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Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1931, Page 5

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THE NEW ZEALAND TOUR. AGAINST GLOUCESTER. RAIN PREVENTS PLAY. (Special to Press Association). „ . f. ________ (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 10. Owing to steady rain there was no play in the morning in the cricket match New Zealand v. Gloucestershire.

LOWRY MISSES CENTURY

(Received this day at 9.25 a.m) BRISTOL, August 10.

Good batting by Lowry, Dempster, Vivian -and Blunt gave New Zealand cricketers a respectable first innings lead in the match against Gloucestershire. Play was resumed' at 2.15 after isteady rain in the morning. Mills was dismissed by Rogers with ,a, fast medium height ball which came in quickly. Dempster and Vivian ■added 75 for the second wicket. The latter attacked the bowling confidently and hit sixers off Goddard and Libfield. He was caught when attempting to steer a ball to leg. He batted for fifty-seven minutes.

Dempster was caught by the wicket keeper after an .admirable all round display. He showed no loss of 1 form, after Ills enforced rest. His innings lasted 98 minutes. Weir and Pago were dismissed in rapid succession. A fine partnership between* Lowry and Blunt added 127, ,for -the sixth wicket and placed New Zealand in a strong position." 15 Lowry played a typical attacking iimihgs and showed conderable skill in"‘hitting Parker to leg egainst the spin. He was/exceedingly unfortunate to miss his ceiiturv. He batted -for eighty-five 'minutes and hit nine fours. Parker took three cheap wickets before stunros. Blunt played an undefeated, steady, defensive $ innings. The wicket, which was„eovered over the week end ■ was slow. The attendance was two thousand. GLOUCESTER—-First. Innings. Seabrook, b Allcott 27 Sinfield, b Page ... ... 15 Smith, b Allcott ... 1 Neal, 1.b.w., v Vivian ... ... ... 7 Barnett, c Blunt, b Page ... ... 20 Stephens, c Weir, b Vivian ... ... 2 Rogers, stpd. James,' b Page o ... 0 Parker, stpd. James, b Vivian 0 Ford, not out ... ... ... ~••• 37. Benson, 1.b.w., b Matheson • 10 Goddard, c Page, b Matheson ..¥> 0 Extras - ... 4 Total ... ... ... .:. ... 123 Bowling Analysis.—Matheson 2 for 12, Cromb 0 for 11, Blunt 6 for 9, Page 3 for 36, Allcott 2 for 24, Lowry 0 for 1, Vivian 3 for 26.

a fair score. ■ . / ' . ■ \ _ , .. , ’ BRISTOL, • August 10. NEW ZEALAND—Eirst - Xnninga. u Dempster c Benaoir b Parker ~, 54 Mills b Rogers ~, ... ~, ~, 1 Vivian e Barnett b Parker 41 Weir l.b.w. b Goddard. ... ... 2 Page o and b Goddard 2 Blunt (not out) ... ... ... ’.V. ... 44 Lowry-l.b.w, b Parker ... ... ... 96 Matheson l.b.w b Parker ... ... 0 James b Parker' ... ... 1 Cromb c Veale b Parker.. . 8 Extras 8 Total for 9 wickets *.. 257 N.Z. CRICKETERS. AT CHURCH. LONDON, August 10. “gt. Peter is par excellence the wicketkeeper in the heavenly team. When we go there we will, find him behind the sticks,” said Admiral H. E. Grace, son of the late'W. G. Grace, when speaking at a sportsmen’s annual service at Downend Church in Gloucestershire. Two New Zealand cricketers, Cromb and Blunt, read the Lessons.

j._ LEADING PLAYERS 5 . » LONDON, August 9. Leading averages are:— ' Batting:- Sutcliffe 2,276 runs, average 98/75; Patatidi Ja’rdine 885—68/07 ; Rev. : Jv Parsons 1,174 —65/22 ; Dempster -1,239—61/95; Duleepsinhji 2,404—61/64; , Hendren 1,900 —57/57; Woolley ' 1>,668—47/65; Sandham 1,474—47/54; Hobbs 1,608—46/87. Bowling: LarwoQd 110 wickets, aver, age 11/28, Verity 139—12/87; Tate 132 —l4/03, Parker 176—14/40, Freemnn 218—14/80/ Root 118—15/09, Macaulay 79—15/67. Championship leaders, are: Yorkshire 231 points; Gloucester 184; Nottingham 180.

THIRD TEST MATCH. LONDON, August 10. The English test team will be selected this evening. LONDON, August 10. The test team against New Zealand on Saturday will he D. R. JARDINE (Surrey), captain. K. S. -DULEEPSINHJI (Sussex) I. A. R. PEEBLES (Middlesex) H. SUTCLIFFE (Yorkshire) W. R. HAMMOND (Gloucestershire) . L. E. G. AMES (Kent) H. VERITY (Yorkshire) F. R. BROWN (Cambridge University) G. O. ALLEN (Middlesex) LARWOOD (Yorkshire) PAYNTER. (Lancashire) ‘ IDDON (Lancashire) is twelfth man. M. W. Tate (Sussex) and A. H. Bake well (North ants) are dropped from the second test team.