SUMMER SPORT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 5 April 1933, Page 3

SUMMER SPORT

CRICKET REVIEW THE NEWMAN SHIELD NELSQN’S EASY WIN t Three century partnerships were registered last Friday and Saturday by the Nelson City cricket representatives in compiling their big score of 456 ru..s for four wickets declared, in defeating Marlborough (challengers) in the Newman Shield match by an innings and 26 runs. Of the l four wickets that fell, the first two went vdry early, Karsten failing to score and Neale just reaching double figures. A third wicket stand between A. Newman and R. Buddie then produced 165 runs. Newman’s 99 included 16 fours, his score sheet finishing up with six successive boundaries; while Buddie’s strike of 124 contained 18 fours. Both batsmen have wonderfully free methods and were a delight to watch. Fbllowing the dismissal of Newman, Langbein was associated with Buddie in a partnership for the fourth w'icket of 129 runs, and when play closed for the first day 530 runs had been scored by both sides (Marlborough Ist innings 206), for 300 minutes’ play. Langbein, always a rapid scorer, next day took his score from 63 to 156 while Stewart was scoring 36, the fifth wicket thus realising 135 unfinished, the innnings then being declared closed.

W. Hastilow, the opening Marlborough batsman, in bis two innings scored 79 and 80, and impressed as a very capable bat. He has been right at his top form this season for in club games he has scored over 1000 runs, including four centuries. He was head and shoulders above his team mates at the crease. His innings were not chanceless, however, and Nehon’s fielding, especially in the slips, could have been improved. In Marlborough’s second innings the only man on the Nelson side who did not bowl was the wicket-keeper. SearelL with three for 19 was the most successful.

At a meeting of the Association on Monday the chairman mentioned that it was pleasing to see that the representative team could still make a good showing, despite the absence of its two best bowlers, and moved a motion of congratulation to the captain and members of the Newman Shield team in its meritorious victory over Marlborough, which was carried with acclamation.

Fixtures for Saturday The fixtures for Saturday are as follows: Senior Wakatu v. Athletic, at Park. College v. Old Boys, at College. Junior Old Boys v. Wakatu, Park 2. Senior Championship. The Senior Championship is in a somewhat complicated position. Wakatu have an unfinished match witli Colts in which they are practically certain to secure a win on the first innings, hut should Athletic defeat Wakatu on Saturday, and allowing Wakatu -1 points for their match with Colts, these two teams will have an even number of points, viz 22 which would also enable College to secure the championship if time permitted them to play another match. However Wakatu have an even chance of defeating Athletic and by doing so will secure for them the championship. The Senior Championship points (uncompleted) are:— Pld Won Won Dwn. Lt. Pts. Out- Ist right Ins

JrnPor Championshp. At a meeting of the Nelson Association held on Monday it was decided to close the Junior Championship with the exception of the Old Boys v. Wakatu, match which will decide the actual winners of the Junior Championship, these two teams being the winners of their respective sections. Other matches may be played as mutually arranged. As will be seen from the juniors’ points table, only one team had an outright win in the A section and Taliuna who finished second in their section actually drew in nine of their 14 matches. The Association will have to decide next year if it would not be advisable to allow two Saturdays for junior matches, so allowing at least a decision on the first innings to be arrived at. The Junior Championship points are:—

Any junior player desirous of travelling to Blenheim with the Junior Representative team at Easter should notify the selector or secretary before Saturday Bth instant. Hammond's Record. W. R. Hammond, (lie Gloucestershire batsman who followed up his score of 227 in the first Test against New Zealand at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, with the world’s record individual score for Tests of 366 not out at Eden Park, Auckland, in the. Second Test, is twentynine years of age. lie has been one of the best batsmen in England for sonic years. On bis 1928-29 visit to Australia, be beaded Hie list with a Test match aggregate of no fewer than 905 runs, and on the tour of Australia just finished he made 440 runs in Tests at an average of 55, equal second with ■Sutcliffe.

