FIRST WIN THIS SEASON

Southland Times, Issue 24368, 24 February 1941, Page 2

FIRST WIN THIS SEASON

Bluff-Railway Beats Union SATURDAY'S CRICKET By defeating Union by 39 runs on the first innings and thus scoring its first win of the season, Bluff-Railway provided the sensation of the day in the senior competition of the Southland Cricket Association on Saturday. BluffRailway made 152, not its highest, but still one of its best scores this season, and then dismissed Union for 113. Marist gained a well deserved win over Old Boys. Oid Boys made the good score of 209, and, when Marist began its innings with two hours 10 minutes to play, it seemed that a draw was its best hope. However. N. Forde and L. Ward staged a whirlwind display of scoring and the Old Boys total was passed in the suprisingly short time of 90 minutes. Forde had the hardest luck in not reaching his century. He was caught on the boundary when he had made 99. Ward, who made 88, was also caught on the boundary. Appleby, which declared its innings closed at 199 for nine wickets beat Invercargill by 60 runs on the first innings. At one stage it looked as if Invercargill would beat the Appleby score, but after the fall of the third wicket a “rot” set in and it was never stopped. As both Invercargill and Old Boys were beaten, one result of Saturday’s games has been to improve Appleby's chances for the championship. Appleby is now leading by three points and there are only two more series of matches to be played. The following table shows the present. position of the teams:— Wins

BLUFF-RAILWAY WINS I ? ON FIRST INNINGS 1 Though it was not very large, BluffRailway’s score of 152 was one of the best that the side has made this season, and it was to prove too much for f Union. Honours for the match go to 1 W. Foote and J. Ingram, who scored 52 and 22 respectively, and aEo did the bulk of the bowling, sharing nine wickets between them. A. Jordan, who i has been batting better of late than he has done for the greater part of the season, made 20, and the other doublefigure scorers were W. Burtenshaw and I. Parry with 16 each. Union was < without the services of A. V. Poole, < who bowled so successfully against Marist the previous Saturday. G. Mar- ' 1 shall and J. Peattie were the mainstay i l of the attack, Marshall taking three j ; wickets for 47 in 10 overs, and Pcattie i ( four for 51 in nine overs, one being a I I maiden. j > On its day a score of 152 would not 11 have been a formidable obstacle lor j 1 Union. However, Union has proved < ( an erratic side this season and Satur- ’ i day was apparently one of its off days. |: It was all dismissed for 113, R. Swin- ■ ' ney (33), G. Marshall (19), and J. ; < Peattie (16) being the only double- | figure scorers. Ingram finished up with : ( the fine tally of five wickets for 31 i 1 runs. He bowled 12 overs, three of i < them maidens. Foote also bowled well ; < for his four wickets at a cost of 44 runs I ■ in eight overs. Bluff-Railway had a ; ■ second strike and at stumps had scored . ' 54 for five wickets. Bluff-Railway’s j - win was all the more creditable be- i ; cause the team was two men short. BLUFF-RAILWAY ( First Innings

Bowling analysis:—Marshall took ' three wickets fox - 47 runs, Peattie four | for 51, Thompson none for 10, O’Grady ! one for 37. , Second Innings

Bowling analysis: Marshall took one I wicket for six runs, Dunlop one for i j nine, Hamilton none for 12, Storrie one I j for five, Miller none for three, Shirley j j two for two. I ] UNION I , First Innings I ]

Bowling . analysis: Ingram took five wickets for 31 runs; Foote four for 44; |, McDonald one for 26. f I ( MARIST WINS BY FAST! 8 SCORING | t l2 Though Old Boys made the good I ( score of 209, at one time, quite late in I f the innings, it looked as if the total £

would be much smaller. Following a good start there was a collapse, and eight wickets were down for 129 runs. Then K. Semmens and G. Bleakley became associated in a fine ninth-wicket partnership which added 79 runs, 129 to 208. Semmens had an early let off, but otherwise his innings for 53, the highest individual score in the Old Boys’ tally, was a creditable display of free hitting, without recklessness. Marist. which began its innings at 4.20 p.m., was faced with the formidable task of making 210 runs in 130 minutes in order to win. However, N. Forde and L. Ward made the job look easy by scoring at such a rate that the necessary runs were made in 75 minutes. Forde and Beadle opened the innings, but the latter was dismissed when" the score was 26. Ward joined Forde and these two left-handers gave a great display of hurricane hitting, putting on 159' in only 65 minutes. When the score was 185 Forde, who had made 99, had the desperately hard luck to be caught on the boundary. He hit one 6 and 16 4’s. Ward and Rattray carried the total to the required number, 210, when Rattray was bowled. The innings was continued to give Ward a chance of reaching his century, but at 88 he, too. was caught on the boundary. He hit 15 4’s. In an attempt to stem the tide of scoring, Old Boys used seven bowlers, but none, with the exception of D. Hamilton, who took two wickets for 22 runs, had much success. Scores:— OLD BOYS First Innings G. Agnew b Forde 34 F. Stewart c and b Connolly 31 S. Richardson c and b Beadle 14 J. C. Scandrett b Rattray 33 Potts c Collins b Rattray 2 D. Hamilton c Rattray b Connelly 3 Gavan b Rattray 1 I. McCurdy b Connolly 0 G. Bleakley st Collins b Beadle 14 K. Semmens b Beadle 53 D. Luzmoor not out 1 Extras 23 TOTAL 209 Bowling analysis: Connolly took three wickets for 64 runs, Beadle three for 54, Forde one for 43, Rattray three for 25. MARIST First Innings N. Forde c Richardson b Stewart 99 F. Beadle b Luzmoor 14 L. Ward c Gavan b Semmens 88 M. Rattray b Hamilton 4 M. Collins b Hamilton 0 I M. Milne not out 0 Extras 18 TOTAL for five wickets 223 Bowling analysis; Luzmoor took one wicket for 54 runs, Scandrett none for 58. Hamilton two for 22. Stewart one for 25, Semmens one for 13, Potts none for 19, Richardson none for 17.

