Y.M.C.A. TOO GOOD FOR UNIVERSITY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 195, 7 November 1927, Page 10

Y.M.C.A. TOO GOOD FOR UNIVERSITY

LABORIOUS CRICKET SCHNAUER’S GOOD BATTING Y.M.C.A.’s first innings’ total of 191 was the deciding factor in the game between the Young Men and University. Even though Rule Garrard and Company managed to get rid of the Association XI. for 62 in the second innings, Y.M.’s lead of 129 on the first innings decided the issue. The second day’s play was, with few exceptions, laboriously slow. A few more games like this one and the attendance at Eden Park will be reduced to two men and a dog. The two men will be the umpires. Starting the afternoon’s play with four down for 54, Varsity was all out for 116 after less than an hour and a half’s batting. Bowley brought a battery of four trundlers into action, maintaining the attack from the top end himself throughout the second portion of the innings. All the bowlers tried got wickets, the most effective combination being that of Bowley and Elliott, who rattled through the Varsity tail in quick style. SCHNAUER BATS WELL With 11 to his credit from the previous week, Schnauer added another 2 6 to his tally before Bowley brilliantly caught and bowled the exGrammar captain after 40 minutes’ batting. Schnauer played a good, solid innings, picking his shots with unruffled patience, and laying the wood on to the loose ones. He hit five fours. Gee started shakily against Bowley, but soon steadied down, and had lie found anyone to stay with him, Varsity would have secured greater benefit from his patient innings. With Gee holding up an end, the game for the later batsman was to go for the bowling, but most of the batsmen played into the bowlers* hands by consistently stepping back to balls that were breaking sharply from the pitch. Bowley (five for 54) found the wicket more to his liking than on the first day. On a wicket that helps his break to gather pace off the pitch, Bowley takes some playing, and most of the batsmen were uncomfortable to him. Bowling a medium rignt hand ball with plenty of pace on it at times, Elliott kept the batsmen very quiet, and got two wickets cheaply. Y.M.C.A.’s fielding was patchy. Bowley and Elliott were very good, and Pearce also did some good work, but as a whole, the ground fielding wants brushing up. I-lunt, behind the wickets, was a little bit off his usual steady game at times, but he had to take some bad returns. DISASTROUS SECOND INNINGS Bowley and Elliott started Y.M.C.A.’s second innings in breezy style, but it was evident that both were finding the wicket troublesome. Elliott was first to go. After he had scored three singles, he let fly at Garrard, and lifted a couple of his slow ones out of the ground for sixers. Then Barnes got him. When Peoppel joined Bowley, it looked as if something might be done, but Garrard had settled down to a length, and his bowling from now on was deadly. Bowley spooned one up to Smeetoi. at short stop after a nicely played 15, and after his departure, the wickets fell thick and fast. Peoppel alone played the bowling with any degree of confidence, and was unlucky not to carry his bat right through the innings, being caught off the last ball of the innings. The Young Men batted one short, Miller being an absentee with a poisoned knee. Peoppel played as nice an innings as one could wish to see. He got well forward to anything tricky, and used a pretty leg glide effectively, also scoring occasionally with a wellplayed off shot. GARRARD’S FINE AVERAGE When the figures were totted up, it was found that Garrard had come out with the great average of six for 22. He kept a much better length than on the opening day, and with the wicket helping his spin, he always had the batsmen worried. Give him a wicket that is doing anything, and Garrard is still one of the most dangerous bowlers in New Zealand. It was unlucky for him last season that there were two other bowlers of the same type available in Bowley and Snedden, who had stronger batting credentials than the Varsity skipper. Barnes fully bore out the opinion formed of his bowling on the opening day. lie bowls a consistently wellpitched ball, and turns slightly both ways, but his length is his strong point. The wicket did not appear to suit Matheson, but even so, his length was faulty both days.

A TAME FINISH Had the University batsmen elected to force the pace in the early stages of the innings, it is possible that they might have beaten Y.M.C.A., especially as they were entitled to claim an “overtime” allowance from the late start. However, nobody showed much inclination to “give it a go.” and gradually the Association bowlers took a grip on the game, aided by considerably improved fielding. Matheson did make a courageous effort to get runs quickly in the early stages, but with the fall of several other wickets cheaply. Varsity concentrated on saving itself from a four-pointer, and played out time with four wickets in hand. Y.M.C.A.’s bowling was hardly so effective as in the first innings, but the fielding was better. Elliott was again particularly good, and his returns to the wicket were a lesson to his side. Everybody was pleased to see Schnauer get his half-century. Had Varsity won, he would have been the hero of the mafeh. As it was, he topped the score in both innings, and showed himself one of the most promising batsmen in Auckland at the ? present time. His style can scarcely 1 be called elegant, but anything loose

on the leg side, he punishes severely, and he has one or two nice shots on the off. Second Innings MATHESON, b Bowley II SMEETON. c Hunt, b Peoppel S SCHNAUER, not out .. 50 RALFE, c Bowley. b Peoppel 0 GEE, c Wells, b Elliott 7 GARRARD, c Wells, b Elliott 4 DOW, c sub., b Bowley 4 KELLY, not out 6 Extras 8 Total for six wickets . L 9S Fall of wickets: 12, 28, 33. 64, 74, 90. Bowling: Bowlev, 2-19: Peoppel, 2-3 S; Riddolls, 0-S; Elliott, 2-10; Paton, 0-5.