BOY CRICKETERS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 274, 20 December 1929, Page 8

BOY CRICKETERS

NAPIER 1/IGH SCHOOL TEA3I RETURXS. DETAILS OF THE PLAY. . After playing a drawn game wx-th. the Palmerston Xorth Boys' -Hxgb School team in the annual cricket nxalch between the two colieges the Xapier Boys' High School team returned hoxne to Xapier yesterday afternoon Tlxe gaxne was abandoned through rain interfering with the second day's play. Palmerston Xorth hatted first on the opening day and made the tidy total of 294, Cingley, a son of Manawatu selector and captain, makfl| ing top score with 83. Cutler, wli«^ played for 31anawatu against Hawke's ^ Bay in the Hawke Cup niatch last week, xxiade 77. Seven Napier bowlers were tried, Bark bearin'g the brunt of the work, sending down a large nuniber of overs with his left-band ball, taking five Wickets for 93 runs. , Xapier commenced their first inning* strongly and 'at tlie end of the first day's play had 117 runs on for the loss of only oue wicket. During the night rain came on and the side collapsed the next morning. the remaining nine wiekets falling for 91 runs. 31ahony played a vexy souncf and steady 'iu'-uings for Napier, batting a long while foxv 96. Brown made 26 and Reanev 20 on the first day hut on the slow wicket next morning Beuth, with 27, was the only one to give 3lahony appreciable assistance. With a lead of 86 on the first innings Palmerston weut in to. bat again, and when lunch time came h'ad 15 runs on tlie board for the loss of one wicket. During the adjournment, -however, furtlier heavy rain- made the cpntinuatiou of play impossible, and the game was declared a draw. . ;• vDetailed scores were as follow: — 1 ' PAL31ERSTON NORTH. First Inxiings. Qlliver, b Bark ... 8 Robertson, c Beuth, b Bark- ... 39 Ougley, b Bark - ... ... ... ... 83 Cutlei-, c Evans, b Whittle ... 77 Lang, c 3rahonv, b Bark 0 Barnett, b 3Iahony O Hatch, b Mahony ... 2 Penman, b Reaney ... 49 Tremewan, c Le Quesne. h Bark ... 2 Burgess, c Stevenson, b Pexmy ... 0 Duncan, not out ... ... ... ... 4 Extras ... 30 Total »... 294 Bowling analysis. — Bark took five wiekets for 93 runs Reaney, two for 61 ; Mahony, two for 57 ; Brown none for 18; Freeman, none for 19; Le Quesne, none for oue ; AYhittle, one for eight. PAL3J.ERST0N XORTH. Second Innings. Olliver, not out ... ... 10 ' Robertson. c Reaney, b Bark ... 3 Cutler, not out ... - 2 Extras 0 Total for oue wicket ... " ... 15 NAPIER. First Innings, Brown, b Hatch ... 26 Mahony, c Burgess, b Ongley ... 96 Reaney, c Tremewan, b Cutler ... *20 Beuth, c Burgess, b Hatch 27 Stephenson, b Burgess 0 Bark, b Ongley 0 Heath, c Cutler, b Hateh 11 Evans, c Tremewan, b Cutler . ... 1 AVhittle, b Burgess ... S Le Quesne, not oub ... " 6 Freemau, b Burgess 0 Extras 13 Total 20S Bowling analysis. — Burgess took three wiekets for' 26 runs; Cutler, two for 91; Ongley, two for 18; Hatch, three for. 38; Lang, nine for 22.