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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1623, 14 December 1912, Page 12

thing to amuse them in this, but Luckie silenced derisive criticism by eecuniig an excellent average-four for 42. Surely a bowler may adopt any stylo he pleases if ho can persuade tho batsmen to take their eyes off. the ball. Tho Unshiftable Bray and Phillips, Bray and Phillips, who opened the batting for North, were doing remarkably well when stumps wore drawn, and had made the East bowling look remarkably, cheap. Bray scored faster than Phillips, who by the way has not been out this season otherwise than by being run out. Let Us Be Charitable. If a cricket scribe were to write the most interesting notes imaginable, and have not. charity it .would profit him nothing. Now, one could write endless interesting notes about tho Victoria Col-lege-South match, and give much good advice to tho students, but eurely it will be sufficient to let last Monday's published resnls 6peak for themsfives. Tho most .charitable thing that can be said in connection with the mateh is that the bowling figures on both, sides read remarkably well. ■ It should also bo chronicled that file College captain was said to hare again appealed onm>. count of the light. Notes on the Match at Petone. For the first time this season Petone won the toss, and,elected to bat against Central. They compiled an' excellent total, in spite of the good 'bowling of Robinson and Mitchell. Brice, as has been his wont this season, played most carefully, and at times brilliantly. He was smartly caught by Little when half a dozen over the half-cen- ' Hardham came out of his shell, and gave , a. lively display, much to the surprise of all. The veteran, footballer is improving every game, and is now a bat that can be relied on for runs. M'Kenzie got a nice 28, and Tregear slogged 20 up in a very short time. _'~-., It is high time that Skipper Dalgleish changed the order of his batsmen. There are far too many "blobs" at the commencement of an innings, and this always has a disastrous effect on the tail. ■ Finlayson was "on it", with tho ball, and had bad luck in not bagging the first three wickets for Very few runs, Barber missing a rather difficult catch from little. M'Kenzie bowled well, but Nunn should not be given a. trial. His stuff is too simple for town elevens. ; Central's innings opened badly, and things were, decidedly off, until Beachy took up the running. This player enjoyed the slow leg-stuff from Nunn, and drove them to the boundary, passing six men who were fielding on the leg-side, in the hope of a catch: Little was at the" wickets for a long time, and played with great judgment. •- Central still have a couple of good bats to eo in. ' . Robinson topped the bowling list, finishing with the splendid average of seven for 41. Nelson got two for 44, whilst 'Kirivig, Naughton, and. Hickson drew a Peto'ne's fielding was slack, but Central's was good. Petono should secure a two-point win without'much trouble to-day; :.. "I Sent You,a Team to Publish." ■■' Notwithstanding numerous notices that teams for Saturdays, in any grade, must reach this office by . Thursday evening each week, secretaries, in many in-', stances, still are late. One of the most tardy ones used to be Kilbirnie C.C., but. last week it arrived in great time, -with' the following note'added: "P.S.—I sent you a team to publish last week, but it did not appear, so I hopo you will not fail us this week. lam yours sincerely, H. E. Hclliwell, Hon., Sec, Kilbirnie i/i p . , After much anxious consideration (lastins fully lssecs.) it was .eventually decided to consign both note and team to the W.P.B. A Taita Family of Sports. . ' The well-known Welch family, of the .Taita and Wairarapa, are.going to tour-, the West Coast as a cricket team during the Xtnas holidays. They are fine sporting off-shoots of one of Wellington's stubborn ,pioneers, who'.delight in presenting a solid Welch face to aiiy team anxious •to fay conclusions. iMid-Week Play. ••:',•' The mid-week players had a good day on Wednesday last, when they again started on tho Basin Reserve. The wickets were in splendid condition, Saunders having them at their best. Batting for Artillery, Wilson' gave a good exhibition of hitting. His score of 43 was mado up of one six, two fives, four fours, two threes, one two, and two singles. The six was from a hard drive from No. 2. wicket to the far corner past No. 4. One hit landed on the building on the corner of Kent Tefrace. The only other score on the Artillery side was' that of Dr. Gilmer, 29 not out. The best of the Rival batsmen were: M'Kenzie (23). and George (22), both men played nice, free cricket. Batting for Oriental, Paton (Hutt Club) made his first appearance in Wednesday cricket, and showed some nice strokes. His .39 was put together by nice cricket. Gourlay was going well ■ when he ran himself out at 26. Tho wicket had put on 50 runs. Wyatt was the only other one to make anything , like a score. Dempsey was the only one of the Vivian batsmen who shaped to advantage. Of the batsmen on the Union side, the best were: Warne (48), who played a good, sound innings; Hemus, after making 43 without a chance, was badly run but, while Driver was lucky to reach 45; M'Gill was not batting with his usual dash, and should have being taken with an easy catch' when lie was 19; the Eov. Si O. Blamires is still in with 26 to his credit. He gave a chance at 18. The fielding of some of the teams was not u pto standard, and I would draw the attention of the Wednesday players to some hints by Harry Trott in this issue.