AUCKLAND TOO GOOD FOR RODNEY

Northern Advocate, 29 December 1937, Page 3

AUCKLAND TOO GOOD FOR RODNEY

Cricket

I Special To “Northern Advocate”] AUCKLAND. This Day.

The Auckland Country Week tournament was continued yesterday on the Auckland Domain.

Auckland fielded a strong side against Rodney, and ran up a big total. Rodney made a game effort to reach the Auckland score, but there was too much indecision in the running between wickets and three of the e'arly batsmen were run out. Auckland gained a first innings

victory. In the match between Franklin and Selwyn Oraka, the latter appeared to have a chance of an outright win, but Franklin played out time to lose on the first innings.

AUCKLAND v. RODNEY. AUCKLAND.—First Innings,

H. Adams, c Hooper, b Campbell 37 W. Armstrong, b Dunning 7 C. Lund, retired 104 F. Andrews, Ibw, b Dunning 42 I. Cooper, b Campbell 3 | Taylor, run out ...... 43 Gillespie, b Dunn 37 Marshall, b Vipond 16 i Bentley, not out 36 W. Smeeton, b Andrews 10 F. Hewitt, b Campbell 11 Extras 28 Total 374 Bowling.—Campbell took three wickets for 55 runs; Dunn, two for 77; Vipond, one for 64; Dunning, one for 56; Andrews, one for 37; K. Hooper, none for 29; A. Ellis, none for 14; J. Hooper, none for 14. RODNEY. First Innings. J. B, Hooper, run out 27 N. Vipond, b Smeeton 46 R. Dunning, run out ! 1 S. Campbell, run out 0 E. Shepherd, Ibw, b Taylor 1 R. Dunn, b Hewitt 4 j B. Andrews, b Taylor 0 K. Hooper, st. Marshall, b Taylor 0 A. Ellis, c Cooper, b Taylor 6 W. Neal, c Lund, b Taylor 1 J. Edgar, not out 9 Extra 0 Total 95 Bowling.—Taylor took five wickets for 14 ruhs; Smeeton, one for 15; Hewitt, one for 32; Bentley, none for 10; Andrews, none for 24. Second Innings. 'J. Edgar, c Armstrong, b Lund .. 19 R. Dunning, not out 24 S;'Campbell, b Bentley ...... .V.. ' 1

F. Andrews, Ibw, b Bentley .... 0 A. Ellis, not out i 2 Extras .'. 7 (Total (for '3 wickets) 53 Bowling.—Bentley took' two wickets for two runs; Lund, one fbr 30; Smeeton, none for 14. Rodney Meet Putaruru 1 Special To “Northern Advocate ” 3 AUCKLAND. This Day. On the third day of Country Week cricket games, interest centred in the match between Rodney and the Sel-v/yn-Oraka team from Putaruru, both winners -on former days. On this game rested the fate of the Hellaby Shield, for competition amongst country teams. The Rodney men had first innings, and shaped uncomfortably to the Putaruru bowling, their first six wickets falling for 32 runs. The Innings (one man short) ended just before noon for 81 runs. At lunch, Putaruru had lost two wickets for 2(5 runs, and an interesting fight for the runs was in prospect. RODNEY.—First Innings. Vipond, c Strickland, b Wilks .. 4 Hooper, c Strickland, b Wilks ~, .15 R. Dunning, b Callaghan 5

Andrews, c O’Loughlin, b Callaghan 14 Campbell, b Callaghan’ 1 Hooper, b Callaghan 0 Ellis, b Wilks 5 Shepherd, c Wilks, b Callaghan .. 11 Edgar, b Wilks 16 Neal, not out 1 Anderson, absent 0 ExtraJs 9 Total 81 Bowling: Callaghan took 5 wickets for 22 runs, Wilks 4 for 24, Lowry 0 for 13, Hunt 0 for 15. PUTARURU.—First Innings. Fisk, b Ellis 5 Lowry, run out 0 Smith, not out 16 Vallance, not out 5 Total for two wickets 26