A summary of Hammond’s performances reads:—Has great batting strength on off side; good footwork. First came into prominence in 1927 at Home, when he scored 1000 runs in May. Although very wet season, made 2969 runs with average of 69. Went to Australia in 1928-29. Scores in Tests that season were:—44. 28. .251, 200. 32. 119 not out, 177, 38, 16: total. 905 runs; average, 113. Record till broken by Bradman in 1930. Against Australia at Leeds in 1930, made 113, and had average for series of 34. Up to end of 1931 season had made 62 centuries in first-class cricket, five against Australia. and throe against South Africa. Has done well in county cricket as a right-hand medium bowler with swing to the off. Against Australia, 1932-33, made 440 runs in Tests; average 55. Bradman held the Test record previously with a score of 334 for Austra-

lia against- England at Leeds in 1930. Bradman’s record was established against bowling from Larwood, Tate, Geary, Tyldesley and llammond. He went to the crease with one wicket down for one run and scored 309 on the first day and added 25 the following day. The highest test score before Bradman’s was 287 by Foster tor England against Australia in Sydney in 1903. Bradman still holds the record score for first-class cricket ’ 452, not out, made for Now South Wales against Queensland in 1929-30. Ponsford made 437 for Victoria against Queensland in 1927-28 and 429 for Victoria against Tasmania in 1922-23.

C. S. Dempster's Record. The following record of C. S. Demptcr’s work on the cricket field is one of amazing consistency, states the “New Zealand Sportsman.” The figures are likely to stand for many years, and go far to confirm tlie claims of supporters that Dempster is the greatest batsman ever produced in the Dominion. A feature of the record is to be found in the comparatively moderate average in Plunket Shield matches as compared with his magnificent work for international sides. Taken all round, the record is an incentive for rising cricketers te emulate.

References: Inst., Institute; 0.8., Old Boys; Pet.. Petone.

His first class figures read: 1921-22 to 1932-33 for Wellington in Plunket Shield Matches: innings 56, not out 1, highest score 154, total runs 1940, average 35.27. For Wellington against visiting overseas sides: 8,1, 57, 272; 38.85. For New Zealand in New Zealand 1924-25 —1932-3: (second Test not included) : 24, 6, 145, 1096 ; 60.88. For New Zealand in England 1927 : 37, 5, 180, 1430; 44.68. For New Zealand in Sydney 1927: 2, 0, 32, 35 ; 17.50. For New Zealand in England 1931: 36, 6, 212, 1778; 59.26. First class record: innings 163, not out 19, highest score 212, total 6551, average 45.49. Dempster has scored 15 centuries in first class cricket as follows: 128 not out N.Z. v. Melbourne C.C. (1926-27); 180 N.Z. v. Warwickshire (1927), 167 not out N.Z. v. Glamorgan (1927), 101 N.Z. v. Surrey 1927, 145 N.Z. v. The Rest (1927-28),' 141 Wellington v. Canterbury (1929-30), 136 N.Z. v. M.C'.C. (1929-30), 212 N.Z. v. Essex (1931), 106 not °ut N.Z. v. Hampshire (1931), 129 not out N.Z. v. Glamorgan (1931), 101 not out N.Z. v. Cambridge Varsity (1931); 120 N.Z. v. England, 167 N.Z. v. Sussex (1931), 122 N.Z. v. LevensonGo.wer’s XI (1931), 154 Wellington v. Canterbury (1931-32). A summary of Dempster’s figures might therefore be made as follows: T 1

Dempster was awarded the Gilbert Howe Memorial Cur for the most improved player in Wellington in the 1921-22 season, and the Redpath Cup for New Zealand’s best batsman in 1927-28, 1929-30 and 1930-31. Through American Eyes. The Chicago “Daily Tribune,” which, according to its own published opinion, is “the world’s greatest newspaper,” has given an American view of the Test matches, writes a correspondent to the “Christchurch Press.” A clipping enclosed reads as follows : The English Bean Ball: The cricket test matches between Australia and England have produced an international crisis, if it is to be assumed that the British Empire has already so broken up that a dispute between the Motherland and a dominion is to be regarded as international. The. average American does not understand cricket any more than the Englishman understands baseball. Each agrees only that there is something mysterious in the addiction of the other. Therefore the American will not be able to comprehend the full seriousness of the cricket dispute which has arisen. Heretofore Australians have been a bit too much for the home folks, but this year English cricket has developed some bowlers who were too much for the Australians. Hence the protest.

