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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2718, 25 January 1910, Page 6

CRICKET.

POVERTY BAY ASSOCIATION. The weekly meeting of the Management Committee of the Poverty Bay Cricket Association was held at the Alhambra Club rooms last evening, Mr. J. B. Hunt presiding. An application was received from the Wanderers Club for permission to play the Murewai Club on the turf wicket at Victoria Domain on Saturday next. Permission was granted, on condition. that the Murewai Club became affiliated to the Association before that date, and that the usual ground fees were paid- ’ The draw for the junior matches at Victoria Domain on Saturday next resulted as follows: Alhambra v\ Y.M. C.A., chip wicket; United v. Wanderers, concrete pitch. POSITION OF THE CLUBS. SATURDAY COMPETITION. SENIORS. Matches

ROUND THE GROUNDS. (Notes by “Short-Slip.”) Batsmen rioted last week, and kept the scorers in the various competitions busy. A nice little total of 1263 runs were compiled for the two' afternoons’ play 619 being hoisted on Thursday, 415 on Saturday, while one junior game saw 229 put on the score-sheet. Those who attended at Victoria Domain on Thursday had nothing to complain of in the matter of the entertainment provided. V 7 ith the exception of the United team, whose batsmen appear to bo suffering from an acute attack of sleening sickness lately, all the sides scored briskly, and it was quite refreshing to see the dashing and confid. ent manner in which the batsmen smote the bowdersi hip and thigh. Both teams were short-handed when Jack Wack and Reg. Hallamore tossed for choice of innings in the Te _ RauUnited match. The Te Rau captain was favored by the spin of the coin, and he showed* his contempt for United’s batting strength by sending them to the wickets on the concrete pitch. The United men were overjoyed at the generosity of the Te Rau captain in giving them the advantage .of first knock, and stepped jauntily forth. to the wickets with visions of a big firstinnings’ score floating round them like a halo. By the time 44 had appeared on the board, the United captain, W. Gibson, and Grenfell were back in the pavilion comparing notes on the dark ways and vain tricks of the Te Rau bowlers. But if the start was unpromising, what can be said of the holocaust whicli followed! Joe Monk simply ran amok, and the United batsmen fell before him as did the Scots before the English archers at Flodden Field. Joe has latelv cultivated a leg-break, which some say Jack Board taught him while the latter was in Gisborne at New Year time with the Hawke’s Bay team. Many people were inclined to scoff at Monk’s leg theory, but the United batsmen are not among the scoffers now. Joe struck a perfect length, and clean bowled Farrell, Rapps, and Roderick with successive balls, thus doing the hat trick. With the first ball of his next over Chirnside was caught at the wickets. Ned Turner was wildly cheered by the United men on the stand for stopping the next ball, but the next deliverv lifted the bails. Monk had thus performed the remarkable feat of securing five wickets with six balls. In all, he sent down seven and a-half overs for 21 runs, and captured seven wickets. Harry Wack had to be content with one for 26 at the other end. The United men were expecting reinforcements at 4 o’clock, but Joe Monk had the whole side back in the pavilion before then. Batting two men short, the innings closed for the paltry total of 51. Lionel Manning was the solitary bats, man to shape creditably, and he got in a number of those dashing leg strokes of his in running np his total of 21, not out. To [show that there- was nothing wrong with the wicket the Te Rau men commenced to put on runs at a rapid rate when they opened their first innings. Jack Wack, the captain, was in capital form and sent Manning’s fast deliveries flashing- over the off boundary in dashing style. The little left-hander is the -best exponent of offside play in the district, and it is strange that the United. bowlers have not realised this fact long ago. Instead of keepingl them on the leg pin, the United bowlers fed him oh the off, and the Te Rau skipper fairly revelled in making the ball hum past mid-off, between point and cover, and past point to tbe boundary. He had a rare piece of luck early in his innings, and should have been taken by Hallamore at the wickets off Manning, when h© had scored 4. Hallamore had the ball, blit could not close his hand on it, and it jumped out of the glove again. However, this was all in the game, and Jack made few mistakes after that. He played well all round the wicket, and his strokes were made with that perfect concert of hand and' eye that denotes true form. There was hearty and longcontinued applause when he brought up his century—the first_ ho! lias ever registered in senior cricket.' There is no more popular player in the district than the genial lion, secretary of the' Poverty Bay Cricket Association, and he was wgrmly congratulated for Jhis brilliant batting performance. Strange to say, iust after be had reached the coveted three figures he was smartly caught, at the wickets by. Alick Scroggie, who took the hall forehead high. But the United men found that there were other good batsmen on the v 'Te Ran side beside the captain, and they were keofc sprinting about tlie field till time'was called at 6.30. when To Rau had amassed the fine total of o.Q f or seven wickets. TTarrv Maude ran up 85. m first-rate style. ‘lt is rumored -that Len. Mc-

