CRICKET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 1, 30 November 1914, Page 3

CRICKET.

THE SATURDAY COMPETITION. SOME CLOSE FINISHES. ■ ' Tlie first round, of matches in live Saturday competition was brought to' a 1 elose, save for one" postponed on Saturday afliernooni in fine weather. Tikorangi, Unitii Service and Injjlcwood nil scored two-point wins. Tikorangi defeated Albion by a good margin, but in the other two matches the issue was ill doubt) right up to the fall of the last wicket. United Service, wiio have so far an unbeaten record, had a narrow win from N«w Plymouth, who required two runs to save a defeat, i when the last man went in, but were unable to get I|hemi, and lost the match by two runs. In the Inglcwood-Law match the inland team was a run in arrears when the ninth wicket fell, but Inglewood won by 23 runs. ' The best performances were:— WITH THE BAT. Roberts (Tikorangi) 63 Bain (United Service) G4 Marsh (Inglewood) 43 Hughes (La«r) 81 Stainton (New Plymouth) 27 (WITH THE BAIL. 0. Foreman (Tikorangi) B for 20. ■. A. Smith (Inglewood) 4 for 15. Richards (New Plymouth) 4 for 2C. Bain (United Service) G for '34. UNITED SERVICE v. NEW PLYMOUTH.

i The meting of t'ue above tcanw created considerable interest on Saturday, became United Service Jiad an unbeaten record, and New Plymouth were rimnsrs-up with only cue defeat, it wa« generally anticipated that tiie contest would bu a keen one, and so it proved, the issue being in doubt un.iil tile last ball of tlie match. United (service \v3nt first to the wickets, Colvile 'and Bain opening to Heskett and Nico!'. C'olvile narrowly escaped being bowled by lleskeut by the opening ball of tlw match. However, after a run had been credited to eajh batsman, he was beaten and bowled by a fimilar ball. Osborne joinid l'-ain, and played carefully, whilsii Bain, picking his balls,'lifted Nicoll for 'O. A little later, liowAer, lie had two lives, surviving a confident appeal for l.b.w. and b;ing dropped by Bottrill, fielding a high ball againsl- the buu, both off Nicoll. Runs came slowly untii Nicoll, bowling for the field, wa3 hit by liain twico to the boundary, and Nicoll gave place to Mason, who, with f be score at thirty, beat Osborne with a beauty. Purdue did not last long tiioudi to open Ins account. MeGie' joined Bain, and had a life at point. He then opened cautiously. Bain bit out and got 17 of! Hcskett in one over, including a six and two boundaries. Hicli-' aids 3iero relieved Hcskett, but tyie .-'core reached SS before a separation was effected, MeGie being caught, by Mason Mr a well-played 14. Stewart then joined Bain, who lifted one from Richards to Nicoll and retired for a forceful 04, irlii-.-li included seven boundaries and two sixers. Five wickets were down for !)4. Sfjewart played cautiously, but , could get no one tto stay with liim, and 1 tlie innings closed for l'lo,Steward compiling 15.

Hciskctit and' (Richard)} ■op>en<Kl for Mew Plymouth to Bain and Colvile.

Both batsmen felt their way very carefully, four runs going on in five overs, ihvo being byes. Then Hteskett opened his account, with a forward drive off Colvile for 3. Heskett now played freely, but the bowling And, fielding were good. At 24, Heskett .played one from Bam on to the wickets and retired for a well-played 12. Bottrill and Col son fell (to Bain in successive balls four runs later. At 37 Richards, who had been in for 50 minutes for 14, and had given two or three chances through the slips,, hit one back to the bowler, who held it' Here MeGie relieved Colvile. Nicoll,' who. With Chappell, was batting confidently, was smartly held in (Jie slips by Ingram at 45. At 55 both Chappell and Mason were held by the bowler (MeGie). Cfioper fell two runs later and with eight wickets down for 27 New Plymouth's hopes fell to eero. Stainton and Sfoiir hers became associated and, playing fine cridket, as well as giving a capital exhibition of running between the wickets, the score mounted up. Several byes assisted the total and as ten after ten went up on t/he score board despite bowling changes, New Plymouth's hopes ro.se. With two inns to go .however, Colvile, wiho had with Bain come on again, got one past Stainton, who had scored a well played and valuable 27. Newell joined Ftohr and fell a victim to Colvile l.b.w. second ball. It was a close call as the ball touched leg- and ba J < almost simultaneously. Detailed scores: UNITED SERVICE. i Bain, c Nicoll, b Richards G4 Colvile, b Hesl&tt 1 Osborne, b Mason 0 Purdue, b Mason .'.!!! 0 MeGie, e Mason, b Richards 14 Stewart, not out 15 Mackav, run out 0 Ingram, b Richards o Denniss, c Rtohr. b Richards .. .. ' 0 Brabant, b Nicoll 4 Mewton, b Mason 9 Extras •

Total Bowling Analysis: Richards, four for 20; Mason, throe for 22; Nicoll, one i for 25; Heskett, one for 33. • NEW PLYMOUTH. j Heskett, b Bain 12 Richards, c and b Bain 14 , Bottrill, b Bain 0 Colson, b Bain 0 Nieoll, c Ingram, b McGie 10 ■ Chappell, c and b McGie 8 Mason, c and b McGie 0 Stainton, b Colvilo 27 Stohr, not out 17 Novell, 1.b.w., b Colvile .. .. .. .. 0 Extras 21 Total 113 Bowling Analysis: Bain, five for 35; McGie, three for 14; Colvile, two for 30; Purdue, none for 5; Osborne, none for 9.

