CRICKET.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1921, Page 3

CRICKET.

NORTH TARANAKI COMPETITIONS. SATURDAY’S GAMES. The cricket competitions on Saturday resulted in Old Boys defeating Inglewood, and Urenui secured a win over New Plymouth after a closely contested game. In the “B” grade Harbor Board lost to Waltara, and Western Park were defeated by New Plymouth. Urenui did not send a team to meet Old Boys. “A” GRADE. OLD BOYS v. INGLEWOOD. Playing at Inglewood, Old Boys defeated Inglewood by a substantial margin. Their innings produced 207 for nine wickets. Bewley compiled 80 runs, including 3 sixes and 5 fours, and Bottriil (26) and Papps (25 not out) were the next best scorers. Bowling for Inglewood, Coutts took four wickets for 48 runs and Gibson secured three for 42. Inglewood made 99 runs (Pullen 25 and Starkey 20L Eggleton, Bottriil and Papps each secured two wickets. Details are : OLD BOYS. Bewley, b Gibson 80 Willis, b Coutts 21 Greiner, b O'Byrne 16 Bottriil, c Brown, b O'Byrne 26 Osborne, b Coutts 12 Billing, b Coutts 0 Papps, not out 25 Colson, c Thomas, b Gibson 1 Mip-es, b Coutts 3 Eggleton, b Gibson 10 Hine, not out 7 Extras 6 Total (for nine wickets) 207 Bowling analysis: Gibson took three wickets for 42 runs; Starkey, none for 17; Brown, none for 11; Coutts, four for 48; Darlow, none for 32; O’Byrne, two for 42; Hamerten, none for 9. INGLEWOOD. Pullen, b Eggleton 25 Gibson, run out 10 Coutts, b Bottriil 11 Brown, run out 3 Darlow, run out .....x 4 Nicholls, b Eggleton 3 Hamerten, run out 4 O’Byrne, b Papps 2 Thomas, not out 1 Chapman, b Papps 1 Starkey, c and b Bottriil 20 Extras 15 Total 99 Bowling analysis.—Eggleton, two wickets for 32 runs; Osborne, none for 21 ; Bottriil, two for 24; Papps, two for 6. URENUI v. NEW PLYMOUTH. The game between these teams at Urenui resulted in a win for Urenui by* nine runs. New Plymouth made 79 (Quickfall 29 not out). and their opponents compiled 88’, of which 43 were secured by C. Wilson, who played a good innings. Of the Urenui bowlers O’Neill took three wickets for 24 runs, while Clarke and Nicol! (New Plymouth) each secured three wickets for 18 runs. Details of the scoring

NEW PLYMOUTH. Nicoll, b Blundell 10 Sheppard, c C. Foreman, b Blundell 0 Weston, c Des Forges, b O’Neill 7 Bragg, c Des Forges, b O’Neill 12 Clarke, b Blundell 0 Ferry, b C Foreman 6 Quickfall, not out 29 Newbold, b C. Foreman o Inch, b C. Foreman 3 La wry, c Foreman, b O’Neill J Ayres, b C. Foreman 4 Total 79 Bowling analysis.—O’Neill took three wickets for 24 runs; K. Blundell, three for 28; C. Foreman, four for 19. URENUI. W. Fuller, b Clarke 4 P. Sarten. b Nicoll 7 C. Wilson, lbw. b Nicoll 43 K. Lye, b Clarke 0 K. Blundell, b Clarke 0 O’Neill, c Clarke, b Bragg 6 H. Foreman, b Bragg 1; C. Foreman, c and b Inch 11 Managh, not out 3 G. Fuller, b Nicoll y Des Forges, b Newbold 0 Extras g Total 88 Bowling analysis.—Clarke took three wickets for 18 runs; Nicoll, three for 18; Bragg, two for 19; Quickfall, none for 15; Inch, one for 10; Newbold, one for 0. B GRADE. HARBOR BOARD v. WAITARA. At Waitara, Harbor Board were defeated by Waitara, who secured a three-point win. Harbor Board made 37, and Waitara replied yvith 107. In a second innings Harbor Board made 36 runs. NEW PLYMOUTH v. WESTERN PARK. The above teams met on the Park ground and after an exciting finish New Plymouth scored a three-point win in the last over before time by two wickets. New Plyunouth made 52 (Kinsella 26) and 52 for eight wickets (Trevalla 21, Hughes 14). Western Park made 41 runs (Wright 13) and 69 (Berg 16 not out). Bowling for New Plymouth, Kinsella took seven wickets for 18 runs. Bowers four for 25, W. Hughes four for 22, Oliver two for 15, Trevalla one for 4, Stephenson one for 4. Western Park bowling was : Bullot six wickets for 31, Rowe four for 13, Harrison two for 31, Berg two for 9, Loveridge one for 13. HEATHCOTE-WILLIAMS SHIELD. By Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerston N., Dec. 17. The Heathcote-Williams Shield match was Concluded this morning, and resulted in a win for Palmerston North High School, the holders, by 134 runs. Napier Higli School’s second innings produced 133. Five of the team were dismissed without scoring. N.S.W. v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Adelaide, Dec. 17. New South Wales’ first innings realised 360 (Wall 6-1, Wells 55). Townsend took five wickets for 60 runs. South Australia lost one wicket for 14 Received Dee. 18, 5.5 p.m. Adelaide, Doc. 18. The weather was fine for the cricket. South Australia, in their first innings, made 376 (Pritchard 100, Pellew 77, Townsend 16, Williams 43, Ambler 41). Wall took seven v/ickets for 132. New South Wales, in thalr second innings, have lost no wiekow for If,