LOCAL CRICKET

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 30 March 1931, Page 6

LOCAL CRICKET

OLD BOYS’ A V. OLD BOYS’ COLTS VERY FAST SCORING RECORD TOTAL AND WICKET PARTNERSHIP In the first day’s play in the championship match between Colls and Old Boys played at Trafalgar Park, Colts (one short) scored 55 and llie A team five for 196. Continuing oil Saturday runs came at a. great pace and 100 were added in 40 minutes and when the partnership between Neale and Vercoe was broken at 366 the sixth wicket had added 170 runs in an hour, a local sixth-wicket record.

The innings closed at 479, which is a local record for club cricket, topping the eight for 453 made by Colts against Wakatu earlier in the season. The whole score occupied only 210 minutes of 79 overs. Colts, playing two short in the second innings, scored 152, leaving the margin of an innings and 272 runs. R. Fowler showed excellent cricket in putting to-, gether 50. Nightingale got 27 in solid style and Simm, a College boy, playing good cricket in a failing light, scored 18 not out. Scores:—

OLD BOYS’ A First Innings Five wickets for 196 Neale, b Bryant 194 E. Vercoe, retired 168 Eyre, Ibw b. Best Eckhoff, not out • 28 Orton, run out 30 Thomas (absent) “ Extras 2o Total 479 Bowling.—McKay took one for 104, ,T. Simpson none for 118, Best five for 164, R. Fowler none for 46, Bryant one for 14. COLTS First Innings 55 Second Innings

t\\eKay, c Newman, b Blincoe 9 Nightingale, hit wicket, b Eckhoff 27 Bryant, lbw b Busch " R. Fowler, b Blincoe 50 J. Simpson, b Neale 15 Best, b Neale 17 Griffin, b Neale ” K. Blincoe, b Eckhoff 1 Simm, not out 1° G Simpson (absent) D. Fowler (absent) Extras 16

Total 152 Bowling.-—Busch took one for 35, Blincoe two for 38, Orton none for 0, S. Newman none for'’l3, Eckhoff two for 19, Neale three for 24, Eyre none for 8. WAKATFSEASY WIN

At the College ground on Saturday the senior game Wakatu v. College .was finished, Wakatu winning by an innings and 49 runs. On the previous Saturday College in the first strike , made 85, to which Wakatu replied with 225. In their second innings. College, batting nine men, made 91, Campbell being the only batsman to make a stand, contributing 42. The scores were :

• COLLEGE Ist Innings 95 Second Innings Campbell, b Seared 42 McLean, b Langbein 1 Buddie, b Thomason | Stubbs, lbw b Thomason 5 Stace, lbw b Langbein 5 Freeman, not out “ Jeffrey, st, Jones, b Langbein 1 Louisson, b Langbein " Ross (absent) . Sliand (absent) ” Extras : 1°

Total ( yi Bowling: Langbein, four wickets for 23 runs; Searell two for 32; Thomason two for 20. CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS As next Saturday falls during Easter and football is due'to commence on 18th April, it is very unlikely that any further championship games will be played. Wakatu will presumably take the championship. They and Old Boys’ A had still to meet to complete their series, but Old Boys would have to secure an outright win to alter the position, although they have won more matches. A first innings win only would still leave Old Boys half a point behind. The table of points is as follows:

It is'a remarkable thing tl<at the only team Wakatu did not defeat in either round was Colts, whose only win was secured at the expense of the leading team. WELLINGTON SENIOR CHAM* PIONSHIP WON EASILY BY MIDLAND ELEVEN (By Telegraph —Press Association) WELLINGTON, This-Day. Scoring a five-point win on Saturday the Midland Eleven won the ninth match and became the senior champions for 1930-31 with 49 points. Old Boys and Kilbirnie are equal for second place with 43 points. Hutt come next with 41 points.

p. W. L. D. Pts. Wakatu 7 4 2 1 28 Old Boys’ A 7 5 , 2 0 25 Athletic 7 4 3 0 22 Old Boys Colts 7 College 6 1 2 5 4 1 0 8