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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 11152, 29 December 1896, Page 5

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NEW SOUTH WALES V. VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, Dec. 28.

New South Wales are all out for 312. Cunningham scored 30. Trumble took five wickets for 89, Carlton two for 83, Troth one for; 33, M’Leod one for 31, and Harry one for 27. Victoria, in the first innings, has lost three wickets for 58, Worrall 21, Graham not out 20. Rain, which had fallen on the previous night, rendered the wicket bad, and at five to-night the game was stopped owing to rain. Kelly, of New - South Wales, who was not out on Satur- . day, was dismissed without increasing his score. THE AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL. The delegates to the Cricket Councilhave arrived. Bruce, in an interview, said that while thinking the team did wrong in not coming back by Nov. 30, he did not think any good could be done by stirring the matter up now. He did not believe that the Cricket Council would live long as at present constituted. Evan, the Adelaide , delegate, said he regarded the Council simply as a waste of money. During its existence it had done nothing beyond draining the funds. , Various Associations have given notice of motion for Tuesday’s meeting that all future Australian elevens should be financed by the Council.

QUEENSLAND v. NEW ZEALAND.. fPjiK Press association.! WELLINGTON, Dec. 28. After a long day’s play. New Zealand emerged triumphant from the first encounter with the full strength of an Australian colony on level terms. The day was bright and sunny, and the attendance moderate. : The Queensland innings was quickly finished off, and New Zealand went in on a new wicket with a lead of 61. Tho ground was very fast, and any hit not fielded , easily reached, the boundary. Guff and Holdship started off at a merry pace, vying with one another as to who should get the ball to the ropes most often. Cuff quickly established a lead, and scored so fast that 50 went up in twenty-five minutes. One tremendous drive went almost out of the ground. The Captain, who has always come off this season in the second ; innings of each representative match, quite kept up his reputation as the liveliest bat in New Zealand. After he had gone Holdship kept going, and hit every , bowler with perfect indifference. His return to form was welcome, and ; the crowd were very pleased to see him come out on top. The innings was a reversal of the first, as after the start, . which promised a big total, the batting ~ tailed down to a minimum, though everybody contributed something. Believed of the incubus of Cuff and Holdship, the bowling Inaterially improved, especially that of M’Glinchy, who came out with a fair average. The fielding was rather indifferent, for which, in some measure, the roughness of the ground is responsible, but an exception must be made in favour of M’Donald, who brought off three fine catches and, stopped many good'hits. Hitchcock, despite his wounded hand, kept wickets well. When Queens- , land’s turn came they preferred to bat on the . old wicket, but it turned out to be rather more bumpy than the new one, on which the ball had occasionally got up a little. Prankish ■ in this innings rose at times a good deal. He certainly made more than a respectable substitute, even for Fisher, and without him the bowling might easily have got into a knot, as Pearce’s hand was disabled. The Canterbury man _ had some luck, as Donahoo, after being missed at the wickets, was wrongly given out caught there from a ball which hit him on the leg, and two other men pulled tho ball into the wickets. Apart from this Frankish really bowled well, as he kept; a good length and evolved considerable break, which repeatedly beat the batsmen. Uiiham also bowled well, but could not get wickets, and Neill was put on with effect towards the end. Tho Queensland innings only lasted two hours and three

