CRICKET.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 430, 13 January 1912, Page 3

CRICKET.

The local players have been getting in some very good net practices uf late and the form shown by the players is highly encoruraging. Mr Lusk is taking some trouble 10 coach the colts and his work is bound to bear fruit during the season. An effort is to be made to bring off some games on the local ground on Saturday, January 27th and Monday, January 29th. It is also intended to get a game with Hamilton on January 29th if possible. A team would be available to travel to the Waikato centre on the hoilday leaving by the early train in the morning and returning by th« midnight express. Mangapehi and Pio Pio teams might be induced to visit Te Kuiti on the 27th and 29th respectively when good games would be assured them. Adelaide appears to be the ground for biff scores, and visiting teams have been helping themselves freely to runs at the expense of the South Australain players. The New South Wales eleven this week piled up a total of over five hundred runs against the Wheat Staters, Bardsley compiling a faultless 177. Barbour and Minett, two of the young Sydney players also batted brilliantly, the former getting 122 and the latter just failing to reach the century. per evidently went to bat well down on the list and was content to play carefully as is evidenced by his score of 21 not out.