CRICKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3688, 25 November 1912, Page 7

CRICKET.

SATURDAY COMPETITION. The senior competition was continued on Saturday, when the Wanderers and played a draw at Victoria Domain and Kia Kaha defeated Tar%heru on the latter’s ground. WANDERERS v. ALHAMBRA. Great interest attached to the firstmeeting of these teams at Victoria Domain, as it was considered that Alhambra had a good chance of lowering the colors of the all-conquering Wanderers, who have held the Saturday championship for the past three seasons, during which time they have only been beaten twice. The Wanderers, however, had all the best of the play on Saturday afternoon, and time alone robbed them of what would have been an easy victory. Olsen won the toss for Alhambra, and sent Wanderers to the wickets. Young and McConnell faced the bowling of Guthrie and Olliver. The former should have been out oil Guthrie’s second ball. He came well out to meet the ball, but missed it, and Turei, the Alhambra wicketkeeper, lost a good chance of stumping. The next ball Young drove to Muir at mid-off, but the fieldsman dropped the catch. Thereafter Youug settled down, and he and McConnell scored briskly. At 30, McConnell, who had hit up 13, had his leg-bail removed by a fme leg-break from W. Atkinson. The same bowler cleaned bowled Moore after eiglitv runs

had been added. Alhambra stock was in the ascendant when McMahon, who

scored so heavily last season, was cheaply got rid of. After scoring 3, he attempted a big hit off Olliver, but got too far under the ball, which he skied to Muir at mid-on. Thereafter Young was the only batsman to shape confidently, and had it not been for his efforts the Wanderers’ score would have been a very modest one indeed. W. Atkinson, Guthrie, Olliver, and Olsen bowled well, and had all the batsmen, with the exception of Young, scratching for runs. Young should have been stumped a second time, but Truei again failed to hold the ball. Towards the close of his innings, Young brought off some very fine hook shots, hitting three fours in succession off Carruthers. When he had scored 72, he snicked a ball on the off from Guthrie on to his wickets. The innings closed for the poor total of 143. With an hour and twenty minutes to go, there did not appear much chance of Alhambra getting the runs, and a draw appeared inevitable. Young and McMahon, however, bowled so well that the wickets commenced to fail rapidly, and there was much excitement when a possibility of a win for Wanderers loomed in sight. Some comment was caused through the Alhambra taking rather longer to come in after the fall of each wicket than there was any occasion for. j At the request of McMahon, the Wanderers’ captain, the umpires had their watches out. At 6 o’clock Alhambra had lost eight wickets for 42 runs. Young bowling Turei with the last ball of the day. The Alhambra batting was very disappointing. None of the batsmen, with the exception of Fitt and Olsen, stood up to Young’s fast deliveries. Austen, who scored 18, including a fine lift clean out of the ground off McMahon, was the only batsman to reach double figures. Young put up a remarkable bowling performance in sending down thirteen overs, off which only 4 runs were scored. He bowled no less than nine maidens in succession, and captured four wickets. The Wanderers’ men fielded smartly, the catch by which Young disposed of Guthrie being a particularly brilliant right-handed snap in the slips. Mr J. Wolstenholme, the one-time wellknown Hawke’s Bay representative player, stood umpire in this match, his decisions giving the greatest satisfaction. The following are the scores:—

WANDERERS. Young-, b Guthrie 72 McConnell, b Atkinson ... 13 Moore, b Atkinson - 0 McMahon, c Muir, b Olliver 3 Wilson, b Atkinson 1 Cranney, st Turei, b Olsen 7 Maude, e Guthrie, b Olsen 2 Gough, b Carruthera 37 Puflett, e Lang, b Guthrie 6 Muldoon, not out 3 Sousfield, b McLisky 2 Extras 17 Total ... 143

ALHAMBRA. Lang, b McMahon 2 Fitt, c McConnell, b Young 4 Guthrie, c Young, b McMahon 2 Austin, b McMahon 18 Olsen, c Moore, b Young 1 W. Atkinson, b McMahon 1 McLisky, b Young 1 Olliver, not out 3 Turei, b Young 1 Extras ... 10 Total (for eight wickets) 43 O M .R W Young 13 9 4 4 McMahon 12 1 29 4 KIA KAMA v. TARUHERU. This game was played at Taruheru on Saturday afternoon, and resulted in a win for Kia Kaha by 72 runs on the first innings. Taruheru batted first and totalled 88, Stitchbury, W. Sharp, and Southcombe shaping creditably. Jones, Wood, and McDonald did the bowling for Kia Kaha. At the call of time Kia Kaha Lad put on 160 for six wickets. J. H.

