CRICKET AND FOOTBALL

Northern Advocate, 6 December 1935, Page 2

CRICKET AND FOOTBALL

A SCHOOL’S RECORD

HORA HORA STILL UNBEATEN

TROPHIES PRESENTED

The Hora Hora Primary School continues to have outstanding records in the cricket and football world, again annexing the shields this year. After two seasons the girls have lost the laurels, but, as one speaker said at the Parents’ Day yesterday, it will not do any harm.

Mr C. F. Collins, who presented the Worner Shield to the football team, said that when he came to Whangarei he was- shocked to find that Hora Hora was the leading school in sport, and determined to see they did not have it all their own way in future. However, he said, it looked as if his efforts had not borne fruit.

“It is not good for a game, and not altogether good for a school for one side to meet with success all the time,’ Mr Collins continued. “If they do not meet with adversity part of their education is lost.”

He congratulated the fifteen and complimented them on being “a likely looking lot,”

Cricket Shield

The representative of the Cricket Association, Mr E. L. Whimp, passed on the Whimp Shield again. The shield, he said, was emblem of supremacy in the cricket world as far as primary schools were concerned. When he was a boy he had two ambitions.

The first was to become a cricketer —which he had accomplished —and the second was to be able to make a good public speech. Now he had no desire to become a good speaker. “I belong to that band of fanatics, said Mr Whimp, “who have cricket as a religion. A few years ago I was not satisfied with the progress the game was making. We set about improving the grounds. Today they are the best north of Auckland.”

A boost was given to the game in the schools because that was where the future cricketers would come from. He had presented the .shield with that object in view and it was gratifying to see the progress made.