SOUTHERN CRICKET

Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1935, Page 12

SOUTHERN CRICKET

THE LAST ROUND PLAYED RESULTS OF SATURDAY’S GAMES. KAPONGA PROVINCIAL FINALIST. South Taranaki cricket competitions were completed on Saturday. Kaponga and Manaia, with outstanding leads in the A and B sections respectively, have been declared the winners, and Kaponga will play for the Taranaki championship at Kaponga next Saturday. Manaia’s record in the senior B grade was exceptionally meritorious, the team going through the season without a loss. The results are:— Senior A. Hawera 69 and 134 for eight defeated Power Board 57. Old Boys 164 for nine drew with Stratford 138 for nine. Senior B. Stratford 112 beat Old Boys 79. Opunake and H.T.H.S. postponed. LAST MATCH DRAWN OLD BOYS AND STRATFORD. SARGENT DOES “HAT TRICK.” A hat-trick by Sargent, the second in succession by a member of the side, was the bowling feature of a drawn game between Stratford and Old Boys at Hawera. The batting also contained highlights, Duke and H. Barker contributing 71 and 41 respectively for Old Boys and Barlow 57 and Walker 33 for Stratford. The games were the last of the competition matches for the season. Old Boys batting first declared with 164 for nine wickets on the board, And Stratford held on long enough to avoid the last wicket falling before time. Old Boys’ batting was notable for a prolific partnership of Duke and H. Barker, who thrashed the bowling soundly. Both batted extremely well, Duke especially showing that as a batsman he is among the most ■ promising in South Taranaki. Stratford’s start was even better than Old Boy’s and capital innings by Barlow, Walker and Beete put a rosy-hued complexion on the game. Their efforts were not sustained by later members of the side, and when Sargent, in his one over, took three wickets with his fifth, sixth and seventh balls the chances of winning abruptly vanished. Sargent is the third member of the side to have taken the hat trick this season, Thrush and Ogden, who did it last week, being the others. Details are:— . OLD BOYS. W. Barker, c Miller, b Walker 7 L. Duke, b Walker 11 H. Barker, c Collins, b Barlow .... 41 Herbert, b Walker 1 Sargent, c and b Beere t Beamish, b Beere 4 'Worley, b Beere 4 E. Kirkby, b Gatton 5 McKoy, not out 14 Ogden, b Barlow '. 1 D. Kirkby, not out 7 Extra (byes 7, leg byes 1) 8 Total (for nine wickets) A 164 Bowling: Walker three for 32, Beere three for 33, Gatton one for 41, Barlow one for 24, Snell none for 18, Hancock none for six. STRATFORD. Barlow, b Worley 57 Walker, b H. Barker 33 Beere, l.b.w. b Sargent 24 Snell, c and b Worley 1 Gatton, l.b.w. b Worley ‘5 Hancock, c H. Barker, b McKoy .. 1 Sage, st W. Barker, b Ogden 0 Miller, not out . 4 Young, c Herbert, b Sargent 0 Collins, b Sargent .... 0 Hickey, not out 5 Extras (wides 1, byes five) .... 6 Total (for nine wickets) 138 Bowling: Herbert none for 28, Duke none for 26, H. Barker none for 18, Beamish none for 19, Worley three for 30, McKoy one for eight, Ogden one for one, Sargent three for none. POWER BOARD DEFEATED HAWERA’S NARROW VICTORY. FINE BOWLING BY LENDRUM. By 12 runs Hawera defeated Power Board on the first innings at Hawera. Hawera scored 69 and 134 for eight wickets and Power Board scored 57. An unusually fine performance was put up by Lendrum for Power Board. He clean bowled seven men for a low average. Hawera batted first and but for a fine stand by D. Crawford, not a regular member of the side, the team would have been in trouble. Crawford was the only one to play Lendrum comfortably. He hit the bowling about with delightful freedom. His run out was an unfortune end to a good innings. In its second strike Hawera played much better, though the performances were discounted to a certain extent by the fact that Power Board’s bowlers were not the usual battery. Lendrum’s performance in Hawera’s first innings was one of his best efforts of a successful season and he further showed his ability by a good innings. He and Geary were the only two to get going against Hawera’s attack, And with more support from other batsmen, whose total contribution was poor, Hawera would have had a closer call. The scores are:— HAWERA. First Innings. Penny, b Lendrum a Crawford, run out 41 Fraser, b Lendrum Des Forges, b Lendrum 2 Jennings, b Buist 1 Bray, b Lindrum ® Fleet, b Lendrum ° Linn, b Lendrum “ Guy, b Lendrum * Sparrow, b Geary « Murdoch, not out Extras 13 Total 69 Bowling: Lendrum, seven for 26, Buist one for 32, Geary one for one. Second Innings. Des Forges, b Hunter 38 Linn, b Buist 22 Fraser, b Sargeson 4 Bray, st. Geary, b O’Dea 28 Sparrow, b O’Dea 9 Murdoch, b Hunter 9 Jennings, b Alister H Fleet, b O’Dea 6 T. Guy, not out 6 Extras 4 Total (for eight wickets) 134 Bowling: Lendrum none for 21, Buist