TIKORANGI y. ALBION. Albion journeyed to Tikorangi on Saturday, and were defeated by 53 runs. Woods and Roberts opened for Tiko■rangi to the bowling of Martin and Clarke. Play opened very quietly, only fifteen runs coming off the first eight overs. The first wicket put on twentyseven runs before O'Donnell got Wood with his first ball. Scrimgeour assisted Roberts, who was batting very nicely, in adding another 27 runs for the next wicket before Scrimgeour departed for 11 runs, also to O'Donnell. The next three men did not stay long, but Roberts kept pegging away, and with an occasional boundary his score mounted. C. Foreman by steady batting kept up hii end, and. desisted u ndfisg the total * mm

Roberts fell to Osgood b?tli frpm.-Qlarkp. Foreman wa'a dismissed" soon after for 16. The tail only added eight runs for the,last-four-wickets, and the innings closed for 120. Sheppherd and Sutherland opened for Albion very hopefully to the bowling of Jupp and C. Foreman. Both played well and runs mounted. At 35 Foreman got one past Sutherland, who had played well for 20. Clarke, ihe Albion skipper, followed, and knocked up nine before Roberts caught him off Foreman, with the score at 51 for two wickets. None of the others could do much with Foreman and Roberts, and the innings closed for 67. Sutherland was the highest scorer with 20. C. Foreman came out with the fine figures of six wickets for 20 runs. Detailed score: — TIKORANGI.

Wood, b O'Donnell 9 Roberts, b Clarke 68 Scrimgeour, b O'Donnell 10 Lye, b Sheppherd \ .. ~ 3 Jupp, b O'Donnell 0. Foreman, G., run out 1 Foreman, C., c Sutherland, b Foote Iff Foreman, H., c Clarke, b Foote .. ~ 2 Sarten, b Clarke 2 Knuckey, b Clarke 0 Garner, not out 1 Extras 8 Total 120 Bowling Analysis:Foote, two for 11; Clarke, three for 29; O'Donnell, three for 29; F. Sheppherd, one for 11; Martin, none for 14; W. Sheppherd, none for 17.

ALBION. Sheppherd, b Roberts 18 Sutherland, b C. Foreman •.. 20 Clarke, c Roberts, b C. Foreman .. 9 Martin, c Lye, 1) C. Foreman 3 O'Donnell, b Roberts ;. .. 5 Sheppherd, b C. Foreman 1 Wadinan, b C. Foreman 0 Foote, b Roberts 0 Green, not out 3 O'Donnell, run out 1 Parson, b C. Foreman I Kxtras ft Total 67 Bowling Analysis: C. Foreman, six for 20; Roberts, three for 20; L. Jupp, none for 18. LAW AND INGLEWOOD.

IJSTGLEWOOD WINS. Inglewood and Law met on Western Park and a good match eventuated. Law started badly, Bewley,. Little and Lash losing tlieir wickets with only ciglit runs on the board. Billing's blocking and Hughes' vigorous hitting retrieved matters somewhat, but Billing was dismissed a little later. Johnston who joined Hughes' play was very pretty. He scemHughes' play was very pretty he seemto be not afraid of the bowling, his 31 including three sixes'. R. H. Quilliam played a good bat for 11. The remain--1 ing wickets fell easily with the grand total at 77. Smith bowled very successfully with four for 15. Inglewood opened if anything, worse than Law, five wickets falling for 14 to the bowling of l.ash and Billing. Marsh stopped the rot with a carefully compiled 43, his dismissal with the score at 76 leaving N. Lewes and Eggleton with two runs to make the match to win. Billing very nearly succeeded in getting rid of the latter with his first ball, Quilliam be- ) ing just a fraction of a second too late in an attempt to stump Eggleton. Eggle ton gave no more chances fvnd by free hitting managed to knock up 20 before being bowled by Hughes with Inglewood's score at 100. Detailed scores were as follows:—

LAW. Lash, b Eggleton 7 Bewley, b Eggleton 0 Little, b Mcßae 0 Billing, c Eggleton, b Smith 2 Hughes, c Thomas, b Mcßae ...... 31 Johnston, b Smith 8 Quilliam, R. H., b Smith 11 Quilliam, R. P., b Smith 7 Reid, not out 5 Anderson, b Eggleton 3 Quilliam, C., b Eggleton 0 Extras 3 Total 77 Bowling Analysis: Eggleton, four for 39; Mcßae, two for 20; Smith, four for 15. INGLEWOOD.

c Johnston, b Billing .... 4 Pullen, G., b Lash 0 Nicholls, b Lash 2 Mcßae, c Lash, b Billing 3 Marsh, run out 43 Stratford, b Billing 3 Tliohias, R, b Johnston 5 Harkness, b Billing 5 Lewes, not out 5 Smith, A., c Bewley, b Johnston .. 5 Eggleton, b Hughes 20 Extras 6 Total 100 Bowling Analysis: Lash, two for 29; Billing, four for 33; Anderson, none for nine; Johnston, two for seven; Hughes, one for none.

AUCKLAND MATCHES.

By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Cricket matches were continued yesterday in fine weather. Senior grade results:— Eden A., 207 and 102 for Ave wickets, beat Parnell, 131 and 92 for seven wickets by 78 runs on the first inning's scores. University 197 and 104 for six wickets, beat Eden 183, by 14 runs on the first inning's totals. i Grafton with 445 for seven wickets (declared) defeated Waitemata 139, (A. Young 51), and 73 for five wickets, (Satehell," 51), by 306 runs on the first innings. . North Shore, 152 and 12C, beat Ponsonby 109 by 43 runs on the first inning's totals.

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