HIT AND RUN

NZ Truth, Issue 1199, 22 November 1928, Page 16

HIT AND RUN

Fielders' Leather I Hunt ■ (From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurcli ;■ . Rep.) : V ■•'■ i Though scoring was confined to a few men m Christchurch on Saturday, the batsmen, who did strike tneir form gave vastly improved displays on anything seen so far this season. ACROSS wind, and W.*J. Hamilton's slows, proved the undoing, of. half of the Sydenham side which lost four wickets for 44, and five for 92. Then C. Oliver and V. Halm got to_gether and altered the whole prospects of the side by adding 226 for the sixth wicket. ' The N.Z. rep. hit up 146 m 163 minutes in- masterful fashion,' four sixes and twenty fours being included m his total. The moral support of J. A. Newman, the Hampshire pro., meant a lot to West ■ Christchurch batsmen who knocked up 233 before the last wicket fell. . . ' " - L. G. Hayes reached 55 before chpr ping one to Kennedy from Tomlinson, and played stylish cricket for most of his runs. Jones, who was recently promoted from the club's B team, required watching all through. He bowls a good length from the left hand, and breaks m from the off. His figures of three for 61 do not really represent the merit of his trundling . against Wests. Easts failed to withstand the attack of ' Moffat and Findlay, who scuttled the flrs.t five batsmen for 53 runs, leaving Wests well m the ascendancy. St. Albans appeared a trifle over-awed by the' strength of the Old Boys' bowling, and through > paying it too much respect were all 1 dismissed for 137. ' F. Woods, the opening batsman, was \ the only member of the side to play at ' all briskly, and had the 'luck m play- [ ing one on from Jim" Burrows. A bright exhibition of off-driving ' was given by C. M. Harris and he was ' set 'for- >a century when, ;at 72, he ■ played the ball which bounced up and ' hit him above the jwaistline. He was , given but l.b:w. •• ; - .■■ • ■ ■ • [ However, , his 72 gave Old Boys a I good start, and aided the side 'in' over - . taking St. Albans' innings total, ' with four wickets still m hand. Consistency m , bowling, more than , brilliancy,' by. .the. Linwqod , trundlers, ■ kept Riccarjion, probably the best ba:t- --| ting combination m the competition, ■ very subdued. . . ; Read and Yates were the destructive, elements so far as Riccarton were • concerned, and to them goes most of the credit of Riccar ton's small' score \of 206. •;. .•■'.. .Probably the brightest strike of the day was that of J. Powell, for Riccarton, who gave a dashing' display all , round the wicket for 78, but the easy : manner m. which he fell a victim to Read took some of the gloss off his crisp knock.