CRICKET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 17, 13 February 1909, Page 6

CRICKET.

i INGLEWOOD v. WAITARA. ' Inglewood seniors defeated Waitara at the latter place on Thursday by 53 runs. Waitara won the toss and elected to bat, but were disposed of for the email total of 30, the bowling of O'Byrne and Harris proving too good for the home team. Inglewood responded with 81), of which Clegg contributed 30, carrying his bat. Scores:— WAITARA. Sartcn, b Harris .. ~ ■.. ■ 3 Hawkins, run out 4 Eggleston, b O'Bvrne '. 3 Dowsett, b O'Byrne 2 Bond, b Harris 5 W. SkoHon, b O'Bvrne .. .. 4 I'. Skellon, eK. Nicholls. b O'Byrne 0 Rev. Brocklchurst; c .Matthews, b O' ftyrne. .. 4 Purdie, cT. Nicholl,-, b Harris .. 2 Prosser, b O'Bynie .. .. ~ 2 Mays, not out 1 Total so ' Howling—(l'llvrne. six for 1-1; Harris, three for 15. INGLEWOOD. E. Nicholls, c UOIIII, I. W. Skellon 13 Cromllie. bW. Skellon . . 10 O'lluue. c 'P. Skeltou. b llond .. I! iniiian, b W. Skeltou 1 Clegg, not out 30 Dr. (limit, run out (i I'iillan. cMa vs. b lloml .. .. 3 Biding, c Purdie. bP. Skellon .. .", Matthews,)) W. Skeltou- .. .. 0 Harris. c Bond, b P. Skeltou .. 0 T. Nicholls, b Dowsett .. .. 4 Extras 8 Total SO Bowling—W. Skeltou. lour fur 20; Bond, two for 30; P. Skeltou, two for 14; Dowsett, one for 3. FIRE BRIGADE v. CARRINGTON ROAD.

On the Carrington Road ground the Carrington Road juniors defeated the l-'ire Brigade team'by 117 runs on the first innings. Scores: Fire. Brigade.—L. Bullot. run out. 8; Knight, c PeTi-v, b Schlierike. !); Billing. (■ Perry, b Schlierike, 10; Hooker, D Alaretl. 5; I. Bullot, hit wicket, h Marett, i; Marney. b Barber, 0; Douglas, !. Schlierike, U; )'.. 8111101, e Perry, b 'Schlierike, 0; Koch, b Schlierike, 3; Allen, c Kaiuplon, b .Marett, 0; Sadler, not out, 0; extra, 1; total, 38. How-liug.—Schlierike, six for 17; Foote, none For 12; Marett, two for 8.

Carrington Road—Marett, 1.b.w., h Maniey, 13; W. McEwen, c Hooker, b Douglas, 13; Broome, e Billing, b Bullot, 0; 11. McEwen, c L. Bullot, b Douglas, 7; I'oote, c B. Bullot, b Billing, 17; Schlierike, b Billing, ll; McArthur. c Douglas, b Marney, 20; Roti, c Douglas, b 11. Bullot, 25: Rainptou, c Douglas, b P.. Bullot, O; Tnvlor, not out, 4; extras, 0; total, 155.

