CRICKET.

Shannon News, 7 March 1922, Page 3

CRICKET.

Y.M.C.A. V. SHANNON

The last match of the cricket competition at the northern end . was played on the Levin Domain on Saturday, when Shannon met and defeated Y.M.C.A. in a closely-contested game by 12 runs. Shannon were first at tlic wicket, opening with Main and Stewart. When,the scoring board showed 7, Main was clean bowled by Auckram, who had found a spot on the wicket and was. pretty well unplayable. The next over, with the score unaltered, Stewart was nicely taken at third slip by F. Fletcher, off Bennett. Merwood, after making three, succumbed to one of Auckram’s shooters. When the board showed 20 runs, Grainger went the same way home. Prain was the first Shannon batsman to reach double figures, but when at 13 another from Auckram sent him back to the pavilion. Harris and Randall carried the score to 70, when the latter was bowled by Hudson, the innings closing for 78. Y.M.C.A. opened with Martin and Thompson. Thompson failed to stop the second -ball from Randall, and was clean bowled. With the score at 7, Martin was bowled by Randall. T. Fletcher'and F. Fletcher added 5 and 3. respectively before being dismissed. Bennett 1 -was the only Y.M.C.A. batsman to reach double figures, compiling 16 before he was : brilliantly caught at-the second slip by Stewart off Randall. The innings closed for 66. •

~ Y.M.C.A. Martin, b Randall 6 Thompson, b Randall 0 T. Fletcher, b Grainger ...;. 5 P\ Fletcher,-b Stewart 3 Bennett, c Stewart, b Randall ... Hi McKenzie, 1.b.w., b Grainger ...... 0 Hudson, c Parsons, b Grainger ... 1) Dufresne, c Grainger, b Grainger 5 Auckram, c Harris, b Randa 11...... 7 Field, b Stewart i. 6 Griffin, not out 2 Byes : 7 Total 66 SHANNON. Stewart, c Fletcher, b Bennett :i Main, b Auckram ... 0 Merwood, b Auckram 3 Grainger, b Auckram 6 Prain, b Auckram 13 Harris, b Auckram t’2 Randall, b Hudson .'0 Hook, b Auckram ‘. 5 Morgan, b Auckram 7 Parsons, b Bennett I Murdoch, not out ; u ' Byes 4 Total ”8 One only needs to read a few pages of the visitors’ book at some popular holiday resort to see how the grumblers give vent to their grievances, and how promptly they are' answered by others who have had to put up with similar little inconveniences, but who have evidently found life well worth living, notwithstanding.

Rule 2: Do not make a work, of play

Some good-natured people invite friends to a picnic at which such an elaborate lunch is served that much valuable time is wasted in its pre : paration and the subsequent tidyingup—time that was meant for busy boys and girls to be climbing up hills, down river-banks' through the bush, etc., in their hunt lor the Blue Bird. Why don’t we learn that tea from pannikins and sandwiches from ’namel plates can form the sweetest alfresco meal ever enjoyed; ami everyone does his own washing-up! Spotless cleanliness with the right kind of picnic appetite is all that is needed.

Some time ago it was said that the majority of cases filling the popular health resorts were composed of people who in their youth had won high positions in the athletic world; and who now tell you with troublesome cough or rheumatic limp how they won their Blue at college, or how they had been the champion sprinter, diver, swimmer, etc., of their time. A heavy wastage has evidently taken place somewhere, and a system .hat tends to shorten one’s life instead ot lengthening and rejuvenating, should be overhauled and re-adjusted to nrevent strain in the present generation. Rule 3: Be a good loser. In this game of life, some of the finest public feeling can be displayed at the time of any election when the name of the successful candidate is read out. If the defeated cantßOafe can stand up and say something kind and helpful to the man who has won, he himself becomes a hero and wins a battle:—

“For the man worth while is the man who can smile,