CRICKET. Auckland C C V. Zingari C C.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 695, 28 November 1876, Page 2

CRICKET. Auckland C C Y. Zingari CC.

Tan anxiously looked for ri-it to Hamilton of the Au Lland Cricket Club has b"en male, and the Townsmen htv» achieved a. decided victor/, the gam? ending in their ftrour by 78 runt. Looking at the tw.) team* in a general way, 1 do not think that thpre is th*t much difference, or would not be in their average play, but it it an undeniabls fact that Bia"kett's slows "established a funok" ia the fir^t innings amongst several of th« players, and othen getting madly excited b 1 ought about a result d «a«rous to the hopes of Zmgsri The Z ngari captain, (A. E Co*) having at usu*l won the tots, sent the visitors to the wicket about 10 20 a m ami play was commenced by C Abraham and Cotton, tbe brother! Cox bowling. Steady play was the order of the diy for six overs when Cotton was bowled by AIS Cox for 4, (1 4 11.) Lynch followed and contributed 7, when he fell a victim to the same bowler, (2 7 21) In the meantime, Abraham was let off by a point whiCi ffai not in u»u»l form for lomf time after play ommenced. Yutes came and went, being secured at ahorb slip by a »plendid catch of Hunt's, 3 0 22. filackelt made 9 in a short time, and then let out at a straight one troui E B Cox, his centie stump being disturbed, 4 9 40, Buck Inn 4 made 2 and was well bowled by A E Cox. 5 2 47. McLean made things lively, but soon lost Abraham who had been pl»ymg well, point securing him by a sratrt catch, 6 18 52, his score was made up of 14 singles, and 2 twos. B Whitaker and Browning male s aid 7 respeciively, X Abraham being not out for 4, the innings closing for S2, of which 16 were extras. The last four wickets fell 7 for 62 ; 8 for 64 ; 9 for 74 ; 10 for 82. Zingari then started and seemed confident of being able to get dose op, but the glorious uncertainty of the noble game was never more fully exemnk/Ufil F Pilling (13) bemg the only oniJh'o remained more than a fe* moments at the wickets. Blackett (round arm 'slow) secured 5 wickets for 21 runs, the local men seeming to be able to do nothing with him at all. Buckland secured 3 wickets for 6 runs (i wo catches and an Ibw) in 8 overs. With 5 extras, the total amounted to 32, or 50 b.hind the A CO. In the second innings tbe visitors played well, and were not disposed of until 106 bad been put together. Cotton, )6 ; Yates, 2L ; Lynch, 16 ; Philson, 17 ; and R Abraham, 10 ; all playing rema. kably well, particularly Yates, who gave no ctwuce at all, pi icing many of his bits very nicely. Eijht wickets had fallen for 65, and things looked brighter or Zingari, but Pbilson and Ya'es getting set, 39 ru is were added to the score before a dissolution was effected, and the< local team sa y a »oore of 156 to be wiped off to make a tie, a task which was seen to be too great, even by their moit ardent admirers. A E Cox and Super started, and at once set to work to score, runs coming very fast. Bliskett's slows got pirticular beans, 27 runs being scored froaj 7 oven for no wicket?, when he gave up the bail. Cox made 7, when he was bowled by Buckland, who v cured 7 wickeis during the innings for 25 runs. W Pilling ran hitnwlf out, and E B Cox made 7, when Buckland gave him one which he failed to play. Morri«>n (for 13) and Soper played well, scoring rapidly, until the f jrmer fell n victim to Buckland, who was ve-y straight. Bond soon put 10 together, when Cotton relieved Lynch, and the chunge wa» effective, after a fevr overs had been bowled. By this time tho light was very bad, and Buckland started to bowl very fast, the last three wickets not being able to secure many more runs, and the innings closed for 78, of which, Soper made 19. by steady, patient pay fiunliy falling a victim to the first of Buokland's fast one*. Tbe fielding of the Zingari, though, a little loose jam at the start was very good iudeed towards tbe end and very few runs were out ined that were not well deserved. The rough gr< and was against the Aocklaiidors, who howt-ver, made few mistakes during tbe day, as the number run out will testify. The local men have been beaten, but they had a good st'Ong team against th-m, including som-t 4 or 5 at least who would be selected in tbe best team that Auckland could get together, and they are not, therefore, disgraced, even though such a poor stand was ma (c in the first ianiags, their fielding compensating for a> good deal Tbe loss of their wicket keeper Bellers was a most serious one to them, as his pre^ance behind- the stioks would have prevented many liberties being taken by tbe batsmen. Subjoined is the score :—: —

