FEILDING NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 102, 31 March 1925, Page 6

FEILDING NEWS

CRICKET. (From Our Own Correspondent.) 11.5.0.8. v. Colyton.—On tho L'olytori ground tho game botwee tho loon? team and H. 5.0.8. resulted in a win for the latter by 139 runs. In their first innings 11.5.0.8. made 103 and in the second declared for 151 with nino wickets down. I, J. Wild 30, Dowe 32. G. Y. Wild 20, Waldin 20, Braunwell (not out) 16, secured double figures. ( olyton replied with 60, Reid 21, Shepherd 10 and Waldin 13 being tho highest scorers. For 11.5.0.8. G. V. Wild took seven wickets for 21 runs and McKay two for none; while for Colyton Power secured live for 47 and Waldin three for 31. TENNIS. The club championships were decided on Saturday in rather unpleasant weather, a high south-westerly causing unavoidable difficulty in accurate placing. Mrs Caldwell won the ladies’ championship, beating Mrs Stuckey, 6 —3, 6 —4. The men’s championship went to E. 11. McGruer, who beat 11 McConachie in the final, 6 —4, 5 7, 7-5. The club will play a match with Wanganui, at Wanganui, next Saturday, tho following local players being selected: Mrs Caldwell, Miss Shepherd, Miss Barltrop, Miss Atkinson, Mrs Lawrence, Miss Boddy, Messrs E. McGruer, 11. McC'onaehie, D. Hows, F. Fawcett, Y. Lawrence, J, Mason, W, Crooke, K. Allen. BOWLING. To mark tho final phases of ilie Bartholomew Shield competition, wiicli has run right through tho season, tho Nos. 3 in all tho games of tho past series were promoted to skip on Saturday afternoon. Tho following were tho results of tho heats played :—McVicar, Rayworth, Ingram, Oakley (a) 12 v. Andrew* W oodmass, Spence, Goodbehero (s) 19; Fowler, Barrow, E. It. Ingram, McElroy is) 22 v. Harrison, S. Gray, G. Bartholomew, Drummer (s) 18; Robinson, Lambert, T. Taylor, B. Gray (s) 17 v. Barltrop. Clapham, Davidson, Dewe (s) 14: 13 ay, Hobday, L. Clapham, Wilkinson (s) 26 v. Wenha.ni, Young, Williamson, Quayle (s) 17; Gifford, Masters, Mason, Robertshaw (s) 25 v. Lumsden, McAllister, Mills, Moore (s) 12. LONDON MARKETS. The New Zealand Farmers’ Co op. Dist. Co., Ltd., have just received the following cable from their London office: —“Butter market ratlrer steadier aftir weakness; Danish firmer; may probably cause improvement in Continental buying and firm market generally within one week at to-day’s prices. New Zealand 169 sto 1725, Australian 166 s to 168 s, Argentine 168 s to 1765. Cheese is steady, New Zealand 100 s to 102 s. Meat is unchanged.