NINTH TIME

NZ Truth, Issue 1205, 3 January 1929, Page 12

NINTH TIME

Horspool, Plunket Shield Veteran

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) Included m Auckland's representative cricket team, which is touring the South Island, is the veteran Plunket Shield player, E, Horspoot, who is making his ninth trip with the northern reps. LIORSPOOL first gained representative 11 honors m 1909, at the age of eighteen, and was playing for his present club, Grafton, m 1905. In the 245 innings he ; has had, he has knocked up 9933 runs, and he has been not out on twenty . occasions. Twenty-eight centuries, stand to his credit, and . his highest score was 225. In the 1924-25 season he "collected 1058 runs m club and representative cricket, and his aggregate m both classes is now 11,694 runs. He played sixty-five innings m representative matches from 1909 to 1926. and scored 1610, runs, at an average of 25.1, and was once hot .out. Against Victoria,' during the 1925-26 season, Horspool added the fine total of 143 to his team^s innings, and has. passed the halfcentury mark .countless times against all the 'provinces. Having placed' himself well m the first flight, he was* decorated with. the •silver fern .duringbthie 1.913-14 season. • "During the present season, he scored .151 runs m his first, four innings, and this early start /put him past the 10,000 mark for senior cricket.' In club games; however, he was at his best m: ,1917-18, when 10S0 runs were compiled by' his bat, and if there is a finer recordyin New Zealand, then it has yet to be made public. His reputation, as a batsman assured, Horspool also showed that he had to 'be reckoned' with m the field, and later, he proved., useful behind the wickets and also as a change bowler. The Grafton club discovered an outstanding cricketer 1 , m the young boy who first wore the cap iri 1906, and his early supporters have certainly had their hopes fulfilled.