HUTT AND PETONE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 19

HUTT AND PETONE.

| Petone met Hutt in an unexciting game |on the Petone Oval. The local team had jfhstuse of the wickets, and but for a good i effort by M. Nicholls, put up only a mod- * »crate performance. The opening pair, s*Hamilton and H. E. Nicholls, had hardly •"started when they were dismissed for 9 Miand 7 respectively. M. Nicholls and Roth-iei-ham followed, the latter, unfortunately jfor Petone, losing his wicket to M'Girr iwithout one run to his credit. M. Nichoils however, carried on to outlast a succession of batsmen with only mediocre scores, and when finally caught by Birch had contributed 67—almost half of the total score, 151 for the ninth wicket, {one man, Beyling being absent. The Hutt bowlers did well, Watson, fWaiues, and M'Girr having the best iig-A-uieß. ? j ihe last hour of Jilay was occupied by IHutt's first innings, iv which, when stumps Tvero drawn, one wicket was down for 80 * Suns. J Details are:— , j PETONE. t I First Innings. Hamilton' run out 9 H E. Nicholls, b M'Girr 7 SM Nicholls, c Birch, b Warnes 67 Rotherham, b M'Girr 0 v Brice, c Biggar, b Watson 14 Spence, c Ross, b Watson' 8 !Nicols, c M'Girr, b Watson 0 Chudleigh, c Biggar, b E. Judd 10 ijpman, c Lees, b Warnes 25 nope, not out 0 •Reyling, absent '...'.'..'.'...'.'.1'. 0 i Extras „...!..!"! 11 Total "in Fan *of wickets: One for 17; two for 24; three for 24; four for 62; five for 74; six or 74; seven for 89; eight for 151; nine tor 151. Bowling Analysis—Watson took three wickets for 35 runs; Warnes, two for 12MGirr, two for 28; E. Judd, one for 41----\unn, none for 24. HUTT. First Innings. b Hope >....,/.......... , M ... tj 22

Ross, not out 3C Birch, not out 14 Extras 8 Total for one wicket SO Fall of wickets: One for 53. Bowling Analysis.—Hope took one wicket for 30 runs; Brice, none for 21; Rotherham, none for 21.