Cricket 1909

F eb . 25, 1909. CR ICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 3 i W ellington . First innings. H.Monaghan ,b Humphreys 10 C. Hickson, b Malone ... 2 J. J. Mahoney, b Bennett 19 J. P. Blacklock, lbw, b Bennett .......................... 18 W. S. Brice, b Bennett ... 11 F. A. Midlane, c Patrick, b Humphreys ...................21 L. T. Cobcroft, c Wood, b Orchard ...........................32 J. A. Bruce, not o u t ...........65 F. Alpe, b Bennett ... ... 4 A. Cate, c Boxshall, b Bennett .......................... 10 T. Connelly, b Humphreys 16 B 2, lb 1 ................... 3 Second innings, cPatrick,b Malone 15 c B e n n e tt, b Humphreys ... 21 ht wkt., b Malone 10 c Reese, b Malone 6 b Reese .......... 16 not out.................. 0 c Reese,b Anthony 10 b Humphreys ... 4 b A nthony........... 2 c and b Hum­ phreys ........... 7 b A nthony.......... 0 B 8 , nb 3 ...11 Total ... First innings. .............220 Total............... 120 C a n terbu ry . Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Monaghan ... 21 2 73 1 ..' ... 17 1 54 4 Connelly j ... 30''5 5 103 6 v . ... 20 4 52 3 Brice ... ... 11 2 39 0 ... ... 3 0 . 17 0 Hickson... ... 0 0 35 1 ... ... 3 0 17 0 Alpe ... S 0 46 0 ... 2 0 14 0 Cobcroft ;.. 16 1 64 2 .. ... 1 0 5 1 Bruce ... ... 2 0 6 0 ... Bruce bowled a wide. W ellington . First innings. Second innngs. O. M. R. w. 0. M. R. W. Malone .. .. . 20 4 67 1 ... ... 10 6 20 3 Humphreys .. . 28-2 12 59 3 ... ... 24 9 52 3 Reese ......... . 6 0 32 0 ... ... 5 3 6 1 Bennett.. ... 20 7 38 5 ... ... 11 5 0 0 Orchard .. .. . 3 1 11 1 ... ... 7 3 11 0 Anthony 2 0 10 0 ... ... 1-4 0 2 3 Humphreys bowled three no-balls. The following are the results of all matches played between Canterbury and Wellington:— 1878.—At Wellington. Canterbury won by 120 runs. 1884.—At Wellington. Canterbury won by 15 runs. 1884.—At Christchurch. Drawn. 1SSG.—At Wellington. Canterbury won by 111 runs. 1889.—At Christchurch. Canterbury won by 39 runs. 1891.- A t Wellington. Wellington won by eight wickets. 1892.—At Christchurch. Drawn. 1894.—At Wellington. Drawn. 1804.—At Christchurch. Canterbury won bj* nine wickcts. 1S95.—At Wellington. Wellington won by six wickets. 1897.—At Christchurch. Drawn. 1898.—At Wellington. Wellington won by an innings and 20 runs. 1S99.—At Christchurch. Canterbury won by an innings and 127 runs. 1S99.—At Wellington. Canterbury won by one wicket. 1901.—At Christchurch. Wellington won by three wickets. 1901.—At Wellington. Canterbury won by three wickcts. 1903.—At Christchurch. Canterbury won by 62 runs. 1904.—At Wellington. Cautcrbury won by 244 runs. 1904.—At Christchurch. Canterbury won by 201 runs. 190(>.—At Wellington. Canterbury won by 35 runs. 19(i,._At Christchurch. Canterbury won by five wickets. 1905. At Wellington. Wellington won by 91 runs. 1908. At Christchurch. Canterbury won by 212 runs. nnrMu H?. matches played Canterbury have won 14 drawn 0n ^ ie rcmftining four have been Auckland on December 28, 29, and 30 a drawn m /o r the Plunket Shield was played between fivn m' 1 '! anc* an(* Auckland (196 and 160 for Auckland were the holders and, not g beaten, retained possession of the Shield. -Auckland on January 1, 2, and 4 Auckland Plnnt * 1 beat Canterbury (112 and 187) in a mnket Shield match by 32 runs. SOME CHAPTERS OF AUSTRALIAN CRICKET HISTORY. B y J. N. PENTELOW . C h a p te r II. NEW SOUTH WALES v. VICTORIA. [Continued from page 16.) Victoria went ahead in the season of 1891-2, winning both matches. For the victory at Melbourne in the 47th match they were largely indebted to Robert McLecd, who was at his best at this period. He made 93 runs for once out and took seven wickets for 107. New South Wales had first innings on a good wicket, but could only raise 218— Donnan 54, Iredale 32, Moses 25, Banner­ man 23. Victoria did worse for a time; but a change came over the scene when Jim Phillips joined McLeod at the fall of the fifth wicket. The burly Jim made 85 and his colleague 87, and they added well over a hundred runs before being parted. Moses (37), Callaway (34) and Gregory (22) were the chief contributors to New South Wales's second total of 143; Wa ters made 34 of the 72 for four wickets which gave Victoria the victory. The most effective bowler for the losers was a new man in these games, Sydney Thomas Callaway, who took nine wickets for 119 runs. As he also scored 51 for once out in the match he was a distinct success all round. A week later he figured in the Australian Team against Lord Sheffield’s England side. He has since emigrated to New Zealand, where he is still reckoned as one of the best bowlers in the island Dominion, playing for Canter­ bury Province. Callaway and Harry Graham are the only men who have figured both as Australian and as New Zealand representa­ tive players, for Charles Richardson, who lias captained New Zealand, never attained test match honours in Australia. C. H. Ross, a good wicket-keeper