CRICKET

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1930, Page 5

CRICKET

M.G.C. TEAM IN SOUTH AFRICA.

(Australian Press Association.)

CAPETOWN, Nov. 3

The M.C.C. cricketers, including‘ six amateurs and seven professionals, with Mrs Chapman, • have -arrived here. They were warmly welcomed. Chapman, the captain, stated the team was very fit. If the South Africans 1 were of the same quality, as the Springboks who toured England the rubber would not so readily go to England as many peuple imagined. England was training younger men jn anticipation of the next Australian* tour.

The team, with Miss Peggy Duncan, the Channel swimmer, lunched with the M'ayor of Capetown.

QUEENSLAND BEAT SOUTH

AUSTRALIA.

BRISBANE, Nov. 3

The first of the Sheffield Shield cricket matches, Queensland defeated South Australia. 'ln the first innings Queensland made 289. Carlton took 4 for 67. South Australia in the first innings made 72.' Thurlow took 5 far 25, and Gilbert, who. is a young aboriginal, took 12 for 22. ' 'South Australia followed on, and in' the second innings had scored 180 for two wickets at stumps on Saturday, Nitscke made 44 and Pritchard 02, To-day" South Australia completed their second innings, scoring B<]4, Lee made 57 not out. Gilbert 'tsjU 2 for 86, and Qxenham 3 for 60,

Queensland in the pecond innings scored 88 puns for 3 .wickets. Biggs made 47, Queensland thus won by seven wickets,

J. NEWMAN BOWLS WELL.

WELLINGTON, November 2

The ball triumphed Over the bat on Saturday afternoon, when the opening series of senior club championship games was concluded in cheerless weather on wickets which were easy after the. rain of the previous night. A bright exception was the solid 137 hit up by Dempster, Wellington’s new professional coach, for Institute against Hutt. A feature of the afternoon’s play was the brilliant bowling of J. Newman, o'f Nelson, who comes over every week-end to play for the Midland eleven. The Nelson left-hander won the match for Midland against Wellington by sending down 30.5 overs, sixteen of which were maidens, and capturing six wickets for 45 runs. Newman’s objective is a place in the New , Zealand team for England and his bowling bn Saturday proved that Duleepsinhji’s judgment was not far out when he declared the Nelson man to be the best bowler lie had faced in the Dominion. Midland 216,. and six for 125, befit Wellington 136. Kilbirnie 246 beat Old Boys 200. Petone 223 beat University 148 and five for 49. Hutt 310 beat Institute 225.