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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17230, 22 December 1923, Page 9

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SENIOR COMPETITIONS. CONCLUSION OF FIFTH * ROUND. C UNWOOD V. WEST by CHRISTCHURCH. : The fifth serine of the Canterbury Criolet Aaeocaition'a wnior matches was oon»ludod to-day. At Hagley Park, Linwood vseumed their inning* against West, rolatring 381 runs to catch up to their opponent*. In the 8t Albans-East match, the former had a long lead. The match was played at Lancaster Park. At Sydenham ! Park. Sydenham were leading Riccarton 07 a good margin on last week's scores. "When the game was resumed at Hag-ley Park, the position was—West 865, Lin wood 84 for one wicket (N. Jones not out 44, M. Boon not cut 28V The outfield was fairly I fast, and the wicket was good. 'The batamea opened out confidently against the bowling of O. A. Cooks and H. B. Godfrey. With late outa and drive* Boon scored j more freely than his partner. Jones, how- j •rer. cccaaionally showed some nics J strokes. At SI be gave a chanoe. bnt the i catch was t-oo short for the field to get bear it. Over thirty rnns had been added s when Talbot took the place of Godfrey in Ihe bowling. After half an hour's play Cooks dismissed N. .Tones with a good ball, aid—3—s2. The nasrt batsman in was A. 9onea. At 65 Boon was missed from a hard «hatn?e behind the wickets. 'The total was 147 When Godfrey joined in the bowling Boon did not score off the over. The flrat hall off Cocks*s next, oyer dismissed A. Jones. 147—8—10. F. A. Smith filled the racanoy. The next wicket went oheaplT, Smith being rnn ont. as the remit of a smart throw in from Foster, though the batsmen took a risk in attempting to score. 150—4 — 3. G. W. Bus i •ell joined Boon at the wickets, and thj 1 partnership had lasted about seven min wtea when Boon lifted one from Cocks and the bowler accepted a hot catch. 155—5 78. The batting combination we. a Bead *wd Bussell, and the soore 163. when Blunt relieved Godfrey. After this over the bowling was also ehsnged at the other end. V. Hamilton taking Cooks’s place Bo*ring at this stare had slowed down. bO*. Russel? enli-»enod things with a boundary. and then Read drove Blunt twice for mix each time. After twenty minutes at the wickets Bead was bowled by Blunt. 190—6—37. and C. Condiiffe went in. He did not lsst. long, giving a catch off Hamilton, which the bowler accepted. 195—7—3. C. L. Kine opened hie ecoT-e with a sonare cut for four off Hamilton. Scoring bv singles carried the total nast 2<V). King was oaurht by Blunt off the third ball from Godfrey. 90t»—f?—10. The scaring by Russell and Tates was slow. There were more changes of bowling, first Foster and then TTaye# taking a turn. Tates scored at a ouicker rate than Bnsaell. who took an hour to make 17. Boswell gave an easy catch to Cocks off Foster **l —*—23- When Rntan joined Tates in the last wicket partnership Lin wood need--28 *° ** T * a follow-on. Seventeen of .he runs hsd been made when flnaan was caught behind the wickets off Hares, the fnninans closing at 4.40. Linwood were 111 Puna behind. »

