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Otago Witness, Issue 1933, 25 February 1892, Page 30

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A Carisbrook cricket team, of whom only five or six are regular players, had a pleasant time at Lawrence last week, playing there on Saturday and returning to town on Monday morning, with an enlarged experience and able to boast of having been inducted into the mysteries of fantan as it is played at the- Chinese Camp, but with a decided disinclination to work, attributable to the want of sleep that was attendant upon the enjoyment of the wild delights of the county town of Tuapeka Bell, MacNeil, Lawton, and Harper taught the Lawrence cricketers a wrinkle or two in the field, and whipped tho home team witk an innings to spare, but that was a trifling matter compared with the other pleasures of the trip. At Christchurch on Saturday the Senior Cup match between the Midland and Lancaster Park Elevens resulted in the defeat of the former by seven wickets. The first innings of the Midlanders had realised 74, and that of the Lancastrians 155. In the second innings the Midland team fared better, aud scored 141 (Garrard 54, Lawrence 28, Macdonald 13, Barnes 13, Barry not out 13, Pearce 11), leaving the Park with 61 ruris to get to win. These were knocked off foe the loss of three wickets (C. Ridloy 28, A. Ridley 12). In the match between the United Eleven and Ashley County Thirteen the two innings apiece wete not played out, and the United won on the first venture by 87ruhs, the County having scored 32, to which their opponents responded with 119 (Fenwick 39, Rolleston not out 32, Harman 11, Clark 10). If the match had been played out the United victory must have been equally decisive, for the second innings of the County only produced 89 (Chapman 31, Clayton 14, Wilson 10).

In justice to Dr W. G. Graco, about whom many hard things havo been said in reference to the two test matches, it is only fair that I should make the following quotation from the remarks of Blackham, tho Australian captain, in acknowledgment of the welcome accorded to the South Australian and Victorian members of the victorious team on their arrival in Melbourne after the second match :—": — " There were many rumours that W. G. Grace beh»ved rather badly to them. This was not so. W. G. Grace was a man. When they choso Moses as one of the Australians they did so only after the utmost caution. Moses told them that he had been running and jumping, and had tried in every way to break down his leg again if it was to go. But they picked him with all faults, and they agreed that in the event of his log giving way they should not ask$ Grace for a substitute. Moses was running between wickets as well as any man could run when his leg gave way. ' He did not ask Dr Grace for a substitute, but Dr Graco came to him and said, ' You can have a man to run for Moses.' When M'Leod received news of his sad bereavement Dr Grace again came to him and gave him the services of a second substitute."

Mr Fros.t, of the Midland Cricket Club, Christchurch, broke his arm on Saturday by throwing in the ball from the field. The defeat of -Lord Sheffield's team by the Australian Eleven has caused much talk in the cricketing world (writes our Home correspondent on January 8). Generally the feeling is one of f-ui-prise. It was always declared that the English team was the very best ever sent out of the country, and this is undoubtedly so. To the credit of the English journals I am bound to say that only one that I have seen has gone back on this statement to excuse tho defeat. The Times deems the occasion worthy of a short leader, in" which it expresses the general feeling. "In the first flush of mortification," writes the author, "some may whisper that Lord Sheffield's team does not represent the full strength of English cricket. Perish the unworthy excuse ! ' Lord Sheffield's team is nearly, if not quite, the best we could put in the field. It lacks, indeed, Shrewsbury and Gunn, but it comprises Dr Grace, who upon the fast grounds of Australia has quite regained his old freedom of play ; Abel, who ranks third in the list of batting averages for the past season ; Bean, who stands fourth ; Mr Stoddart, Maurice Read, Mr M'Gregor, and the five best bowlers tho mother country possesses — Lohmann, Sharpe.Peel, Attewell, and Briggs. . . . An eleven which represents English cricket as fully and £fs fairly as any Australian team which has visited us of late represented Australian cricket. Naturally the visiting eleven is alwaysataslightdisadvantage ; and perhaps it is as well that it should be so. . . . We Englishmen have suffered severply in spirit upon those rare occasions when our colonial kinsmen have beaten us upon our own dung-hill. . . . Wo can console ourselves in any case by reflecting that there is no finality about these contests. Neither side is utterly crushed. An indefinite vista of matches, belonging potentially as much to the vanquished as to the victors of to-day, stretches across the tracts of the future."

The Carisbrook 1) met the Grange Second on the North ground, and succeeded in defeating them by 29 runs. The Carisbrook going first to the wickets scored 63 (Boydell 19 and W. M. Bell 10). Wells bowled with greatest effect for the Grange. The Grange could only succeed in making 34, Wells (11) being the only one reaching double figures. Monk (four for 14) and Fish (three for 10) bowlod very well for Carisbrook.

The match Anderson's Bay v. Port Chalmers ended in a victory for Anderson's Bay by 4 runs. Anderson's Bay batting first compiled 63 runs, Philp (23) and Jeffrey (11) getting into double figure's. Port Chalmers responded with 59 runs, Waters (22), Hunter (11), and Foster (10) getting into double figures. Hunter and Wilson shared the bowling honours for Port Chalmers, as did Walden and Carver for Anderson's Bay,

The Albion Second Eleven defeated the Times First Eleven on, the North ground by an innings and 16 runs. "The Times team scored 15 and 28. The first innings of the Albion produced 59 (Duncan, Ireland, and Kemnitz each scoring 10). Duncan (eight for 26) for the winners and Fleming for the losers bowled best.

A combined team from Messrs Joel and Wilson's employes defeated a team from Messrs M'Gavin and Co.'s employes on the North ground by an innings and 21 runs. The combined team ssorcd 62 (Rogers 16 and Doyle 13 reaching double figures). M'Gavin and Co.'s team scored 26 and 15. Webb and Wilson bowled well for the "winners.