HAWKE CUP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19504, 3 February 1926, Page 8

HAWKE CUP

WON BY WANGANUI

LOURING CRICKETERS SUCCESSFUL

HANDSOME VICTORY OVER NELSON

The three days’ cricket match for the Hawke Cup between the elevens of the Wanganui and Nelson Cricket Associations was concluded yesterday afternoon, Wanganui winning a dramatic victory by five wickets. The Wanganui representatives will return home to-mor-row bringing the trophy, which represents the championship of the minor Cricket Associations of New Zealand.

Hutchison took London's place, and both batsmen played steadily, Hutchison. opening out at times. Hutchison was bowled by Hawkes for 17, and five wickets were down for 143. Holland came in, and drove Langbein for 6, winning the match by five wickets. Holland had scored 8 and Cave 26, both not out. The match was won just on the call of time. Details of the scores arc:— Nelson. First Innings 217 Second Innings. Neale, b Williams•••... 5 Fletcher, b Bernau 8 Kemnitz, 1.b.w., b Williams 0 Biggar, c Holland, b Williams .. 2 M. Eden, c Orr, b Williams 0 R. Eden, c Sewell, b Holland . . .. 34 Langbein, not out 23 Hawkes, b Holland 5 •Newman, b Bernau 2 Haycock, b Holland 8 Searell, b Holland 8 Extras 27 Totall22 Grand T0ta1339 Fall of wickets:—9, 11, 17, 24, 31, 64, 77, 92, 108, 122. Bowling:—Williams 4 for 20, Holland 4 for 39, Bernau 2 for 36. Wanganui. First Innings 190 Second Innings. Orr, c Eden, b Haycock .. .. ..30 Wood, 1.b.w., b Newman 3 Bernau, c Searell, b Haycock .. .. 19 London, c Newman, b Hawkes .. .. 42 Hutchison, b Hawkes 17 Holland, not out 8 Cave, not out 26 Extras 6 - Total for five wickets .. .. .151 Grand Total34l Fall of wickets:—ll, 48, 64, 119, 143. Bowling:—Newman 1 for 36, Hawkes 2 for 23, Haycock 2 for 35. TEAM’S RETURN VICTORS LEAVE J~LSON TO-NIGHT Advice was received in Wanganui last nighr to the effect that the team would leave Nelson by to-night’s boat, returning home (with the Hawke Cup) tomorrow. THE THIRD TIME CUP BACK IN WANGANUI STORY OF MANY QUESTS (By “L.8.W.”) After a grim three-day struggle, in which both sides had their backs to the wall, Wanganui have won the Hawke Cup. Each day every run had to be earned, for the slow scoring speaks of good bowling. That Wanganui ran up a total of 150 runs for five wickets at the end of the third day, when the pitch was showing unmistakable signs of weak, was no mean feat. It is all the more remarkable by reason of the fact that Nelson, since winning the trophy from Wanganui three seasons ago, have succeeded in withstanding a dozen challenges, a record of which the southern association has every reason to be proud. One of the earliest holders of the Hawke Cup—presented by Lord Hawke for competition among the minor associations of the Dominion, viz, any association outside of Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago—was Southland, and in a subsequent series of matches Rangitikei captured the Cup. This was about three seasons prior to the war. Southland secured the trophy, and it was in 1912 that a Wanganui team, under the captaincy of R. Sanders, made the journey to Hamilton with a rather weak side, and suffered defeat. South Auckland Beaten. In the following year Wanganui made another pilgrimage to the hub of the Waikato, and this time they won comfortably, the team then going on to Auckland and shaping very well against teams in the northern city. Included I in that eleven were the late 11. M. But- | terworth, one of the Dominion’s best , batsmen, a much loved Collegiate School master who lost his life in the Great War; Holland, Orton, Howard, Tracy, and others whose names have slipped the memory. Held For Seven Years. This victory was followed by many others both before and during the war, and Wanganui held the Hawke Cup fr.r seven years before Poverty Bay, who had challenged unsuccessfully on two previous occasions, lifted the trophy at the Ahey to* to -wreh rwj Xher. feent *fo -&W- • aturaie—ix ilfill) -tad Mhllj—but. Wirliutlt •: