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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16875, 28 October 1922, Page 10

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SENIOR GAMES. In spit© of the wet weather the second round of matches in the Canterbury Cricket Association’s competitions was continued this afternoou. WEST v LIN WOOD. With nine wickets dowu for 223 runs, a wood resumed their first innings against vt-» Chri.-u-Lurch at Hagley Park. The out batsmen were H. Armitagc and S. ; - ar.il play opened with an over from Haye-. who was absont on the first day > wing to an injury. Blunt bowled from , . ii.i lie was hit for a single. The last ball of Hayes’s second over saw Armitagc caught and bowled without adding to his score of 30. Yates carried hibat for 21. of which 15 were made last Saturday. The total for the innings was 232. R. C. Blum ami R. D. Worker faced the bowling for West at a quarter to three. They began lo hit Road and Russell right minute The bowlers were handicapped by the slippery bull and boundaries were frequent. Russell s fourth over cost 15. Read maintained a good length, hut ho was not able to break the partnership until the board showed 84 Then ho got Worker, leg before. Hayes joined Blunt, and the score rose to 100. compiled in fifty minutes. At 104 Hayes was clean bowled. He had no cored. Six runs later Read got his third wicket. Hudson being the victim. Foster left at 124, and Blunt at 125. Read had found the ‘spot " Blunts -cere of 75 iucluded twelve fours, and he was at the wickets one hour four minutes, batting stylishly all the time without giving a chance. Yates bowled Dwyer in hi- second over. and. at four o'clock, with Sim and ITaclar'en in. the total was 130 for six wickets. Yates' third over was a maiden, the first, in this Read's twelfth wa* also a maiden. The batsmen were quiet, and Linwood’s stock stood high. West seventh wicket fell. Sim skied Read and Perrin hold on. Read’s average was now 6 for 40. instead of none for 40. In attempting a short run with Grant. Mac--1 aren was run out. He had made 6. Yates was caught behind the wickets at 139. and Chariob and Hamilton were West's sole hope. Both men put up a solid defence, risking nothing. Charles got Read away sweetly to the square leg boundary, a-nrl Hamilton cut two good ones through the slips. In Yates' ninth over, Charles square cut for his second boundary, a beauty. Then Read bowled a maiden. At 4.40 p.m. Yates sent down a break that Charles played on. The innings closed for 156. or 76 behind Bin wood’s total. There was no more play and Linwood won. on the first innings. LINWOOD. First Innings. E. Perrin, lbw l> Foster .... 2 CJ. H. Baker. Maclaren b Blunt . 0 A. Jones, b Hamilton . . . .37 F. Smith, c Kim b Foster . . .23 N Jones, lunt b G rant . . .20 ter . . . -27 <•. W. Russell, b Hamilton . . .40 g. CondlifPc, b Hamlton . . . ." il. Armitagc, c and b Hayes t . 3<> Boon, b Hamilton « . . o F L xdras not °“* .' I .* .* I 15 , Total ...... 232 Howling Analysis .—Foster, three for 84, IS lout, one for 39; Grant, on© for -16; Hamduyn. four for 29; Hayes. one for 5; M Laren, none for 6; Hudson, none for 8. j WEST CHRISTCHURCH. First Innings R D. Worker, lbw b Read . . .45 li ,C. Blunt, b Read . . . . .75 W.r Hayes, b Read . . . . . 0 A L. Hudson, b Read .... 1 Dr Foster, b Read ... ’ 3 P Dwyer, b Yates ... 2 W. J. Sim. c Perrin b Read ... 2 P. Maclaren, run out .... 5 F Grant, c Boon b Yates ... 3 L C. Charles, b Yates . . .14 V. Hamilton, not out .... 4 Extras o Total 156 Bowling Analysisßead, six for 64; Russell. none for 27; Perrin, none for 37; Yates, three for 26.

