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WHILE NOT exactly leaping to the defence of one of its men, Fred Goodall, in the “Richard Hadlee incident,” the Canterbury Cricket Umpires’ Association “would like to point out” some appropriate portions on the laws relating to appeals, recalls and all those bothersome matters. “When an appeal is made, the umpire must not hurry his decision; a pause for a few seconds will allow recall of the action,” says Law 27 in part. “If there is any doubt in the umpire’s mind leaning him towards a not out decision, he must say ‘not out’. If, however, a doubt exists but the umpire feels that what he has seen and heard indicates a decision of out, it is better to consider carefully. After consideration, if there is any doubt remaining, the umpire must give his decision in favour of the batsman.” “THE UMPIRE may alter his decision, provided it is done within a matter of seconds,” the rule goes on. “If a decision is made and the umpire is at once conscious that he has made a mistake, it is his bounden duty to correct it, however uncomfortable the reversal may be for him. Umpires, like players, are not infallible: admittance of an error and the subsequent embarrassment needs courage but will, more often than not, earn much more respect than it loses'.' No-one would question the courage of Fred Goodall, or his scrupulous fairness; “a matter of seconds” was rather stretched at Eden Park, however. ffiz, r ; Andrew nuttall, pictured, will : be J £een f° r a further four wickets Wrjgiy — at l east —’ n Lancaster Park’s \ second innings of the senior cricket g rand f inal today. They would give 10 ’ n the match for St Albans ... — against his old club, too — and W slip him ahead of Wayne Wilson in aggregate wickets for the season. ’ Wilson and Nuttall are the only protagonists for the Steve Lester : Memorial Trophy; the closest, all of ! ' : them with power to add to their $ : season’s tallies, are Garry Hooper :• (East-Shirley, 48), Bruce Irving (Lancaster Park, 47) and Tony Farrant (Burnside-West, 44). THERE ARE rather more chasing Ray Jones (East-Shirley) for the Roger Blunt Memorial Trophy, however. Jones, with an innings to go, has 542 runs; there are a trio of BurnsideWest batsmen — Peter Wallace (508) and the brothers Boyle, Justin (502) and David (445) — all with a further innings each; and the St Albans captain, Rodney Moore, has taken his tally to 468 and is still batting against Lancaster Park. In the wicket-keeping stakes, Ash Hart (Sydenham, 30), Graham Kench (Lancaster Park, 28) and Peter Grigg (East-Shirley, 27) lead the way, but the latter two have less-than-full innings to go. But spare a thought for St Albans’. John Thompson, who had 26 dismissals before giving way to Paul Rutledge. Had Thompson accepted all eight dismissals so far gathered in by Rutledge, he would have broken the all-time club record. PAPANUI, it would seem, is the most competitive bowling club in the Christchurch centre. It has the impressive total of 19 teams among the 198 which will be contesting the section rounds this week-end of the pre-Easter-fours tournament. Burnside, which with close on 300 members is now the largest club in the centre, is next with 13 teams and it is followed by Burwood with 11. Linwood is down the list a little with nine, but then perhaps it can argue quality is to be preferred to quantity. DAVID JACKSON'S arrival at Christchurch Mogal United brings to 11 the number of players the soccer club has brought out from Britain. The others are Laurie Blyth, Paul McMillan, lan Park, Steve Sumner, Norman Moran, Bobby Almond, Roy Drinkwater, Tom Sermanni, Bill Arney and Frank McKay. Almond was initially brought to Christchurch by New Brighton but returned and was flown out again by United. In addition, Tom Randles was brought to . Christchurch from Australia. UNITED’S three scoreless draws to open its 1981 Rothmans Soccer League campaign sets a new record for the competition. No team has previously achieved that start in ■ the 11 full seasons. In 1973, Caversham did not score its first goal until its fifth game; Stop Out scored eight but conceded none in its first three, as did United in that year; New Brighton failed to score in its first three matches of 1972; but Wellington Diamond United managed 15 goals in its opening three of 1977. ALTHOUGH the inter-club squash season is yet to get i underway the Canterbury senior squads are already putting in early morning stints at Squashways from Bto 10 a.m. on , Sundays. The under-23s have also had a couple of practices there. Mr Les Milne, the convener of the selectors, thinks the ■. centre is doing pretty well out of the sessions; he’s been quite j busy answering the telephone (before the Squashways people ■ arrive) and making bookings for the public. > DOUG HEFFERNAN, the former Canterbury and N.Z.U. i rugby full-back who retired, honourably injured, after University A’s C.S.B. Trophy win at Lancaster Park last winter, will not be tempted to make a comeback. For the next nine to 12 months he will be well removed from the rugby sphere, working for an engineering firm in Switzer- ; land.

SATURDAY Bl CRICKET 111 *”3 Senior A.N.2. Bank final: Lancaster Park v. St BJjM Albans, Lancaster Park Oval. 10.30 a.m. Ffflß Senior competition, final day, ail start at 10.30 gjgH a.m.: Sydenham v. East-Shirley, Sydenham Park; BN Riccarton v. Old Collegians, Hagley 3; High School 3£2 Beg Old Boys v. Burnside-West, Hagley 1. ffgFt SOCCER HgM Rothmans League, fifth round: Wooiston W.M.C. B||| Hal v. Gisborne City, English Park, 4. p.m. KeS MH BOWLS &| Johnnie Walker national champion-of-champions WS 4** singles, Burnside green, concludes tomorrow. BfMI Pre-Easter fours tournament, qualifying rounds, jggSa ■pa various greens, continues tomorrow. fSjgn ZZ VOLLEYBALL jjgfl South Island secondary schools' championship, Pioneer Statium, 12 noon, continues on Sunday, MB MM 8 a,m - Q SOFTBALL g|| ~~~ Papanui club's invitation tournament, Papanui B'S Domain. Also tomorrow. '■ O ATHLETICS ' Wm Christchurch inter-secondary schools meeting, / KEtsa ‘ISSJ QEII, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. |M ™ . SWIMMING “ t&'M Wharenui Junior Olympics, Wharenui Pool 9 a.m. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Concludes tomorrow. |ja3 « ROAD RUNNING » Teddington to Diamond Harbour race. Starts -Has Wheatsheaf Tavern, 2 p.m. KB BS SUNDAY ES? Jfl SOCCER 3K3 'DBM Rothmans League, fifth round: Hanimex-North )BhS Shore v. Rangers, Auckland; Christchurch Mogal ’tSsS United v. National Mutual Miramar, English Park, >REM 2.30 p.m. mm RUGBY LEAGUE ||| ffM Qantas Radio Avon tournament, quarter-finals: gj»a jg| Sydnenham v. Shirley, Show Grounds 1, 1.15 Bp.m.; Hornby v. Marist-Western Suburbs, Show Bffl Grounds 1,2.30 p.m. , lEai GOLF US 'RJ| Canterbury mixed foursomes, Russley; junior inter- hSi club competition, Waitikiri. HSS m RUGBY Pe3 Bl Country v. Cantabrians, Hawarden. EH S AUSTRALIAN RULES HS Avon v. Ashburton, Brighton v. Marist, Wainoni KW Park, 2.30 p.m. ~