School and Playground

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17008, 5 April 1923, Page 4

School and Playground

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CRICKET. R EPRESENTA TIVE GAM ES. CAN TEE E TRY RETAT>'r> CHALLENGE SHTEIiD. Although not victorious in all of the Hi re© representative* games played last Saturday and Monday at Ragley Oval, the Boys’ Association may well l>e proud of the showing of their teams. The under 18 team which played the Wellington Hoys’ Cricket League senior representatives although defeated put up u remarkably flue struggle au»l had the luek heou with them they withoxit- a doubt, would have won. The match for the- Challenge Shield bet ween the Canterbury' and Wellington tory for the Christchurch boys, although the visitors were well above the average. The game between tha -seventh grade rvpresent ativee and a coir.binod Primary School team selected by Mr F. Shacklock also looked like a certain victory to the Association but time on the second day va* called when the two last batsmen for tii school boys were at the wickets. After appearing to have the game well in hand throughout, the Association team were unlucky to have to be contented with a draw. In the under 18 game Wellington batted first- and made the rather large total of 199. This, %owever. was mainly due to the century. 108 to he exact. registered by M. Bilby. This player’s innings was bj no means chanoelcss. hut he showed many good strokes and batted very patiently. The only other batsman to gain double figure >■ wap Johnston whose 17 was by n* meant imprssaive. When Canterbury went to the wickets late on (Saturday afternoon, the light was exceedingly had—ln fact, the Canterbury captain. ("aider. would have Keen well advised to have appealed to the umpires—and three wickets fell for 15 runs. Further disasters on Monday awaited Canterbury and. although soma of the batsmen. notably Lisle, battimore, Lilburne. and Holmes, batted steadily, the innings closed for 33. With a deficit of 317. Canterbury followed on opening with Tomlinson and Lilburne. The former was stead? - , whilst Lilburne scored briskly and the first wicket, fell 42. When Tomlinson went after scoring 10. < airier was dismissed cheaply but Lilburne got Ai with nioe cricket, whilst Linde 25. Fleming Ift. and Holmes 12. helped to wipe off the deficiency. Gohns oarne to light with 4‘/ in the compiling of which he nlayed many good strokes. The innings totalled 112. Although Wellington only reauired 50 to win. they had the uttermost difficulty in securing that total. Crisp fielding and fine bowling by ('alder, who took five wicljets for 10 runs, saw eight wickets down before the runs were obtained. The Canterbury team cannot he too highly" praised for the fight they put up and there cannot be a dottbt that, •he winners were not the better all-round team and that the home aide with a greater share of the luck would have been at most certain to have proved victorious. 1 Wellington, in the challenge game, also j took first knock and with the exception •f Coronna. who batted exceedingly well for 27. and Leggatt, whose hard hitting gained him the not out with 32 rims to his credit, no double figures were registered. Although the total 108 was small thin was was by no means due to poor batting but to fine fielding and good howling. England, this innings, was particularly successful taking five wickets for •JJ runs. Canterbury batted very solidly, parsing the Wellington total with only six wickets down—in fact, only three of the aide failed to gain double figures. Hatting in a bad light on Saturday, three wicket.- were lost for 63. Allifielri and kfarshall each gamine a dozen runs. The latter had bad luck in playing a fast one from Du Souza on to his wickets, ftimmond*. who on Saturday was not out with 17 batter? very steadily, hut scored off ail loose stuff and secured top score with 39. Dawson wus next on the list v ith 38. whilst. England ipado an attractive 21 not out. Tomlinson 17. Kerr 1.1 and Mnrrav 14. also gained double figures the innings closing For 188. With a deficiency of SC. Wellington had lost two wickets for 7 when Douglas and Bret t 6 became associated and carried the total to 59. before the former was dismissed by England, after having compiled a much needed 26. Bretis who scored

