The cricket season was opened on Saturday by a match between an Eleven and Twenty-two of the 8.C.C. Suet a game is necessarily richer in promise than in formener, for it is intended to reveal if possible the character of the new blood the "colts" represent. In the present instance the match introduced us to a promising bowler in the person of Potter, who good wickets at a cost of 21 ru but in the batting depart nothing to note. The w what dull, and the overnight rain nvale the wicket si moderate seori was the rule. for the loss of vie 100 runs, and then closed the Sheldon sal A. Wilson, with 24 and 18 respectively, were the highest scorers, the nim to get into double figures Walsh, The Eleven began disastrously when i Six wickets were lost for just twice as many rans, and had been for the wey stewly and Tat his int foe patient play who carrie
yock, the result would have be win for the last nan in kept ap ci long to play out time, the match ending in Full score and analysis J.B. Walsh, b. Writ C. W. Potter, b. Man B. P. Sheld A. Wilson, it E. Ormiston, run-out.
Theron, c. W. H. Moule, J. Byrne-Hackett, b. Wright P.L. Byrne, b. Maun.
Campbell, b. Tyack.
G. Close, b. Tyack..
Stewart, b. Tyack Graham, c. A. J. H. Moule, b. Tyack... J.B. Lo Mottee, not-out G. Ross, b. Tyack H. Moule, b. Potter.
Lanning, not-out ann, b. Potter H. Moule, b. di Wood, ¢. Sharpin, b. Potter anning, b. Potter Smalley, b. Potter. \V. B. Cheetham, ¢. and b. Walsh J. L. Wright, c. and b, Sharpi A.C. Platt, c. Ormiston, b. Sharpin.. "J. Tyack, not-out Byes 2, w-b 1.
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