CRICKET. NOTES BY SLIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2135, 24 January 1895, Page 32

CRICKET. NOTES BY SLIP.

L. H Gay, of the Euglish team, is credited with possessing an incjuie of £15 000. H. Trofcfc and Brncs scored 22 vi the first 5 minutes' play in the third test match, Peel's first over producing 13 runs. Be-fore the test match in Adelaide was trguu a good many objections were urgr'd against the inclusion of Albert Trott in the Aus'raliin team.

A memento of the second test match was secured by Brown, of the English team, in tho shape of the ball with which the last innings was played, and for which in the big matches there is always a keen competition. As soon as it had knocked fredale's wicket down, Brown, at point, pounced on it like a cat on a mouse. H. Trott secured the ball in the third match.

The Canadian Cricket Association have decided to send an e'even to England next yea' provided tbat a rcp.e-enta'ivc team could b3 secured aud satisfactory financial a'ran^eincats made.

Owing Io a severe hutricane which swept over the Fiji Islands the cricket team's tour in New Zealand was at first abandoned, but on further consideration, and when it was found that the dainnge was not bo serious as at first exp> cted, the cricketers determined to carry out their engagements. The team propose to leave Suva for Auckland in the Taviuni this week. His Excellency is, however, unable to allow the Hou. W. L Allardyce to accompany the team, his duties as Native Commissioner inevitably precluding his absence at present from the colony. Otherwise the team will consist of the individuals already mentioned.

The proposed tour of the cricketing team from the New Zealand Postal aud Telegraph department, who intended trying conclusions with the Hobsrt staff, has unfortunately fallen through. A number of the best men being unable to take part, it was considered undesirable to courfc disaster by sending a secondrate team.

I am asked to say tbat the Albion umpire was very erratic last Saturday io the match against Carisbrook in regard to the number of balls he gave to tho over. Five balls were supposed to go ro the over, but this umpire occasionally allowed four and occasionally six, and he varied this by allowing seven balls iv each of two overs.

G. Austin, who has been promoted to a place in the Carisbrook A team, made a successful debut last Saturday in the ranks <f the seuiors, bis parfcDer.-hip with Rains being the most productive, with one exception, during his side's innings. He wants coaching, though, and he particularly needs to be wt rued of the danger of hitting the ball up.

Parker was out in au unusual way in the match between the Gtauge and Carisbrook B, and it is just a question whether he was rightly out. After making a stroke he sipped and kicked his wicket down. It was not until after runs had been obtained for the stroke tbat an appeal was made agaiot him and that after a consultation between the umpires he was given out. But was his wicket knocked down by him in hitting at the ball ? There seems to be a reasonable doubt* aboub it.

The Senior Cup match Carisbrook B v. Grange was fiuished last week at Carisbrook. H*rraway and Smyth, the two not outa of the Cam brook team, continued their innings, and brought the ecore to 132, when Smyth was bowled, having totalled 22. Harraway batted very steadily, but when his score had reached 75 Frith bowied him with a shooter. Cheesemau (16, not out) was the other principal scorer, and when the last wicket fell the total Bhowed 199, a very creditable performance against the Grange Eleven. The match results in a win for the Grange on the first innings by 46 runs.

The Junior Cup nutch Opoho No. 1 v. Dunedin No. 1 was concluded at Opoho last week. The Opoho, with seven wickets down for 76, and requiring 33 runs to win, only succeeded in adding 11 runs to the previous total, the Danedin thus won by 21 runs. Scores : Dunedin 108, Opoho 87. Fraer for Dunedin bowled splendidly, securing five wickets for 24 runs.

A cricket match was played on the Carisbrook ground last Thursday between teams representing the Post and Telegraph departments and the Otago Daily Times, and after a very enjoyable game the former won by 14 runs on the first innings. Scores : Post and Telegraph, 57 (Crawshaw 39) ; Times, 43 (Souness 20). Crawshaw, Mason (three for 0), and Ballantyne shared the bowling honours for their respective sides.

The St. James's Gazette considers that although the triumph of the Australians in the third test match at Adelaide fully compensates for the losses in Sydney and Melbourne, it will probably result in the colonials making an early vißit to England.

