SEARCHLIGHT ON SPORT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 10

SEARCHLIGHT ON SPORT

£By "PoHar-Forty.")

Final Games of Year The final games under the Poverty Bay Cricket Association before the Christmas holidays were completed last. Saturday under unfavourable weather conditions, two heavy showers falling during the afternoon. City, after being dismissed the previous week for 85 runs by G.H.5.0.8., made a good recovery in their second strike, making 233 runs before declaring with nine wickets down. Peter Dow batted very confidently as one of the opening pair for City and made 37 before Slade claimed his wicket leg-before. G. H. Stewart and .1. K. Sommerville, who were the main scorers in tire first innings, both made 21 runs on Saturday. Both these men have shown improved form throughout this season. Bob Carroll, the left-hander, came to light with a brilliant (30 when runs were badly needed. lie hit one good six over the leg boundary from Wilson. Geolf. Winter was in scoring mood and had made 2G before he was caught by Thomson. G.H.5.0.8. made the necessary 109 runs for an outright win in 50 minutes, thanks to a good knock by Don Cederwall, who was unbeaten with G 1 to his credit at stumps. A good forcing batsman, he does not usually nit the ball into the air, but on Saturday lie was credited with three sixes besides six fours. Ray Thomson plfiyed a good innings as opening batsman and had scored 22 before Colin Fraser claimed his wicket leg before. Ray is one of the soundest fielders in the Bay. Old Boys were soundly beaten by Marist in the other Senior A grade match, only Lockett reaching double figures against the bowling of O’Brien and James. Of a total of G 9 runs scored, Lockett registered 56 by careful strokes, mostly drives through covers. He was caught on the boundary by Forsman when having a big hit. O’Brien, assisted by a croas-wind, made the ball swing a lot and secured four wickets for 25, while Ted James, at the other end, kept a consistently good length and secured four for 17. * • * » Senior E Gi*ade J. Moody and B. Jeffreys, Gisborne Club, had a wicket to suit their bowling on the Oval in the first innings against City. Moody secui'ed six wickets for 28 and Jeffreys four for 17. Lysnar again showed good form for City in the second innings, scoring 47 runs before V. Caulton beat him. A. Guy, recognisedjto be one of the hardest hitters in golf in New Zealand, does not believe in the ball having to hit the bat in cricket, either. He scored 40 for City by good powerful drives on either side of the wicket. Moody is one of the most consistent opening batsmen in the Bay. He seldom fails to get into double figures. He scored 44 before being caught and with Peter Wood, the Old Boys’ footballer, who scored 22, formed a useful first-wicket partnership. • T. Hamilton lias been showing improved batting form this season, and his 20 not out was the result of careful strokes.

The High School player, R. Torrie, scored 111 runs against G.H.5.0.8. Whites, and is the second batsman this season to have registered a century, Cecil Sebire, Civil Service, having secured the first a few weeks back. Torrie is fairly tall, and he uses his reach to advantage in most of his scoring strokes. Harry Lee was not recognised much as a batsman last season, but lias shown a decided improvement this year and has been a fairly consistent scorer. He scored 33 last Saturday when lie opened the school's first innings.

Don Hosier docs not get much cricket on the railway line, so that his 50 last week for United was a good effort. He scored the majority of his runs by beautiful cover-drives. Once again W. Wilkie was in fine form with the ball, and he secured live wickets for nine runs. A mediumpace bowler, his length at times is erratic, but once he strikes a good patch he is very dangerous on any sort of wicket. J. Barbour bowled only five overs for G. 11.5.0.8. Blues in their match against High School B, and he secured four wickets for two runs, all clean bowled. Major Matches Ahead The following is the list of “'big” cricket matches that will take place in New Zealand, Australia and Soutn Africa during the next few weeks: — Dccemoer 30-January 3.—Canterbury v. Wellington, at Christchurch. December 30-January 3. —Victoria v. South Australia, at Melbourne. December 31-January 4. —M.C.C. v. South Africa (second Test), at Cape Town. December 31-January 4.—New South Wales v. Queensland, at Sydney. December 31-January 4.—Auckland v. Otago, at Dunedin. January 7-10. —M.C.C. v. Eastern Province, at Port Elizabeth. January 7-11.—Queensland v. South Australia, at Brisbane. January 13-16. —M.C.C. v. Border, at East London. January 14-18.—New South Wales v. South Australia, at Sydney. January 20-24. —M.C.C. v. South Africa (third Test), at Durban, January 27-30.—M.C.C. v. Combined Team, at Johannesburg. January 28-February I.—New South Wales v. Victoria, at Sydney. February 3-7.—Wellington v. Auckland, at Auckland. Canterbury Championships February 14, 17 and 18 have been approved as the dates for the Canterbury amateur athletic championships. The preliminaries will be held on the first two dates and the main events on Saturday, February 18. Women’s and junior events will be included in the programme.

“Hat Trick’’ with One Ball In the local cricket matches so far played this season, W. Wilkie has probably achieved the “hat trick" more times than any other bowler, but he has yet to equal the feat of “Patsy” Hendren, the former Test batsman, who told a North Middlesex club at a dinner that he once took three wickets with one ball. “The eighth and ninth men were batting,” he said. “Number eight drove the ball to cover-point. Both ran, and, watching the ball, collided, were knocked out, and carried off. Number 10, ready to go in, fainted when he saw the others carried in bleeding, and number 11 did not have a partner.” * * * V 111 the Rough Don Bradman told this one on his return from England:—Toe Australian cricketers were having a round on Royal St. George's course, where this year’s Open was played. The rough was fierce —long, thick, over knee-high grass. One Australian said to his caddy, as he searched for his ball m the luxuriant herbage: “Are there any snakes in this grass, lad?” “I don’t know, lad,” said the caddy. “I am not usually out here. I carry for Cotton.” I * * * * 10 Putts for Nine Holes Establishing something like a record for marvellous putting, E. W. Thurgood eliminated the title-holder, G. P. Roberts, in the second round of the Wellington Golf Club's championship recently by 9 up and 8 to play in 36 holes. Thurgood scored 67 in his first round, in itself a pretty brilliant performance. But much more brilliant was the fact that on the last nine holes he took only 10 putts, i.n astonishing performance, probably without parallel in New Zealand golf this season. * * * * Promising - Athlete There is a freshman at Oxford who looks as if he is going to be what the Americans call a “stand-out” in athletics within the next two or three years. The boy’s name is J. F. Lockwood. Jack Lovelock, who has been coaching him, says Lockwood, if he maintains his present progress, will be right up in the Godfrey BrownSydney Wooderson class in a very short space of time. Which, of course, is spendid news, says the Sunday Express, because Lovelock happens to know the odd spot about athletics and athletes. The other day he won three events in the Oxford-Cambridge Freshmen’s sports. His sprinting, hurdling, and long jumping brought all sorts of praise from the people who are supposed to know about these things. In concluding these notes for this week, "Four-Forty” wishes all athletes, cricketers, footballers, and ihe many readers of “Searchlight On Sports” a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year.