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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1940, Page 6

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PLUNKET SHIELD GAMES. EASY WIN FOR CANTERBURY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Showing superiority in every department of the game, Canterbury beat Wellington on the third day of the Plunket Shield cricket match yesterday by an innings and five runs. On Friday, Wellington fell for 195 in their first innings, and Canterbury made the vigorous response of 177 for three wickets. Carrying on in perfect weather on Saturday morning, Donnelly (68) and Cromb (11) showed up the weakness of the Wellington bowling by putting on 92 for the fourth wicket. Donnelly, when three short of his century, was caught at the wickets by Tindill off Lamason. • Thereafter, the Canterbury batsmen, aided by faulty slip fielding, flogged the Wellington bowling severely, Cromb and Roberts put on 105 for the seventh wicket. Cromb, missed at 37 in the slips, and giving four chances thereafter, piled up the big score of 171 in 299 minutes. The innings, which lasted for 424 minutes, closed at 4.40 p.m. on Saturday for the solid total of 482, giving Canterbury a commanding lead of 287 runs on the first innings. Pritchard, Ashenden, and Lamason plugged away with great heart with the ball for? Wellington, but the side sadly lacked a good slow bowler Io lend variety to the attack. Wellington, in their second innings, had lost one wicket for 55 at stumps on Saturday night, and carrying on at 11 o’clock yesterday morning were all out at 3.42 p.m. for the modest total of 282, which gave Canterbury a sweeping victory by an innings and five runs. D. S. Wilson played a resolute knock for 83, which included nine' boundary strokes, W. Hepburn and E. W. Tindill reached the forties, and W. G. Rainbird scored 33, but the remainder of the batsmen shaped feebly against good bowling by A. W. Roberts, H. Davis, M. P. Donnelly, and I. B. Cromb, which kept the 'Wellington batsmen very subdued, as the innings lasted for 306 minutes. OTAGO v AUCKLAND. NORTHERN TEAM'S GOOD SCORE. (Ry Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. This Day. In the Auckland-Otago shield game Otago in the first innings compiled 194 (Culler 51. Elmes 51, Fraser 43, Holden 19: Cowie 3 for 36. Carson 3 for 41) and 19 for no wickets (Robertson not out 10). Auckland put together 496 in the first innings (Scott 100. Whitelaw 72. Matheson 51. Pearson 50. Weir 49. Burke 42. Blandford 36. Wallace 32. Sale 23. Carson 12; Elmos 5 for 133).