DISTRICT CRICKET.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1266, 4 March 1918, Page 3

DISTRICT CRICKET.

A PREMIERSHIP TIE. ■ „-ti, Hie completion, Inst Saturday, of matches in the ■ 'rl.arv Cricket Association's first ,\ 'ompftition, Linwood drew level ■1 Sydenham again. According to , ln'w two more series of matches to he'p'aved before the competition Viled But that would occupy five l n lavs-tlie final »'«teh is to _ be IV ,,| o«t-and fake the season into •| pvpn if (here are no wet Satur- '"' So fin- Competitions Committee «babiv v ' in l,avc t0 '' oviso its pro " „!i,ic and hrinfl- Sydenham and Lin- '' i i .t|i,>r next Saturday. nod I"-' ' . . ~~' , The present positions of. the teams are lf» llow: - ~p ()ints 2 .poi„tS matches, mutches. w. n. r„. \V. D. L.Pts. rt"' •• \::=i =1 » !■"«".;", ■• '• | r, - :s 13 A Close Call. I \ltlii'i'li it f.'iinod a full three-points j n ovoA'lirisf's College, the Linwooil ain J,; ~ot deserving of a compliment i OT the way it achieved that victory, j 0 little regard for the club's needs m sliown I'.v some nienibers, and sc ■i',ilv did some fail to rise to the oe asioa, thai Linwood almost lost tlie natch! As it was, the full three points rare o«!v just secured almost on the „]) 0 f time, and with nominally three, ot actually only two, wickets in hand. The Christ's College ream, when at a 0 wickets, seemed to be a. little overwed liv the reputation of the Linwood lowlin", and it- previous experience of t. So the hest of the College batting ran not seen. Hut the Linwood attack . a3 not quite as efficient as usual, and lie College boys made a much better tore tlm'n they had obtained in their irst innings, even if their batting was d as neat as it has been in other latches. P. Macfarlane's 60, scored i 65 minutes, was decidedly use,l t 0 the side. Mncfnrlnne hit well, „,] his score included I I tours. lie as luckv, though, not so much in the Battel' ot' actual chances —for lie gave inly one beside that which dismissed liiii—:is in the number of times his rioMs were almost grazed by balls irhicii he missed, and by the number of uppish .shot-: which fell out of reach of fieldsmen. Eeg Head'sbowli.ng seems to have deteriorated .'i little in the nast few weeks He still howls steadily, and gets a lot of pace off the "pitch," but ho lacks just that little extra amount of accuracy mid "devil" which won him so many wickets earlier in the season.: Certainly lie did not have the best of luck lasi Saturday, but lack of fortune! was nol the only factor in his one I wicket costing ~ei runs. A. VV. Thomas,] who got five for 11, was Linwood's mainstav in the attack this time. i

One cannot fiinl mucli t<i praise in Lrawooil*3 second innings. E. G. I *<"■ r ;• i ti p147 runs, but that was not ;i cause for congratulation. Thomas opcncil the inningd with Perriu, but he did not prove EW good iii that rapacity as he is as a later-virket hatsmjjn. Tate «, r ot liis 15 rigorously, and then was run out, partly (trough hia own over-eagerness. Whitta's Big Score. H. B. Whitta's ! ( io not out for Riecarton against West Christcliureh was l typical display, although not chaneeleSß, by any humus, for there were many .seemiugly accidental strokes and others which were of the loose order. But the. placing was excellent, and rifii there was an uppish iiit there was stlilom a fieldsman within reach. One exception was when ;!ic ball glanced into the hands of Butters, in the slips, )ff Zimmerman, when 121 was reached, but the fieldsman appeared to bo tukcu 5V surprise.

