One-day Match With Maori Club

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 121, 24 May 1937, Page 7

One-day Match With Maori Club

Batting Practice For New Zealanders RAIN RESTRICTS PLAY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, May 22. Rain restricted play to two and a half hours in the one-day game against tho Maori Club conducted by the New Zealand Shipping Company on a pretty tree-encircled ground at Worcester Park just out of London. The match resulted in a draw. The Maoris were represented by five New Zealanders, Donnelly, J. B. Aitchison, N. H. Barnett, N. P. Johnson and C. B. Sharpe, and seven prominent English amateurs, Harold Gilligan, Maurice Allom, E. T. Benson, B. G. Valentine, Major G. Trench, A. D. Baxter and C. S. Marriott. The New Zealand team was: Kerr, Hadlee, Page, Carson, Lamason, Moloney, Weir, Wallace, Gallichan, Dunning, Vivian and Lowry. Vivian and Wallace had useful batting practice, the former hitting five sixes. The team was entertained at lunch at which there were 800 guests, including Lord Liverpool, former Governor of New Zealand, and Messrs. Savage and Nash. Play began at 3.30 p.m. Scores:— NEW ZEALAND Page, c Allom, b Baxter 18 Hadlee, lbw b Marriott 28 Weir, c Gilligan, b Marriott 10 Lamason, c Baxter, b Marriott 2 Vivian, not out 70 Wallace, not out 26 Extras ...... 13 Total for four wickets 167 Bowling: Baxter, one for 77; Allom, none for 16; Marriott, three for 28; Sharpe, none for nine; Johnson, none for 24.