CRICKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 312, 13 January 1902, Page 3

CRICKET.

28 SOUTH AUSTRALIA, v. NEW SOUTH a- WALKS. n, ,y By Telegraph—Press As r ocialion—Copyright K Adelaide, Jan. 11. )> New South Wales made 472 ; S. Greg or/ 182, C. Gregory 74, Kelly 11, Howell ' s 07, Meßeth 1, Clarke (not out) 10, extras ft 22. Travers took five wickets for 105, )> Jarvis two for 50, Eccdmau none for 30, 0 I Giffen one for 112, Jones one for 130. 0 South Australia lost three wickets for 123 ; n Giffen 7, Hill 26, Eecdman 45. ENGLAND v. BALLAEAT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright 1 I Melbourne, Jan. 11. , I In the match against Ballarat Cricket ‘ I Ciub, the Englishmen lost seven wickets : for 420; Maclaren 128. Hayward (not ; out) 100. Later.—The English, in tho first innings, made 469 ; Hayward 181,McGahey 40. Melbourne, Jan. 12. The match was drawn. The Ballarat Eighteen lost ten wickets for 235 ; Baker I 37, Morgan 26, Graham 37, Irwin (not out) 49. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Sydney, Jan. 11. i A telegram from Adelaide announces i that the third test match will commence J on the 17th, and not the 16th. s COUNTY v. UNITED. f - i [ (By “ Biffer.”) I Shield contests were resumod on Victoria Domain on Saturday afternoon last, j Tho day was not favorable. A drizzling rain had fallen almost continuously throughout the forenoon, and the wicket and outfield wero very dead when the game commenced at 3 o’clock. Gibson I won the toss for United, and sent Sharp and his men into tho field. The United men made a fair start, Porter and Gibson putting on 24 runs for the first wiekot, when tho former was bowled for a nice n

'reo innings of 18, in which he watched ;hc ball carefully, and made sorno fine square cuts. Howarth, who came next, arrived in time lo seo Gibson lash out at Barton, and lose his wicket after batting half an hour for five singles. C. Fairlie had a particularly brief and merry life, and hit up 7 in four hits, and then skied one into tho slips. Baymond’s slows appeared to trouble the remainder of the United batsmen greatly, and Howarth was the only man to play with confidence. With tho exception of an easy chance at mid-on early in his innings, he batted soundly, watching tho ball carofully, and getting in some fine logs strokes. United, who could only muster nine men, totalled 62, Howarth being unbeaten at the finish with 20 on the slate. Kaymond met with most success with the ball, and got a lot of work on from leg in capturing his three for 13. Johnstone took two for 9, but had luck with him, as Lyttleton was caught off a full toss to log. It was thought that County would have no difficulty in doubling the small total put up by United, especially as the wicket had improved groatly, but had it not been for a fearless and dashing innings by Barton, County would not have won. Barton may justly exclaim: “ I alone did it." Out of a total of 65 scored by his side, this batsman claimed 36, made by clean, vigorous strokes. Hd was practically on a forlorn hope all through the innings, but stuck manfully to his guns, and undoubtedly won the game for his side. Burch (11) was tho only other man to do anything with the bat for County. Matters waxed exciting towards the finish, but tho country men wore equal to the task, and, batting ten men, won by the narrow margin of 3 runs. . Donald Porter bowled well for United, and captured five wickets for 28 runs, and Lyttleton and Gibson divided the remainder at about equal cost. McConnell, who fielded substitute for United, made a

couple of fine catches at long-off off Gibson’s bowling,'disposing of Sharp (the County captain) and Saunders from successive balls.

This is the third exciting finish these clubs have played this season. The first game, on Victoria Domain, resulted in favor of County by 4 runs; and the second, at Ormond, was won by United by 6 runs; and County’s win by 3 runs on Saturday makes the third. County have, therefore, scored one run more than United in the three matches played against each other this season, and it is seldom two such equally matched elevens are seen opposed to each other. County’s victory is all the more creditable from the fact that they were without the services of A. Crawford, F. Smith, W. Dods, and E. Leggett. The County men were delighted with their success, and only the moist nature of the turf restrained the venerable and dignified president of the club from attempting a double somersault after- his men scored the winning run. As usual when these clubs meet, the game was played in the best of spirits, and was thoroughly enjoyablo. Messrs Charles Evans (United) and J. V. Macdonald were the umpires. The following are the scores:— United. W. Gibson, b Barton 5 Porter, b Burch 18 Hoivarth, not out 20 C. Fairlie, c Foote, b Johnstone ... 7 Lyttleton, 3 Sharp, b Johnstone ... 3 H. Ferris, run out 1 Hill, b Baymond 3 Witty, c Burch, b Raymond 0 Horne, c Barton, b Raymond 0 Extras 5 Total 62 Bowling Analysis. Overs. Buns. Wkts. Barton ... 7 19 1 Burch ... 7 17 1 Johnstone ... 6 9 - Baymond ... 4 13 3 County. Barton, c Fairlie, b Portor 36 Raymond, b Lyttleton ... ••• Burch, b Porter ... 1J Sharp, c sub., b Gibson <■ Saunders, c sub., b Gibson 0 Cresar, b Porter... ' * Johnstone, b Lyttleton i - Foote, c Howarth, b Portor ... ••• J J. McCrodie, b Porter ] Burgess, not out t J Extras

Total b 0 Bowling Analysis. Overs. Buns. Wkts, Porter ... 11 ® Lyttleton ... 6 17 “ Gibson ... 5 IS “ City and West End, who wero to have played on No. ‘2 pitch on Saturday, were unable to place elevens in the field, and the match fell through. Just after the holidays appears to be a slack time with local cricket. It will bo remembered that last season the game practically died after the mid-summer holidays. Clubs generally should make an extra effort to place full elevens in the field at present in order to sustain interest in the game, and prevent a recurrence of last season’s apathy. \s I mentioned a month ago, there aro a number of cricketers among the officers and crew of H.M.S. Penguin, and it is to be hoped that the Cricket Association will reserve dates to enable the men from the warship to enjoy a few games with local players during their stay here. The Southern tour of the Hawke’s Bay players has been most disappointing to local players, who expected the Napier men to do better. Trott has hot done so well as one might naturally expect “ the best bowler in the world ” to do against New Zealand batsmen, though he did good work with the bat against Wellington, Otago, and Canterbury. The Hawke's Bay eleven missed Lusk greatly, and the Southern journals agree that the team was badly directed; particularly in the Wellington match. Dent did fine work | with both bat and ball in the Canterbury match, and he and Trott stood head and shoulders above the other members of the team. Evidently Trott has a lot of coaching to do before Hawke’s Bay can expect to dofeat the larger centres, judging by the result of the Otago game. With t exception of Trott, Dent, Cato, and Hawke, the members of the team were . rank failures. Hussey, the ex-Gisbornite, did absolutely nothing.