BEATEN BY AN INNINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12356, 28 January 1926, Page 8

BEATEN BY AN INNINGS

VICTORIA IN SHIELD MATCH PONSFORD AND WOODFUL SCORE CENTURIES FIVE WICKETS TO EVERETT Bv Telegraph.— Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received January 27, 8.55 p.m.) BYDNEY, January 2/. . New. South Wales won the Sheffield Shield match by an innings and 96 runs. Victoria in their second innings scored 322 (Ponsford 138, Woodful 126). Everett took five wickets for 91, and Mailey two for 94. The weather was hot, and the wioket in good order. Ponsford played a fast and chanceless innings, scoring rapidly, but Woodful, the only other batsman to withstand the bowling, played slow and careful cricket. Everett bowled magnificently, and the majority of the visitors found him unplayable. BY FORTY-FOUR RUNS QUEENSLAND BEATEN. BRISBANE. January 27. Queensland, in their second against South Australia. made 171 (Mayes 361. Bowling for Suuth Australia, Scott took four wickete for 34 runs. A. Richardson four for 32, and Grimmett two for 77. South Australia won by 44 runs. WIN FOR AUCKLAND HEATHCOTE WILLIAMS SHIELD. Per press Association. AUCKLAND, January 27. In the Heathcote Williams Shield match, Auckland Grammar School defeated Christchurch Boys’ High School by 85 runs. Grammar School made 155 in the first, innings and 122 in the second (Watkin 51, Matheson 39). Christchurch made 194 in. the tils' innings, and.had to make 174 to win. They were dismissed for 88 (Merritt 43). Bowling for Auckland, Matheson took four wickets for 20 runs, and Kasper four for 35.