HOLIDAY CRICKET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 107, 6 April 1926, Page 5

HOLIDAY CRICKET.

NAPIER v. PALMERSTON NORTH. VICTORY TO THE VISITORS. Tho cricket match between tho Napier Technical Old Boys and a team of local colts, which opened on the Sportsground on Saturday, was carried through to a conclusion yesterday under somewhat. unfavourable conditions, tho sky being overcast, while a cold wind was in evidence. On tho opening day Napier had compiled 254, to which the home eleven replied with 234, thus giving tho visitors an advantago of 20 runs on the first innings. Their second visit did not, however, open very auspiciously, two wickets being down for three runs, hut two innings by Pirie, who returned 53, and J. Gallichan, a local playor, who compiled 43 and was unbeaten at the close, saw' tho total carried to 148. Palmerston North were thus left with 169 to get to win, but in a fight against time and in a rapidly 'fading light, failed to attain the requisite number of runs, tho side being all out for 110, Spring heading the returns with 35, wlide Webster compiled 29. Napier thus won by a margin of 58 runs. Rouso proved to. bo the most successful trundbr in thj ranks of the visitors, accounting for eight wickets in tho two Innings at a cost of 117 runs, while Spring, the local High School player, secured nine wickets at a cost of 118 runs at Napier’s two visits to> tho batting crease. Detailed scores:— NAPIER. First Innings 254 Second Innings. W. Young, run out 1 A. Eliott, c Hollior, b McHaffie 1 Graham, b Spring 7 Hardaker, b Spring 15 Pirio, thrown out 53 E Eliott, st Rose, b Spring ... 1 Rouse, c Cresswell, b McHaffie ... 1 Gallichan, not out 43 Symons, c McHaffie, l> Spring ... 4 Pethorick, st Rose, b Spring ... 1 Frankpitt, absent 0 Extras 21 Total 148 Bowling analysis: Hollier 0 for 31, McHaffie 2 for 23. Spring 5 for 50, Webster 0 for 6, Pilcher 0 for 6, Cresswell 0 for 6. PALMERSTON NORTH. First Innings 234 Second Innings. Rose, b Rouse 5 Webster, b Hardaker 29 McHaffie, st A. Eliott, b Rouso 0 Hollier, cE. Eliott, b Rouse ... 0 Spring, cA. Eliott, b Rouse ... 35 Pilcher, c Gallichan, b Hardaker 16 Kells, b Hardaker 5 Cresswell, not out 11 Leet, run out 0 Scorgie, o A. Eliott, b Hardaker 0 T. Young, b Hardaker 9 Extras ... 9 Total HO Bowling analysis: Rouse 4 for 49, Pirio 0 for 15, Hardaker 5 for 36.

HAWKE’S BAY BEAT MANAWATU.

NAPIER, April 5

In the cricket match concluded today, Hawke’s Bay defeated Manawatu by an innings and 118 runs. After resuming the first innings the home side carried the total to 484 for tlio loss of six wickets ' and declared. Lowry (not out) and C. Beuth (not out) batted splendidly for centuries. The visitors replied with a tame 175 (Hope 56 and Galliclian 23) being the only batsmen to make a stand against the bowling. Scores are as follow: MANAWATU. First innings ... 196 Second Innings. Broughton, b Paterson • ... 15 Beach, c Heaney, b Mitchell 13 Norris, st Lowry, b Mitchell ... 16 Galliclian, run out 23 Piercy, c Stephenson, b Temperton 15 Brace, c Lowry, b Mitchell 0 Bennett, c and b Mitchell 14 Hope, c Paterson, b Mitchell ... 56 Smillie, c Beuth, b Temperton ... 19 South, not out 1 Guy, st Lowry, b Mitchell 0 Extras 3 Total ... 175 Bowling analysis: Temperton two for 88, Paterson one for 21, Mitchell six for 60. HAWKE’S BAY.—First Innings. Cane, b Hope 0 Stephenson, c Broughton, b Hope 84 Owen, c Brace, b Galliclian 44 Paterson, c Galliclian, b Black ... 36 lteaney, c Broughton, b Galliclian 49 Lowry, not out 119 Mitchell, c Bennett, b Black ... ... 19 Beuth, C., not out 102 Extras 31 Total for six wickets (declared) 484 Bowling analysis: Hope two for 159, Black two for 92, Galliclian two for 129. AUCKLAND MATCHES. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 5. A cricket match between Auckland Y.M.C.A. and Wellington Y.M.C.A. was won by Auckland by 14 runs on the first innings. Auckland made 308 and Wellington replied with 294. For Auckland Ivan Cooper made 146, and for Wellington Dempster scored 200 and Johnston 02. Auckland Training College, 115 and 168, defeated Wellington Training College, 71 and 147. McSweeny scored 42 for Wellington, and Matherson took six wickets for 48 runs. WELLINGTON OUTCLASS NELSON Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 6. The match between the Nelson and Wellington representative teams was concii’ded at the Basin Reserve, and resulted in a sweeping victory for the homo team by the wide margin of an innings and 340 runs. Wellington scored 529 in their first innings, but Nelson, who had totalled 113 in their opening knock, could only manage 76 in their second venture. AUSTRALIANS’ TOUR. CRITICISM OF CRITICS. . ‘ LONDON, April 4. The appalling “pen-swishing” from tho advance guard of the Australian cricket writers prompts George Brann, once a player for Sussex in a letter, to sav: “The Australians have hitherto arrived without boosting and selfadvertisement, and have been prepared to beat us off their own bat. If cricket is to be turned into a species of circus, why not appoint a master of core-