SOUTH AUCKLAND FAILS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 902, 20 February 1930, Page 15

SOUTH AUCKLAND FAILS

M.C.C. CRICKETERS AT HAMILTON BARRATT’S fine bowling (THE SUN'S Special Reporter.J HAMILTON, Today. | England's battery of mediumfast bowlers, Barratt, Worthington and Allom. carried too many guns for the South Auckland batsmen when the M.C.C. team commenced the fifteenth match of its tour at Seddon Park. Hamilton, yesterday Badeley won the toss and South. Auckland batted first to be ail out just before three o’clock for only S 6 runs j in its first innings. It could not be j expected that the representatives of merely one portion of a New Zealand province could hold a team of the calibre of the Englishmen, but something a little better than 86 was expected of them. Nichols bowled six overs early in the day and made the ball fly. He was no-balled a lot and captured only one wicket. s BARRATT’S FEAT Barratt, who took four wickets for seven runs, was responsible for the outstanding bowling feat of the day. He sent down 11 overs, six of which were maidens. Worthington, who also took four wickets, was more expensive than Barratt but he got a surprising amount of pace up on the wicket. The first wicket fell with only three runs on the board and at no stage in the innings did the Waikato men make a substantial stand. Badeley shaped well for a time, and much was expected of him after his game tor the Auckland representatives against the visitors, but he fell to Worthington when eight. C. W. Garrard, the former Auckland and New Zealand representative, opened in a promising fashion. He played the medium fast bowlers fairly confidently, but fell to wiles of Bowley and was caught behind by Benson. TWO SIXES TO SKEET Skeet was the only other member of the side to reach double figures. He won applause by lifting Bowley over the chalk twice off successive balls for fine sixes. He had liis leg pin taken away by Wothington when he had reached 27. Hawke got six, but the tail-enders failed badly, Johnston, Everest and Going all being dismissed for “ducks.” Mr. “Extras” contributed a handy sixteen to South Auckland’s tally. .The first six wickets fell for 83, and the next four fell with the addition of only three more runs. WAIKATO TOTAL PASSED Benson and Bowley opened England's first innings and for a time scored hardly any faster than South Auckland had done. Bowley appeared to have difficulty in connecting with the ball, but Benson opened out just before the afternoon tea adjournment, scoring more aggressively than his partner. Hawke skittled Benson’s stumps with a no ball. He is a most promising fast bowler, and the Englishmen say he has a run up to wicket very like Harold Larwood. After tea the batsmen brightened, up slightly, and set about the task - of effacing South Auckland’s total. This they accomplished by five* o’clock, when they were still together. Shortly after Bowley had the misfortune to be cleanjDOwled by the seventh ball of what should have been a six-ball over from Hawke. The Sussex man had scored 48. GREAT INTEREST IN GAME 1 Benson batted patiently and at times forcefully for his 76. At stumps England had three wickets down for 161 runs. The match created unprecedented interest in Hamilton, the attendance at the peak period yesterday being approximately 4,000 —probably the largest crowd ever to have attended a cricket match in the Waikato.

RETURNING BY MOTOR-CAR THE SUN'S Special Reporter HAMILTON, Today. The M.C.C. team will leave direct from the ground after the completion of the match with South Auckland this afternoon and will travel to Auckland by car. If the match does not end earlier, stumps will be drawn at 5.3 p o'clock. ' The gate yesterday amounted to £123 14s. The attendance was between 3,500 and 4,000, which is far and away tho largest crowd to see a cricket match in the Waikato. The previous best was 2,000, when the Australian team was here three years ago. The Waikato Cricket Association has thus paid, for its guarantee to the New Zealand Cricket Council, and with only about £4O more expenses can be expected to make a handsome profit on the game if today’s gate is as good.

