CRICKET

Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1928, Page 5

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NORTH TARANAKI MATTERS. M A NAt. EM KN T COMMITI'E E M E ETS ARRANGEMENTS FOR SEASON. The management committee of the North Taranaki Cricket Division met last night. Present: Messrs. C. G. Bottrill (chairman), W. 11. Quickfall, A. Jackson, W. Moorhead, S. 0. Jones, G. VV. Haughton, G. 11. Saunders, J. Brown, A. D. N. Train, T. 11. Bates and D. F. C. Saxton (hon. sec.). A deputation representing the North Taranaki Primary School Sports Association waited on the committee with a request that on March 17 the use of Pukekura Park sportsground be given to the association in order that a North Taranaki athletic sports meeting for schools could be held. The chairman pointed out that the cricketers had to pay fairly substantially for the ground, and already had been compelled to give up several Saturdays. There were at present really only two grounds fit to play cricket on, and. the sportsground was one of them. Every Saturday that the cricket matches were put off the ground it meant a loss of £5 to the association. From the cricketers’ point of view the application should certainly be declined, especially in view of the fact that March 10 was already earmarked for carnival purposes. On the other hand, the cricketers did not want to see the school children penalised. APPLICATION GRANTED. The deputation withdrew, and on the motion of the chairman it was resolved, after discussion, to grant the sports association the use of the ground on March 17 conditional upon a guarantee being given that an endeavour be made to hold any similar meetings on the future on a day other than Saturday. This guarantee was given by the primary schools’ representative on the executive (Air. A. D. N. Train). The umpires’ association forwarded a complaint from one of their members that bad language had been used bycertain members of one of the junior teams playing on the Tukapo groundinstructed by the chairman, the captain of the team concerned waited on the committee aud admitted with regret that there had been some bad language amongst the members of his team. He would take steps, however, to make sure that it did not occur again. General regret was expressed by members of the committee that such conduct had occurred, and it was resolved to take strong action should similarconduct occur in the future. The secretary was instructed to write to the club concerned, drawing attention to the matter, and also to notify all clubs with junior teams that it was desirable that greater care should be exercised in maintaining the traditional good conduct of cricket teams in the field. NORTH V. SOUTH MATCH. It was resolved to make further representations to the southern division with reference to a North v. South match. It was decided to play a Town A v Country A match at New Plymouth on Wednesday, February 29, and to negotiate further for a match between Town B and combined junior grades. In order to give the selectors an opportunity of seeing some of the Thurs day competition players in action, it was resolved to suggest that an endeavour be made to play a match, Country A v. Thursday players, in which case arrangements will be made for one or more selectors to attend. It was resolved to nominate Mr. E. Lash as the Taranaki selector for tho northern division. Air. Bates brought up the matter of (infinancial members of North Taranaki clubs going to other districts and continuing to play cricket in competitions. He w-as in favour of having such players prohibited from playing without first securing a clearance from their previous c lub.—lt was resolved to bring the matter up at the next meeting of the Taranaki Association. Permission was granted the Country Association to play their annual matches, Country A v. South Taranaki A at Hawera, and Country B v. South Taranaki B at Tikorangi, on March 3. SECOND GRADE FIXTURES. It was resolved to play one more full round in the second grade competition, and the fixtures were drawn as follows: February IS. —Borough v. Okato, af Tukapo No. 1; Avenue Road v. School, at Tukapo No. 2; Waitara v. Old Boys, at Waitara; New Plymouth a bye. February 25.—Okato v. Old Boys, at Okato; Avenue Road v. New Plymouth, at Tukapo No. 1; School v. Borough, at Tukapo No. 2; Waitara a bye. Alarch 3.—Waitara v. Okato, at Waitara; Old Boys v. School, at Tukapo No. I; Borough v. New Plymouth, at Tukapo No. 2; Avenue Road a bye. March 10. —Old Boys v. New Plymouth, at Tukapo No. 1; School v. Waitara, at Tukapo No. 2; Avenue Road v. Borough, at Avenue Road; Okato a bye. March 17. —Old Boys v. Avenue Road, at Tukapo No. 1; School v. Okato, at Tukapo No. 2; Waitara v. New Plymouth, at Waitara; Borough a bye. March 24.—Borough v. Old Boys, at Tukapo No. 1; Avenue Road v. Waitara, at Tukapo No. 2; Okato v. New Plymouth, at Okato; School a bye.

Alarch 31.—-Waitara v. Borough, at Waitara; Avenue Road v, Okato, at Tukapo No. 1; School v. New Plymouth, at Tukapo No. 2; Old Boys a bye. The second-grade match, Waitara v. Borough, set down for to-day, has been postponed till a later date by mutual consent and with the approval of the management committee.

