CRICKET.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16607, 3 December 1919, Page 6

CRICKET.

POSITION OF TEAMS

(Saturday.) Team Pld. Won. Lost. Pts. New Plymouth A o 5 0 11 Old Boys 4 3 1 5 Freezing Works ... 4 22 1 : High School 4 22 0 Tikorangi 4 1 3 —3 I New Plymouth.' Bo 0 5 —l4 The sign indicates a minus total. FIXTURES FOB TO-MOBROW. The matches to bo played to-morrow are: —■ Now Plymouth v. Inglewood, at Inglewood; Wau-eka v. Albion, at Tukapa Reserve. The latter game is not to be played in Pukekura Park because the ground there will be . otherwise occupied. The New Plymouth Club wild bo represented by the following:—Hased, .-.iL-oii, Saunders, Willis, jouusou, Dmniss, Woollclt, Austin, iPEcaii, Weston, Simmon. Emergencies: Hayden, Sheppard, l< airbrotner. The Waircka Club will be represented by tJio following: Waller, H. Curnu, Townley, O’Donnell, Soie, Butoner, Hughes, Rowlands, Tyrcli, Jenkii-s, Goodwin. Emeigencicn: Hoskm, Waters, and itussed. All players are requested lo be on the ground at 1.3 U p.m. sharp. NOTES ON THE GAME. (By ‘’Square Leg.”) , The North Taranaki Association has chuneugeu Uic sou ta Taiauaki Association to piAy’a match at New Plymouth and a reiuru match at ilawera in the latter portion ui mo season. No reply has yet been received. iho matcaes next Saturday will close the first round ol tho senior competition. Ti.gii School and Tiiiorangi have to finish tue mated commenced iast Satmxiay, wane freezing Works and Old Roys are to n.ool icr the ur=t time. The two teams oi the Now Plymouth Club have completed their first round matches. As New Plymouth A are at tno head ot tlio competition and are lending Old Boys by six points, the latter may be expected to make a strong elfurt against freezing Works. Tho Saturday competition is to consist of three rounds. The High School team will drop out of the middle round owing to tho holidays. This round will nut be commenced until tho New Year. On the ihth and tho 20th of tho prosent month A and B representative matches arc to be played in order to enable the three selectors to sort out the best players from all tho teams, including Thursday men. The match against tho Nomuds takes place on the last two days of this month. A very fine batting performance was put up in tho High School-Tikorangi match last Saturday by Eggleston and P. Sarten. , Going in after tho first two men had been bowled in quick succession, they raised tho score froth 6 to 119 before being separated thfiough tho former being caught. Tho latter carried his bat when stumps were drawn an hour and a-half after the innings opened. Eggioslon did tho _ greater part of tho hitting and his 71 included eight boundaries, one being a six. Sarten, a younger player, handled his bat in a pi cursing stylo and would not have stopped at 37 if time had allowed play to bo continued. Purdie, proved to bo by far tho most effective bowler Tikorangi could bring against High School. In 11 overs he took seven wickets at a cost of 48 runs, while the runs of the batting team totalled 181. High School on Saturday gave their best hatting performance of the season to date, while their fielding was very clean. No less than seven batsmen reached double figures and only one ot tho remainder failed to start his tally. Pope (4o) and Greiner (31) each gave a very pleasing exhibition and a partnership between them produced 75 runs. With the ball Sinclair and O’Halloran, who were both bowling a good length and fair speed, did not take long to bring down the first two wickets neatly between them but their further efforts, as well as those of Palmer, Greiner and Osborne, were baffled by tho batsmen, Eggleston and Sarten. THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. CAPETOWN, Dec. 1. Tho Australians, in their first innings, made 456 (Collins 67, Trenncry 31, Pellew 45, Lampard 73, Gregory 69, Willis, not out, 71). South Africa, in their second innings, had lost one wicket for 12 runs, when stumps were drawn. MATCH IN AUSTRALIA. BRISBANE, Dec. 2. Now South Wales scored 328 for tho loss of seven wickets in their second innings, and declared' tho innings closed (Tozer 103, Batoliffe 107). Queensland, in their second innings, hod lost one wicket for 48 runs, when rain caused an adjournment.