Cricket.

Southland Times, Issue 19002, 23 March 1903, Page 2

Cricket.

HAWKE'S TEAM* v. N.S.W

(Per United Press Association.) By Electric Telegraph— Copyright

SYDNI.Y, March 21 Deceived 21st ($.40 p.m.

The attendance was good and the witkel had improved and played lest. Fane and Dowson continued and 'here was Mow play for the first half hour, then the batsmen began to score quickly and brought Ihe century up. Dowson doiug most of the scoring. A. change to l'yo and Noble from llowfcll and Mcßeath was relished by the partnership. Dowson punishing Pye severely. The N.S.W. fielding was oxcollent. the century being recorded without a sundry Fane played forward to Noble and snicked tho ball into the hands of Pye at second slip -4 for lli). Bosanquet followed and ly line leg hitting soon got double figures and the total passed the N.S.W. score. After lunch Howell and T'ye were tried, but the batsmen .were well set. Bosanquet's powerful hitting being particularly strong on the leg side. Dowson played a fine game, w ith clean strokes a 1 ! round the field. The Kaglishmen added low for Uu minutes' play. Mcßoath mused a hot one from Dowson oIY Xoble. tho batsman's first chance after making' 7.V The second century appeared for three hours work, then Bosanquet nrishit Noble. Hickson taking the catch at third man— s for 204. Before .Johnson had a chance to score It. DulT hrrlliantly i- aught Dowson at mid O(i— 0 for 212. Dowson batted for 2 hours 20 minutes, and hit 10 fours. His was a thoroughly sound innings. Thompson filled the vacancy. .Johnson had reached double figures when Noble made a fine catch at point, the ball bouncing out of his hand but he recovered it— V for £24. Trotl followed, but after a fourer and a single Tye, at point, jumping « up, effected a magnificent catch — & for 229. Stanning camo next and his partnership with Thompson was long and' tedious. The latter took 50 minutes to compile 10. Stannin.g sent one to Trumper in the long field, low down, and he effected a fine catch, ITargreuve, the last man. knocked up three, then tipped one to Kelly.' ENGLISHMEN— (Ist innings ) Warner, llnv. Noble 23 Hurnup, 1> Mcßeath £ Tnylor, st Kelly, b Mcßeath ... ... 0 Kane, c I'ye. b Noble 41 Dowson. c H, Hurt, 1> Xoblo Sa Bosanquet, c Hickson, b Noble ... 52 Johnson, c Noble, b Arcßeath ... 12 Thompson (in) Ho Trott. c Pye. b Noble 5 Stanning, c Trumper, b Hopkins ... 2<J Hargreave. c Kelly, b Hopkins ... 3 Sundries ... '2 Total 282 Howell took no wickets for 54, Mcn?*th 3 for 73, Noble 5 for 78, Hopkins •2 for 37. Pyo 0 for 03. llurnup and Dowson started to Trumper ami It. Dun*, both of whom played a fast forcing game. Quick changes were madu: '.in the bowling, the fust ,10 runs appearing in '25 minutes. The fielding wtis .somewhat loose, the hatsmpn giving them )i\ely exercise. Aftvr five bowlers had been tried Bosantjuet camo on with slows and with his fourth bull successfully tempted Trumper, taking his bails—l for 72, W. Dun filled the vacancy, but left the scoring to his brother. The century came up in i>s minytesV. play : then Bosanquet's slows proved fatal to W. Duff— 2 wickets for 100. Kelly joined DulT. who was hitting splendidly, but with lo to his credit ho hit Bosanquet ta Hnrgrenve at deep pomt — 3 for 11(5. Mcßoath followed, but shaped frebly before Bosanquet, who appeared to get a lot of work on simplc-lookJing stuff. N.S.W. (2nd innings.) Trumper, b JJo-sauquet 37 U. DiilY (in) GO \V. DulT, b Bosani|uet ... ... 9 Kelly, c Hargreave, b Bosanquet ... l n Mcßeuth Mn) 0 Three wickets for 320 On Saturday, the match Warehouse, men v. Commercial Travellers, was won by the former by 8 wickets and H runs. The bagmen, batting first, made '22 runs, the warehousemen followed with s!}. In their second effort the commercials showed better form, making 50, but the other side, bettered thut for the loss of three wickets. The chief scorer? for the travellers were C. Martin 18, Carlton 10, and for the Warehousemen Scandrott 12, Cook 11. Spenco 10. For the winners T. Reid took 4 wickets for 7, \ Cook 3 far i>. l'atton 3 for 8, Tliompsou fi for 15, Sponce 5 for 4. Scandrctt D for (l. and. for the losera, Dunlop 4 for 21, Brown 2 for 8, Pa It on 3 for 10.

The Warehousemen meet a team representing the combinetl Civil "Service, «v tho Star ground, at 2 p.m. to-day.

A match between -the following .teams takes place on the Star ground to-day commencing nt yp , n ; _ Dttnks . Ros8 " Buchanan. Taylor. Roberts, Fraser, Mackny, How_ey. Vorteous, ICetiuc, "Wneieod, Macguiro. Grain Brokers : Black, Strang. Borne. Churton. Piper. Taylor. Chi.sholm, Moodie, Giller. Hutchins. J Gilkisoii. A. (Hlkjson,