CRICKET

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 298, 3 December 1928, Page 8

CRICKET

SATURDAY’S GAMES. The second phase of the first round of Central Hawke’s Bay cricket fixtures was entered upon on Saturday when the Waipugurau Old Boys journeyed to Otane, and the Waipawa eleven met Eparaima at Waipawa. In the junior series the Waipukurau District High School team played Waipawa at Waipawa, Old Boys met Takapau at Waipukurau and Epraima tried conclusions witthe Waipawa D.H.S. team, at Eparaima. The Old Boys scored 67 runs in their first innings against Otane. The best scores were as follow:—Smales and Holand 13 each. Otane obtained a total of 72 runs. Double figures were scored by Stock 44 and Page 10. For the Old Boys the most successful bowlers were Smales 3 for 21 and Gair 3 for 11, and for Otane —Barrie 3 for 9 and Phillips 3 for 7. The Old Boys compiled 39 runs in the first innings of the junior match against Takapau (Cameron 14). Takapau scored 83 runs, the leading batsmen being Wyatt 27 and Ellingham 11, not out. 'The Waipukurau D.H.S. team scored 143 for 5 wickets (declared) in the first innings of the contest at Waipawa. The best batsmen were: S. McCarthy 49, J. Reidy 37 and S. Smales 24 (not out.) . Waipukurau’s total for the first essay was 71 and 15 for the second inings (Waipukurau High School won by an innings and 121 runs). GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES. A very enjoyable programme of music was provided at the Waipukurau Hospital yesterday afternoon, when the Waipawa Band entertained the patients and nurses, also a considerable number of visitors. The visit was a much appreciated one and a further entertainment of the kind at an early date would be equally welcomed.

Ideal weather conditions marked the week-end and the various pastimes attracted a large number of devotes, while picnic outings were numbered among the more popular features of nejoyment. Like many of the town centres Waipukurau experienced a month of comparative trade dulness as the result of the inclemency of the weather during part of October and November, but there is now a more seasonable tone prevailent in business circles, and no reason to believe that the shopping Christmas of 1928 w>l suffer by comparison with its predecessors.