Miller, the Kia Kaha captain, was in fine hitting form, and ran up a splendid score of 119 in marvellously quick time. The merit of his performance can be better estimated when the score sheet shows that not another man on the side reached double figures. Miller practically monopolised the bowling, and hit with great power and precision, finding the boundary fourteen times. Southcombe. with three for 53, was the most successful of the seven bowlers tried. The following are the scores:—

TARUHERU. Stitehbury, st Jones, b McDonald ... 26 G. Hooker, b Jones 0 Gough, b Jones 5 Southcombe, b Jones 13 W. Sharp, c Brewster, b Hosier 23 Hannigan, b McDonald 4 R. Hooker, b Jones 6 Seal, b McDonald 0 Monzari, b Wood 4 Minnis, not out 2 Pilcher, b Mood 1 Extras 4 Total 88

KIA KAHA. McDonald, c Seal, b Hooker 7 J. 11. Jones, b Hannigan 4 J. H. Miller, not out 119 J. Wilson, b Southcombe 5 Brewster, b Seal 2 Hosier, b Southcombe 3 Wood, b Southcombe 1 Wright, not out 5 Extras 14 Total (for six wickets) 160

JUNIOIR COMPETITION. The junior competition was continued on Saturday afternoon, when Wanderers secured a win by 22 runs over Alhambra. WANDERERS v. ALHAMBRA. The match between Wanderers and Alhambra was concluded on No. 2 pitch, the former gaining a victory by 22 runs. In the first innings Wanderers totalled 53 runs, as against Alhambra’s 51 for the same innings. Wanderers followed up their lead in the second innings (concluded on Saturday) by hitting up 97 in good style. The principal run-getters were Harford (17), Sebire (15), Wilkinson (13), and Oman (13). The bowling was iu the hands of Hale (4 for 28), Moore (2 for 36), Winter (1 for 0), and Sim (1 for 22). In their second innings Alhambra compiled 77 runs', no less than five batsmen being caught out. Porter (18) put up the highest score for the match, while Hale (14), Bousfield (11) and Winter (10) also reached double figures. The bowling was entrusted to W. Smith (4 for 30), Carter (2 for 4), Sebire (2 for 13), and Harford (1 for 22). For the two innings Wanderers scored 140 runs and Alhambra 128.

A very successful practice game was played between the members of the Civil Service club and a few of the Matawhero juniors.

SCHOOLS' COMPETITION. The second round in the Schools’ competition was commenced on Saturday morning. Tc Hapara scored a 2-point win over Haiti, and Gisborne won by default from Mangapapa. TE lIAPAEA v. HAITI. In the Te Hapara-Kaiti match the latter batted first and totalled 35 runs, the principal run-getters being Black (10), Gambrili (8), and Winter (5). Jones secured eight wickets, while Ileeney and Brown each took one'wicket. Te Hapara followed and knocked up 138 runs, extras amounting to 37. • Ileeney (37), Peach (21), Martin (16) and Brown (9) were the highest scorers. For Haiti Winter (8 for 21), Black (2 for 34), and Maude (0 for 29) handled the ball. Haiti then commenced their second attempt, and when time was called had lost 7 wickets for 10 runs against the bowling of Richardson, who captured 5 wickets, and Brown and Ileeney with one each to their credit.

QUEENSLAND v. N.S. WALES. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] (Received Nov. 24, 5.5 p.m.3 SYDNEY, Nov. 24. Queensland in their first innings scored 159 (Sheppard not out 63), and N.S. Wales in their first innings scored 123.

—Bowlins: Analysis. 0 il It IV Guthrie ... 9 4 23 2 Olliver ... 10 3 29 1 W. Atkinson ... 12 1 41 3 Olsen ... 3 1 9 2 Carruthers ... ... 2 0 21 1 HcLisky ... 2 0 3 1

—Bowling Analysis.0 M K W J. ]!. Jones ... ... 11 0 36 4 Wood ... 10 5 11 2 McDonald ... 5 0 21 3 Hosier ... 4 0 16 1

—Bowlins Analysis 0 M R W Hannigan ... 8 2 32 1 G. Hooker ... 4 1 13 1 Southcombe ... ... 13 i 53 3 Baal ... 3 0 15 1 Monzari ... 3 0 13 0 Sharp ... 1 0 15 0 Stitchbnjry ... ... 3 1 5 0