REPRESENTATIVE CRICKET

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 29 March 1932, Page 6

REPRESENTATIVE CRICKET

KILBIRNIE MATCH DRAWN

BRIGHTER PLAY ON SECOND DAY

H. BARKER AGAIN TOP SCORER

The second day’s play in the cricket match between Kilbirnie and Taranaki at New Plymouth produced somewhat better batting, but the display was not. what was expected. The result was a draw. With a lead of eleven runs on the first innings Kilbirnie "went in again yesterday morning and -with 187 on for eight wickets a declaration was made, leaving Taranaki two hours in which to get 199 runs. At the call of time the Taranaki score was 139 for six wickets, H. Barker top scoring again with 49. Only three batsmen —Barker, Hall and Nasmith —reached double figures.

Kilbirnie opened poorly, losing two wickets for 6 runs. Bilby, Hayinan, Christopherson, Crook and Currie made a good stand and the total mounted quickly. At 187 the captain declared. H. Barker and St. Giddy opened for Taranaki, the former scoring briskly, as was required at such a stage. Giddy went soon and then Nasmith helped Barker to put on 60 runs. Dormer also went cheaply, but Hall made a good stand, Kinsella and W. Barker going for a few runs. Sp. Giddy was with Hall when time was called.

Details of scores are:— KILBIRNIE. First Innings Second Innings.

Kershaw, 1.b.w., b Wilson 8 Morris, b Groombridge 9 Bilby, b Nasmith -y Hayman, c and b Wilsor. 44 Christopherson, run out 19 Crook, b Ninkie - 11 Phillips, b H. Barker 10 Turnbull, run out - • Currie, not out 34 Edmonds, not out 10 Extras 13

Total for eight wickets, dec 187

Bowling: Groombridge took one wicket for 28 runs, Dormer none for 17? Ninkie one for 30, Wilson two for 46, Nasmith one for 27, H. Barker one for 22, Spence Giddy none for 2.

TARANAKI

First Innings 102

Second Innings,

Stan Giddy, b Crook 6 H. Barker, c Kersliaw, b Bilby 49 O. M. Nasmith, b Crook 21 W. Dormer, c Currie, b Kershaw ...... 2 W. Hall, not out , 46 J. Kinsella, 1.b.w., b Crook 2 W. Barker, b Phillips S Spence Giddy, not out 0 Total for six wickets 139

Bowling: Crook took three wickets for 43 runs, Kershaw one for 9, Morris none for 29, Bilby one for 29, Christopherson none for 0, Phillips one for 6, Hayman none for 18.

HAWKE CUP PLAY

SOUTH AUCKLAND VICTORY

BAY OF PLENTY BEATEN

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

HAMILTON, March 28,

The Hawke Cup challenge match was wen to-day by South Auckland. The match was continued in ideal weather. South Auckland’s first innings cjosed for 333 and Bay of Plenty in the second strike failed by 103 runs to reach the home team’s first- innings total. The visitors made a poor showing, Sutherland being the only batsman to give a good display.

The scores are

SOUTH AUCKLAND First Innings.

Senior, c Godsalve, b York 9 “Winger, 1.b.w., b Peebles 20 Pomeroy, b Peebles 9 Aitken, e Beale, b Peebles , 0 Lissette, run out ! 97

Going, b Godsalve J 76 McKenzie, b Godsalve 1 Lumsden, c Peebles, b Godsalve ...' T Hampton, b Peebles 75 Badeley, c Godsalve, b Lenihan .. 17 Extras 10 Extras 18 Total 333

Bowling.—York took one wicket for 73 runs, Lenihan one for 48, Sutherland none for 25, Peebles four for 82, Wallis none for 36, Godsalve three for 51.

