CRICKET.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 February 1927, Page 10

CRICKET.

MELBOURNE TOURING- ■ TEAM. VISITORS' BIG SCORE. ,»v The Melbourne v. Hawke’s Bay match, was concluded here to-day m fine weather, the game resulting in a draw. At the conclusion of Friday s play the home side had 24/ on and the Australians had one. wicket down for 102. The visitors declared at 000 for seven wickets and put Hawke s Bav in. When stumps were drawn Hawke’s Bay had lost five wickets for 197 Sand ford delighted the crowd with a fine, open display of batting for 192. his total including 30 fours. Jewell plaved a fine innings for 137, being dropped three times in five minutes after he had passed his century. The scores are: MELBOURNE. First Innings. Onyons, c Elliott, b Beuth 10 Sandford, st. Lowry, b Beuth ... 192 Johnstone, h Beuth •••••••• Jewell, o O’Brien, b White 13/ Wood, c White, b Mitchell 67 Bakin, st. Lowry, b Mitchell ... 4, Rogerson, c Davis, b White 48 Ransford. not out Extras 40 Total for seven wickets (declared) 563 Bowling analysis: Gifford took no wickets for 58,' Beuth three for 93, Mitchell two for 217, Paterson none for 46. Worker none for 34, O’Brien none for 51, White two for 50. HAWKE’S BAY. First Innings *47 Second Innings. Worker, c Wood, b Sandford 47 O’Brien, c Campbell, h Ebeling ... 1 Lowry, c Ebeling, b T. Armstrong 13 Reaney, c Campbell, b Wood 2 White, b Onyons 32 Beuth, not out 6 Paterson, not out 1 Extras 6 Total for five wickets 127 SATURDAY’S MATCHES. IN FINE, DRY WEATHER. Excellent weather conditions prevailed for the week-end matches in Taranaki. The grounds, however, showed the effect of the dry weather, and were looking fairy grey and worn. In South Taranaki, Okaiawa scored a decisive win over Midland, and thus made their position at the head of the competing clubs for the championship unassailable. They had a win by the large margin of eight wickets. Stratford and Excelsior played a match which had been postponed from an earlier date, and in a good scoring first innings the Excelsior team won by 82 runs. ' Excellent form was shown by L. Little, Treweek and Kirwin (Excelsior! and hv Cole and Court (Stratford), while'Cole and Kirwin were the pick of the bowlers. In North Taranaki matches were postponed for the ra-es except in the country division, and two friendly matches were played at New Plymouth. NOTES ON THE PLAY. OKAIAWA v. MIDLAND. A. good win went to Okaiawa in the completed match.. resumed from "two weeks ago. At the end of that day Okaiawa had a lead of 45 runs on the first innings, while Midland had lost five wickets for 72, Giblin (10) and McKenzie (17) being not out. Giblin went without adding to his score, while Walklev, AY: M. Thomas and Newton also failed to score. McKenzie hit hard, and with W. W. Thomas took the score to SB when the former was well caught. With 44 to get to win, Okaiawa opened badlv. Atkins being caught by Crombie off'Giblin, and A. Betts run out for one. _ Penny and Thomas then became associated, and both surviving appeals, for l.b.w. and a catch at the «-ifleets respectively, went on to hit hard, and Thomas, who played speoinlv vigorous cricket, made the winning hit with a fine stroke to square leg, and the game was won by eight wickets. Scores are as below: MIDLAND. First Innings 62 Second Innings. Monaghan, o V. Betts, b Pratt ... 9 Twist, b Hughes 2 Crombie, 1.b.w., b Hughes 21 Nielsen, c Penny, b Pratt 5 Cboevers, e Crawford, b Pratt ... 4 Giblin, b Penny 16 McKenzie, c Barclay, b Penny ... 25 Walklev. e and b Penny 6 W. M.' Thomas, b Thomas 0 Newton, c Penny, b Thomas 0 W. W. Thomas, not out 6 i Extras 6 Total 88 Bowling analysis: B. Hughes two wickets for 23 runs, Pennv three for 13, Pratt three for 32, Thomas two for 14. OKAIAWA. First Tunings 107 Second Innings. Atkins, c Crombie, h Giblin 1 A. Betts, run out 1 Pennv. not out- 19 Thomas, not out 21 Extras 5 Total for two wickets 47

