Out Door Sports and Pastimes

Free Lance, Volume XVII, Issue 927, 18 April 1918, Page 20

Out Door Sports and Pastimes

By fouchline.

Cricket. The Season's Batting and Bowling Averages. "\T&7ITH the playing of last Satur- ** day's matches the 1917-18 cricket season in "Wellington was brought to a conclusion. In accordance with a custom adopted by me for many years now I have compiled the bowling " and hatting averages for the year, and although I have by me the complete performances of each and every player who has taken part in the matches, the lists published , below only contain , the names of those batsmen who have gone to the wickets; a.t least six times and of the bowlers who have accounted for ten or more wickets. With this as a preamble I give the figures. * * * * BATTING AVERAGES.

BOWLING AVERAGES. \

A review of the season's play would be a propos at this stage, but I will

hold that over for next week's article. Space is . not. too free these days, and although I. might feel inclined 'to spread myself over the doings of. the year the editorial pen might slash pieces put that I would deem too important to risk that happening. Hence my determination .to make another budget to help me out. There are one or two .things in the above tables that I would like '-to refer to, however, at this stage. The first is the fine batting performance put up by C. G. Wilson, the "Father" of Wellington cricket and the Chairman of the Management Committee of the Cricket Association. His tally of 762 runs is the highest ever made in a series of championship matches in Wellington, beating easily the previous record held by F. A. Midlane. Let me put the two performances together: No. of Not Total Highest AverInnings. Outs. Runs. Score, age. C. G. Wilson 13 0 762 181 58.61 F. A. Midlane 12 4 707 101* 88.37 Although Fred Midlane loses the record for the biggest aggregate for a season his average as above —58.37 —is the highest to date. » o * Turning from the batting to the bowling, W. S. Brice has covered himself with glory. A few weeks ago it looked as if J. N. Crawford, the wellknown international player, was going to establish a new record for Wellington cricket as regards the number of wickets taken during a season. But the lengthy Petone player has come with a great rattle the last three games and has beaten the Trentham man and his own record at the same time. The figures of this pair of bowlers this season read well together,; and I give with them the best porformances in this connection hitherto: — co tn ® Match. = 1 | .§ | m 3 ■ « §■ 5 W, S. Brice .. 1451 36 668 93 7-19 J. N. Crawford 1785 70 925 89 10-39 W. S. Brice .. 1748 65 824 72 11-44 K.H.Tucker.. 1175 20 700 71 9'85 T, R. Southall 1415 26 843 69 12-21 T. E. Southall 1512 41 723 69 10-47 A. Fenton .. 1230 27 715 66 10 83 *■ ■» There are other items running through my mind that I would like to refer to, but, as I said earlier, they will have to wait. The table hereunder shows how the various teams fared in the senior championship contest: —

-3fr. -X- ■» The outstanding, feature of last Saturday's play at the Basin Reserve was the fine effort made by the Old Boys' team to reach the total set them by Trentham the previous Saturday. The weather was glorious for the wind-up of the season, but owing to the rain that had fallen during the week the wicket and outfield were on the dead side and every run scored was honestly earned. What luck there was on Saturday, too/ went the way of the soldiers, so that the ex-Collegians are deserving of a deal of credit for their .fine showing. The spectators thoroughly enjoyed the cricket and encouraged the Old Boys with much merited applause. The surprise of the innings, was the batting of W. Garrod, the Old Boys" fast bowler, who showed a stubborn front to the good bowling and hit hard many times. His tally of 36* was his highest individual effort of the season and easily his best. The Old Boys were beaten by the narrow margin of 14 runs, those who helped considerably towards the total of 153 besides Garrod being B. Marris 26, H. Lambert 17, O. Trott 16, and B. Binnie 11, not forgetting "Mr." Extra's share —19. * s * , » The North and Returned Soldiers' game was a nice quiet affair, without any sensations. In response to the 54 made by the warriors, North totalled 147 (A. R. Barker 65 * C. G. Wilson 26, J. S. Hiddlestone 18). Returned Soldiers played out time in the second innings, losing, eight wickets for 40 mns (C. Boulton 16*). « e * » At Petone the local team, thanks to the excellent bowling by W. S. Brice, made the East eleven look very small indeed. The town side could only score 38 and 32 in their strikes, Pete's tally being 132 (W. S. Brice 33, W. Hamilton 28, A. Dalgleish 20* R. Wylie 14, E. Nicholls 10). W. S. Brice's bowling, figures for the match, were eight for 8 and seven for 10, and theyi tell the tale in themselves. * -K- ■». A good friend has handed me a list of centuries scored in New Zealand this year. I hope to use it next week.

