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The Hon, Sec. informed us that the following fifteen gentlemen had been chosen by the Selection Committee as the persons from whom the final selection was to be made :-
H. Arthur, Major Beresford-Ash, R.W.F., Lt. Bird (Rajputs), Lt. Clifton Brown, R.N, P.A. Cox, M. J. Doctor, Mejor Dorehill, R.A., Major Dyson, A.P.D, C. Franklin, R.N., Gunner Greatorex, R.A, H. R. Hancock, Private Preedy, R.W.F., Captain Radcliffe, R.E., T. Sercombe Smith, and Morrison, R,N., Major Dorehill, R.A., has been unanimously chosen by the Selection Committee to captain the XI.
CRAIGENGOWER C.C. v. VICTORIA C.C.'
A cricket match between the Craigengower Cricket Club and the Victoria Cricket Club was played at the Happy Valley on Saturday and resulted in a victory for the former. The following are the scores :-
CRAIGENGOWER CRICKET CLUB.
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were hitting freely and scoring rapidly when 5 o'clock came, and looked as though they had settled down for a long stay. Neither the fielding nor the bowling was by any means what it ought to have been. Smith's 2 wickets for 13 runs was the best bowling average. Hickley's lobs were ineffective. In the field. Wood had an excellent catch at long-on off Franklin's bat.
His Excellency the Governor was present during the later part of the afternoon and evinced great interest in the match.
Appended are the scores
analysis :
LT. WOUD'S III. Lt. Noble, b Hancock
Mr. Pringle, b Hancock
Mr. Smith, b Bird
Com, Hickley, Ibw, b Gratrix
and bowling
6
0
12
17
Mr. Cornabe, c Preedy, b Doctor..
6
Lt. Clifton Browne not out.
2
Mr. Barrett, at Beresford-Aah, b Doctor, 0 Lt. Wood, c Bird, b Doctor
8
Lt. Ross, e Feresford-Ash, b Doctor Mr. Fitch, b Gratrix...
S. B. S. Morrison, e and b Bird
Dr. Sheward, e Bird, b Grains.
Extras
Total
CLUB XII.
H. R. Hancock, a Fitch, b Smith.
0
7
2
72
90
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R. Basa, b Harteem
1
M. E. Asger, c Harteem, b Ismail
15
J. P. Jordan, b Lopez
52
J. L. Stuart, b Lopez
3
R. Witchell, b Lopez
1
A. E. Asger, b Ismail
9
L. E. Lammert, e Lopez, b Remedios
C. M. Burnie, b Ross
13
8
J. H. Ruttonjee, b Lopez
G. Remedios, e Ramjahn, b Remedios
Lieut. Bird, Rajputs, e and b Morrison Gunner Gratrix, e Fitch, b Barrett
G
26
3
F. Rapp, e Silva, b Lopez
Major Beresford-Ash, R. W.F., c Noble, b
с
3
Morrison
17
A. Remedios, not out
Major Dyson, A.P.D., b Boss
40
Extras
21
C. S. P. Franklin, R.N., b Smith
10
20
Total
.127
26
VICTORIA CRICKET CLUB.
A. Ribeiro, c Lammert, b Jordan...
J. Lopez, A. Remedios, b Stuart
C. Remedios, b Jordan
J. Silva, o Stuart. b Jordan
R. Harteem, b Lammert
8. Harteem, b Lammert
J. Barretto, not out
Extras
Total....
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to bat
T. Sercombe Smith, not out
Major Dorehill, R.Á., not out
Pte. Preedy
Q.-M. Sgt. James
M. J. Doctor
Extras
Total (for 7 wickets)
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
LT. WOODS XII.
5
253
D. Ramjahn, c Ruttonjee, b Lammert
0
E. lemail, c M. E. Asger, b Jordan
2
8. A. Ismail, b Stuart
19
M. Suffiad, b Lammert.
1
0. M.
R.
W.
0
Hancock
8
4
12
I
Doctor
10
3
3
Bird Gratrix
12
3
28
10.3
2
17
30
CLUB XII,
0. M.
B.
Morrison
26
77
Ross
12
46
Fitch
12
Barrett
14
29
Hickley
9
32
Noble... Smith
5
13
3
0
2
H K.C.C. XII v. LT, WOOD'S XII. The final Test Match previous to the Interport contests took place on Thursday, when a Club XII met Lt. Wood's Navy Team. It had been arranged to begin play at 10.30 a.m., sharp, but there was the customary want of punctuality in going to the wicket; it was some time after 11 before a start was made. Lt. Wood wou the-
toss. Noble and Pringle were sent in first and faced the bowling of Hancock and Doctor. The opening passages of the game were un- eventful so far as the getting of runs was con- cerned. At the end of half an hour's play the score stood at only 20, and three wickets had fallen. Hickley was the first and indeed the only one (with the exception perhaps of Smith, who reached double figures) to make a stand against the Club bowling. His 17 was very good so far as it went, and he was unlucky in being given out leg before. Scoring continued to be slow until the last wicket fall, which happened before tiffin with the score stand- ing et 72. As the score-on a good wicket, be it remembered-indicates, the bowling was of an effective description. Doctor's 4 for 13 was a splendid performance. But the excellent fielding was also in no small degree responsible Beresford-Ash for the low register of runs.
