HUTT VALLEY ASSOCIATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 5

HUTT VALLEY ASSOCIATION

CHAMPIONSHIP LADDER

Heavier scoring than has been hitherto recorded this season was a feature of the latest series of matches in the Hutt Valley cricket competitions. At the Hutt Recreation ground Todd Motors put on 191 runs for eight wickets before declaring. J. Duffy was the principal contributor. He played a fine innings of 72, his defence being excellent. Tattersall, ex-New Zealand representative player, also gave a

sparkling display of crisp batting to score a well-merited 68.

Although Gear United's time was limited, their batsmen early gave evidence that they were going to chase the runs. The principal rungetter was G. Collins, whose 74 included three 6's. Collins was always confident, and had it not been for overeagerness he would probably have gone further. The two weakest teams in the A grade, Gracefield and Taita, met at Naenae Reserve, where the former recorded a very easy victory.

Another fine innings by Teddy Roberts assisted Eastbourne to victory over Meadows. Roberts was most aggressive, and apart from two early chances he gave a faultless display to score 69. Braeburn (59 not out) also played a fine innings, this batsman revealing his best form to date. After losing two wickets for 5 runs, Bell Park's later batsmen stemmed the rot to finish up with the handy total of 188. Lonergan, who top-scored with 39, gave his customary sound display. In reply Trafalgar Park batsmen, with the exception of C. L. W. Elliott, who was unbeaten at stumps with 24, made a poor showing. ACCURATE BOWLING. For Bgll Park McCann bowled accurately! as did Matthews and Thorn for Trafalgar Park. Empire, the only unbeaten team, easily accounted for General Motors. For the winners J. King scored 27 runs, which included four 4's. He completed a fine double when he captured six Empire wickets at a moderate cost. For Empire M. F. Nicholls gave a solid exhibition for 59. Arthur Dickie and his brother, Erie, are two youngsters who would, in a city, have advanced a fair distance, particularly in doubles, where they haA-e that intimacy of understanding always confined to brothers On their Waveriey sheep farm their practice j has been restricted and the fact that they rank pretty highly in West tennis is an indication of their innate abilities,

an all-round sportsman of ability. At Wanganui Collegiate School, he was one of the finest cricketers the school has ever had and his abilities on the Rugby field were no less apparent. DEFEAT OF LAMPii. The splendidly-conducted Hawera tournament this week saw the downfall in an early round of M. L. Lampe, the well-known Wanganui player, at the hands of .Arthur Dickie, a youngish Waverley player whose father, C. J. Dickie, in partnership with A. G. Wallace, was one of the finest doubles players in New Zealand before the war. Dickie is in his early twenties and Lampe is verging on the sixties. The game accordingly, furnished another illustration of the triumph of youth in these modern days. , Lampe's ranking in the tor flight of Wanganui tennis has been secure these many years and for a man of his age, he has remarkable ability and stamina. His tactical ability is, of course, outstanding, and his shrewdness in placement is a joy—to all except his opponent. Against Dickie, however, he failed for once to stand the pace.

The Hawera tournament was responsible for another surprise when a schoolboy in Bruce Clifford-Jones, of Eltham, defeated Harry Cox, one of Wanganui's top players, and a ferociously hard hitter of the tennis ball. Clifford-Jones, a brother of one of Victoria College's Rugby half-backs of a few years ago, was in Wellington during the winter when he captained the Stratford Technical High School Rugby team which played Rongotai College. He has, as a tennis player, fine promise, though it is possible it will be unfulfilled in the restricted competition of Taranaki tennis. Only about 18 years of age now, he plays a goodlooking game with good-length drives of both hands a feature of his play.

A Grade. 4-pt. 2-lH. Ch. W. W. 1). 7,. pts. Trafalpar Park 1 I I. 1 IS Bell Park 1 ' 3 3.1 IS Gear United — !> 2 1 12 General Motors 2 2 I 3 12 Kmnlre — 1 " -- 11 Eastbourne — t 1 3 0 Todd Motors — ■ 3 3 1 9 Meadows — 1 1 6 3 Gracefleld — 1 — n 2