CRICKET

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 225, 17 January 1911, Page 7

CRICKET

BEACHCOMBERS v. BELT ROAD CAMPS. I The first of a series of matches played ) on the beach between the above teams I resulted in the Beachcombers proving | victorious by 44 runs on the first innI ings. I'or the winners M'Cord, in the first innings, batted well for 30. Brown aiso played a good game for 2G. The following are the scores: ! Beachcombers.—Hawkins, b Loveridge, 1$; Humphries, b Loveridge, 12; M'Cord, rtln out, 30; Brown, b Morey, 20; A. V. Stohr, b Morey, 3; M'Allum, b Morey, 0; Dixon, b Loveridge, 5; Pilclier, not out, 0; Mynott, b Loveridge, 0; J. Stohr, b Loveridge, 0; Stowe, c George, b Loveridge, 0; total, 89. Belt Road Camps.—Thomson, c Dixon, b M'Cord, 3; Allen, c and b M'Cord, 9; Clarke, c Stohr, b M'Cord, 1; Patterson, 1) M'Cord, 2; Morey, Ibw, b Hawkins, 1; Petty, run out, 11; Loveridge, b Hawkins, 0; Bullot, c A. V. Stohr, b M'Covd, 10; Jury, c J. Stohr, b A. V. Stohr, 0; George, b M'Allum, 0; Beale, not out, 2; total, 45.

I All members of the Carrington Roaa j cricket team are requested to attend i practice to-day at 5 p.m. The Urenui team to play Athletic on Thursday is as follows:—Wilson (2), Fuller (2), Mallet (2), Fausett, Blundell, O'Donnell, Bertrahd, Sangster. The score of 500 ait Melbourne in the late test match is South Africa's highest total yet compiled in a test match against Australia, 454 in Johannesburg in 1002 standing next. It is a coincidence that on both these occasions the Springboks led by 1,58 runs on the first innings. The 1002 Johannesburg game was drawn. . New South Wales Cricket Association despatch™! four teams to the country during the New Year week, three of which won their matches. At Yass Folkard scored 100, and took seven wickets for 8 runs. The Indian cricketers' tour of tl) 1 ? United Kingdom is now practically arranged. They are to sail from Bombay in April, and are expected to be thoroughly representative. In 1.886 and 1888 Parsec combinations visited England. The present team, after a fortnight's practice at Lord's, will start their match play on June li, and their chief fixtures will be. against Kent, Surrey, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Lciocstewhire, Essex, Somerset, Warwick, Hampshire, and also Scotland and Ireland. lI.H. the Jam Sahib of Navangur (Ranjitsinhji) will probably take over the captainsy of the team, and, failing his ability to leave India, H. D. Kanga will be asked to captain the side. He is a well-known member of the Hampstea<l Cricket Club, «nd is at present living in England. Prince Hetty of Cooch ■Beliar, another member, has played for Somerset. The team will be stronger in bowling and fielding than in batting.

Phenomenal scoring characterised the match North v. South, played on the Tasnianiaii Association's ground on December 27 and 28. The Northerners were disposed of on an excellent wicket for 07 runs. The first wicket of the Northerners fell at 10, but the Hudson-Hawson partnership lasted 3 hours 40 minutes, "and yielded 348 runs—a record. Eltham played out time with llawson, the score at the close of the day being 451 runs for two wickets—Hawson 238 not out, Hudson 167. Pervious to Hawson's 238 the Tttsmanian individual record w,as IS7, e»tablished in 1893 by C. J. Eady. The innings was declared closed, and the Northerners were dismissed a second time for 203.