GORE V. WANDSRERS(INVERCARGILL)

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 42, 30 December 1884, Page 2

GORE V. WANDSRERS(INVERCARGILL)

A match was played last Saturday between the abore clubs on the ground, of the former, opposite Brennan's hotel. The visitors having arrived the day previous; arrangement's were, made to commence tlie game at 10 a.m. j sharp, but even at that time several Gore men had not turned up. Owing to the kindly consideration of the Wanderer's captain (Mr Morgan) the Gore men hid I choice of innings without the usual toss. I This Douglas took advantage of, and sent his •juieii into bat. Buttle 'and Martin first appeiml on behalf of the home team, Harvey and Thomson being entrusted with the bowling. Steady play was the order of the day, as the bowler* were ' dead ou,' several overs being played before a run.' was scored. At length Thomson got one past Buttlefcafter in.ikidtf 8 ; Martin was caught for the same ; and so was Henderson. Douglas and J. H.. Brooke, now got together,, and. after a few ] oveis steady play, began knocking the 1 ather over the field. Douglas in a splendid innings contributed 43 mns and Brooke 17. The cutting of the latter player was very pretty indeed, and he well deserved his runs. Scott by good play put together 16, but is* rather inclined for gallery hits, otherwise his play was good. Sirason played better cricket than usual, and with Scott knocked up 30 runs in about 15 minutes. The innings closed for the Tery respectable total of lUO i runs. Lunch was now indulged in at Host j Leen's Club Hotel, and after ample justice ! had been done to the good things provided the game was resumed. The visitors now handled;the willoWjbeing represented bySmith and M'Clure, the bowling being entrusted to Simson and Martin. Neither man stayed long, as each bowler got a wicket in his second over. Harvey and Morgan also lost their wickets, and things looked rather blue when four wickets were down for sis runs. Tapper and Thomson now got together, and a good stand was made. Both men played good cricket, and completely stuck up the bowlers, who were "dead on " but could not get a wicket. M'Culloch took Martin's end and Brooke Sirasoo's the formeg getting the remaining wickets. Thomson made 13J and Tapper carried his bat for a well played and Datient nine. 'J h : innings closed for 56 or 44 being their oppouent. 1 was very glad to see) such a decided improvement in the all round pl.iy of tie home team, The bowling and fieiWitig wcie iirsfcrate. Gore having gone to the .vicket the second time, Br oke and Scott assumed the defence. The former made 37 by pretiy piay before he \v.i» caught off Jialrymple. Scott made 7, Lab.ti madi- H in good style, and H. Brooke 12 in ashni ar manner. Buttle contributed a dozen audDouglasjnst half that when he was caught by Smith. Simson can ied his bat for 7, and M'Culloch made (>. The innings closed for 122. It was now within an hour of the agreed upon time for drawing stumps, viz., halfpast 4, and when time was sailed 45 had been made for the loss of three wickets. .Of this number Harvey made 17 and Twcmlow 15. It is a pity there was not t jme to play the match out, as it promissed to be a close one. It was deoided upon the first innings, therefore, by 44 wes. Following are the scores.

A scratch match mil be played on Thursday (New Year,' Day) on t^o usual gro\ind aud a fin.c muster is requested. The pro<ywts 9$ Qtago winning the interprovincial match are not, as things stand at present Vftrtienlariy rosy. The Canterbury t< am got a total in their first innings of 170 W J Cotterill being not out -yvrth 1-k. Friths bpwling tor Qtago. w » g, complete dtaanVQtn.tffieftt. He did » a t take a sin«ie w^et t a ft d no less than 57 runs were scored ofi him, Cooke did capital woik. as he always has done against the Canterbury batsmen. He took the whole of the wickets that fell to the bowling— namely, nine— at a cost of only 68 runs. In Otago's second innings six wickets have fallen fur D* runs.

Gore. . Ist 2nd Buttle, b Thomson ... 3 b Dalyrmple 12 Martin, c Harvey ... 3 b Dalyrrople 0 Henderson, b Thomson 3 b Thomson .. 6 Douylas?, ]bw 40 c Smith „, ? Labatt, b Harvey ... 1 „, ,'„ H Brooke H. J. b and q Jftewe „, „, IT c ftl'Clure ... 9 Brooke, X, \V, b and o Bows 0 c Dalyrmple 37 M'Cnlloch, b Hews ... 0 b Morgan ... 6 Scott, not out ...16 c Dalyrmple 7 Siruson, b Morgan ... 7 not out ... 7 Canning, b Morgan ... 3 run out ... 0 Extras ... 7 ... , it jg Total ... 100 • "IS Ist 2nd M*Olnre, b Siruso-n ... 1 yinith, b Martin ... 3 Harvey, c Canning ... 2 b M'Cullosh 17 Morgan, b Simson ... 0 not out ... 2 Bews, b Martin ... 2 not out ... -k Tapper, not out ... 9 runout ... (\ Twemlow, bSimson... 0 b Brooke „.\i Thomson, b Martin ... 12 " "" Dalyrmple, c Martin "f Dun,bM'(Julk s cix '„. 2 V, M'.Cu'lloch ... 5 Exfra S v. ... 12 7 56 # ~7T