PETONE WINS

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11738, 28 January 1924, Page 9

PETONE WINS

MIDLAND DEFEATED BY 13 RUNS FIN LAA SON'S FINE BATTING AND BOWLING DISPLAYS. After appearing certain to -win in their match, against Petone on Saturday* Midland "were defeated by 1-3 runs alter an intensely exciting game. , Midland wore minus Wiri Baker, and Petono Stan. Brice, but Corner and Fin* lay&en ioso to the occasion and were responsible for Midland’s dismissal in the second innings for the insignificent total inf 55, after being set 68 runs to win. Petone’-s second effort at the wicket realised 184, of which Finlayson scored 98 and Burrows 34. M. Nicholls was the onlv other batsman to score double figures and if it had not been for Finlayson s splendid score, Midland would have won ; by an innings. H. E. Nicholls and Patrick opened Petono’s second innings, but the former was run out through a misunderstanding and Patrick was clean bowled by Judd after scoring two. Finlayson and Borrows then commenced a good partnership, and both batsmen scored freely off only mediocre bowling. After Borrows s dismissal for a well-played 34, the wickets fell rapidly, but all the strenuons efforts on the part of the bowlers failed to dislodge Finlayson, who dispatched everything loose to the boundary. When neanng the century mark the batsman began to play more quietly and by ones “and twos reached 98, when he had the misfortune to mistime a ball from Patrick and was clean bowled The rest of the batsmen failed to stay*, and the innings closed for 184. With only 68 runs required to win Midland appeared to have the game ■well in hand, and it appeared to be only a question of how many wickets they would win by. However, Finlayson and Corner were not taken into consideration, and on a hard batting wicket, the whole srde was dismissed for 55 runs, eight of the batsmen boing clean bowled. FINLAYSON DEADLY. Bruce and Gibson opened the innings to the bowling of Corner and Finlayson. Bruce was caught by H. E. Nicholls before scoring, and J. W. Hutchings took his place. A period of quiet play now took place with Gibson scoring slightly faster than his partner. Finlayson was bowling a very tricky t ali, the leather breaking across the wicket from either side. A slow leg break brought about Gibson's downfall, and the batsman retired with 20 to his credit. 3. Hutchings, who scored a century last week, was next batsman, but Finlayson’s first ball shattered his stumps. Even at this stage, Petone did not appear to have a chance, for Midland required just on thirty runs to win. Corner was bowling a fair ball with plenty of pace and a nice swing !in from the leg, and it was a ball ot thie description that sent Cooper back to the pavilion after scoring one. Halley took his place only to see J. W. Hutchings clean bowled by a beautiful ball from Finlayson. It now began to dawn on the Midland supporters that it was time the run?, wore knocked off, and Patrick was sent] to the wicket to put the issue beyond doubt, but ho too fared the same as bio predecessors, a swinging ball from Comer coming through and beating him all the way. Six wickets were down for 40, and as Midland wsre only playing ten men the position became serious. The Petone fielding was very keen, not a run being given away and the batsmen oonld take no liberties. Halley and Watson set Up a solid defence, but “Rangi" shattered the former's stumps with an unplayable ball. Clark, the last man in, blocked a few balls, and with 13 runs to win Watson faced Finlayson. The first fiv© balls were blocked, and then a soft fob enticed him to hit, and a crash orf his stumps told the batsman what had happened. Petono had won by 13 runs after being in a practically impossible position. Following are details:— PETONE. First Innings 109

LOWER GRADE RESULTS JUNIOR. ■ ■ Joflniaonville 189, defeated Midland 49 and 78. FOURTH GRADE. Institute Old Boys defeated Y.M.C.A. "A" by nine wickets. Scores. Institute, 85 and 18 for 1; Y.M.C.A., 58 and 32. Batting for Institute, W. Douglas batted Well for 56, and Worthington 35 was best for Y.M. Bowling for Institute, Turner 6 for 30 and 5 for 7, Douglas 4 for 25, Caulton 3 for 15, and Quin 1 for 8: bowling for Y.M.C.A., Bale 6 for 30, Worthington 4 for 23, Shaw 1 for 7. JUNIOR BOYS’ LEAGUE. InstitLte A v. St Thomas.—lnstitute Won by 87 runs oft the first innings. Scores: Institute, 109 for five wickets (declared); St. Thomas, 22 and 63 for no wickets. Batting for Institute Bilby 47 not out, Clevorley 22 not out, Chamberlain 16 wore best; for St. Thomas Parsons 30 not out, Stevenson 19 not out. Bowling for Institute, Bilby four for 13, Chamberlain three for 9. lambton 109 defeated Nrjftio 12 and 15. MERCANTILE LEAGUE. Kirkcaldie v. Thot nix. --Phoenix all out for 52 (Roid 25 not out, Guise 23). Plant took seven for 19, Hopkins two for 28. Kirkcaidies 79 (Hopkins 23, Pietrie 17, Uren 17, Dibbs 10). Reid took four wickets for 44, Guise five for 33. Stow arts 179 (Scott 51, Winter 41, Devenport 39) v. Post and Telegraph 69 (Carr 15, Griffiths 15). Bowling for Stewarts: Winter five for 28, and Devenport five for 84. Nivens 86 (Milne 37, Benson 13, Mitchell 12) defeated Cowan and Co., 67.

