VICTORIA LEAD.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20484, 10 December 1934, Page 11

VICTORIA LEAD.

Women Cricketers in Action. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, December 8. The first match of the English women cricketers began in Victoria yesterday and was continued to-day. The teams England—Misses Archdale (captain). Snowball, Child, Hide, MacLagan, Partridge, Liehert, Spear, Richards, Turner, Taylor and Green (twelfth player). Victoria Misses Deane (captain), M’Larty, Haggis, Morsehead, Hills, Antonio, Clements, Tucker, Palmer, Kettels, George and Day (twelfth player). Owing to a misunderstanding regarding the Victorian Cricket Association’s requirements in respect of length of dress. most of the Victorian players yesterday wore dresses several inches too long, which hampered them. To-day they appeared in dresses of regulation length. Misses Antonio and Palmer were associated in a fine fifth wicket partnership for Australia. The game possessed all the smartness of male cricket. All bowling tactics were tried, and the batsmen were not afraid to hit out. The scores are as follows: ENGLAND. First Innings. Snowball, b Kettels 2 MacLagan, lbw b Palmer 21 Hide, b Antonio 12 Child, c Clements b Antonio 9 Partridge, b Antonio IS Richards, b Antonio J* Archdale, b Morsehead 19 Turner, run out 14 Taylor, c M’Larty b Deane 1 Lieher.t, b Antonio 5 Spear, not out II Extras 10 Total H 9 Bowling.—Tucker, none for 16; M’Larty, none for 12; Palmer, one for 29; Antonio, five for 24; Kettels, one for 12; Haggis, none for 8; Deane, one for 3; Morsehead, one for 4; Clements, none for 1. Second Innings. Childs, st Hills b Antonio 6 Snowball, st Hills b Antonio 20 Hide, c Morsehead b Antonio 17 Partridge, b Antonio 1 Archdale, b Morsehead 9 Richards, c Morsehead b Antonio . . 5 MacLagan, not out 20 Turner, not out 1 Extras 1° Total for six wickets .... 79 Bowling.—Antonio, five for 24; Morsehead, one for two. VICTORIA. First Innings. M’Larty, b MacLagan 12 George, hit wkt b MacLagan 0 Kettels, run out 4 Hills. I) Turner 4 Palmer, b Spear 32 Deane, b MacLagan 9 Antonio, b MacLagan 43 Morsehead. llnv b Liehert 2 Tucker; b Turner 13 Extras ~ Total fk Bowling.-—Hide, none for 35; MacLagan, four for 34; Turner, two for 34; Tavlor, none for Ilf Spear, two for 23; Liehert, one for 7. CLUB MATCHES. Good Batting and Bowling Performances. On fast wickets bright batting was witnessed in the women’s cricket competions, five teams getting over the century. A particularly bright partnership was that between P. Bladder and S. Garner (Mai Moa), who stopped a rot when their side had lost three wickets for 7 runs against Argyle House. They tackled the bowling in an enterprising manner from the start and, showing a commendable variety of scoring shots, they added 110 runs before they were separated. Miss Blackler and Miss Garner also took the lion’s share of wickets. A further good bowling performance—six for 27—went to Miss A. King, of Pukaki, who was cracking on the pace and turning the ball to good effect. Miss King is almost certain to be the Canterbury fast bowler, besides being a strong candidate for New' Zealand test honours. Mai Moa, 139 for eight wickets (P. Blackler 62, S. Garner 46, K. Stephen 8 not out. M. Chapman 7 not out; E. Hooper, three for 39; M. Richards, three for 47; E. English, one for 31) beat Argyle House 4 8 (M. Jamieson 17, E. Hooper 9; P. Blackler, four for 7; S. Garner, three for 14; M. Marks, two fDr 14). Technical Old Girls, 85 for eight wickets (P. Taylor 31, B. Havord 24; A. King, six for 27; B. Andrews, two for 26) beat Pukaki 4 9 (S. King-Mason 19;

