For the Sake of the Game

Evening Star, Issue 19660, 13 September 1927, Page 6

For the Sake of the Game

The Care=Free Amateur Style

Praise for the New Zealanders

Princess Mary Temporarily Stops

Play

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LONDON, September 12. (Received September Id, at 11 a.m.) The New Zealand cricketers, who have earned the reputation as honest, hard-hitting exponents of the care-free amateur style, are making an extremely worthy and appropriate ending to their tour. They are opposed by a first-class team, almost wholly amateurs, and there has been an exhibition of cricket for the sake of the game and not for the sake of the result. Blunt’s innings is still talked of. tie hit everything like an expert with a terrilic crack from the centre of Hie bat, clearing cover-point every time, but grew more careless in the later stages. .Another masterpiece was Mills’s exhibition of the best left-hander’s style, particularly his pull to mid-wicket and glance to hue leg. Ho I.ailed to add many to-day, but in all he had eleven d’s and six ,‘i’s. * Lowry was indisposed and unable to bat. The last four wickets fell quickly, and the innings in all lasted five hours and three-quarters. Lovesou-Gower’s men started oil' well, and made a. good reply for a time. One hundred came up iu ninety-live minutes, principally from Dawson’s and Wyatt’s bats, the former hitting seven •Ts. The hatting then slackened, and at the Lea adjournment four had gone lor 15(5. Shortly after resuming Princess Mary’s arrival at -1.311 temporarily slopped play, the spectators rushing the ground to sec her. This may have unsettled the batsmen, as two more wickets fell at once.

Tclojwpa—Copyright

Dougins and F. Gilligan, by stolid, slow batting, stopped the collapse, taking fifty minutes to compile 37, and stumps were drawn at six wickets for 207. The rate of scoring was a great contrast to the way the New Zealanders piled up the runs on Saturday, Details NEW ZEALAND.

—First innings.— Dempster b A. Gilligan 50 Mills Ibw b Mercer 152 Blunt c and b Haig IdL Daero 1) Haig 8 Allcoll, c Mercer b liyari 5 Page b A. Gilligan -’•! Dowry (absent, ill) ■■■ ... 4 M'Girr e Entliovcn b Haig ... "... 12 James not out IB Merritt eF. Gilligan b Clay ... 8 Ilcmlorson eF. Gilligan b Clay ... 8 Extras 28 Total 447 Bowling Analysis.—Haig, three lor 122; Mercer, two for SO'; Olay, two ior SO; A. Gilligan, two lor 87; Wyatt, none for 52; Enlboven, none for 21; Arnett, none for 22. ] iEVESO X-G 0 W Ell’S TEAM. Dawson e Daero b Allcott 5J ArnotL c Merritt b Henderson ... 27 Wyatt b Allcott 44 Haig c Pago 1) Merritt _ 4 Douglas not out ... 21 A. (illligan c M'Girr b Merritt ... 0 Entliovcn st James b Merritt ... 7 E. Gilligan not out 24 Extras Total for six nickels ... 2U7 [The score as cabled totals 197. J