CLUB CRICKET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 7

CLUB CRICKET

GRADE TITLE ROUNDS WINDING-UP MATCHES Matches set down for decision at ihe Oval to-day, under the auspices 'of the Poverty Bay Cricket Association, were to bring the grade championship competitions to a close, though the season will continue for ci few weeks while a further round of • non-championship matches is played out. , ! In the senior A grade, G.H.5.0.8. fed at the conclusion of the last two'l'lay series with 56 points, the position of the other teams being: Marist “52, City 50, and Old Boys nil. After one day’s play in the current series. Marist were fairly certain of a firsttunings win against H. 5.0.8., and Old Boys had presented City with a solid fturdle. in the form of a score of 172 Tot - their first innings. The senior B grade championship seemed safely in the hands of the Gisborne Club team, which has been 'consistent throughout the season, and “led the first division with 84 points ufter the last two-day matches were ‘concluded. G.H.5.0.8. Blues were second in the running, with 78 points and Marist third with 76, but neither had a chance of outreaching the Club team, which on Saturday last started off with a first-innings lead over High School A. The conclusibn of this game ■'.was not set down for to-day, as the, High School representative team was engaged at Napier. In the senior B second division, H. 5.0.8. Whites and City were tne Reading teams, with little between .them, and this grade championship was the subject of much interest. The positions of the major games played to-day were, at 2.30 p.m., as under:— Senior A Grade , Marist v. G.H.5.0.8. —Marist, first jnnings, 230. G.H.5.0.8., first innings 90 runs for six wickets (McLeod 12, Cederwall 14 Bdrbour 14: Slade 15 not out). Old Boys v. City.-—City, first innings, 198. Old Boys, first innings 178. Second innings 30 runs for no wickets (Fisher 28 not out). Senior B Grade G.H.5.0.8. (v. United B).—Whites first innings, 30 runs for four wickets (Gardner 10, Porter 7 not out, Thompson 7 not out: Birrell three wickets for lf> runs). RAIN IN WELLINGTON CRICKET MATCH DELAYED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. - There was a lot of rain overnight and it was still raining this morning. Prospects for play* in the cricket match between New Zealand and Sir Julien Calm's eleven were slight. There were signs of the weather clearing from the south at noon, but it was still overcast, with a light drift of rain. The wicket was inspected at 11.30 a.m., and a decision made to inspect it again at 2 o’clock. After a further inspection it was decided to abandon play for the day.