beat and Wo>d'« the a^comi b 'st, ho hay Ing bowled 9 mtiient in the first inningi out <f 11 overi for 6 run* and 5 wioketß The Zmgari Cricket OluS are, I gee, to play a match on Thu^day, the 30cl instant, aqaiust a toam ohonen from th« Ngaruawahia and United Cricket Cub*, and an intureating atrnggle may be \ ok< c forward to, aa the latt«r have, I > elieve, got a ' dark horae' and Lublin from bo 1 1; of trhom great things are expcteH, though, whether they will eventmte oi not remnina to beaeeu. The players will be chosen from the following :— United and Ngaruawahia Cricket Cluba : N R Cox, Danverc, Lei^hton, LuHlio, Austin, Tarlor. NK»ruaw»hi» Cricket Clnb : Mo Loan, *-onor. Bromfiold, Hill, Willoui^hbjr. Edgeoombe, and Edgecombe. Zin^ari Cricket Club : A find EC x, F and W Pillinsr, 0 C andj Wood, W »n<i N' Hunt, Whituk. r, Beal, San<ei f *c. The latttr team ought to win but > o' m<joh if th>ir opponent* are able to 6eld wall.— Lo^o Stop.

THE DINNER. In the evening, between forty and fifty gentlemen, ooniisting «f tde two team , other member* of iho Zi'g»ri Club, ami a few specially invred uue*ts sat down to • well served diuner, At Gwynne's H^mil ton Hotel, and when well cooked delicacies are set bef <re men who have been playing for hours in the open air, and who have as yet— happy oeaion of y mth ! — not c me to that period <>f life w len the ghost of dyspepsia hovorc w»rDinii'y over till U<e nicest dishett, we n»*ed scarcely say, though the term i* one naually adopted in reports of »U'.h matters, that the good things were done •nip c i a«tioe to With the desert came the »p eches, and first among the«e were of course, the u*ual loyal toasts of " The Qu^en " »nd "The Governor," whir-h were both of them drunk as became th« •Ooasion an 1I he company. Alfred C»x. r . lUg , M H R., and Prosideut of the «m ari Clul>, who occupied the chair, en stated that he had the toast of the evening to propose -the winning team — wbioh, though the first, would not, he t r ust»d, be the last they would welcome from Auckland He did not see why an annual visit should not be made by Auckland, or at any rite a bi annual one, the matches being played year about in Auckland and Waikato. T.ie Ziu^aris hid been beaten to-day, but were quitprepared to come up to the scratch whenever oha'lenged to d > so. This was the fir-t season they had fairly gone in for cricket, and he congratulated them in hiving come out of the days O'd at as creditably as they had done. He would o aule tbj toast with the name of Mr Buoklacd. After the cheering which followed the drinking of the toast had subsided, Mr Buokland ro*e and thanked those prevent for the kiudly manner in which thr he lth of his team had been drunk by th< ir Hamilton friend* Ha was proud that <t had fallen to his lot to be the tirst to re-p >n'l for the first cricket team that had vi <i ted Waikato fr,.m Auckland, and he thought th y might well manage to get up an annual mat-h, tapeci<l y when the railroad was completed. Mr Backland, before sitting down, proposed the health of the Zingari Club. Thej had had a good game, but he was glad to s?y his men h>d beaten th*-m. Mr T. Sandys having been cabled upon, replied on behalf of the club, thanking the Auckland men for the courtf-av shown in c ming up to Day them on the Zituan'a own ground When they came again, he ' trusted they wouldn't yet so eaiy a victory, as the Waikato men were g« tting themselves more together, and going in for orioket with a littla more zeut than • heretofore He made a point of thanking them for their visit, for, of all the ! Auckland cricket clubs he had, as secretary of