ROVERS WIN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 12

ROVERS WIN

HOPPER SHIELD SERIES CRICKET IN WAlttOA SWIFTS DEFEAT SCHOOL (Special to the Herald.) WAIROA, this day. Saturday saw the end of the Wairoa Cricket Association's Hopper Shield competition, the series ending in Rovers retaining' the trophy. Both of Saturday's games were played on the Clyde Domain, an appeal for the Light robbing Rovers of a possible first-innings' win against Nomads. In the other game Swifts succeeded in gaining a three-point win over High School. Chief interest on Saturday centred round the match between Rovers and Nomads, and as a result of the draw Rovers finished with a lead of 4?, points in the competition. Nomads won the toss and put Rovers in. After a bad start, three wickets being down for 11, Rovers concluded their innings with a total of 211, due mainly to a masterly knock by C. T. Rowo, one of the opening pair, who contributed 107 to his side's score before he was stumped by W. Martin, off E. Coleman. It was a fine innings and included 14 fours. The next highest score was 25 by J. Peebles. Bowling for Nomads, Coleman took four wickets for 44 runs, W. James four for 54, and E. Beer two for 47.

Nomads had scored 140 for the ; loss of eight wickets with about a quarter of an hour to play when an appeal for the had light was upheld by the umpires. Of this total 49 were contributed by H. G. Jamieson who was associated with Coleman in an excellent stand, the pair taking the score from 61, when Nomads, had lost six wickets, to 132. Cole-1 man scored 31, and Beer 30. M. Croker was the most successful of the Rovers bowlers, taking three wickets for 48 runs, McKenzie taking three for 55, and H. Brady, two for five. Scores: — ROVERS First Innings Rowe, -stp. Martin, b Coleman . . 107 Nightingale, c Grieve, b .lames 0 Aldridge, b Beer 0 Wilton, lbw., b Beer . . . . 1 McKenzie, lbw., b James . . 15 Payne, c Bauld, to Coleman .. 19 Croker, c Hudson, b James .. 8 Brady, c Martin, b James .. 7 Marshall, not out 11 Peebles, c Beer, b Coleman .. 25 Parkinson, c and b Coleman . . 0 Extras _^2 Total 211 Bowling.—James, four for 54; Beer, two for 47: Coleman, four for 44; Jamieson, none for 34; Hudson, none for 20. NOMADS First Innings Beer, c Parkinson, b McKenzie 30 Grieve, c Croker, b McKenzie .. 0 Coleman, b Brady .. ~. ■ ■ 31 James, c Aldridge, b McKenzie 10 Bauld, c McKenzie, b Croker .. 0 Martin, b Croker 0 Mann, lbw., b Croker .. .. 4 Jamieson, c Peebles, b Brady .. 49 Welch, not out 9 •Moorhouse, not out • ■ • • ° Extras 13 Total .for eight wickets . . 146 Bowling.—McKenzie, three for 55; Croker, three for 48; Aldridge, none for 13; Nightingale, none for 14; Brady, two for five. SWIFTS BEAT HIGH SCHOOL Victory by 34 runs on the first innings went the way of Swifts when they met High School. Having first use of the wicket, Swifts ran up a first-innings' total of 103 runs, Irwin, 56, compiling more than half the total with aggressive batting. High School, in their initial strike, did not fare at all well, the innings closing with only 09 runs on the board. Bowling honours for Swifts were shared by Heslop, six wickets for 42 runs, and Irwin, four for 17. Scores: — SWIFTS First Innings Oldham, c Cook, b Pilkington .. 11 Thomas, run out . . . . . . 0 Pritchard, c Price, b Bilbrough 0 Simmonds, b Bilbrough . . . . 0 Ryman, b Pilkington .. .. 15 Heslop, c and b Sutherland .. 4 Irwin, c Pilkington, b Finch .. 56 Crow, b C6ok' .. .. .. 3 Hawk, b Beattie 5 Reeves, not out .. . . .. 1 Jury, b Beattie 0 Extras 8 Total 103 Bowling.—Bilbrough, .two wickets for 16 runs: Sutherland, one for 24; Pilkington, two for 20; Cook, one for 8; Finch, one for 1; Beattie, two for 2. HIGH SCHOOL First Innings Price, c Simmonds, b Heslop .. 10 Pilkington, c Heslop, b Irwin .. 2 Finch, lbw., b Heslop .. .. 12 Sutherland, b Irwin .. ..21 Cook, b Heslop 1 Bilbrough, c Reeves, b Heslop . . 8 Bell, b Irwin 2 Aldridge, c and b He.slop .. 3 Beattie, b Irwin .. .. 2 Nightingale, not out .. .. I Bean, c Oldlufm. 1) Heslop .. 0 Extras 7 Total 69 Bowling.- Irwin, lour wick-els for 17 runs: Heslop, .six for 42; Pritchard, none for 3.-