WET CRICKET GROUNDS

Southland Times, Issue 23445, 28 February 1938, Page 12

WET CRICKET GROUNDS

BEST TOTAL BY UNION Uttley And Poole Bat Well MARIST DISMISSED FOR 80 BLUFF MAKES 142 AGAINST INVERCARGILL Rain delayed the start of senior cricket matches on Saturday for about three-quarters of an hour, and the games were played on heavy grounds. It was necessary to cut another wicket for the match between Union and Old Boys on the High School groundUnion showed a pronounced improvement in its batting form and left Old Boys to face a score of 220. Uttley’s 59 for Union was the best performance of the day, and Poole, who was in partnership with him for a time, made 45. When play ended for the day Old Boys had one wicket down for 36, with Scandrett still batting. Marist, which had been doing well in the last few weeks, collapsed in its first innings against Appleby on the Appleby ground and made only 80. Appleby has two wickets down for 40. Bluff made 142 in its match at Biggar street against Invercargill, W. Carson making top score with 48. Invercargill has lost one wicket for 79, of which Service (not out) contributed 40.

Bowling Pickard (Old Boys), six for 56. Purdue (Appleby), four for 22. Haworth (Invercargill), three for 22. Calvert (Appleby), three for 30 Knapp (Invercargill), two for 19. C. McKenzie (Appleby), two for 21.

UNION MAKES GOOD START FIRST INNINGS YIELDS TOTAL OF 220 Union made an excellent start with its first wicket partnership between Brew and Poole, which produced 61 runs. Brew batted steadily for 19, the first 10 of which were singles, until he lifted one into Wesney’s hands off Pickard. Uttley took his place and Poole, who had played a fine strike throughout, was dismissed seven runs later for 45, which included six boundaries. The innings sagged in the middle, but Uttley was going well, playing the difficult ones cautiously and hitting the loose ones. With his score at 59 he was caught behind the wicket by Hawke off Pickard. His partnership with Swinney was a valuable one, producing 41 runs, of which Swinney contributed 23. The last wicket partnership provided an exhibition of fireworks, O’Grady and Hinton scoring 43 between them in a very short space of time. Hinton pulled three spectacular 6’s to the. school building off successive deliveries from Scandrett, whose last over cost 24 He was lifting them high, however, and was well taken at 35 by Mackie off Semmens. At one stage he was held by Robison, but the catch was taken across the boundary. Old Boys tried six bowlers, of whom Pickard with his slow deliveries was most successful, his six wickets costing only 56 runs. Scandrett and Hawke opened for Old Boys and in the half hour that was left scored 36 runs, slumps being drawn when Hawke's wicket fell at 25. His score included four 4’s. Details:—

UNION First Innings

BLUFF TEAM’S FAIR TOTAL INVERCARGILL ONE DOWN FOR 79 Bluff's first innings score of 142 against Invercargill at Biggar street was contributed largely by W. Carson, who made 48, and J. Williamson, who made 41. Joel coming on to bowl late in the innings, took the last three wickets for 13 runs. Invercargill opened with Service and Haworth, who put on 44 before the latter was caught off Williamson for 19. When stumps were drawn Service had 40 up and J. Pollok was 10. Details: — BLUFF First Innings

MARIST’S SMALL SCORE COLLAPSE IN FIRST INNINGS APPLEBY TWO DOWN FOR 40 RUNS Appleby made short work of disposing of Marist, which opened its innings on the Appleby ground. McGowan, who opened with Ryan, made the best score of 21 and was dismissed when he returned a full toss to the bowler. Ryan and Mahoney failed to score and Grace was dismissed for a small total. For a while it looked as if Forde and McGowan would compile a .good score between them, but Forde was run out at 11. Derbie, who also returned one to the bowler, was the only other Marist batsman to make double figures. P. Grace and R. Mahoney were well caught by Spence in the slips. Appleby used three bowlers, all of whom secured good averages, Purdue maintaining his foi'm with four for 22. Spence and Purdue opened Appleby’s first innings to the bowling of Forde and H. Grace and the former played a sound game for 22 not out. Purdue fell a victim to Derbie, who dismissed him with the last ball of his first over—a magnificent delivery. Purdue set himself for big hits and gave one or two chances this way. Semmens was bowled by McGowan just on time after he had scored a couple of threes. His wrist work was good, but he failed to step out to the ball. Details:—