the Zir.garis, written to proposing , a match, the Auckland Caoket Club wan ' the only one that had had the courtesy to reply to hin communication Mr W. J. Hurkt, who naid that next to the U«t speaker, he was, perl aps, the mo<{ b shfiil mm in the room, felt considerable nervousness in dealing with the (out plac div bis hands. It wm one of lar^e importance, aud comprehensive in its character not referring to this or that club, or this or that place, but cricknt generally all the world over. Iv this manly game they all took a great interest, ' and iudeel would soon be called upon to take a vital interest in it, when they would receive as visitors not one local team competing with another, buttbo All Kngland Kl< yen itself. Cricket and the banting field, the national pastimes of Englishmen, had made them what they , were, the athletes of the world Ever . since the publication of Arnolds ho ik on Uncle Tom's school days, (? !) cieket had been brought iuto prominent notice and ! had taken the prsition it was entitled to as a national sport. It had none much in lea ling to the ability Englishmen posxessed of populating 'he world anil making the wiliiernoss to blossom like ' the rose. (Laughter and cheers.) It wss all very well to laugh, but cricket was doing much to subdue the wilderness in ' Waiknto But for the training it bad Ann to scores and hundreds, he wou d Wit have seen about him now the stunly determined pioneers of colonisation who had so ohanged the face of the country during the latt ten years (Cheers.) One of the advantages of cricket was, that it was free from all cause of ill feeling It was not so with football. (Cries of, r>o, no ) Well, be thought some of them " felt sore " after a days footballing, but in cricket there was only honest rivalry. They would soon have an opportunity «>f showing this. An important event in cricketing would soon be b- fore them in meeting tbe All England Eleven, and the cricketers of Auckland would then have an opportunity of showing their selfabne.aMon and esprit de corps in forgetting friendship and prtjudices and in oho<mt( the best men that couM be got from amongst them, so as to pro-lute a team worthy of the Province. (Che-ra.) Mr Cotton, A A C, in replying to the toast of "Cricket" alluded to Mr remarks as to the answering of his letter saying he thought that the A A C had only act d in common courtesy in arranging to come up, Waikato having > ever hetitated to m -et them in Auckland. Mr James Hume, who actrd as vicepresidtnt, proposed I he health of the hi^h ■ e«t i n orers, Mssors Lynch of the A 0 C, and Soperof the Z.ngari, each of whose score had been twenty-three, and whose play had been most excellent He must congratulate both gentlemen on their pliy Messrs Lynch and Soper having briefly returned thanks, I Mr A E Cox proposed the " umpires and scorers." These gentlemen had had all th* work and non* of the fun and the least t'le? deserved was the thanks of all corcerned. Jl" 1 Danvers in returning thanks, said, that so 'ong as he aaw a match carried out so hannonioualj aa that of to dny, he should ne always too ready to affoid his asui'tanee as a scorer. Col Lyon proposed " the visitors." The European population of Wnikato wero glad to see visitors amongst them, and he was glad to ace that their desires were \xing gratified and that visitors were .arriving oootinually in tbe district .from ttjl j)artsof the Province and Colony. y/^roiideinreply.said he was a visitor «r js gUd of it for he had lost Dothing bJy being so. He should not bsv* been im Waikato now, but for the match aVhioh h* and ridd«a up «ijhty milss to