MASTERTON’B GOOD WIN (Special to "Times.’’) MASTERTON, January 26. Master ton defeated Carlton by nine wiokets Carlton, second! innings, 167 (Renner 52, Moss 27, Jertkine 13, McLaren 17, Minifie not out 19). Mastcvton, first innings, 211; second, 36 for one wicket (O’Dowd 39, Ibbotson 18). High School forfeited to United.

AUCKLAND RESULTS

'VARSITY COLLAPSE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 27. | In senior cricket Parnell made 325 for 1 four n'ickets in thoir first innings against Eden (Hemus 138, B. McLeod not out 92). Craft on scored 148 against Ponsonby, who replied with 143 for six wickets (Smith not out 55). North Shore made 159 against University, who collapsed, and were dismissed for 38. Following on, University had scored 41 for four wickets. Bowling for North Shore Townsend took five wicketsfor 20 runs, Coates four for 16.

PLAY AT CHRISTCHURCH

■ Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, January 27. At the conclusion of the seventh round in the senior competition matches, championship points areSydenham 13, West Christchurch 10, St. Albans 9, Linwood 8, Riccarton 7, East Christchurch 3. West Christchurch made the big total of 508 and Riccarton replied with 329 (Staines 48, Caygill 51, Bain 76, Fuller 30, Powell 50, Evans 14). Bowling: Cocks, one for Findlay, two for 79; Dr. Foster, one for 16; Blunt, 4 for 73; Hayes, two for 49. In their second innings Vest Christchurch have lost pne wicket for 46 (Chrystall in 25). St. Albans beat Linwood by an innings and 27 runs. Linwood, who bad made 159 in their first innings, oould only compile 112 in the second strike (Boon in 57, Smith 28). Bowling: Thomas, five for 40, Sandman three for 36; Martin, one for 33. St. Albans first innings yielded 298 (Woods 19, Crawford 83, Norrie 36, Thomas 25, Martin 46, Sandman 22, Graham 27). Bowling: R. Read, six for 111; Russell, two for 92. East Christchurch, playing against Sydenham, made 178 in the first innings and in the seoond innings lost five wickets for 89 (Brosnahan 35, Gregory 29). ■Mcßeth took the whole of the five wickets at a cost of 40 runs. Sydenham in their first innings declared with nine wickets down for 295 (Young 46, Mcßeth 28, Oliver 39, Gasson 58) Bowling; Stringer, four for 64; Flood, two for 55; Gregory, two for 37.

DUNEDIN PLAY

Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, January 27. In senior cricket Grange, who made 336 for the first innings a fortnight ago, beat Albion by four runs. In the first, innings Albion made 332 (Blamires 101 not out, S. Duncan 47, Shepherd 38, O’Brien 43). For GreDge Galland took seven wickets for 139. Grange in the second innings lost three wickets for 62 (L. Chadwick 39 not out). Carisbrook mad© 253 for eight wickets a fortnight ago and declared on Saturday. They put Dunedin in, and Dunedin made 77 in the first innings (Strang 35). Dickinson took four wickets for 36, Douglas three for 13, Ramsden three for 8. In the seoond innings Dunedin had lost eight wickets for 218 when stumps were drawn (Torrance 84, Eckhold 43, Baker not out 46). A. P. Alloo took two wickets for 19 runs. Carisbrook won on the first innings. In the fontrh grade match Butler, Carisbrook, made 117 (retired).

Second Innings. It. E. Nicholas, run out 1 2 Finlayson, b Patrick 98 Smyrk, b J. Hutchings .... 5 Corner, lbw, b Hutchings .... 1 M. Nicholls, b Patrick 15 h 4 5 Extras 12 Total 181 Bowling Analysis o. M. R. W Judd 7 1 23 i Patrick 18 1 91 6 Bn'co 5 0 •23 0 J. Hutchings 9 2 35 2 MIDLAND. First Innings 226 Socond Innings. Bruce, c M. E. Nicholls, b Finlayson 0 Gibson, !b Finlayson 20 J. W. Hutchings, b Finlayson . 10 J. Hutchings, b Finlayson .. 0 Cooper, b Corner .. 1 5 Patrick, b Corner 6 o Watson, b Finlayson 7 o 7 55 Bowling Analysis. 0. M. R. W. Finlayson 9.6 3 19 6 Corner 9 0 28 3 Finlayson’s six wickets for 1! runs i<s one of the best averages this season.