CRICKET.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 252, 27 November 1914, Page 3

CRICKET.

NOTES FROM OTHER PLACES.

The Otago Cricket Association has decided that owing to the state of its finances it cannot send a team to Auckland this season.

I E. Mac.Gormick, the well-known Auckland representative batsman, has scored 1 his second century for Grafton this sea- | son. He made a chanceless 173 against ! Waitemata last Saturday. Other Auek- ! laud batsmen who passed the halfj century were: —E. Horspool (Grafton) j74, Mulgan (University) 72, H. Caro I (Grafton) 57, R. G. Sloman (Grafton) !57, W. Brooke-Smith (Eden A) 52, C. j Cummings (Eden A) 51. ! The best individual scores in Wellington cricket last Saturday were made : by Hickson (59 not out) and Naughton (58 not out), whose first wicket partjuership enabled Central to beat East by ten wickets. Theirs were the only (individual scores of the day which : reached the half-century. North beat j Old Boys by nine wickets, and Pctone ! beat University by six wickets. i It was rather curious that, last Saturday, when a tie on the first innings was 'recorded in Christchurch cricket, a [similar incident occurred in Dunedin, i where Albion and Carisbrook A each j scored 165. Albion batted a man short. 1 Another drawn game was that between 'Opoho, who scored 157 (Casey 59) and i Carisbrook B, time being called when j the latter team had made 148 for nine j wickets. Crawford's colts scored 240 (Sattlewaite 42, McMullah 40 not out, 'Chadwick 35, Crawford 25) to Grange's 1202 (J. Graham 44, Hoi da-way 32). j.Dunedin beat St. Kilda by 129 runs (Cramond 34) to 82 (MeCarteu 36). The highest individual score of the day jwas Duthie'a 75 for Albion. The most successful bowler of the day Was Graham (Dunedin), with five for 15. T. Livingstone (St. Kilda) took seVen for 42, Beeby (Grange) seven for 45, Nelj son (Carisbrook B) five for 48. Crawford's analysis was four for 68. The outstanding feature in Sydney cricket on November 14 was the allround cricket of John D. Scott, the Petersham fast bowler, who, against the Gordon Club,' scored 124 hot out, and then took six wickets for 58 runs. It was not a day of big scoring, but the bowling honours were pretty well, divided. W. L. Trenerry, a colt, scored' 82 for Paddington against University.; C. G. Macartney (Gordon) got 74.j against Petersham. Easily the bestlooking bowling analysis of the day was that of B. G. Moore (North Sydney), who took five Bedferh wickets for 19 runs. This was the first occasion on which Moore had obtained a wicket this season, although he had bowled in five cither innings. Says yesterday's "Otag<? Daily Times'':—'' The honour of compiling the first century this season is claimed by a High School boy name* McNaught/ who, playing for the school in the Second. Grade match against Carisbrook C on - Saturday, put up the fine score of 109 not out* A good bowling performance was that of Watson, who, playing for Mornington against Dunedin B, secured 'three wickets for three (the'hat trick). But this pales before the performance of the' George Street' School boyj Hitchcock, who captured seven Anderson Bay wickets for 1 nm! "