AUCKLAND MATCHES. AUCKLAND. October 4.
Tho first round of tho Auckland ! Cricket Association's championship was concluded yesterday in v^ivy unfavourable wsather, ram falling- from 2 to 4 o'clock. The matches were played without interrupt ion despite tho weather. In the match Eden v Unhersity. ihe former closed thair fii =fc inning"? with 149 for two wickets (dimming* 36, G. Mills 50 1 not out. \V. B. Smith 40 not- out). Tnhrer- | «ity mads 122 for se\en wickets in their , fii>t innin«js (Jarob-on 4 5, Lauri-e 29) The j maich was unriuisKed. Playns; against ' North Shoiv. Graf ton made 147 in their fj-=t innings (R. Xeill 65. Glrocn 25), while , North Shor<-> compiled 167 for wick^ls j in their first innings (Bu«h 48, Sponce 52). | Bowling for North Shore, Howden took six wickets for 46 Noith Sl.oie sr.ouifd a twoi point win. Pon'onby met PariK-H aM . m;ide 111 in their fir=t innmyi ((ia\in 45), while Parnell i«it up 227 for o-'ghl wi-ekols (\Vridht 73. Jackson 36, and So:nor\ ille 29). Pain^ll secured a two-point win. MEETINGS IN CIIRISTCHI'RCIT. CHRISTCIIURCH, October 21. The Cant"rbi!i.\ Ci-joket Association toniuht decided to play Wellington at New | Year, the match to be considered as a , Plunket Shield match, pro\ a'ed that Wol- | lington then hold tlio shield. It was rl^cidfd to withdraw the challenge already i.-,sued to Auckland and to challonsre Auck- J land for the week following New Year, j pro\ id<?d that Auckland then hold tho sl.ield. 0 ' Tho annual mooting of t!-« Now Zeiland , Cricket Council wa- li' Mil tonight. The j balance nlieot ihowcd a <lebit balance of £68 18s Id. Tho pioir^l n«w iulo~- wove i adoplod wirli imall a'li 1 al ion-- reaard npr ■ the Plui.koi Shield l til^=. Notice of j motion wa- »"iven (hat no coach or person i imported at the ex do use of an> association ' or club should l>e eligible to jilav in £>ny J shield match until he had re^idoJ in tho Dominion for two years continuously. A , rule was adopted wheieby 60 per cent, of , the profit-, <_f a challenge, match *>hould be I retuined by the local a^soeiation. 30 per | cent, to be paid to the challenging a->socia- | tion, and 10 per cent, to the New Zealand j Council, the foregoing arrangerrenN not to a Pply to o:chnary inter-provinc-al i i matches, which are tieatod as shield matches.
AUCKLAND MATCHES. AUCKLAND. October 4.
Otago Witness, Issue 2902, 27 October 1909, Page 60
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