CRICKET.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 59, 20 February 1911, Page 3

CRICKET.

THE FOURTH TEST.

AUSTRALIA LEADS IN FIRST INNINGS BY 123 RUNS.

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Melbourne, Feb. 18.

There was superb weather and a good wicket to-day. Comaille fielded in place of Llewellyn in consequence of the latter's injury yesterday.

Carter and Hordern were opposed by Schwarz and Pegler. Carter was run out attempting a second run— 9 for 328. Hordern was caught at mid-on. The innings lasted 296 minutes.

Zulch and Stricker started, Cot _.r and Whitty bowling. Off the latter’s last Mall of the first over Zulch was run out by a smart piece of fielding at point by Gehrs—one for 17. Faulkner came next.- • Aftet scoring one, Stricker gave a chance at slip to Armstrong off Cotter. The latter at 11 was relieved by Hordern, who clean bowled Stricker. The ball struck Carter in the eye. When 2 Nourse was missed at slip by Hordern off Whitty. Faulkner was batting attractively when he was well caught at cover —three for 36. Snooke was short lived. He was yorked—four for 37. Sinclair fell to a full toss—five for 38. Hordern’s average here was three for 14. The Australians were delighted with the morning’s work. On Hie resumption of play Schwarz joined Nourse. When 7 Schwarz lifted Whitty to deep mid-on. Armstrong made a magnificent successful attempt at the catch, and was cheered. The 50 occupied 61 minutes. Schwarz was dismissed by • beauty—six for 65. Sherwell was cautious and was 17 minutes before scoring. At 90 Armstrong relieved Whitty. Sherwell pulled Hordern for 4, bringing up| 100 in 107 minutes. Nourse made a powerful straight drive back to the bowler. Hordern attempted to catch, but missed it and damaged a finger of his bowling hand, and retired temporarily. Matthews fielding in his place. Kelleway relieved Hordern. The batting im-! proved steadily. When 45 Nourse gave a chance to Trumper in the slips off Kelleway. Nourse gained his 50 in 110 minutes. At 132 Cotter relieved Armstrong. When 37 Sherwell was missed at slip by Armstrong off Kelleway. Nourse 1 and Sherwell made an attractive stand, and showed ’stylish batting. On resumption of play Whitty and Kelleway bowled. The partnership was broken by Whitty. Sherwell skied him to mid-on, where Matthews was fielding as substitute for Hordern, whose two fingers were dislocated. Sherwell had stayed 98 minutes and played a useful innings, hitting 6 fourers — seven for 156. Llewellyn was short lived . He was clean bowled —eight for 171. Whitty had taken four wickets for 67. Pegler and Nourse livened matters. The 200 occupied 195 minutes. Cotter relieved Whitty at 205. Off his second ball Pegler was caught at point—nine for 205. Vogler succumbed to the third ball—ten for 205. Nourse played a stolid, effective innings and was cheered. He was in 176 minutes and hit 5 fourers. The in nings lasted 204 minutes. The Hit ting was generally disappoint iiur .-n so perfect a wicket. With half an hour togoK>r ■•■'•ay and Gehrs opened to Sim-iair :.;;u Schwarz. Off Sinclair s fir-' -..er 12 were scored, and 3' =. •■•red in 12 minutes. Four bcvler* v. ertried. Kelleway wa. run ut b\ foolishness on his turn pa a. The attendant lurkhu 21.897 and the takings ••■r- *>42. Score =>:

AUSTRALIA. ! First Innings. ! Trumper, b Faulkner 7 Bardsley, c Schwarz, b Pegler. 82 Hill, b Llewellyn 11 Armstrong, run out 48 Gehrs, st. Sherwell, b Vogler.. 9 Kelleway, run out 59 Ransford, 1.b.w., b Schwarz .. 77 Coteer, b Pegler 16 i Hordern, c Vogler, b Pegler... 7 ’ Carter, run out 5; Whitty, not out O' Hordern, not out 1 ( Ex,r * B _l 5 i Total 328 J Bowling Analysis.—Llewellyn one wicket for 65, Faulkner one for 82, j Schwarz one for 34, Vogler one for > 30, Sinclair none for 40, Pegler ( t three for 40, Stricker none for 18, I Nourse none for 4. Second Innings. ; Kelleway, run out 18 • Gehrs, not out 30 ; Total for one wicket .... 48 ] SOUTH AFRICANS. First Innings. Zulch, run out 2 Stricker, b Hordern 4 Faulkner, c Ghhrs, b Hordern 20 Nourse, not out 92 Snooke, b Whitty 1 Sinclair, b Hordern 0 Schwarz, b Whitty 18 Sherwell, c Matthews, b Whitty 41 Llewellyn, b Whitty 7 Pegler, c Hill, b Cotter 15 Vogler, b Cdtter 0 Extras 5 Total 205 Bowling Analysis.—Cotter two wickets for 16, Whitty four for 78, Hordern three for 39, Armstrong two for 25, Kelleway none for 42.