Tlic appearand of A. K. Ridley, for West, ileinonst rated t-lin* thin veteran—rtoat mil' time helil a local word of -17 runs in one innings—had by no means fore itten nil he knew of' the game. ]|i* fielding n ! point was a trial In wal.-li, whilst lie opened his seorp wiili ii si.vor off North. ' f '. ZiiMiii.'rman largely missed results as a l,owi-r, <»-. v; n _ (o Hie laxity of the Mil, four catches from his deliveries boi »S 'hopped. However, he had ft linjtpior tine ;l ( the battin™ crease, his ™l'l'.v lioinu a brio-Jit spot in West's EMonil hatting venture. ' Sydenham's Win. An improve,! display by Rast Christ™r,,|> "i its second innings kept "Sydenham from making its win against that Ml" worth 11,:,,. points. At one time, »*evor, six R ast wickets were down tor W runs, and of that total one man, *• f N;i''l<, had made 52 by brisk «ttm gl !;jt r { . D| War( i w l,o has a" 11. Prustrnni put on 55 runs for "'■wvcntli vvi.d?ot. Ward making most "foe runs. Aft or Trustrum 's dismissal, »anl carried his tally to 48, which was ™«f "i as many minutes and included j. 'tours and one six. The veteran K. «• Ullivior came, out of retirement to atfc up ;;i; ~ - ]U j- ll| j I1|lt(1S| fojg «"•« including spvcn foUl . s _ Thon n," ': ;a ' le -" not out, and when it tloso,i"'th!.°'' '" aoi '-'«o o the innings s ' o, o was L'.!.) for nine uuis. \v. R. Patrick finished with 'OUT IVi, ■„: / ~ ~ , K(.,h tor .U> runs: at one time for li. Rant '' l, "' (,( ' points win, Sydenham n'ii i n '" s ' Bl,t if had only 95 Lam' r ! '"' |,lilv ' an<l K0 tho Sydenin'iiior '■""' r , ' onto " tc 'l himself with the W(!r "'"• At one timo four wickets 1'0b,,,, V " ''"' lin ™ns, but then J. ami ft ''■ Forrester made a stand, adfe! t °l' ° Mt ,il ""' (!:i ru " s ,)cin S fours iY- S '' (,rn - Forr <? H * ; ci 1 hit eight at 3(i V"' S 1;l " ot nut; ho was ilrom'n i ,""""' wl '° S ot 10 ~ot out » was 11 'ore he scored.

Two Centuries. wUi!;'' 11 " 11 "" str,K,> ~f thp st - ai»as ■ " a " !) "' s t Boys' High School H'*|(.'-i""" W, ' , ' t tamo I>lli<ill(,s M. Hay |„, ill(r '■' '{Ot out, his rate of scoring tlimfj ~ ,"""''' ra l' i ' l '" the earlier Vt fro'', ,! !( ' r 5. nrt f his innings. Partner I !• ,v ' ° " atsmen w,l ° tween ti ~ \ "' a<io °" ly 18 n,llH 1)C " but his '•'""' • - v P' a .>' e '' a canny game, 6iiccee,ici • P ""' ,1 " 1 . ( ' ,i " fours - 'Gordon Ceuturv ' il'i' '' nrr y' n g h 'is score to the "'ukii, V " ,l0 "£" "C cut it rather fine, three fi,, 3 "?. () "" '"'y o '" l tlie coveted day V brew' T ■ *' " ,a ' le his 81 !,ot out lliis i nn -"- v * ,l tti(ig r but when lie resumed 'PMaeni'*' 8 waa no * lie arly so Batuni»v gi,tcst fea ture of the play last fiighjS V ', ;,s tbc fielding of Boys' C( mti-i's't i ' wh ich was very good, and the fi'pi i "' r)ro than favourably with %»' ir* , nf c, ,St Alba,,a"'iss „ "■ School, in its second infou?' J O,n P'led 207 for the loss of i0 5 not. out R " Powo " contributing T »E DAY'S HONOURS. "• II Wh'f. 1 ' °" A,), ' : BATTING. l ' A - Guru ~,J}' S \"' Kh School) .. 105* ««raon (St. Albans) .... 101

J. Hay (St, Albans) .. , 74* M. F. Macfarlane (Christ's College) CO A. R. Wank (East Christcliurch) .. 52 C. Zimmerman (West Christcliurch) 51 SECOND GRADE BATTING. Kirk (Linwood) f>B* Dalgcty (Christ's College A) .. .. 59 Davey (Boys' High School A) .. ~ 52 THIRD GRADE BATTING. J. McKenzie (Rlccarton) 70 Sinclair (West Christcliurch D.H.S.) 63 C. Penlington (West Ch'ch D.H.S.) 55 * Not out. I FIRST GRADE BOWLING. R. 3. Nixon (Hicoarfon), three for 2. H. S. Ilindmarsh (Christ's College), four for 30. M. O. Sinclair (Riccarton), three for 24. A. W. Thomas (Linwood), Ave for 41. W. R. Patrick (Sydenham), four for 30. K. M. Ollivier (East Christcliurch), three for 31. „ SECOND GRADE BOWLING. Yates (Technical College), four for 14. Dobbs (Technical College), six for 23. Hickmott (St. Albans A), six for 49 and seven for SS. Graham (St. Albans IS), five for 40. Gould (Christ's College A), three for 27. THIRD GRADE BOWLING. Jones (Technical College B), eight for 10, including hat trick. Logic (Technical College B), five for 27.