CRICKET

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18380, 4 February 1928, Page 5

CRICKET

SENIOR GAMES.

The eighth series of matches of the Canterbury Cricket Association senior A competition was commenced to-day in fine weather. The wickets were hard and fast. There was a good attendance of spectators at Hagley Park, where three of the matches were played. Linwood and Old Collegians met at Lan caster Park. SYDENHAM V ST ALBANS. St Albans had first strike. The score was only cen when Woods was caught in the slips off Cunningham. Crawford and Falloon carried on, scoring rather slowly. Fifty appeared after 40 minutes' play, but a little later Crawford was clean skittled by Cunningham. 51—2—IS. North was next, but after scoring three he tipped a simple catch up into Ayling’s hands off Cunningham, and without any addition to the score Falloon was caught by Hahn off Simm<»nd«. 56—4—17. Norrie and Doreen then became associated and at 3.25 p.m. they had carried the score to SI.

A useful stand was made by Norrie and Doreen, who saw the century hoisted after ninety minutes’ play. Tt was rather slow cricket. With the total 115 Norrie went lbw to Simmonds. Norrie and Doreen had added 59 for the fifth wicket. After the tea adjournment O'Brien joined Doreen, who livened things up by hitting a couple of sixes and a four off Bellamy in one over. Cunningham went on in place of Bellamy, and in his second over he got O'Brien lbw. At 4.50 p.m. the score was 162 for six wickets. Scores:— ST. ALBANS. First Innings. F. Woods, e sub b Cunningham .... 6 C. G. Crawford, b Cunningham .... 18 <?. Falloon, c Hahn b Simmonds .... 17 R. H. North, c Ayling b Cunningham 3 K. Norrie, lbw b Simmonds 27 N. Doreen, not out 66 I'. O’Brien, lbw b Cunningham .. 5 N. E. England, not out ... 1 2 Extras 18 Total for six wickets .... 162

OLD BOYS PLAY EAST CHRISTCHURCH.

Old Boys began a match against East Christchurch at South Hagley No. 3 ground to-day. The wicket and outfield were fast. Old Boys batted first, Oromb and Nixon opening to the attack of Mills and M’Ewin. The pair dug in and 50 appeared on the

toward after 40 minutes’ batting. Forty minutes later 100 was hoisted up. with both batsmen going strongly. With the total at 130, Cromb was bowled by an off-break from M’Ewin. Nixon did not survive long after. With 3 2 to his credit, Jacobs was brilliantly caught in the slips. At 4 p.m. Mortlock and Merritt became associated, and the pair raised the total to 185 before Merritt was caught out. Powell shared a similar fate after scoring 4. At 5 p.m. Old Boys had made 194 for the loss of five wickets. Scores:— * OLD BOYS. First Innings. I. B. Cromb, b Flood 41 D. C. Nixon, c Flood b M’E'vin .... 83 J. Jacobs, c Kennedy b Weston .... 12 G. Mortlock, not out 14 W. E. Merritt, c Mills b Kennedy 16 F. Powell, o Flood b M’Ewin .... 4 C. Harris, not out . . 0 Extras 24 Total for five wickets .... 194 OLD COLLEGIANS V. LINWOOD. Lester and I. M. Hamilton opened for Old Collegians to the bowling of R. Read and W. Spong. The bowling was good, especially from Read, and the runs came up slowly. An hour's play, saw 60 on the board. The batting was

fairly slow, although Hamilton was bringing off some beautiful square cuts. He was dean bowled by Spong at 51. Bruges joined Lester, but was bowled by Spong after making 12. Spong. who did not open in a very brilliant style.

was now howling well. Smythe replaced Bruges. Lester hit up a high one off Upton, which was well held by Yates in the longfield. Collegians total was now 133 for three wickets. Chrystall took the crease. The cricket had brightened up considerably.

Under the bowling of Ttead and Spong, the cricket slowed up. After two hours and a half of play, 150 runs had appeared. Smyth was clean bowled by a beauty from Upton, and was replaced by Pengelly.

OLD COLLEGIANS. First Innings. T. M. Hamilton, b Spong 51 S. G. Lester, c Yates b Upton 56 S. G. Bruges, b Spong 12 B. S. Smythe, b Upton 20 H. M. Chrystall, not out 16 M. F. Pengelly, not out 0 Extras 10 Total for four wickets . . 165 WEST CHRISTCHURCH BATS AGAINST RICCARTON. On Hagley I\'o. 1, West met Riccarton and batted first on a true. favourable wicket. Newman started nicely, placing some neat forcing shots through the off fieldsmen, but he soon lost his partner, Blank, who managed to notch 11 before Roberts skittled him. Haynes barely reached double figures before lie tipped a ball from the same bowler, and

Rix took a great catch in the slips. 40 —2—lo. Hayes and Newman brought things along, Hayes getting some sweet shots away. Newman went, caught and bowled by Evans, just as he was looking stet. 933 —33. Alexander was the newcomer, but was snapped up behind the w*iekets off Rix by Fuller. Hayes kept going well, and reached fifty after only 27 minutes at the crease. The remaining batsmen offered little resistance, and the innings closed at 5 p.m. for 164. Scores:— WEST CHRISTCHURCH. First Innings. A. R. Blank, b Roberts 11 L. A. Haynes, c Rix b Roberts .... 10 J. Newman, c and b Evans 33 W. O. Alexander, c Fuller b Rix .. 11 C. A. Cocks, c Fuller b Gibles 12 W. Hayes, lbw b Evans 56 A. Newman, lbw b Rix 9 K. G. Shrimpton, b Evans 0 T. Condllffe. b Rix 1 J. Sim. c Roberts b Evans 3 E. R. Phillips, not out o Extras 12 Total 164 Bowling analysis.—A. W. Roberts, 21 overs, 2 maiden s, 3 2 runs, 1 wicket; C. E. Evans, 18 overs. 60 runs. 4 wickets; C. Rix, 18.5 overs, 3 maidens, 46 runs, 3 wickets; .T. Powell, 5 overs, 1 maiden, 14 runs; C. S. Gibbs, 5 overs, 13 runs, 1 wicket. SUBURBAN GAMES. Marists 136 and 126 (Griffin 34, .Tones 29, Noonan 16). Shirley 95 and 42 for four wickets (Archer 16, Coltliart 13). Beckenham, in their second innings against Green's, made 123 runs. Green’s, in their second innings had lost four wickets for 66 runs at 5 p.m. VETERANS DEFEAT TELEGRAPH TEAM. Another enj'oyable game between the Veterans and the Telegraph teams was played on Thursday at Hagley Park Cricket Ground. The game resulted In a popular win for the Veterans by 28 Telegraph made 120 (L. Clarkson 35, retired. W. Cowlin 22, F. Gnenfell 21, A. Murray 15, W. Hadlee, not out. 13). White and Thompson bowled best for Veterans. Veterans scores: Butler 35 not out, Lawrence 18. Spicer 17, White 16, M’Menamin 15, Harris 14, Brook 14 Murray, Gray and Cowlin took the wickets for Telegraph.