APPEALS DID MT WORRY HIM!

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 86, 12 April 1941, Page 4 (Supplement)

APPEALS DID MT WORRY HIM!

MANY batsmen suffer from an inferiority complex beoauso of their lack of temperament, which is undoubtedly the most important factor in success in any sport. Umpires, of course, are only human, hut it goes without saying that they make allowances for the nervous player, especially in view of that recently-developed menace in Auckland cricket, the "combined appeal" from eleven throats. Last Saturday that unobtrusive official, Mr. W. Lewis, must have enjoyed himself immensely, as he had to face a few "sly" appeals instead of answering them. As the Auckland Umpires' A ssociatioii representative on the management committee of the Cricket Association, lie was invited to turn out for the executive XI. in the annual contest against the junior advisory board and its satellites. It was the luck of the "seniors" that they had a real cricketer on - - their side, as among the batting failures were the Plunket Shield representatives H. T. Pearson and C. Burke, who is going to camp after his return from Grafton's second visit, at Easter, to Taranaki. Despite the fact that he had never played above second grade, Wilfred made the top score of the day, and but for his wonderful knock of 76 the "juniors" must have been victorious instead of having to share a popular enough tie of 219 In addition to acting as umpire in the Brabin Cup fixture at Eden Park at Christmas, in which Auckland lost the trophy to Wellington, Mr. Lewis was "sport enough" to billet Eric Fisher, the young protege of New Zealand representative Cyril Parsloe, who played for Johnsonvillc, winner of the Wellington second grade championship. Fisher, still at Wellington College, is a left-arm spin bowler, and it was his fine bowling of four°for 15 that spelt disaster for Auckland, whose chosen XI. nearly" pulled the game out of the fire despite a first innings debaclc of 42 runs. ~