JUNIOR A GRADE UNION v. GEORGETOWN Playing at Queen’s Park, Union scored 203 (Giles 69, Padgett 55, Gutwitz 20, Elder 16, Poole 14) and Georgetown 106 (Smith 32, Davis 17, De Clifford 13). Bowling for Union Hughes took four wickets for 11, Ingram three for 25, Giles one for 29, and Poole one for 22. For Georgetown Small took three for 41, Cockroft two for 28, McArthur one for 45, and De Clifford one for 14. Union has lost two wickets for 65 in its second innings (Giles 26 not out, Padgett 21, Hughes 10). De Clifford took two wickets for 28. OLD BOYS v. APPLEBY Batting first, Appleby made 158 (Shirley 38, Ramsay 35, Boivin 27, Campbell 16, W. Lilley 12). McCurdy took three wickets for 20, Stewart six for 66 and Agnew one for 14. Old Boys replied with 118 for nine (McCurdy 33, Richardson 29 not out, Barrett 19 not out, Stewart 27). Keast has four wickets, Campbell four, and Ramsay one. RAILWAY v. MARIST Railway beat Marist by default. JUNIOR B GRADE APPLEBY v. BORSTAL Playing at Borstal, Appleby 158 runs- (R. Calvert 54, Lythgoe 46, Cunningham 16, D. Calvert 13, Sammons 10), beat Borstal (78 runs and 29 runs), by an innings and 51 runs. Bowling for the winners, H. Groves took five wickets for 34 runs and five for 4, D. Calvert two for 1, and Sammons three for 11. THIRD GRADE UNION v. HIGH SCHOOL B Playing at High School, Union 134 (Crofts 40, G. Storrie 33, W. D. Graham 21, Hewitt 16) beat High School A 111 and 39 (Goodsir 28, Dawson 18, Smyth 17) by 23 runs on the first innings. Bowling for the winners Hewitt took six wickets for 10 runs, and Sammons six for 4, and for the losers Dawson, Cameron and Gilchrist took two each. Because of the late start Union was unlucky in not scoring a fourpoint win, 16 runs only being needed. MARIST v. HIGH SCHOOL B Marist 100 and 98 (O’Connell 36 and 19, W. Brown 21 and 29, McCormack 17) beat Old Boys 85 and 73 (Clarke 23, Gray 16 and 38, Harper 13, Skinner 13, Luzmoor 10). Bowling for Old Boys Clarke took four wickets for 31 runs and five for 38, Gray four for 44, and three for 40, Skinner two for 13 and Luzmoor two for 5, and for Marist Brown took five wickets for 41 and three for 42, and McCormack four for 19. GEORGETOWN v. APPLEBY Playing at Georgetown, Georgetown

73 and 76 (J. Warburton 43, D. Hesson 13 not out, W. Warburton 22) defeated Appleby 37 and 86 (Weeds 53, Ramsay 18) by 26 runs. Bowling for the winners W. Warburton took six wickets for 15, Williams three for 11, Dawson three for 15, and for the losers Shirley took seven for 30. WINTON BEATS LIMEHILLS LOW SCORES BY BOTH TEAMS Low scoring was the feature of the cricket match between Winton and Limehills played at Winton on Saturday afternoon. In its first innings Winton made 52 runs, Bews being topscorer with 14 runs. Limehills could do no better and was all out for 48 runs, Rawle and Wood sharing the bowling honours with five wickets for 27 runs and four for 16 respectively. Winton, due to Wood’s 45 runs in its second innings, managed to reach 89, gaining a lead of 93 runs with an hour and a-quarter to play. The visitors were unable to reach this moderate total and at stumps had eight wickets down for 55 runs, N. Overton with 19 runs and G. Overton with 17 being the top-scorers. Details:— WINTON

Bowling Analysis.—H. Hammond took three wickets for 21 runs; G. Overton, six for 25. LIMEHILLS First Innings >

Bowling Analysis.—Wood took five wickets for 27 runs; Rawle, four for 16.

TOTAL, for eight wickets 55 Bowling Analysis.—Wood took four wickets for nine runs; Rawle, none for four; Hodges, two for four-.

BEST PERFORMANCES Batting L. M. Uttley (Union) 59 W. Carson (Bluff) 48 V. Poole (Union) 45 J. Williamson (Bluff) 41 E. Service (Invercargill) not out 40 F. Hinton (Union) 35 Hawke (Old Boys) 25 R. Swinney (Union) 23 W. Spence (Appleby) 22 N, McGowan (Marist) 21