All Hie British pretend to be good losers. That’s a handsome pretence if you can make good on it, although its inoral quality could be subject to doubt. It does not seem that the Australians are particularly good at it. Americans are familiar with the habit of some base, ball pitchers using the bean ball. It is intended to teach the batter some respect for tbe pitcher. Many batters will shrink a little from the plate after a fast ball has broken in towards their heads once or twice. Some pitchers have earned reputations for laying the batter out cold by socking him in the temple with a pitch he couldn’t duck. It frequently makes bad feeling. Usually the injured players retaliate on their own. In one way or another, with their spikes or otherwise, they can get back at the fellow who has added a touch of homicide to the national sport. If we understand anything about the cricket dispute it is that the English bowlers have developed a delivery which endangers the life and limb of the batter, and any one who has seen a good bowler shoot the cricket ball at the wicket or the player knows that something in the way of manslaughter can be done l with it. The Australians are supposed to be tough eggs, and why they let out a yell instead of doing something quietly about it is another mystery we’ll not try to solve.

Of ail sports cricket would have been picked as the one in which nations could compete without bringing on wars. We know that Soccer and hockey arouse the most savage of national instincts, and it has been said that when international Soccer is played in South America the officials must be put in cages to protect, them from the spectators. If basketball is ever made an international sport there’s certain to be murder done. Baseball lias been tried internationally, particularly with Canada and Japan, and no bad consequences have been found. American football, curiously enough, lias better collegiate manners than basketball, possibly because it is played outdoors and the individual play is not so open. It is less the case now than it was even a few years ago that an outstanding football player should expect to be quietly taken to pieces in tbe first mass play and returned to bis dear ones for reassembling, if that is possible. It is still, however, not wholly taboo to send him to the bench with a twisted ankle before lie can get loose for some broken field running. The game absorbs these incidents without any particular animosities. If a player gops out with a broken collar bone or a few broken ribs, bis arm out of joint, or his eyes closed, it is a fine tribute to liis skill and a mark of the esteem in

which the oilier team held him. The bean ball, if dial’s the thing that has been making trouble in Australia, may have to he reckoned with if the Commonwealth of British nations, haying lost most of its wealth, is (o retain anything in common.

Athletic 0 0 4 0 2 18 Wakatii 5 2 1 0 2 17 College ti 2 1 0 3 17 Colts 0 1 1 0 4 13 Old Boys 5 1 1 0 3 11

Junior A Pkl Won Won Dwn. Lt. Pts. Out- 1st right Ins Old Boys 14 0 7 4 3 41 Tfi hun a 14 1 2 9 2 38J Victory 14 0 0 3 5 36i College A 11 0 0 2 3 31 Athletic 14 0 4 3 7 Hospital 15 0 4 1 10 28£ Junior B Wakatu 14 3 8 0 3 52 Te Kama 14 1 8 1 4 434 Y.M.C.A. 14 3 4 1 G 42* College B 12 1 3 0 8 25 Wesley 14 0 2 0 12 15

Year Club H.S. Tl. Av. 1921-22 Inst. 124 762 58.62 1922-23 Inst. 71 231 28.87 1923-24 Inst. 148* 410 51.25 1924-25 Inst. 152* 538 76.85 1925-26 Inst. 181 458 50.88 1027-28 Inst. 224 976 108.44 1928-29 Inst. 201 1182 131.33 1929-30 Inst. 137 575 71.87 1930-31 Inst. 196 672 96.00 1931-32 O.B. 106 456 76.00 1932-33 Pet 155 792 72.00 224 7052 74.73 * Not Out

lun no lis agg Sonior chump. (Wgtn.) 107 12 224 7052 Wellington Rep 64 2 154 2212 New Zealand 99 Miscellaneous matches 17 212 4339 (npt first class) ... 28 4 207 1306 298 35 224 14909