Cricket.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 994, 20 March 1891, Page 12

Cricket.

A meeting of the Management Committee of the Midland Club was held at the Post Offioe Hotel last evening week, when Mr G. Easton’s resignation as Treasurer was aocepted with regret, Mr W, P. M'Girr was unanimously elected to fill the vacancy. The interprovincial cricket match between our local Association players and their Canterbury visitors will come off shortly, and the Match Committee have decided on a separate net for the special use of' the representative players. IS is to bo hoped that those who-e names appear as probable representatives will not neglect this opportunity of practising together, as combined play is one of the main features towards success. From a private letter from Christchurch we learn that onr Canterbury friends anticipate bringing down their full strength, and a thoroughly good game should be the result. The Midland-College heat for the ThirdClass Championship was played at the College Ground on Saturday afternoon. The scores are as follows :—Midlands First innings, 64; Wilson 30 (not out). College 51 ; Bee, 20; Duthie, 16. The Midlands had lost 1 wicket for 45 ; Upham, 19 ; and Wilson 19 (not out), when the stumps were drawn for the day, Upham and Proudfoot for the Midlands; and Duthie and Wilson for the College bowled well. A mixed team of the Wellington journeyed to :Tawa Fiatlih Saturday, and.defeated the local eleven by 37 runs. The local country eleven’s innings only realised 37. G. Morgan and H: Eastwood being top scorers, with 8 and 7, respectively. The Wellingtons put on 67 before they wero all disposed of. Day 18, Sanderson 13, and Pope 12, succeeded |in reaohing doable figures. G, Hook and A. Brown bowied well for Tawa Flat. Pope and Littlejohn trundled well for the Wellingtons. Messrs Warner and Taylor umpired, and Messrs A. Duncan and Jordan acted as scorers. Daring the after, noon the town eleven were hospitably entertained by the Tawa Fiat team. A team representing P. Hayman and Co, wero defeated by an eleven from J. Duthie and Co., on Saturday afternoon at Island Bay, by 34 runs on the first innings. Hayman’s first innißgs closed for 22, O’Driscoll (11) being the principal contributor. The hardware men rattled up 55 before they were all dismissed. Dyer (18) and McFarlane (12) played well for their runs. Hayman’s second attempt realised 54, Read (11) and C. Taylor (10) reaohing double figures. Dyer, of Duthie and Co., obtained the splendid average of five wickets for 6 runs, and he was well supported by Wilson and Duthie. ForHayman s, R. Read and C. Taylor divided the bowling honours. A mixed team of the Phconix defeated the Karorl eleven on Saturday by 10 wickets. ( Tho scores are os follow: —Phoenix, 45 (McFarlane, 14), Karori, 28 (Whitiog, 10) and 33 (Lancaster, 16). The Phoenix in their second innings had lost three wickets for 57 (McFarlane, 12; Niven, 18) when play was Btopped for the day. Moorhouso and Waters bowled well for the winners, Attree and Lowe doing the lion’s share of the trundling for the losers. A meeting of cricketers was held at the Post Office Hotel on Tuesday, when the ways and means of entertaining our visiting friends from Christchurch during their stay in Wellington was fully discussed. Mr H. D. Bell, who was present, has invited the competing teams to a picnic to be held on his ground a at Lowry Bay on Easter Mon* day, and with the co operation of our yachtiug friends a thoroughly enjoyable day may be anticipated. The thanks of the Association are due to Mr Bell for his kindly assistance towards making the contestants holiday a thoroughly pleasant Easter outing. The Match Committee also had an opportunity of discussing the position of matches, and have found it absolutely useless to continue the Second Cap contests any farther, as up to the present date only four matohea have been played, thus leaving the season too far advanced to hope to bring the games to a satisfactory oonolusion. It is with regret that this has to be the result, but fates have been against the Committee s endeavours, both weather and counter sports having caused delays which wore quite unexpected. „ . . One of the pitches on Saturday next will now be available for those selected to practice for the coming Interprovmcial Match, and it is desirable that a full muster will appear, so that two teams may be A team from the Wellington Club defeated an eleven comprised of Rivals ana

Phoenix at the Basin on Tuesday by an innings and 21 runs to spare. The latter eleven could only reach 31 in their first innings. Fowler (11, notout), of the Rivals, was the only batsman who reached double figures. M. Luckio, with six wickets for 13 runs,'and Wilson, four for 14, trundled with great effect. The Wellingtons ran np 147 before they were all dismissed. Wilson (38 , Crawshaw (37.’, and R. Gore (28) battedl well for their runs. Tho second innings of the Rivals and Phcnnix closed for 95. Moorhouse, who went in last, made 19 (not out) ; and Marryatt (15), Pierard (14), and Niven (12) were the highest scorers. The Wellingtons thus winning the match as stated above.

On Wednesday there was a very fair attendance when some good batting form was shown. On Saturday next No. 2 pitch will be used for a practice match for as many members of the probable team as will be available. The Wellington-Rival match will be proceeded with as already arranged. Aa this will be an opportunity for a majority of the probable team to get fielding practice, the players selected below are particularly requested to turn up promptly and ready to start fcy 2.15. Probables—Moorhouse, Taylor, Frith, Fitzsimmons, R. Blaolrlock, A. Blaoklock, Wynyard, Niven, Woon, Ogier, Benbow. Improbable—Cross, Webb, Malcolm, Davis, Robert, Mansill, Cox, Richardson, McFarlane, Upham, Tucker, Day, Wilson, Harris, Doughty, Salmon. The Match Committee have specially arranged this match with a view to letting the probable team field together, and the following players who are engaged In the Welling-ton-Rival match will be good enough when net actually engaged in play to take their place in the field, viz.;—Messrs Dryden, Fuller, Holdsworth, ELirker, and Izard.