STIFF PROBLEMS IN SECOND-DAY PLAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 6 December 1946, Page 4 (Supplement)

STIFF PROBLEMS IN SECOND-DAY PLAY

SPORTS FLASHES

RUNS TO GET MARIST AND CITY R. 0.8-0.8. MARGINS CIV. SfT.R.—H.S.O.B. DUEL At the Gisborne Oval to-morrow afternoon the senior A grade teams of file Poverty Hay Cricket Association are to meet in the second nay s play of (he third series of <he season’s comnetition games.

The closest game promises to be that between Civil Service and H. 5.0.8. on No. 1 wicket. At (he conclusion of last Saturday's play. H. 5.0.8., with one wicket to fall, was six runs behind Civil Service's first innings score of 128. Both teams will have a few anxious moments when the innings is resumed to-morrow. Whichever way the first innings goes, there is a strong likelihood that: the second innings also will be completer], giving a 10-point win to Iho victorious team. The Civil Service players, after being soundly beaten by Olri Boys the previous week, have partly redeemed themselves by dismissing nine of the strong H. 5.0.8. batting sirie for the low score of 122. Marist has a stiff task ahead in trying to overtake the total of 239 made by llitchy Old Boys in the (irst innings. The Mar Ist innings was started in the last half hour of play last Saturday, and one wicket, fell for 22 runs. In view of (he failing light and the worn wicket, this was a good performance hv the Marist team, which could easily have lost three or four wickets to the difficult out-swingers of R. Barbour, who made the ball move sharply across ii the last few yards of its flight.

Rep. Players Away

To-morrow Rugby Old Roys will be without Iho services of the captain, T. M. Sharp, and S. B. Marlin, the opening batsmen, both of whom left for Auckland on Wednesday to play in the Town-Country match at Auckland today and to-morrow. Some dogged batting will probably be produced by VTarist in an attempt to gain the imKirtnnt lirst. innings lead.

In the third game. City has a much stifTor task in overtaking the first innings’ score of 218 made by Old Boys. Cil.y’s chances will be improved by the absence of the Old Roys’ slow lefthand howler, F. Newton, who also went to Auckland 1o play in the TownCountry match, but this score will still be very hard to reach against the howling of Rahone. .Tones and Fraser. Old Bovs will undoubtedly attempt to force a follow-on, in the hope of securing an outright win by dismissing City twice in the afternoon. Follow-on Margin The margin required to enforce a follow-on in two-day matches is 100 runs, which gives Old Boys 217 in which to dismiss City. City's batting produced a solid kink in its last game against Marist. but will have 1o improve even morp to avoid defeat tomorrow. The. coaching scheme for schoolboys conducted hjM.\ M. -Sharp is receiving encouraging support, each Saturday, and it. is proposed to give flic young cricketers an opportunity to try out their newly-gained knowledge in match play by organising a series of games on the morning of Saturday. December 14. The elementary steps in all phases of the game have been covered, and match play should bring into prominence a number of young players with prospects of developing into valuable senior cricketers in future years. Two-Minutes’ Rule The application of the two-minutes’ rule is likely to cause some regret among batsmen if umpires enforce it, as they have been requested to do by (lie Poverty Bay Cricket Association. Tliis rule provides that the incoming batsman must be at the crease within two minutes of the fall of t.ho previous wicket, or be is automatically out without any necessity for an appeal from the Holding side. Originally the law was much more drastic: in the case of an infringement the hatting side forfeited the match. This, however, has been modified, so that the individual rather than the team is penalised. Umpires have been showing considerable forbearance in the application of the rule, until the stage has been reached where the practice of the incoming and outgoing batsmen passing each other on the field is an all too rare sight. Enforcement of the rule would eliminate much unnecessary waste of time which has crept into local olav. Fixtures and Teams

The draw for to-morrow’s competition games and teams as announced by the resnoctive clubs follows: Senior A, Second Day of Two-day Games.—ll.S 0.8. v. Civil Service, Oval No. 1 wicket: Marist v. Rugby Old Bovs. Oval No. 2: Old Bovs v. City. Oval No. 3.

Senior Is.—Marist v. H. 5.0.8.. Oval No. 4 wicket: High School v. Rugby Old Boys, Rectory wicket: Civil Service. a bye. Old Bovs. —C. R. Fraser, G. Rubone. N. Balfour, it. Jones. I. Niven. T. Stewnrt. E. Bridge, J. Smith, T. Gedye, J. Thomson. H. E. Tapping. High School. —T. Mataira. R. Shields, D. I .net; wood. IC. Sewell. 1,. Candy. W. Robinson, \V. Biittieil, P. Cull. M. Dunphy, N. Walker. J. U. Sheffield. H. 5.0.8. Senior B.—C. Swan, I. Prcsland, I). Neilson, M. Parks, M. Libeau. J. Stokes, It. Watson. J. Martin, S. Garland, 'l'. Warner. Auckland Scoring' Good scoring was disclosed in the results of the Auckland Cricket Association's third series of senior matches concluded on Saturday. Grafton, 149 and 293, beat Eden, 136 and 106 for two wickets. University. 206 for six wickets declared and 80 for two. beat Pon-sonhy-Balmoral. 105 and 223 for nine wickets declared. Parnell, 249 for nine wickets declared, beat outright, North Shore. 104 and 111. Middlemore, 251, beat Y.M.C.A., 209.

S. McCabe’s 187 Not Out. . The tally of 187 made by the Australian cantain. D. G. Bradman, in the

opening test of the Dresent series between England and Australia has recalled to Mr. Normar. Lee, Gisborne, another great effort with i similar total in the 1932-32 series. Mr. Lee refers to the stand made by Stan McCabe, who thrashed the attack of the English bowlers, H. Larwood and W. Voce, to make 187 not cut against D. R. Jardine’s team in the first test. The fast bowlers had combined in a persistent leg - theory attack, but all their efforts were defied by McCabe,

w h o punished

them with a series of amazing hook shots.

Centuries Just Missed

Two batsmen narrowly missed the coveted century in the third series of matches concluded in the Auckland Cricket Association’s senior competition on Saturday. They were R. W. Emery, the Grafton captain, who scored 95 against Eden before he was bowled and L. Currie, opening batsman for Ponsonby-Balmoral, who was run out when his tally v/as 94. Emery was bowled by the Auckland representative, C. A. Sneddon, who took seven Grafton wickets for 131 runs.