Pearce, a Ballarat ground bowler, who was fo-merly for years on the ground staff of the Melbourne Cricket Club, bowled with gre^t success against both the Sydney and English batsmen. Of his ability to bowl there is no doubt whatever, and he was a terror to club and Wednesday eleven*, against whom he iuvariably beat Phillips for a bowling average. "Observer" says he has seen him completely "sick up" batsmen of tho calibre of W. W. Read at practice on the Melbourne ground, while the Major stood behind the civase urging "Bobby" on. He ha-T a dread, however, of the driving powers of Bruce aud Ross, and would skip behind the net as booh as they jumped into his slows. BUckham d- sired to take Pearce to England with the 1888 Aus'rfllian team.

The score was 68 when H. Trott lost his wicket in the first innings of the Australians in the thiid test match. How it happened wan this : Peel appraled for Ibw against Trott, but Mr Searcy shook his head. The ball meanwhile had gone away to leg, and Giffen, calling, ran down tbe pitch. Trott, howevtr, was not ready. One man was certain to be run out at the bowler's end, and the Victorian chose to sacrifice hims'lf for the captaiD, and was unfortunate, ending a bii'.liant inuiogs which had promised to jield a big Fcove. Tro'.t who was only at the wickets for 50 minutes, batted splendidly, and at the same time so vigorously that he bit no less that eight 4's. Trott's sacrifico placed on Giffen's shoulders the responsibility of making a long score.

The innings of 134 (not out) played by Rains lust Saturday for Cariabrook A against the Albion was probably the best we have Eern in Duncclin (his y.-ai- It was a sp'endid display of patient c-i 1;-j\ Kiins t-ok no liberties with the boiling, \<\\ v , \. .ilol kr h.- h»l!s off vhich he ceuld tcue Th-i bulk of his runs came from uoat cv's actl from those aimirablyliuied pulls from the eff and middlo wickets round to leg which he executes so nrtistically. The fifties have hitherto been Rains's doldrums — he has two or three timea this season scored over 50 without reaching 60— and he tarried come time between 50 and 60 on Saturday, and it was uot until after the welcome cheer from the pavilion told him that he had got his century that his scoriug was other th»n slow. As

a matter oC fad the C*ii?bro:>k innings Lut?d for two hours and 40 miuutes and be earned his bat through it. It was taid that he gave a chance when he had made eight runs. I did not sec it and Mr Glee, ona of tho umpire, tells me fche'c was uo such chance. Hit fife H'irngs wa r , (h.'refurc, not disfijured by a single chance.

Th ft re thonld hive been anolher century scored at Ciirisbrool^ on Saturday — namely, by Baker in the ma^ch bdbwten the Grauge and Oai'isbrook B. When I say tbat there chou'd have been another century, I m'-an tint Bak< v was gang so strongly, and was trea'ingall th»j C.irisb/o-ik bowling so onte Jiptuously when he was run out with his ecore at 85, thib ib was a moral certainty that he would have added another 15 rans to bis total. Unfortunately he had, ia Dawcs, a partner who was apparently quits unable to appreciate the nobility of selfsacrifice. H. Tfott sacrificed his wicket for George Giffen's when it was inevitable tbat one of them should b3 jun out in tho reenfc test match, ami it mii?ht have been c\pccfc"d that, when ib was in v.tabto that one or other of the Grange two, should be run cub last Saturday at Carisbrook, Dawes would, knowing that Baker had so few to get in order to have a century to his c eJit, have crossed over and sac iucod his wicket. But no ! Dawes was not built that way. It was not merely a matter of iadfF>ronco t"> him, as ib ECemed, whether Baker got his three figures or not, bub it wns even, undesirable that his partner should geb them. That, at leas'", is the reasonable interpretation of his aefciou vrhon he stuck selfishly in his crease so ih^t Baker had to retire. Baker's was not a faultlf ss display— he was ba'Hy missed ea'ly in hi? innings by Thomson— bub ho hit with great power and piled up his runs very quickly.

