THE WORLD OF SPORT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1402, 30 March 1912, Page 11

THE WORLD OF SPORT.

A WEEKLY RECORD OF SP

CRICKET. « [Bl THE BItEAIEII.] WEDNESDAY MATCHES. THE SEASON'S AVERAGES. Tho Wednesday competitions were brought to a close on Wednesday last, when the Union. Club was returned tho winner of both competitions, senior and junior, Artillery Club being the runnersup in each case. Tho winners nf tho junior competition put up a good performance, winning S out of 9 matches. Tho Artillery senior team had very bad luck during the season. Although they won an equal number of matches with the Union, three of them wore only two-point wins. The play last Wednesday showed a great improvement on tho last few weeks. In tho match between Rivals and Vivians, the latter was unlucky to looso Huddlestono. Tho last man in throw his wicket away in trying to get a fourth run in responso to a call from tho pavilion. The best batting performance of tho day was that of Major Hume, who played a sound game for his G2. Tho fielding showed much improvement. BATTING. ' Tho following is tho final list of the secretary of tho Wellington Wednesday Association (Mr. J. C. Cusack):— H "2" H A ■"*! Dumblcton (Vivian) ... 80 80 2 0 40.0 M'Gill (Union) 333 *106 9 3 55.5 Bowles (P. and T.) ... 140 79 3 0 48.2 Warne (Union) 530 112 13 1 44.2 Smith (Artillery) ... 442 122 12 2 44.2 M'Eldowney (Oriental) 93 "U 3 1 40.5 Blatnires (Artillery) ... : ' 92 '48 3 1 4G.0 Harris (Union) .'. .238 *86. 8' 2 39.3 Wilkinson (Oriental), 153 95 4 0 38.2 Cooper (Artillery) .... 27, 13 3 2 27.0 Bailer •■(Artillery) ... 215 *55 9 1 20.8 Butler (Rivals) ...... 04 *31 5 1 10.0 Dompsey (Vivian) ...... 197 92 10 1 21.7 Sullivan (Vivian) ....;. 11l 74 5 0 22.4 Knapp (P. and T.) ... 189 55 S 0 23.0 Gourlay (Oriental) ... 270 58 13 1 22.5 Cherry (Rivals) 89 30 4 0 22.2 Carson (Vivian) 150 81 8 1 22.2 Caterer (Vivian) 200 123 14 1 20.0 Davis (Rivals) 243 00 15 3 20.3 Taylor (Union) 237 09 10 0 23.7 Toms (P. and T.) 144 44 8 1 20.5 Driver (Union) ISO *49 11 1 18.9 George (Rivals) 210 42 12 1 19.0 Cording (Vivian) 199 04 13 2 18.1Ward (Oriental) 9S 58 5 0 19.6 Bramlov (Vivian) 172 75 9 0 19.1 Greig (P. and T.) ... 184 99 11 1 18.4 Thompson (Oriental) 87 57 5 0 17.0 O'Sullivan (Union) ... ISO 47 13 3 18.0 Robinson (Artillery) ... 101 66 G 0 16.8 Sauverin (Union) 107 30 7 1 17.5 liutters (Artillery) ... 32 '28 2 0 10.0 Jones (P. and T.) ... 78 22 7 2 15.6 M'Konzie (Rivals) .... 150 34 11 1 15.0 Piiinmer (P. and T.)„. 106 35 7 0 15.1 Alpe (Oriental) 140 "44 12 2 14.0 Mills (Vivian) 202 »59 11.1 20.2 Pickering (Rivals) .... 157 *52 13 1 13.1 Wvatt (P. and T.) ... 97 44 7 0 13.8 M'Evedy (Rivals) 181 '40 15.2 13.2 Ryan. (Oriental) 07 34 .5 0 13.4 Stninton (Rivals) 40.-23.U 1 13.3 Anderson (Rivals) ... 209 MO 10 1 13.2 Carrad (P. and T. ~.' 74 25 7 -1 12.5 Tyrell (P. and T.) ... 137 04 11 0 12.4 W. Little (Oriental) ... 112 45 11 2 12.4 Hughes (Artillery) ... 98 23 8 0 12.2 Hatfield (P. and T.)... 12 "9 2 1 12.2 Paton (Artillery) 127 35 11 1 12.7 Bide (P. and T.) ... 108 53 13 2 15.3 Taylor (Artillery) 83 20 8 1 11.8 Truscott (Oriental) ... 199 38 12 1 10.8 C. Little (Oriental) ... 100 30 10 0 10.0 Sclater (P. and T.) ... 140 46 12 1 12.8 Hume (Artillery) ... 1.'!9 '02 11 1 13.9 Collcrton (Artillery) ... 20 *U 2 1 20.0 M'Gill (Artillery) ... .50 20 5 1 12.2 Chin;; (Artillery) 11 Ml 2 1 11.0 Castles (Vivian) 142- 45 14 0 10.2 Hill (Vivian) 81 33 8 0 10.1 Ellison (Oriental) .... 14 *14 1 1 11.0 Wholun (Union) 84 24 9 2 12.0 Vara (Rivals) 1.122 44 9 1 15.2 Darrodh (Rivals) 52 27' 5 1 13.0 *Not out. BOWLING. Wkts. Runs. Avs. Harris (Union) 40 332 8.3 Cooper (Artillery) 10 87 8.7 Thompson (Oriental) 18 . 179 9.8 M'lntyre (Artillery) 18 ■ 196 10.G Douglas (Artillery) 21 277 21.4 Bailey (Artillery)" 35 425 12.5 Vans (Rivals) ...'. 24 309 12.2 Bramlov (Viviaji) 10 130 13.0 Ryan (Oriental) .20 ..274. 13.1 Hull (Rivals)' IS- 101 10.8 Robinson -(Artillery) :.....-' '11-' .157 13.8 GourlaV(Oriental) .....'.'.V. 30' '-633 14.3 Mills (Vivian) :. ;..:. : '2B ' '414 15.4 Sauverin (Union) 10- 150 15.0 Hill (Vivian) 28 417 14 5 Knapp (P. and T.) 15 238 15.8 M'Kenzie (Rivals) 17 Mil 1,.... Wnrno (Union) 12 215 17.9 O'Sullivan (Union) 1!) 