CRICKET

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1926, Page 5

CRICKET

WESTOWN SCHOOL v. ROTARIANS. MATCH TO-MORROW. The challenge cricket match betweeen Westown School team and the Rotary Club will take place at Pukekura Park at 2 p.m. to-morrow afternoon. The following will represent the Rotary Club: Rotarians W. H. Moyes, W. N. Stephenson, H. Baily, G. H. Saunders, J. McLeod, C. Stewart, Nisbet Smith, H. Masters, A. L. Moore, E. P, Webster and P. E. Stainton. The school team will be the guests of the club at afternoon tea. TIGER TOWN v. THE CLAN. During the week-end Tiger Town (Moturoa) played a return match against The Clan (Bell Block). Tiger Town’s first innings realised 39 runs, while Bell Block replied with 22. In the seoond strike Bell Block made 70 for five wickets (Parkin 33 and Glentworth 15). Rain interfered with play for a while, and Tiger Town won on the first innings. BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOLS’ MATCH. by Telesrsph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. The annual cricket match between Palmerston North and Napier Boys’ High Schools began here to-day in ideal weather. The visitors batted first, making 180 (Young 43, Norris 31, Leet 26, Smillie 21). Von Stunner took four wickets for 60 runs and Parkinson four for 39. Napier have lost two wickets for 236 (Kuril 30, Von Stunner 86 not out, Reaney 91 not out. The match concludes to-morrow.

NEWS AND NOTES. Tho New Zealand Cricket Council appointment of Messrs W. S. Brice (Wellington), W. R. Patrick (Christchurch), and S. Williams (Dunedin) as selectors of the New Zealand team to tour England will meet with the general approval of cricketers through out the Dominion (says a Wellington critic.) Probably there is no other two in the Dominion so conversant with present New Zealand cricket as are “Stan” Brice and “Billy” Patrick, while Mr. Williams has been a prominent .figure in cricketing circles for some time past. Price and Patrick are still very active players, and it is well on the cards that one' of the two will be leading the side when the team sail for England. The -selectors will do well if, before they begin looking for men they consult someone who knows English conditions. When Jack Hobbs is no more and the present generation of cricket lovers is dead, his famous cricketer’s shop at 59, Fleet Street, London, will be a spot of great historical interest to all visitors (writes “Jumbo” Sharland). The regard for Jack Hobbs in England is pracically reverential, and this season, after his great contribution to the Old Country’s win in the last test match, followed by the highest score of his career, 316 not out, for Surrey against Middlesex, public worship of their idol knew no bounds. In musty old Fleet Street Hobbs haa his sports shop centred, within the hallowed precincts of journalism. Hundreds pass his shop daily and there is always an interested crowd gazing with admiration at the wares displayed, or some tit bit. of importance in cricket that Jack will show. Yes: Hobb’s shop is a great centre of attraction, and it is doubtful whether “Le Olde Cheshire Cheese,” the famous inn further down the streeL draws such crowds.