Second Games Started Saturday Afternoon

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 6

Second Games Started Saturday Afternoon

The second series of games in the Manawatu Cricket Association’s competitions began on Saturday afternoon, a strong wind, approaching gale force at times, making playing conditions unpleasant. SENIOR GRADE. PALMERSTON V. KIA TOA. For Palmerston in the senior grade match against Kia Toa at the Sportsground, Downes gave a great bowling performance, taking six wickets at a cost of only 23 runs. Kia Toa had lost four wickets for 36 runs when* Berryman joined Nichols in a fruitful partnership. Neither of these batsmen appeared unduly disconcerted by Downes’ deliveries aud 60 runs were added'before Nichols was caught by Carter from a good length ball sent down by Downes. Ormond later accounted for Berryman’s wicket. Nichols’ score included six fours. After this partnership the Kia Toa wickets fell in qu.vk succession and the innings closed with a total of only 111. When stum** were drawn Palmerston had lost .hree wickets for 61. KIA TOA—First Innings. McKinnon, b Downes 4 Brooke, 1.b.w., b Ormond ...... 10 Nichols, c Carter, d Downes •• •• 48 Mullins, c Ormond, b Downes .... 0 Richardson, b Downes ........ 4 Berryman, b Ormond 19 Woodmore, run out 0 Grant, b Downes 5 Doherty, b Downes .. .. 0 Berquist, b Carter 2 Carr, not out 1 Extras is Total 111 Bowling analysis: Downes 6 for 23; Ormond 2 for 25; Carter 1 for 24; M. A. Ongley 0 for 10; Brougham 0 for 10. PALMERSTON.—First Innings. Campbell, c Mullins, b Carr .... 15 Downes, c Woodmore, b Berquist .. 13 Ongley, M. A., c Mullins, b Woodmore .. 22 Extras 3 Total, 3 wickets for 61 Bowling: Carr 1 for 20; Berquist 1 for 21, Mullins 0 for 5, Berryman 0 for 7, Woodmore 1 for 5. CITY V. UNITED. The afternoon was played out with United at the crease. Handy scores were registered by Gallichan (33), Register (36), C. Francis (25), and C. Hart (22). The batting was unspectacular and Register knocked only lour fours, Gallichan three and Hart two. When the innings closed United had a total of 184. Finnie accounted for three wickets at a cost of 58 runs, McVicar taking two for 25. UNITED—First Innings. Hart, L., b Armitage 4 Hart, C., b Finnie 22 Register, c. Finnie, b Hardy .... 36 Holland, b. Me Vicar 7 Lynch, b Armitage 10 Gallichan, b Finnie 33 Nash, run out 7 Houghton, b Finnic 10 Francis, W., b. McVicar .. .. .. 9 Francis, C., not out 25 Extras 21 Total 184 Bowling analysis: Dilks 0 for 20, Armitage 2 for 46, Finnie 3 for 58, McVicar 2 for 25, Hardie 1 for 23. OLD BOYS V. HIGH SCHOOL Old Boys mado a good start with 257 for 8 declared, before stumps were drawn on the first day of the match. High School have Saturday afternoon to equal the score. Details of the match were as follows: Cameron, c. and b. Hudson ...... 12 Bowden, b Pollitt 63 Hunt, b Hudson 13 Gallichan, .w., Pollitt .. .. .. 52 Barraud, c .arford, b Madgwick 0 Watson, c. and b. Brown 20 Spring, b Pollitt 29 Weir, b Pollitt 17 Blummont, not out 37 Moran, not out 13 Extras .. .. .. 13 Total for 8 wickets 257 Bowden’s total included one six and four fours, while that of Gallichan included one six and eight fours. Bowling: Hudson 2 for 74, Heaphy 0 for 56, Brown 1 for 16, Andrews 0 for 38, Pollitt 3 for 30, Madgwick 1 for 24. SENIOR B. Kia Toa v. R.S.A.—Kia Toa batted all the afternoon to make 243 (Wills 66, Colby 36 retired, Montgomery 31, Spiers 19. Gray 4 wickets for 56 and Oman 2 for 24). R.S.A. bat next Saturday and have a big hurdle in front of them. Old Boys v. Air Force: Old Boys made 64 (Beard 13, Adam 12 not out. Taylor 5 for 9, Larsen 2 for 11), and at stumps Air Force declared with 252 on the board for the loss of 7 wickets (Rowland 89 and Arthur 75 in a first wicket stand, Taylor 29, Larsen 16. Kreft 3 for 56, Beard 2 for 38). Old Boys next Saturday will have a hard job staving off an 8-points win for Air f'orce. United v. Optimists: United 144 (Wright 50, Pickett 24 not out, Con non 18, Ryder 18. Warrilow 5 for 38, Clayton 2 for 22, Rice 2 for 34) look like securing a first innings win over Optv mists who, at stumps, had 61 on the board for the loss of 6 wickets (Kempson 14). JUNIOR. Tokomaru v. High School: High School finished the day with a good lead over Tokomaru. They had the grst strike and made 196. Tokomaru replied with 71. For High School, Tarrant made 63, Franke 35, Murray 25, A. Yates 23. (Greig 3 for 37, Perry 3 for 47, Liggins 3 for 13.) For Tokomaru, Williams made 29 and Liggins 13. (Tarrant 8 for 27, including a hattrick.) Kia Toa v. R.S.A.—Kia Toa had the first strike and made 147, R.S. replying with 61. For Kia Toa, Lea« . made 42, McV’icar 37, Spinks 24 (Gilbertson 2 for 39, Day 2 for 28, Schou 2 for 43, Wiggins 1 for 28). For R.S.A., L. Day made 37, Foster 6. (Clarke 5 for 15, McVicar 4 for 39, Leader 1 for 0.) Palmerston v. Marist: Marist raised 88 and Palmerston 66. Batting for Marißt P. Hood made 24, L. White 17. (Kelly 4 for 42, Me Garry 2 for 13.) For Palmerston Mitchell made 22. (White 4 for 30, Hood 3 for 31.) THIRD GRADE. High School B 73 beat Marist 65 (Sinclair 30). High School C 110 and 70 declared (Liddell 40 and 22, Arlidge 31) beat Technical A 58 and 39 (Weston 25). High School A 96 beat Technical B 7 and 19.