" Observer," in the Argas, says bho batting of the Englishmen in the third test matctfwas very disappointing, and there was nothing in the wicket to get rid of them so cheaply. One factor in their failure, he states, was the marvellous succession of catches brought off by the Australians, who in this respect rivalled the best tradition of Australian cricket. Referring to the latter, Blackham averred tbat in all his experience hp never saw such a brilliant exhibition. " Mid-on," in the Leader, says the poor performance of the Englishmen can only be accepted as one of bhose inexplicable disappointments which will crop up at times so long as cricket lasts, and that any attempted explanation must be fallacious and misleading. On «.he last day of the third test match Stoddart ran do one of the biggest b^ts ever seen on the Adelaide Oval, ths ball falling close to the edge of the asphalt in front of the sciriug buard, every inch of 120 yds from the wicket. If it had only landed on the asphalt he would have accomplished a feat never achieved from the centre of the ground. When Trott caught Richardson (the lasb wicket), it was the work of a second to transfer the ball from his hand to his pocket with the remark : " That's woith keeping."

It is not too much to say that A. E. Tiotb's bowling in the Englishmen's second innings in the third test m*tcb. was almost unplayable. None of the batsmen from tb.9 bejinuing were easy when facing him, and he not only vari r d the pace with rare judgmpn l ;, but never once lost;hi3 length. Never aince Palmer in 1879 took nine wickets for 99 against Lord Harris's Eleven ha 9an Australian colt bowled with such astonibhing success against an Euglish eleven, and no young player either in an Euglish or an Australian representative team ever made his debut in a test match so sensationally. Sir W. J. Clarke, president of the East Melbourne Club, wired early in the day ; " Toll Albert I'll give him a guinea for every wicket he takes."

Speaking to the toast of the English team at Adelaide, Stoddart said he had been beaten not by the wicket or luck, but by the best allround cricket. He heartily congratulated Trott on his sucsess.

The total takings at the gates at the three test matches amount to £7200.

The Daily News, referring to the defeat of Stoddart's Eleven in Adelaide, declares they were in that match out-played at every point, and expresses the opinion that Albert' Trott is the coming man. 'The Standard comments on the value of the new blood included in the colonial team, especially Trobb and Callaway.

The London evening papers felicitate the Australians on their victory over the Englishmen. The Pall Mall Gazette says it is evideat that the elevens are evenly matched.

The Junior Cup match Opoho I v. Carisbrook D was finished lasb week, and resulted in a win for the Opoho by 64 runs. Scores : — Opoho, 147 ; Carisbrook D, 83.

An exhibition probably unique in iti way was opened at Brighton, on December 4, at the H )tel Mefcropole as a eupp'e.nentary at'mciion to a bazaar that has been arranged with the object of helping the Sussex County Crick ;t Club, tho funds of which have fallen into rather low water The trophies and mementoes recall some of the most curious and striking incidents in the history of the game. Perhaps the earliest relic (says a Daily News writer) is an o'd-fashioned crooked bat, dating back probably to 1750, when the game was played with on'y two sfcump«, and whsn the bafc was undergoing its evolution from a curved club to the shape it now bear 3. This eighteenth century bat was found about nine years ago in the l'osf of the G.°O'ge and Dragon Inn, at Headcorn, in Kent, when the hostelry was rebuilt Another ea-ly bat ii a club bat, date about 1810. The Eirl of Sheffield, who is president of the club, h«s eeijt the balls used iv the games pliyed by hi 3 team on their visit to Australia. He also sends the ball with which Alfred Shaw bowled out Lord Sheffield and his pnrty at Spitsbergen iv August 1894, at a game played by the light of the midoight sun, at a poiut about 600 ruiies beyond the farthest poiut iv the Arctic reji A ns where a ma'-ch of cricket had been recorded. The ball used on the occasion was given to W. L. Murdoch, who has lent it for this exhibition. Mr Murdoch also shows a number- of presentation cups as well as the bats and bills used in some famous games. He shows, for example, the bat with which he made 286 not out in 1882, at Brighton, in Austria v. Sussex ; and the bat with which, in June 1884, h» mads 132 (Au tralia v. Cambridge University), and in August of the same year 211 (Australia v. England) As an offset to these big scores, he posse3c cs an afternoon tea-cloth with autographs of some intercolonial players in a match which he travelled 14,000 miles to take part in, and then failed to scora a single run. Among the curiosities lent by Mr 3 Walter Humphreys aie some interesting reminders of the skill of the famous lob-bowler. One of them is the ball usul by bim in what the catalogue calls his "sensaiioinl trundling," at UVkfield (UcHie'd v. NuMey), in Aprii 1888, wh n he took eight v?ick(its for no runs. Acothor is th^-Jjall vrith which, in July 1384, ho performed*"the " hat tiick," in the rna^ch of Sussex against Australia ; the wickets of M'Donnell, GiiTen. aud Scott being lowered in three Buccesfive balls. A once used by the famous Fuller Pilch, aud a bat user! by Tom Box, the scarcely less celebrated Sussex wickel-keeper, are also shown. But the centre of attraction i 3 a collection of 50 bats of eminent cricke era during the east 40 vo.u'3. on loau ivoia Mr C. Pcai*

