PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28234, 23 March 1957, Page 5

PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

Startling success as a bowler was won by Brian Randall of the Shirley High School under 15 team in a one-day match against St. Bede’s College. A fast right-hand bowler, Randall had a match analysis of 15 wickets for 23 runs. He took a hat-trick in the first innings. ☆ Quite the most spectacular member of last year’s All Black fifteens, P. F. Jones, may not be avail-

able for selection in the New Zealand team to tour Australia in the coming season. Jones shares a fishing boat with his brother in Northland, and may find it difficult to take

leave. Jones is, however, very keen indeed to win a place in the All Black team for South Africa in 1960. ☆ The New Zealand and Canterbury representative batsman, M. E. Chapple, brought his season’s aggregate in matches of senior club standard or better to more than 1000 with his 70 for Lancaster Park on Saturday. He has made 561 in club games, 35 in minor representative matches, and 429 for Canterbury and New Zealand, a total of 1025, S. C. Guillen has a total of 1214, P. G. Z. Harris has made 1173, and M. B. Poore needs 97 runs to reach four figures. ☆ Not many surfers at the age I of 38 can keep up with swimmers half as old, but D. B. O’Neill, of Lyall Bay and formerly New Brighton, is one who can. He finished well up in the senior surf race at the national championships. ☆ The New Zealand cricketer R. W. Blair took 6 for 18 for Midland against St. Pat’s Old Boys in Wellingto senior crick competition f Saturday. I his second ov< he shorten* his run to yards, and a cording to Wellington r« port bowl* with little lo of pace ai more accuracy, and was able to move the ball in quite sharply. Blair may use his shorter run in future.

Otago has a bowler regarded by some of New Zealand’s X leading batsmen as good enough to fill Tom Burtt’s shoes as a | slow left-hander for the English tour next year. He is R.« Simons of the University team. | Last Saturday he took 5 for 3 37 and 1 for 5, and he has 4 enjoyed considerable success all through the season. In the | last two seasons, for New Zea- <| land University, he had match analyses of 5 for 88 against 2 Wellington and 5 for 67 against 1 Auckland. ☆ I A fine performance that al-| most went unnoticed at the recent New Zealand athletic<• championships, was a run in | the 4 x 440 yards relay by the j sprint champion M. Rae. Rae<• ran close to 50 sec for the first | leg. The quarter-mile could 2 well be his event and judged 2 on his relay run at Napier hisj prospects for improvement at 3 it are considerably greater than < Over the shorter distances. It is < believed that this has already < been suggested to Rae and that < he is considering making the < switch. First he wants to gain J the New Zealand all-comers < records for the 100 and 220 < yards. ' ☆ : Junior Rugby football in J Canterbury lost one of its most < tireless workers this week when < Mr C. S. Martin, chairman of the Canter- | bury union’s < junior advisory ? board, retired, f Mr Martin has i; not made a ? name for himself as a Rugby * player, but has | been one of | the men with- j out whose untiring efforts j * . would have suffered. He was a member of the board for 10 years. As an executive member of the Christchurch club, however, he will maintain 1 his interest in the lower grades. Two Wellington representative cricketers L. S. M. Miller and W. M. Curtis were associated in a dramatic partnership for Karori against Wellington in a senior match on Saturday. Karori lost its first six wickets for 82, with Miller dropped when he had scored 35. But Curtis a century—his first in any match —in two hours. Miller went on to make 114, and the pair added 123 quick runs. Curtis finished with . 119 not