CRICKET

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4332, 16 April 1901, Page 3

CRICKET

WELLINGTON ASSOCIATION. A special general meeting of the Wellington Cricket Association was he 1 ;! last night to consider the action of the Third Class Championship Committee in awarding a win to the Phoenix Club on account of the unfinished match against the defunct \VV-d'>s CMcket Club. Air M. Luchie occupied the chair. It was moved by Mr Coster and seconded hv Mr TJpham, “’That the decision of the Third Class Championship Committee, in awarding the match Phoenix v. Wesley to the former club, be set aside.’’

The committee had taken the stanc that Phoenix was entitled to score a win in consequence of the Wesley Club having withdrawn from the third-class cricket competition while the match between that club and Phoenix was in an incomplete state. The committee,-in s' doing, took into consideration tire fact that all clubs that Irani not begun i match against the Wesleys were entitled to bo credited with wins, and on that ground held that, as a matter o 1 •unity, the match in dispute should bi awarded to Phoenix. It was argued, in favour of the motion traversing the committee’s decision, that there was a rule stipulating that in the event of a team having an incomplete match against it that team should nol bo allowed to score any points on account of the match. Lengthy and heated arguments tool-: place, and it was finally decided bv nine votes to eight that the decision of tin committee be unset. After the meeting -had lapsed Mcssr. Warren and Dasont handed 1 in their resignations as members of the Third Cla?> Championship Committee. PUBLIC SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIP The following list shews the position; of the various teams in the Public Schools’ Championship. The Mount Cook Boys’ School has won the championship ever since the competition wastarted seme twelve, or thirteen year, ago: Mount Cook, 12 points; Clyde Quay. 10 points; To Aro, 8 points; Thermion, U points; Terrace, 4 points; Newtown, 2 points; Rintoul Street, nil. In the winning team the best batting averages were obtained by E» Moss, 20.9; W. Condlifie, 14.7; and S. Shilling, 14. In bowling.Mess secured the excellent average of 1.7 (63 wickets fo>. 110 runs). If two representative matohe.and two off matches are included, Moss scored 328 runs for twelve completed innings—an average of 27.3.