[NVERCARGILL FAILS AFTER GOOD START Appleby batted first and when it had cored 199 for the loss of nine wickets leclared the innings closed. Top score vas made by R. Calvert, who carried lis bat for 59, and with M. Kynaston 22) had a good partnership, which .dded 62 runs for the eighth wicket. E. lalvert and D. Calvert also batted well or scores of 37 and 23 respectively, and 1. Purdue, one of the opening batsnen contributed a useful 23. H. W. Eraser as usual bowled well fox - Inverlargill, taking five wickets fox - 46 ■tins, but he did not have the customiry good support from T. H. McKenzie ,vhose two wickets cost 57 runs in 11 >vers. In its two previous matches Appleby, xftex - declaring its innings closed fox - a ’ood total, had to be content with a iraw. The same dangex - presented itself m Saturday. Indeed at one stage of the Invercargill innings it looked as if Appleby's score would be beaten fox,vhen the third wicket fell there were 116 runs on the board. But after this, xgainst the bowling of J. Purdue and F. Shirley, there was a collapse and the nnings closed for 139 runs leaving \ppleby the winner by 60 runs on the xrst innings. R. Mainwaring and N. \dams, who opened the innings, and S. Lindsay, who went in first wicket lown, were the only batsmen to make ■espectable scores. Purdue and Shirley livided the wickets, Purdue taking five 'or 51 and Shirley foux - for 47. Scores:

APPLEBY First Innings

Bowling analysis: Fraser took five wickets fox - 46 runs, McKenzie two foi--57, Gray none for 34. Sharp one for 31, Mainwaring one fox - 21. INVERCARGILL First Innings

Bowling analysis: Purdue took five wickets for 59 runs; Shirley four for 47. JUNIOR MATCHES SECTION I Playing on Saturday Borstal, 155 runs, beat Appleby 12 and 44 by an innings and 99 runs. Bowling for Appleby Groves took three wickets for 47 runs and Webb three for 40. High School 239 (Gilbertson 104 retired, Thompson 43, Thomson 24, Walker 21, Pittaway 21) beat Invercargill 72 (Macann 16, Graham not out 16) and 87 for foui- wickets (Hopgood 26 not out, Service 23, Sandford 23) by 167 runs on

the first innings. Bowling fox - High School Gilbertson took three wickets for 15, Pennington two for 12, Thompson two for 30. Bowling fox - Invercargill Service took five fox* 47. Georgetown 152 (Graham 40 not out, J. Ferguson 38, Cottiex’ 37, Wohlers 14) defeated Old Boys 111 (Mayhew 19, Sopex - 17, McLean 14) by 41 runs on the first innings. Fox- Georgetown, Wohlers took two wickets for 10 runs and G. Ferguson two fox' 12, and for Old Boys, Redpath took three for 30 and McLean three fox - 34. SECTION II Waikiwi 234 (L. Jordan 109 not out, Mortimei’ 47, Ogilvy 19, Heads 13 not out) defeated Georgetown 104 (Henry 30, Fearns 17) by 130 runs on the first innings. Fox - Waikiwi, Jordan took seven wickets fox - 25 rune, and Kingsland two for 23, and fox - Georgetown Ferns took foux- fox - 28. Union 130 (Caddie 37, Watson 36, Poole 17, McMillan 10) defeated Marist 109 (J. O’Brien 26, Duggan 23, Forde 20) by 21 runs on the first innings. For Union, McMillan took five wickets fox--28 runs, and for Marist Forde took three for 38 and Barry two for 17. THIRD GRADE Marist 181 (M. Mulqueen 84, E. Mulqueen 38. L. McDermott 24) defeated Waikiwi 15 and 27 (Bennett 12) by an innings and 139 runs. Fox - Marist, E. Mulqueen took eight wickets for 15 runs and McDermott eight for 21. Fox - Waikiwi, Boyle took three fox - 45. IN OTHER CENTRES DUNEDIN Ideal conditions prevailed fox - grade cricket matches on Saturday., Results were as follows: Kaikorai 136 and 96 (Robertson eight for 47) beat Dunedin 96 for 9 declared and 134 (McGregor six for 56, Allcott four for 64). Carisbrook B 165 (Proctor 50, Colvin five fox - 76) and three fox - 54 beat Old Boys 80 and 138 (Talbot five fox--55). Carisbrook A 107 and 216 fox - eight declared (H. Cameron 67, Hercu 54; ,E. Cameron five for 58) lost to University 182 (Baker 83) and 114 fox - 9 (Walsh four for 44). Albion-Y.M.C.A. 229 (Allen 50, Hale 54) beat Grange 149 and 92 for 3. CHRISTCHURCH ! In spite of good playing conditions ; the scoring was only fair in the six- ' teenth round of matches of the Canter--1 bury Cricket Association played on I Saturday. I. B. Cromb was the only i one to score a century, making 101 in ; 69 minutes and including eleven 4’s ' and five 6’s. By drawing with the j Army, Old Boys lost the lead in the competition, being now in third place, I two points behind East Christchurch ' and West Christchurch, who arc level.

