CRICKET.

Shannon News, 16 February 1923, Page 3

CRICKET.

NOTES ON THE GAME,

The second round of the Horowhenua competition was concluded last Saturday, and the first, matches of the third round will be played to-morrow.

Unfavourable weather has interfered a good deal with the fixtures, and so- far the games are three weeks in arrears, so that if the fourth round is played it will be well on towards the end of April before the competition will conclude.

The position after/playing th« two first rounds is that Shannon and-We-raroa are leading with 12 points each, Y.M.C.A. two ; points behind with 10, and Public Works and Foxton 2 points each.

At this stage it looks like a keen fight between the first three teams, and the matches between them in hie coming round are sure to be well t entested.

The games for Saturday are: Y.M.C.A. v. Shannon at Levin, and Foxton v. Weraroa at Foxton.

Shannon showed great improvement in the second round, winning all its matches as compared with two wins and two' losses in the first round, we raroa lias lost one match in each round, and Y.M.C.A? one match in the first and two in the second.

Martin, Mackenzie arid Field led uff well for Y.M.C.A. last Saturday against Foxton, but there was a long tail to the team. Three wickets showed 94 on, the remaining 'seven wickets b.Jy mustering up 22 between them.

Howe and Dunn were the most useful of the Foxton bowlers, getting four wickets apiece, Howe’s wickets c: sting eight runs each and Dunn’s six. The Foxton side was all out in 13 overs from Auckram, Field and Widdas.. Procter made the best shape with the bat, but the total score only reached 39. Auckram took six wickets for 15 runs, Widdas three for five and Field one for 16.

Kruse did some smiting in Foxt m s second knock. He hit 15 off me o\tr from Auckram, including a six, tut the bowler equalled matters 1 v scattering the wickets next over. In this innings Auckram took eight for 24, and Field two for 12. '

The Foxton outfield is very rough, and makes the work of the fieldsmen pretty difficult. Sloan’s 43 was.the outstanding feature of the , Weraroa innings of 92 against Public Works. He hit > very cleanly, and his strokes had plenty of wood behind them.

The Weraroa batsmen’s running between the wickets was not too good on Saturday, no less than three being run out.

O’Connor had bad luck in playing a ball on to his wicket before he' had opened his scoring account. Newth and Pope bowled best for Public Works, and took three wickets each, the former’s wickets averaging 9.1 and the latter’s 6.1. Public Works were not seen to much advantage- with, the bat, being all out for 23, Newth with nine being topscorer.

Pringle came out with the best bowling average of four for 4,; Hall takin'g two for 1, Patrick one for 4, Sloan one for 7, and McGill one for 6.

Public Works toolc second strike, and eight of the Weraroa side -were given a turn with the ball, seven taking wickets which must be something of a record. POSITION OF TEAMS.

The position of the teams at the end_of the second round, with the matches played and championship points, are as follows:

Owing to the Shannon-Foxton road beig flooded on January 27, Public Works and Foxton did not play their fixtures on that date. O’CONNOR CUP.

The Levin Primary School team has challenged again for the O’Connor Cup, the holders being the Shannon School team. Mr Morgan, who is in charge of the Shannon team, has kindly allowed the challengers to fix a date for the match, and the Levin team has named Saturday, March 3. The game will be played at Shannon.

The following wall represent Shannon v. Y.M.C.A. at Levin to-morrow: Randall, Morgan, Grainger, Harris, Prain, Elhvood, Johnson, Parsons, Hunt, Abbott and Eagle. Players are reminded that the char-a-banc leaves Hook’s at 1.15 p.m. ,

The Weraroa team to-morrow against Foxton will be: Claridge, Pringle, Conder, McGill. Thomas, O’Connor, Bevan,. Patrick, Sloan, Hughes and Hall. Cars’will leave the Rost Office at 1-30.

Pld. W. L. D Weraroa 8 6 2 12 Shannon 8 6 2 1-2 Y.M.C.A .. 8 5 ' 3 10 Public Works ... 7 1 6 2 Foxton 7 1 6 2