CRICKET

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11402, 31 December 1930, Page 7

CRICKET

TO-DAY’S- BIG FIXTURE.

POVERTY BAY v. WELLINGTON

BRIGHT PLAY PROMISED

Given favorable weather, some 'excellent cripket should be witnessed at the; Oval to-day, . to-mori'bw, and on Friday, when Poverty Bay .meets th© visiting Wellington .pde captained by Mr. Arthur Doneghuc. The visitors returned yesterday from tfieir. visit to) Waipiro Bay when they were narrowly defeated by the Waiapu reps.: who scored a win against Poverty Bay earlier in tho season. Having now become more or less acclimatised after their long trip from Wellington, the visitors should •bo at the top of' their formand, as they are players, who give of the ■ brightest. in. the game,- enthusiasts are . promised; a cricket feast. ,Play begins to-day at 11 a.m. Messrs, T. Sharp and P. Martin have beep, . appointed . umpires for the match, while.-Mr.• Lord-will he at Ills usual post in. charge of the score board. . •: '] The teams are as follows:

Wellington: A. Doneghuo (oapt.), F,... and, W. Aitlcon, • Brown, Wiren, Ward, Hepburn, McAllen, Lawton, Fortune and Griffiths. : ;

t Poverty Bay: P. G. Dwyer (capt.), O. Fraser, G. N. Lockett, J. Lord, Ji C. Dow, G. J. Bobertson, S. Reeves,,. R, Nicholson,- J. Jennings, B. Ogg and G. Clifton.

CRICKET BALL TRADE

WAGES TO BE : REDUCED

STRIKE OF. WORKERS

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 29. Asserting that the Australian tariff on cricket balls halves England’s exportation, employers of the Amalgamated Society of Cricket Ball Makers, Tongridge, which supplies almost tho entire Empire, proposes 1 to reduce wag, es by one-tenth when the 1919 agreement expires on January 5. . . The workers resent this, and nearly all have struck.