SOUTH TARANAKI CRICKET

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 6 November 1933, Page 6

SOUTH TARANAKI CRICKET

PROGRESS OF COMPETITION OLD BOYS DEFEAT KAPONGA. STRATFORD A BEATS JIAWERA A DAY OF MODERATE SCORES The South Taranaki cricket competition. was advanced a further stage on Saturday. O'ld Boys and Stratford both, scored victories in the A grade, while Opunake maintained its unbeaten record in the B grade. . An outstanding feature of the play at Hawera was the bowling, with a hat trick included, of Pritchard, of Old Boys. The Stratford-Hawera match was marked by Hall’s fine score of 50 unbeaten, at a time when runs were bacllv needed by his side. H. Barker and Moloney also gave Old Boys a very fine start by scoring 100 between them for the first wicket. In the B grade Francis, of Stratford, by getting nine wickets for 21 runs just failed to join the band of 'those who have taken all wickets in an innings. Excellent figures, too, were secured by Nelson, of Manaia.

RESULTS AT A GLANCE

A Grade. Old Boys 137. (7 wickets) v. Kaponga 85. Stratford A 125 (9 wickets) v. Hawera A 115. B Grade. Power Board S 4 v. Stratford B 20 and 49. Opunake 88 v. Hawera Technical High School 33. Manaia 80 v. Old Collegians 15. Stratford T.H.S. 17S v. Hawera B IQ. STRATFORD A BEATS HAWERA A. HALL’S PLUCKY INNINGS WINNERS HAVE ONE WICKET IN HAND' The Hawera A| team travelled to Stratford to play its second fixture with the local A team and was again beaten, but by ai small margin. At drawing of stumps the winners had lost nine wickets' and were ten run(s to the good. A feature of the match was the plucky innings of Hall, who just reached the half-century at call of time. During his innings he suffered a blow from the ball in the face and, after a short spell, he continued to play and it was to him largely that Stratford owe its success. His display was his best for some time. Shaw (22), Giblin (21), Warnes (18) and Penny (14) scored most of the runs for Hawera. The best, partnerships were those for the second, the seventh, eighth and ninth wickets. Shaw' had bad luck in being run out just as he was going well and 1 looked set for a. good score. Stratford opened fairly well, the first four batsmen all making runs and shaping confidently. After Walker went Hall found no one to stay with him until Wilson went in and 42 were added while they were together. Hall was steady throughout but reached his fifty with a fine six. He and Fritter were- together, unbeaten, when stumps were drawn. Details of scores are- -

HAWERA. Penny, b Lay 11 Jennings, c Cover, b Walker 0 Warnes, b Young 18 Des Forges, c Haft, b Lay 7 Giblin, e and b Young 21 Bray, b Lay 9 Fraser, 1.b.w., b Lay 9 Jordan, b Young 8 Shaw, run out 22 Kennedy, b Lay 7 Guise, not out 0 Extras 9 Total 115 Bowling: Lay took five wickets for 28 runs, Young three for 21, Walker one for 17, Wilson none for 40. STRATFORD. Collier, o Shaw, b Giblin 7 Sandford, b Kennedy 10 Walker, b Warnes 12 Hall, not out 50 Lay, a Shaw, b Warnes 9 Young, c Fraser, b Warnes 8 Gatton, c Giblin, b Warnes 2 Arthur, b Giblin 1 Wilson, e Fraser, b Warnes 11 Gover, run out 1 Fritter, not out 1 Extras 13 Total for nine wickets 125 Bowling: Warnes took five wickets for 44 runs, Giblin two for 29. Kennedy one for 15, Penny none for 24.

OLD BOYS WIN AGAIN. KAPONGA DECISIVELY BEATEN. TWO GOOD OPENING PARTNERSHIPS. An extraordinary collapse was seen in the Kaponga batting after a remarkably confident opening. After having 67 on the board before S. Betts was bowled, a rot set in and the whole side was out for 85. S'. Betts anci Court played the first four bowlers confidently and runs came steadily, though somewhat slowly, and it was when Pritchard went on at the south end that the collapse began. He was keeping a capital length and had the batsmen tied up at once. After two overs he got Betts with a fine ball and then Court went l.b.w. Dormer fell to Sturrock for l.b.w. and then Pritchard created a sensation bv getting four wickets in one over—a hat trick with the last three balls, and he wound up with the extraordinary average of six wickets for four runs. Sturrock got the last three very cheaply. The team actually scored onlv 65 from the bat. Mr “Extras’’ adding a solid 20. Old Boys were without W. Barker and missed him behind the stumps. H. Barker and Moloney made a great stand for Old Bovs and between them put on exactly 100 runs. Molonev was the first to go after a bright 32. falling to a good ball from Dormer, who was turning the ball well. Four wickets then fell cheaolv and little addition was made until Pritchard came in and rattled up 14 quickly. Barker then went to drive Dormer and. missing, was clean bowled and stumps were drawn when seven wickets had fallen for 137. Details of scores are:

kapongl. Court, 1.b.w., b Pritchard 23 S. Betts, h Pritchard 27 Dormer, 1.b.w., b Sturrock 0 V. Betts, b Pritchard 2 Palmer, not out ° Pascoe, b Pritchard 9 Abbott, b Pritchard 0 Busing, 1.b.w., b Pritchard 9 Burke, b Sturrock 0 Cuff, b Sturrock o Evans, b Sturrock Q Extras 20

