CRICKET SEASON OPENS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17918, 24 October 1932, Page 3

CRICKET SEASON OPENS

FAIR BATTING DISPLAYS GAMES ON THE OVAL PRESIDENT'S OPENING SPEECH The cricket season wa' officially opei cd in Gisborne on Saturday afternoon 1 tlie president of llie. Gisborne Crick' Association, Mr. V. C. It. Mitford. S: ! teams were engaged in competition, an very fair batting displays were witnes ed. Civil Service knocked up 162, whi in reply Turanganui has scored 54 ft one wicket. City has an advantage ovt Old Boys, the former having scored Vto the latter’s 67 for six wickets. T 1 High School-Gisborne Club game is moi open. The students appear to have slight advantage with a first inning total of 127 against the club’s 65 for si wickets, but the opening batsman i the club’s case lias not been dismissed. The official opening ceremony was hel mid-way through the afternoon, Mr Mil lord saying he was pleased to see thn Mesdames H. F. Forster and A. Bigne were again in charge of the afternoon te arrangements, 110 remarked that tli ground was in fine order, and he believe he was expressing the pleasure of all a seeing Mr. M. Guthrie looking in sue good health and spirits after his recen illness. (Applause). It was hoped, added the president to make a start with the junior com petition within a week or two, while tli Thursday competition also would be coni nienced shortly. He viewed with favo the action of the association’s commit tee in limiting the senior Saturday com petition to six teams, but this hai ~ been achieved only by the rearrange t nient and amalgamation of some of th , senior clubs. Two shields, lie said, had been olfere for competition by Messrs. A. F. Erase . and E. File, both being the work of tli former. One was to be for the senio ’ competition, and the other for competi tion among tho Gisborne representativ ’ team and other visiting representativ ’ teams. These matches were to be play 1 ed in Gisborne, and in the event of : visiting team winning the trophy am failing to return the following seasoi the shield was to he returned. Cheers were given, for the ladies, Hr president, the donors of the. trophies am the umpires. Rain fell early in the day, but tin remainder of the afternoon was fine. The honors list for the day’s play wa; as under :—• BATTING Fraser, City ... 54 Nicholson, Turanganui ... 51 Thomson, High School ... 45 Hosier, Turanganui, not out 36 Mahoney, City 36 Robertson, Civil Service ... 34 Jennings, Turanganui ... 30 BOWLING E. H. Dow, City ... 4 for 24 J. C. Dow, Old Boys 4 for 30 Lockett, Old Boys ... 4 for 49 BOTH TEAMS START WELL CIVIL SERVICE V. TURANGANUI Both Civil Service and Turanganui started, their first innings well. Turanganui, batting first, put up a total of 162, after the closing batsmen had stopped a rot which set in after the fall of the fourth wicket. Nicholson, who opened for Turanganui with Scholium, lost his partner early when the score was at 12, but the tally had reached 69 before Nicholson was caught and bowled by Griffiths, his own score then standing at 51. Wells, who had scored 16, succumbed without adding to bis score, and Hosier and Jennings became partners. The former played himself in carefully, being content with singles for some time, and hitting only three fours in his total of 36 not out. Jennings hit out, and he succumbed to Robertson with the score board showing 105 and his own score at 30, which included five fours. , Hosier could not induce any of the following batsmen to stay with hijn, until tho last two men in, Niven and Shelton, in turn made a stand, and five last two wickets added. 51, the last falling at 162. E. James, W. James and Robertson secured three wickets between them. Robertson and Boon opened for Civil ‘Service, and tho pair had hoisted 61 before the former was caught by Wells from Olsen at 34. James partnered Boon and played out time, with the score standing at 64 at stumps, Boon’s tally then being 24. Scores were: TURANGANUI —First InningsR. Nicbolsin, c and b Griffiths ... 51 R. Scholium, c Griffiths, bW. James 2 D Wells, c Conan, bE. James ... 16 E 1). Hosier, not out 36 J. Jennings, b Robertson 30 A. C. Woodfield, b Robertsin ... 2 N. Barker, o Robertson, bW. James 0 P Lockett, c ITaisman, bW. James 0 O. R. Olsen, c Boon, l> Robertson... 0 Niven, c Moir, b E. James 13 A. Shelton, ic and bE. James ... 10 Extras—byes 2 Total 162 : Fall: 12, 69, 69, 105, 107, 108, 108. llx, 146, 162. Bowling: E. James, 17.2 overs, 4 maidens, 3 wickets, 49 runs; W. James, 9,1, 3, 30; J. Griffiths, 8,1, 1, 20; W. J. Connan, 2,0, 0, 21; G. J. Robertson, 8,0, 3, 40.

