REAY BRIDGE NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 14

REAY BRIDGE NEWS

, (Herald Correspondent.) The final of the 1932-3 season euchre tournaments held by the Rcay Bridge School Committee took place on Wednesday evening, when there was a fair attendance, Waingake being well represented. Mr. It. Frailing, secretary of the committee, was in his accustomed place as scorer after a brief sojourn in the North Auckland district. A, feature of the games was the evenness of the play, only a couple of points separating the losers from the winners. In the ladies section three players tied for the consolation trophy and foiir for the tournament prize, the winners being Mesdames L. Hansen and H. B. Livingstone and Misses Livingstone and McDonald., The play off occasioned more interest than the tournament itself, the winner being Miss Livingstone. In the men's section tho best cards were handed in by Messrs. Gibson, E. Wykes and F. Far- .. A holiday cricket match, North v. South, attracted great interest at Reay Bridge The southerners arrived with th« bare 11, while 19 Northerners were allowed to bat South went to the wickets first, and knocked up 105 runs Badham played a bright innings for 3, including two sixes and six fours, and one long drive over the creea crossed the highway and finished in the next parish. He was dismissed later bv a brilliant catch by J. Wykes at lonc-leg. Other scorers included Collier 13# Harris (not out) 11, and Ashdown 10. Bowling for the North, Honan took four wickets for 20 i uns. Field four for 27 and J. Smith one for 12. E. ‘ Wvkes, S winner ton and D. Hansen also' bowled. North -could do nothing with the bowling of Fraser and G. Spence, Who bowled unchanged and dismissed the side for u runs. ■ Robinson scored 10. Palmer (no out) 8, L. Hansen and D. Hansen 6 each, and Honan . 5 Fraser took Id. wickets for 24 runs and Spence si-c wickets for 20. In the second strike North did better, and knocked up 72 runs? for 14 wickets, at which point the innings was declared- closed. F. Parker scored 20. Honan 18, L. Hansen 8, Field 7, and ,S. White and D. Hansen 5 apiece." Badham took four wickets for four runs in two overs, Fraser three wicketß for four runs, A. Spence three wickets, Ashdown two wickets and CV lier one wicket. The South required 20 runs to win, and these were secured for the loss of only one wicket, G. Spence and Badham being not. out. each with 10 runs to their- credit. Field. secured one wiiket for eight runs. Ladies supporting both the North and South teams supplied dainty afternoon tea. Cricket followers will regret the departure from the district of Messrs Swain and Rose, wlw bav» tftken up laud on th* Coast. -e/.f • ’ *