Total • ;• 85 Bowling: Pritchard took six wickets for four runs, Sturrock four for 34, Moloney none for 7, Barker none for 7, Duke none for 13.

OLD BOYS. H. Barker, b Dormer 68 Moloney, b Dormer oZ Thrush, b Burke j Sargent, c Cuff, b Dormer 3 Worley, c Abbott, b Dormer 2 Beamish, c V. Betts, b Burke 6 Pritchard, run out L± Thomas, not out 6 Extras 11

Total for seven wickets —... 137 Bowling: Dormer took four wickets for 41 runs, S. Betts none for 34, Burke two for 31, V. Betts none for 1,2, Court none for 8.

POWER BOARD’S DECISIVE WIN.

DEFEAT OF STRATFORD B

Power Board with a moderate score of 84, beat Stratford B very decisively. D. Hughes was very succscsfu. with hat and hall and scored 40 of the total, the only other to get double firm res being Buist 15. B. and D. Hindic;s secured all the Stratford wickets for only 20 runs. The latter , did a little better in the second innings and put on 49 runs. For Stratford, Francis had the remarkable bowling average of nine wickets for 21 runs. Five were clean bowled, three caught and one went l.b.w. Details of scores were: POWER BOARD. Sargeson, b Francis . 4 D. Hughes, e Young, b Francis ... 41 Cambie, b Francis t B. Hughes, c Lines, b Francis ... 5 Buist, b Francis 15 Lendruin, b -Francis 6 Baigent, b Francis 5 Clotty, 1.b.w., b Francis 6 Joyce, c Latham, b Francis 1 Wills, c and b Collins 0 Saunders, not out, ~ Extra s 6 Total 84 Bowling: Francis topic nine wickets for 21 runs: Collins, one for 3; Burgess, none for 22; Latham, none for 19; Young, none for 13. STRATFORD. First innings. Richardson, b B. Hughes 0 Faulkner, b D. Hughes 5 Francis, b I). Hughes 1 Burgess, b B. Hughes 1 Latham, run our ‘‘ Hancock, b D. Hughes 0 Collins, c Lendwm, b Hughes ... b Grace, b D. Hughes 1 Young, not out fe McTnnes, b Hughes 1 Gomnge, b B. Hughes € Extras 1 Total 2€ Bowling: B. Hughes took five wickets for 13 runs; D. Hughes, four foi 6. Stratford in the second innings scored 49. The team was thus beaten b\ an innings and 15 runs. OPUNAKE BEATS HIGH SCHOOL. SHARP 35 NOT OUT. The Hawera Technical High School team was decisively beaten by ‘Opu nalco, the former scoring only 33 tc their opponents’ 88. Sharp played a fine innings of 35 not out for the winners The scores wore as follow HIGH SCHOOL. First Innings. Whitehead, 1.b.w., b Candy C Bradley, 1.b.w., b Maddock 1 Anderson, b Maddock t Kirkby, 1.b.w., b Maddock 1 McKoy, b Cundy ( Lester, run out { MacMillan, b Cundy 1 Allen, not out f Gardiner, 1.b.w., b Dobbin £ Green, b Cundy 1 Pauling, 1) Dobbin 1 Extras 7 OO Bowling: Woolford took no wicket: for 3 runs, Maddock three for 9, Cundy four for 14, Dobbin two for 2. Second Innings Whitehead, not out 2i Bradley, run out 4 Anderson, b Cundy ? Kirkby, c Lee, b Ward 4 McKoy, not out 1 Extras 1 Total (for three wickets) 35

