Cricket NAPIER GAMES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 8

Cricket NAPIER GAMES

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H.S.O.B.'s Appeal Against the Light — — JUNIORS SCORE WELL

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.Unpleasant conditiong had an upsetting influence on last Saturday' s cricket, only the two senior matches in Napier being continued. The rain rendered play impossihle ■ in Hastings, while in Napier ; H.S.O.B. held out against TJnited to , halve the points. Waste time and a successful appeal against the light saved Rugby from an outright defeat at the hands of Technical O.B. In Napier wet weather gave tie batsmen a distinct advantage over tie bowlers and United 's good total of eight .for 341 proved no menace to Old Boys, wio batted all tie afternoon for 256. runs for .tio loss of three wickets. The Ma* hony brotiers opened for. tie ex-colle-gians and gave fiem a good start by running up 109 in just" over 80 minutes. Boti batsm'en attacked tie bowling from tie first over, urifolding shois with a power tiat would' have found the boundary more frequently on a field not so well soaked witi rain. Witi their departure, tie Beaney brotiers continued merrily and the scoring rate was kept well over a run a minnte until "T.P.," after iitting a six and a four, appeaied against tie light. If tie umpires iad only realised tiat tie last 96 runs iad been scored in 55 minutes the appeal would never iave been allow.ed. United 's bowling str.engti did not cut a very brigit figure, but under the cir* cumstances tiey iad* little ciance. Conditions Not Realised. On No. 2 wicket neither Technical O.B. nor Rugby seemed to relisli tio conditions and on what should iave been a batsmen's paradise tiirteen wickets fell for 91 runs. Wien Technical resumed batting Joinson and Hardaere were tie only t.wo to myke mucli headway, and when Rugby batted again tiey were in sore troublo witi seven dowu for 29. Murley aud Stevenson, tio last two, held tie fort, iowever, aud wien stumps were drawn tiey were still at the wickets and iad passed Technicals' first-innings toal. Tiis left Technical no ciance of anotier innings and tie ex-collegians iad to be satisfied witi . a tiree-pointer. Eric Evans, witi four for 35, and R. Parker, with two for two ofc five overs, were tie winners ' -.most successful. trundlers. . Century-Makers, Tie eentury-makers were on tie jpb again in tie junior janks, and R. Hatcb , and E. Wilson, of United, contributed . scores of 101 not out and 133 Tespec- : tively to a -grand j;otal of 354 for four wickets. Wilson particularly is an attractive batsman who would not be out of his depti in" the dJnited senior' eleven.