we played. He w«s glad to see tht« kinlly meeting of tennis from distant di(ttrice% though he felt r>rry that (lie loo.il team had heen beaten. He had an old acquaintance wiih A C 0 team, but he thought it was a grand thing to ire a little cock crowing on its own ruirldmi Mr Buckland ought to hnve given them a chance and not brought up quite such a crick te»m. He irni glad to see tlia the Zingaris, though they went out in the hr^t mnin<js for to few run?, oame pluclnly up to the scratch for their second mningi, going in for * reaped able score, 'I he Rev. Mr Culder, mid he had » toast to propose, which, though, left nearly to the last was after all the to»st o'a'ltoaiti H<- tm ant the ladies. The lad«s were a useful institution [\ vo c.-. a graud institution) yen, he would say a grand institution, he would g< t wigped *hen he got heroe if he duin't. The adies, however, were no go»d it cricket, but, he wa* glad to «ay then influence had been felt on the field tint nay, fur the newly married men bavi held rheir hats bettur even than usual. (Mr T Sen le*, von'd better marry us !) I »bould bit xuo t happy to marry any of th* h«ch 'or Z n^ari's— fee two guneai and the cheque to be dulj honored — Thr gentleman who had in'errup'ed him e^pec ally. H« only wonrl ere 1 that with the reputation that gentleman et j>ytd he haden't been to him b fore fo< the purpose, tie wished he could have seen adies present at the dinner as well a« oil the field. Tbeii presence would have conduce I to the gi-neral erj^ymeut, and have nerved 1o h^ve kept norae of his youuger fne> da in order. He could *cc his big ChtiHchwarden at tiie other end of the table becomm. qnite onvivial. Now, big as that gtntleinau was, if he had only a bonnet in front of him he'd become as nervous an a kitVn and behave quite demu ely. Joking apart, however, ne was s>>rry not to see tho ladies «-cV<ered up and down amongst them as at tbe Masonic festival the other day, as much iudeel for their own slices as his, for they would have enjoyed .henwelves now as they did then. He anted iht-m to drink to the ladies for they were a grand institution. Mr Browning replied, and after him Mr Philson. Mr W. J. Hurst proposed the health of the President, as the head of the Zingart Club Mr Cox havin tr returned thanks, said, he had a toast to propone which ought to have bad precedence, that of the h>>nt and hostess, and especially the hostess. It was a question of hearts more than heads. He need say nothing, for ho felt the toast would be received with due appreciation by th'm The toast was drunk with loud and prolonged cheering, after which M G*yane stepped forward and thanked thosn present on behalf of Mrs Gwynne aud himself, saving that he hoped it wou'd uot be the last timu he should have (he pleasure of doing no. Tie programme having been cleared off, there •v»a a loud call fti a song from Mr W. J. Hurst, and the party for hwith devoted thoiiKtelrea to conviviality with a<i earnestneiH which w*i only excelled by their prowess ou the field in the mornng

A E Cox, b Buckland 7 Soper, b Buckland 19 W Pilling, run out 3 B B Cox, b Buckland 7 Morrison, b Buckland 13 Bond, b Cotton 10 F Pillinu, b Buckland 3 J Wood, c Blackett, b Buokland ... 8 Hunt, not out ... ... ... ... 1 O 0 Wood, b Buokland 0 F Whitaktr, b Buokland 0 . Bjei, , .. Ujfr S3 | Total ... 7T. HO The analyei* of the bowliag tat WM ineorrrotbul Bovkland't was 4mNw>lj the

Second Inning*.

Sopor, c McLean, b Blackett 4 Hunt b Bluckett 2 W Piling, Ib*, b Bucklmd ... 1 E B Cox, tfc Whitaker, b BUckett ... 0 Bond run out, 0 Morrison, o McLean, b Buckland ... 5 JWod, st Whittker, b Blackett ... 2 Q C Wood, run out ; o F Whitaker, o and b Buckland ... 0 F Pilling, b Blackotfc 13 A ECox, not out , 0 Bjes, 3 ; Leg Byea, 2 5 32

ZCC Firtf Inning.

0 Abraham, b J Wood , R Abraham, b J Wood Cotton, o F Pilling, b J Wood Lynch, b A E Oix Yatfs, b A E Cox Blackelt, hit wicket, b W Filling Bu<kiand, c J Wood, b W Pilling McLean, b W Pilling E Whitakor b J Wood Philson, o Hunt, b E B Cox... Browning, not out Byes, 17 ; Leg bjei, 2 ; Wide«, 1 ... 3 ... 10 ... 16 ... 16 ... 21 ... 3 ... 0 ... » ... o ... 17 ... 0 ... 20 106 82 Total ...188

Second Innings.

0 Abraham, o J Pilling, b A E 00x... 18 Cotton, b A E Oox 4, Lynch, bA B Oox "' 7 Yitet, 0 Hunt, bE 8 Oox '. 0 Blaokett, b E BCOI 9 Bucklani, b A B Cox ". 2 B Whitaker, 0A B Cox, b J W00d... 5 McLt-an, b E B Oox 10 Philton, b J Wood 0 Browing, b W Pilling / r[\\ 7 R Abraham, not out /[* 4 Bjes, 11 ; Leg Bye§, 3 ; Widet, 2 '.!! 16 82

AGO Firit Innings.