CRICKETERS’ BAD FORTUNE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 August 1927, Page 5

CRICKETERS’ BAD FORTUNE.

AGAIN miss certain victory. drawn game against surrey. NEW ZEALAND. Pftrst Innings ... Second Innings 371 684 SURREY. Pirst Innings 377 Second Innings, 8 for .. 284 661 {By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 5. .... New, Zealand in the second innings, made 371. Dempster 191 Page . 68 Blunt 36 MeGirr 96 Merritt Bowling.—Geary 4 for 79, McCauhs 1 for 68, Peach 2 for 77, Holmes 1 for •61, Shepherd 2 for 54. Surrey, in their second innings lost S for 284; / Hobbs 0 Sandliam .... • • 90 Ducat 190 Barling, in .............. 78 McCaulis, in 19 Bowling.—MeGirr 1 for 43, Allcott 1 -for 26, Blunt 1 for 63, Merritt 5 for 103.

On awicket affected the heavy •dew, the ball kicked and four New .'Zealanders disappeared for 21. Blunt, MeGirr and Merritt improved matters, McGirr hitting seven fours. Hobbs was caught fourth ball, but Sandham and Ducat put on a hundred. 'Owing to the good bowling of Merritt the score was! only 8 for 207, and it looked like certain victory for New Zealand, but Barling and McGaulis played doggedly and the match was •drawn'.

ITINERARY IN ENGLAND.

The itinerary of the tour is as fol-

lows:— August 6,8, 9—v. Somerset, at Weston-super-Mare . August 10, 11, 12—v. Gloucestershire, at' Cheltenham. August 13, 15,\1G —v. Derbyshire, at

Derby . August 17, 18, 19—v. Lancashire, at

. Manchester. August 20, 22 —v. Cumberland, at

Whitehaven. August 24, 25 —v. Bedfordshire, at Bed-

ford. August 26, 27 —v. Norfolk, at Nor

• wich. August 29, 30—v. Mr. Everard Gates’s ’ Xi. at Old Buckenham. August 31, September 1, 2 —v. Kent, at

Canterbury. ■September 3,5, 6,—v. Wales, in North

Wfllcs * ."September 7, B—v. The Cygnets, at

Llandudno. .'September 10, 12 —v. Mr. H. D. G. Leveson-Gower’s XI., at Scarborough.