BAY OF PLENTY

First Innings 59

Second Innings

Harding, c Badeley, b Lussette ... 10 Hinton, b Going O Wallis, b Hampton, c Lissette ... 2 York, c Aitken, b Barnett 19 Godsalve, b Badeley 11 Hampson, c Lumsden, b Badeley 11 Beale, b Going 24 Sutherland, c Badeley, b Winger 62 Lenihan, 1.b.w., b Barnett * 15 Peebles, not out 4 Gresham, run out 1 Extras 12 Total 171

Bowling.—Going took (two wickets for 23 runs, Aitken none for 6, Barnett two for 41, Lissette two for 23, Winger one for 42, Lumsden none for 4, Pomeroy none for 3, Badeley two for 17.

UNIVERSITY PLAY

VICTORIA BEATS AUCKLAND

WELLINGTON, March 28

Tn the university cricket contest the Speight Trophy was regained from Auckland by Victoria College with a score of 274 in the first innings and 43 in the second innings for no wickets. Auckland made 111 in the second innings and a total score of 313.

FIRST ENGLISH CAPTAIN

CAREER OF LORD HARRIS

INFLUENCE ON EMPIRE GAMES

Lord Harris, the doyen of English cricket, whose death at the ago of 81 was announced on Saturday, had a very interesting career. He was born in February, 1851, at Government House,

Trinidad, and educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. His father, whom he succeeded in 1872, was the third Lord Harris and liis mother a daughter of Archdeacon Cummings of Trinidad. Both at Eton and at Oxford Lord Harris distinguished himself as a cricketer, his love of the game being intense. Then, and in his later career, he took infinite trouble over every detail of the sport in the desire to have cricket played for its own sake as the finest of manly games. In 1875 he was made captain of the Kent team and for many years, as one of the best cricketers of the period, brought honours to the county. In ISSO he captained the English team at the Oval in the first match ever played between England and Australia. He was afterwards made a trustee and president of the M.C.C. and became one of the most noteworthy figures at Lords. In the meanwhile Lord Harris was eiio-aged in an active political career. In & ISSS he was Under-Secretary for India in Salisbury’s Conservative Government and from 1886 to 1890 was Under-Secretary for War. His appointment to the Governorship of Bombay followed in the latter year and he was awarded the G.C.I.E. In the course of' the five years he spent in India he had religious conflicts, floods and other big problems to handle, but in the intervals he managed to find time for cricket and did much to popularise the game in that part of the world. On his return to England in 1895 he received the G.C.S.I. and became Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria until 1900, when he was made Assistant-Adjutant-General to the Imperial Yeomanry, with which he served in the South African War for a year. His interest in cricket never waned and even in 1928 when he was 77, he played at Lord’s against the Indian Gymkhana with vigour and credit. He made cricket the game of the Empire. “It is not only a game,” lie once said, “but a school of the greatest social importance.” In recent years he had advocated something being done to help bowlers conquer the ascendancy of batsmen. Lord Harris married the Hon. Luey Ada Jervis, C. 1., daughter of the third Viscount St. Vincent. His heir is his only son, Oaptain the Hon. George St. Vincent Harris, who was born on September 3, 1889. He was Captain in the Royal East Kent Imperial Yeomanry and served in the Great War, 1914-18, winning the Military Cross and being mentioned in despatches. The new Lord Harris was married in 1918 to Miss Dorothy Mary Crookes, daughter of the Rev. J. Crookes, late vicar of Borden, and they have one son.

MID-WEEK FINAL.

TEAMS FOR TO-MORROW.

The season for the mid-week cricket clubs will conclude to-morrow afternoon when the finalists, Old Boys and Hawera, who are running level, will play to decide the winners of the championship. The Old hoys team will be: Moloney, Morrison, 'Guise, Dribble, R. Clarke, F. Clarke, Foy, Horsburgh, A. Gray, Goodwin. The Hawera team will bo: Stevens, Jackson, Miller, McFadyen, Johnston, Kehely, Duncan, Schinkel, Eaves, Rawcliffe, Burgess.