CRICKET

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 75, 12 March 1930, Page 3

CRICKET

PLUNKET SHIELD WELLINCTON NOW THE HOLDERS. LOWRY’S FINE FIGHTINGINNINGS. Wellington, March 11. By defying the Auckland bowling for close upon eight hours, Wellington won the Plunket Shield to-day, and at the drawing of stumps had lost eight wickets for 380 runs. The day was saved for the home team by a wonderful fighting innings for 122 by the captain, T. C. Lowry, who remained at the wickets for 268 minutes. With McLeod he put oil 112 for the fifth wicket, and with McGirr he added 132 for the sixth wicket. • The Aucklanders strove har 1 all day for victory and might have retained the shield had their work in the air been better. Lowry was dropped behind the wickets when 31, and McGirr was dropped iu the twenties. By preventing Auckland getting an outright win Wellington took the • shield by 18 points to Auckland's 16. The weather was cool with bright sunshine and a very light southerly. A little rain had fallen during the nigrtt. The scores are as follow: — AUCKLAND. First Innings 433 Second Innings (for four wickets declared) 354 WELLINGTON. First Innings 283 Second Innings. B. R. Ross, b Mathieson 0 D. A. Cameron, b Anthony .... 18 A. M. Hollings, b Allcott 34 H. Foley, c Gillespie b Weijsley 21 T. C. Lowry, l.b.w. b Anthony ~ 122 E. G. McLeod, c McCoy b Wonsley 35 H. M McGirr, o Wensley ' b Anthony 90 N. Gallichan, c Wensley b Anthony 0 K'. C. James, not out 2 H. B Massey, not out 0 Extras: Bye% 41, leg byes 14, no balls 3 58 Total for eight wickets .... 380 Fall of wickets: One for 5, two for 44, three for 91, four for 98. five for 210, six for 342, seven forJH2, eight for 379. Bowling analysis: Matheson one for 61, Wensley two for 69, Allcott one for 68, Anthony four for 71, McCoy none for ‘ 22, Elliott none for 23, Badeley none for 5. H.B. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETS. The fortnightly meeting of the management committee of the Hawke s Bay Cricket Association was held last night. Present: Messrs R. M. Chadwick (chairman), C. Louisson, R. Spriggs, C. Elmes, C. Canning, 11. V. Phillips, J. Hawke and H. Stephenson. The Napier Boys’ High School applied for a ruling in regard to their third-grade A team’s first round fixture against H. 5.0.8., which was played the day following the school break-up. They stated that a&- the school had broken up its proper eleven was not fielded.—As the fixture was one arranged by the fixtures committee it was decided to replystating that the result must stand.

The Poverty Bay Association advised that every effort would be made to send senior and junior representative teams to Napier at Easter.

The Central Hawke’s Bay Association asked that their match against Hawke’s Bay be played at Napier on April 12 instead of at Waipukurau as suggested.—Agreed to. The committee decided to close the Napier section of the second-grade competition. Technical Old Boys A being declared the winners. They will meet the winners of the Eskdalc.or the Hastings sections and then the final of the competition would be played. The fixtures committee is to arrange matches for the other secondgrade teams. It- was also decided to close the third-grade competitions on Saturday, the arranging of further games being left to the fixtures committee.

The Napier Boys’ High School was granted permission for their first eleven to travel to Gisborne and play its annual match with the Gisborne High School on Friday and Saturday, March 21 and 22, INTER-HOUSE MATCH. H G. Apsey and Co. proved too strong for Garton and Co. in their annual cricket match, winning by the big margin of an innings and 16 runs. Those to reach double figures for the former were Jack Henry (15), G. Stedman (16), C. Lloyd (20), S. Geake (22) and E. Apsey (20), while Stephens (.33) was the only doublefigure scorer for Garton and Co. Garton and Co.’s scores were 39 and 58 and Apsey and Co.’s reached 113. On Saturday next Garton and Co. try conclusions with C. H. Slater, Ltd. on Cornwall Park. H.B. FIXTURES FOR SATURDAY The Hawke’s Bay Cricket Association’s fixtures for Saturday are as follow:— Senior. United v. Heretaunga, Xelson Park No. 1 ; H. 5.0.8. v. Technical 0.8., No. 2. Second Grade. United v’. H. 5.0.8. A. No. 5; Scinde v. Taradale, No. 6; Technical 0.8. B v. H. 5.0.8. 8., No. 8; Technical 0.8 A v. winners of the Esk Sub-Association. No. 3 (if arrangements can be made). Third Grade. High School A v. High School B. No. 1 High School; Technical School A v. H. 5.0.8., No. 9 Nelson Park: High School C v. Technical School B, No. 2 High School.