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beat him with the fourth ball of the over, and the Hongkong crack retired clean bowl- ed with only 4 to his credit. Score 21-2-4. Beresford-Ash who came next to the wicket began well by hitting Mann twice to square leg for 4. Between them he and Franklin carried the score to 40 in good style. Franklin did not materially add to his Own and was bowled by Mann with only 3 runs opposite his name. Score, 43 for 3 wickets. Arthur who went in next kept up the re. cord of short innings by being bowled by Mann when the score had been augmented by 17 of which 8 were the result of two boundary hits by Beresford-Ash. Score, 63-4-5. Dyson who filled the vacancy cut Mann into the slips for 2. Beresford-Ash again drew a loose ball from the same end round to square leg for 4. Stanion now took over the bowling at Potter's end; off his first 6 Dyson had a square leg hit for 2. V. H. Lanning relieved Mann and sent down a maiden against I eresford-Ash. This essay contained two wides and not once did the batsman touch the ball.
Beresford-Ash scored
a well-run 3 off Stanion's next end but was neatly caught by Rose at mid-off in the same over. Score, 85-5-36. Dorehill took his place at the wicket. Play was uninteresting until stumps were drawn at 5.45 when the score was 87 for 5 wickets. It was a queer coincidence that Dyson and Dorehill were not out for 13 and I respectively, this having been the position of their scores on the previous evening at the close of the innings.
During the afternoon the band of the 22nd Bombay Infantry played musical selections. There was a large attendance of spectators.
FINAL DAY'S PLAY.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
Bird opened the bowling against Lanning, who cut the first ball to point for a single. McEuen did the same with the third. Preedy took up the bowling at the City Hall end. His swift delivery in the first over showed up the bumpy nature of the pitch, for nearly every ball rose far over the bails. Off this initial essay The first each batsman scored a single run. boundary of the innings was secured off this bowler by McEuen who cut sharply through the slips with a low ball which Hancock missed. McEuen brought the score up to double figures by placing Bird prettily to square leg. Lan- ning gave a nice exhibition of outting when he came to face Preedy again but failed to get through the slips owing to smart fielding. He contrived however in the same over to draw a loose ball nicely round to the square leg for 4. Twenty-five minutes' play brought the score up to 20. Just before this figure was reached a chance of getting the first wicket down was narrowly missed: a fielded ball was thrown to the wrong end, otherwise McEuen had been easily run out. As it was, it took Lanning all his time to recover his ground before the bails were sent flying by Arthur at wicket. The batsmen were playing a very careful, steady game, find- ing out the weak places in the field, and secur ing a string of singles by virtue of judicious placing, to leg especially. In addition, McEuen had two boundary hits off Preedy one a magnificent drive to the off. At the end of 45 minutes' play, Hancock relieved Preedy and had his first delivery driven to leg for 4 by Lanning; his third for a single. Lanning was showing a complete command of the bowling.
regularity-if not a rapidity-which made the chances of Hongkong securing a victory more and more remote every minute. Lanning and McEuen were beating the bowling completely. In less than an hour and a half 70 runs had been rogistered. Hancock was now replaced by Bird. Just before the tiffin-bell rang the fall of the first wicket came by McEuen being run out a short hit was smartly returned by Dorehill and Arthur Inocked over the wicket when McEnen was a yard from home. Score, 78-1-25.
When he next faced Bird's attack he drove a fine ball to the off for 4. It was a remarkable feature of his innings, as it had been of those The unfinished match between Houghong and that went before, the number of nasty knocks Shanghai was completed on the 19th inst., the he received. Time and again he was hit on the Cricket Festival being thus brought to a close body and the legs by rising balls and once on after eight days' play. On the previous even- the face. As a result he carried a limp with ing when stumps were drawn the Hongkong him right through the latter part of his tenancy team were engaged in their second innings and of the wicket. But the injuries which befel him bad scored 87 runs for 5 wickets, Dorehill and did not mar the excellence of his game. He Dyson batting. These players now took stood up pluckily to the defence and contributed the wicket against Mann and Potter. Dyson's a big share of the runs that brought the total overnight score was 13, a figure which has up to the half century. When the total had been fateful to him in several of his late been augmented to 60, Dorehill took over Bird's matches. On this occasion, too, the Major end, thus making his debut as a bowler in the failed to get past his " unlucky 13. Off the Festival matches, His third was cut to point first ball of the day, which came from Mann's by Launing; except for this single the over was end, he was cleanly caught by Price in the slips. nnproductive of runs. The fielding was very Score, 87-6-13. Bird took up the batting and good now, Cox, Clifton Brown, and Franklin opened the score by drawing a loose ball round doing well. Twice, however, Lanning found a to leg for 4. Quite a succession of boundary way through and secured a boundary each time, hits followed upon this, Dorebill being respon-cutting Dorehill and driving Hancock to the sible for most of them with his well-known slash-off. The score was mounting up with a ing drives. He and Bird appeared to be settling down for a long stay at the wicket. Both were playing a free, confident game-and especially so the Captain-which very soon added a welcome 25 to the yet meagre total. The com. pletion of the century brought the batsmen a round of applause. Stanion took over the bowling at Mann's end after 20 minutes' play. For several overs subsequently, there were few runs added to the score. The wicket was bumpy and was playing very badly, the balls rising to a height that made for snicked catches. It was in this way that Bird was dismissed. He was neatly caught by Wallace in the slips off Potter. Score, 124-7-20, Cox was next man in. His partnership with Dorehill, if a short, was a merry one. The Captain slogged Potter to the leg boundary, while Cox sent away two splendid hits to point off Stanion's bowling-one for 4 and the other for 2. Both bats scored freely for six or seven overs, and carried the score to 150 in right stylish fashion. Mann, who was pat on to relieve Potter, had his first delivery driven to the off for 4 by Cox, and was also hit to the leg boundary by the same bataman. Another on hit, which just missed being a 6 was made by the Secretary off Stanion, and he had up a well-hit, though lucky, 22 when Price caught him in the slips. Score, 157 for 8 wickets. This left only 1 wicket to fall, Gratrix being an absentee owing to sick- ness. Preedy was last man in. It was his ill-luck not to have a single ball, for when he came to the wicket the bowling changed ends and Dorebill was clean bowled by Mann's first delivery. Score 157.
