HUTT AND INSTITUTE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1934, Page 20

HUTT AND INSTITUTE

The Hutt-Institute match on the Hutt Recreation Ground had its interesting features, though the general standard of performance was nothing out of the way. Aim, the Hutt capitain, sprang a surprise when, on winning the toss, he gave Institute first use of the wicket, and nobody was more pleasantly suprised than Henderson, the Institute captain. .. There have been quite a few cases of late in which a. captain, on winning the toss, has sent the other side into bat. '„ As a general rule the wise policy, is to bat first.- ---[ One of the finest*catches ever seen ;on the Hutt Recreation Ground was [that which accounted fcr Tucker's dismissal last Saturday. L. Muir was fielding out near the boundary, and, when Tucker skied a ball, Muir ran in some distance in an endeavour to take it. The ball was^ dropping straight down when. Muir got' within distance of it, and even then he appeared to have little chance of making the catch. •However, he amazed everybody by geting his hands forward to grasp the ball about knee high from the ground. W. A. Aldersley, who has seen more cricket than most present-day players, remarked* afterwards that it was the best catch of the kind he had ever seen.

Prince was in fine batting form for Institute against Hutt. He has played some good innings in the past and this was one of his' best. It yielded 51 runs. Tucker, too, came to.-.light with-one of his good-scoring efforts, and it was not of the reckless kind —a really good knock producing 71 runs. Duffy, as usual, engaged in solid batting, and was a hard man to shift.

Judd increased his big bag of wickets for Hutt by another four. He and several others will finish up the season with big aggregates in the matter of wickets taken in club matches, but none of them will be near the record for a season.