Green, of Great Malvern. I'he'e include bats used by Gorge Parr, the "lion of the north," I. D. Wa'ker, R'chard Daft, W. Gunn, G C. Hearnc, W. Bites (the b».t with which he scored 63 in 57 minutes, Yorks. v. Notts, in August 1887), Arthur Shrewsbury (including a bat with which he made 232 at Melbourne in Dfccmbev 1887, being the highest score against Australian bowling^, W. G Gracs, W L. Murdoch, George Brano, A. J. Webbe, E. M. Grace, and others. v< s The Fiji cricketing team arrived in the colony on Monday by the Taviuni, and were received by tho Auckland Cricket Association. They pay Auckland on Friday and Saturdiy, and mcunviiilc practice and indulge in sight seeing.

George Giffen's feat in the recent match between South Australia and New South Wales of capturing in the match 16 wickets for 186 runs is one of the best he has accomplished during his long career.

" Aph" Jarvis had, in the aame match, hard linp3 in getting out in his first innings when he wanted ojily two to aohieve a score which ib ia every cricketer's ambibion to make, and more particularly as the last time he got into the niueties— in England in 1886— he was left not out with 96 to his credit. Jarvis's previous best score in an intercolonial match was 91, which he obtained against Victoria in 1884.

Apropos to the third test match, the question may well be asked respecting A. E. Stoddarb's second innings, " What will they say in England when the story there is told of the Middlesex champion batting for 20 minutes for 1 run, and that run made in the last minute of the 20, on a perfect wicket, and a colt bowling at one end ? "

V. Trumper, the New South Wales colt, who, after his flue display on bohalf of the Sydney Juniors against the English team, gained a place in the New South Wales team in the match against South Australia, is a colt in every oense of the word. He is only 17 years old, but may be described as well-grown for his age. Judging by the way he shaped on Saturday, I should say (writes one of the Australasian staff) that New South Wales has found a batsman who will be of groat service to her in years to come. He was evidently very nervous when starting. After batting very correctly for nearly an hour, he foolishly ran himsslf out in going for an impossible run.

In the course of a chatty article respecting the second teat match and the people who were on the Melbourne Club's ground to see it, " Felix " writes in the Australasian :—": — " I met the old Melbourne footballer Billy Knoen, famous for his rushes in old times. He looked hearty and well ; just as well, in fast, as when Jack Blackham aud I had tea with him on the top of Breakneck Hill, Dunedin, 17 years ago, after that grand day's walk over the hills and through the winding fissure in the waters of Leith. At practice fcho other day I met a man who saw the first Australian Eleven play at Dunedin and at Chriatchucch in the days of Neilsou, Corfe, Fuller, the brothers Frith, Spring, and the late John Eva, who was drowned in the wreck of the Tararua. The old intercolonial player Ted Fowler played for Christchurch, and kept wicket in five form, aud I remsmbet that I had to make a speech from th<j roof of the pavilion because I won a bat for top score in the mitsh. In New Zealand, too, we met the old East Melbourne player, Mr W. O. Rees, cousin of W. G. Grace, and I remember that Mr Rees sang 'Marching throufeh Georgia' in great form at the banquet giveu to us, while good old George Bailey was equally at home in his rendition of the classic melody 1 Paddle your own canoe.' "

