WELLINGTON V. HAWKE'S BAY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2386, 16 February 1915, Page 3

WELLINGTON V. HAWKE'S BAY

WDT FOB WELLINGTON BOARD SCORES ffl The cricket match Ijetween tire Hawke's Bay and Wellington representatives was concluded on the Baein Reserve yesterday afternoon. The result was a. victory for the local eleven by 45 runs, after an interesting and ratuer exciting final innings by Ha-yko's Bay. On Saturday both sides oompleted their first innings. Wellington made 265, and Hawke's Bay 194, so that Wellington commenced yesterday's play with a i 1 runs lead. Wellington opened their second innings some time after 11 ajn., and at about 2.30 p.m., with nine wickest down, they "declired," They had put on 266. Hawke's Bay, therefore, needed 338 runs for a win. They had three hours in which to get them. . The feature of the Wellington innings was Beechey's 69. He hit all the bowling about .impartially' and scored rapidly. He did not give a single chance. Tucker, who has been batting very consistently this season, arid who was top score in Wellington's first innings, knocked up' a particularly well-compiled 43. . Hawke's Bay played an excellent second innings, the feature of which was a score of 131 from Board's bat. Board did not give. any chances, and he ' batted excellently. His score included eighteen fours. The scoring of the visiting team was fast—they knocked up 200 in two hours—and, indeed, as late as 5.30, when the redoubtable Board was still at the wickets, not a few averred but that it was very possible that Hawke's Bay would get the 60 runs wanted for a win by 6 p.m. Some minutes liter, however, a ball from Macintosh displaced Board's wickets. . Even then, however, the two remaining batsmen stubbornly added to the total, so that Shortly after 10 to 6, when Napier was caught by Bray and tho game was at an end, Hawke's Bay had only 45 to get. Following are the details of the scores?—