minutes, and at 6.23 New Zealand was proclaimed victorious by the satisfactory margin of 182 runs,, and the local men may fairly claim to have outplayed their opponents at all points. ' After six runs bad been added to tno previous total of the Queensland men, Hitchcock dropped his bat in running and failed to reach tho creaso in time. The total was 146, New Zealand thus" having a comfortable lead. New Zealand began its second innings at 11.50. The order was altered. Cuff and Holdship being the first pair. Byrne started bowling, 'and 9 were hit off tho first over. M’Glinchy fared no better at the other end,' as Cuff hit him for. 0 also. Holdship, as usual;, was uncomfortable for h while, but after a nervous stroke or two, settled down, and scoring went on merrily. Thirty-five were hit up in a quarter .of an hour, and at 43 Wilson relieved Byrne, off whom 25 had been scored in three overs, a great contest to his bowling on Saturday. Fifty came up' in twenty - five minutes; and Hoare took M’Glinchy’s end. , Cuff scored somewhat faster than the Wellington man, but the latter, when ho did hit, was seldom content with anything less than four, no less than five fours in succession corning off his bat. Men were spread, out all round the ropes for Cuff’s slashing hits, but, nevertheless, he landed one from Wilson high over tho canvas, among the trees. Next hall, however, ho was i magnificently caught off another fine hit by ° M’Donald at mid-on--74—1—-41. Among his hits were one five, five fours and two threes. Upon Baker coming in Holdship emulated Cuff’s feat by lifting a full-pitch from Wilson clean over Bradley’s head on to the path. Byrne -went on at the north end, but vims still came freely, and 100 appeared after, fifty-seven minutes’ play. Wilson retired in favour of Lewis, ■and Baker, who had been losing no time, brought his score to 19 with a big hit to the ropes. An adjournment was then made to lunch, with the score at 115, Holdship not out 54. Only a single was V. added after resuming, when M’Glinchy upset Baker’s log' stump —116 2—19. Holdship was severe on \ Lewis, whoso slowa he seembd tb relish. In one oyer he drove, - cut and hit to leg successive balls, all of which reached the ropes, a fine ! display of all-round batting, hext oVerhe made a mis-hit, try ing to play M’Glinchy to leg, and well caught by M Donald. 133 3—69. Holdship’s success at last was well received, and his innings was quite in his best form. Included in it were one five, ten fours and three threes. Do Mans and Ridley were now together. Lewis was still erratic, and Ridley got two very bad balls to tho boundary, 25 runs in all coming off two overs. After this Lewis went off in favour of Hoare, who sent down a very good: over, far the best yet bowled. The Lancaster Park man was in an aggressive mood at first, but had to play carefully, as a distinct improvement was shown in the bowling. Several times .both batsmen were irr trouble, and though they managed to keep the ball out of tbe wickets runs only came slowly. De Maus, wlio\did not seem able to get properly going, was at last caught at the wickets —173 —4—17. With Neill’s advent the bowlers obligingly sept down several to leg, and enabled him quickly to run into doubles, but after getting another boundary stroke in the same direction he tried p to repeat the dose, and put _ his leg in front—--190 s—l 4- Lusk joined Ridley, and obtained his first score by some bad fielding, which gave him 3 for a hit that was first mulled and then overthrown. Immediately after Ridley shared Do Mans’s fate — 195 —g—30, a very Useful but quiet innings. Five wickets had thus fallen in a little over an hour since resuming. Pearce and Lusk,, the heroes of the previous innings, were now together again. The former, however, was suffering from an injured finger received on Saturday, and did not stay long, being finely caught by M’Donald, who took the ball while going full speed. 20-1 —7—5. Lusk proved to be in a hitting mood, and so warmed up M’Glinehy that Wilson was put on again, but Byrne _ presently got him caught in the slips off a rising ball—232—S—23. Frankish did not stay long, and Wright, after batting for a number of overs very , carefully, returned a soft one to Wilson, leaving Upham, who had been.hifcting boldly without scoring much, to carry Lis bat. The innings closed at 3.55 for 241, at least a hundred less than the commencement promised. The Queensland men began their task of getting 303 at 4.20, Donahoo and Hoare facingAjpham and Frankish. The last ball of the latter’s first over proved fatal to Hoare, who dribbled it into his wickets. In Upham’s next Donahoo touched one, and the field; as one man, shouted “ How’s that?” but Wright could not hold it. The left-hander got in one or two V nice hits, but not without putting one dangerously near the wicket-keeper, and then there was another appeal, for caught behind the wickets, which was given against him—l5 —2 —ll. Tho batsman. was dissatisfied, as it appeared the

bail had hit his leg and not the bat. Jones * followed and played his first ball to leg for what looked like an easy run. Lusk shot out his long right arm, and returning the ball smartly, Jones was run out before ho could scramble back —ls—3—o. IVl’Donald and Bradley made a short stand, and took the score to 43, when the latter was clean bowled by the left-hander. The

former continued steadily, cutting very

cleanly, and slowly adding to the i score'by singles' and bracks. The first hour produced 60 runs, M’Qlihchy doing his share in the shape of sundry serviceable drives, including oho to the boundary. A fow/ruhs- later the latter got one oh the edge,of his bat and was caught at short leg. 665 —16. This was Upham’s first wicket. Lewis joined M’Donald and the little man brought his score over 20 with a clipping cut, which Do Mans chased and just prevented reaching the boundary. After a rap or two on the

fingers from Frankish, who was bumping ii occasionally, the Doctor got him at last ; to the ropes. Four byes brought gij on the board. Lewis was a

long time beginning, his first hit of consequence being a cut for four off Upham, but 90 had only just gone up when M’Donald brought his steady innings to a conclusion by pulling Frankish Ante his wicket, the second man disposed of in; the same way—9l —6—3o. Wilson, who siicceeded Lewis, snicked one, which was almost a chance, past slip and got three for it, and then four byes’ were run, bringing 100 up in just A hundred minutes from starting.. At this stage six • -o’clock had. arrived, but it was decided to play on, and the first change was made, Neill relieving Upham. His second ball Lewis lifted over tho bowler’s head. Pearce, stood far out, and it was any odds he could not reach it, but ho rushed forward, tool: tho ball at his feet, and though ho turned a complete somersault, held on and brought off a catch, for which ho was enthusiastically applauded—lol—7—l2. Tho next ball Wilson landed clean over the canvas for five, and tho fourth Miller drove high towards the ropes, where Ridley baclly missed him, as he took .'the 'bail' cbmfortfibly ,'and; .then, dropped it. Miller tried the same'stroke in ’ Neill-s • following . aver „and, was ’.clean bowled —ll2—B—3. Two’ runs later Frankish hit Wilson’s leg stump with a fast ball. Byrno ■ got in ono good bit for four, and was then caught at the wicket with the total at 120, and this brought the innings to a conclusion. The following are the scores :