' two for 14, O’Dea three for 17, Alister one for. two. POWER BOARD. Sargeson, b Fleet 0 Geary, b Fleet 13 Lendrum, b Crawford 20 O’Rea, b Sparrow 5 Buist, b Sparrow 3 Turnbull, b Crawford 0 Hughes, b Crawford 3 Bernard, b Sparrow 1 Storm, run out 0 Crotty, b Crawford 1 Bishop, not out 4 Extras .. 7 ‘ Total 57 Bowling: Fleet two for 17, Fraser none for 17, Sparrow three for 18, D; Crawford four for three. SOUTH SENIOR B WIN TO STRATFORD. f Stratford B defeated Old Boys B by 112 runs to 79. Old Boys batted first. Hammond 19, Wells 13 and Evans 10, were the best scorers, McKenzie taking four for 29. McKenzie was also a good scorer, compiling 30. Others were Faulkner 12, Houston 12 and Klee 10. Wells, three for 19, and Dowdle two for 13, were the best Old Boys bowlers. MANAIA WINS AGAIN. Completing an unbroken series of victories for the season, Manaia defeated Old Collegians on Saturday by 63 to. 31. Hobday 23, and Andrews 12 were the only double-figure scorers for Manaia, Hughes with three for 11 and Malone with three for 3 taking the wickets. Ryan with nine was the highest scorer for Collegians, C. Whalen taking six for 19 and Kitt four for 11. SCHOOL AND HAWERA CLOSE. There were only 11 runs between Stratford Technical High School and Hawera at the school ground in favour of school, and the game was all the more interesting for the close contest. Fairweather, Hawera, made the highest score of the day with 38, but Stevens, 19, was the only other to strike double figures. The total was 93. I. Ryburn with five for 21, and B. Ryburn with four for 31 made scoring difficult for the Hawera batsmen. The scoring in school’s 104 was more evenly spread, the pick of the batsmen being Bonner 24, Anderson 18, Amess 18 and Henderson 12. Kibblewhite took three for 11 and Fairweather three for 22. PLAY IN LOWER GRADES NEW PLYMOUTH TAKES THE LEAD. EXCITING JUNIOR GRADE GAME. A four-point win over Western Park A gave New Plyrpouth a lead of one point over New Plymouth Colts, which gained only three points against Okato, time robbing it of the extra point. With only one match to go New Plymouth has a good chance of holding the lead. The outstanding batting performance was that of J. Ford, Western Park B, who scored a vigorous half-century. The bowlers were on form, Parkin and Kinsella, New Plymouth, being the best A feature of the junior grade was an exciting match between Kiwi and Western Park, which Kiwi won on the call of time. Tippens, Kiwi, was the outstanding figure, taking five wickets for one run in one over, including the “hat trick.” SENIOR B GRADE FIXTURES. FOUR POINTS TO NEW PLYMOUTH. After running through the Western Park B team for 48 runs, New Plymouth declared with six wickets down for 131 and then put Western Park out for 43, thus gaining a foiir-point win and the lead in the championship. Robertson with 22 was the only Park man to reach double figures, the rest collapsing before the bowling of Kinsella, five for 11, and Parkin, five for 26. New Plymouth’s 131 was scored principally by Lawrence 22, Sampson 25, Des Forges 27 not out, Nicoll 27 not out and Sheppard 18. In the second strike Park fared even worse, this time Pope (16) being the only batsman to offer resistance to Parkin, seven for 26, and Kinsella, three for 16. COLTS’ THREE-POINT WIN. After declaring with four wickets down for 145 runs, New Plymouth Colts was unfortunate in not gaining an outright win against Okato, as Okato was all out for 39 in the first innings and had lost six wickets for 30 runs in the second when stumps were drawn. For New Plymouth Bowen was the highest scorer with 45. He was well supported by Stewart 27, Autridge 24, South 20 and Gey ton 21, both not out. Woods with two wickets for 16 was the most effc : ve of six Okato bowlers. For Okato Taylor with 10 was the only double-figure scorer. Autridge bowled well to take for and Bowqa. gained tbg ©xcel-