CRICKET AT KINGS

LIVELY DISPLAY GIVEN BY N.Z. TEAM The New Zealand cricket team gave a sparkling display in a match against 12 players selected from the combined secondary schools of Auckland, in a match at the King’s College grounds yesterday. Ideal weather conditions prevailed, and the representatives entered into the spirit of the- game, and thoroughly enjoyed their “busmen’s holiday.” Lewis, who captained the schools’ team, won the toss and elected to bat, Spence and Lewis opening to the bowling of McGirr and Rotheram. Spence 14, Cummings 13, and I-towden 11 were the only batsmen to reach double figures. The innings closed for a total of G 8 runs. Practically all of the New Zealand team had a turn with the ball. McGirr (5-17) finished with the best average. The New Zealanders’ innings closed for a total of 269. Rotherham hit up a breezy 51. Included in his aggregate were four sixes and three fouirs. Other double figure men were Blunt 40, Lowry 58, Dempster 23 not out, Guiney 19, Page 15, McGirr 13, Merritt 13, Wensley 11. Bowling for schools, Renshaw (5-88) finished with the best average. Wensley and Dempster filled the last two positions on the batting list. Fielding for schools, Dixon gave a brilliant exhibition in catching Badcock just inside the boundary before the batsman had time to open his account. A little while later, the same fieldsman accounted for Merritt, in practically the same position. His ground work was also clean, and liis efforts met with the approval of the gallery. Details of play are: Combined Schools. First innings: Spence. e Lowry, b Rotherham, 14; Lewis, c James, b Wensley, 2; Caughey, st James, b Mei-ritt, 0; Dixon, c Dempster, b Cave, 2; Renshaw, b Lowry 3; Howden, b McGirr, 11; Jessop b Blunt, 8; Cummings, c Dempster,’ b McGirr, 13; Jackson, b McGirr, 2: Sampson, c Rotherham, b McGirr, 1; Woolloxall, b McGirr, 2; Everson, not out, 5; extras, 5. Total, 6S. Bowling for New Zealand: McGirr, 5-17; Rotherham, 1-6; Wensley, 1-0: Meri ritt, 1-10; Cave 1-15; Lowry, 1-12: DempI ster, 0-4; Blunt, 1-2; Guiney, 0-6. New Zealand.—First innings: McGirr. run out, 13; Page, b Renshaw, 15; Badcock, c Dixon, b Renshaw, 0; Blunt, c Everson, b Woolloxall, 40; Merritt, c Dixon, b Sampson, 13; Lowry, c Lewis, b Renshaw. SS; James, c Everson, b Dixon, 4; Rotherham, b Caughey, 51;

Guiney, c Renskaw, b Howden. ID: Cave, b Renshaw, 5; Wensley, c and b Renshaw, 11; Dempster, not out, 23; extras, IT. Total, 269. Bowling for Schools: Woolloxall. 1-41; Renshaw. 5-SS; Howden, 1-65; Sampson, 1-13; Dixon, 1-23; Caughey, 1-11; Jessop. 0-11. Combined Schools. Second innings: Spence, not out, 20; Cunningham, b Page, 1; Woolloxall, c Blunt, b Page, 0; Howden, b Wensley. 0; Everson, c James, b Page. 1: Sampson, not out, 5; extras, 1. Total for four wickets. 27. Bowling for New Zealand: Page. 3-15; Lowry, 0-4; Wensley, 1-4; Blunt, 0-2.

CRICKET COACH

NICHO'S ACCEPTS WELLINGTON ENGAGEMENT FAST BOWLER: SOLID BAT I From THE SUE'S Special Reporter. HAMILTON. Wednesday. M. S. Nichols, whose line bowling and batting have been an outstanding feature of the M.C.C.’s New Zealand tour, has accepted an engagement as coach to the Wellington Cricket Asso-

ciation. He will return to England with the M.C.C. team, but will come back to New Zealand at the beginning of October in time for next cricket season. Nichols is a member of the Essex County eleven, and is the second Essex man to come to New Zealand, the Otago Association having previously had L. C. Eastman for two seasons. The dearth of fast bowling in New Zealand should make Nichols’s services particularly valuable to Dominion cricket, because it is recognised that one of the handicaps which face New Zealand batsmen is lack of practice against fast bowling. Nichols is also a strong, rugged batsman, who is a great fighter.

SUBURBAN ASSOCIATION

POSITIONS OF JUNIOR TEAMS The following are the positions of the various teams in the junior grades under the control of the City and Suburban Association, the results being made up to date:

NO LODGE GAMES SATURDAY All lodge games under the auspices of the Auckland Suburban Cricket Association, which were to have been played on Saturday, have been postponed on account of the M.C.C. v. New Zealand match.

SECOXP Team. P. GRADE. W. I.. D. Pts Comrades .... 10 10 Avondale .... n s 20 Green Lane . . . 4 < >tahuhu 10 S Kinsrsland .... 10 3 7 -— 0 Richmond .... 10 1 9 — o THIRD Edendale .... GRADE 10 0 A. 1 20 Gas Garagre . 1 1 is Royal Oak . . . 11 13 Maungrakiekie . . S 4 1 11 Avondale 10 s — Star of Eden . . 10 — 10 — 0 THIRD Ambury's GRADE 9 7 B. 21 Glen Eden . . . 10 s — 21 Auckland Meat Co. 11 4 10 X.R. Ambulance . 0 4 5 10 Richmond .... 11 4 7 — 10 Li. D. Nathan . . . 30 3 7 — 7 THIRD GRADE INTERMEDIATE. Richmond .... 10 10 2S Avondale 0 4 — 1 «> Edendale .... 4 12 Parker-Lamb . . 4 11 Maungakiekie . . s 8 0 Royal Oak . . . 5 5