JUNIOR NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16940, 15 January 1923, Page 3

JUNIOR NOTES.

FIFTH ROUND CONCLUDED. TAME CRICKET. (By « UMPIRE.”) After an interval of four weeks the fifth round of the Junior Competition was concluded ou Saturday afternoon in fine iveather. The only match that was taken, seriously was that between Sydenham and Lin Wood at Sydenham 3’ark, and Limvood justified the views I expressed as to their abilities by decisively defeating the holders of the cup. The game was interesting to watch and E. Weston deserves credit ior good judgment in declaring at 4.30. .Spaan was the “star” pei-former of ihe match and up to the present deserves the palm for the most improved player in the competitivm. Riccarton had to go in a second time be lore they could claim a win against Si Albans C.. Riccarton have a strong team but not exactly a lighting one. J erhaps they would do better with the infusion of some younger blood. West Christchurch A won easily from Hast A as was expected. Besiey show- < ci good form with the bat, making top freore in botli innings. 11 is a pity this player could not be taken, in hand and taught some good strokes because he lias a fine eye and is very enterprising. At present he can only bo classed as .x *• slogger.” Talbot, Godfrey and Nicoll will not be-'playing for College at the end of the vacation and Burrows, Skipworth, Carleton and W. A [off at will be notable absentees from the High School team. RESULTS AT A GLANCE. SECTION A. Limvood 283 for 8 (declared) defeated . ■> for 4 (declared) defeated East 70 aud 113. Riccarton 239 and 20 for none deir. Albans C 110 and 122.

Kaiapoi 149 and 90 for none defeated St Albans A 80 and 151. SECTION B. East Christchurch 141 and 51 for 1 defeated Technical 64 and 130. Sydenham 278 and 13 for none defeated St Albans 128 and 102. West Avon from High School by default . The hollowing table shows the positions of the various teams:—

LTXWOOD IN THE LEAD Chiefly owing to a fine innings by “Jimmy” Juck (73) and the great second innings bowling by “ Bob “ Spaan (five for 35) Lin. wood secured a good Aviu. against Sydenham at Bydenham Park. The home team put up 160 in their first innings and at the call of time on the first day Lin wood had lost four wickets for 114. Oil the resumption of play on Saturday Linwood scored 283 for eight wickets when Ernie Watson, the Lin wood skipper, declared the innings closed at 4.30. Sydenham were left ivith two hours in which to score 118 to avert an innings defeat-. Coomber was absent and Sydenham were all out after batting an hour and twenty minutes for 76 runs, leaving Limvood winners by an innings and 41 runs. Jack’s 73 for 3 An wood was his best innings to date. His shots were all neatly executed, and most I v of the “carpet” variety. Ho gave a . couple of possible chances, and Avas beaten a number of tiroes by M’Cleilancl. But. notwithstanding, bis was :t . sterling display. His score including onlv three boundaries. R. Spaan played some beautiful si lots behind point* and was very patient right through hi* innings of .‘lO, which included six fours. Spaan is one of the most improved bats in the competition. H. Snook played a bright innings fo-r 42, of which. 32 came from boundary hits. Lilborne showed a return to form by making an unbeaten 38 scored Avith powerful driving shots. Gordon was the. most sucessful Sydenham bowler, taking three wickets for 37 in twelve overs. M’Clelland did not come off as usual, hut am his figures show, the howled very steadily. Altogether he bowled 23 overs for one wicket, 67 runs and four maidens, an average of three runs per over. With Coomber absent skipper Clarkson opened with Mummery. This departure from the usual batting order in my opinion was largely responsible lor tiio downfall of Sydenham. Clarkson, Mummery, Cummins and Moore wore all out with only five runs on and Hobbs went with the telegraph reading 6—s—l. Marshall and Forrester made a valiant effort to stave off the : innings defeat, which was looming in I sight, but when the seventh wicket fell at 48 the Dosition was hopeless. Forrester scored an unbeaten 29 in nice style. He was playing for keeps and if only a man had stayed with him Limvood would have been nil out to notch the extra competition point. M'Clelland and Gordon each scored double figures and the- end came when the total was 41 below Limvood’s score. R. Spaan bowled very successfully. He skittled Clarkson and Mummery in his first over, Moore in his second, his third had one run hit off it, the fourth Saw Choate take a great running catch to dismiss Gordon, and in his eighth ■Tames was clean bowled. Pen gelly, who bowls a fast ball, took three wickets for The Sydenham fielding was below par. The best fieldsman, strange to say, was Coomber’ h substitute, who was noticeable for good work at square leg. AN INTERESTING GAME. The finish of the game between West and East produced little of interest. Most Avent in on the first day and scored 269 for four wickets (declared). At the conclusion of play East were ail out tor 70, of which Besiey was top scorer Avith 33. On Saturday East commenced their second innings and when Bullock and Besiey became assoc iated a very fruitful partnership resulted. Both players hit very freely, j especially Besiey, whose first eight scoring strokes resulted in 23 runs. At 192 Ruflock Avas caught off Hayne and after the telegraph had recorded two lor 102 the whole team Avas out for 113. Bosley’s 58 Avas scored in very free style- and included nine boundaries. Bullock’s 31 was a nice innings and taken all round he was a lot steadier than Besiey. ! Hayne only had three overs for West and he took three wickets for eight runs. Gamble, who bowled very steadily, secured two wickets for 22 LANGBEIN BOWLS WELL. Riccarton met St Albaus O at Hagley l ark and scored a. three-point, Avin. Riccarton scored 239, of which the opening batsmen, Haiues and Jamieson, made 147. Donaldson took four Aviekets for 3 • from St Albans, who were out for 122 in their second innings. Donaldson scored a nice 34 and Mahoney showcd a return to his old form by notching 22. Smith ran up 26 before Gurnsev clean bowled him with a good one. right through the match. In the first j innings lie took eight wicket- for 56

