WEEK-END CRICKET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19880, 6 March 1939, Page 8

WEEK-END CRICKET

LODGE BEATS TE KARAKA M AN<.' A I'A PA ODDFELLOWS By a margin of (three wickets, a cricket team representing the Mangapapa Oddfellows' Lodge defeated Te Karaka on the Oval during the weekend.

Te Karaka, batting first, made only 75, J. Livingston and H. McMillan taking some cheap wickets. Mangapapa secured a lead of 36 runs on the first innings, but rtJhe visitors set the home team a more difficult task in the second by putting on 142 runs for the loss of seven wickets, and declared. The partnership between McGrannachan and Hardacre was a valuable one, contributing 82 runs, taking the score to !)4 for three wickets down. Mangapapa commenced their second innings badly, losing four wickets for 19. but Livingstone and P. Rohan stopped the rot, and raised the score by a further 95 to 114 before they were separated, giving the side sufficient runs for victor>. A summary of the scores is as follows: — Te Karaka. —First innings, 75 (McGrannachan 27, Cudd 15, Goodley 12, Livingstone four wickets for 20, and H. McMillan five wickets for 13); second innings, 142 for seven ' wickets, declared (McGrannachan- 33, Hardacre 44, Moverlcy 12 not out, Clayden 10, McMillan fyhree wickets for 33, and

Rohan four for 27.) Mangapapa.—First innings, 111 (E. Lund 12, N. Redstone 10, McLettan. 21, W. Hazel 34, Sydney two wickets for 21. Doran two for 20, and Cudd three for 18); second innings, 125 for seven wickets (Livingstone 71, Rohan 45, Cudd' two wickets for 39, McGrannachan three for 28, and Sydney two for 43).

MATCH AT KOPUAWHARA ALLEN BROS. DEFEATED A visit was paid to Kapuawhara during the week-end by Allen Brothers and Johnstone's cricket representatives, the game resulting in an out-

right win for the home side by seven runs. The scores summarised were: — Allen Brothers and Johnstone. — First innings, 106 (A. L. Allen 43 not out, li. Bardswell and J. Gordon 14, D. Barker 12); second innings, 47 (F. Barbour 10, R. Oswald 8). Kopuawhara.—First innings, 89 (Brodie 22, Troy 12, Bryan 11); second innings, 71 (Brodie 29, Kelly 22).