CONCLUDING PLAY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 15

CONCLUDING PLAY

YESTERDAY

(B^ Telegraph.—Press Association) CHRJSTCHURCH, March 24 When play was resumed after the Jtmeh adjournment. today, one hundred runs- came after, ninety-four minutes' Play, and Hammond reached 50 for 108 tainutes' play, SS»?iShS£ a fino catch at *•

: Ames^was next. Ho opened ■ eonfiaX' B?*.*" *owling and the fldi Jag- haa fallen below standard. Long hops from Newman were escapins the punishment they deserved, and the field»ng at this, stage was loose. One hundrei and fifty went up after 134 nun-totes-play. Hammond was now hitting .With more vigour, ana he reached the century ]n 160 minutes. Badcock'went off owing to a fiiieer being injured when fielding a hot cover drive, ana Cavanagh, twelfth man, took his plaeo in tho field. Badcock's retirement, however, was brief. The bowling was.now well collared. Ames reached 50 in seventy minutes. The total rose rapidly, and at the tea adjournment was 267—Hammond 128 AJ? eS t% ree hundretl ™s passed after 222 minutes' play, ana a few strokes later Hammond was applauded for passing 150. .

Three hundred and fifty came after 24a.nunutes, and Ames reached tho century after 125 minutes. The partnership yielded 200 in 111 minutes At 369 "Weir replaced Badcoek,'and four runs later Vivian clean-bowled Ames. 373-5-103.

Brown joined Hammond, who went on scoring fast, and loud applause greeted him when he reached the double century. Four hundred came'after 284 minutes' play.

Long shadows were now falling across the pitch, and an appeal against the light was upheld at 5.40 o'clock. . Hammond's total was then 323, and Brown had 12 to his credit, the grand total for five wickets being 418. The attendance was estimated at from 12,000 to 15,000, and the gate takings totalled £.670.