The sun., 1908-06-28
CRICKET.
BroOkl,ns and Manhattans Play
Game for Championships

Capital cricket was witnessed on all the
local cricket grounds in yesterdays games
The day was one alto gether in favor OF the
batsmen. the wickets being fast ana true
and scoring being correspondingy easy. The
most important game OF the day was the
initial meeting of the Brooklyns and Man
hattans in a league championship game at
Prospect Park. Neither team had heretofore
suffered defeat and yesterday g contest did
not change their standing. as draw was the
result. The Brooklyns batted first and ran
up a total OF las for wickets. and declared.
J. L. Poyer batted in fine form for 80, q.
Macpherson scored "a. r. Macpherson fol-
lowed with rs. and a like total was scored by
II. Poyer. The bowling was shared by H. A.
Sna of rns hs tans
for. 81 runs. The Manhattans opened poorly
and at the fall Of the sixth wicket. with a total
Of 40, the result seemed a sure victory for
Brooklyn, but at this critical iuncture, I, J,
0'Reilly and +. Z. Kelly became associated
6'Reiy was @ not not out ' Tor is and Kelly was
not out for 81. II. Rushton performed credit:
ably with With, the ball: capturing wickets for for g e
cost Of "a runs. The Manhattan's total was
81 for wickets.
6s League y seG.on
drawn battle For Brooklyn q: 9. France
80, Deane. In addition. took two wickets
and ". Massiah, achieved like result G.
Wright vas the highest man man for Manhst.diI IiiS
Contributed IS, The latter, with A; Baekas
totals w We're: .t Brookiyn Second, les declared
FOR seven wickets: Manhattan Eleven, lIS for
AT Timer Park the Prospect Park Cricket
Club scored Victory in the second section
g. the Metrop9litsn League series against the
he hal hnin rot lired for
wickets. Eight Of the Prospect m Park players
f IN and Sa ii pssns ss ,he as on @
In the New Jersey State League game;
they declared their innings closed with 81
ponsnss sa smitS and p nf Muffin
wIckets Tor q runs and the he later for L.
With and R Rsby adaed is and iSp Bnnse sspls 10
wIG. EGr the Orange team J Dryer captured ;
The Staten Island team played the New
York York Vetsrans and a drawn game Was the
Island and the visitors just managed to avert
defeat by playing out time. e. H. J.. Stein
ran Up n9i ont nPns Of IS in suSs lex
opt Of q total q los. 9. Bshlins helped con:
orucIuDiy nedF tne close Win not out innings
OF 20. while Barnes bowled well and was
credited with 4 wiokets. The Staten Island
total was 1877 declared for o wickets.
century from the bat Of r. Kinds was
the distin gushing feature OF the game be-
tween the West Indians and Hudson County
| at Prospect Park, Kinds altogether scored
t2o, not out. A. Bryan batted well for IS
and Alexander shared the bowling honors
between Them. For Hudson County W.
Robinson was the only man to show FORM
He ran up 20 out Of a total Of SO. and the
West Indians won by a margin Of 1855 runs.
having scored 2A runs, declared for four
Kings County won rather easily against
Bellevue at Prospect Park. J. P. Stuart
made top SCORE for the home team In an ex-
cellent innings OF 81.
The Crescent Athletic Club ran up big
total against Montclair at Bay Ridge and had
no dimoulty In defeating the visitors by
margin Of loS runs. W. r, jackson batted
In splendid style for 90 and NJ. J. Beasley was
seen to advantage with Sc, these two batsmen
putting up over 100 runs FOR the fret wicket;
not out Tor ~ and X. B. Chittick contributed
~ Bonnar snd jackson bore the brunt OF
the bowling. the former taking wickets for
y runs ana the latter securing 3 for 20. For
Montclair II. Richardson batted well for 10.
and X, Turner achieved the most success With
the bau, capturing wlckets for 81 runs The
totals were: Crescent A. c., 2i0; declared for
wtokets; MontclaIr. A,