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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 40, 1 February 1946, Page 3

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UNITED v PAiROA DRAWN GAME RESULTS Last weekend United played Paroa on the W'hakatane Domain. In the early morning the weather was overcast but steadily improved later on. United won the toss and elected to let Paroa bat first. C. Gillam and G. Goile the opening batsmen fot Paroa proved a fine partnership hitting strongly and with confidence. These two put 87 runs on the board before (Jillam was caught by Crawgord off his own bowling. A. Martin succeeded Gillam but was run out without scoring. Goile after a good innings was caught by Cameron otf McKenzie’s bowling. H. Grant and T. Grant formed a useful partnership before H. Grant was caught by Crawford. R. Cleland and T. Grant together put 51 runs up before Grant retired and shortly afterwards Cleland retired also. The remaining wickets fell steadily with the final score standing at 21)9 runs for nine wickets down.

For United L. R. Spring and W. Crawford opened and proved, a fine opening partnership. Crawford batted very well and made some good hits. Spring gave an excellent display of batting and the two were very pretty to watch. Crawford was bowled by Gillam. W. J. BcKenzie was also bowled by Gillam. A. Fisher and Spring were not out when time, was up. United were two wickets down for 132 runs.

PAROA Gillam c Crawford b Crawford 59 Goile c Cameron b McKcnzile .. 31 Martin run out 0 H. Grant c Crawford 1) McKnezie 15 T. Grant retired 25 Cleland retired 29 Laurie c Cameron b Rigden .... 14. Smith not out 21 Collins 1) McKenzie . 1 Howat b McKenzie (i Extras n Total 209 Bowling: Fisher 0 for 23: McKenzie 4 for 46; Rigden 1 for 64; Spring 0 for 47: Crawford 1 for 19. UNITED Spring not out 57 Crawford b Gillam 48 McKenzie b Gillam 15 Fislier not out lfi Extras 2 Total 132 Bowling: Gillam 2 for 3T; Cleland 0 for 14: Laurie 0 for 26; Smith 0 for 23: H. Grant 0 for 21; Martin 0 for 12.