Hawke’s Bay Association cricketers were fortunate on Saturday in having fine weather. Some good scores were) put up in the afternoon. In the Ahuriri-Hastings match Broad made 178. Batting for High School Bailey made 102. The following are the results: —

FIRST GRADE. SCINDE v. UNITED.

With four wickets down for 93, Lusk and Andersdn "resumed United’s innings. Anderson was dismissed without scoring, but N. White, Dalgleish and Barker assisted Lusk to swell the runs, the total mounting steadily until it reached 209, when the last-named was caught by Spackman on the boundary at the critical stage of the game. Fenton had seven of the wickets to his credit for an average of a little over 14 runs a-piece. When time was called Scinde had seven wickets down in the second innings for 168 runs, Fenton (42) and Hawke (47) being the chief contributors. The fielding on both sides was very creditable.

The detailed scores are as follows :—

UNITED. | First Innings. j Hindmarsh, b Fenton .35 Smyrk, b Fenton 24 P. White, b Fenton 9 Lusk, c Spackman, b Fenton.. 27 Wood, st. Ashcroft, b O’Brien . 131 Anderson, c Harston, b O’Brien 0 \ N. White, b Fenton 31 Dalgleish, b O’Brien 35 Logan, b Fenton 1 ■ Barker, c Spackman, b Fenton 26! Cato, not out 0 ' Extras 8 Total 209 Bowling Analysis.—Fenton seven ; wickets for 103 runs, O’Brien three : for 80. Bailey nil for 10, Brumby ' nil for 8. I SCINDE. ’ First Innings 218 j Second Innings. | Brumby, c Lusk, b Anderson.. 4r Woodcock, c Lusk, b Smyrk .. 8 O’Brien, c Sywrk, b Cato .... 9 ! Fenton, cN. White, b Smyrk . 42 Spackman. c Logan, b Anderson 14 1 Hawke, not out 47 Ashcroft, 1.b.w., b Dalgleish.. 7; Harston, b Hindmarsh 13 Extras 24

Total for 7 wickets 168

Bowling Analysis.—Smyrk two wickets for 47 runs, N. White nil for 5, Anderson two for 22, Cato one for 16, Barker nil for 6. Lusk nil for 12, Dalgleish 1 for 1, Logan nil for 20, Wood nil for 11, Hindmarsh one for 4. | AHUHIRI v. HASTINGS. | Tlip match Ahuriri v, Hastings < 1 nehiib-J >it Hastings on SatI suited in a win for A! inninss and 41 runs. Abti’.i: ■ :.ired with eight wickets • i.iwii 1 •! 214 runs, Board making 171 11,or out) and Rossiter 31. Hast1 mgs m their second innings batted

. only emht men and scored 150. The • ciouMe-figure scorers were Betts i - i not out). Baker (44) and Kolbe fit). The full scores are as follows: AHTRIRI. 1 First Innings. Board, not out 178

Creed, b Ryan 7 Earney, b Ryan 0 Brownette, 1.b.w., b Atkinson 3 Fulton, c and b Atkmson 1 Anderson, run out 13 Frater, st. Martin, b Davis .. 31 Simmonds, not out 1 Extras 9 wv— — Inn’gs declared for 8 wickets 245 Bowling Analysis.—Ryan two wickets for 71 runs, Atkinson two for 67, Vallance nil for 2, Kolbe nil for 14, Davis three for 59, Betts nij for 17. HASTINGS. First Innings Seconds tunings. Ryan, run out 5 Martin, c Brownette, b Fulton 3 Kolbe, b Fulton 21 Betts, not out 54 Young, c Board, b Fulton .... 8 E. Davis, c Fulton, b Frater.. 4 W. Baker, 1.b.w., b Simmonds 44 R. Davis, b Simmonds 2 Extras n Total 150 Grand Total 203 Bowling Analysis.—Fulton three wickets for 51 runs, Creed nil for 40, Frater one for 34, Simmonds two for 16.