Bowling: Cundy took one wicket for 14, Dobbin none fqr 3, L'ee none for 7, Ward one for 1, McTavish none for 0. OPUNAKE. Cundy, b Green 2 Ward, 1.b.w., b Pauling 6 Maddock, b Green 0 Dobbin, c McKoy, b Pauling 6 Lee, run out 7 Woolford, c Pauling, b Lester ... 3 Sharp, not out 36 McTavish, b) Allen 7 Webb, run out 6 McOullum, b Lester 9 Walker, e and b Green 6 Extras 19 88 Bowling: Green took three wickets for 12 runs, Pauling two for 15. Lester ] two for 24, Gardiner none for 13, MacMillan none for 1, Allen one. for 12. MANAIA’S EASY VICTORY. OLD COLLEGIANS FAIL. Manaia players had a clay out when they met and decisively beat Old Collegians at the Manaia Domain. The match was late .starting because by mistake, Manaia was. not advised of a change of location and the team travelled to Hawera and had to return. Manaia dismissed Old Collegians for 15 runs. Nelson (seven wickets) and Kitt (three wickets) .sharing the bowline- honours. . Manaia’s total was 80 —Hickey 20 and Shersdn 18 not out, with “extras 15, putting on the bulk of the runs. B. Malone was in fine' bowling form and got six wickets for just over five runs .apiece. Details of scores are--

OLD COLLEGIANS

Hughes, b Nelson ' o Ryan, c Christie, b Nelson Hewitt,’ b Kitt J Halone, b Nelson Smith, e Kitt, b Nelson Hawn, b Nelson y Bayly, b Nelson 1 Fox, c and b Kitt 1 MeLean, b Nelson " ! Beancß»mp, not out o Prosser, 1.b.w., b Kitt 2 Extras 1

Total : - 16 Bowling: Nelson took seven wickets for 3 runs; Kitt, three for 11.

MANAIA

Christie, b Malone 9 Hickey, c liaylv, b Malone 20 Kitt, b Malone * Rothery, b Malone 9 Meuli, b Hewitt 9 Whalen, b Malone 4 Pavne, c Fox, b Malone 6 Hobday, e Prosser, b Ryan 9 Nelson, c McLean, b Smith 8 Sherson, not out 1? Cot tom, b Lawn o Extras

Total . .••••••' /'9 Bowlins;: Malone took six wickets ior 32 runs; Hewitt, one for 19; Ryan, one for 6; Smith, one for 4; Lawn, one for 4.

ECLIPSE OF HAWERA E,

RUNAWAY S.T.H.S. WIN A runaway victory was secured by the Stratford T.H.S. team, which defeated Hawera B by 168 runs, scoring 178 and dismissing their opponents for 10 runs. For School, Betts (57), Henderson (40), Irving (18), Sutton (10) and Riiehardson (18 not out) were the best batsmen. Adlam (three for 7) and Foley (five for 2) were the destroying agents for Stratford, the latter getting a hat trick. NORTH TARANAKI PLAY. SQHOOL-OLD BOYS GAME. In North Taranaki the first day o p the School-Old Boys match ended rather unsatisfactorily. School compiled 87 after two hours of play. Old Boys went to the wicket and had made 33 for the loss of one wicket when rain caused the players to leave the field. The School eleven refused to recommence play, claiming the conditions to be unsuitable. Old Boys, together with the umpires, went to the wickets for seven minutes and then declared the match off. Old Boys intend to apply for a three-point win. New Plymouth secured a two-point victory over Western Park on the first innings. The outstanding feature of Park’s first innings was an aggressive knock for 42 bv V. Parkinson. Time prevented New Plymouth from attaining a straight win. In the country division Urenui. secured an easy win over Tikorangi B by 99 runs. The outstanding feature of tlie game was the fine bowling of R. Wilson, Urenui, who secured eight wickets for 10 runs, including his second hat trick for tlie season. Tarurutangi secured a decisive victory over Brixton A, Spencer Giddy’s 50 not out being sufficient to beat Brixton’s innings of 47. Tikorangi A routed Brixton B, principally as a result of fine knocks by S. Cole (36) and C. Hoyle (22). SHEFFIELD SHIELD PLAY. bradmantTsoo RUNS N.S.W. v. QUEENSLAND (United Press Association—By Electric Telegrapn Copyright.) BRISBANE, Nov. 4. New South Wales made 494 for the loss of four wickets in its first innings of the Sheffield Shield cricket match against Queensland. Fingletou made 53, Brown 154. Bradman 200, Jvippax 16 not out and McCabe 40. Quoons'and’s first innings total yesterday was 183. Victoria- is staging a. recovery in the match against South Australia at Adelaide. South Australia- in the first innings made 288, Nitschkc contributing 55 and Rchardson 32. Fleetwood-Smith too-k six wickets for 61 runs. Victoria, which made 197 runs in the first innings, has lost no wickets for 132 in the second. Pons ford is not out at 59 and Rigg has made 69. •

TOUR OF M.C.C. TEAM. NORTHERN INDIA’S LOW SCORE. ALL OUT FOR 56 RUNS. CALCUTTA, Nov. 4. The Northern India cricket team, including Nazirali, Waxirali and Nissar. who played in England last vear, was dismissed for 56 in the match against M.C.C. to-day. Clark took four wickets for 7 runs and Marriott four for 26. England lost seven wickets for 246, Mitchell making 54, Townsend 50 and Human 41 not out.