CRICKET.

Temuka Leader, Issue 4017, 28 February 1903, Page 4

CRICKET.

THE ENGLISHMEN v. SOUTH CANTERBURY. The .second .and concluding day's play .in .the cricket match between Lord ' Hawke's team and fchs representatives 'of South Canterbury, was held at Timaru on Thursday last in weather that almost, if not, quite equalled that prevailing on the first day, which was all that could be wished for. The attendance was about 500. Play commenced a t 10.45 a.m. and at 1 p.m. an adjournment was made for luncheon, at which Mr W. Lindsay took the opportunity, on behalf of the South Canterbury Cricket Association, to propose the toast of " Health to Lord Hawke's Team." The toast was drunk very heartily by all. Mr Leatham, iLo English captain made a brief reply_. He thanked the Association for the sincere and hearty way in which the toast nad been honoured, and, speaking- for the team said that the members of it had enjoyed themselves very much there. They would long remember their visit to Timaru and their tour of the colony. The game throughout wafc; very good. The Englishmen resumed their innings to Dalgleish's bowling. Whatman and Dowson soon went, but Taylor and Bosanquet made a very useful stand, and later on ,Burnup helped Taylor materially. Finally, Leatham also ably supported him, and with'l2l runs on for the second innings a-nd 2il to the good the innings was declaf&l closed. South Canterbury had again fielded in excellent form, smart work by Minifie, Barron, and White saving boundaries. The bowling of Dalgleish was exceedingly creditable, the Englishmen speaking of him in the highest terms : ENGLISHMEN.-lst Innings ... 170 Second Inningsf Taylor, not out 63 fane, b Fisher '1 Whatman, b Dal&leish 7

Dowson, b Dalgleish 0 Bosanquet, 1.b.w., ,b Dalgleish ... 6 Johnson, c Thomas, b Dalgleish... 1 Burnup, 1.b.w., b Fisher 8 Stanning, st Macdonald, b Dalgleish .......... ! 5 Lcatham, not opt ~ 16 Byes 4

Seven wickets for

Bowling Analysis. Dalgleish, 5 wickets for '.'5,6 yqns ; Fisher, .2 for 51 ; Lynch, 0 for 10. With 211 runs to get' to win Son tin Canterbury began their second innings at 12.10. The ; first : stages were very slow, Adcock was caught b; Stanning, ;a ; decisjon there was reported to be some doubt about. Barron livened matters ,up a bit, but was eventually bowled by Thomson. Macdonald saw several players, out and got in some grand strokes to leg. Minlfie was clean bowled for a duck. At 3.20 McCaskill, the -last man, faced Thompson, and got a couple aw an to point. Burnup resumed 1 bowling at the south end, and McCaskill drove him for -three —a pretty stroke. Goldstono was next clean bowled, and at 3.23 the innings closed and tinmatch tgrinijiiatcd .—BB—-17-—7—ip a win for the Englishmen for 122 runs.

The scores were as follows : S. CANTERBURY—Ist Innings ... 81 Second Innings. Cox, run out 2 Thomas, b Bpsanquet , 2 Jefferson, c Stanning, b Williams 4 Adcock, c Stanning, b Williams.o Barron, b Thompson 12 wing, c Whatman, b Burnup 8 Were, b Burnup 0 Macdonald, c Bosanquet, b Burn-

u(p 8 Minifie, b Johnson 0 Fulton, b Burnup 'i White, c Dowson, b Johnson 0 Lynch, b, Johnson 2 Fisher, b Johnson 1 Montgomery, b Williams 13 Shrimpton, b Williams ; 1 Dalgleish, b Thompson ....:.... 9 Goldstone, b Burnup 7 McCaskill, not out 5 Byes 42, leg-byea 11, no balls 1 9 Total 83 Bowling Analysis—Thompson 2 for 5, Bosanquet 1 for 5, Burnup f> for 36, Williams 3 for 12, Johnson 4 for 8, Dowson 0 for 13. LORD HAWKE'S TEAM v. NEW ZEALAND. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 27. The weather is dull and threatening for the cricket match. Rain fell last night and • the wicket is' soft. Rain set in again at half-past seven, but play 1 , began at noon. New Zealand won the toss and after Hargrcave and Thompson had each bowled an over rain stopped play for a time with the .score of 4 (Reese, not out 2, Hickson, not one, extra l.j TPIE WIDTH OF WICKETS. LONDON, Feb. 25. Ranjitsinhji strongly disapproves of the proposal to widen wickets. He eulogises Australian methods oii bowling on true pitches, and says it teaches us that something more than mere length is requisite to obtain wickets on good, dry, hard pitches. Owing to the unreliableness of the English climate, he would oppose the change, which, moreover, would be only tinkering with, the laws of the game. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb, .20. Several members of the New Zealand team against Lord Hawke's Eleyen have now arrived. It is announced that Sims, the Christchurch batsman, will not. be available for itlie match. Mahoney,, of Wellington, will probably be included. Sims, when asked why he would not be available for the match, stated frankly that his reasons lor standing out were personal. He was not satisfied he said with the treatment which he had met concerning the "unpleasant incident" of the Canterbury match.'