KARORI'S REPORT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1937, Page 5

KARORI'S REPORT

The annual report of the Karori Cricket Club, to be presented at the annual meeting tonight, states that the second season as a senior club was to be regarded as satisfactory in every way. Progress had been maintained in all directions, although from a purely playing point of view the season was perhaps disappointing. Weather conditions were very unsettled, and many games were postponed or played under the handicap of inclement weather. In spite of this, it was gratifying to record continued keenness among all grades. With the weather unsuitable, the club's usual holiday and weekend fixtures were not persevered with, and these social games were greatly missed.

For some years past the club had regularly won at least one championship, but the season just concluded found it without any championship honours, although two teams finished in second place. The committee is not afraid that the club's standard of cricket has fallen back, rather, it is surorised that some teams did so well. "When making bur entries, we allowed for promotions of our players, and we entered our teams a grade higher all round," the report states. "However, the Wellington Cricket Association, in its grading of the teams, classed them higher again, so that many of our players were competing two grades higher than the previous year. This, more particularly, applied to our junior E team, which was entered in the third grade. The move into junior grade was made without our being consulted.. Another feature of junior competitions that is not satisfactory is that in certain grades the competing teams did not all play one another, although other teams were met twice. For instance, our junior C team did not meet the Institute side that was awarded the championship, even though our team was the runner-up in this grade.". To cater for the many younger players in the district, the club inaugurated last season a Saturday morning boys' division, and this was expected to develop into an important branch of the club's activities. For a new idea, the boys' competition went off very well, and brought out a wonderful array of promising youngsters. The club fielded eight Saturday afternoon teams, and in addition four boys' teams in the mornings. Makara again supplied two teams and one was from the Wellington Harbour Board. The teams all performed well, and the club finished third in the club championship to Institute Old Boys and Kilbirnie, the Karori total being 777 points as against 875 points in the previous season when the club finished second to Midland. It should be recalled, however, that points awarded were this year on a lower scale than in 1935.