RECORD PERFORMANCES.

Thames Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 8221, 9 December 1895, Page 2

RECORD PERFORMANCES.

The junior watches both proved utter fiascos. Rover 11. batted seven men against United 11. and compiled the astonishing total of 2 runs! This score consisted of two singles, both made by a small boy named Dare, who should have been caught behind the wickets off his first Hit. Robinson and Wilcox lent the others to the right about for ducks. United, on going to the wickets, scored 50 runs without exerting themselves, two J ducks being included in the list, the principal scorers being : Hall 6, Paull \ (retired) S, Simmonds (retired) 10, •' Buckland (retired) 10, Landy 9. In the match between High School and Tararu 11, the latter, batting 8 , men, went to the wickets first, and scored 63—Darrow (not out) 40, and Ryan 14. High School's innings closed for 3 (!) runs, all contributed by Phillips. This score comprised a single and a hit for two. The latter was a palpable mis-hit, as the batsman, in . attempting to drive the ball, skied it in the slips. Several of the High School batsmen elected to have a second innings, but only two succeeded in

scoring, and the total of 9 was recorded —Hammond 1, Garcia 5, byes 3. Saturday's junior matches should ; stand out as an epoch in the annals of - 3ocal cricket, to show the rising generation how vigorously their fathers used. to wield, the willow, ' '