and most resolute bat, and S. McMichael, a batsman who did real good service for Victoria for several seasons a little later, were also debutants in the series in this match. Walteis, aided by Ambrose Tarrant and Robeit McLeod, smashed up the New South Wa’es forces at Sydney in the return. Except that the visiting side was *“ top dog,” the match was singu­ larly like the corresponding game of a season eailier. Then Victoria, with the advantage of first hands, went under in a single innings with 93 runs to spare. In the forty-eighth match New South Wales, with a similar advantage, succumbed by an innings and 15. Walters, who had made a century the previous season,made another now—112; and the diminutive Tarrant batted very finely for 82. Bruce and Blackham scored 33 each, McLeod 25, Worrall 23. McLeod had seven wickets for 104 (giving him fourteen for 207 in the two games of 1891-2), Trumble five for 79, and Worrall four for 21 in the first innings. Turner’s five cost 146; but the Terror (with 66 and 45) was a long way his side’s most successful batsman, Syd Gregory (28 and 44) coming next, and of the rest only the two Maoiilanders of later years, Charles Richardson (31 and 12) and Callaway (14 and 23), doing anything. Victoria, winners of the Sheffield Shield in 1892-3, the first season in which the com­ petition for it wa3 held, twice beat their old rivals in no half-hearted fashion. The match at Melbourne (the forty-ninth of the series) was won by eight wickets, thanks to some exceptionally fine bowling by Robert McLeod, and the batting of William Bruce, John Edward Barrett, and Harry Trott. The Terror was absent from the ranks of the visitors; and it need hardly be said that he was greatly missed. New South Wales had first innings, but fared poorly, only Moses (77), who batted under great difficulties, the strained leg which so often gave him trouble being very bad, and Callaway (61 not out) doing anything. Victoria replied with 375, Bruce playing a beautiful innings of 128, while Harry Trott contributed 63, Barrett 44, Worrall 31 and Graham 30. These were the first five men in the order of goiug-in; the remainder were rather disappointing. Pierce, a young slow medium leg-breaker, did well, taking six wickets for 100; but the promise he gave in this match and that against South Australia a week earlier was hardly sustained. He was invited to Bris­ bane on the strength of his performances, but cut no great figure in Queensland cricket. New South Wales battled gamely in the second innings. Frank Iredale made his fiist century (101) in big cricket, and was well supported by Moses (61), Donnan (58) and Jones (45). Five others reached double figures, and the total was 364. Iredale and Donnan added 128 in partnership. Wanting 187 to win, the home side scored the runs for the loss of only two wickets. Bruce soon left; but Banett (56) helped Trott to make a long stand, and then Hugh Trumble joined the Australian captain of later days, and these two hit off the rest of the runs, Trott being 70, Trumble 34, at the finish. McLeod had eleven New South Wales wickets at a cost of 152 runs, six for 54 and five for 98. Trumble took four for 63 in the visitors’ second. Of the twenty-nine wickets that fell to the bowlers in the match these two and young Pierce had twenty-three among them at a cost of 416 runs ; the other thirteen bowlers tiied took six for 590. The thirteen included Harry Trott, Jim Phillips, Joseph Carlton, Callaway and Coningham, too. The last-named was playing for New South Wales for the first time, having previously represented Queensland. In 1893-4 he re­ presented both Colonies, in 1894-5 Queens­ land. and in 1895-6 and later New South Wales. G. Youll was also making his first appearance in the series. Victoria had first innings at Sydney, in the fiftieth match; and John McCarthy Blackham, going in last, was top scorer with 64 not out. But others had helped them­ selves to a fair number of runs before his turn came. Barrett making 55, Graham 39, Worrall 38, Lewis 35, Bruce 24 and Trumble 21. Graham was the partner of the King of Stumpers in the tenth wicket stand of 82; and it says much for the vigour of Black- ham’s .hitting that, with such a colleague at the other end, he should have made nearly four-fifths of the runs. Alec Bannerman (53) and Syd Gregory (31) gave the home side a good start; Iredale was top scorer with 55, Youll made 39, and Coningham 30. The total was 261, a number which the visitors exactly equalled in their second innings. Bruce (86) and Trott (38) added 114 for the second wicket; but Graham’s 65 was a better innings than either’s. Wanting 332 to win, the home side collapsed on a worn wicket for 99, in spite of a dogged and plucky 46 by Alec Bannerman. Robert McLeod was again successful, with eight wickets for 122 in the match. Trumble’s seven for 77 gave a better analysis, however. For the losers Coning- ham had nine for 169, a performance which