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Southland Times, Issue 23676, 26 November 1938, Page 11

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COUNTRY WEEK AT DUNEDIN NORTH OTAGO BEGINS GAME AGAINST SOUTHLAND (Special to The Times) DUNEDIN, November 25.’ The second day’s fixtures for the Country Cricket Week brought together two good teams in Southland and North Otago this morning, but the latter shaped disappointingly against fast bowling. In the match between Vincent and South Otago the southerners were progressing fairly well when rain fell and play stopped for the day. The match between Southland and North Otago was begun on the University Oval in dullish weather. North Otago batted first and Dick and King took the score slowly to 21, when Dick was bowled by Purdue. Geddes, who followed, went at 29, and from that point Purdue and McKenzie were decidedly on top of the batting. Kinder, yesterday’s century-maker, put up something of a stand with Paape and, after an hour and • a-haif, the first change was made in the bowling with 60 up for six wickets. Forde came on in place of Purdue. With 65 up for seven wickets, an adjournment was made at 12.20 p.m. because of rain, and there was no resumption before lunch. McKenzie (four for 21) and Purdue (three for 33) bowled exceedingly well. Details:—

SOUTH OTAGO v. VINCENT South Otago batted first against Vincent, but made a poor start, Baxter and Tomkinson being out early. Plew, Smith and R. Stewart improved the position slightly, but Mount was bowling remarkably well. Parker livened up the score towards the adjournment and was not out for 32 when the bails were lifted. At this stage five wickets had fallen for 109, Mount having taken them all at a cost of 39 funs. Details:—

SOUTH OTAGO First Innings Baxter c Caskie b Mount 3 Plew b Mount 14 Tomkinson lbw b Mount 6 Smith c and b Mount 19 R. Stewart b Mount 16 Parker not out 32 A. Stewart not out 5 Extras 14 TOTAL for five wickets 109 OPENING OF SHEFFIELD SHIELD SEASON QUEENSLAND FOUR FOR 287 AGAINST N.S.W. (Received November 25, 11.15 p.m.) BRISBANE, November 25. Queensland played its first Sheffield Shield game of the season today against New South Wales, which contains a number of colts led by Stan McCabe. Queensland in its first innings had lost four wickets for 287 runs when stumps were drawn (W. Brown 84, Rogers 55, T. Allen 31, D. Tallon 36, Baker not out 41). WYNDHAM TEAMS FOR TODAY Teams to represent the Wyndham Cricket Club today are as follows:— Senior v. Gore, at Gore.—O. Traynor, T. Shepperd, Marshall (2), J. Thompson, S. McKay, J. Harper, G. Burgess, P. Giles, E. Winter, R. Bain. Junior v. Celtic, at Wyndham.—Findday (3), Thompson (2), H. Hunter, G. McKay, J. McCallum, H. Raymond, R. Witty, A. Davey, J. Hagen, L. Harper, J. Maloney.

NORTH OTAGO First Innings Dick b Purdue 7 King lbw b Purdue 14 Geddes b Purdue 5 Houghton c and b McKenzie 0 Kinder c Purdue b McKenzie 19 McKone lbw b McKenzie 3 Hendra b McKenzie 1 Paape not out 7 Cameron not out 1 Extras 8 TOTAL for seven wickets 65