The Hongkong innings had closed at 11 o'clock. Shanghai went to the wicket at 11.25, A. E. Lanning and McEuen being first men in.
When the game was resumed after tiffin Rose joined Lanning, but the partnership did not last long, the latter being bowled by Dorebill and retiring with 46 to his credit. Price now joined Rose, whose wicket fell very soon afterwards under Bird's attack. The next combination-Price and Potter-made a more effective stand against the bowling, carrying the score to 130 very quickly and making shape to secure a decisive victory over the home team. Hancock relieved Dorehill and had his first over hit all over the field by Potter-once for a boundary. Price also slogged Preedy, who had replaced Bird, to some tune, and Potter sent Hancock again to the boundary twice. It was now a foregone conclusion that the Shanghai team would win. Whether the victory would come without the loss of another wicket was the extent of speculation. When the
148, the Shanghai score resched
gross total was just level with that of Hongkong. Potter put on the leading points with a 4-hit and stumps were drawn at 2.30. Shanghai thus won by the very handsome margin of 7 wickets. As the batsmen retired to the Pavilion they were heartily applauded, and three cheers were given for the winning team.
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Appended are the scores and bowling analysis :-
HONGKONG.
First Innings. H. R. B. Hancock, c
Weippert, b Mann Lt. Clifton Brown, R.A.,
run out ...
C. 8. P. Franklin, R.N
c Weippert, b' V. H. Lanning
Major Beresford-Ash, R.W.F., o A. E. Lan- ning, b Stanion H. Arthur, b Potter Gr. Gratrix, b Potter...... Major Dyson, A.P.D.,
b Potter
?
Major Dorehill, R.A., b
Mann
Lt. Bird, Rajputs, st., b
Mann
P. A. Cox, run ont Pte. Preedy, R.W.F.,
not out
Extras
Total
Second Innings.
68 b Potter
32 b Mann
15
b Mann
3
GL
c Rose, b Stanion... 36 Ob Mann
5
0 absent
e Price, b Mann
13
25
c Wallace, b Potter 20
6
c Price, b Stanion... 22-
2
not out..
19
Extras
14
13
2b Mann
230 Total (for 9 wickets) 157 SHANGHAI.
First Innings. A. E. Lanning, c and b
Preedy
Second Innings.
27
b Dorehill run out
46
25
R. J. McEuen, b Bird 16 Capt. Rose, c Preedy, b-
Hancock
Capt. Price, c sub., b
Hancock
F. W. Potter, e Preedy,
b Hancock
16 b Bird
19 not out.
33 not ont..............
J. Mann, e Cox, b Preedy 41 W. R. Stanion, run out... 30
W. H. Turnball, c Bird,
b Hancock
V. H. Lanning, not out. W. H. Weippert, e Cox,
b Preedy B. C. Farbridge, b Preedy 3
Potter
Mann.... Stanion
Extras
Total
11
0
did not bat
Extras
20
6
34
30
(TT
3
239 Total (for 3 wickets) 152
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
V. H. Lanning... McEnen
Bird Preedy Hancock
Franklin Dorebill
HONGKONG.
First Innings. Second Innings.
0. M. R. W
0. M. R. W.
20 5 43 2
16.1 3 70 5
30
27.3 7 59 3 26.5 78 3
10
27
3
1 10 3 27
1 20 1
10
2 2
Lanning bowled 2 wides.
SHANGHAI
First Innings.
0. M. R. W.
Second Innings.
0. M. R. W.
22 6 55
9.1
30 11 75 1
9.4 4 26
4
33
20 4 66
8
4
9 2 40
61
13 3 22
INTERPORT GOLF MATCH.
HONGKONG v. SHANGHAI,
2-111-
In connection with the Interport Cricket Festival a golf match had been arranged to be played at Happy Valley on the 17th inst, between J. Mann and V. H. Lanning, as representing Shanghai, and J. H. T. McMurtrie and T. S. Forrest of Hongkong. Owing, however, to V. H. Lanning being engaged in the Interport Swimming competition he was unable to appear, and a single hole-match was played between J. H. T. McMurtrie and J. Mann. Play com- menced at 10 am. McMurtrie took the honour and had a good straight drive, Maun topped his ball, and lying badly under the Racecourse railing took 6 to reach the green and did not hole out. Meurtrie landed on the edge of the green with his second and won the hole in 4. He also won the second in 4, Mann again send- ing away a topped tee-shot and conceding a penalty at the fence. At the third hole,
cMurtrie followed up a splendid drive with. a long brassie stroke, which brought him to the edge of the green; he holed out in 4 as against his opponent's 5, the latter having again failed to get away a clean ball from the tee. Both had good drives at the won by M au in 3, next hole, which was with a beautiful long putt, as against 5 taken by McMurtrie, whose approach was short. Mann sent his tee-shot into the fence at the short hole and took 5 to hole out. Mo artrie lay within a yard off the green with his first stroke, but trok 4 to get down. He was now 3 Each lay a yard off the green with his up. third stroke at the Long Hole, which was won by McMurtrie in 5, Hann over-running
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