CLUB CRICKET

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20233, 17 February 1934, Page 10

CLUB CRICKET

RILEY BOWLS WELL FOR SYDENHAM. Riccarton Kept Quiet. EAST COLLAPSE AGAINST LANCASTER PARK. The eighth series of games in the senior competition commenced this afternoon under ideal conditions, and despite counter-attractions they were watched by a good attendance. Mainly owing to the fine slow bowling of Riley, Riccarton were kept very quiet in their match against Sydenham Riccarton were all out for 178. Riley took six wickets for 38 runs. East in their first innings made only 49, and Lancaster Park declared with nine wickets down for 157. At 6 p.m. East had made 53 for two wickets in their second innings. Old Collegians made a poor showing at first against the West Christchurch bowling, taking nearly two hours and a half to pass the hundred. The first three batsmen took an hour to make only 21 runs. A partnership between L. R. Dunster and B. S. Smyth added 46 for the sixth wicket. Later Dunster and A. I. Cottrell started to hit lustily at the bowling, with the result that the total mounted at a better rate. Old Collegions were all ou at 5.30 for 189. St Albans looked like making a large total against High School Old Boys. At 5 o’clock the score was 200 for two F. P. O’Brien and C. G. Crawford took charge of the bowling and bright batting was the result. The partnership added 131. Crawford making 61. At 6 p.m. St Albans had made 302 for six wickets (Cummings not iut 32). Sydenham v. Riccarton. Riccarton had the advantage of a slow and true wicket at Hagley No. 1 in their match against Sydenham, and Jacobs and Stringer had everything in their favour to combat the attack of W. Patrick and Bellamy, the Sydenham opening trundlers. Runs came slowly but steadily, and a golden chance to break the partnership was lost when Oliver dropped Jacobs at mid-on, off Patrick. Jacobs, who had failed to get on to a pull shot, was 15 when he had his life. Fifty went up in 36 minute?. Jacobs was looking for runs and found the off boundary with flashing drives past cover and mid-off. The separation came when Jacobs, going forward to Riley, missed and was smartly stumped by King. 65 —I—4l.1 —41. A. W. Roberts, the next man, was caught and bowled by Riley off his second ball. 65 —2—o. Powell batted steadily till Riley bowled him with a spinner that came right round his legs. 87—3—13. Riley had three for 7 runs and -was trundling with fine length and control. The pitch appeared to be wearing, and the slow bowlers, Riley and Hamilton, needed careful watching. Andrews joined Stringer, who was plodding away safely but slowly. There was an unusual incident w’hen a hard, straight drive by Andrew’s struck the umpire, Mr P. D. Mansell, on the foot. It was a solid blow’, but he carried on. Andrew’s was aggressive, banging Hamilton to the boundary tw’ice in one over, and surviving an appeal for leg-before. At 4.45, Riccarton had lost eight wickets for 158 runs. Scores:— RICCARTON. First Innings. G. H. Stringer, b Riley 47 J. Jacobs, st King b Riley 41 A. W. Roberts, c and b Riley .... 0 J. L. Powell, b Riley 13 S. Andrews, c Smith b Riley 16 C. Henwood, c Riley b Patrick .... 7 C. T. Rix, c Butterfield b Riley .. 19 G. A. Bull c Smith b Bellamy .... 9 M. Greer, c and b Bellamy 7 A. S. Kyle, st King b Hamilton .. 7 D. M. Dunnett, not out 5 Extras 8 Total 179 Bow’ling analysis.—F. Bellamy. 17 overs, 3 maidens, 67 runs. 2 wickets; M. Patrick. 3 7 overs, 3 maidens, 37 runs, 1 wicket; L. E. Riley, 32 overs, 11 maidens, 3 8 runs, 6 wickets. Old Collegians v. West. Old Collegians made a bad start against West Christchurch, losing two wickets for only 17 runs in the first three-quarters of an hour. West took the field without J. L. Kerr, while J. Smith, a brother of D. Smith, played his first game this season. 11. M. Chrystall and C. V. Walter plodded along against the bowling of R. W. Hope and D. Smith, and it took half an hour for six runs to come up on the board. Hope bowled five overs for tw’o runs. Old Collegians had scored 8 when Walter pulled a wide ball from E. A. Vincent on to his w’ickets. B—l—4. Hope tried his fifth bowler in less than three-quarters of an hour, and the policy was successful, S. G. Lester being clean-bowled bv the rst ball of J. L. Findlay’s second over. Five minutes later three wickets were down for 29 runs. A ball from Findlay came in slightly to take P. JBvrne’s off stump. 29—3—8. With 39 runs on the board after an hour and a quarter’s play, Hope clean bowded Chrystall. 39—4—22. At this stage Findlay had taken two wickets for 5 runs in six overs. Shortly before tea, Jackman was caught at point off Vincent, and five wickets were down for 67 runs. Dunster and Smyth w r ere associated in a good partnership, and the score was 113 for six wickets when they were separated. The innings closed for 189. Scores:—