TEAMS FOR TO-DAY. Teams for to-dr.y have been selected as follows: Old Boys B.—l. W. Palmer, J. Palmer, C. Lash, C. Strombom, J. Leech, K. Fookes, L. Petty, Al. Batten, P. Pope, C. Dinniss, W. Alexander. New Plymouth. —Kingstone, Nasmith, Groombridge, Allen, Cottier, A. Clarke, Moverley, Falconer, Burns, Larkin Shepherd. Old Boys A. —Bottrill, Ewart, Saxton, Fox, Hetherington, Loveridge, Papps, Brown, Eggleton, Brodie, Nicholson. THIRD GRADE. Methodists.—V. C. Stephens, W. H.

Shipion, A. B. Macdonald, H. Dearnley, A. Ramshaw, E. Murphy, F. Boyle, M. Richards, F. Cooper, 11. Richards. H. Hall, 1.. Valentine, C. Richards. HAWERA HIGH SCHOOL HAVE WIN. VISIT OF NORTHERN CRICKETERS. The Hawera High School batsmen and bowlers were in good form yesterday when they defeated Tikorangi by an innings on the Hawera ground. The wicket was good and the outfield fast. The School’s innings produced 216, which was the exact aggregate of Tikorangi’s two innings, 103 and 113. Stumps were drawn at this sta'Ze. Scores are:— TIKORANGI. First Innings. L .Sarten, b Barker 12 P. Sarten, b Gane 0 O. Foreman, c Paterson, b Gane .. 18 B. Foreman, b Barker 24 A. Foreman, b Gane 13 H. Foreman, b Barker ............ 2 IL Soffe, b Barker 0 C. Foreman, e Pacey, b Barker .. 18 R. McKenzie, not out 0 R. Foreman, 1.b.w., b Pacey 0 Fault, c Sturrock, b Pacey 0 Extras 10 Total 103 Bowling analysis: Gane took three wickets for 38 runs: Barker, five for 26; Pacey, two for 12; Peterson, none for 14. Second Innings.* O. Foreman, b Paeey 7 •T. Sarten, c Whitehead, b Barker .. 0 I P. Sarten, b Barker 0 B. Goreman, e Peterson, b Milroy .. 51 A. Foreman, c Barker, b Whitehead 7 C. Foreman, c Pacey, b Whitehead 13 McKenzie, e Sturrock, b Morrissey 8 Soffe, c Sturrock, b Pacey 9 H. Foreman, not out 9 R. Foreman, b Pacey 4 W. Faull, b Paeey 0 Extras 5 Total 113 Bowling analysis: Barker took two wickets for nine runs; Peterson, none for 17; Pacey, four for 12; Whitehead, two for 30; Morrissey, one for 7; Milroy, one for 15. HIGH SCHOOL. First Innings. Milroy, b A. Foreman 27 Barker, c C. Foreraan, b Soffe .... (if Sturrock, c B. Foreman, b A. Foreman 2 D. Gower, b A. Foreman 10 Morrissey, c J. Sarten, b C. Foreman 20 Peterson, 1.b.w., b Soffo 29 Morrison, b O. Foreman 15 McDonald, b Soffe , 1 Gane, run out IS Thomas, 1.b.w., b O. Foreman .... 10 Pacey, not out 0 Extras 5 JTotal 216 Bowling analysis: C. Foreman took one wicket for 40 runs; A. Foreman, three for 35; P. Sarten, none for 19; J. Sarten, none for 26; McKenzie, none for 25; Soffe, three for 32; O. Fereman, two for 27. FIXTURES IN THE SOUTH. The senior championship matches will, be continued in the south to-day. Excelsior will play Okaiawa at Hawere, and in view of the greatly improved play of the former team they should be able to give last year’s champions a good contest. Old Boys travel to Stratford, Patea and Eltham play at Patea, Midland meet High School at Hawera, and Kaponga and Manaia play at Manaia. AU should be close matches. Teams will be as follows: Okaiawa v. Excelsior at Hawera.— Pratt, Thomas, Barclay, Le Fleming, Atkins, Linn, Crawford, Betts, Wilkie, Penny, Murdoch, Martin. Kaponga.—Harrison, Sadler, V. Betts, Albon, S. Betts, Priest, Fitzgerald, Abbott, Josephson, Melville, Plunkett. Midlands team to play High School: McCarthy, Treweek, Crombie, Giblin, Kinsella, Jenuingß, Nielsen, Scager, Colman, Busing and Little. Emergency: Rae. Old Boys’ team to play Stratford, at Stratford is as follows:—Lay, Cheevers, Maloney, Hayes, Hammond, Gordan, L. Walker, A. Walker, Hughes, Chadwick, Dowdle. Emergency: Londrum. Cars leave Post Office at 1 p.m.