Scores: —■ East Christchurch 204 for seven declared (James 74, Lohrey 46, C. V. Walter three for 30), beat Old Collegians 133 (J. C. Saunders 59., Commons three fox - 37) on the first innings. West Christchurch 122 (Uttley 51, Mulcock five fox - 50, Scott five fox - 46), beat St. Albans 96 (J. Smith 23, Brown five for 35) on the first innings. Old Boys 199 for eight declared (Anderson 96), drew with Army 190 foxnine (Donnelly 75, Monteath 30, Hadlee three fox - 17). Lancaster Park 202 for two (Cromb 101, Stout 75) beat Riccarton 149 (Stringer 36. Rose 31, Mappiebeck fouxfor 48, Cromb three for 46) on the first innings. West Old Boys 220 for nine declared (McKenzie 70, Gillies 35, Oliver three for 44, Cameron three fm - 60). drew with Sydenham 150 fox - seven (Sutherland 36, Burgess 30, Moynihan three for 24). Harewood 176 (Donaldson 33, Emery 33, Young 32, Mackay six fox - 30, Cook four fox - 92) beat Wigram 165 (Tester 88, Emery five for 66, Donaldson five fox - 80) on the first innings.

P. 4pt 2pt L. D. Pts. Appleby IS 1 7 3 2 20 Invercargill 13 - 8 4 1 17 Old Boys 13 - 1 5 1 15 Union .13 J 4 6 2 14 Marist 13 - 6 5 2 14 Bluff-Railway 13-1 12 - 2

J. Ingram b Pcattic 22 i A. Jordan b Peattie 20 i W. Foote c Shirley b O'Brady 52 j A. Jack c Millar b Marshall J. Murdoch c and b Peattie 8 i W. Burtenshaw c Dunlop b Marshall 16 i I. Parry c Dunlop b Pcattic 16 ! W. McDonald b Marshall 6 ; C. McDonald not out «> i Extras 7 TOTAL 152 '

Jordan b Marshall 0 ! C. McDonald not out 19 l Jack c Marshall b Dunlop 2 1 Ingram lbw b Storrie 11 i Burtenshaw c Thompson b Shirley 1 i Murdock b Shirley 4; Extras ”1 TOTAL for five wickets 54 |

C. S. Shirley b Ingram 6 I R. Swinney b Ingram 33 ' D. Patterson c Murdoch b Foote 0 i A. Storrie b Ingram 9 i A. Hamilton b Foote 0 1 G. Marshall b Ingram 19 1 J. Millar b McDonald 2 i J. Peattie b Foote R. Dunlop c W. McDonald b 16 1 1 Ingram 0 i J. Thompson not out 7 O’Grady b Foote 9 Extras 12 l TOTAL 113

J. Purdue c Walker b Fraser 23 D. Spence b Fraser 8 E. Calvert lbw b McKenzie <iJ 1 J. Milne b Fraser 9 D. Calvert c Patterson b McKenzie 23 R. Calvert not out 59 J. Sievewright b Fraser 0 T. Shirley b Fraser 0 M. Kynaston b Sharp 22 T. Riddell b Mainwaring 8 Extras 10 TOTAL for nine wickets (declared) 199

R Mainwaring b Shirley N. Adams c R. Calvert b Purdue 34 25 K. Lindsay run out 38 R, Pollok b Purdue 2 H. W. Fraser b Shirley 0 Walker c and b Shirley 0 H. Alabaster c Kynaston b Purdue T. H. McKenzie b Purdue 9 A. Paterson b Shirley 0 D. Sharp not out 8 H. Gray c Riddell b Purdue 0 Extras 20 TOTAL 139