The sun., 1918-08-18
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STATEN ISLANDERS
CRICKET VICTORS
Columbia Oval Rovers Get
Only 43 Runs Against OPP
I pOnents' 152.

Following their good form Of last
week, the Staten Island Cricket Club
were again rewarded with a victory yes
terday in their association match played
against the Columbia Oval Rovers at
Livingston. Staten Island, and won the
match by 100 runs with totals OF 1872 to
49,. This result was mainly due to the
good work with both bat and ball OF r.
A. w. Ireland and +. F.. Kelly. for ire
land ran up q total Of Al with the bat
In addition to capturing s wickets at a
cost of - runs, while Kelly scored 25 at
bat and secured w,ckets for 10 runs.
f. Q. Challenger also played well for the
winners, scoring 2b, while P. H. Ross, Is.
and r. E. Bonner. IL, were the other
double figure scorers. G. r. Gofortn.
with an innings OF II, was the only Co.
lumbia Oval man to make an effective
stand against the bowling of Ireland
and Kelly.
The association game played st Ulms-
Park between the Bensonhurst and Co.
lumbia Oval teams resulted in a victo-.'
for the former by 81 runs with totals ~
1875 against -. Although their team to-
tai passed the century mark. only two
individual scores were made in the double
figure list. F. Pearson hit out freely and
quickly scored a.. when he was run out.
r. Belgrave. first man to bat had Tailed
20 when he was caught out Top score Of
the match. however. was made BY r
Comacho for Columbia Oval with hard
hit inning o: as, while J. Langley. scored
IS and J. Madison 10. Michaelowskt
took s wickets for a.. while d. G.. BIZ
kett took for 81.
One Of the seasons MIST interesting
games was contested at the Prosncc.
Park Parade Grounds yesterday whe'
the Metropolitan League championship
match between the Brooklyn and Kings
County teams was won by Brooklyn w
the margin Of two runs with totals o.
66 to 81. Rushton and Foyer eXcellad
with the ball for the winners. taking
w.ckets for IS runs and for q respec-
lively. while for Kings County Barnes
had the best analysis, taking wtckets
for but 8 runs. Poyer was also best mt
bat with 30. while B. Fabio added 10
and w. S. Tunley 10. For Kings Coun-
ty. H. Hoyle made &c and G. w. Barnes
81.
The Manhattans easily won their
league game against the Longfellows at
Prospect Park by IA runs with wickets
to spare. Several good stands were
made, and II. Shanholt was still at the
wlckets with a splendid not out total ~
"a when stumps were drawn for the dav
C. Lauder followed with 81, while r.
Swallow added %. For the Longfellows.
doubles were added by ]. Barrow. Fl
Stevenson. s. Tomas and T. A. Brown
The totals were. Longfellows, So; Man
haitian, 101 for wickets.
At Prospect Park the Colonlals ana
Veterans played an exhibition match.
which was easily won by the latter by 81
runs. the totals being 70 to 131. The
feature was the splendid innings Of 3
Roberts. who scored 81 for the Veterans
while the only other man 10 enter tho
double figure list for the winners was n.
Brown with "a The best scores for the
Colonials were - by L. Gale and II by
Z. Carter. Roberts also did well with
the ball, capturing wickets for a. runs,
while A. Citizens took . for 80 and r
Citizens . for .. For the Colonials
Hewitt took for A.. Gale for Il and
Harvey for %.