Cricket.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18889, 12 October 1929, Page 10

Cricket.

SENIOR GAMES

Glorious weather ushered in competition cricket, which began this afternoon.

OLD COLLEGIANS V. RICCARTON. Old Collegians opened the batting sgainst Riccarton, I. M. Hamilton and R. O. Talbot facing the bowling. Talbot made two and then hit one up to Powell off C. T. Rix. L. R. Dunster went in. Runs came fairly freely, Hamilton making 44 before he played one on from B. Champness. W. J. V.

Hamilton joined Dunster. but made only one before he went l.b.w. to Rix. H. M. Chrvstal was next. Scoring was slow.

Chrystall, after a slow start, brightened up, but went l.b.w. to Evans when he had made 7. J. Burrough joined Dunster, who was batting brightly. After making 28 Dunster was clean bowled by Evans, and W. S. Coop went in. The two batted slowly, Burrough going l.b.w. to Rix after making 15. J. Bruges was run out after making one. C. Jackman was caught by J. Powell off Evans without scoring. G. L. Talbot began to hit things about in good style. Coop was bowled by F. Powell after making 16, and R. J. S. Bean, last wicket, was clean bow r led first ball by Powell. Talbot carried his bat for 9, and the Old Collegians’ innings closed for 125. A. Cox and P. Allen opened for Riccarton at 4.45. Scores:— OLD COLLEGIANS. First Innings. I. M. Hamilton, played on b ChampEl. O. Talbot, c Powell, b Rix .... 2 W. J. V. Hamilton, lbw b Rix 1 L. R. Dunster, b Evans 28 H. M. Ohrystall, lbw b Evans .... 7 J. Burrough, lbw b Rix 15 W. S. Coop, b F. Powell 16 J. Bruges, run out 1 C. Jackman, c J. Powell, b Evans . . 0 C*. L. Talbot, not out 9 11. J. S. Bean, b F. Powell 0 Extras 2 Total .. 125 Bowling anal3’sis —F. Powell. 10 overs, 1 maiden, 36 runs, two wickets; C. T. Rix, 15 overs, 5 maidens, 37 runs, three wickets; B. Champness, 8 overs,' 1 maiden, IS runs, one wicket; C. E. Evans, 13 overs, 3 maidens, 25 runs, three wickets; A. W. Roberts, 5 overs, 1 maiden, 7 runs. RICCARTON. First Innings. A. Cox, not out 1 I\ Allen, not out 0 Extras 0 Total for no wickets .... 1 ST ALBANS V. SYDENHAM. St .Albans and Sydenham played at Sydenham Park. The teams met first of all and appointed their captains for the season. Honours fell to J. Young (Sydenham) and C. G. Crawford (St Albans).

Young and F. T. Capstick opened for Sydenham.' The newlv-elected captain made a bad start, Young going out to a catch behind the wickets by Dorreen f>ff Fraser. Oliver hit three fours and two singles in the seventeen minutes he was at the wickets. Falloon at second slip taking him off Fraser. Fraser was sending down medium-paced balls dead on the wicket and of consistently good length. The batsmen did not attempt to take any liberties with him. Capstick was making no mistakes and. playing steadily, knocked up 23 to this stage. Bellamy, who had spent t hree-quarters of an hour at the wickets for 7. including a four off Lindley, when he was run out. C. S. Shackel went on in his place and started off in good st\*le with Lindley’s balls, smacking two two’s and a four in quick succession. North and Lindley were sharing the bowling. Shackel lasted only twenty minutes, when he was clean bowled by Fraser. Gasson took his place and almost saw an hour out when he slipped an easy one to Thomas off Lindley at mid-on after compiling a total of seven. Capstick was still at the wickets, scoring with singles and twos. His score included a five. Y. Hahn went on in place of Gasson. Capstick’s score stood at 50 at this stage, the total score being 100 for five wickets. Hahn made a good showing for twenty-six minutes, compiling 14. when he was run out. 127—6—14. R. Walburton went on in place of Hahn and opened his account with two singles. Sydenham had compiled a total of 145 in their match with St Albans at 5 pjn. Capstick was putting up a great performance, contributing 71 not out, at this hour. Scores;— SYDENHAM. First Innings. .1. Young, c Dorreen, b Fraser .... F. T. Capstick. not out 71 YV. Oliver, c Falloon b Fraser .... 3 4 C. Shackel, b Fraer 14 E. Gasson, c Thomas b Lindley . . 7 V. Hahn, run out 34 R. Walburton, not ou£ 13

OLD BOYS V. LINWOOD. Old Roys made an inauspicious start when they Avon the toss and batted against Lin wood on Hagley No. 1. Yates and Read opened the bowling, and Page and Hobbs were the opening batsmen. They opened cautiously, but Page Avent lbw to Read Avithout scoring. 2—l—o. Read Avas Avell in control of length and Avas getting up off the pitch. Cromb and Hobbs started scoring quietly. Cromb hit a great six eft Yates, who was soon after replaced

by Orchard. Both batsmen reached 23, and then each was clean bowded by Read. 44—3—22. Harris AA*as caught by Yates off Read before scoring. Merritt, after driving Orchard past mid-off to the boundary, went lbw to the same bowler. 58—5—4.

