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Crombie Wilson, b. W. A. Crombie {Dia not bat 4 bye 1, no balls 1 The principal feature of the match between the above Clubs, played on the Recreation Club ground on Saturday aft noon, was the tall scoring, ably ten falling during the afternoon for the high total of runs, or an average of 37.2 runs Turnbull won the toss, and ug to bat accompanied Par wickets, to face the attack of Crombie and G.F. Lanning, Runs came freely from the V. Lanning start, Turnbull doing the majority of the scoring. Early in the game he hit Lanning Crombie, almost out of the ground, the ball land Donnell; -Did not bat. on the top of the rails, and later he drove the same bowler clean out of the gro lih the score at 87, 0. V. Lanni V. H. Bourne, ed Crombie, and the change Fowler's first ball into his wicket 2 proved effective, Parkin chopping the new Byes
Wallace followed, and runs still came ap: Turnbull continuing to play very Bows cricket. At G1, however, Wallace played she ball back into O. V. Lanning's hands (6 Overs. Indus. Runs. 6G). 8. Wallace filled the vacancy any, A. Croanbi 12.5 OG other long stand ensued. Several chagas in (7 yt" Javan 9 the bowling were tried, but without effect. 6. Lanni and the century was hoisted at half-past 5" yyigdicton three. With 110 on the board Turnbull W camer puta ball from Cameron into the hands of }7 "Moule"
F. Lanning." The retiring batsman had" played an excellent innings of 66. His cutting and driving were very neat and and effective, and this was the best innings A; J. Waller... 9 Rons. Wkts. 26 1 Turnbull has played for two seasons.
7 0 When in the twenties he should have 3 1 been stumped, but_ with that exception the 3 0 innings was free from blemish. Dowling,. T-2 who followed, only contributed one to the 3. Emerson. 1 0 0 total before being bowled by Moule. ft.
H. Veitch 1 0 6 Veitch then joined $. Wallace, and after W. R. Pi 1 0 0 having two lives, began to score freely and had hit up 44 runs in very short time, whea hee fell a victim to the howling of Crombie.
Lawn Tennis Singles Champion-H. Veitch only made a single and Wilson ship Challenge Cup. was bowled by Crombie after scoring This afternoon C. Biron, the challenger, With the total' at 230 for 3 wickets Turn-! will meet N. B. Ramsay, the holder, to de-bull declared the innings closed. $, Wallace cide who is to be the possessor of the hai. Lb was gathering of spectators been seen at a tennis match in Sh i, Te was the general opinion that Rarasay would retain the Cup and title, ant the result bore out this Tu the first sett Ramsay seemed very much off colour, and Biron obtained three games out of the first four.
Then Ramsay improved, and though badly, scored many points by accurate Totootdri0111).." Im the second sett Ram. placing, and ran out the winner by 7-5
say's service did not improve, but his placing was excellent and he' won games right off the reel. Hiro", however, improved considerably an took the next two games. The eighth game of this sett was splendidly contested. Deuce and vantage were being called continually, but although Biron "seemed to have" the game in his hands at one time, Ram-Sty won and thus secured the' second sett _by G-2 (AIILI001). In the third sett Biron seemed fags: d, but sone of the games were very exciting in spite of the fact that Ramsay won the sett by 6-2 (11010111). It was evident that Ramsay was not in his best form, and although he won the rubber easily, the score does not give a proper idea of how closely some of the games were contested. Ramsiy's placing was brilliant, and Biron played a very good xame, but lost 1 points by attempting smashing volleys where easier strokes might have increased his score.
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