WOODVILLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 113, 9 April 1930, Page 4

WOODVILLE.

(From Our Own Correspondent). WOODVILLE, April 8. At the conclusion of the Kumeroa dog trials, the president" (Mr A. Ra ®, d n) thanked Mr Cranfield for the use of hia property for the trials. It was gratifying for the committee to see so many present, and all must agree that the trials were highly successful. The patron of. the club (Mr J. I. N. Mackie) presented the various cups and trftphies. Following a re final details: Ladies’ bracket, W. J. Scott* lad 51nts 1: w. Comsbie s Tweed, 45, 2; W. Pringle’s Chevy, 40, 3. The Mackie and Burnett Cup was won ..by J. Scott® Lad. and the Travis-Kemp Cup went to J. Jones’s Wally. „ . CRICKET. ' ’ ' * Woodville were no match for Dannevirke on Saturday, when the latter decisively defeated the local team, by .seven for 251 to the homo team s 104. Woodville tried no fewer than eight bowlers, and it was not until Stanborough was put on( more as a last resort) that this bowler surprised everybody by . clean bowling Picard, and followed it up by disposing ot de Castro and Allen for nil. His average was three for ten. Dannevirke opened up poorly, but when Picard and Craven look the crease runs soon piled up. Both batemen played faultless cricket, the former, in compiling 104, scored four sixes and sent no fewer than thirteen balls to the boundary. Craven scored six feixes and seven fours. King and Herbert both scored double figures. When they declared, Dannevirke had lost seven wickets for 251. Woodville opened their innings in failing light, Finer scoring a handy 35," when he misjudged one from Craven. The . balance, ot the team were easily disposed of, Armistead and Ramsden being- the only other- double figure scorers. For the visitors Picard, six for fifteen, and Craven t three for 24, were the best trundlers, Stanborough (3 for 10) being the local team’s most successful bowler. A team representing Woodville primary school was defeated by a fair margin of runs by "Pahiatua. The game was played at Pahiatua. TENNIS. An innovation which will prove very popular with scholars, and beneficial to the Woodville Tennis Club, was arranged on Saturday, when children attending the Woodville District High School met to decide the championship ot the school. ’At the conclusion of the games the president (Mr J. C. Bolton) presented the prizes, the winners of the championships receiving free membership to the club for one year. Results are as follow. —Championship: Girls, Isabella Graham beat Grace Johnston 7 —5; boys, Bernard Ebbctt beat Frank Blatchford 9—o. Handicap tournament: Singles, girls, Nina " Offwood beat Rose Grinlmton 7—5; Margaret Mules . beat Winifred Cairns 7—b; lirace Johnston beat Isabella .Graham 7 —5; May Dobbyn beat Catherine Skinner 7 —3. Boys: F." Shearman beat F. Blatchford 7—4; A- Skinner beat B. Ebbett 7 —6; P. Burlace beat M. Warnock 7 —3; E. Hanaray beat V. Bank? 7 —3. Second round, girls: Grace Johnston beat Margaret Mules, 7 —o; Nina Offwood beat May Dobbyn 7—6. Boys: E. Hanaray beat P. Burlace 7—l; A. Skinner beat F. Shearman 7 —6. Doubles, girls: Rose Grinlinton and Winifred Cairns beat Grace Johnston and Catherine Skinner 7—l; Margaret Mules and Isabella Graham beat May Dobbyn and Nina Offwood 7 —5. Senior championship.—ln the men’s championship, Pattison beat Bolton, 6—2, 6—3, and Williams beat Mahon 6 —l, 6 —3. Miss Anderson beat Mrs King 7 —3 inaladder" match'.