Howling.—l!. Ballot, three for !); Douglas, three for 31; Harney, two for ii; Billing, two for 18; Knight, none lor 11; L. Bullet, none for 13; Hooker, none for l(i; 1. Bullol, none for 24. NOTES. (By "Third Slip.") The following will play for United Service B against Egmont Village today (brake to leave the National Hank corner at 1 p.m.):—Allkius, Diimiss, Dixon, Finlay, Huso, Napier, Preshuw, Simons, Southall, Trcssider, Wiggs. It was very pleasing to see, ami should be a lasting object-lesson to one or two teams in the Saturday competition, that tit, High School very pluckily journeyed to Egmont Village with a teani of eight, to keep their tixtui'o with tile Village!s. Even that team of eight onlv comprised six of their regular players.' Naturally, they suffered rather «' serious reverse, but they really deserved a better fate for thus showing such it sportsmanlike spirit. Ward was the only batsman to make any Iragrliy stand against the bowling of 11. Marsh, who was in capital trim. Egmont Village were in good batting form, especially O'llvrnc. who carried his bat for a well-played 3U. fire Brigade covered themselves with glory by defeating t| u . crack New Plymouth team by Hi runs on the lirst innings. It is more than probable that, Mmr at the bottom of the competition, 'they were held rather too cheaply by their opponents; but these opponents had not taken into consideration the fact, that, with two or three weeks' practice, llaidwick had more than regained his old bowling form. He proved himself in capital fettle that da v. and was practically the main cause of the New Plymouth "debacle" lie also had a very useful time with the willow, and was ably assisted by Bullot. .McLaren and Cook were the only batsnie.i to show any partiality for the bowling, and both played a very masterful innings. Whittle' was the' only New 'Plymouth bowler to seriously trouble the batsmen, and his slow icg-brcaks evidently milled the tempers of the umpires, rven. .Unfortunately, there was a deal of animosity shown, and this only treads in one direction, viz., the very speedy brcaking-irp of what looked to be a very successful inauguration of a Saturday competition. When some of our players cannot take a defeat in a real sporting manner, then it were better that they should give the game best. If they haven't learnt by now, they will never learn, and, as remarked before, the sooner they give up the game the better for the welfare of cricket generally. If the majority of cricketers here have the welfare of cricket at heart as much as the writer, they must fully concur with the above outspoken but sincere remarks. Tlie match between the two Scrv'co teams proved a very interesting, not to say exciting, one. although at one stage it'luoked as if the "A" team had tlie match well in hand. For some mysterious reason, Southall, on winning the toss, sent his opponents in to but. To all appearances, the wicket was ill splendid condition, but, as it happened, it was far from being so. After a few minutes' play, it began to crumble badly, and the bowlers from tin n on had a glorious outing. Even Presliaw with his pace obtained several of his wickets with a very respectable break. McCord,of the "A" team, was the only batsman to make a pronounced stand; he batted very patiently, not attempting any forcing strokes, ami carried his bat right through the innings for a wellplayed 14. Prcshaw was right on the spot, and was ably supported by Southall. The former in obtaining six wickets for 11 runs bowled eight overs, but the six wickets fell in three consecutive overs, these overs yielding only three runs. Truly, a verv Ihie performance. The lidding of the "11" team was only fair, the wickclkeeping especially being very weak, as at least a dozen runs were lost hv faultv fielding behind the wickets.

Mi-l'ont and Wood very ipiickly got lo work amongst the 'W liatsinou, and it looked as if the innings would not realise double Jigures; hut Suuthnll made a -light stand and stopped the -rot." MoCord had found a nice spot, and had all the bat-men in a kink from I lie start. He kept a splendid length all through, and with a very useful Icglireak wa- almost unplayable. "Wood was also bowling well, but was at times very erratic.

With a Iciiil of l-t runs i>„ the. first innings tin' "A" ti'iim looked tn bo "o-.i velvet."' Although only milking 3S in their -.otoiicl innings, they were, newr-lliclc-o. giving their opponents—who. could only knock u|i 25 hi the first innings—Hie task of making 5:) to win. The two hitters. Soutliall awl Preshaw, opened tip, but I lie former quickly retired before one of ileCord's leg-breaks. Tnwider and Finlay ipiickly followed, and three good wickets were down for 1". However, by this time

•Treshaw the irrepressible" hud opened out at the bowling, and with the able of Napier pulled the niali-li mil of the lire for the "ltee-s. - '

It. was a great effort. and be indoubledly made a hero ~,f himself Unit day. His bowling record was 11 wicket* for 22 mils, and batting -l.j runs out of a total for the two innings of !)1 runs.

The fielding of the "A" team was good, but one or two mi-lakes were made. Robertson missed Prelaw in I lie long-field before ho bad got well going lit was si very dink-nlt catch. thought, and Craws.hu \v dropped n very easy catch at point from Napier. A ureal deal of credit must be given ki Fletcher for his able wickel-keoping. II was really a. sterling performance, alllnugh want of experience showed up in bis Tjot taking advantage of chanres of stumping repeatedly given by lVobaw.

After flu' lualcli had bec'a losl. Robertson was mil on to bowl, and had good sport ''rabbiting." finishing up 'with the good average of four wickets for five runs.

' Congratulations lo Hie noor. despised "IV learn on winning Ihe "rubber."