Cricket.

Southland Times, Issue 18063, 5 February 1903, Page 2

Cricket.

The trial match between two Soutliland teams was commenced on tho Eastern Reserve yesterday. For various reasons several of the players selected oould not take part, and their places had to bo filled by others, Die game losing much of its interest in consequence. A team of thirteen- batted first and put up 80 runs, to which an eleven responded with 4G. The morning's rain hail made the wicket sticky, thus assisting the bowlers, so that high s.oring was not to bo expected, ln thoir second innings the thirteen have lost two wickets for Gl runs. The scores follow : — Thirteen— Borne, b Tapley a, Speirs, b Burke 0, Langdon, c Murphy b Jturkc 3, Burnes, c Poole b Tapley 12, Wilson, b Keenan 84, Gibson, c Tapley b Burke 2, Lillicrap, c and b Tapley 0, Dalrymplc, l.b.w. Tapley 0, Gilbertson, Bt. Keane, b Tapley O, Geddes, c Tapley b Keenan 5. Cameron, c Keane, b Turner 3, Stead, c Turner b Keenan 4, Harris, iin) 2, Churton, b Turner 5, extras 4— total 80.

Eleven— Poole, c Langdon b 1/llicrap 3, Keenan b Lillicrap 13, Tapley, bowled Dalrymple 1, Whitaker, b Lillicrap 5, Burke, c Dalrympje b Lillicrap 2, Keane, run out, 0, Turner ,(in), 7, Murphy, b Dalrymple 2, Purdue, b Lillicrap 4, Ross, caught Gilbert-

son, bowled Dalrymple 2, Manson, run out, 3, extras 2— total 46. For the eleven Burke took 3 wickets for 25 runs. Tapley 5 for 30, Turner 1 for 13, Keenan 3 for 7 ; for thoThirtoenDalrympie took 3 for 14, Lillicrap 5' for 27. The scores in tho second innings, of the Thirteen were : Wilson 35, Langdo'n (in) 25, Lillicrap 0, and Gibson iin) 0. Both wickets fell to Keenan^