. , ••• • • O S) go s 2 2 2 §> ' *9 Jl ja +"9 rEJri c3 2a |o ofl .fcp§ g >-> ■ <J E. H. Tucker 10 4 419 138 69.83 C. G. Wilson 13 0 762 181 58.61 J. N. Crawford 12 1 606 138 55.09 . A.' Kr. Barker 12 . 3 465 113 51.66 J. A. Bruce 9 2 324 94 46.28 W.A.Baker 14 1 510 155 39.23 "B. Marris • i4 2 . 435 212 36,25 A. Dind ' . 13 1 418 127 34.83 B. J. Tuckwell 16 3 . 444 137 34.15 J. W. Condlifie 11 1 277 92 27.70 E; M. Beechey 14 1 377 59 26.92 "FT Lambert 14 0 334 • 76 23.85 H. E. Burton 11 0 274 66 24.91 C. Bold 7 1 143' 89*23.83 W. S. Brice 17 1 881 68* 23.81 H. B. Lxisk 9 0 204 40 22.66J. Hiddleston 11 0 218 97 19.81 J. Hutchings 9 1 153 67* 19.12 A. Paterson 12 4 144 31 18.00 E. J. Keinnitz 10 1 157 37 17.44 S. C. Eaton , 15 1 235 75 16.78 X..'H. McEellar 18 2 261 60 16.31 ■'M. J. Orombie • 8* 0 113 28 14.12 E. Smyrke " 6 0 86 65 14.33 ; W. Wagstaffe 10 1 126 37 14.00 ; A. Thomas 15 3 161 45* 13.41 W. Bock 8 1 91 45 13.00 W. A. Gate 17 3 176 23* .12.57 E. THomas 11 1 123 - 33 12.30 J. P. Blacklock 9 1 97 36* 12.12 A. Parrant " 16 0 191 65 11.93 A. Dalgleish. 6 1 58 20* 11.60 B. Binnie 11 3 91 38 11.37 J. Kenney 7 0 75 39 10.71 W. Garrod 11 3 84 36* 10.50 ,E. Windley 10 3 76 24* 10.85 W. Longh'urst 14 0 152 28 10.85 W. Hamilton 15 2 138 57 10.61 A. Fenton 13 0 135 41 10.38 W. MiHer 6 0 57 34 9.50 Cliristoplierson 11 1 93 24 9.30 C. P. Macintosh 8 1 63 34 9.00 C. Trott 10 1 79 33 8.77 E. NichoUs 14 1 106 24 8.13 F. Walters 11 0 87 33 7.90 J. Berry 8 0 62 18 7.75 A. Bennett 15 3 89 38* 7.41 C: Boulton ; 20 3 122 19 7.17 ~K. Osborne 9 3 44 17 7.33 3. S. Hylton ,7 2 36 17 7.20 H. Hnteliings ! 9 1 56 23 7.00 J. Mackie ,11 5 42 14 7.00 S. Harrison 14 0 96 28 6.85 J. Coleman .11 1 63 24* 6.30 J. T. Stephens 14 0 75 15 5.35 H. Hatchard 11 1 52 12 5.20 E. Cooper 11 2 46 12 5.11 I/. Collins 11 3 " 39 9 4.87 E. Hastings 14 2 47 15* 3.91 •; E. Boddington 8 0 31 8 3.87 S. Fisher 6 0 21 8 3.50 G. Lusk 6 0 16 9 2.66 G. Bell . 6 0 15 6 2.50

• 2 w. ® w S ® hp i 1 « § M a S % W. S. Brice 1451 36 668 93 7.19 C. F. Macintosh. 521 19 226 23 9.82 W. Garrod 923 24 471 47 10.02 J. N. Crawford 1785 70 925 89 10.39 N.- 0. Sneddon 402 9 191 17 11.23 A. Fenton 1077 39 584 47 12.21 K. H. Tucker 684 14 475 37 12.83 B. J. Tuckwell 364 9 184 14 13.14 A. Thomas 616 13- 373 26 14.34 -■ J.. Hiddleston 1102 30 638 42 15.19 J. Hutchings '876 22 581 35 16.60 H. Lambert 410 10 278 14 19.86 E. Smyrke ' 582 14 321 24 13.37 J. Mackie 756 20 422 21 20.09 A. Bennett 1249 20 821 40 20.52 . A. Bind 365 5 272 13 20.92 B. Marris 298 1 279 11 25.36

n, _ Three Point Two Point 22-a Matches. Matches. S"m 11- —' — 11 gpj Won. Lost. Won. Lost, op^ Trentham .. 10 7 0 3 0 27 North .. 10 3 0 3 4 7 Old Boys .. 10 H 2 4 1 2J Peton8 .. 10 5£ 4 0 0 4J East .. 10 2 4 1 B —10 Retd. Soldiers 10 0 8 0 2 —28