A splendid catch by F. Jarvis at mid-on dispooed of Iredale, one of the best of the New South Wales batsmen, in the match against South Australia. The fact that Iredale did not immediately walk towards the pavilion as most do when they are caught out suggested to the spectators that he did not think he was out. This was not the case. What happened (says "Point" in the Observer) was that for a faw moments no one went through the formality of appealing to the umpire, and Iredale, wise man, did not think it worth while leaving for the dressing room until he was actually given out. If he had been W. G. Grace, who is always ready for a joke, he would have promptly stretched forward, and patted down an imaginary inequality in the pitch, and then, standing erect, have taken strike again. Some one would have said — "But you are out"; and Iredale, startled, with innocence depicted in his features, would have said — •• Eh, what ! Out did you say ? I thought it was a bump ball." Grace has thus been known to bluff an umpire, but every batsman is not a W.G.

Fears were entertained among the spectators at the third test match th»t Giffen's self-confi-dense might cause himl;o bowl the malch away, and when 41 runs had been hit off him without a wicket in the Englishmen's first inniugs the spectators freely and openly advised him to go off. But with characteristic pertinacity the champion stuck to his work, and, as usual, came out at the finish with flying colours and the excellent record of five wickets for 75 rons. When once the spell was broken he was very deadly, and the longer he kept goiug the better he bowled. Callaway, however, was still more successful, and coming so soon after bis fine display of batting, his performance with the ball was highly satisfactory. As he bowled maiden after maiden and captured wickets in rapid succession, the spectators cheered the strapping Sydneyita to the echo, as well they might — a reaord of five wickets for 37 runs on such a wickeb, and against England's chosen batsmen, being a performance which would rouse any but the most lethargic crowd to enthusiasm. , He kept a good length, came pretty fast off the pitch, and was backed by splendid fielding, which was perhaps the most important of all.

The softest ball of the third test match eventually got Iredale's wicket in the second innings, for Peel chucked up a plain full toss, and in trying to pull it Iredale put it straight up in the air, and the bowler took the catch, getting his hands, chest, and legs all under the ball to make cettain of it. Iredale had a great reception on returning to the pavilion. Hia series of fine scores against England mark him as, next to G'ffen, the best bat in Australia. He did not get anything like the Bame number of runs behind the wickets as in Sydney, but bis off drives along the graßS were as perfect strokes as ever seen from a driving batsman. The Englishman joined the crowd in applauding his performance. That he was not lacking in force was shown by the fact that he hit 17 4's and was batfciag a little over four hours. lli3 skill in placing the baU was a io a noble fe%ture of his play. His w>ckct fell at 34-7, so that IrecKlo was in while 503 runs were being made. His easy, upright stand at the wicket, and the manner in which he gets over the ball, makes him, like Bruce, a batsman always pleasant to watch, while scoring, though both the Adelaide and the Melbourne wickets are a trifle too fast to see him at his best.

A. E. Trott punished the tried bowlers in the Australians' second innings at Adelaide until they hardly knew where to pilch them, yet never losing his he&d for an instant, and hatting splendidly. Ia tbe end Richardson

again bowled Callaway, and young Trott for the second time in the match carried out his bat, this time for a splendidly-made 72, giving him an aggregate of 110 for the match without being out. Even his own comrades were astounded at the perfection of bis batting, and the first congratulations he received were those of perhaps three of tbe finest batsmen ia Australia— Giffen, Lyons, and Iredale, while the crowd cheered him all tho way in. He got his runs all round the wicket, but his splendid off-driving was the finest part of the innings, and in this ho rivalled Iredale. With aaoh » performance Albert Tro*t jumps at onca to the front rank of Australia's punisbiug batsmen. He was only an hour and a-half getting his runs, and hit 11 4's, every one being clean, well-timed strokes.

