MID-WEEK CRICKET.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 1 December 1927, Page 3

MID-WEEK CRICKET.

YESTERDAY’S MATCHES. RIVALS BEAT PHOENIX,. With a. score of 134., in which Eden 38. Pye j2G (not out), Worrall 21 and Miller 27 were the principal contributors, Rivals easily beat Phoenix by an innings and nine runs yesterday, thus gaining a three-point win. \\ orral was in great form with the ball, getting, six wickets lor 33 and fivp for 29 runs. Pye also did well — four for 22 and five for 24. Johns and Reading did best for Phoenix. Johnson 13 and 17 not out, Jordan 16, and Campi 13 were the only batsmen to score freely. I Scores were as below:— RIVALS. Carter, b Johns 5 Atkins, 1.b.w., b Johns 7 Worrall, b Campi 21 Barker, played on, b Johns 1 Franklin, b Johns 1 Vinnioombe, ru nout • 0 Miller, c Zadoni. b Reading 27 Coleman, rim out 0 Tuohy, run out 6 Eden, c Jordan, b Reading 38 Pye, not out 26 Extras t 2 Total 134 Bowling.—Johns took four wiekjets for 38 runs; Ryan, none for 19; Campi, one for 21: R. Johnson, none for 19; Reading, two for 20.

PHCENIX. First Innings. Cal morose, c Eden, b Worm! ... 2 Jordan, b Worral 10 Johns, b Pye * 0 R. Johnson, b Worral 13 Campi, c Atkins, b Worral 13 Tozer, c Franklin, b Pye 2 R>an, b Worral 0 Zadoni, b Pye 1 Kerrisk, 1.b.w., b Pye 0 Hitchcock, not out 0 Extras 3 Bowling.—Worral six wickets for 33 runs; Carter, non®, for 14; Pye, four for 22. Second Innings. Reading, c and b Pye 0 Jordan, o Vinnicombe, b Worral 0 Cairncross. b Pye ® Campi, c Coleman, b Pye 0 Zadoni, b Worral 2 Rvan, b Pye i 9 Hitchcock, b Worral 7 Kerrisk, c and b Worral j-- 2 Johnson, not ou t 17 Chadwick, c Franklin, b Pye 9 Extras 5 Bowling; Worral, five wickets for 29 runs; Pye. five for 24. Star could not get a team to go to Manaia, and consequently forfeited the match. •TEAMS FOR SATURDAY. INTERESTING FIXTURE'S. . On Saturday the two Hawera teams will meet for the first time this season, Midlands playing Excelsior at the Park. Okaiawa will be at home to Eltham, Stx-atford will come to Hawera to play High School. Manaia will be also at home to Patea, while Old Boys travel to Kaponga. All of these are likely to produce good interesting cricket. The teams will be: — Excelsior. —Maeliin, Malone, Galvin, Mills, McCarthy, Buckeridge, Patton, McKenzie, Pye, Fail-weather, Johns; emergency, Vinnicombe. Midlai^ds. —McCarthy, Treweek, Giblin, Oombie, Nielsen, Busing, Seager, Col man, Riae, Jennings and Little. Kaponga.—Hock-in, Grace, Josephson, Priest, Sadler, • Ailbon, V. Betts, Abbott, Melville, Fitzgerald, Harrison, S. Betts.