lent figures of three for 1. Avery took two for 19. In .th s second strike no Okato batsman reached double figures. Autridge and Bowen, three for 9 and tl — for 15 respectively, shared the wickets. . BIG SCORE BY WESTERN PARK B. 7 ■' o In reply to Old Boys’ first innings ’ total of 123, Western Park B ran up the ’ big score of 210 for. nine wickets, j mainly owing to an aggressive innings of 53 by Ford. Both teams played mem- ’ bers of their senior teams. Old Boys’ s highest scorers were Sorenson 37 and Wallace 36. S. Fookes (11) also reached double figures. Bowling for Park, G. Ewart took six wickets for 33 runs and Quirk three for 50. In Park’s innings double figure scorers other than Ford I were Phillips 35, Watson 29 not. out, Bruen 21, Morris 14 and Webster 10. In 1 his innings Ford hit nine fours. Old Boys used no fewer than 10 bowlers, ’ success falling to Pruden with three wickets for 25 runs. . HIGH SCHOOL BATSMEN FAIL. Other than Moran (21) and Keller (10) the High School batsmen failed to cope with the Central bowling and made a only 55 runs. Central, making 155, won j on the first innings by 100 runs. Elder r took five wickets for 23 runs and Putaka g two for none. Five batsmen scored double. figures for Central, headed by t C. Hunt with 46. The others were W. Hunt 32 retired, Murphy 22, Elder 17 2 and Parker 13. Berg, three for 9, bowla ed vrell for School. Edwards, two for a 28, and Keller, two for 30, also took r wickets. In a second innings School a lost three wickets for 36 runs, 27 of e which were scored by Johns. | I.— I —II —■ ' j JUNIOR GRADE MATCHES. KIWI SNATCHES VICTORY. ? —— In one of the most interesting matches in the junior competition this season '• Kiwi beat Western Park at Western Park by 16 runs in a completed match. Kiwi batted first for 67, Hanover scoring 16, Skellon 12 and Tippens 12. Wright took three for 4 and Wood three t for 7. Western Park replied with 40, s none of the nine batsmen making double 1 figures. Marsden, a High School boy, » took two for 3, Hanover three for 15 1 and Stevenson two for 14. In a second 3 innings Kiwi made 62, A. Smith making 26 not out, Tippens 16 and HaU 12. Wood J took three for 13, Geary three for 17 • and Wheeler two for 11. Western Park 3 needed 90 to win 35 minutes and had • 72 on for three wickets in less than 20 minutes, Wood having made 15, Geary 3 14 and Carey 12. A single over from I Tippens saw the score change from 72 5 for three wickets to 73 for eight wick--5 ets, and the next over ended the in--5 nings with a total of 73. Pullen made 5 21. Tippens took /four wickets for, one run, Hall one for 4 and Smith two for 27. NEW PLYMOUTH SUFFERS DEFEAT. Taking the score from 46 to 131, the last five Old Boys wickets won the 1 match against New Plymouth. New 1 Plymouth batted first, making 119, due • mainly to Ulenberg, who made 59, Hoff- > mann 22 and Revell 11 not out. Old ' Boys had lost five wickets for 46 when 1 Hamilton 18 retired, Armstrong 22, Caw--1 thray 31 retired and Gilmour 14 not out ’ retrieved the position, passing the New Plymouth score and totalling 131. Plumb ‘ 22 and McKoy 18 were the double-figure scorers. Bowling for Old Boys Somer- ’ ton took four wickets for 28 and Scoble ’ three for 20. Clarke, four for 38, and J Hoffmann, three for 46, were the most ■ effective New Plymouth bowlers. • ■ t ! WAITARA WINS AGAIN. In a match at Western Park Waitara dismissed High School for 61 and passed . that score for the loss of only four ’ wickets. Easton with 33 not out scored ’ most runs for Waitara. [ WEDNESDAY CRICKET MATCH. \ GAME CHANGED TO HAWERA. [ Owing to difficulty of transport it has L been decided to change the venue of the > cricket match between the Rural As- . sociation A team and the South Tara- ; naki Wednesday representatives from . Eltham to Hawera. The game will be