CRICKET

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 September 1925, Page 12

CRICKET

It will be not long before the flick of the willow and the sound of the bat meeting the ball will be heard in the land of cricket, and everyone looks confidentlv towards a bright and busy season, frill of good play and packed with incident.

The prospects from a ground point of view in Hawera appear very bright, and the brightest spot will be the ability to secure good confident' practice on a wicket that will play, as it is expected, so that players can go forward with confidence and develop that most interesting feature in bating, forward play. All players are looking forward very keenly to" the opening of the season. - .

And the change in Association matters seems to indicate an improvement in the relations between the two ends of the province and the standard of play in representative matches. It will not be without interest to recall merely as a matter of history', that some years ago the headquarters of the Taranaki Association was located in Hawera and had been so for a number of years. Then North broke away, and although the Asociation here was still entitled to be called the Taranaki Association, South was added to avoid confusion. So it is that affairs have now come back in situ quo tlie3 r were in those old days. CBICKETING SINGERS. Talking to an interviewer in Perth, Mr. Kenner]ev Rumford said that Harold Williams," a well known singer formerly of Svdney, is also a fine cricketer. Just before leaving the Australian artists had a match with a team of English artists. Williams captained Australia, and Kenner!cy Rumford led England. Australia made 177 for one wicket, of which Williams made 100, and then went out for 230. The English artists then took the ashes back by making 2(30 for five wickets, so the artists can hold their own in other spheres.