CRICKET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 295, 22 January 1910, Page 3

CRICKET.

NOTES. (By "THird Slip"). The first round of the Thursday sen lor competition was brought to a conclusion last week, when the' Wanderers and Carrington Road teams each obtain a three-points win, inglewood and iiovers being the respective loser-:. The two first-mentioned teams are. leading lor tile competition, but the Wanderers have the very substantial lead of three'-points, owing to their defeat of Camngioii Road a few weeks ago. The meeting (H these two teams in the second and final round will doubtless he watched with great -interest, as the result will' possibly decide as to which team will ultimately be the winners -') i the competition. Of course, there is always th a possibility of the "glorious uncertainty, etc.," creeping in and upsetting calculations, in that either of these teams might be defeated by Waitara. Inglewood or Rovers, but considering tale fact that Wanderers and Carrington Road each prevailed against the other three teams by three-point wins, the odds are very much against defeat in th e riext ' round. Should Wanderers b«it Carrington Road, everything would point to them as being the almost certain winners of the Cup, but should Carrington Road win, it'would nossibly mean a play-off for the muchcoveted trophy. Such an occurrence would give, considerably more interest to the competition, and make a very attractive match.

The Rovere, owing to a cleticit of 10S runs on the first innings, had to follow on, and although they struggled hard 'to save nn innings defeat, thanks mainly to the very line performance of Weston:s, they failed by seven runs. Weri- \ :t,on was a. little shaky for two or three t overs, and gave two chances of catching Before he had made a dozen runs, hut afterwards settled well down and played the bowling with the utmost confidence, his square cutting and off-driving being a treat to watch. Benbow eventually found his weak spot on the leg. and tossed down the right sort of ball for Weston to hit to mid-on, Perham accepting the catch. Fairbrother, Clarke and Fitzpatrick assisted well towards running the score up, bnt the other batsmen shaped moderately. Benbow was"" easily the best bowler for Carrington Road", bowling right through without a change. The fielding was good at times, out "glaring blunders cropped ap occasionally. j The Wanderers easily accounted for Tnglewood, gaining a three-point win. On continuing their innings the formers , "tail" was strongly in evidence, as the i remaining four wickets could only account for 10 runs. Inulewood in their second venture did slightly better. Clegg and Dr. Gault showing fairly good "form. Orbell, nlthough'scorinsr a third of the runs, was very lucky indeed, as he should have been out before reaching double figures. The ficldinsr of tlm town team was distinctly good, and very few runs were thrown n\v;iy to th ( > other side, while le.e bowling of Xieoll and Hill was extremely good and solid, and allowed >'f no liberties to be , taken. Wanderers were set the fast of getting 71 run? in about an hour in order to sain an outright win, and this was accomplished in about half the time, thank- to some delightfully forceful hit:in« by Lash and Greatbatch, who fairly t'O'.l'ared the bowling from the word : 'co." O'Byrne being the oliief sufferer. *Our town cricketers have had two very enjoyable matches this week against Williamson's Ouera Conriau .-. and managed to win boTK with a fair ( amount of case. On the visitors were sent in to 'bat. but could do Jiothing' nm:h against the bowling of Whitlb and ?outhall, who were right on the sp"t. i The company's total was passed for the loss of Weston's wicket only, and Williams, King and Price, by good, sound batting, carried the .score to 100 for four wickets, when a declaration was made in order to give the visitors another strike. Hogue captured three out of > the four wickets lost, but was very ' expensive. j The "Cadonians" did much better in their second innings, Hogue, Hart. Bar- ' rass and Walkley batting very well. ', Our locals had to call into requisition 1 no less than eight bowlers, and of these lntrrrm and Sinipson-Hayward were thp rno't sivec'ssful. The others seemed ro ho trving to bowl too much for a J •rim-out." I On Tuesday the "Cadonianst" made a much better showing, the first wicket

making a very good stand. Southall [

eventually dissolved the partnership, ana secured nine out of the ten wicket*. Murks v.'as easily their best batsman, and showed capital form, some of his !at t . cutting being exeC'diugiy pretty. Barrass and Quartlcy also batted wefl Joy tlieir runs. New Plymouth started very badly, and until King and Saunders gut weil set it looked as ii they would be neaten. easily. Roth batted very confidently and the "Cadonian's" score was parsed for the loss of sik wickets.

The following team will represent the Unitc'iT Sendee I! team in their match against Egmont Village at Egmont Vil-

lage to-day: Preshaw, McCord, Napier, Sullivan. Simmons, Osborne, Robertson, Bollinger, Wiggs. Brabant. Can- and Crone. Members are requested to meet at the National Bank corner, as coach leaves there at 1.15 p.m. sharp. The match Warehouses v. Inglewood will be played at Western Park, not at Tukapu ground, as previously stated.