made some tip-top strokes on Thursday. * Arthur Seymour played very steadily for 28. 'He gave one or two chances behind the sticks, but his innings was a most valuable one for His side. Wenzl Scholium banged the bowling about, and his 26 did not take long to string together. Just as he was warming to his work, he was cleverly caught at- the wickets by Scroggie off Roderick.

Tom Gibson, tbe colt, got 15, not out, and shaped well. When he gets more confidence he should make runs. He could have thumped a number of balls which he contented himself by merely stopping on Thursday.

Alick Scroggie took three smart catches at the wickets, disposing of J. Wack, Scholium, and Maude. Alick did not roll up until after 5 o’clock, otherwise there would not have been 34 extras on *the score-sheet. Hallamore’s hands knocked up, and W.Gibson, who took the gloves- in his stead, is hardly as yet a Board, or a Carter.

Farrell was the best of the United bowlers. He sent down 17 overs, and captured three wickets for 51 runs. The other bowlers appeared to lose heart, and their work was lacking in that sustained effort which denotes the real “tryer.” Alhambra and Y.M.C.A. showed bright hatting form in tneir game on the turf wicket at Victoria Domain on Thursday. Y.M.C.A. had first use of the wicket. Ralph Grant was in a hitting mood, and laid the- wood on with a will. He took every risk, and naturally gave many chances; but the luck is often with the fearless hitter, and RalSph bore a charmed life on Thursday. No matter how simple the chance, it popped into the hands of the Alhambra men and out again. Grant continued to swish his blade until lie had run up 74, when lie had the bad luck to he run out. It- was a dashingbit of aggressive hitting, such as spectators dearly love to see. Bullard, an ox-Nelson College colt, handled liis bat nicely, and made some good strokes in contributing 27. With the exception of Sam Mill, who made a dozen, none of the other liven did anything, and the innings, which opened so promisingly, closed for the moderate total of 126. Alhambra were also in scoring vein, and runs continued to come as fast as the scorers could iot them down. “Tiny” Olsen "played a delightful innings. He never made a faltering stroke, and sent the ball travelling n all directions with all the wood behind the strokes. After running to 66, life was bowled by Webster, who was sending along some good ones. Stitchbury (34), Babbs (32), and Cooper (31) all scored freely. The lastnamed, who is only a colt, hit out in great style, and considerably astonished Arthur Barker by clouting him to the boundary four times in the one over. At call of time Alhambra had 198 on the board for the loss of seven wickets. The averages of the seven Y.M.C.A. bowlers tried were considerably battered about. Charlie Webster was about the best of them, and he secured three for 34 off twelve overs. Bullard also did good work, and secured two for 17, though his length was a trifle erratic at times. I rather fancied the style of young Jacobs, a left-hander, who turns the ball a bit. He secured one for 24 off seven overs. The destruction of Sennacherib’s army was as nothing compared to the blotting out of Y.M.C.A. by. Wanderers at Victoria Domain on Saturday. The whole match was over in one afternoon. Y.M.C.A. batted first, but could do nothing against the express deliveries of Athol Young. He bowled from the seaward end with the wind behind him, and has never shown a rarer turn of speed. -Ho captured no less than seven wickets for 