" Point" writes in the Adelaide Obaerver:— "Popularity is fleeting, and the cricketer familiar to everyone, and Lyons ia nob the first public man who has found 'that to be the c*se. Three months ago if a plebiscite of the Australian cricket-loving public had been taken he would hare stood high amongst; those chosen for an Australian Eleven — probably one of the first three. Hardest of living hitters, he has time after time heard the shouts of the multitude as he knocked about the bowliDg. Who of those who care to remember can forget thafc a few short months since he scored 149 ia 95 minutes against some of England's best bowlers by such terrific bitting as had never before been seen at Lord's, or perhaps anywhere else? And many a brilliant innings has Lyons played in Australia. More than one match which saemed hopelessly lost has he palled out o£ the fire, and it is only necessary to recall the teat match at Sydney in 1892 when he made 134 againsfe the Earl of Sheffield's team. He has been a hero. His name has been one to conjure with. Few Australian batsmen have been able to set the nerves of the crowd tingling as he has. Now all his great deeds are forgotten by the multitude. He cannot 'get going.' His luck is out, likewise his form. He is no longer a hero. Many an erstwhile admirer who was ready a year ago to shout himsolf hoarse when Lyons was scoring could not find hard enough words to use when the big hitter was dismissed for 7 on Tuesday ovening. For the man who had tried all he knew to get into form and failed there was scant sympathy at a time when a little of it might have helped a great batsman to bear a temporary reverse. Fortunately, however, Lyons has years of cricket in front of him, and it is to be hoped that he may yob make many a, century for South Australia and Australia. The sum total of Harry and Worrall's four innings against the Englishmen in the third ts-st match was 19, and were ib not thafc they fielded so finely they would have to bo Bet down as failures.

So hob on the second day of the test match at Adel»ide was it that each of tbe Australians, on the recommendation of a police countable, wore a lettuce leaf under his hat, while Blackham brewed a special hot-day drink of oatmeal and lemou water for his side.

They have some children playing senior cricket in Nelson. I judge that from the fact that It. Fowler has intimated to Mr P. TopHss, secretary of the Cricket Association, that himsblf, W. Fowler, and G. Fowler have decided not to take pare with the Nelson represf ntative team ngaiunt the Fijians, owing to the aonselection o? S. Fvwkv in the team. Better pick a team of Fowlers and then they will perhips be s*tif>fied.

Respecting A. E. Trott's play in the recent match at Adelaide, " Observer " writes :—": — " No Australian co'.t over before came to the front with such » rush, and it would be a waste of words lo°ay how g'>od a double hii was. The figures speak for themselves. Such luck only happens to a colt once in a century, but it was less luck than merit that brought him to the front rank of crickettrs. Of the merit of his batting a great many can bear testimony, and the English b&tsmcn say all that is requited of his bowling."

S. Deane, playing for tho Royal Comic Opera Company agaiust Lancaster Park on Monday, scored 116. He is said to hava obtained his runs in excellent style, mostly by clean, welltimed, all-round hitting, and although he waa let off mor« than once in the field, his display was in no way below his reputation a* a dashing, well-trained batsman.

At Wellington on Saturday A. R. Holdship scored 127 (not out) in a Senior Cup match bet-veen the Wellington and Phoenix Clubs. The New Zealand Times remarks thafc " centuries " in Cup matches in Wellington are like angeh' visits. Moorhouse was one of the fleet to reach three figures, when he scored 107 for the Phcenix ogainsb the Midlande/s in 1889. Morice, another member of the Phoceuix Club, in a match against tLe Rivals, also topped tho century. Uphim, in 1893, Bcored 102 (not out) agaiost the Phcenix. Probably ill luck alone prevented 11. Blacklock from adding hia name to the little list of century-getters in the still unfinished Phcenix-Midland heat this year in which he scored 98. Heenan's 146 against HawW* B.vy in 1887 and A. Blacklock's 106 against the CJhrisbchurch Mid'ands at Christmis are ths only o.her thr.'e-figure scores by Wtlliogton players in matches of importance. The team of Fijian cricketers is composed o£ the following players : — Hons. J. C. Collins and J. S. Udal, Messre H. G. Scott, A. B. Jaske, R. Caldwell, J. M'Owan, and W. J. Groom, Rabu Kadavu Levu, Ratu Temesia, Ratu Tai Varena Vau, Ratu Naivololovo, Ratu Tui Saivau, and Ratu Epeli. The licet four nativeß mentioned are B»u chiefs, and the la3t two are Rewi chiefs. The native visitors are a fine, stalwart lot of fellows. The best bat amongst the native members is R&tu Kadava Levu, who is also a fast round-arm bowler. Pi-stu Tui Varena Vau is tho native fast bowler of the team. The Fijians, though noted for being excellent men in the field, are not quite so successful with the bat, the team relying principally on the European members in that department of the game. J. C. Collins, who is considered the beat all-round man the visitors have brought with them, was offered a place by Dr W. G. Grace in the Eoglish team that visited Australia in 1872. He was subsequently a member o£ the well-known Marylebone Cricket Club, and in 1879 when he left England was a member of this olub's committee.

