CRICKET.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6438, 1 December 1881, Page 3

CRICKET.

The match between the Bohemian and Wellington Clubs was played on the Newtown Park yesterday, and resulted in an easy victory for the latter Club by an innings and 73 runs to spare. Messrs Blacklocfc and Knapp captained the respective teams, and the latter, winning the toss, elected to send his men to the wickets. The game was started at 11.50 a.m. (nearly an hour after the time arranged for commencing)- Messrs Firth and Page were the first Wellington repre entatives, the former taking the first over from Luxford, Godden being the bowler at the other end. The first mentioned batsman scored 1 off Luxford and 2 off Godden, and then gave an easy chance to short leg, who failed to hold the ball. This mistake was most fatal to the Bohemians, as will be afterwa ‘s seen. The chance, however, was an unfortunate one for Page, as it was the means of his being run out; 3—l—o. Alpe joined Pirth, and a long stand was made, the former batting very steadily, while his partner put in runs at a great rate. Four changes were made in the bowling, the last being successful, Alpe succumbing to Hanghton’s fourth ball—two wickets for 56 runs, of which the retiring batsman contributed 13 by good, steady cricket. Hickson filled the vacancy, but was cleverly caught low down by Crowther at short-stop without scoring ; 60 —3—o. Lynch joined Firth, and the two batsmen kept up their wickets until 1 o’clock, when the

adjournment for lunch took place, the score ' being then 72 for three wickets. A fresh start was made at 1.40, Salmon starting the bowling. When Firth had made 51 runs he received a second life at the hands of long-on. A doable change was made in the bowling, Luxford relieving Salmon, and Haughton being replaced by Hawthorne. The century was attained, and then Firth was run out, his 71, barring the two chances above mentioned, an excellent innings ; 102 —4—71. Kennedy joined Lynch, who was now settling down and beginning to punish the balls, which at first he let off considerably. Kennedy, however, proved unfortunate, as in stepping out to a leg-ball, he guided the ball into his wickets with his foot ; 109—5—0, Knapp filled the vacancy and soon got to work, ‘ He scored three twos and followed up with the big bit of the day, getting Hawthorne to square leg for five. Lynch ably seconded him and the score soon reached 142, at which stage Knapp was given out l.b.w. to Blacklock. The decision appears to have been an erroneous one. and the retiring batsman was asked to return to the wickets, but_ very pro- • perly preferred to abide by the decision of the umpire. Armitage followed in place of Knapp, and with the score at 156 lost the companionship of Lynch, who was bowled with a shooter by Blacklock; 156 7 40. Lynch's innings was a faultless one. Fitzherbert joined Armitage, who was bowled next ball by Luxford, Flint filling the vacancy. Fitzherbert drove the next ball for . B,l'land thenJ|Luzford| clean Flint.

