BIG CRICKET
AUCKLAND V. WELLINGTON
TWO CENTURIES
VISITORS MAKE 424 FOR 7 WICKETS
Auckland, who failed to win the cricket shield from Canterbury, and Wellington, who won and lost the trophy this season, commenced a match on the Basin lteserve yesterday. The weather was ideal, the wicket excellent, and the outfield in great condition. A fair crowd witnessed the play. Auckland won the toss, and seized the opportunity of taking first strike.. In this match, probably luck with the toss meant a great deal. The Auckland batsmen played cautiously all day, and the rate of scoring was slow; at times it was almost tedious. However, there was good crickets which somewhat compensated for the absence of thrills/ Against the careful batting of th* Auekliinders Wellington set an attack that was not stroTig, with the result that 011 the good wjeket the. visitors scored well. The partnership of the day was that of Hemus and Midlane, who notched. 229 while, associated, 'hvo centuries were obtained—Hemus 13G, Midlane 126. When stumps were drawn for the day Auckland had registered the good score of 42t for the loss of seven wickets.The teams are Auckland.—W. H. Graham (captain), L, G. Kenius, I l '. A. Midlane, W. R-. Garlard, E. Horspool, R. G. Slomon, D. It. Gnrrard, J?. Prater, P. Bevcridge, W. M'Math, W. I), Coates. . Wellington.—W. S. Brice (captain), H. Burton, W. Baker, lv. Tucker, J. Hutching?, D. Patrick, E. M. Beechey, I'indlayson, B. Marris, H. Lambert, Wagstalfe. Ilenuis; and Horspool opened tlie batting for Auckland, and Brice and Marris went on to bowl. Scoring was very slow at the beginning, but after eighteen minutes' play twenty was hoisted 011 the board, 'this score included a couple of fours, which Horspool got away nicely to the square leg boundary.. Still dragging rather slowly, the innings had yielded only 29 runs when the half-hour was reached! A boundary by Hemus, off Marris,' raised the score to 33, and two runs later Findlayson went on in place of Brice. Runs now. came a little more freely, and with the aid of four boundaries, two of which were obtained through loose fielding, the half century was reached, when the match had been in pi ogress for forty minutes. The batsmen grew cautious, and six inns later Patrick replaced Marris. The batsmen took no chances w'ith the new bowler, and his first over was a maiden. The batting, though,careful, was good; there were no fireworks, but the work was sound, and looso stuff usually went to the boundary. Tho northerners appeared to bo getting well sot for a good innings when, with tho total at 62, Horspool was given out l.b.w. to Patrick. 62-1-28. , Midland was the next man in, and the ex-Wellington representative sdt to work on the bowling very confidently. He soon placed a boundary hit reatly past cover,, and, batting nicely, accelerated the rate of scoring considerably. . The i.entury was put in sight when Hemus gave a good chance to tho ucket-keeper, but Wngstafi'o was unable to secure .it. A pretty boundary by Midlane sent up tlie century, this after 75 minutes' play. Good work by Hutchings in the outfield helped to keep down the runs, and n,ore than one boundary was saved. Various, changes in the attack were made, but they failed to check tho steady flow of runs. Hemus passed his half-century, when he had been an hour and a halt at tho crease, and Midlane, who was scoringl the faster, was-then 30 011. When tho' luncheon adjournment was taken at 1 o'clock tho total was 137 for one wicket. Hemus had 56 up and Midlane 47. . Shortly after 2 p.m. play was resumed. Tho batsmen scored freely, and at 2.30 170 was hoisted. Hutchings releived Patrick of the ball, and Midlane drove him hard to cover. Baker failed to stop the shot which went for four. The running between wicketa was good, and any carelessness in the fielding was taken advantage of. Midlane', who had been giving a somewhat brighter ■ display than either of his club men, was scoring faster than Hemus, and when tho latter was 86 Midlane was within nine runs of him.
The second century wns reached after 2J hours of play, and the crowd applauded the, visitors. With 214 up i'or the loss of only one wicket Brice put Tucker on to bowl. Hemus, who wanted only four to securo his century, played tho veteran very carefully, but he scored a Ample of singles off the over. A single off Lambert and another off the next over from Tucker brought up the Aucklander.'s well-earned century amidst a round of applauso. The fact that it took Hemus two hours and a half to'got tho hundred indicates that play was by no means exciting. Fifteen minutes later Midlane was within three of his hundred, and facing Brice ho knocked it off the first ball of that bowler's over. In the following over 250 was shown on the telegraph. Hemus was now batting beautifully, and getting a lot of strokes cleverly past the slips. • A boundary by Midlane took the score past the 262 needed for a 20fl-runs partnership. When the tea adjournment was taken at 3.45 Auckland's total for the loss of only one wicket was 284, to which Hemus had contributed 135 and Midlane 115. With,in about half 'an hour of tho resumption three additional wickets fell. Hemus had brought his score to 136, when he drove one hard back to Findlayson, and the bowler held a groat catch. 291—2—136. W. R. Garrard next went-to the crease, and Findlayson bowled him immediately with a beautiful ball. 291—3—0. Midlane and Sloman carried the score past the third, century, and then Midlane- was smartly taken in. the slips by Patrick. 304—4^-126. Graham, joined Sloman. and tho pair continued to pile up the score. Sloman was aggressive from the outset, and found tho boundary fairly often. At 344 Graham was thrown out by Tucker. and D. 11. Garrard went to the wickets. At 355, Brice got Garrard's wicket. 355—6—8. Beveridge was-, the new man in. Sloman gave the most vigorous batting exhibition of the day, and ran. up 62 in fair time before he lifted one to Tucker, who held it well. 386—7—62. Beveridge and Frater played out time, and when stumps were' drawn for the day Auckland had 'seven wickets down for 424. . Details of the innings -follow:— Auckland—First Innings. L. G. Hemus, c. and b. Findlayson,.. 136 E. Horspool, 1.b.w., b. Patrick 28 F. A. Midlane, 0. Patrick, b. Findlayson 126 W. R. Garrard, b. Findlayson 0 R. G. Sloman, c. Tucker, b. Findlayson 62 W. 11. Graham, run out G D. R. Garrard, b. Brice 8 P. Beveridge, not out 35 R. Frater,. not out 11 Extras 12 Total 424 Bowling Analysis.—Brice took one wicket. for 73 runs; Findlayson. four for 109; Tucker, none for 41; Marris, none for 50; -Patrick, one for 81; Lambert, none for 20; Hatchings, none for 28. The match will be continued to-day.
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