CRICKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 826, 26 February 1903, Page 2

CRICKET.

ENGLISHMEN IN SOUTH CANTERBURY.

Per Press Association

Tituaru, last night. Tho match, Lord Hawke’s Eleven v. the South Canterbury Eighteen, opened to-day before IfiOO people. The weather was beautifully fine. The Englishmen batted first and knocked up 172 ; Bosanquet 40, Burnup 20, Dowson 25, Leatham 23, Statining 19. Fane, Taylor, and Thomson failed to score. South Canterbury knocked up 81 ; Barron 32, and Jefferson 11. Half-a-dozen others failed to score. In the second innings the Englishmen lost one wicket for 13. Tho match will be concluded to-morrow.

THE NEW ZEALAND TEAM,

.(Per Press Association), Christchurch, last night. Several members of tho New Zeuland team to play against Lord Hawke’s eleven have now arrived. It is announced that Situs, tho Christchurch batsman, will not be available for the match. Mahoney, of Wellington, will probably bo included. Sims, when asked why ho would not bo available for the match, stated frankly that his reasons for standing out woro personal, Ho was not satisfied, ho said, with tlie treatment ho had met with concerning tho unpleasant incident of the Canterbury match.

THE TEST MATCH AT ORMOND.

[By " Biller.” |

On ,Salunlay next at Ormond Rover,y Bay (for the lirst time In the past eighteen years) meets a representative eleven from an outside province <m Gisborne ground. Tho game with llawke’s Bay is exciting exceptional interest. It is nowju.su a 1 tile over three years .since a representative Poverty Bay eleven took the lielit , hut. on that, oeeasiott they, touted a-s far its Napier , so the local 1 ttbli.; did not. have an opportunity of seeing them play. The local men wer.: very successful on that, tour and qu.'te demonstrated to the Hawke’s Bey knights of the willow (.lull they, were foemen worthy of their steel. They, were just beaten by (lie United and Sciatic Clubs by small margins, hut made a stieeess of the tour by. defeating a representative Hawke’s Bay eleven by twenty odd runs. In tlie second innings of the match with the United Club, W. Gibson and E. K. Ludtrook established ;l Poverty Ray. record by running up one hundred and sixty-live for Ihe first wicket. Of the eleven which represents this district. against the Napier men at Ormond on .Saturday, Ludbrook, Porlcr, Gibson, and McOredie were mem Iters of the team which toured to Napier three years ago. fl'lie team which takes the field on .Saturday is a long way the strongest which lias ever represented the district. Wlial the local enthusiasts- arc anxious to see ts bow the local’men will shape when faring Albert Troll’s bowling. Trolti is one of the very greatest stars in the cricket firmament at 1 lie present time, and no doubt many persons will atlend the match at Ormond on ■Saturday solely to sec the play of tins man who for three years running in first-class cricket, in England took over a hundred wickets and scored over a thousand rims. However, I do not think the local men are likely to let a reputation unnerve them,and fee! sure Utah if the famous professional expects to get a phenomenal bowling average lie will have to bowl exceptionally well to gel. it,. In the quartette from the Coast—Ludbrook, K. S. Williams, J. N Williams, and Beale—the local side have sruiHi/jilavcrs, who should strengthen the home eleven greatly. r expect to see a really good game at Ormond on .Saturday, and shall never prophesy again if the local men do not mate an even contest of it.

Yesterday afternoon, eight of Ilie local representatives were hard at it at the nets on Victoria Domain. The only absentees were the three Coast, men. Ludbrook shaped well with (be bat bust evening, and his sojourn on the Coast does not appear to have impaired his form in the least. He. say< that Beale and the Iwo Wiihdiiin are in very good form.