The Canterbury Cricket Association have agreed to the dates — the 23rd and 25th February— suggested by the Otago Association for the annual match between the provinces. Tbe Wellington Cricket Association has decided to send a representative team to plaj Hawke's Bay on the 16th and 18th March.

The Star A met and defeated the United on Saturday. For the Star, E. Rowlatt and Harris baLleci well, as did Wiighb for the Uailed.

In Chmlchurch last Saturday the Senior Cup matches were resumed in favourable weather, but upon wicktts that were not altogether in favour of the batsmen. The unfinished senior match between the United and Midland was won after a close finish by the latter team by 13 runs, the scores being : Mid« land 141 and 76; United 113 and 91 (W. J. Cotterell 29, T. D. Harman 28). After that the victorious Midlanders travelled to Lancaster Paik and met the home Uam. who

Secured first innings and scored 203 (Cuff SS, De Maus 48, Wilding nob out 33), while the Midland lost one wicket for 5. The United played the Warehousemen and each concluded *n iuniuge, the latter team scoring 98 (Orchard 23, Johm>ton not out 21) to the United'B 69 (Clark 23). A match between Stondart's English Team and the Broken Hill Eighteen was played on Friday and Saturday last. In their firat inniggs the local team scored 70 and the Englishmen made 178 (M'Laren 56, Stoddart 55). In their second essay Broken Hill knocked up 102, leaving the viei tors victorious by an innings and 8 rune. Iredale denies that he has received an offer to proceed to England. The match Albion Third v. Dunedin Third resulted in a win for Dnnedin by 23 runs on the first innings. Scores : — Dunedin 67 (Ferguson 21, Scott 15, Faulks 10) and 57 (Yates 21, Sincock 14). Albion 44- (Himmel 13) and 45 for three wickets (Spenco 16, Strachan 22 not out). Southern defeated Privateers B by 43 runs on the first innings, the scores being — Southern 69 and 83, Privateers 826 runs. W. M 'Kersey (22 and 41 not out) and J. Urquhart (20) batted well for the winners. F. Paris and W. M'Kersey (Southern), J. Hussey and J. Black (Privateers) bowled wall for their respective sides. Privateers A defeated Waverley A by 61 runs, the scores being — Privateers 55 (Hessian 21) and 51. Waverley 23 and 22 (Mauley 11). Draker for the former took 13 wickets for i 7 runs. A match Louisiana A v. Beehive resulted in a ■win for the former by eight wickets aud 6 runs. Scores : — Louisiana 69 and 32 for two wickets (Kingston 28, Barber 21 not out., and P. Mason 17 not out). Beehive 49 and 48 (Price 27 and 17 end Salmond 10). Price (Buhivr) and Kingston and Riddle (Louisiana) did the bulk of the bowling. Star B defeated the Midland by 19 runs. Scores : — Stir, 50 and 58 for eight wickets ; Midl»Dd, 53 and 56. For the Star Elder and T. Bennett and for Midland Peake and Campbell bowled well. Carlton A defeated Carlton B by nine wickets and three runs. The scores were: — A, 42 (J. Wilkie 10) and 12 for one wicket (A. Eyre 10) ; B, 32 and 19. F. Rowlatt (three for 4), J. Blaok (eight for 18), and J. Wilkie (tight for 13) bowled for the winners, as did W. Peterson (10 for 26) and D. Liickson (two for 27) for the losers. I As the Oarisbrook ground will not be available on March 9 the Cup Committee have rearranged the Senior Cup fixtures as follows :—: — Februai-y 9 and 16 — Opoho v. Carisbrook A, Dunedin v. Oari&brook B, WraDge v. Albion. March 2 and 9. — Dunedin v. Carisbrook A, Albion v Carihbrook B, Grange v. Opoho. March 1G aud 23 — Carisbrook A v. Grange, Carisbrook B v. Opoho, Albion v. Dunedin.