Cricket 1912

46 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. M ar . 30, 1912. H. GRADIDGE & SONS, Manufacturers and Exporters of all requisites for Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Racquets, Squash Racquets, &c. Reblading Cricket bats and Restringing Tenn is bats a Special feature. F a c t o r y ARTILLERY PLACE, WOOLWICH, S.E. Patentees and Sole makers o f the “ I M P E R I A L D R I V E R ” Cricket Bats made in Mens, Small Mens, College, 6, 5, 4, & 3, sizes. Every other requisite for Cricket, including balls, leg guards, batting gloves, gauntlets, stumps, nets, &c. Price Lists and Special Quotations free. ALL C00DS CARRIAGE PAID TO “ ANY PABT;0F THEiUNITED ______ ________________ _________ KINGDOM. Sole Makers o f the “ Imper ial D r i v e r ” and “ Improved Gr ad idge ” Lawn Tennis Racquets. Cricket in New Zealand. W e l l in g t o n v . C a n t e r b u r y . This match, at Wellington, was the customary annual encounter, and had no bearing on the Plunket Shield contest. It was scarcely a great game, and Canterbury, though winning pretty easily, did not shew to advantage with the bat, being terribly slow. Their first innings of 163 lasted 3 hours 10 minutes, their second of 159 fully 3 hours. In the first innings of Wellington Joseph Bennett bowled finely and did the hat trick, clean bowling Little, Hickson, and Finlayson. The best batting of the match was seen at the beginning of the home side’s second innings. Gibbes and Bowles sent up 80 before a wicket fell, and the first named and Blamires added exactly 100 for the second wicket. Blamires made 65 runs in 67 minutes ; Gibbes, brilliant at times, showed sound defence, and was not out until eighth, with 228 on the board. C a n t e r b u r y v . W e l l in g t o n . In this game, Canterbury, holders of the Plunket Shield, had to defend it against Wellington at Christchurch. They never looked like losing ; but there was nothing very special about their cricket. Wellington’s team was strengthened by the inclusion of Midlane and Crombie, the latter captaining the side ; Canterbury had Harold Lusk and Alfred Norman back in the team. W. B. Patrick was top scorer in each innings of the winners, and Gibbes in each innings of tho losers. Lusk, who scored at about the rate of a run a minute, and Norman added 82 runs for the second wicket in Canterbury’s first innings, and Reese and Hickmott, the ex-High School boy, 57 for the fifth. The left-hander, Gibbes, and Midlane, put on 84 for the fourth in Wellington’s first. Gibbes played right through the losers’ second, and made 75 of a total of 161 from the bat. He is probably the most improved batsman in the Dominion this season. Saunders finished off the second innings of Canterbury very summarily on the third morning by taking 4 wickets for 4 runs. Reese bowled best for the winners. O d d s a n d E n d s . R. G. Hickmott has left school and is now playing for the St. Albsttis C.C. at Christchurch. While making his first appearance for Canterbury at Wellington he reached a four-figure total of runs for the season ; and, with scores of 30, 39, 52 and 33, he has certainly made a capital start in interprovincial cricket. He is only 17. The late A. M. Ollivier played for Canterbury, many years ago, before he had reached his seventeenth birthday, and Dan Reese was a representative cricketer at the same age. Mr. Ollivier’s son, Keith M. Ollivier, by the way, was booked for a matri­ monial engagement in February. Congratulations to him ! Canterbury C.A. received over £200 as their share of the gate in the Otago match. The new Lancaster Park ground at Christchurch, where the game was played, had a formal opening on December 23. It is beyond doubt the finest sports ground in New Zealand, as it has long been the best cricket ground. Arthur Sims, to whom reference was made in “ Gossip ” last month, is coming to England almost immediately and will probably put in a couple of years in this country. B. B. Wood, another Canterbury representative, has lately returned to Christchurch after a tour round the world. T. McFarlane, the Otago and N.Z. representative, took 5 wickets with 5 successive balls for Albion v. Carisbrook B at Dunedin in January. On New Year’s Day, playing for North Taranaki v. South Taranaki at New Plymouth, Walter Matthews hit five 6’s in one over. There were as many as seventeen 6’s in the North Taranaki total, Matthews and Gwillim claiming eight each. G E O R G E L E W I N & Club Colour Specialists and A thletic Clothing M anufacturers. 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