A. Buchanan 11; P. Taylor, six for 12; K. Jones, two for 7). High School Old Girls, 128 for eight wickets <M. Preece 57 not out, K. Sullivan 15, K. Anderson 10, H. Watson 16, M. Sisson, S not out; P. Ilayton, five for 4; V. Merrin, two for 29), beat Harewood 26 (V. Merrin 10: M. Preece, four for 1; H. Watson, two for 15; M. Phillips, one for 3). Beckenham, 126 for nine wickets (A. Sibley 36, F. Campbell 16. T. Kerr 26, H. Woodham 15; R. Freeman, three for 12; E. Berland, two for 20; B. Fell owes, two for 36; E. Wormald, one for 10; L.. Stevens, one for 17) drew with Spreydon, 47 for eight wickets (R. Freeman 20, E. Wormald 16; T. Kerr, four for 20; A. Sibley, three for 13; R. Cursons, one for 3). junior. Tohe A 106 (P. Rickerby 44 retired, R. Harnie, 11 retired; N. Nuttall, two for 14) beat Tohe B 59 (N. Gumming 18, N. Cleaver 12 not out; P. Rickerby five for 17; P. Smith, three for 14). Mai Moa 107 (D. Toombs 20 not out, C». Guthrie 16; M. Brown, four for 31) beat Technical 37 (G. Ivinlev 9, G. Tallon 7; L. Newell, four for 12). Sumner, a bye. Representative Practice. In view of the coming representative fixtures and the gaoves against the Englishwomen, the following players have been selected for practice.;—B. Fell owes, E. Wormald and E. Berland (Spreydon). M. Mark*, V. Belworthy. S. Garner and P. Blackler (Mai Moa). R. Andrews and A. King (Pukaki), F. Campbell and It. Cursons (Beckenham), R. Symons. E. Jones. .T. Head. M. Norman, D. I'r'eece and P. Taylor (Technical), G. Mortimer, E. Hooper. M. Jamieson and M. Richards (Argyle House), J. Tullett, J Grav, M. Preece, J. We hr ter. IT. Watson and K. Anderson (High School Old Girls). The pract ioe« will be held at ITaglev Park. and will be in charge of Mr F Woods. FRIENDLY CRICKET. In a friendly game on Salurdav, Carlton drew with Commercial Traveller** Carlton made 13S for five wickets (Kennedy 50 retired, Beveridge 4 9. Fright 29 retired). Commercial Travellers made 94 for eight wickets (Vivian 26. Bell 22, Ayres 16 not out. Griffin 16). Vincent and Woodward bowled well for Carlton, and Vivian was prominent for Commercial Travellers. A cricket match was played on the Domain at Prebbleton on Saturday between Star Rovers and Prebbleton. In their first innings the visitors made 95 runs (D. Hanson 29, L. Ward 21). In the second innings they made 62 runs (A. Hanson IS). Prebbleton in their first innings made 42 (C. Hampton 23),

I and in the second their total was 78 (V. Avers 32). Kiddey and Kirk, for t the Star Rovers, and Cherry, Hampton - and Johnson, for Prebbleton, were the . best bowlers. ASHBURTON MATCHES. Fairfield Secure Three-Point Win. i (Special to the “ Star.”) ASHBURTON. December 9. ;, Tli*? Ashburton County Cricket Association's competitions were continued on Saturday. Fairfield defeated Ashburton B and obtained three points for tlieir win. r Batting: first, Ashburton B knocked up , only 6. r > runs, the double-figure Scorers being J. Pritchard 17, B. M’Sherry 15 and J. Browne 10. Fairfield made the ’ respectable total of 200, the best hats- . men being R. T. Drennan 55. S. Willis 48 and T. Jamieson 31, while V. Willis made 21, W. Drennan 15 and H. Drennan was not out 17. Bowling for Fairfield. W. O’Grady took three wickets for 13 runs, R. T. Drennan three for 22 and fi. Willis three for 24. For Ashburton B. P. Harper account* ? cd for six wickets for 02 runs, while B. ' M’Sherry took three for 57. Sffethven v. Rakaia. Playing at Methven, the home team drew with Rakaia. Methven hatted 1 first and declared with three wickets • down for 162 runs (F. W. Cutler not out 67, P. A. Watson 35, A. R. Gourley ' 32). Rakaia had made 133 runs and • had lost four wickets when time was ' colled. The best scores for Rakaia • were made by B. Doig not out 49. 1. Behrns 41. B. Doig was the best bowler for Rakaia. taking: one wicket for 20 runs. For Methven, 1. Watson took three for 39. Junior G-rad*. A win by SI run* on the first innings was obtained by High School, who played Fairfield. Ora obtained a three-point win Another thrtee-point win went to Technical in the match against Timvald, played at Tinwald. A three-point win against Coldstream, on the Technical ground, was recorded by M eth ve m