RICCARTON MAKE POOR SCORE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 301, 19 December 1931, Page 10

RICCARTON MAKE POOR SCORE.

All Out for 119 Against Old Boys’ Strong Bowling.

WEST START IN GOOD STYLE.

RICCARTON FAILED BADLY in their first innings against Old Boys, making only 119 runs. Roberts and Cox went early, and the rest of the side made a poor resistance to the bowling of Merritt, who finished with five w'ickets for 41 runs. Fairbairn, with 31, was the highest scorer. Old Collegians made a disastrous start against Sydenham, chiefly owing to the excellent bowling of Bellamy. At five o’clock they had nine wickets down for 120. A fine second wicket partnership, producing 172 runs, marked the first innings of West Christchurch against St Albans on No. 2 wicket at Haglev. J. L. Kerr and M. Ward both passed their centuries, scoring 110 and 108 respectively. At 5 p.m., West had 288 on the board for nine wickets.

The fifth series of matches in the senior cricket competition started this afternoon, favoured by hard and true pitches and good weather conditions. A big crowd of onion'-ers attended at Hagley No. 1 ground-* .vhere Riccarton strove to regain their lost lead from Old Boys, who head the list. Riccarton batted first and lost two wickets, those of Cox and Roberts, for only 39 runs. RICCARTON v. OLD BOYS. Deposed from the head of the competition list by their defeat at the hands of Old Collegians last week, Riccarton had a chance to regain the lost laurels when they were drawn to meet Old Boys, the present leaders. The match was commenced at Hagley No. 1 ground and attracted a lot of attention. Rix guessed right when the coin was tossed, and sent Cox and Roberts to open the Riccarton innings. The pair opened quietly, and Roberts made some attractive shots off both Merritt and C. M. Harris. He appeared to be shaping for still another big score, when he snicked one from Burrows, and was well held by Moffat at second slip. The total was 18, of which 14 were contributed by Roberts. J. Powell joined Cox and opened quietly. The pair brought the total along slowly to the thirties. Then Burrows, bowling steadily and well, secured another victim, Cox snicking one into the safe hands of Burns behind the stumps. A few minutes later a promising innings ended when Keell called for an impossible single, and smart fielding saw Powell run out. 57—3—12. Xeell opened confidently and soon ran into double figures, but Champness was not impressive against Merritt’s tricky slows. He played a few overs, then went for a hit and was clean bowled. The rest of the innings, with the exception of a bright 31 by Fairbairn, was inglorious. Keell was getting nicely into his stride when he played weakly at Merritt and was clean bowled. Merritt took five wickets for 41 runs. He bowled well, but a most inadequate defence made his deliveries seem better than they were. Burns and Merritt, the fast scoring men of the side, opened the Old Boys’ innings. F. and J. Powell were the bowlers. Burns hit one up dangerously near mid-off, and a six hit by Merritt slipped through the hands of a fieldsman on the long off boundary. Merritt drew applause with a powerful hook off F. Powell, and a square cut to the fence off the same bowler. Burns was well taken in the slips by Roberts off J. Powell. 24—1—2. Burrows joined Merritt. Scores. RICCARTON. First Innings. A. W. Roberts, c Moffat b Burrows 14 A. Cox, c Burns b Burrows 13 B. J. Ohampness, b Merritt 2 A. C. Keell, b Merritt 28 J. Hen wood, b Merritt . • • 3 F. Powell, b Merritt 0 E>. M. Dunnett, b Grose 0 L. J. Fairbairn, stpd Burns b Merritt 31 C. T. Rix, not out 7 Extras a Total (one short) 119 Bowling analysis—C. M. Harris, 15 overs, 2 maidens, 40 runs; W. E. Merritt. 20.3 overs, 6 maidsns, 41 runs, 5 wickets; J. T. Burrows. .10 overs, 1 maiden. 19 runs, 2 wickets: G. B. Grose. 3 overs, 10 runs, 1 wicket. OLD BOYS. First Innings. R. C. Burns, c Roberts b .T. Powell 2 R. C- Burns, c Roberts, b J. Powell 2 W. E. Merritt, not out 41 J. T. Burrowes, run out 5 W. H. Vincent, not out 0 Extras 4 Total for four wickets .... 52 EAST v. LANCASTER PARK. East Christchurch did not make a very promising start against the Lancaster Park team at Lancaster Park, when Brosnahan was clean bowled by Read's first ball—the second over of the day One for none became two for 21 when 11. Davis went to a smart slips catch by Hawkings off Cromb. Mullan notched a boundary and then snicked Read to wicketkeeper Lee . Mortlock, who was one of the opening batsmen, went along steadily with one or two lives in slips, and Ellis, adopting a policy of passive resist-

