BOYS’ CRICKET ASSOCIATION

Evening Star, Issue 20943, 6 November 1931, Page 5

BOYS’ CRICKET ASSOCIATION

VALUABLE WORK BEING-DONE 1 t [Contributed.] The association is now commencing the second portion t of its season, which will finish in Decombex-. The reason for this is so that our season will coincide with the school year, as 24 of our 26 teams are school teams; the other two teams come from the Grange and Albion Clubs. One might think that the Boys’ Association is solely for the benefit of the schools, but that is not correct. It is'for the benefit of all boys under the age of sixteen years. Carisbrook and Dunedin have had teams entered, but through lack of support compelled to withdraw. This association, can only go % certain distance, and to round up the boys is beyond its province. The association will have the Y.M.C.A. with three teams after Christmas. The influence of the association is spreading, for this season it secured a team from the Mosgiel District High .School. In accordance with an arrangement with the Canterbury Boys’ Cricket Association, Otago will have a visit from Canterbury teams about December 16 and 17. Home-and-home matches for the Biltcliff Cup (seniors) and Rix Cup (juniors) are played, Canterbury holding the former, and also for the New. Zealand Boys’ Championship Shield, which Otago has challenged for. Otago holds the Rix Cup. The question of grounds has always been a big item in Dunedin, and the association is in urgent need of respectable playing wickets on most of its grounds. On Logan Park there are six wickets for its use, and these are the best at its disposal. There are three wickets on Bathgate Park and two on the North Ground. These are a disgrace and not worthy of the name of “ wickets.” A meeting was held this year of a few who were willing to give some of the boys special coaching. The scheme was approved by them, but when they inquired about the playing wickets the whole business fell through. The point was that no coach can coach a boy and send him out to a bad wicket and expect him to make runs. The calibre of the coaches concerned can be ascertained when such men as G. G. Austin, J. Shephard, A. Galland, C. Chadwick, W. Beal, and W. G. Pickard are mentioned. To lose the services of coaches such as these because a decent wicket cannot be prepared would be nothing short of a calamity. One of our most ardent supporters in Mr L. Cameron, of the Carisbi’ook Club, is at present putting through a. scheme of coaching. He has been engaged by the Christian Brothers’ High School to coach its boys in his own way. It is a great compliment to him and his system when a high school of this size accepted his system. Mr ’Cameron has squads of twenty boys which he coaches at each visit. Each squad is taught one stroke at a time, and with the help of the sports master every little fault is rectified, and when a squad is letter perfect at one stroke he goes on to another. Each hoy has a bat, and Mr Cameron plays the shot and the boys follow as one. It is a drill, but what a drill. The positions of teams in the Boys’ Association competitions are:— SENIOR A GRADE.

Champ. .... Flared. Points. K.E.T.C. 2 ... 5 12 M'Glashan College A 4 10 A C.B.H.S. 2, ... O.B.H/S. VII. ... 4 5 9 / ■ 6 ■> O.B.H.S. IX. ... 4 3 U Grange ... ... O.B.H.S. V. ... 4 .:. 4 2 f VSENIOR B GRADE. ’ Champ. 1 Flared. Points. Mosgiel D.H.S. 4 10 Christian Bros. 3 5 9 , O.B.H.S. VI. .... 4 9 J O.B.H.S. VIII. 4 5 7 M'Glashan College B 4 3 ; O.B.H.S. X. ... 4 2 >■ K.E.T.C. 1 ... 3 — JUNIOR GRADE. \ r Champ, Flared. Points, C.B.H.S. 4 ... ,1 14 O.B.H.S. XII. 5 124 ; M'Glashan College 5 11 104 ? K.E.T.C. 4 ... 5 O.B.H.S. XIII. <5 7 / O.B.H.S. XV. o 7 O.B.H.S. XI. ... 5 6 : C.B.H.S. 5 ... 5 6 J Albion ... ... o 3 . K.E.T.C. G ... o 3 K.E.T.C. 5 ... 5 2 O.B.H.S. XIV. 5