OLD COLEGIAXS. First Innings. H. M. Clirystall, b Hope 22 C. V. Walter, b Vincent 4 I S. G. Hester, b Findlay 0 P. J. Byrne, b Findlay 8 I, R. Punster, run out 79 C. K. Jackman, c Patrick b Vincent 15 B. S. Smytli, run out 24 K. Graham, b Hope 1 A. I. Cottrell, b D. Smith 19 A. Graham, b Hope 1 R. R. Gibson, not out 2 Total 183

East Collapse. R. J. Read and I. B. Cromb ran through the East Christchurch team for Lancaster Park at Rugby Park to-day in the record time of fifty-one minutes. East in their first innings could scrape together only 49. Only seventeen overs in all were bowled.

Read took six wickets for 31 runs and Cromb three for 13. The wicket gave the bowlers every assistance. Cromb took two wickets, 'those of M’Phail and Wilson, in succession, 2nd the innings was over before he had a chance for the hat trick. Top score for East was 14, E. Brosnahan being responsible. Four wickets were down for 31 runs in the first half-hour. Read's bowling was deadly, and Cobden had a day out at second slip, collecting three catches. East batted one short. The wicket was true, but took spin readily. It took Lancaster Park twenty-eight minutes to overhaul East’s total at a cost of one wicket. T. Kennedy w-ent for the runs from the start, and contributed 24 when clean-bowled by Coupland. G. Dry den batted in scratchy fashion for 23 before he was caught off Marriott’s bowling. Cromb gave a pretty display, and, assisted by the short boundaries, knocked up fifty in twenty-seven minutes, including two sixes. Cromb did not add any to his score after the tea adjournment. He got his leg in front to the medium-fast A. D. Park, who, was right on form. Park claimed the four following wickets to give him the average of five for 3. The lbw decision in the case of Stout was questionable. Eight wickets were down for 132. Cobden was caught at 21 when, after lifting one sixer nearly to the fence, went to repeat the performance. Park declared with nine for 157, leaving East 108 behind. Scores:

EAST CHRISTCHURCH. First Innings. E. Rrosnahan, lbw b Read 14 R. W. Coupland, c Cobden b Read 4 H. Davis, c Cobden b Cromb .... 8 T. P. Mullan, absent 0 G. Mortlock, c Cobden b Read .... 1 A. D. Park, b Read 0 P. Allsopp, lbw b Read 7 K. C. Wilson, b Cromb 6 C. M’Phail. b Cromb 0 S. V. Ellis, not out 0 A. Marriott, b Read 4 Extras 5 Total 49 Bowling analysis.—R. J. Read. 8.5 overs, 2 maidens, 31 runs, 6 wickets; I. B. Cromb. 8 overs, 3 maidens, 13 runs, 3 wickets. LANCASTER PARK. First Innings. T. Kennedy, b Coupland 24 G. Dryden, c M’Phail b Marriott . . 23 I. B. Cromb. lbw b Park 51 F. Kerr, c Davis b Marriott I R. J. Read, b Park 12 D. A. Dawson, b Park 0 A. P. Cobden, c Allsopp b Coupland 21 P. Dasler, lbw b Park 4 D. Stout, lbw b Park 0 S. J. Yates, not oi?i 7 D. J. Lee. not out 0 Extras 14 Total for nine wickets (declared) 157

