CRICKET.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 678, 12 January 1883, Page 2

CRICKET.

Oil'" correspondent writes: —A specia train, consisting of 15 carriages, arrived at Birdling's Flat on Monday morning, filled with excursionists to this new field for an outing. The lakes, the sea, the beach, the hills, and the bush, must together prove largely attractive to many of the settlers of the Plains. By the same train the Lincoln Cricket Club came to meet the Little River Club on the ground of the latter. Mr Buchanan and others were on the beach to meet the train and escort the Lincoln men to Little River. At the hour appointed the wickets were pitched.and_ . Little River took the field. The a very pleasant one, and the ground well V* carpeted with turf, and the contest was kept up with unflagging spirit. Messrs Blair and Taylor bowled for Lincoln, and bowled well. In the first inning 3 the Little River men showed good fielding, as the score will show. Both sides played very cautiously, and runs were obtained with difficuly. Messrs Harry and Joe Reynolds, of Little River, scored the most, the latter, Joe, reaching 28 in tbe first inningd, thereby securing the plaudits of the ladies, of whom many were preFent. Mr Buchanan, as usual, was of conspicuous excellence as long-stop, and Mr Radford as wicket-keeper. Some skilful catches jM wero made by Mr Snow and Mr Allan Leslie, but these particulars will be supplied fully by the appended score, furnished by J the secretary of the Little River Club:— * Lincoln. First Innings. W. E. Ivey, c Snow bJ. Reynolds ... 5 D. Broome,c W. Reynolds b J.Reynolds 3 J. L. Blair, c Snow bJ. Reynolds ... 2 G. Taylor, bJ. Reynolds 2 *• Birdling, c Snow bH. Reynolds ... 0 F. C. Murray, run out 0 Young, b H. Reynolds ... 2 Pearson, b J. Reynolds 0 E. Townshende, bH, Reynolds ... 2 Dickson, not out 0 Baker, b H. Reynolds 0 Extras ... . #1 4 Total 20

Second Innings. Dickson, b Snow ... 0 Murray, c Allan b Snow 1 Birdling. b J. Reynolds 4 Young, c Allan b Snow... O Broome, b Snow 5 Blair, not out 9 G. Taylor, thrown out 6 W. E. Ivey, b J. Reynolds 0 Extras ... 2 Total for seven wickets... 27 Little River. First Innings. Baker, hit wicket, b Blair 12 H. Reynolds, cG. Taylor b Blair ... 19 Joe Reynolds, b Blair 28 J. P. Snow, cG. Taylor, b Blair ... 1 J.Uadford, b Blair 0 Buchanan, b Taylor 1 Fergusson, b Blair 2 Tavender, b Blair ... 2 Allan, c Blair b Taylor 1 Tyson, not out I W. Reynolds, b Blair 0 Extras 12 Total 79 As the second innings of the Lincoln men was not completed when they had to leave to reach the departing train, the result of the first innings was held to determine the issue of the match.