Bowling analysis.—C. A. Cocke. 22 overs, S maidens. 74 runs, 4 wickets; R. C. Blunt, 9 overs, no maidens. 41 runs, 1 wicket; W. overs, 1 maiden. 26 runs, 1 wicket ; V. Hamilton. 5 overs, 1 maiden 16 runs. 1 wicket. 1 no hall; R. O. Talbot, 7 overs, no maidens. 37 runs, no wickets. 1 no ball; H. B. Godfrey, 12 overs, 3 maidends. 39 runs, 1 wicket; Dr Foster. 4 oTers no maidens. IB runs, 1 wicket SYDENHAM V. RICCARTON. On the first day Sydenham made 17* and mieoarton were all out for 56, a deficiency or UK To-day Riccarton followed on. Gijj-ney and Haines opening the Innings to the bowling of M'Beth and Cunningham, i The batsmen started quietly, scoring 15 off ' the first eight overs. Then with the ad- 1 mtion of one to the total Haines was ! clean bowled by Cunningham. 16 1 10. | brans was the next man in. and he opened a four off M'Beth. In j . Beth s next, over Evans scored two nice •lies in succession. Then he scored a 1 single, and later Guiney made four, mak- ■ ing seventeen off the over. Gaeson went : on ’ii place of M'Beth. and off his second ! delivery Guiney scored four and brought • 50 up after fifty minutes' play. In this over the score was carried to Rlccarton's first innings total of 56. With the total j at 66 Evans was caught by Oliver off 1 Cunmngham. 66—3—32. Evans batted I vigorously and his total included two | sixes and four fours. Bain joined Guiney. j after making two single he hit M'Ewin : over the boundary for six. This maiio the total 80. By 3.30 p.m.. after about an hour and a quarter's play Guiney and Bam had carried th 6 total to 100. Guiney and Bain continued to ecore freely, ar.d they soon had the first inuings deficiency wiped out. Sydenham Wed fairly frequent changes of bowler* 3he total stood at 124 when Guiney. who had batted well, was given out lbw to M Beth 124—3—38. Powell filled the vacancy. First ball from M'Beth he survived an appea! for lbw Bain and Powell added 16 to the total, and then Bain ancoombed to a slow delivery from Patrick, i next wickc t fell Without any addition to the score. Powell skying one from M'Beth and being caught bv Patrick Fuller „n.l Hi* then became „ aoriated but they were not together lone F '•aneht by M'Ewin off i M Reth 146 6 2. Killlck went in, but k Ski n™:? 1 . h ? ” R 3 clean >»wlecl by M Beth. Clay ell i joined R!x. but with the total at 134 Rir had hie rtump. mt. h ; “ Wr ' ir "'' ” from M’Ewin. ~i'ea Eb, T n ML? fayetu made a naeful etand. Lonebem had scored 14 when he *are a chance off M’Beth. bnt Oliver mltwed it Next delivers- from M'Beth scattered Lamrbein s stumps, but it. was a. no-ball. This was tlio fourth no-hall 1 .h.t M'Beth had .ent down dnrina tte innings. By 5 p.m. Langbein and Oaygill had carried the score to 191 for eight, wickets, end Sydenham's chances of a three-pointer did not look bright Scores:—

ST ALBANS V. EAST CHRISTCHURCH. St Album and East Christchurch resumed «t Lancaster Park. In the first day's play St Albans had made 343. and "ken stumps were drawn East Christchurch had lost ou© wicket for 11 runs FAvy (10) and Bug* (0). the not out men. resumed at 2.10 p.m. against the howling of Burrows and Tlioxua*. In Thomas's first, over he clean bowled Bugg, snapping the middle wicket !n the’process. 21—2—1. Gregory came on. Both bowlers wer© good, although so far no maiden overs sent down, the >uo» mounted elotrij.

! With the lost ball of hie fourth over i Burrows clean bowled Gregory. 32—8—8. A. It. Blank joined Elvey. The first ' boundary came to Elvey at 2.40. when, h© cut a ball from Thomas to the fence. Sandman took a turn at the bowling and was responsible for the first maiden over. Elvej was playing carefully, but occasionally ho opened out, and during an over from Sandman he pulled a good hall to leg for a four. Blank's downfall came, after twenty minutes at the crease. While attempting to swipe a ball he over-stepped himself and was stumped by j Brunton 57—4—6. Harris came on and I joiued Elvey, but he did not last more than five minutes, being unlucky enough to strike the wicket while attempting to swipe a ball from Burrows. 58— 5 —1. Bro?nahan came or. When the score >K»ard read 68, Elvey snicked a ball through the slips to the fence, otherwise play was exceedingly dull. Thomas went on howling again when 70 was up, and liis fourth ball went to the boundary, driven by Brosnahan. Elvey was caught in the slips by Burrows at 3.30. It was a high catch. 86—6 -47. Elood was cleaned bowled by a full toss from Norrie with his sixth ball. 90 — 7 j —5. Broanahan gave a chance at- midoff, but Martin, although he got his fingers on the ball, could not hold it. Stringer, who had replaced Flood, played carefully, j The century was registered in 106 minutes. Stringer gave a good chance at 7, but it < was a fast ball and Martin, at mid-on, could not hold it. Stringer's beet stroke came at 4.5 p.m.. when he 6ent a full toss from Sandman to the boundary. At 4.18 Thomas sent down a fast one to Stringer, who touched it to Brunton. l it was smart, work. 182—8—33. Egan joined Brosnahau and was dispatched for five by Thomas, who took his middle wicj ket. Lilburne took his place. Brosno- ■ | ban was doing some good work, and off i ( the seoond ball of Thomas’s next over he 1 i placed a good six. and a few minutes later i a good four. When 170 runs were on the hoard he got another two off Martin. The 1 innings closed at 4.54. when Lilburne was