12 runs, and was simply unplayable. Most of the Y.M.C.A. men came in, Had a look at Athol getting ready for his long run, and the next thing they were doing were following their bails to the pavilion. Young hit the sticks no less than six times. The innings only totalled 23. McMahon sent his tail-end batsmen in to open the Wanderers’ innings, and the star batsmen then drew lots for the batting order. The Wanderers totalled 134. McColl -(21), McConnell (26), Tonics (23), and Commons (29) were the chief contributors. The joke of the innings was that Glennie, Babbs, and McMahon, who went in in that order at the end of the innings, were each ’ clean bowled for 2,9, and 3 respectively. Y. M. C. A. did a little better in their second innings, and totalled 55. The two colts, Bullard and Nelson, stood up to the howling well, and scored 22 and 14 respectively. They showed it was possible to score against the Wanderers’ attack, but none of the others did anything. Young again .played great havoc, and captured six wickets for 20 runs off eight overs. Young thus bagged thirteen overs during the -afternoon for 32 runs —truly a. groat performance. Wanderers thus won b,v an innings and 56 runs in a single afternoon. United and Taruheru played an even game at Taruheru. The turf wicket was on the slow side after the rain, and the ball required watching. Lasker won the toss from W. Gibson, who led United jn Hallamore’s absence, and sent United in to bat. Gibson and Olsen .put on 49 for the first wicket, when the latter, who had shaped confidently for 22, was run out by his partner calling for too short a run. Gibson went on until lie had scored 49 before being caught by Whiteley off Hannigan, who was swerving in perplexing fashion during the afternoon. None of the other batsmen made a stand, and the innings, which opened so well, closed for the small total of 95. s Taruheru could only respond with 75. Stitchbury (21) and Hooker (12) were the only batsmen to make a stand. . Farrell bowled splendidly for United, sending along 96 balls tor 39 runs, and capturing seven wickets. He mixed his pace cleverly, and his left-handed deliveries completely nonplussed the Taruheru batsmen. Jeffreys (three for 22) also bowled steadily. At call of time, United had lost four wickets for 33 runs. Olsen again batted well, and was unbeaten with 21 to his credit. Scroggie got 11, but barrell, Whyte, and Grenfell fell for “blobs/* the last two batsmen thus bagging a brace for the match. This game should produce a close finish next Saturday. Y.M.C.A. juniors are to be congratulated on defeating such a strong side

as Wanderers by such a pronounced margin as an inniPgs and 77 runs at Victoria Domain on Saturday. Brown (41), G. Pollock .(23), 11. Jones (36), and T. Munrp (22, not out) all played free cricket in. swelling Y.M.C.A.’s total to 153 for six wickets. At this stage the innings was declared closed. The Wanderers must have got a severe shock, considering they won tlie toss and sent. Y.M.C.A. in. Wanderers were quickly dismissed for 40 and 36. Melville - Edwards (six , for 20) and Harry Jones (four for 14) did groat execution with the ball in Wanderers first innings, while Jones (four for 15), Winter (two for 10), Pollock (two tor mage dn the second essay. There was some- misapprehension amongst the juniors at Victoria Domain on Saturday over tlie follow-on rule. The Wanderers contended that if they Iliad topped YtM.C.A.’s single total of 153 in their two innings they would have won. This is quite an erroneous view.