cut. He batted for 130 minutes. At 4.45 p.m. the score was 131 for six wickets, Kennedy batting steadily. Scores:— EAST CHRISTCHURCH. First Innings. G. Mortlock, c Hawkings b Cromb 47 E. Brosnahan, b Read. 0 H. Davis, c Hawkings b Cromb ... 6 T. F. Mullan. c Dee b Read 4 A. Ellis, b Cromb 9 K. Wilson, b Hamilton 17 T. Kennedy, not out 8 A. Park, not out 7 Extras 33 Total for six wickets 131 WEST v. ST ALBANS. Fifty, scored in thirty-five minutes with one wicket down, was the start made by West Christchurch in their match with St Albans on Hagley No. 2. J. L. Kerr infused the ginger into the game and was mainly responsible for the fast scoring. Of the 50 he had contributed 43. The first wicket to fall was that of Gregory, clean bowled by Lindley. Ward joined Kerr. The batsmen had steady bowling to contend with, particularly from the left-hander, Lindley, and Page. O’Brien and Fraser also took a hand -with the bowling. Kerr and Ward proceeded to take charge of the bowling and scored all round the wicket, Kerr with a liking for the leg. The rate of scoring set earlier in the game was maintained and the century went up after sixty-five minutes’ play. Ward gave a chance to O’Brien in the slips at 29, but it was not accepted. He had the lion’s share of the bowling and was quickly overhauling Kerr’s total. The pair went on to show exceptional form in a second-wicket partnership which added 172 runs. Kerr’s wicket fell for 110—caught by Jefcoate off Lindley at mid-off. Ward followed a couple of overs later with 108—caught in the long-field. Wickets fell cheaply thereafter—those of Hayes, Allen and Jarrett. Scores:— WEST CHRISTCHURCH. First Innings. J. L. Kerr, c Jefcoate b Lindley .. 110 G. R. Gregory, b Lindley 13 M. Ward, c Fraser b Lindley 108 P. Allen, c Page b Lindley 4 W. Hayes, b O'Brien 0 F. Jarrett, c Condliffe b Lindley . . 6 T. Condliffe, not out 23 J. L. P'indla.v, c Pearse b O’Brien .. 11 J. Hill, c and b Crawford 7 J. Fogarty, b Crawford 0 Total for nine wickets ...*. 288 SYDENHAM v. OLD COLLEGIANS. A. Monteath and R. O. Talbot opened for Old Collegians to the bowling of F. Bellamy and W. Watts. The batsmen started quietly, and 22 went on in 20 minutes. Monteath was bowled by Bellamy for 4. R. O. Talbot, J. B. Nicoll and G. L. Talbot followed quickly to the pavilion, Bellamy getting the last two in the one over. This made his average at that time three for 6. S. G. Lester and H. M. Chrystall carried on, batting cautiously against Bellamy. Chrystall was the next to go. He lost his wicket without having scored. Five wickets were now down for 35. J. M. Ollivier joined Lester, and at the end of an hour’s play the board showed 36. Careful play brought the score along fairly steadily, both batsmen avoiding risks. Lester was caught behind the wicket at 31 off Riley, and C. K. Jackman went in. He made only a single before he was clean bowled by Riley. O. A. Y. Johnston joined Ollivier, who was batting consistently. The score was 78 for seven at the tea adjournment. After tea, Johnston began to hit about, and even Bellamy lost his terror. Runs began to come up a good deal more freely. After an enterprising knock, Johnston was caught after making 23. J. Heasley joined Ollivier, the score standing at 101 for eight. Heasley went out to a beautiful catch by C. Oliver, and G. M. Heasley went in last wicket. The score at five o’clock was 120. Heasley was run out, the innings closing at 5.10 p.m. for 123. Scores: — OLD COLLEGIANS. First Innings. A. Monteath, b Bellamy 4 R. O. Talbot, lbw b Bellamy IS J. B. Nicoll, b Watts 0 G. L. Talbot, b Bellamy 0 H. M. Chrystall, hit wicket b Bellamy 0 . G. Lester, c Shackel b Riley .... 31 J. M. Ollivier, not out 27 C. K. Jackman, b Riley 1 O. A. Y. Johnston, c Riley b Watts 23 J. M. Ollivier, not out 28 G. M. Heasley, run out 3 . Heasley, c Oliver b Watts 6 Extras ' 9 Total 123 SUBURBAN GAMES. Snnnyside v. W.M.C. Sunnyside declared with 308 on for five wickets at 4 p.m., having a lead of 168 runs on the first innings. At 4.30 W.M.C. had lost three wickets for 14 runs in their second strike. Scores:— W.M.C. First innings HO Second Innings. T. Gordon, b Thompson 6 * Matthews, run out 3 % Harris, lbw b Sincock o Total for three wickets . . 14 SUNNYSIDE. First Innings. W. Oliver, b Hooper 26 G. Roberts, c and b Hooper 2 L. Gordon, b Harris 35 R. Chinnery. b Watson 80 E. Barnes, b Watson 113 D. Cocks, not out 34 H. Thompson, not out 7 Extras 11 Total for five wickets, dec. .. 308 RAILWAY V. ST ALBANS. In reply to Railway’s first innings score of 217, St Albans, who at the close of play tine previous Saturday had eight down for 137, continued their innings to-day, and made 165. L. Hood bowled well for Railway tq> secure_fiye