-••••» iOl Bowling analysis.—D. M"K. Sandman. 12 overs, 1 maiden, 47 runs, 1 wicket; A. N. Thomas, 19 overs, 3 maidens, 65 runs, 5 wickets; J. Burrows, lo overs, 1 maiden, 43 runs, 2 wickets; R. Norrie, 4 overs, 7 runs, 1 wicket; P. Martin, 1.7 overs, 11 SENIOR B GRADE. i ! Playing at Lancaster Park, Linwood, bat~ ! ting first against Sydenham, made 112. Sydenham declared with 843 for six wioj bets (Cummings 108, Ay ling 56, O’Malley 52, ; Barron 38 not out. M'Lelland 24 not out, j Oockroft 16, Woods 10). Iu their second attempt Linwood have loet three wickets for 59 (Armitage 32, Perriu 27, Prosper 11 not out). At Hagley Park. East in reply to West’s first innings score of 187 made 173. In the seoond innings West have 139 for six wiokets (Jarrett 62 not out). At Hagley Park Riccarton made 194 in reply to St Albans first innings soore of 97. In their second innings St Albans declared with 269 for seven wickete (Cromb 142) leaving Riccarton with. 172 runs to

WEST CHRISTCHCECH. F-frafc Itmin srs ...... 565

LIJTWOOD. - v First lnningo. <m. H. Baker, b Cocks . . , B » H •>. Jones, b Cooks . . • ■ . 52 M. Boon, c and b Cooks * . t # 73 A. Jones, b Cocks , . . * „ io F. A. bnuth. run out . . \ * a U. W. Bussell, c Cooks b Foster « #23 ■R. Bead, b Blunt . . * . 27 C. Coudliffe, c and b Hamilton # « 3 C. L. King, o Blunt b Godfrey . #10 CC Yates, not out . . . . # £6 H. dpaan. o Charles b Hayes • . , 6 ***** Total

SYDENHAM. Flrat innings ...» 174 RICCARTON. Firtt innings . . • * « 56 G. Second Innings Haines, b Cunningham 10 c. E. Evans, c Oliver b Cunningham S2 E. tiiMoy. ]bw b il’Beth K. B. Bain, b Patrick 47 .T. L. Powell, c Patrick b M’Beth A. C Fuller, e M’Ewin b M’Beth - Z*. J. Killick. b M'Beth . . I O. T. Riv. b M’Ewin - . * 0 E. R. Cargill, not out, . * W T. LanpLeiu, not out • . I Extras , ... 11 Total for eight vricketa 191

ST. ALBANS. 1 First innings 343 EAST CHRISTCHURCH. First Innings. ; R. Coupland, b Thomas .... 1 t R H. Elvcy, 0 Burrows b Thomas - 47 M. Bugg. b Thomas .... 1 G. R. Gregory, b Burrows v 6 A. R. Blank, stp Brnnton b Sandman . 6 1 F. Harris, hit wicket b Burrows . . 1 > E. Brosnahau. not out, . . . 68 «T. P. Fiood. b Norrio . . . » 5 II. T. Stringer, c Brunton b Thomas . 23 P. Egan, b Thomas .... 5 A. Lilburne, run out . • * . 4 Extras 14 Total 181