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H.K.C.C. v. UNITED SERVICES.
DELAYED DECLARATION LOSES MATCH FOR THE CLUB.
PLAYING IN THE RAIN: MANY CATCHES' DROPPED,
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The Services Bat,
The final match of one big local series began on Saturday last on
There was never any prospect, of the Club ground, when H.K.C.0.
the Services getting two hundredh opposed the United Services. The
Indeed at one time it looked very weather was dull and cold, and the much as if they would fail to get wicket on tap was soft though hard three Agures. Birt and Williams enough andarneath. I owns de
Came out to opan, their innings finitely a day for the spin bowlers, against Beck, ha the Yard End, and Owen Hughoa ra lucky enough to Owen Hughes Book opened with win the toss and sout on Richard-
a maiden and Owen Hughes could son and Ducklit to oppose 8ig and no length whatever. In Beck's Williams at the Yard end and second over Wood caught Birt at Capt. Mirhouse. It was pretty the wicket after having dropped soon evident that it was not the him two balls before. Beck con- fast bowler's wicket, though hơị tinued to bowl very well but after sent down' some very useful balls being hit for eighteen in throe Three or four of them shot in & overs Owen Hughes very wisely most disconcerting fashioa but they went of för McLol!ann, Williams went across to miss the off-stick. I was very lucky to be dropped twice.. know Williams is not very keen on at the wicket off Beck, but one howling round the wicket, but, chance was very low and hard. The with his fatal brick of following up soore was taken to twenty-nine to the right, the Army skipper very (when MoForlay, who had kept a sportingly-(and I think, very wise. † very straight bat, failed to get over" ly)—insistod unit,
A Good Start."-
one of McLellan, and was taken, at Cover; and off the Bfth ball of the over a faster one get past Williams' guard. Musson played watchful cricket while Villiers hit out and scored several fours, but he was very lucky. Book was having abominable luck, but ho managed to get in a fast one to Musson which kept very low and sent the off stump flying out of the ground..
A Collapse.
The Club butsmen got down very steadily to business. Mirehouse, who seemed to be feeling the cold, was on the short side to start with |although it was obvious he was turning back Q lot from leg. Duckiti had a four to square log in his firat over and might well have had mure. He, improved stendily, however, while Williams Kept the batamen quiet but went Wickets, then foll fart na Beck got away for four byes once or twice, Villiers and Watson both bowled, Matters progressed quietly until while McLellan did as much for the fast bowler lost his length and Wates, Seven wickets were down Richardson put him to square leg, for sixty seven. But Bundy and and through the covers, each time | Barry made a stand and Anstru for four. This brought Musson on, ther got cleven before being run and it was pretty evident the out owing to a misunderstanding. wicket was to his liking. Just The innings closed for 114, leaving after the alty went up. Duckitt the Club eighty-eight runs on.. iniled to got hold of a short one | Buck, had four for thirty-four and that turned a good bit and skied deserved many more McLellan it in the direction of long leg, but sent down somɑ good" stuff hut ho Villiers did not manage to get to was not ne certain of his length sa it Finally, when seventy-five was he has been lately. on the board after an hour's play, Musson, who dropped bis square leg deeper, got Duckitt to fall into his trap and Wales took a nicely judged cntch.
Monday's Play.
The weather want to bits over the week-end and it was drizzling a bit when the game was restarted. Sayer and Richardson started and An Appalling Collapse.
they played some very nice shots, Meanline Anstruther had re-including one perfect late cut be- lieved Mirohouse at the Law Courts fore being bowled by Anstruther, ond, and for sus time the now-with one that kept low. Mitchell somer, Sayer, hardly got a ball as joined Richardson and the pair put „Richardson monopolized the batting on a bright hundred and two runs, Michell just winning the race for end and put on a dozen or so.
the half-century. It was by far Then came a cataclysmic over from the best knock ho has played for Anstruther. The first ball was a full some time and there was hardly a toss. Richardson hit across it and bad shot in it. His partner, too, it fell on his thigh-palpably I.b. w.. was excellent, and the red-hot Griffiths came in and wha bowled driva which Wales took at mid-off first ball by a very short one which was only just a buc stroke in that broke in a lot, and shot. Owen is wie mistimed a shade. Rido Hughes had a single but Sayer was scored freely and at tiffin time the then caught at extra from a very Club wero over 250 runs on. wild hit To make matters worse view of the Services poor chewing next over Musson got an off break in the first knock and the lack of past the Club skipper and bowled potentially big scorers, taken in him off his pads. The Club had lost conjunction with the gloomy was- four wickets for two runs! ·
ther, I was utterly, amazed that Owen Hughes did not decline. In- stead he wasted half an hour and set the Services 290 to get in three hours and a quarter.
The Olub Recover.
Mitchell and Ride saved the situation and hung on until tiffin when the score "was a hundred and six. Afterwards Mirehouse had, a
Had Fielding.
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It
fow overa while Anstruther bowled Thanks to three sitters being pat from the other end. Not until 134. down, Williams got twenty-one. was on the board did a separation MoFarlon played a really good come, when Musson, who had re- knock for thirty but wickets fell sumed at his usual end (the Law stendily, Beck started by bowling Court), got Mitchell to mistime five, maidens running and things on and caught and bowled him for went well, until Mundy and Barry au invaluable twenty-seven. Rideeams together again. They did not was playing watchfully but scoring scoro much but they did not get rather slowly." Beak and Arm out After the tea interval the strong hung on for a bit and each rain assorted to fall and after five. wicket added round about twenty, minutes the game should have been though Musson was keeping the stopped. But they carried on until batsmen steady. A spell of the fast after five, while Mirohouse hit howler did not prove successful and gallantly and Barry stonowalled. Murson had Armstrong caught in Finally, when the scorers had sent tim elips and later put his faster down for a lampy and the water ball straight through to get Ride was beginning to stand in pools, f.bw for an excellent thirty. stumps and the match were drawn. "Anstruther had howled Beek, but Why Owon-Hughes went down fifteen McClellan get eighteen fa quick overs running withing giving time, before Wood became another Richardson a single ball is ungues. slip victim to Musson. The innings rable. It was a bad show alto- closed for 902. 1 had hazarded the gether.
opinion that neither side would Spaeo, precludes a general review get two hundred, and the Club and I should prefer to think the should not have done as Wood was matter over puietly, so I will defer dropped of successive balla in the comment until my notes on Friday deep and at the wicket when the next. acore was 197
RABBIT
- FULL BOORE AND ANALYSIS,
First Tanings et EX0,0,
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J. E. Richardson, l.b.w, b
Anstruthor
43
G. B Sayer, a Birt, & An-
struther
E. R. Duckiti, o Wales, ₺.
Musson
14
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1...
of
R. H. Grifiths, b Anstruthor
H. Owen Hughes, b Musson 1
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