ST. ALBANS v. EAST. On the first lay's play St. Albans made 234 in their first inning 6. and £a«t replied with nine for the loss of ouo wicket. Today Ooupland and Blank continued East's first innings to the bowling of Stringer and Thomas. Blank and Coupland carried the score to 24. at which figure Coupiaud vas caught by Hickmott oil' Stringer. 24—2—10. Gregory was the next man in > lank and Gregory batted steadily and a-dded 33 to the score. Reese relieved Thoulae, and with the sixth ball of his first over he clean-bowled Gregory. 47—3 —l7. Harris joined Blank. The rate of ucoring at this .‘tago was very slow, there being three maiden overs in succession. St. Albans tried another change of bowlers Martin going on in place of Reese. -This change also was successful. Blank being caught by Hickmott at point. The catch was a very good one, Hickmott having to jump to get the ball. 7U—4—l9. Howell followed, but at. 79 Thomas scattered his stumps. 79—5—5. Flood and Harris then made a useful stand, the former bringing the century up with a pretty four off Thomas. At 112 Thomas caught. Flood's leg stump, and the board read:—ll2—6—l9. L. ftroenahan. i promoted junior, then went in. With the -core at 131 Harris, who had made- ;.5 in nice style, was caught behind the wickets by Brtunton oil' Thomas. Ml 7—as. The next wicket fell at 141. Brosnahan being < iught by Brunton off Martin. 111- 8 7 The next wicket also fell as the result of :1 smart catch behind the stumps by Brim-t-n. • Esau ".is the victim, and Thomas imo bowler. 119—9—15. By 4.50 p.m Elvev '•.d Bp - had carried ,he score to 150 .Score - * EAST CHRISTCHURCH. First Innings E. Brosnahan, b Stringer . . 4 R. Coup land, c Hickmott. b Stringer . 10 K. E. Gregory, b Reese . ! 17 A It. Blank, e Hickmott. b Martin iq W. B. Howell, b Thomas . . .* t •J. P. Flood, b Thomas jy F Harris, c Brunton > Thomas * * 35 1.. Brosnahan. c Brunton h Martin 7 P. Egan, c Brunton b Thomas ’ 15 M. Bugg. not out , H. Elvev, not out * * * 6 Extras . . . _ j * Total for nine wickets . . . 150 SYDENHAM v. RIOCARTON. After a delay owing to misty weather, the match. Sydenham v. Riccarton, was continued at Sydenham Park. The wicket wn« in tairly good order. The score stood:: —Sydenham IGO, Riccarton 96 for three wic-ket-s (J. L. Powell 25. C. E. Evans 1°) The first over off M’Ewin's bowling produced seven runs, bringing the score over the hundred mark. M’Ewin got Evans shortly afterwards with a nice ball. 108—4—17 j> Powell went to the wickets. Cunningham E"™ 1 for * ™? lden ov «“ r - the next by M'Ewin realised 17 as the result of good hitting by the Powells, bringing up q f> runs for a little over twenty minutes' play. • T Powell lifted a ball from Cunningham and was caught by Patrick at cover 138—5 48. alter a useful innings. R. Powell who was joined by Gorrie. retired hurt as the result of receiving a ball from Cunningham on tho knee, when his score stood at 24. Gorrie and Killich were soon separated, as the latter was clean bowled nv Cunningham before two overs had gone 15-6—o. A. C. Fuller made 4. and then Gorrie was given out lbw off M'Ewin Fuller and Rix brought the score past 160 putting Riccarton in the lead. Rix brigh*ened the partnership bv some hard hitting but Patrick got through his defence at 16’ R. Powell resumed play, with a substitute to run for him. Fowler was the next ,0 go off Patrick’s bowling. 195—9 15 Powell commenced to get runs off M'Ewin 3 bowling, and added another 23 to his score l>efore tho innings closed at 4.20 through M'Ewin dismissing Collie. Riccarton won on the first- innings. Sydenham did not bat again. SYDENHAM. First Innings 160 RICCARTON. First Innings. H. B. Whitta. b M'Ewin . . .12 K. B. Bain, r Young b Patrick ... 8 F, R Cay trill. b Patrick . 8 \ f Powell, r Patrick b Cunningham. 43 C E. Evans, b M'Ewin . . . .17 R. Powell. no» out .... 47 O T. Gorrie. lbw 1> M'Ewin s . . 2 KHlick. b Cunningham . . . . 0 A r\ Fulier, b Patrick . . . .15 C. T. Rix, b Patrick .... 16 R Collie, b M'Ewin ..... 2 Extras - ... s i 10 _ . Total . . .210 Bowling Analysis.—Cunningham. 11 overs. ■ maiden. 43 runs, 2 wickets j Patrick, 14 VrrrS*i ~ maidens, 51 runs, 4 wickets; " w,n * overs. 3 maidens. 97 runs. 4 n-Kots; Gasaon, l over, 9 runs, 0 wickets.