ON SATURDAY. SOUTH BEATEN BY NORTH. TOWN BEAT COUNTRY. Ideal weather conditions prevailed for the matches set down for Saturday, which were of special interest, because North met South and Town played Country in their annual fixtures. North gained a decisive victory by a margin of six wickets in a match in which the North bowling proved very destructive to the southerners. Town, m a lowscoring, rather uninteresting match, just got homo from Ccgintry. The Hawke Cup team, selected after the match in New Plymouth, contains six northerners and five from South, while a reserve is chosen one each from North and South. , NORTH v. SOUTH. GREAT BOWLING BY CLARKE AND PENNY. Though South were badly beaten, North made their runs mainly through the efforts of Kingston, Nasmith and Lash, and in the second innings made a poor stand against Penny and Cole, requiring four wickets to get the small total of 39 necessary to win,' and that only just on time. North, going in first, opened exceedingly well, and 67 appeared on the board before Lash.hooked one from McCarthy, enabling Cole at mid-on to take a good catch. Kingston maintained the effective scoring, and the century was secured before Nasmith gave an easy chance to Cheevcrs, which was accepted. Kingston followed soon, going for 49. an innings marked by hard hitting and good defence. The rest of the wickets fell fairly cheaply, and the innings closed for 166. South made a disastrous opening, and no stand was made against the bowling of Clarke until Cole and Penny were associated, and again for the ninth wicket, when McCarthy and Cottier put on 20 runs. Eollowing on, South did better, and put up 133. McCarthy and Lay opened well, and scored 30 while "they were together. The others, with the exception of Little 43, Penny not out 15, and Wilson 12, did poorly, and South were left with only 39 to get to TOiu. Four wickets fell before they put up the runs. The scores were as below: NORTH TARANAKI. Eirst Innings. Lash, c Cole, b McCarthy 26 Nasmith, c Cheevers, b Penny o 7 Kingston, e McCarthy, b Penny . . 49 Jones, b Penny 5 Earl, c and b Penny Gravson, b Wilson ■ Bottrill, lbw, b Wilson 13 Clarke, c Betts, b Penny . . ~ 4 Gibson, not out ” Quickfall, c Cheevers, b Penny .. 1 Easton, b Penny 0 Extras 44 Total 166

Bowling analysis: Giblin, none for 14; Wilson, two for 35; Cole, none for 15; Lay, none for 13; McCarthy, one for 28; Penny, seven for 47. » Second Innings. Gibson, c Betts, b Penny 9 Grayson, c Giblin, b Cole 3 Quickfall, b Little 9 Jones, c Wilson, b Penny 0 Nasmith, not out 6 Lash, not out 7 Extras 5 Total (for four wickets) .... 39 Bowling analysis: Penny took two wickets for .18 runs; Cole, one for 4; Little, one for 9; Giblin, none for 3; Cheevers, none for 0. SO ITTH TARANAKI. First Innings. Betts, run out 0 Lay, b Clarke 9 Little, b Clarke 0 Cole, c Kingston, b Clarke 10 Penny, lbw, b Easton 14 Neilson, b Clarke 9 Cheevers, lbw, b Clarke 0 Hughes, run out 5 McCarthy, not out 9 Cottier, c Kingston, b Easton .... 13 Giblin, c and b Clarke 0 1 Extras 11 Total 71 Second Innings. McCarthy, b Earl 12 Betts, b Earl 1 Lay, b Quickfall 26 Cole, run out 2 Cheevers, b Earl 2 Penny, not out 15 Little, b Kingston 43 Hughes, c Lash, b Bottrill 2 Cottier, b Bottrill 6 Giblin, lbw, b Easton 1 Wilson, b Bottrill 13 Extras 10 Total 133 Bowling analysis: Earl three wickets for 42 runs; Gibson, none for .17; Quickfall, one for 21; Bottrill, three for 16; Kingston, one for 22; Easton one for 5. TOWN v. COUNTRY. A very close l finish was seen in the Town v. Country match, played ;at Hawera. Going in first, Country, after making a poor start, and having six wickets down for 40, finished much better. Tim last four wickets put on 62. Atkins played a steady not out innings of 19, V. Betts, Barclay and Priest p’ayed well for 13, 15, and 13 respectively. McKeni© for Town, and Hughes, for the Country, did best in the bowling. Scores were as below : COUNTRY. Watson, b Kirwin 4 Hobday, e Kirwin, b Sugden 12 Crawford, b McKenzie .. 9 Hughes, e Seager, b McKenzie Le Fi'eming, b McKenzie 3 Edwards, 1.b.w., b McKenzie 0_ Atkins, riot out 1" \ T . Betts, c Seager, b Monaghan ... 13 Priest, c : and b Seager 13

