CRICKET.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 30, Issue 9153, 25 February 1899, Page 2

CRICKET.

NASEBY v. PATEABOA. (By oub Patearoa Cosrkspondknt.) The fourth tussle of the season between these old rivals took place on the Naseby ground on Saturday last. Theenthusiasmwith which the game is followed up in this remote quarter of the globe, where but yesterday the fierce moa bird waxed fat on a mixed diet of quartz pebbles and Maori babies, is highly pleasing to all lovers of cricket, while the iudiarubber-like persistency with which either team bobs up smiling after each successive knock-down is truly British, and proves the sturdy young fellows composing them to be made of the right stuff: The time fixed for starting the match was 10 o'clock, and it was consequently commenced punctually at half-past 11. The Naseby men batted first and put together the moderate score of 65, of which Joe Hore, Costelloe. Christian and Horswell contributed 47 between them by good play. The first innings of Patearoa put them two ahead of the home team, Wilson and King playing up manfully. It seemed at one time as if the Patearoa majority would have been larger, seven wickets being down for 60, with Kine going strongly and the bowling pretty well collared, when in a fit of absentmindedness, Captain Christian handed the ball to Eardley. Yes, he actually handed the ball to Eardley !—a man who couldn't bowl a round-arm ball to save his life 1 Of course this school-boy stuff was right into the hands of the Sowburn boys, and when the first ball was banged for a couple it was as clear as mud that Eardley would soon be taken off. However, King presently misjudged one and got caught. Then A. Marelin, at the wickets, snapped up M'Lean off a simple-looking ball of Eard ley's, and then somehow or other Ledingham's off stump was uprooted by a sea-sick one that made a sudden lurch from leg. \V. Johnston and D. Chirnside put on one or two after that off the other bowler, but in Eardley'B next over a tortuous one described a semi-circle round Billy's left foot and collided with his middle stump. By this time it was about 4 o'clock, and the Patearoa men, confident that there wouldn't be time for another innings each, felt inclined to shako hands with themselves at winning hrce matches in succession. To piss the time, however, Naseby went in again, but owing to some capital bowling on the part of Jack Johnston and young Chimsi.le, backed up by good fielding, the total only came to 57, leaving Patearoa a paltry 55 lo make, ami an hour to do it in. Jack Marslin and Fisher each put on his runs rapidly and well.

Ami now comes the sad part of it. It needn't surprise anyone that Secretary .J.ihnvtonappropriated a very capable baker's dozen out of u tola! of 35," for he can do it ngia.cnough when ho likes ; nor need the fact that that regular briclt Frank Lediugh un knocked up a lusty 10 cause astonishment ; but how is it thjtit after you take off :i (not out) for Willie" Hall, and deduct 3 for extras only six remain to by divided amongst tho other nine men? That's an easy one. It was all through that diubnlica! fellow Eardley ! You go in ; the umpire gives you "centre"; you noticft a nice opening at long-on where you intend to deposit the first one from William, and then that inhuman Englishmnn sends you down a prr-Adamito undorhandorthat takes the carpet about 20 yards away, and comes corkscrewing towards you with a* many contortions as a bon-eoustrictor. You then think that pertiups it would Ims bettor to wipo it to leg. especially a* it is wandering about in th\t direction ; but on further consideration of Un- matter yottdecide that as the ball is now waltzing anituid on the off-nide it would Inadvisable to fluttvo out point with itnud let it go to the off boundary for 3 ; however, tb« ball comes against a brick or something