CIVIL SERVICE —First Innings—- (! J. Robertson, c Wells, b Olsen ... 3 ; M. K. Boon, notout ... 0 t. James, not out ! Extras—byes 1 Total for one wicket & SCHOOL V. GISBORNE CLUE STUDENTS HAVE ADVANTAGE Iligli School has a slight advantage over Gisborne Club, which has yet 6£ runs to make and only four wickets tc fall to emial the students’ first innings total of 127. A moderate start was made by the school's opening batsmen, Carson and Flavell, who put together 30 before they were separated, a number of byes being included in this total. Thompson batted steadily, but he did not have the same partner for long, and a careful innings was brought to a close when he failed to gain the crease when trying to run a short one. He scored 45. The innings closed at 127. There were two striking contrasts in the Gisborne Club’s innings. Michael opened with Dwyer and hit a four, playing carefully thereafter with singles, his score being 18 at stumps, and he was still unbeaten. Blathwayt, who joined Michael at the third wicket down, hit two fours, which were followed by four singles, and ho brought his short innings (o a close by hitting two sixes, with a total of 24. Six wickets were down for 65 at the close of the day. Details:— HIGH SCHOOL First Innings W. Carson, run out 9 0. Flavell, 1) Caulton 11 L. Thomson, run out 45 111. Mace, h Caulton 0 C. Fraser, b Michael 9 K. Marlin, e and b Blathwayt ... 11 E. Grant, b Blathwayt 4 W. Wilson, c Taylor, b Maude ... 4 M. Sharp, b Maude 8 W. lbight, not out 5 L. Martin, lbw., b Caulton 0 Extras 21 Total 127. Fall: 30. 39, 39 . 58, 70, 77 . 87, 120, 126, 127. Bowling: J. W. Blathwayt, 9 overs, 2 maidens, 2 wickets, 28 runs; M. Maude, 12. 2,2, 36; V. Caulton, 10.4, 0. 3, 30; M. Michael, 3,0, 1, 11. GISBORNE CLUB First Innings M. Michael, not out 18 I*. Dwyer, b Mace 2 V. Caulton, b Carson 1 R. Taylor, b Carson ... . 0*

J. W. Blathwayt, c Thomson, b Maco ... 2 M. Maude, st. Martin, b Wilson ... J. M. Kay, b Wilson 1 J. U. McGregor, not out Extras —b. 6, l.b. 4 ... ... 1< Total for six wickets ... ... 6i Fall: 7,8, 8, 41, 62, 62. CITY’S GOOD START OLD BOYS OPEN BADLY City started well against Old Boys knocking up 140 in the first innings : while Old Boys were able to make onlj 67'for six wickets. G. Fraser and E. Dow made a fait opening partnership, the latter doing most of the scoring, and he made 21 before ho succumbed to Brew when the score board showed 24. Mahoney joined Fraser, and they hoisted 109 before they were separated, Fraser’s 54 including five fours. Mahoney made 26. Wickets fell fairly rapidly after that, a veritable rot setting in towards the close. The last three batsmen failed to score, and the last four wickets produced only one run. J. C. Dow and Lockett made good averages with the ball, securing four wickets apiece. Kemp and Norman were the only two of the Old Boys’ first six who made anything of a stand, and stumps wero drawn with only 67 on the hoard for six wickets down. The following are the details CITY First Innings 0. Fraser, l> J. C. Dow ... ... 54 K. Dow, b Brew 31 V. Mahoney, h J. 0. Dow 36 T. Dow. It Lockett 11 McMahon, Ihw., b Lockett 6 G. Stewart, b Lockett 1 Robinson, b J. 0. Dow 2' Bavliss, c. Caldwell, b Lockett ... 0 X. Lloyd.' e Tvess, bJ. C. Dow ... 0 A. Dow, not out ... 0 Extras -byes 9 Total (one man short) 140 Fall: 34, 109, 120, 124, 132. 139, 140. 140. 140. Bowling: J. C. Dow, 12.1 overs, 0

maidens. 4 wickets, 30 runs; G. Lockett, 14, 1. 4. 49; C. Brew, 5,0, 1, 29; G. Caldwell. 3,0, 0. 23. OLD BOYS First Innings R. Kemp, 0 Fraser, b Lloyd ... 22 0. Brew, e and b E. Dow 5 G. Lockett, c and b E. Dow ... 6 ,1. 0. Dow, c Baker, b Lloyd ... 5 V. Norman, OP. Dow. bE. Dow ... 13 (1. Caldwell, c and b E. Dow ... 6 11. Jamieson, not out 5 Extras.—b. 4, l.b. 1 ... ... 5 Total for six wickets 67 Fall: 11. 19, 24, 50, 57, 66. M.C.C. AT PERTH NO PLAY ON SATURDAY (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) PERTH, Oct. 23. The cricket pitch is flooded and there was no play on Saturday in the match M.C.C. v. West Australia.