At this stage Read had taken four wickets for 24 runs. Dailey and Stringer carried on. Dailey was 30 and was just getting going when he tipped one from Read and was taken by Miller in the slips. Ilastie joined Stringer. At the afternoon tea adjournment the score Avas 105 for six wickets. Read had taken five for 33. Ilastie and Stringer became associated, and the runs started to come smartly. Ilastie soon got his eye in, and scored Avith clean and forceful strokes all round the wicket. Striqger was taken in the slips off Read. 110 —7—22. Burns started in promising manner, but Avas Avell caught at mid-on by WestAvood. Ilastie Avent in an identical manner soon after, after hitting up a good 56. The innings closed soon after for 167. Lin wood opened badly. Smith snick ing the third ball from Harris and being well taken by Burns. Scores:— OLD BOYS. First Innings. M. L. Page, lbw b Read 0 G. M. Hobbs, b Read 22 I. B. Cromb, b Read 22 C. M. Harris, c Yates b Read 0 W. E. Merritt, lbw b Orchard .... 4 G. Stringer, c Miller b Read 22 W. Dailey, c Miller b Read 20 R. E. Hastie, c Smith b Read 56 R. C. Burns, c Westwood b Read . . 7 H. Escott, c Condliffe b Smith .... 3 J. Burrows, not out 0 Extras 31 167 Bowling analysis.—R. Read, 26 overs, 6 maidens, 55 runs, 8 wickets; C. Orchard, 9 overs, 39 runs, 1 wicket; S. Yates, 14 overs, 5 maidens. 39 runs; F. Kerr, 3 overs. 3 6 runs: W. T. Miller, 1 over, 7 runs: F. A. Smith, 4 overs, 2 runs, 1 wicket. LINWOOD. First Inflings. F. A. Smith, c Burns b Harris .... 0 G. Condliffe, not out 8 M. K. Boon, riot out 4 Extras 0. Total for one wicket 12 EAST CHRISTCHURCH V. WEST. West Christchurch won the toss in their match against East Christchurch at Hagley Park, and decided to bat first. N. O. Alexander and J. L. Kerr, the former Wanganui representative, faced the boAvling of Davis and W. Cunningham. The latter, \A-ho struck a fair length, was one of Sydenham’s star bowlers last season. Another new player for East was D. Upton, from the Lin wood Club. G. R. Gregory was on the field. for East, and will be there

for about three Saturdays before he leaves Christchurch. E. Brosnahan was East’s skipper, and T. Condliffe West’s. West had a new' man in W. Hay, an ex-Aucklander. After about half an hour’s play Cunningham caught Alexander off his own bowling. . 261 —6. A. Jones had replaced Davis at the bowling crease just before Hayes went in* to bat. Runs came sloAvly and Kentipped one from Jones, which J. Phelps caught behind the wickets. Kerr had played a sound innings for his twentyfour runs. Hay was next. Hayes batted confidently until Cunningham clean bowled him at 20. Haynes, who joined Hay, made some fine carpet strokes before he was thrown out- after running for a delivery which glanced off the wicketkeeper’s gloves. 71—4—4. Hay had several “lives,” mainly from Cunningham’s bowling, before the latter got him. Booth tramped to the pavilion a few moments later, being well caught by Gregory off J. Mills’s bowling before scoring. Then Jarrett and Jefcoate became associated in a partnership which proA’ed valuable. The century was hoisted after about two hours’ play. Davis replaced Cunningham and Upton took OA'er the bowling from Mills. The partnership, which yielded 64, AA*as dissolved when Mills bowled Jarrett. J. E. Hill was the incoming batsman. WEST CHRISTCHURCH. First Innings. J. L. Kerr, c Phelps b Jones .... 24 N. G. Alexander, c and b Cunningham 6 W. Hayes, b Cunningham 2i> W. Hay, b Cunningham . . 15 L. A. Haynes, run out 4 R. H. Booth, c Gregory b Mills . . 0 F. Jarrett, b Mills 40 H. O. Jefcoate, not out 20 J. E. Hill, not out 0 Extras 1 Total for seven wickets 130 SUBURBAN GAMES. SENIOR A. Working Men's Club batted first against Shirley and made 132 (H. Mills 47, Lee 14, King 13>. Batting against Marist, Sunnyside had made 211 runs for six wickets at 4.45 p.m. (Cox 66, Langford 71). 1