SECOND GRADE.

RAILWAY B v. HIGH SCHOOL.

This match was commenced on the Recreation Ground on Saturday. High School batted first and compiled 231 runs, to which Bailey contributed the fine score of 102. Storkey 38, Geddis, 18, Pangi 12, and L. McLernon 11 were the other double-figure scorers. Railway’s best bowlers were Dickson (four wickets for 44 runs), Glassford (three for 52), and Papps (three for 66). In Railway’s second innings they batted four men short, making a score of 82, the chief contributors being Glassford 119, Dickson 18, Plowman, 14 Papps jl3 and Paten 7 (not out). The best i bowling for the High School was by N. McLernon (two wickets for 24 I runs), L. McLernon (one for 20), ■ and Forcett (two for 18). ' ST. MATTHEW’S v. UNITED. St. Matthew’s and United met at ' Cornwall Park on Saturday, and I when play had ceased for the day ‘United had a lead f of .53 runs on ; the first innings. ‘ ’ St. Matthew’s, . with the exception of Seed (25), ; Masters (16) and Heald (12), did J not perform well being all out for ■66 runs. Hughes, six wickets for ;22 runs, and Lang, four ofr 15, ; were United’s best bowlers. For score of 119 runs, Leevers : was to the fore with a contribution of 63. Hughes added 18 and BurI tenshawe 13, the others making but brief stays at the wicket. The i best bowling for St. Matthew’s was by< Heald {two wickets for 21 runs)* Seed-(one for 6), and S. Land (one for 39), In their second tinnings St. Matthew’s had lost two wickets for 39 runs (Masters .20, Seed 12) when stumps were I drawn.

HASTINGS v. RAILWAY A. t This match was commenced on Cornwall Park, Hastings taking first strike knocked up 104, Railway responded with 79. HASTINGS. First Innings. G. Reeves, b Minett 13 Mclvor, b Minett 3 Mahoney, b Minett 4 Coggins, b Stevens ] Stone, b Stevens 9 Steward, 1.b.w.. b Minett .... 6 Smart, not out 30 Napier, c Gilberd, b Minett .. 17 Newbegin c Stephens b Minett 0 Danvers, c Grange 0 Butter, b Elmes u Extras jq Total jO4 Bowling Analysis.—Stephens two for 31, Minett six for 43, Grange i one for 11, Carter none for 5, Elmes one for 7. . RAILWAY. First Innings. . Carter, c and b Steward 22 McCarthy, b Danvers 1 G. Stephens, b Napier 3 Mossong, c Danvers, b Steward 7 J. Stephens, b Napier 1 Grange, lbw, b Danvers 7 Dickerson, not out 12 Williams, lbw, b Danvers 2 I Gilberd, c Reeves, b Steward.. 0 Minett, c Mahoney, b Danvers. 0 ■ Elmes. b Steward ] 1 j Extras io • Bowling Analysis 79 Bowling Analy sis.—Danvers four * for 16, Mahoney none for 2. Napier two for 20. Steward four for 31. RIFLE SHOOTING. ‘ HASTINGS RIFLES. The following are the results of the Hastings Rifles' fourth handicap match, which was completed | at Fern Hill range on Saturday:—

FIGURE TARGET. (Corporal George (3) .. 42 43—88 I Private McCulloch (1).. 46 41—88

Sergt. Ryder (scr.) .. 43 44—87

Private Batt (6) .. 39 40 —85 Private Compton (14) ..35 36 —85 Private Milne (3) .. 47 35 —85 Corporal Wright (5) .. 42 36 —83 Col.-Sgt. McLeod (scr.) 41—41 —82 Sergeant Tong (scr.) .. 42 40 —82 Private Young (scr.) .. 42 39 —81 Private Guthrie .. 41 38—78 BONE HANDICAP. The above scores also count for the Bone Cup. There is one more match to complete this series. The leading scores are as follows: — Sergeant Ryder 94 87 —181 Corporal George 91 88 —178 Private Milne 92 85 —177 Private Batt 91 85 —176 HUMPHRIES BELT. The positions of the leading competitors in the Humphries Champion Belt series, with two more matches to fire, are as follows: — Sergeant Ryder 363 Sergeant Tong 363 Private Guthrie 355 Colour Sergeant McLeod.... 35»