The law relating to one-day matches states that “the side which goes in second shall follow their innings, if they have scored 60 runs less than the opposite side.” But in the event of them exceeding the total made by the side which went in -first, that side has still its second innings to play. Because a team make their opponents follow on that does not rob them of their right to a second innings, as some of the Wanderers juniors appeared to imagine on Saturday. The result of Y.M.C.A.’s win piaces them level with Wanderers with 19 points each, while Alhambra is close up with 16 points. There should be \some most exciting games before tlie junior competition is finally decided. HAWKE’S BAY DEFEATS WAI. RARAPA.

ri’EK Press Association.! NAPIER, Jan. 24. Tlie cricket match, Wairarapa v. Hawke’s Bay, was concluded to-day, and resulted in an easy win for Hawke’s Bay by 356 runs. The following are the scores: — HAWKE’S BAY.—2nd Innings. (First innings, 206.) Board, lbw, b Styles 34 Hawke, run out 1 Baker, lbw, b -Styles 9 Maeassev, lbw, b Waugh 08 Bailey, b Mascelle 24 Hindmarsli, e Brown, b Mascelle 61 O’Brien, st. Esson, b Waugh ... 7 E. W. Smyrk, not cut 30 Anderson, b Waugh 7 Fenton, not out 10 Extras ‘ 17 Total for S wickets (declared) 258 Bowling analysis.—Waugh 3 for 48, "!os 2 for 36, Mascelle .2 for 56, Phelps 0 for 7, Hooper 0 for 11, Redmond 0 for 14. Beard 0 for 24, Logan 0 for 55. WAIRARAPA.—2nd Innings. (First innings, 76.) Styles, b Nelson 5 Hooper, b Nelson 15 Brown, b Nelson 0 Wangh, b Nelson 3 Smart, b Fenton 0 Redmond, st. Baker, b Nelson ... 0 Esson, b Fenton 0 Logan, c Board, b Anderson 4 Beard, thrown out 4 Phelps, c and b O’Brien 2 Mascelle, not out ... 0 Extras 9 Total 42 Bowling analysis.—Nelson 4 for 13, Fenton 3 for 13, Anderson 1 for 3, O’Brien 1 for 5. THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM’S VISIT. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 24. Regarding the visit of tlie Australian cricket team, the Council proposes to arrange a matcji in each of the lour centres, each association to guarantee £l5O as its own risk, and pay all expenses of its matches. . Advice has been received that the berths and fares have been arranged for the team, which leaves Australia on February 5. DUNEDIN, Jan. 24.

A special meeting of the Otago Cricket Association, was held to-night to consider a letter from the New Zealand- Cricket Council in regard to the finanical arrangements to cover the cost of the tour of the Australian eleven. It was intimated that a number of residents had come forward with a guarantee of £lO each for a match between Australia and Otago, and some members of the Association also signed a guarantee to bring the number up to eleven. It was then decided to guarantee £l5O for an Otago match. It was also decided to recommend that the Board of Control should be required to limit the visiting team to twelve men and a manager, and that if the expenses totalled less than £lso' per Association, the balance be refunded to the Associations pro rata. United Press Association —Copyright (Received Jan. 25. 12.5 a.m.) : SYDNEY, Jan. 24. Facy and Dodds (Tasmanians) and Hopkins will fill the remaining places in the New Zealand team. THE TURNER BENEFIT MATCH. (Received- Jan. 25, 12.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 24. In the Turner benefit match the Rest of Australia in the first innings madte 160,' Hutcheon 36, Gow 34, Laver 33 being the principal scorers. New South Wales’ second innings closed for 275 (Waddy 133, Bardsley 55). Trumpetwas absent through illness.

Club. played. Won. ‘Lost. Points. "Wanderers 6 6 0 16 United 5 2 3 6 Taruheru 5 2 3 6 Y.M.C.A. 6 16 JUNIORS. Matches played. Won. Lost. 2 Points Wanderers 11 7 4 19 Y.M.C.A. 10 7 3 19 Alhambra 10 6 4 16 United 11 1 10 3 THURSDAY COMPETITION. Matches played. Won. Lost. Points. United 4 3 1 8 Alhambra 4 2 2 6 Te Ran 4 2 2 5 Y.M.C.A. 4 13 2