CRICKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2629, 11 October 1909, Page 6

CRICKET.

SATURDAY COMPETITION. The Saturday competition was commenced on Saturday afternoon, when perfect weather prevailed. Y.M.C.A. and United met on Victoria Domain, while Wanderers journeyed out to Taruheru and met the Taruheru team. Y.M.C.A. v. UNITED. Th© Y.M.C.A. Captain won the toss, and decided to bat. After two hours and a-half stay at th© wickets the innings closed for the moderate total of 93. Considering the match was played on the concrete, the Y.M.C.A. batsmen failed to make the most of their advantage in having first strike, as they had the best of the light to bat in. Dudfield played a stubborn innings, and played a lot of good bowling confidently, though he was badly missed about half-way through his innings by Gibson in the outfield, off Farrell. Miller hit out fearlessly and soon rattled up his score. He came in sixth wicket down, which is an unusual position for a batsman of Miller’s ability to occupy on the score-sheet. Mills and Rewai were th© only other batsmen to shape at all confidently. Manning and Farrell divided the wickets for United. Both bowled steadily, though Farrell would have come out with better figures had all the chances offered off his bowling been taken. In the hour remaining for play, United ran up 50 for the loss of one wicket. Hallamore and Scroggie opened to the bowling of Rewai and Dudfield. With 10 up, Scroggie played Rewai on. .J. Lang joined his captain, and the pair were unseparated when stumps were drawn at 5.45. Hallarnore showed capital form in putting his 30 together, and employed the legglide with telling effect. Pine, the Y.M.C.A. captain, tried five bowlers, of whom he persevered most with Rewai and Ellison, whose styles are very similar. Barker was only given one over, off which three runs were scored. Messrs F. Hansen (Motu) and J. Doyle were the umpires. The following are the scores:

Y.M.C.A. Pine, run out n Dudfield, st Hallamore, b Manning 30 Rewai, c Jeffreys, b Farrell ... 9 Barker, b Farrell ... 6 Paku, c Farrell, b Manning ... 2 Ellison, c Hill, b Manning ... 0 Mill, c and b Gibson- ... 15 Miller, c Scroggie, b Manning ... 25 Kaipara, st Hallamore, b Farrell 0 Chirnside, c and b Farrell 0 Edwards, not out 2 Extras 4

Total, for 1 wicket 50 WANDERERS v. TARUHERU. On the turf wicket at the Taruheru ground the opening day’s play m the match between the Wanderers and Taruheru Clubs’ elevens was remarkable for the ascendancy the bowlers maintained over the batsmen. Wanderers batted first, but were all disposed of by Monk, Davies, Charles and Hooker tor the meagre total of 52. Glennie and Commons were the only batsmen to register double figures. Hooker, ■who made a first appearance at the bowling crease, came out with the fine record of five overs, 3 w'ickets, 7 runs. Taruheru, on going to the wickets, fared even worse than their opponents had done, and 42 was the inglorious total on the score-sheet when the last wicket fell. Lasker was the Only man to bat with anything like confidence, and his 18 stood out in lonely magnificence among the poor scores of his fellow batsmen. As to be expected, all the Wanderers’ bowlers came out with <--ood figures. Adamson and Glennie,

who were brought on towards the close of the innings, both made exceptional figures, as a glance at the bowling analysis will disclose. The second day’s play in this match should be brimful of interest. The following are the scores: —• WANDERERS. —Ist Innings. Young, b Davies 3 Moore, run out 4 Glennie, b Charles 15 McMahon, Ibw, b Monk 0 Babbs, c Stitchbury, b Monk ... 0 Commons, b Hooker 18 McConnell, b Chai’les 0 O’Donnell, c Hodge, b Hooker ... 4 Hogg, b Charles _ ... 0 Adamson, c Golding, b Hooker J 2 McColl, not out 0 Extras 6

TARUHERU.—Ist Innings. . Whiteley, b McMahon 2 Hodge, c Adamson, b Babbs ... 1 Davies, b Young 6 Stitchbury, run out ... , 4 Lasker, c McMahon, b Adamson 18 Monk, b McMahon 5 Hooker, c and b McMahon ... 0 Golding, c O’Donnell, b Glennie 2 Oates, c Babbs, b Glennie ... . . 1 Charles, not out 0 Gough, b Adamson 0 Extras 3

OPENING OF THE SEASON AT CHRISTCHURCH. [Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 9. Glorious weather prevailed for the commencement of the grade matches for the 1909-10 season to-day. The wickets afforded the bowlers some assistance and generally speaking scoring was low. The following were the scores in the first grade matches: —Linwood 142 and 15 for 1: West Christchurch 53; St. Albans 148 <E. E. Crawshaw 50) v. Sydenham 52 for 1; East Christchurch 221 (A. H. Addison 93, E. Relstead 51) v. Ricarton 38 for 2. Bain took 6 wickets for 48 runs.

Total Bowling Analysis. .. 93 0. M. R. W. Manning ... 13 4 24 4 Farrell ... 11 0 37 4 Jeffreys ... 5 2 6 0 Olsen ... 3 0 11 0 Gibson * ... 4 0 UNITED. 11 1 Hallamore, not out .. 30 Scroggie, b Rewai 3 J. Lang, not out 7 Extras .. 10

Total .. 52 Bowling Analysis. 0. M. R. W. Monk 4 1 8 2 Davies 7 0 20 1 Charles 8 2 20 3 Hooker 5 0 7 3

Total Bowling Analysis. . 42 0. M. R. W. McMahon 10 ■ 2 24 3 Babbs 5 , 3 . 3 1 Young 4 0 8 1 Adamson 2 2 0 2 Glennie n 0 1 2