; Harrison, b Kirwin 5 ; Barclav. c Seagnr, b Sugden 15 r Extras <-7 Total 102 Bowling analysis. McKenzie four 9 wickets for 20 runs; Kirwin, two for 3 25: Sugden. two for 11; Inch, none for 9 7; Monaghan, one for 10; Seagar, one 0 for 12. 6 TOWN. 7 Thomas, h Watson 7 9 Neilson, 1.b.w., h Hughes 0 _ Sugden, run out 25 9 Monaghan, e and b lie Fleming ... 4 o Vowfess. <• and I) Watson 22 • McKenzie not out 29 • Trcweek. c Edwards, b Harrison ... 1 Jennings, b Harrison O Seagar. <• Crawford, b Hughes 1 Inch. <■ Barclay, b Priest 9 Kirwin. o Atkins, b Hughes 6 Extras ’• 2 0 9 Total 106 P Bowling analysis.—Priest one wicket 0 for 36 runs; Hughes, three for 19; I/© 4 Fleming! one for 10; Watson, two for 9 op. Harrison, two for 11. 0 3 WITH THE JUNIORS. 0 1 MID I/AND BEAT ELTHAM. 4 Midland travelled to Eltliam and beat the local team by nine wickets. Going r> in first. Eltliam were disposed of for 7 35, Nairn (14) being the only donbloi figure scorer. while iMkPands did a j little better and totalled 49. of which y Fail-weather. in a careful innings, made i 27. and Bar.ndon 15. • In their second innings. Eltliam 3 could put on oiii'y IS. and Midlands lost , one wicket in getting the five required. 3 For Midlands, Malone had the .wonL derfnl bowling figures of .seven for 13 1 and six for 12. Mahoney got three for ) six and three for three. Phillips and " Nairn bowled host for Eltliam. ! l IN THE NORTH. j COUNTRY MATCHES. Once more Tikorangi had a victory, decisively beating Bell Block. They scored 199 (Shallard 62, E. Foreman 46), while their opponents were all out 5 for 78. and scored 52 for four wickets t in their second innings. l- Brixton won from Egmont Village c by a margin of 20 runs on the first i innings. l \ JUNIORS. 1 Technical College beat School Bbv . 25 and 68 to 17 and 24. Waitara won from Old Boys by 109 to 70. Taylor, for the winners, scored 62 not out. Avenue Road beat New Plymouth by nine wickets by scoring 116 to the latter’s 75 sand 41. Road had the same 1 total as New Plymouth’s two innings, > and lost a wiek’et_ in getting the one ) run rcouired to win. ) A HiVu School team on Saturday in 1 a friendly match l>eat a ise’ected ) Town team by 97 to 74. K. Fookes 7 and Pott- did best for School, while 3 Sheppard 17 and ‘‘extras” 17 were I the only double figure scorers for Town.

