INNINGS DEFEAT

Southland Times, Issue 21580, 18 December 1931, Page 8

INNINGS DEFEAT

HIGH SCHOOL CRICKET SOUTHLAND BATSMEN COLLAPSE WICKET TOO FAST (Special to the Tinies.) Oamaru, December 17. The Southland v. Waitaki High Schools cricket match concluded to-day and resulted in a win for the home team by an innings and 124 runs. Southland continued their innings with Spence and Carswell against the bowling of Smith and Laney. Both batsmen were very confident and scored very freely. Gillies changed the bowling fairly frequently, but the batsmen were little worried by the bowling of Kent, Reid and Mathias. When the score was 72, Kent clean bowled Spence who had the good total of 54 to his credit. L. Uttley came in and the century was reached before Mathias beat him. Laney came on again and the change proved fruitful, Carswell being caught behind by Francis. In his next over, Laney changed the score from two for 102 to five for 110, bowling Page and Rodger with successive balls. K. Uttley and Pickard stopped the rot with determined cricket. Ihese two brought the score to 127 at the luncheon adjournment. Uttley continued to bat excellently, scoring all round the wicket until he was caught off Reid by McArthur. Lee and Reid batted quite well for their double figures. Southland followed on with L. Uttley and Spence and no wickets, were down for 14 at the afternoon tea adjournment. On resuming, Spence did not last very long, being bowled by Laney. Rodger joined Uttley and the score mounted up slowly. At 38 Laney got an lbw against Uttley and Rodger did not last much longer. With the score at 52, a rot set in and seven ' wickets were down for 60 until Reid and Mackrell stubbornly held up their wickets, in fact the previous batsmen tried to play out time rather than to get runs. The position was fairly desperate when Lee was brilliantly caught by Kent off Watson. Strang came in, but did not last, being well stumped by Francis. Thus the innings closed for the small total of 76. The collapse of the visitors in the second ’ innings was rather surprising. The wicket was very fast and it wits due to this fact that the batsmen failed. The bowling was quite good, but never very deadly, Laney proving the most successful. The fielding was good. < The scores were: WAITAKI. First Innings 431 SOUTHLAND. First Innings. Spence b Kent 54 Carswell c Francis b Laney 26 L. Uttley b Mathias 17 K. Uttley c McArthur b Reid 76 Page b Laney 1 Rodger b Laney 0 Pickard lbw b Laney 11 Mackrell b Smith 7 Lee b Kent 12 Reid st Francis b Laney 11 Strang not out 5 Extras 11 Total 231 Bowling Analysis: Laney took five wickets for 71 runs; Smith one for 79; Kent two for 33; Reid one for 23; Mathias one for 14. Second Innings. L. Uttley lbw b Laney 20 Spence b Smith 6 Rodger b Smith 10 Carswell run out 9 K. Uttley b Gillies 4 Pickard b Paape 3 Page c Francis b Paape 0 Reid b Watson 4 Lee c Kent b Watson 2 Mackrell not out 9 Strang st Francis b Smith 0 Extras 9 Total 76 Bowling Analysis: Kent took no wickets for 9 runs; Laney one for 11; Smith three for 30; Gillies She for 6; Paape two for five; Watson two for 6. SOUTHLAND v. NORTH OTAGO OAMARU TEAM ANNOUNCED. The North Otago selectors have chosen the following team to play Southland at Invercargill on January 1 and 2: —W. Uttley (captain), Geddes, Brown, J. Robertson, McCallum, Zimmerman, Dick, Laney, Carrington, McLaren and Davey. Reserves: Smith, Gillies, Maddigan. Mr A. Keith will accompany the team as manager. SATURDAY’S FIXTUBES Following are the draw, grounds and umpires for to-morrow’s club games:— First grade games continued and second grade (A section) matches postponed. Second Grade B. Old Boys v. Bluff, Biggar street West; umpires, Messrs Paton and Rogers. Marist v. School A, Showgrounds No. 1; Brother Benedict and Mr Hogg. Union v. Collegiate, Biggar Street East; Messrs Taylor and Luzmoor. Railway v. School B, Queen’s Park, No. 2; Messrs Morey and Glozier. I.C.C. v. Tisbury, Queen's Park, No. 3; Messrs Dawson and Jordan. Third Grade. Herbert Haynes v. Technical College A, Showgrounds No. .2; Umpires, Messrs Drummond and Anderson. School A v. Old Boys, Showgrounds No. 4; Messrs Burrell and Webb. Borstal v. Technical College B, Showgrounds, No. 3; Messrs Boyd and Wish. Collegiate v. Appleby, Appleby Ground; Messrs Washer and Hardcastle. Marist v. Waikiwi, Waikiwi; Brother Paschal and Mr Harris. TEAMS FOR TO-MORROW. INVERCARGILL. Junior B.—Barnhill, Clark, Pickering, Weir, Martin, Kibblewhite, Payne, Pope, McGibbon, Stevens, Jackson, Lee, McCallum. COLLEGIATE. Second grade.—Hogan, Cunningham, Pay, Thom, Ferguson, Ingram, Dunlop, Collins, Dunne, Stewart, Thomson, Frampton, Aldridge. Third grade.—Benfell, D. Cameron, Campbell, Dawson, Dale, Jones (2), Keast, Ramsay, Lindsay, Ryan. Third Grade A.—Mudie, Hopgood, Galbraith, Good, Rattray, R. Sutherland, Crosier, Bothway, Ayto, Hollander, Wilkinson, Hutson, Harper. > APPLEBY. Third grade.—Calvert (3), Barrett, Leary, Shirley, Jordan, Childs, Dawson, Swan, Hodges, A. Sammins. Emergencies, Boivin, McArthur. RAILWAY. Junior B team —Taylor, Loose, Hearne, Ramage, Williams, Jamison, Shand, Meffan, Welan, Rowland, Light. MARIST. Second grade: E. Halpin, R. Broad, L. Campbell, F. McEwan, B. Butler, R. Lynch, Ti' Pasco, J. Broad, E. Walsh, C. Campbell, F. Lawrence, J. Pasco, S. Cussack. Third grade.—B. Dawson, I. Chisholm,