In the slips at wicket played a grand game. Bird was unbeatable; his one-handed catch of Wood, off Doctor, was very prettily done. After tiffin, Hancock and Burnie opened the innings for the Club. Hancock's defence was the feature of the whole game. He batted strongly all through his stay at the wicket and compiled a well-hit 90 before being caught in the slips by Fitch off a loose ball of Smith's. He completely broke up the bowling and had quite a number of boundaries. When about half-way through in the compilation of his score, he was what appeared to be caught in Gratrix the slips, but was given not out. played a good, steady game. Dyson in the course of his innings was missed several times and ought to have been stumped once; his 40 Dorehill and Smith was otherwise well-played. were at the wicket when time was called. Both
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THE INTERPORT TEAM. At the conclusion of the match a meeting of the Selection Committee was held, at which the
following XI were selected to represent the Club in the Interport contests next week:-
H. R. Hancock, Gunner Gratrix, R.A., Lt. Clifton Browne, R.N., T. Sercombe Smith, P.
R.W.F. Major Dorehill, R.A., H. Arthur, Lt. A. Cox, C. Franklin, RN., Private Preedy, Bird, Rajputs, Major Dyson, A. P. D.
Reserves:-Major Beresford-Ash, R.W.F.,
aud M. J. Doctor.
Major Dorehill will captain the XI.
FOOTBALL.
H.K F.C. V.
CO. R.W.F.
Several hundred spectators watched the match on the 2nd inst. between these two teams. The weather was good, and though the pitch looked a trifle fast, it was in first-class condition, so that a good game was anticipated. Teams :-
Club- Bevan, goal; Macdonald, R.A., and Bonnar, backs; Bennett, Kew, and Codling, halves; Lowe, Rutherford, Tulloch, R.A., Von der Pfordten, and Danby, forwards.
"A" Company---Rhodes, goal; Billish and Phillips, backs; Croft, Beven, and Demery. halves; Gregory, Andrews, Stevens, Lance- Corporal Jones, and Private Jones, forwards,
The Club kicked off, but the ball was instant-
ly snapped up by the Fusiliers' centre-forward, who sent it over to the left wing. From a throw-in Private Jones had a smart run up the wing, and Bonnar, who tackled him, was forced to concede & corner. Private Jones placed the ball neatly, and his side had no difficulty in scoring, which they did in half-a- minute from the kick-off. Play similar to that at the start followed the centring of the ball, and a second invasion of the Club's territory
[November 9, 1901.
was made, with a bye as the result. The soldiers were early evincing their superiority in weight and tackling work, and with forwards who tried when they could to combine, the game was mostly confined to the ground team's territory. Although Lowe and Pfordten, on the Club's right wing, worked well together, and Tulloch was watchful in centre, Danby, on the left wing, had a weak partner in Rutherford, so that the forwards had very few opportunities of getting together. When at times they did succeed in negotiating the front opposing line, the hard- working halves and backs behind always ac- counted for the attack, invariably turning it. Kew was perhaps the only strong man amongst the Club's halves, but Bonnar and Macdonald, the backs, were in excellent form, especially Bonnar, who appeared determined to do a hard afternoon's work. Though skill was not always a feature of the game, earnestness undoubtedly was, and the spectators were treated to an exhibi- tion of good fast play. Most of the visitors' work came from their left wing, and the two Joneses kept the Club's custodian constantly on the hop. A screwed shot from the Private cleared the top of the net, and for a time, following the goal kick, the Club's defences had a breathing space. Its forwards were brightening up won- derfully, and with the soldiers equally alert, the ball travelled rapidly from end to end of the field, with, however, gain to neither side, the custodians not being seriously called upon. In the soldiers' half Rutherford got a nice pass from Lowe, but he was unable to turn the ball, and sent it out of boundary. Later, Bonnar had to give away another corner to turn a well-sustained attack, but, unlike the first, this was unconverted, and the ball was eventually captured by Lowe, who, single- handed, took it right up the wing and passed to Tulloch. The latter made a good attempt Two fouls to equalise, but sent the ball over. against their opponents were not improved upon by the Club, and they were defending when the whistle sounded.
Half-time "A" Company, 1; Club, 0. The Club took up the aggressive on the commencement of the second half. Pfordton
but captured smartly and tried to break away, the opposing halves intercepted his pass to Tulloch and sent the ball out. Kew re-captured for his side, and sent in a long shot which was responded to by a longer one from Phillips. The Club soon after gave away their first foul in the match, but the visitors were unable to do anything with it, and even play followed. The Fusiliers were the first to put a different face on matters, and from a second foul in their favour they tried hard to outwit Beran.
Macdonald, however, proved more than a match for them, and centred smartly. The club's forwards were not given a chance to take up the play, Stevens's line getting the
bye, but a moment later Andrews all but put ball from the halves and once more trekking Bevauwards." They only got an unproductive
Beran's foot, and the ball, rebounding, was in the second goal. His shot, a low one, struck given to Danby, who took it up the field. The attentions of the half-backs were too pressing, and his shot, a hasty one from well out, went past. He got nearer the mark with his next attempt, but Rhodes was waiting for it, and saved easily. Andrews, long of limb, then got the ball at his feet, and the field tailed behind him as he evaded in turn the halves and backs. In passing the latter, however, Andrews was forced to send the ball rather far ahead, and Bevan, who was now defending an absolutely open goal, had time to run out and pick up the ball, though why he should afterwards throw it over the touch-line was not quite apparent. A few moments later Andrews lost absolutely his best chance to score by being off-side, and Macdonald, three or four yards in front of an almost undefended goal, was allowed to play the ball, which he centred. A back charge by one of the Fusilier halves gave the Club a foul near their opponents' goal, but the ball went past without a scrimmage. Lowe took a corner A scrim- for the Club, but kicked too far ont. mage resulted in a shy for the Club, and from this they almost had the equaliser. Billish finked a good shot from Danby, but Rhodes was alert and had just time to punt the ball out and then evade a charge by Tulloch, who tried to rush him. A corner and a foul in favour of the visiting team fell flat in turn, and, making a
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