ance, stayed with him. Cromb was

coming up and was unfortunate to have slips chances dropped. Cromb beat Ellis badly and scattered the stumps. Wilson carried on with cricket that was painful to a degree. Mortlock was making the minimum of runs in the maximum of time. Read went off after sending down fourteen overs for only 23 runs, and the main contributor to the score became “Mr Extras.” The century went up aftei nearly two hours’ batting. Wilson was bowled by Hamilton for 17, made in forty-four minutes. With Mortlock he added 48. Shortly after the tea adjournment Mortlock was caught in the slips off Cromb. He played an invaluable knock for 47, showing a sound defence and a powerful square

way, in their second innings, had made 114 runs for the loss of seven wickets. Scores:— RAILWAY. First innings 217 Second Innings. W. Lawson, b Pickup 5 J. Hattersley, run out 16 W. Fitzsimmons, b Brosnan 30 E. Brooks, b Pickup 0 D. Quaid, c Wilson b Dibden 2 S. Clegg, b Dibden 0 T. Warren, b Pickup 18 J. Peterson, rot out 35 M. Lohr'ey, not out 0 Extras 5 Total for seven wickets 114 ST ALBANS. First Innings. « N. Brosnan, b Hood 33 A. M'Millan, c Brooks b Clegg .... 14 C. Goode, stpd Peterson b Hood . . 16 R. Swinney, b Clegg 3 H. Wilson, c Brooks b Hood .... 2 G. Ebert, c Lolirey b Hood .... 13 G. Pegler, run out 2 J. Barter, b Hood 21 J. Rundle, b Lawson 7 H. Pickup, b Clegg ._ 31 F. Dibden, not out 32 Extras 22 Total 155 Bowling analysis—E. Brooks, 2 overs, 16 runs, 9 no-balls; W. Fitzsimmons, 3 overs, 11 runs; S. Clegg, 4,5 overs, 25 runs, 3 wickets; L. Hood, 8 overs, 34 :uns,, 5 wickets; M. Lolirey, 2 overs, 16 runs; W. Lawson, 3 o\?ers, 16 runs, 1 wicket. PLUNKET SHIELD GAMES. Umpires Appointed for Canterbury Matches. The Management Committee of the New Zealand Cricket Council has announced the appointment of the following umpires for the series of Plunket Shield matches which will be played by Canterbury this season. Canterbury v. Otago, Messrs J. Forrester and H. E. Lawrence, of Christchurch. Canterbury v. Wellington, Messrs Webb and Page, of Wellington. Canterbury v. Auckland, Messrs Somervell and Turton (Auckland). The “ Snick.” In connection with the amendment to Rule 24 of the Laws of Cricket dealing with the “ snick,” the secretary of the New Zealand Cricket Council has received advice from the M.C.C., London, that this is still regarded as an experiment, and affiliated associations may play under the amendment or not, as it suits them. For the 1931-32 Plunket Shield series, the management Committee of the New Zealand Cricket Council has decided not to play under the amended rule. PLAY SOUTH CANTERBURY. Christchurch Team for New Year Match. A team of Christchurch cricketers will travel to Timaru in the new year to play a match against a South Canterbury side on January 1 and 2. The team will be managed by Mr E. E. Luttrell, secretary of the Canterbury Cricket Association, to whom the South Canterbury Association made a request for a side to be taken south. The Christchurch team will be as follows:—A. C. Harris, C. M. Harris, G. H. G. Hobbs, W. C. Dailey, H. R. Escott, W. J. V. Hamilton, M. Ward, J. L. Findlay, P. Allen, J. W. Peake and E. E. Luttrell. SELECTORS APPOINTED. Choice of New Zealand Team to Play South Africa. In the event of the South African cricket team touring New Zealand, the management committee has appointed the following selectors for the New Zealand team: —Messrs N. C. Snedden (Auckland), L. T. Cobcroft (Wellington) 4 H. B. Whitta (Canterbury) and