N. Forde, J. Murphy, P. Grace, C. Campbell, A. Shepherd, P. Barry, F. Forde, I. McSwigan, 11. Cockroft, P. O’Neill and T. O’Connor. UNION. Second grade.—-Craig, Tayles, Mattingly, Haberfield, Undrill, Belsham, Watson, Giles, Carlaw, Mclntosh. Emergencies, Conley, Aitken, Berry, Bocock. OLD BOYS. Second Grade B.—McFarlane, Boyce, Smith, Canning, Coakley, Mackie, Henderson, Carswell, Marshall, Wilson, Strang. Georgeson. Third Grade—Patterson, Semmens, Luzmoor, Barrett, Smythe, Ramsay, Courtis, Cunningham, Gutzewitz, Smiley, Hobson. WAIKIWI. Third grade.—R. Dick, F. Fox, A. Kingsland, L. Sparrow, C. Ludlow, G. Metcalfe, F. Fulton, L. Kingsland, C. Churton, 11. Butts, J. Robertson. First emergency:—T. Blackler. BLUFF. Juniors: Long, G. Silvester, Burtenshaw, Nixey, Phillipson, Deans, Crawford, Cooper, Walker, Tait, Vincent. INTER-COLLEGE MATCH. Wanganui, December 17. The inter-college cricket match, Wellington v. Wanganui Collegiate, concluded today and ended in a draw. Wellington compiled 146 in reply to Wanganui's total of 117. Wanganui had five wickets down in their second strike for 67 when stumps were drawn, (Bunny not out 35.) N.Z. CRICKET LIMITED. LOSS OF £1461 5/1. Christchurch, December 17. At the first and only ordinary general meeting of shareholders of the New Zealand Cricket Limited, it was decided that the company be wound up voluntarily. In moving the adoption of the report and balance-sheet, Mr A. T. Donnelly said there was no doubt in a season of normal weather a handsome profit would have tieen shown on the New Zealand team’s tour. As it was, a loss of £1,461 5/1 was being reimbursed by the Cricket Council, together with interest to shareholders at six per cent. Appreciation was expressed of Mr Donnelly’s services as chairman of d'rectors It was announced that each shareholder would receive a souvenir of the tour in the shape of a card bearing a photograph of the team with the averages and statistics of the tour.