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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 189, 30 December 1912, Page 7

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NORTH TARANAKI PEFEAT SOUTH TARAWA K I. The match between N;>;-th Tai'/itiaki and South Taranaki was concluded at Hawera on Saturday, and resulted in a win for North Taranaki by 104 runs. The scoring throughout the match was low. South Taranaki. who had lost six wickets for 51, continued their innings, and were all disposed of for 88. The principal scorers were Pratt 20, Penny 11> (not out), Gardener 16, and Slinger 10. Bain was the principal destroying agent, bowling seventeen overs and securing six wickets for 33 runs. North's second innings produced 112 runs; Nicoll '25, Osborne 24, Marsh (not out) 10, Bain 14, Perham 10. Slinger came off with six wickets for 27. Requiring 102 to win, South faced Bain and Sommerville, and were a>l disposed of for 57. Gardener made 16, Pratt 14, Penny 13. Each of the two last- hit a sixer. The two bowlers equally divided the wickets, the Waitara trundler securing five for 24, and Bain five for 33. North Taranaki thus won by 104 runs. This is the first occasion on which a representative Xorth Taranaki team has been successful away from home. Detailed scores:— NORTH TARANAKI. First, innings 134 Second Innings. Bain, b. Penny 14 Perham, e. Bairstow, b. Slinger Nicoll, b. Slinger 25 Arden, st. Cardale, b. Pratt 1 Bcwley, c. and b. Pratt 1 Sumner, b. Slinger 4 Osborne, thrown, out, b. Slinger 24 Marsh, not out 10 Fuller, c. Bairstow, b. Slinger .... 4 Sarten, b. Penny , 2 Sommerville, b. Slinger 6 Extras 5 112 Grand totgl- r. f. 250 SOi'Til TARANAKI. _ . First Innings. Gardiner, c. Bcwley, b. Nicoll .... 11 Bairstow, run out 0 Street, c. Nicoll, b. Bain 7 Cole, c. Arden. b. Bain 3 Pratt, c. Bcwley, b. Bain 20 Stewart, 1.b.w.. b. Bain 2 Penny, not out 10 Walker, c. and b. Bain 3 Cardale, run out 0 Day, e. Sarten. b. Bam 3 Slinger, c. Marsh, b. Sarten 10 Extras 4 85

■Second Innings. , Gardener, h. Sommerville 16 J Bairstow, 1.b.w., b. SommerviDe .... 1 Cole, c. Osborne, b. Bain 0 | Penny, b. Sommerville 13 J Pratt, c. Arden, b. Bain 14 Slinger, 1.b.w., 1). Sommerville 0 Cardale, b. Bain 5 Street, b. Bain 1 Walker, b. Sommecville 5 Stewart, c. Sommerville, b. Bain .. i Day, not out 0 Extras 0 57 Grand total 142 . THE WAXGAXUI MATCH. (Notes by "Moturoa.") A few remarks to supplement Saturday's notes on the Wanganui-Xorth Taranaki match. The weather was perfect, and the wicket all in favour of the batsmen. The match was, from a Taranaki point of view, remarkable for the Taranaki batsmen's gallant) up-hill fight against overwhelming odds, i It was also remarkable for the utter j failure of Taranaki's bowlers to send, down a decent-length ball. On the j second day each of the. butter province's I trundlers should have been presented j with a hoop. "YTally" Perham wasi the surprise packet of the eleven. He j batted soundly each innings, and scored j particularly freely off Brown's leg-) breaks. Perham was the most annoyed man on the ground when he was given out l.b.w. to Tronson in the first iniiigs. In his second strike he was cutting and driving grandly when J'aixford at short-slip brought off a "once in a life-time"' left-handed catch and sent him back to the pavilion. Grea thatch appeared to be troubled by the setting sun on Wednesday evening, and tapped a rising ball feebly into point's hands. Or Thursday he was the hero of the day, but he had a shocking let-off before he had reached double figures. Perham cut one to deep slip, and Great--1 a teh ran. Both batsmen were at the wicket-keeper's end when the ball was returned fast to the bowler. Holland, however, failed to hold it, and two runs resulted. Then Greatbacli got to work! Never at any time slogging wildly, lit! lifted everything loose to the boundary or beyond it. The fences were well tested, and the spectators were raised to a high pitch of excitement as the young Xew I'lyiiiouth-ite smote all the bowling, with the exception of Holland's, for fourers. Clegg kept the wicket up well, and Greathatch was not. beaten until Mnrchie got a fast one past him when his score read j 110. It was a great innings, and as far as Grcalbatch's hatting was concerned it was practically a chanceless exhibition. Matthews paid the penalty of facing "Murchie without pads, and retired hurt. The..old sport was the life of the team, and his loud-voiced barracking must have cheered the younger fellows on somewhat. Who could fail to ''take to" the bowling when every stroke was greeted with "Good boy, Billy! Oh. you beauty! Oh, you lovely hyacinth!" It was the last thing in the. way of good-humored "barrack." The Taranaki fielding was good oil the whole, but wretched in patches, particularly in Wanganui's first innings, when at least four very ordinary catches were dropped. Their runnig between (he wickets suffered by comparison with that of Orion. Tracy and Furrie of the other side. Orion is a tower of strength tn the Waiiganui balling, and there were few blemishes in his (;r> .and S!) not out. Visitors were struck with ''Willie's" ui'.ainl "I think not'' when called for an extra short run. Furrie kept wickets excellently fur Wanganui. and did not appeal as frequently as usual. The game was played in excellent spirit, and proved most enjoyable to both players and spectators alike 1 . When Taranaki unearths "'that bowler" they should keep the Wanganui crowd doing their best, all the time. Init at present the latter team (with the inclusion of Bernau and Butteiwurth) would give the bigger provinces a mighty good tussle. ,