CRICKET

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144860, 11 December 1915, Page 8

CRICKET

(By ••Squaro-los.")

Cricketers in New Plymouth liavo at last been able to enjoy their favourite summer pastime. The weather both last .Saturday and on Thursday was good, and rite [£anu*s jiiovtal to ho very enjoyable. The feature of last_ week'* match was Heskelt's lino innings oi MO. made hy forceful though not ehancrl'mi erieket. llcskctt goes for tile howling in groat style onto he gets started, ami on Saturday ho soon got info ills stride and treated the ServiceHigh School i oinljitiiition to some merry leather-hunting. Se.treely less menlorious was MonteathV performance lor ‘the opposing side, the High School skipper luiislung unbeaten with 00 runs to his credit. ' Ho plays really good Cricket, and appears to ho on the improve. Another High School lad who is showing good form this year is M'Murrayj who on Tiuusday made top score witli o ( J no: out. SJavs u Wellington writer;—“Fred Bowles, 01 the Centra! team, is in vamp at Trentham as a sergeant-major on the yertnanont staff. Fred served fourteen rears in the British Army, and was two years ami a halt on active service in .South Africa, lienee Iho two medals he wears. He looks very busi-ncfs-liko in uniform.’' Bowles' New* Plymouth friends will join with me m wishing him every good luck and a sate return.

Thu American Cricketer for Septumtier states thilt in the Halifax Cun averages l!t>» leading position is occupiotl bv H. d. Koilling. who did so well in Australia a few seasons hark. lie plat's foe Non' Void;, and sunns, out with an average of Co.ld lur eight imiings. aggregate -ill. twiee not nut. Ihcse figures are a long way in front of anybody else, and have not been accomplished bv a mere flash. but I'ath.or by sound and consistent nriethoos, In five of the eight innings he got Ido, IUI net out, fU, 49. and -IB not oat. In Sydney cricket recently Paddington against Cordon amassed tho big total of ISli lor file loss of hut six wickets. hi. A. Mile, the veteran international, i-iul A. J. MA'JPiA. at colt, both lopping the century; and logo, liter adding 283 for the tovond wicket, or 19 more than Cordon's lull total. Noble did not .-cure as last as Ai'Crea). and was twice nfis.-ed at Ml and 11, in compiling his ICC runs. Paddington :■ skipper was at the wickets two bouts and do ininnics, tind he got (id ol hi.s nuts ’from boundary hits, APCrca! wea a -ootl deal freer. llis display was not marred hv a chance, and lid of his 173, nif.de ill two hours 15 mimites, canio from strokes worth four each. Paddington seemed to have fettled down To another' big addition to the total when Winning and Webs got to■tether, hut thee were shut out by time, after adding 91 for the seventh wicket; Winning ("1 not out) made ha; runs in about an Jimnc while Wells simply hit the tired howling all over the nark, his .51 (not ont.i including a six and -11 from other houudr.rv strokes. Cordon tried seven howlers, and all were treated witli scant respect.