for 52. To date Langbein has taken 36 wickets for Riccarton in four games. ST ALBANS DEFEATED. “ Jimmy ” Gray’s colts were too good for St Albans, who looked like being a dangerous team. Sydenham went in first and ran up the fine total of 278, of which Cockcroft, the erstwhile North C anterbury representative, scored 89. Murchison, the promising colt, hit up -tO with pretty shots all round the wicket. Gasson ay as not quite at home but scored a nice 15. Gray with 35 and Sherri(fs with 28 also batted Avell. The first innings of St Albans was not very successful, the side being all out for 128. “ Les ” Smith, aa'lio has taken up cricket again, was top scorer with '••7, made by pretty shots all round the Avicket. Gray took, five wickets for 44 and Cockcroft, four for 26. Jn their second attempt St Albans scored 162. Smith again came to light aa itli a fine innings of 94 before he was caught off Gray. His shots Avere neatly executed all 1 round the Avicket. His score included three sixers in tuccessio i end fifteen boundaries. A really vigorous innings. When in his best form, as he appears to be at present. Smith is worth a, place in the representative team. North and Richards AA-ere the only other double figure scorers. Gray secured four wickets for 46 for Sydenham, who hit up the runs required for a three pointer Avithout the loss of a- wicket. A CLOSE GAME. A dogged stand by Hahn, who played right tnrough the technical Old Jboys ; second innings and Avas still unbeaten with 59 to his credit, was the main feature of a game in which the Ensor’s Road team seemed in an apparently hopeless position. With 80 runs behind on the first innings and with three ivickets down for 20 on the opening day’s play, the game looked an easy thing for East. In fact when six were out for 42 Technical did not look as though they would even have to field a second time. But Hahn offered a stiff resistance and eventually played Harry off. The respite gave Technical a chance to not only wipe out their deficit but get 50 to the good. Richards knocked up a nice 24. llahn deserves a word of praise for his patient innings. It was a lino effort Avhen things were going very bad for his side. Slis score included nine fours. East were thus faced with the proposition of getting 51 runs for a threepoint win. Technical took the field with a determination, io make it as hard as possible for East to get the requisite score. Stuart quickly accounted for two wickets and Logie accepted a hard catch off Milner, three wickets being down for 17. Jn the thirties Smith played Stuart on, and then Watson and Harry took the score to 54, the former making the winning hit with a fine sixer. East Avon by six wickets, but Technical retrieved the game from a bad position and gave their opponents a fighting finish. In their first innings they were three men short and without Stuart, their best bowler. East would probably haA'e found it a great deal harder to Avin had Tech men* played their full team on the first day. East, howover, deserve their win. which further strengthens their hold uprtn the leading position in the 1> section. They played keen cricket and were out to win all the wa'v. But the striking feature of the team is that there is only one first-class man in it— Harry, who is both bowler and batsman. The rest arc merely of ordinaryclass. With Harry out of the team East avoulcT not be a formidable proposition by any means. J UNIOR REPRESENTATIVES. VISIT TO WELLINGTON. Very shortly a Canterbury junior represent at foe team will travel to Wellington to meet a team of a similar nature representative of that province, .the mam condition laid down as to eligibility of players as agreed upon by the Canterbury and Wellington Associations, is that no member of the team shall be over twenty-five years of age. This wise precaution is made with the cue purpose of ensuring that only colts should be in such games, the fact being recognised that the junior players of to-day are the senior and possibly the senior representative cricketers of next year or the year after. These games should he fostered as much as possible, so that every opportunity is offered to the colts to show their best and gain further experience. Last year this junior representative fixture was played at Lancaster Park, when Wellington came doivn here and won after a very good game. This year it is Canterbury’s turn to tour north. Unfortunately, the state of the finances of the Canterbury Cricket Association are such that those who are selected for this tour will be obliged to pay their own expenses on the trip. This will be hard on some of the younger cricketers, and vrill no doubt prevent some who are fully qualified to be included in the team from travelling. Howei-er, bearing this in mind, the selectors, Messrs E. Watson, I>. V. G. Smith and W. L. King, have made a selection of those who arc to present themselves for practice at Lancaster Park. The list is not complete, and will be added to as the selectors deem fit. Consistency of practice is to be taken into consideration by the selectors in picking the team. The folloAving have been requested to attend practice at Lancaster Park:—E. Langbein, D. Hay (Riccarton), E. Jarett, O. Francis (West Christchurch), C. L. King, H. Grose, M. Pen gel ly, R. Spaan (T.inwood), Green (Kaiapoi). -T E. Hill. W. Milner, J. Logie. G. Stuart 'Technical Old Bovs). C Beslev (Fast tc> nrch) J Gorgon C Olliver raison (Sydenham) P«. O. Talbot. Godfrey. Sheen (Christ’s College), j Mortloek. Crumb. Bunow« 'Bovs' !!i<ih School). Harrison (St Alfo.nd

SECTION A. 2-pt 5-pt, wins. wins. Total. Einwood ... 12 .1 1" Sydenham . . .1 ;; n Riccarton ... 2 *2 in West Christchurch .1 £5 8 St Albans C . . . 1 1 5 Kaiaooi - . 1 1 5 St Albans A ... — — _I East Christchurch . — — SECTION B. •>pt 3-pt wins. wins. Total, bast Christchurch .1 8 11 Boys' High School .2 r 7 St, Albans ... 2 1. 7 Technical ... — o Sydenham ... — 2 6 West Christchurch . — 2 6 Christ's College . . 2i — 5 Riccarton . . j