344 18.2 M'Gill (Union) 12 225 18.7 Bonner (Union) U 299 21.3 Dompsey (Vivian) '11 223 20 3 Bale (P. nnd T.) 10 384 24.0 Greig (P. and T.) 11 271 24.7 Good Bowling Performance. ' Ono occasionally hears of good performances in Wellington outside the Saturday competition, and an achievement that is worthy of mention during tho present season is the bowline of W. Hill in Wednesday cricket and Saturday house matches. In the Wednesday competition, Hill plays for the Vivian Club, and on Saturday he leads tho Occidentals against various opponents. Although ho did not tako part in any match until the season was advanced some weeks, Hill lias now taken over 100 wickets, and has live times during the summer accomplished the "hat tiick,' whilo on several, occasions ho has captured seven .wickets .and. oyer in an innings. His batting has'-bsen -useful .on more than ono : ooeasi(in;notably'].:isi Wednesday week." when,.-alter tho 'threo. opening Vivian : batsmen had been dismissed in tho over, in n bad light Hill went in and'stemmed the "rot" by placing tho first bill over the fence and the second on to the pavilion roof. Championship Chatter. An outstanding feature of last Saturday's senior cricket was tho bowling of several players. M'Girr, of the East A team, came out with tho best figures on tho day's play by securing seven Central wickets at a total cost of 50 runs. He sent down twenty overs during the afternoon, and none of the batsmen seemed keen on taking liberties with his deliveries. Blamires and Jackson plaved with some confidenco "before him, but' he got both their wickets at the finish. Bccchey, who had shown good form with tho bat on the previous Saturday, was completely puzzled by M'Girr, who beat batsman and wickets' with the first threo balls and scattered Bcechev's stumps with the fourth. Dickson, of the Victoria Coßego team, was another successful bowler, with seven wickets for 70 runs, whilo Fonfoii (South), threo for 13, and Barber (Petono), four for 23, all did well. Tho question this afternoon will be: How will tho Central bowlers shape? ft is highly probable that the. match (East ACentral) to decide th.> championship will bo e. first innings affair. Central, with 233 up, have nn excellent cluinco, but East A, who have scored 24 without tho loss of a wicket, are noted for playing groat uphill games, so that much will depond on tho Central bowlers and, of course, on tho assistance (hey rcceivo from tho field. At all events tho finish should bo exciting. Something Liko Battinrj. Tho usual placidity of Dunedin cricket was disturbed is a sensational manner on Saturday, and revived interest which the wet season threatened to completely absorb (says the "Otago Witness"). Tin's was the remarkable performance of M'Farlane, tin; Albion l.ufsmnn, in the match against Opoho on the North Ground, when lie compiled 211 out of his side's total of 285 against the bowling of Callaway and c.tiupanv. Such a score in Dunedin cricket is memorable in itself, but the particular manner of its compiling affords at onco a sensation long to be remembered, I'cw of the spectators who assembled on Iho ground were prepared for such an exkibi- ■ t.ion of vigorous kitting and of such individual achievement. MTarlano was in the vein for batting, and attacked the

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bowline; from the outset by the most punishing strokes at his command. The batsman stood not upon the order of his going, bat. got to the bowling with such vim that he had run up the 'first century in no lime at all. and his 211 in a matter of 83 minutes. Putting Trumper's theory to tho test, M'Farlanc nttempted to hit every ball to tho boundary, and many over it. That ho succeeded in doing so is evidenced by tho fact that out of the total 81 were made in twelve hits for six each, and 101 in 24 boundary strokes. To realise these sensational figures better, 188 out of his 211 were made with only 3G strokes! No one pretends that the batsman played absolutely correct cricket, but he did what was probably bettermade his attack his method of defence by punishing nttacking bowling. For a batsman of such stature as M'Farlanc one marvels at his power, but it cofnes as much from perfect timing as actual bodyforce. In such an innings there was ua-. turally the clement of chance,' but they wero remarkably few, and only one of any real danger—a catch in the slips just before the- 200. As an exhibition of fast scoring it ranks with many of the best. With no desire to detract from the merit of M'Farlane's latest performance, it should be pointed out that tho boundaries on the North Ground are so short as to give valuable assistance to a batsman in a fast-scoring innings.