HAWKE CUP

TARANAKI TEAM. The team to represent Taranaki in the match with Wanganui for the Hawke Cup was selected after the South v. North match. It is as tol°lCiiigston. Lash, Nasmith, Bottrill, O. G. Clarke, Petty (North), Cole, Lay, Penny, Monaghan, Crombie (South). Reserves: Grayson (North), A. Betts (South). i i B. McCarthy (South) and R. L. Cooper (North) made the selection. Kingston and Lash have been nominated bv the Taranaki Association to pin v in the Town v. Country and (Minor Associations v. Wellington matches at Wellington at the end <4 December. COMPETITIONS AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH. Nov-. 21. In the cricket competitions on Saturday Ricca rton scored 206 in the first innings (O. Gorrie 60. W Guiney 30, J. Powell 49). East Christchurch made 105 for seven wickets (G. Gregory- 58, T. Mu 11 an 16). For East McEwan took five wickets for 75. Playing against .St. Albans, West Christchurch made 162 in the first innings (A. R. Blank 27. F. Jarrett 19, J L. Findlay 43. C. A. Cocks 33). m:. Albans put on 89 for four wickets Cf • Woods 34. C. G. Crawford 31). I or St. Alban*- D. McK. Sandman took six tor 6 °Svdei)ham. in their first innings against Lin wood, made 145 (J- Roberi.son 37. W. R. Patrick 19. W. Olhver oo l«- Casson 13). Lin wood have lost six for 61 (M. Boon 3-3). For Limvood Read took four for 4.3 and Kennedy four for 29. . ■ O'd Collegians, in their first innings against Old Boys, made 115, and the latter 85 for seven wickete. For DM Collegians Bruges made 3a and Jackman 93 For Old Boys Mortloek made •74 ; ,n<] Powel’ 19. while Burrows took five for .39 and Powell three for 31. UNCOMMON AVERAGESECURED BY" DEMPSTER. [ HV TKr.KOKAPS- I»RW ASSOCIATION.) WANGANUI, Nov. 21. The promotion of Technical College from junior to senior grade cricket luus invested the game with a new intei - est, the inclusion of Dempster in the team being an attractive feature. Qu'te a large number of spectators- were drawn, to Cook’s. Gardens yesterday afternoon to witness the technical College at the wickets against Wanganui, one of the strongest local teams. On the previous Saturday Wanganui compiled 225 runs and Technical had registered 100 runs with an intact wicket when stumps were drawn. The two not out men, Dempster (53) and Kerr (41) resumed yesterday. The pitch was a bit bumpy as the result of heavy rain on Friday night arid Saturday morning, though it was delightfully fine for the game. ‘"Before the partnership was .severed bv Kerr being taken nicely in slips. 132 runs had been produced. Waters •md Fairburn in turn joined Demp-

ster, who brought his score up to TOO amidst applause, the score at this stage being 162. Frequent bowling changes kept the scoring rate'down, but Dempster gave some iinc hits such as the public enjoy. Fair-burn had been at the wickets for an hour when bowled for 22. the score having mounted in the meantime to 217. Although the gang continued to be filled all kinds of bowling were tried against Dempster without effeet. except- for scoring purposes, and eventually, to the delight of the crowd, the double century appeared on the hoard. This figure was augmented by another seven, when, in liis aggressiveness, Dempster tried to hook from Williams, and was- clean howled. With Dempster out of the way the other wickets fell rapidly. the innings closing for 323, or 9S runs in excess of Wanganui’s. Dempster, in his previous strike against United, was unluckily caught when 195. only five eft bis. double centure. Yesterday, hv hitHng up 207, he yielded an average of 201 for the two innings. To register an average of two centuries over two games is an achievement that is rather uncommon. Technical College has come into great prominence by defeating in .succession two of Wanganui’s crack teams. TEST MATCH REVENUE. BY GABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Nov. 19. The Cricket Board of Control reports that the gross receipts from the Test matches amounted to £60,000. of which £IB,OOO will be shared by 17 first-class counties, £9OOO by clubs whose grounds were used for the Tests, and £3OOO by the minor counties. The Australians will receive between £15.000 and £16,000.