NEW ROUND COMMENCED

NZ Truth, Issue 1108, 24 February 1927, Page 14

NEW ROUND COMMENCED

Club Cricket m Wellington •'>'■'.-."■' (By li. T. .Cobcroft.) The second last round of championship games was begun on Saturday and some very fine batting performances were recorded.

KH-BIRNIE were fortunate m having .first knock against Petone. It was not till after 400 was hoisted that their last wicket fell.

Badcock played a beautiful innings— m fact -I doubt if the coach ever gave a better display of batting. '...'■ Very few; balls sent down by Brice and ,'' Fin- . layson were not scored off by Badcock, who placed them to , all parts of the field.

Armstrong, ■ Algar and Oreig, continued op' with the run-getting- after the coach had been run .out. FinlayBon and Smyrk ; bowled well, especially the former. . - \ Hutt, batting first against Wellington, were.at one time m a bad way, six wickets being S down for - 78. When Eddie McLeod went t0,., they wicket's the pcore started 1 to go up rapidly and when the last m^n was bowled the board showed 264.

McLeod was responsible for 111 not out. Tattersall and Shanahan also made useful scores. Cousins, the bowler with the kangaroo hop, secured ,flve wickets for 100 runs. Played on the Hutt ground Y.M.C-V. made a disastrous start .against Thorndon and lost "five good wickets for 23 runs. Mat: Henderson then joined Harold Murphy and sixty runs were added before the N.Z. representative gave way for Whitei Murphy .continued to pile the runs on and. when 19 short of his century put his leg m front to Hyder and retired^ Harold oompletely saved the side from disaster..' Brown, who went m altogether Moo late, was unbeaten with 35 to his credit. Playing against Midland, Institute batsmen were m something like their form of- two, seasons back arid scored freely and consistently. ,' Jack Malcolm hammered the „ 'Midland bowling In great style and had the di-itinction of heading the scoring list with over a century -.'. score. ' *