BATTING HONORS GO TO WARNES

NZ Truth, Issue 1302, 27 November 1930, Page 14

BATTING HONORS GO TO WARNES

MUTT MAN KNOCKS UP NEARLY HALF OF TEAM'S TOTAL 01D BOYS SLACK OFF IN THE FIELD .' (From"N.Z. Truth's" Special Wellington Representative.) ..' . : For sheer lackadaisical work m the field Old Boys take the biscuit. Their slovenly display m this quarter was m striking contrast to that given by their opponents, Varsity, on the first day of the match.

G MOORE was like an old woman m • the field on Saturday, and numerous fours which went to Varsity's credit he should have stopped for singles. Brown was 1 another one who suffered from slippery Angers, . and several straight daisy clippers he failed to stop. The boundary fence got. them. Duncan also must be getting slightly stiff, in. the joints, for he let through a bail the veriest tyro could have stopped; It only wants a repetition once or twice of. Saturday's fielding and OW Boys will be sliding down the ladder. Oh Saturday' there were far too many holes m the field, and the ' Varsity batsmen had' no trouble m getting the ball through to. the outfields. As a bowler, though, DUncan retrieved himself. He sent down a nice;, easy length ball which found •'•• the Varsity players., respectfully at attention. At one part of It, he had 10 overs for 13 runs. .Six of these, were maidens. Old Boys bowler, Parsloe, hasn't found a decent length yet. He was rocking .•IliiiiiiiiiiiiMiniiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiliNiiiiiiiiiMiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriimiiiil

If the rest of Old Boys would only i take a lesson from Parsloe m the field . runs would be kept down. Nothing much gets past this fellow. One would think he had birdlime on his mitts the way i the ball sticks. For an experienced batsman, Eddie McLeod should have made runs at a faster ■ rate' than he did on Saturday. He was playing back on his wicket for a long time after he went to the crease; . More especially when the state of the i bowling is taken into consideration, Var--1 sity should have stepped out to it and a gone after ..the runs. They were easily . capable of reaching O'd Boys' total, i Kilbirnie were decidedly fortunate -to down Institute on the first innings. The latter side has some good batting talent m its ranks, but apart from Dempster (5) Banks (32), Wareham ' (34), and McLean (35), the majority of the team failed badly. The bowling of Crook and Tucker kept the Institute men quiet, al- ■-. though on the day the nineteen runs required to catch Kllblrnle's total ' should have been forthcoming. '. Foley failed miserably and was cleanbowled by Tucker withtwo on the board. Hankins, who also should have been capable of registering a few, stepped across one from Tucker- and went back to the pavilion l.b.w. Hayman batted steadily, but attractively for his 30 not out m Kilbirnie's second strike. A. Hamilton . came, to light with a brightly compiled 60 for Petone. Ritchie (38), was the only, other batsman to stand up to the bowling of Blundell and Co. These two were the not-out men from the previous day, and ' together; they carried the score to 112. Had it not been for them, Petone would have been m the cart properly. As it was, they came out winners on the first innings. > Blundell is now Wellington's stock bowler, and without him they would be m a sad way. Goodwin is the makings of a good bowler. He keeps a good . length. V Cousins has lost •is punch as a bowler, but a few more games may make a difference to him. On Saturday Wellington tried out Plant, who captured both Hamilton's and Richie's 1 wickets. What Blundell is to Wellington, so New.man 'is to Midland. On Saturday he collared nine of the Hutt wickets at a cost of 105 runs. His place is assured 'm the reps, this season— and possibly , that trip to . England. •'/•'■■•' Midland, like the other senior teams, yvon on the first innings by a small margin of run's. . Warnes, seventh wicket down for Hutt, withstood Newmans attack until he had passed the century. There is no doubt that Warnes is getting into his stride this season.