VARSITY CRICKET

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 11

VARSITY CRICKET

AUCKLAND BATTING SCHNAUERS FINE DISPLAY (Special to THE SUN) WELLINGTON', To-d.;> In the Inter-Varsity cricket niat< h. at Basin Kesene, Auckland won thtoss and God ley and Stewart opened the innings to the bowling of Greig and Williams. After half an hour’s play. God ley who had scraped five together, wa bowled by A. C. Tripe. The total v\,« then 9. •Schnauer came next and it took 4 minutes before his first ten appearre on the board. Forty came up in an hour and her* Stewart was smartly snapped up u the slips by Veitmeyer off HoUings. Hay, a left-hander, joined Schnauer ard the pair made a serviceable stand Hay made some pretty shots on tin on side, but with the total at 85 h< pepped one from Williams into Ley\ hc.nds at mid-on. S. Wilson joined Schnauer. who w. , at 45, and the latter, by tapping \Yi liams through the slips for a sinu • reached his half century. S. Wilsot opened out to Tripe, who had rcliovt • itellings, and got him away t«» b>r leg lor four. Schnauer brought tl 100 up for 130 minutes’ play by c»i driving Greig to the track. S. Wilson lifted Tripe over the lon on boundary for the first sixer of In match, and after he had put on I lushed out at one from Tripe and v. clean-bowled. The score stood a 116.

After J. McLiousall had played uu the over, stumps were drawn at a,.' on account ot lading light, the scor standing at 116 tor t our wickets. Schnauer was left unbeaten with to his credit.