Total 120 Bowling- Analysis. Unbam, 102 balls, 4 maidens, 35 runs, 1 wicket; Prankish, 120 balls, 4 maidens, runs, 3 wickets. The match between F. Toomer’s team and tho Excelsior Boot Factory was played at Lancaster Park yesterday, and resulted in a win for the latter by nine wickets. Scores—F. Toomer’s Team 69 (Mitchell 23, 11. Toomer 12) and 112 (F. Teenier 50, Mitchell 17, Saxton 13); Excelsior 171 (Donnley 05, Dunham 19, Ayroy 15, Harvey 12) and 10 for one wicket. Donnley, Long and Ayrey bowled best for the winners and Thompson, E. Toomer and Mitchell for tho losers. A team from the United Cricket Club visited Sumner-.yesterday and played a match against the local club at Mr Monck’s. The visitors batted first and made 149, thanks to the good play of Tapper, who carried bis bat through the,whole innings for 56, obtained by good cricket. Day 29 and Lambio 20 also reached double figures. Sumner made 104 (Hair 2S, Brown 25, Lawrence 14). The visitors thus won by 43 runs. The fielding of both sides was rather weak. Johnston bowled well for Sumner and Williams for the United. Afternoon tea was provided by Mrs Monck.

3SKW ZEALAND. First Innings. L. A, Cult', c Bonaiioo b Byrne ... ... 17 0. Baker, b M’Glinchy ... od >1. I)e HTsnis, b M’Glinchy . ... ... .12 B. Neill, c XIoarob Byrne ... 7 A. K. IXolclship, b M’Ghnchy ■ ... ... 7 A. M.-Ridley. b M’Glincliy ... 9 H. B. .Busk, b WiiaOu '... 50 E. Wright, c Hoarc b M'Gliuohy ... 0 W. Pearce, b Lewis... ... ... ... 52 K. Upham, at. Bradley b Lewis ... ... 1 F. S. Frankish, not out ... 0 Extras ... 7 Total ... 207 ■Rowiisa Analysis.—Uyrnc, balls, t»b runs. 0 middens. 2 wickets; "Wilson, wb vvuls , .>1 runs, I wicket: M’Glinchy, 105 balls, C.'i rims, 4 maidens, 5 wickets ; Miilar, 3(5 balls, 30 runs ; Lewi s, 20 balls. 1C runs, 2 wickets j Jones, 21 balls, 10 runs, 3 maidens. QUEENSLAND, First Innings. EC Ponahoo, b Upham ... 70 W. Lewis, c Call' b Neill .... ... 2 S. P. Jones, b Frankish ... 5 W. Bradley, o Cuff b Upham ... ... (> Tii- M’XXonnId, Ibw b Upham ... 1 W. Hoard, b Frankish ... 0 W. W . M’Gliuchy. run out ... 25 }{, Wilson, b Frankish ... 15 X). Miller, not out ... 11 T. Byrne, b Upham ... 2 O. Hitchcock, run out !!. (» Extras ... Total... ... ’HG Bowliso Analysis. — Upham, 138 balls, 7 maidens, 41 runs, 4 wickers; Neill, o i 1 balls, 2 maidens, 43 runs, 1 wicket; Frankish, SO balls, 4 maidens, 49 runs, 3 wickets; Pearce, t> bulls, 7 rims. yEW ZEALAND. Second Timings. Cuff, o Macdonald b Wilson ... 41 Holdship, c M’Ponald b m'GIinchy ... 60 Palter, b M’Glinchy ... 19 i Da Blaus, c Hitchcock h M’Glinchy ... 17 Bidley,. c Hitchcock h M'Glinchy ... 30 Neilhlbwb M’Glinchy ... ... ..... 14 Busk, g Hoa re b Byrne ... 23‘ ; Pearce, oM’DonoJdb Byrne ... ... 5 , ' s Wright, c and b Wilson ... 8 Frankish, c Bradley b Wilson ... Upham, not out , .... ...\ .... ... 4 ..., 5 Extras ... 6 Total.. J 241, ' Bowling Analysis.—Byrne, 72 balls. 3 maidens, 48 runs, 2 wickets; M’Glinchy, 120 balls, I> maidens, 74 runs, 5 wickets; "Wilson, 71 balls. 51 runs, 3 wickets; Hoaro, 00 halls, 3 maidens 30 runs; Lewis, 18 balls, 32 runs. QUEENSLAND. Second Innings. Donahoo, c Wright b Frankish... ... ii Hoare, b Frankish ... 4 M'Donald, b Frankish ... 31 Jones, run out ... ... 0 Bradley, h Frankish ... 11 M’Glinchy, c Pearce b Upham ... ... 16 Lewis, c Pearce b,Neill ... ... 12 ’ Wilson, b Frankish ... 9 Wilier, b Neill ... ... 2 , Byrne, c Wright b Neill ... 6 Hitchcock, uoo out .. ... 2 Extras ... 17