PATEAROA V WAIPIATA.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 35, Issue 9405, 6 February 1904, Page 1

PATEAROA V WAIPIATA.

(Ey Our Pate ako a Coreespokdent.) | rapidly. The match played' on | Saturday .last-saw. thenatuinus-several: of their best men in Dowle,- Grant, Dyke and Hore, but in spite of that! the . strong Putearoa „ team's victory over them didn't have too wide a mar- i gin. The Waipiata men fielded in k°en ! and sure style, their bowling'was good, 1 and if "some of their best' wickets had not been thrown awny by' bad judgment in-running, they- would-have made even a better game of-it. Cross bats were also-frequently resortedto, and just as frequently ..found, to.„be failures. When you have M'Lean bowling at one end, and a bat with an i agricultural'slope on if at the other, I it generally happens that the umpire has a bit of stump-fixing to do, JSJicoj captained Waipiata, and He worked his'field and bowlers to ! the advantage. I was sorry to see him get-, run out in his seco nd innings. He was batting.in capital form: and as he has never had much, luck against our | fellows, it was hard to get out in'such i an unsatisfactory manner when he-was set for a'good" score'. Carvalho-proved I himself to be one of tlie-most valuable: | men on his side.- He fielded.well' and ] hit up his runs very quickly >• by brisk i cricket. But he has an l unfortunate, i habit of calling " Stay, stay,"'to his ' partner when heoughttogo, eyes out ;-i and an equally unsupportable p.irtia'ity j for spurting up the pitch and calling ". Come on ! come on ! " when he oughtto stay at horhe. ' - 1

. Rain prevented the game'from being plyed out, and Patearoa won by 31 runs on the first innings. - However, there was every probability that but for the r-ain the victory would have been a ten-wicket one, as only twelve :,runs "were : required \vi:h , uo' wicketsdown, . and Cambridge and Joh nston i both going confidemly. With a few: exceptions, the Patenroa - batting; was i not up to form, while their fieldi.ng was,.on the whole, "quite unworthy of i them. Messrs J Crerar and J Keely i umpired, and their decisions were promptly and cheerfully accepted as •"final. Messrs W Chimside aad - pine scored. One of the square meals for which Mr Grey is ; famous was partaken of bj' the teams at the-close of the play.' Scores : "VVaipiata.—First Innings. H Pearce, b Johnston ... 9 J Nicol , b.M'Lean " . ... 0 G Trpgonmug, b M Lean 7.. . . "~0 J E Carvalho, run out ... ... -7 L Pearce, run out ... ... ... 5 P Matbias, b M'L'eaci -... o G Matbias, b M Lean ... ... o jV-Pearce. b M'Lean ... - ■ " .... 7L Tregonninp, c M'Dowell; b Jo-instou -R'Mathiiis. lbw, b Johnston ... ... 5 J Samuels not out ... ' ... ... 2Extras ...- ... ..; 7 - - - - Total • '. ... 46 Bowlisg . Analysis. —M'-Lean , 5 wickets for 15 runs ; J Johnston,. 3 wickets for 24 runs. PATEAHOA.-^.First. Inningr., J Wilson, b B Matbias ... <..1 J.Johnston, b'H Pearce 0 W M-Lean, c G Matbias, b Nicol • ... 25 P Schi'icb. lbw, b: W- Pearce ... ■■■■■-.-. 6 O Cambridge, c.Samuels, b W Pearce-.-.. 30: A Crerar, c W Pearce, b J Nicol- ... fi 15 Carr,"c W Pearce. b J Nicol ... l" W Johnston, not.oufc ~ ... ... 3 J M'DowelJ; c'H Pearce,-b Nicol ... 1 T Johnston, b W Pearce ... ... 0. D Chirnside, bNicol... - ... ... 2 . Extras .„ . . .... 3Tjtal ... ... 77 Bowling Analysis—B Mathias,-"I wicket i " for 29 runs; W-Pearce, 3 wicke(s-for23-runs ; H Pearce, 1 wicket for 10 runs.; J Nicol, 5 wickets.'for 12 runs. t . . Waipiata -Second Inning", 1 H Pearce, c M-Lean, b.Cambridge ... .0 ' Nicol, run out ... ... ... 10 .G Treeonning. c W Johnston, b Schrick 1 1 Carvalho, b M'Lean .. ... ... 12 < L Pearce, c W Johnston, b M-Laan ... 8P Mathias, b M'Leaa ... ... 6 B Mathias, c\V Johnston, b J Johnston 4' W Pearce, b M'Leaa ... ... ... 7 L Tregonuing,,b Al-Lean ... ... 4 G- Mathias] run 'out ...--■ ... '2 Samuels, not out ... ... ... 0, Extras ... ... 4 Total . .... 53 Bowling Analysis—Cambridge. I wicke' for 9 runs; 1 wicket for runs ; M'Do well, 0 wickets for 10 rnns: Johnston, 1 wicket for 3 runs ; 11 'Lean, 5 wickets for 18 runs.-Patearoa—-Second Innings. Cambridge, not out ... ... • • ... 11 W Johnston, not out ... ... ... 5 . -- , Total for no wickets ... 16 Bowling Analysis—W Pearce, 0" wickets for 6 runs; Nicol, ,0 wioketp for 10 •- - runs. • ■ , February 2nd, 1904, , ;