LAST WEEK'S CRICKET MATCHES.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 82, 8 April 1882, Page 52

LAST WEEK'S CRICKET MATCHES.

Herald v. Panmure. — Panmure won easily. Whau v. Auckland.— Whau won easily. Auckland, 30 ; Whau, 45. Press v. Stage.— Won by the former. Press, 131 j Stage, 63. Ponsonbt 2nd Eleven v. Panmure Ist Eleven.— Former won with four runs to spare, making 57 against 53. CEICKET FIXTUEES. Friday and Saturday.— Tauranga v. Auckland. West End v. Coromandel. Saturday.— Auckland v. West End. Friday.— Star v. Atkins. MISCELLANEOUS. Monday. Ponsonby Regatta. Olde Englishe Fayre. The small yacht Penguin is at Whangarei. Morpeth will not compete in the scullers' race at the Ponsonby Eegatta. Mills' Spray -walked around the twenty-feet boats at Tauranga, and won as she liked. The Auckland team were mightily astonished at the beating they received from the Whau Union men. The Madge and Imp are pretty even f avoxuites for the Ponsonby Eegatta. Both will start. The West End second eleven play (an Easter match at Coromandel.

Tommy Fafquhar's victories over Yateß at the T&uranga Begatta were.very popular up Ponsonby way. . One of the competitors in the walking match on Saturday is deaf and dumb. O'Brien will attempt the feat of running ten miles and a half in the hour at Ye Olde Englishe Fayre. The Sybil is strongly backed for the small yacht race on Monday. The Ponsonby regatta next Monday is expected to be one of the best that has yet been held in connection with the western suburb. Tom Farquhar, A. Jones, andW. Farquhar will probably be the only competitors in the scullers' race at the Ponsonby Eegatta. The schooner-yacht Asteroid will enter a thirteen-feet centreboard sailing boat at the Ponsonby Eegatta. It is very probable that the Ponsonby crew will be the only one entered for the all-comers' gig race at Ponsonby Eegatta. An Auckland cricket team proceeds to Tauranga to-day (Thursday), and will play there to-morrow and Saturday. There will be archery, croquet, air gun, bowling and lawn tennis matches at the Archery Club picnic to-morrow (Friday). A. MacCormick, who is certainly one of the best batsmen in Auckland, made a good «coro of 42 not out in the return Press and Stage match. Ponsonby and North Shore will each send a junior and senior crew to the Ponsonby Eegatta. It is said that tho Auckland Club does not intend to compete. Is it really true that Pickering, who astonished the Auckland peds. on Saturday, travels with the Australians. A number of people thought that Pickering could hare won the final heat in the 220 yards handicap if ho had pleased. The G-em, Foam, and Petrel are excluded from the twenty-feet open boat race at the Ponsonby Eegatta through being over the specified measurement. Pickering, however smart on his "pins," is not by any means the beau ideal of a sprinter. But, notwithstanding his appearance, he can get ovor the ground. The Sabrina, Jeßsie Logan, Daisy, Eclipse, and two or three others are expected to compete in the large yacht race at Ponsonby. O'Brien's ten mile run was done in one minute thirty seconds under the hour, and he finished looking as fresh as a daisy. O'Connor offered to back O'Brien for £50 to do eleven miles in an hour within the next fortnight. Nobody took him up. Pearson and Elliott, the actors, are both good cricketers. They bat and bowl very well, and the slows of the former are particularly effective. The Victoria Company defeated the Wairoa Rifles in a shooting match on Saturday with 26 points to spare. Douglas's Leon, Logan's Empress, and Hewson and Melville's boat will make their debut in the twentyfeet sailing boat race at the Ponsonby Eegatta. Messrs. Shaw, J. Baker, King, and W. Baker will compete in the Eob Eoy Canoe Eace at the Ponsonby Eegatta. The two-mile walking match was won by O'Connor, notwithstanding large handicaps. Little Sammy Goodman, who came in second, walked splendidly, and led gamely to the last lap. The Madge was beaten by the Imp twice at the Tauranga Eegatta, but this is attributed to superior handling. Falconer, who sailed the Imp, knows every inch of the harbour. It was reported on Wednesday that one of the North Shore senior crew and one of the juniors had fallen ill, and that there was a probability of North Shore not being represented at the Ponsonby regatta. Last week, I said I would not be surprised, for several reasons, to hear that the Imp had beaten the Madge at Tauranga. The Madge did lose both races, bnt notwithstanding that, I fancy her for the Ponsonby Eegatta, where the sailors of the Imp will not gain so much for superior knowledge of the tides.