CRICKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 821, 20 February 1903, Page 3

CRICKET.

t * ' SOUTH ISLAND AND NEW ZEALAND TEAMS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, last night. Tho following is Mr .1. N. Fowke’s final selection of the team to represent tho South Island against Lord Hawked oloven in the match commencing at Dunedin on Saturday : —iiuxshall, Callaway, Orchard, Howell, and D. Iteese (Canterbury), Howden, Fisher, Downes, and Siedeberg (Otago), Ongley (Westland), and Wilson (Southland). Mr Fowko has selected the following team to represent New Zealand against Lord Hawke's team on February 27th I and 28th and March 2nd, at Christchurch : C. Jioxshall, Canterbury S. T. Callaway, Canterbury A. Downes, Otago A. 11. Fisher, Otago F. S. Frankish, Canterbury D. Hay, Auckland C. Hickson, Wellington H. McCarthy, Taranaki D. Ileose, Canterbury C. lticburdson, Wellington A. Sims, Canterbury K. Tucker, Wellington. Twelve men have been picked, but one will be excluded from tho toam on the , morning of tho match.

, P THE VISIT OF THE HAWKE’S BAY ELEVEN. • LOOKING BACKWARD. M [By 11 Bifler.”J Whon I learned that the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association had at long last l definitely decided to send a representative oloven to play Poverty Bay, I east about i I in an endeavor to loam how Poverty Bay had fared in recont years in encounters I with outside teams. Though I intorviewod , many of tho prominont local players, I 1 was unable to find one who had any . I knowledge that an outside eleven had ever visited Gisborne. At last, i happonod upon Mr Arthur Rees, who for such a number of years was one of Gisborno’s most ablo exponents of tho great summer pastime, and from him I learned that foroign teams had visited Gisborne ; but so many years ago was it , that tho recollections of their doings had j become ghostlike and filmy. , It was away back in April of 1885, < when the present generation of players j were toddling to school, that the last t foreign teams visited Gisborne. During 1 the Eastor holidays of that year tho Gor- ( don Club, of Auckland, sent a team to 1 Gisborne, and tho Rovers, of Napier, t arrived hero on the samo day; so that 1 Gisborne had quito a carnival week ot it. l

By tho courtesy of a Gisborne gentleman, I was enabled to look up the records of these matches. I found that the Gordon eleven consisted lof : H- Kissling, i l . X). Clayton, J. Ansenne, Rybura, T. Brown, J. Sykes, EL Lusk (the present Napier captain), R. M. Ryburn (for some years afterwards the ] honored parson of St. Andrew’s Church, ( Gisborne), H. Goulstono, L. Meldrum, and , W. Kenderdine. < Tho Rovers were represented by: R. ' Francis, E. H. Williams, F. Eulton, J. W. ) Begg, G. Newton, J. W. Wood, W. G. ' I Cato, H. Swan, D. Davis, Sidoy, and G. G. | Peacock. - I was interested to learn that the Gor- j dons defeated a combined oloven of s Patutahi and Gisborne, at Patutahi, by an t innings and 17 runs. Gordon made 86, and the combined team 38 and 31. < On Tuesday, April Bth. 1885, Gordon met a representative Poverty Bay team : at Te Hapara. Tho local elevon. captained by W. L. Rees, remained at the wickots for an hour a-half for a total of 66, J. White making 17, A. Dewing 12, T. E. R. Bloomfield 9, and G. Staite 8, while four ducks somewhat marred the symmetry of the score-sheet. Gordon "1 replied with 111, Brown 24, Ansenne 13, J R. M. Ryburn 14, Goulstone 22. W. L. P Rees’s tricky slows worked havoc with F the Aucklanders, and he bagged no less than eight of them, while L. Rees secured “ the othor two. Poverty Bay made 83 in 8 the second try, W. L. Rees 21, H. Valpy 16, Gordon ran up 40 for three wickets, Brown 22 not out, and thus won by sevon wickets. That the wicket was a trifle fiery may be inferred from the simple narrative : “ Captain Ferris, while wicketkoeping, received a nasty blow on the eye.” The Rovers then met the following Poverty Bay eloven : T. E. R. Bloomfiold, Valpy, J. White, W. L. Rees, L. Rees, C. F. Woodhoad, G. Staite, F. Whitcombe, R. Reynolds, A. Rees, and Reardon. The Rovers made 72 and 75, and Poverty Bay 85 (Woodhead 25 not out, Bloomfield 13, Valpy 15), and 61 for five wickets, the home team thus winning by five wickets. Rovers and Gordon then turned and rent oach other, the Aucklanders proving much too strong for tho Napier men, and scoring 182 to the Rovers’ sets of 68 and Q 58. The local players seem to have had such a feast during this festive carnival of 1885, that never from then till now (if we except tho visits paid us by Wairoa and 1 Coast teams) has foreign foe set foot on a & Gisborne eriekot ground. During the last few years, however, Gisborne players have A shown a desire for glory, and on three n different occasions have journeyed to Napier, though without being able to secure a visit in return. Now, however, the Hawko’s Bay men have thrown down the gauntlet, and on Saturday week next, 28th inst., the Gisborne public will, on the Ormond ground, v be permitted to see what has been denied them for eighteen long years—a local representative eloven pitting itself against a first-class outside team. t There is no doubt that a very respect- , able side can bo got together in Poverty Bay at the present-time. The affiliation of "the Coast Clubs to the Poverty Bay Crickot Association greatly adds to its strength in the field ; and wo believe the local men will make a keen fight on Saturday woek, even though the redoubtablo Anglo-Australian professional, A. E. Tsott, is included in the Hawke’s Bay elovon. I hope tho local men will see to it that they conscientiously train up for tho big match in all departments of tho game. Their principal weakness will be in ground fielding and returning to tho wicket; but ( steady practice may yet remove theso | disabilities. Of one thing lam certain ; those who | travel to Ormond on the 28th will see a first-class match.