Bowling analysis.—H. Davis, 5 overs. 1 maiden, 27 runs: R. W. Coupland, overs, 1 maiden, 33 runs. 2 wiekets; P. Allsopp, 4 overs, 33 runs: A. Marriott, 6 overs. 1 maiden. 38 rims, 2 wickets: A. D. Park, 7 overs, 3 maidens, 12 runs, 5 wickets. Park bowled one no-ball. St Albans v. Old Boys. Playing at Hagley Park, Condiiffe and Birch opened for St Albans against the bowling of Burrows and Patrick for High School Old Boys. Before Condliffe had reached double figures he gave Hobbs, the wicket-keeper, two chances, both being dropped. Condliffe steadied down a little, scoring slowly. His main stroke was a pretty square cut. After forty minutes’ play only thirty runs were scored. Birch was not taking any chances, getting his runs from short or loose deliveries. Burrows was sending down a tricky ball that was hard to score off. For the first hour’s play 55 runs showed on the board. Five bowlers were tried, but without any effect. Burrows came on again. An off-break ball from him beat Birch all the way. getting his off w-icket. 62—1—26. Crawford had scored four singles when Harris took up the bowling. The change proved effective, Harris sending down a ball that completely defeated Condliffe. O’Brien brightened up the atmosphere considerably. He scored two singles, and followed it up with r our consecutive boundaries, obtained from straight drives. Burrows was keeping a nice length, but O’Brien managed to get him away for a splendid six. So far Burrows had bowled nineteen overs for 45 runs. Page had tried out seven bowlers in an attempt to break up the partnership, but without any result. O’Brien, with 70, was scoring quickly, and looked like reaching the century, whilst Crawford, although not scoring so rapidly, was sound in his shots, but he was smartly caught by Cobden off Escott. At 5.30 o’clock St Albans had scored 258 runs for four wickets, F. P. O’Brien giving a bright display of batting for 101. Scores:

ST ALBANS. First Innings. G. M. Condliffe, b Harris 44 T. Birch, b Burrows 26 C. G. Crawford, c Cobden b Escott 61 F. P. O'Brien, b Patrick 101 W. Dailey not out 37 Extras 9 Total for four wickets 258

SUBURBAN CRICKET. SUNNTSIDE v. WORKING MEN’S CLUB. "Vi orking Men's Club took first strike, and early lost two wickets for twelve runs. The side was all out at 4.30 for 124 runs. At 5 p.m. Sunnyside had scored twenty runs for the loss of no wickets. Scores:

WORKING MEN S CLUB. First Innings. A. Shand, c Ellis b Cocks 4 S. Cleggr, b Thompson 8 C. Smith, c Ellis h Oliver 23 H. Hooper, run out 17 S. Harris, c Oliver b Thompson'll 15 F. Warr. b Thompson 27 W. Oakes, b Oliver 0 L. M'Lae-hlan, b Thompson 0 W. Cunningham, c Ellis b Oliver .. 1 C. Mantann, not out 1 Extras ’ io Total 124 SUNNTSIDE. First Innings. L. Gordon, not out 19 E. Barnes, not out !.!!.!!! l Total for no wickets 20

BHIBLBY ▼. RAILWAYS. Shirley met Railways to-day. Scores: SHIRLEY.

First Innings. Kinston, st Dave Mitchell b Hood . 1 E. Kirk, b Brook 22 R. Dixon, b Hood !!!!... 1 O. Brittenden, c Don Mitchell b Hood f>o E. Taylor, b Hood 13 J. Streeter, c Brook b Hood*.’.*.’... 1 E. Cummings, b Bartlett 1 SI Agassiz, not out 21 R. Pitt, b I.ohrey 4 I. Fraser, not out * *.,. 7 Extras ****.. 6 Total for eig:ht wickets .. 129

Mairehau v. Beckenham. Matrehau took first strike against Beckenham at Elmwood Park. The first three wickets fell for 40 runs. Then Candlish and Bampton got together and changed the outlook. At 5 p.m. they were still undefeated, and the score was 142 for three wickets (Bampton 54 not out, Candlish 53 not out). Scores: MAIREHAU. First Innings.

J. Gordon, b Sincock 10 E. Grenfell, lbw b Sincock 15 R. Brook, c Sincock b Skelton .... 1 W. Bampton, not out 54 C. Candlish, not out 53 Extras S Total for three wickets ..... 142