Mclntyre came in and shared the same fate, Luxford thus obtaining the three last wickets with four balls. , The innings terminated at a quarter-past three. „ . . • The Bohemians commenced their first innings a quarter of an hour later, Hang on and Young being salt in to face the bowling of Armitage and Ly tch. The second delivery of the former proved too much for Haug i on, who gave place to Salmon ; 0 ‘ • ac , bowler sent down a maiden, and off Armitage a next over Salmon drew first blood. The batsman was not, however, in luck, as he was bowled off his knee by the first ball of Lynch’s next over; I—2—l. Blacklock joined Young, and, with the score at i* f the latter was bowled by Armitage ; 12— 3 3. Crowtber filled_ the vacancy, and a stand was made. Hickson took the_ bail from Lynch, and a few overs later Armi age was replaced by Firth. By dint of good s 'ady play the runs were increased from 12 to 29, wnen Crowther skied one to Mclntyre at long-on, and suffered the penalty ; 29—4—10. Russell stayed with Blacklock but a short time, and allowed himself to be run out ; 35—5—2. Luxford took his place at the wickets, and another stand was made, with the score at 49. Blacklock gave a difficult chance to Flint ; but it was not accepted. Another change was soon resorted to in the bowling, Armitage going on in place of Firth, who was not in his usual form. The change a happy one. Armitage started with a wide, but made ample amends, as its last delivery found its way patt Blacklock ; 57 —6—28. The latter well deserved his 28 runs, wnich were put together in very good style. None of the remaining batsmen, with the exception of Godden, could do anything with the bowling, and the innings closed at 5.15 p.m. for a total of 67 runs, Godden carrying out his bat The Bohemians being 92 runs to the bad, had to follow on. After an interval ot 20 minutes, play was resumed. Godden accompanied Young to the wickets, Page and Armitage sharing the bowling. It wanted but 55 minutes to the time fixed for drawing stumps, and the chances were that the game would be decided on the first innings. Snob, however, i- the proverbial glorious uncertainty of cricket. The Bohemians appeared to be completely paralyzed, and could do nothing with either of 'he bowlers. Their wickets fell one after anothf..-, Salmon, who appeared to be the only batsn n likely to make any stand, was again most unlucky, as after putting together five singl -1 he went out to a ball and dragged it on to his wickets with his foot. The eighth wicket fell within about 8 minutes of time, and it was quite an open question whether the defeat wae to be accomplished in one io- s ugs or not. Russell managed to get the lion’s share of the bowling and “ stonewalled ” in a most determined manner. However, just two minutes before time, Armitage bowled him with a regular trimmer, and as Mann had left the ground, the match was over. The innings terminated for the ridiculously small total of 19 runs, but IX of which were made off the bat. Armitage wat especially destructive; his last seven overs were maidens, and yielded three wickets. His a nalysis is rather a remarkable one, and will bear scrutiny. The game was materially interfered with by the high wind, but wae otherwise enjoyable, and during the afternoon was witnessed by a goodly number of spectators. The fielding was at times very sharp and good (the long ■ stopping of Messrs Alps and Crowther beiog particularly noticeable), and although some two or three easy catches were m ssed, was certainly a groat improvement on the form shown in the field last season. This is, of course, mainly attributable to the superior ground. The match was unfortunately too one-sided to be altogether interesting, and the result should have been much closer, for although there can be but little doubt that tbo beat team w in, still the Bohemiaus were worth more than they obtained, their second innings being certainly as big a surprise to their opponents as it was to themselves. On Saturday next the Wellington C.C. flay a return match with the Phcenix Club on the

"BOHEMIAN O.C. Ist Innings. 2nd Innings. Haughton, b Armitage 0 b Page 0 Young, b Armifcage ... 3 Bfcump'dKnapp, b Page ... 0 Salmon, b Lynch ... 1 b Armitage ... 5 Blaoklook, b Armitage 28 c Molntyre b Page 1 Crowther, c Molntyre, b Hickson 10 b Page 1 Kussell, run out ... 2 b Armitage ... 0 Luxford, b Armitage 8 c Melntyre, b Armitage ... 1 G-odden, not out .._. 8 b Armitage ... 3 Hawthorne, b Armitage 2 b Armitage ... 0 Mann, runout! ... 0 absent 0 Barnett, b Hickson... 0 not out 0 Byes, 2; leg-byes, 2; Bye, 1 ; legwide, 1 5 bye, 1; wide, 1 8 Total 67 Total 2nd inn'gs 19 Ist inn'gs 67 Grand total ... 86 bowling analysis. Ist Innings. Balls Maidens Kuns Wkts Wides

same ground. WELLINGTON C. C. Firth, run out .. 71 Page, run out .. 0 Alpe, b Haughton . 13 Hickson, c Crowther, b Haughton .. 0 Lynch, b Blacklock ,. 40 Kennedy, b Luxford .. 0 Knapp, 1 b w, b Blacklock ,. 12 Armitage, c Orowther, b Luxford .. 5 Fitzherbert, not out .. 3 Flint, b Luxford ,. 0 MoTntyre, b Luxford .. 0 Byes 11, leg-byes 3, wides 1 .. 15 159 BOWLING ANALYSIS. Balls Maidens Euns Wkts Wides Luxford ...119 5 40 4 1 Godden ... 20 1 11 0 0 Hawthorne... 00 2 34 0 0 Young ... 10 0 9 0 0 Salmon ... 40 1 21 0 0 Haughton ... 45 2 19 2 0 Blacklock ... 20 0 10 2 0

Armitage . ..75 7 11 5 1 Lynch .. 40 4 13 1 0 Hickson .. 66 4 18 2 0 Firth .. 35 2 20 0 0 2nd Innings. Page .. 55 6 7 4 0 Armitacre . .. 55 8 4 5 1