shortly after that and rebounds to leg again, and then you finally decide to play the game and lift it somewhere along by the Doctor's, when all of a sudden you lose sight of the hall as it scoots treacherously across your toe and takes your off stump '. You may call that cricket; I call it a barbarous relie of the Stone Age, and iE William the Conqueror ever pays a visit to this sequestered nook it would conduce to the wellbeing of all concerned that he should "be accompanied by a body-guard of Maniototo Mounted Rifles. I am proud to say that the Sowburu boys j i faced the music with promptitude in their ] second innings, and that they didn't try in ! any way to take Father Time by the ear in an attempt to hold him back for a one innings victory. In his initial effort to satisfy the hunger of a diningroomful of mountain-seared cricketers Host Costelloe scored well at lunch time, and the snack dispensed by that good sort Garry Botting iu the afte'rnoon was as much appreciated as was the accompaniment of endless cups of delicious tea which he poured from the unfathomable teapot with the wire strainer iu its spout. The match resulted in a win for Kaseby by 20 runs, and as each team now stands at two-all for the season, I hope to see the final tes'. match for the season played here before we are much older, when I shall stand or fall by Patearoa. Scores : NaSBBTT.—FIEST IHJIIKGS. J. Marslin, cO. Cambridge, b Johnstoa .. .. 0 Joe Hore, b Johnston .. .. .. .. 12 T. Costelloe, c Kin?, b M'Lean .. .. ..10 5- Horswell, c and b M'Lean .. .. ..10 Aschoff, b Johnston .. .. .; .. 0 Rev. Christian (captain), run out .. ..15 \V. Guffie, c Crerar, b Schrick .. .. .. S A. Marslin, run out . •«"'■...■ .3 John Hore, b Johnston.. .. .. .. 1 A. Kins, b Schrick .. .. .-. : .. 0 W. Eardley, not out .. .. .. .. S S. Fisher, "c Crerar, b Johnston .. .. .0 Extras .. .. .. .. .. 8 Total .. .. .. .. ..65 Patrakoa—First Ixirrxos. J. Wilson (captain), cJ. Marslin, b Costelloe .. 22 W. Chirnside, cA. Kin;;, bJ. Marslin .. .. 6 O. Cambridge, cA. Marslin, bJ. Marslin.. .. O F. Schrick, run out .. .. .. .. 5 W. King, c Costelloe, b Eardley .. .. ..SO J. Johnston, c Eardley, b Costelloe .. ..0 J. Crerar, b Costelloe .. .. .. ..0 W. Hall, b Costelloe .. .. .. .. 8 D. Chirnside, not out .. .. .. ..5 W. M'Lean, cA. Marslin, b Eardley .. - ..0 F. Lcdinsrham, b Eardley .. „ I. 0 W. Johnston, b Eardley .. .. .. 2 Extras .. .. .. :.■ .. 4 Total .. .. .." .. ..67 Naskbt—Sscoiro iKjnsas. J. Marslin b Johnston.. .. ... .. 10 Eardley, b Chirnside .. .;' .; .. 2 Costelloe, b Johnston .. .. .. .. l Joe Hore, run out .. - .. „- .. o Horswell, b Johnston .. .. .. ~ 3 A. Kins, b Johnston •• •• •• .. 0 Christian, o Wilson, b Chirnside .. .. 4 Guffie, b Chirnside .. .. .. ..7 A. Marslin, low, b Johnston .. ..- .. j J. Hore, c M'Lean, b Johnston.. .. ..8 Aschoff, b M'Lean .. .. .. .. 5 Fisher, not out .. .. .. .. n Extras .. .. ~ „ ... 10 Total .. .. .. ..... .. 57 PATKAROA—SICOXD I.IKISOI. Wilson, b Horswell .. .. .. .. 1 W. Chirnside, b Eardely .. .. . 2 Cambridge, c Guffie, b Eardley.. .. .. 1 J. Johnston, b Costelloe .. .. ..IS M'Lean, b Eardley .. .. ~..' .. 1 Kinjr, b Eardley .. .. .. ~ 0 Schrick, b Eardley .. .. .." .. 1 Halt, not out .. .. .... . S Crerar, b Eardley .. .. :.. .. 0 D. Chirnside, b Eardley .... .. 0 W. Johnston, b Eardley .. .'..■■ .. 0 Ledingham, b Eardley .. .. .. 10 Extras .. .. .. ~ ..3 Total .. .. ..'■. .. .. 85 BoWLCiQ ASALTSB.

Patearoa. Bowler. Overs Mdns Rons Wkta J. Johnston .. 26 •■■'.: 7 . 62 .. 11 W. M'Lean i. 10 .. 8 . . 27 .. 3 F. Schrick .. 8-:-... l . . 17 2 W. Cbirnside .. '-. 0 ... 8 . Naseby. 8 ." 8 Dostelloe .. 17 .. 8 . . 29 .. 5 Horswell .. 15 .. 6 . . 22 .. 1 J. Mnrslin .. 6 .. 1 . . 14 Fisher.. ~ 6 .. 1 . . 7 "." 0 Eardley .. 11 .. S . . 19 .. 13 Patearoa, February 20th, 1899.