Bowling analysis: Giblin one wicket for 15 runs, McKenzie none for 7, Crombie none for 3, Monaghan non© for 11. STRATFORD v. EXCELSIOR. In order to play a match which, had been postponed in the first round of fixtures, .Excelsior travelled to Stratford on Saturday, and bad a very interesting afternoon’s play. The result was a win to the former by 82 runs on the first innings. Conditions all round were good, and muefi lively and spirited battng was seen on both sides. The visitors, going in first, hit up the fine total of 208 before the last wicket fell. The outstanding innings was that of L. Little, who, combining sound defence with vigorous hitting, rattled up 80, a total which included four sixes and six fours. The partnership for the second wicket added 77 to the score. A serviceable stand for the opening partnership was made by Kirwin and Treweek. The former, hitting with great power, put on 28 in eight smites (two sixes and three fours), while Treweek, batting with excellent judgment, made 36 by nice cricket. He -got three fours, and ended his innings with two fine sixes, when he fell to a good catch. The intermediate batsmen made but little stand against Cole and- Wilson, but towards the end Jordan, a promoted junior, played a capital innings, and after making 24 by good play was unbeaten. He and Barker (18) put on 42 between them. The tail wagged well. Cole again bore the brunt of the Stratford attack, and in the largo total of over 200 got six wickets for the comparatively small total of 62 runs. He also batted well, and with Court was responsible for 67 out of the total of 126. Both had to play well to get their runs, and neither hit many boundaries. None of the other Stratford men did much, Wilson and Young alone getting double figures. Kirwin, Inch and Mills divided the bowling honours. Scores are as below: EXCELSIOR. Kirwin. b Cole 28 Treweek. c Pegg, b Wilson 36 L. Little, b Cole 80 Inch: b Priest- Q Jennings, c Young, b Wilson 5 Seager, b Cole 7! 0 Moloney, c Massey, b Cole 1 Jordan, not out 24 Wills, b Cole 2 Barker, c and b Cole 18 Maehin. e and b Young 2 Extras 12 Total 208 Bowling analysis: Cole six wickets for 62, Wilson two for 62, Priest one for 61, Yonng one for 11. STRATFORD. Court, c Mills, b Kirwin 34 Cottier, b Kirwin 8 Cole, c Jordan, b Inch 33 Pegg, run out 9 Wilson, c and b Mills 11 Massey, 1.b.w., b -Jennings 0 Gibson, 1.b.w.. b Mills 4 Young, b Inch K) Priest, not out 0 Irvine, b Kirwin 0 Sounrly, b Tnoh 3 Extras 14 Total 126 Bowling analysis: Kirwin three wickets for 24. Inch three for 16, Mills two for 19, Jennings one for 6, Seager none for 19, Treweek none for 12. Maehin none for 16. I V NOTiTH TARAVA.KT. COUNTRY MATCHES. Bell Block beat Braxton in a small scoring match by 25 runs. 'The foiniei made 56 and 91 and the latter 67 and 55. One capital score was made on each side, A. Irving getting 50 out ol the 67 made by Braxton; while- L. Giddy in -scoring 51 in the second innings for Bell Block practically won the m-ateth for his side. Tarurutangii won from Egmo-nt Village by 14 runs, .scoring 55 to the latter’s. 41 for eight wickets. In. a friendly match between Stratford and New Plymouth teams, there was capital scoring by two players, one .in each team. For Stratford G-atton, after la fine innings of 102, was unbeaten when time was declared for eight wickets for 188. New Plymouth made 180 for six wickets, Nasmith being 130 not out when time was called and six wickets being down for 180. Carrington Road, playing the News team , put on 210. three scores of over 50 being included while the latter made- 191 and 64 for three wickets. JUNIORS. MIDLAND' BEAT SCHOOL A. At the park Midland met School A and won in the first innings by 18 runs. Going in first Midland put on 69, 'lla-yilor 15, and Hayes 26, both scoring well while School scored 51, Morrissey 15, and Petersen 11 alone- getting double figures. For School Peter-sen five for 32 and for Midland Malone six' fo-r 19, .Fairweather three for 5 bowled best. Going on, Midland scored 70, E’nt-wi-stle 12, Morrison 26, Taylor 10, FairweatherO, and 1 School with 88 to get had 70 on for six wickets, -at call of time. r Both teams were short -and made up from other players. High School were

without several of the best players. Hntwisfcle was making <a hue appearance and kept wickets, smartly. He stumped two and caught one. Special mention must be made of M orrison for Midland iand also Barker, for his valiant effort to win. He forced the pace land was 27 not ont when time was up. NOTES. ARRANCEMENTS FOB THE- WEEK The North -and South Country Clubs which was to have been played at Inglewood on Thursday has been postponed because of the Melbourne Cricket Club v. Taranaki match on the following day®. H. R. Penny, of Okaiawa, will not be available- for Taranaki this week. Tikarangi have nut in a challenge against the South Division. On Saturday a match will be provided at Hawera for those who cannot go to- New Plymouth. TARANAKI v. AUSTRALIANS. THE HOME TEAM. The following will represent Taranaki against the Melbourne Cricket Club in the match to be played at New Plymouth on Friday and Saturdav next: Kingston, Nasmith, Bottrill, Clarke, Grayson, Lash, Petty, Monaghan, Lay, Cole, Cheevers. Emergencies: First, Court; second, Dykes.