C. Brew c Wesney b Pickard 19 V. Poole c Scandrett b Pickard 45 L. M. Uttley c. Hawke b Pickard 59 L. McColl lbw b Scandrett 8 A. Hamilton c Scandrett b Pickard 4 G. Marshall c Luzmoor b Pickard 0 A. Ellis st Hawke b Semmens 7 R. Swinney c Hawke b Pickard 23 J. Thompson c sub b Scandrett 7 N. O’Grady not out 10 F. Hinton c Mackie b Semmens 35 Extras 3 TOTAL 220 Bowling Analysis 0. M. R. W. Pickard 21 3 56 6 Wesney 110 0 Luzmoor 3 16 0 Scandrett 10 0 65 2 Halligan 3 0 24 0 P. Semmens 10.4 1 62 2 OLD BOYS First Innings J. Scandrett not out 11 Hawke b Uttley 25 TOTAL (for one wicket) 36 Bowling Analysis 0. M. R. W. Marshall 3 0 19 0 Uttley 3 0 17 1

R. Bell b Knapp 1 H. Mclvor c Haworth b Knapp 6 R. Barnett c Wilson b McKenzie 10 T. Barnett st — b Haworth 3 L. Barnett st — b Haworth 3 W. Carson c Haworth b Sharp 48 A. Ramage played on, b Haworth J. Williamson st — b Joel 3 41 F. W. McDonald not out 15 A. Kissell b Joel 1 Burtenshaw c Wilson b Joel 2 Extras 8 TOTAL 142

’ MARIST First Innings N. McGowan c and b McKenzie 21 M. Ryan b Purdue 0 P. Grace c Spence b Purdue 8 R. Mahoney c Spence b Calvert 0 N. Forde run out 11 G. Brittenden c and b McKenzie 6 J. Derbie c and b Calvert 13 H. Grace b Purdue 0 M. Collins c Milne b Calvert 8 F. Fraser not out 0 W. Donaldson b Purdue 6 Extras 7 TOTAL 80 Bowling Analysis O. M. R. W. Purdue 11.1 3 22 4 Calvert 12 1 30 3 McKenzie 12 3 21 2 APPLEBY First Innings J. Purdue b Derbie 10 W. Spence not out 22 Semmens b McGowan 6 Extras 2 TOTAL (for two wickets) 40 Bowling Analysis 0. M. R. W. Forde 4 0 15 0 H. Grace 4 0 13 0 J. Derbie 3 1 7 1 McGowan 3 0 2 1

Bowling Analysis 0. M. R. W. Knapp 5 0 19 2 Haworth 6 1 22 3 T. McKenzie 7 1 32 1 Miller 4 0 16 0 Service 3 0 14 0 Joel 4.5 1 13 3 Sharp 3 0 18 1 INVERCARGILL First Innings E. Service not out 40 W. Haworth c — b Williamson 19 J. Pollok not out 10 Extras 10 TOTAL (for one wicket) 79 Bowling Analysis 0. M. R. W. L. Barnett 4 1 11 0 H. Mclvor 8 1 21 0 Williamson 6 0 15 1 Ramage 4 0 7 0 McDonald 4 0 12 0 R. Barnett 1 0 3 0

First Innings Lilico run out 0 Hodges lbw b H. Hammond 0 Wood c Coster b G. Overton 9 Bews b G. Overton 14 Lindsay c Leith b H. Hammond 9 McKenzie b H. Hammond 1 Rawle b G. Overton 4 Simmers b G. Overton 0 Cliene b G. Overton , 3 Scully c Thompson b H. Hammond 9 Mathias not out 1 Extras 8 TOTAL 52 Bowling Analysis.—G. Overton took five wickets for 24 runs; H. Hammond; four for 20. Second Innings Lilico c Leith b H. Hammond 3 McKenzie b Hammond 2 Bews run out 0 Wood b G. Overton 45 Lindsay c G. Overton b Hammond 1 Hodges c Thompson b G, Overton 9 Rawle c Leith b G. Overton 7 Cliene not out 3 Simmers c Hammond, sen,, b G. Overton 0 Scully b G. Overton 6 Mathias c N. Overton b G. Overton 1 Extras 12 TOTAL 89

Hammond, sen., run out N. Overton b Wood 1 2 Brosnan c Lilico b Wood 9 H. Hammond c and b Rawle 9 Thompson c Wood b Rawle 11 Leith b Rawle ' 3 Reid c Mathias b Wood 4 Henderson b Rawle 0 G. Overton not out 2 Coster c Simmers b Wood 0 Kettle b Wood 2 Extras 5 TOTAL 48

Second Innings H. Hammond b Wood 2 Brosnan c Lilico b Wood 0 Thompson run out 4 Leith c Lilico b Wood 3 N. Overton lbw b Hodges 19 Henderson run out 0 Hammond, sen., b Wood 0 G. Overton not out 17 Reid b Hodges 0 Coster not out 4 Extras 6