36. was 1101 disposed of until the total wan 9!. Wiokets then fell more quickly, eight being down for 98. and the innings closing for 132. With 53 required to via, Canterbury opened with Murray and Sweeney. The fo:«:ner was howled after scoring? 3, hut Marshall and Sweeney batted with discretion, taking no liberties with the bov/l- ---* injr. hut hitting any loose balls and 57 vs ms recorded without further losr>. Mavsh- * all carried/ bis bat for -29. whilst Sweeney ’ was 25 not out. Canterbury’s easy win by nine wickets i cannot be taken as an indication that i y\ ellington sent a weak team. Far from ii, most, of the Wellington players were 1 well above the averegre standard of boys , tinder 1G and it was only by the CaxterI bury team playing: up to form that they 1 won so comfortably. The team, which played against the t Primary Schools representatives was. ehos- ! en entirely from the seventh grade and ! . although players in that grade arc nor.iin- 1 ’ allv under 15, most of those selected were j : much younger three hoys being under !2 ! • years in ago. Mr Shaeklock’- team were also under 15. but a grain a lorge number ; • of the players were considerably below the I apre limit only one being over it years, ) [ although a considerable number of hove 1 . playing in the fifth end sixth erodes are j under fifteen, none of these were selected t.o represent the Association whose team consisted entirely of sevent*h grade players. The Association's ride batted first , scoring 184. first seven wiokets fell for 83 runs, the top «oorers bring Welch with 3; and Sibley with 16. Blave.v and Morrissey, when the seventh wicket fell, became associated and carried the total to tee. when Blazey was run out after scoring ii. Morrissey made .35. The school boy- on Be turd ay batted in s> bad light and lost three wickets for 21 runs. Although it looked as though they would have to follow on. Patrick and Bellamy on Monday came to light with 22 and 34 respective]v, end with the em of Tnnes 10. and Stringer 11. succeeded uj making the total 119. before the lest wicket fell. With their second knock, the Association bad lost *:i.x for 108. when the innings was declared. Sibley batted nicely for -15. whilst Watson 12 and Welch 11. also gained double figure? before being dismissed. whilst Rla.zey was not out with 10 to his credit. Requiring 174 to win the echoed hoys hattod carefully, arose matching 31, whilst Bellamy secured half a century in fine .style. Allen scored ].) with - careful crick et. When the last men were af th» wickets. time was called with 105 on the 1 score sheet and the game was drawn. » Flewellyn bowled very well for the AssoThis game wa- not only another obiprt ! lesson of the good work rt"?ie bv M •• PhaokTock in his coaching of the Primary i Schools, hut also showed that the Bovs' ■ Association have a cro>/; of wxl | hos T who. in the next few years should : b-- verv valuable j„ ti le higher grade--. ' At the eonclusicu of the matches op j Monday, Mr J. M’Kenzie. a member of I the Management Committee of the W*ri- i lington Cricket Association. presented th« j Boys- Ghnlleime Shield to P,. Marshall, the captain of the Canterbury under 16 team. He congratulated the teams on the high standard of their cricket, and on id a tribute to th" work being done >0 Christchurch by Mr F. Shncklock.. Mr J. Hayden, chairman of the Wellington Cricket League, and Mr G. S. vqtrffff. honorary secretarv of the local Boys* Association also spoke. The Wellington team which arrived on Friday morning under- the cfi ary- of Messrs ,T. Hayden* and Fume v.e v e ’nll- ted b.v the Christchurch hova nmi thanks are due to all who assisted in this T) Rev Brother 'farc°lli ». Messrs doiujaton J. Gordon. W. Cunningham. B. Rich a p.? W. Dunn, snecial thanks ar- due for acting as umpires Tbwjuglv'nt th*- r-apies. One feature of th n <rr*.' v, e- which ca ,- '' , *d some adverse comment was foot that tlx Wellington teams or’itfed to brine* anv material with there. This was *vi r .n on Friday, but none ar-iviry. the visitors might have been greatly inconvenienced, but for the effects of some of tbe officials in securing extra material for their use. It ha« always tp<*n th" '-lutrni in these games for the moltin'” t n ’ii’ c *0 provide t’ne.ir own p’sterial and tl'e Wellington Leac’ie would be well advised to see thaH their touring teams arc properly equipped for future occasion?.