SPORTS AND GAMES
SERVICES ATHLETICS
WELLINGTON, April 1.. The Navy, Army and Air Force will hold a combined athletic championship meeting at the Basin Reserve on Saturday, April 17. Athletes from the three services v/ill be chosen from all over the Dominion for the championships, which will be the first event for the fighting forces ever to have been held in New Zealand.
SERVICES CRICKET.
CHRISTCHURCH, April 1
The New Zealand Army team batted first in the match with the New Zealand Air Force eleven at Lancaster Park and scored 294 (W. McD. Anderson 70, I. B. Cromb 51, J. L. Kerr 51, L. A. Milnes 46, Bird four for 58, Lemin three for 84, Parkin two for 61). At stumps Air Force had lost three wichtets for 62 (R. Crawford not out 30, £>. Bezzant not out 22, Pritchard one for 18).
TO-DAY’S PLAY
CHRISTCHURCH, April 2
Air Force were dismissed for 128 (Bezzant 63, Crawford 30, Pritchard four for 33, Weir one for 30, Partridge one for 18, and Cromb one for 36). At 2.15 p.m., Army, in their second innings, had scored 40 for no wickets (Page not out 23, Cromb not out 16).
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 April 1943, Page 3
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