Suburban Cricket

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 281, 17 February 1928, Page 11

Suburban Cricket

FOURTH SERIES OF GAMES Good Cricket Expected AT the Domain to-morrow the fourth series of the second round of the Suburban Cricket Association will commence. Apart from the competitive standpoint there should be some good exhibitions of bright cricket, unless, of course, the unexpected happens, and fans are obliged to witness the other extreme in cricket.

chief attraction will undoubtedly be the meeting - of the two Harbour Board teams on No. 1 wicket. Harbour A has been playing splendid cricket throughout the season, but this fact would not prevent its “younger brother” from upsetting it to-morrow. The Colt team has been singularly unfortunate this season, so perhaps its good luck toscin will come to light and enable it to show the parent team a few tricks. UP TO GLEN EDEN It is to be hoped that Glen Eden will make a better attempt in the game against Ponsonby than it did against Harbour Board A on Saturday last. The Glen has several sound players, so perhaps they, having seen the “error of their ways,” will do something worth while. Meanwhile Ponsonby will not be standing by voicing encouraging plaudits. It, too, will be doing something. In front of the pavilion Ellerslie and Green Lane will do battle.. This also should prove a good game, full of hardhitting and snappy fielding for which the personnel of each team is noted. All in all, the cricket to-morrow should be far from sluggish. TEAMS LIST The following teams have been chosen for to-morrow’s suburban cricket matches: Senior A Grade Green Lane.—J. Elliott, Shepherd, Seccombe, Watts (3), Cole, Wroath, T. Clark, Rankin, Holmes, Smith. Glen Eden.-—A. Kerr, M. Kay, D. McNeill, G. Shepherd, E. Kent, J. Paice, A. Anderson, A. Spearpoint, A. Belsham, J. Belsham, A. McKibbon, G. Herring, Rogers. Ellerslie.—J. Baxter, H. R. Burton, R. H. Burton, J. Elliott, W. Funnell, A. Gedye, W. Hetherington, T. Kneebone, R. Lawrence, A. Watts, S. Yates. Senior B Grade Auckland Tramways.—J. Tinkler, R.

Carr, H. Larsen, F. Shanaghan, .T. Hall, J. Taplin, T. Moore, R. Hook, E. Crowe, H. Sutcliffe, H, Spencer, Hines, J. Batty. Second Grade Green Lane.—Kilgour, Percy, F. Clark, H. Cullum, Judd, Beeson (2), Drake, Sampson, Rivers, Phillips. Invicta. McFadzean, Cheeseman, Gwillim (2), Roy, Russell, James, Mellor, Stone, Davies, O. Day, Lancely, Howarth. Tamaki. —Appleyard, Webster, Coleman, Clark, Hill, Strange, Ingwood, Ringrose, Bradley, Coleman, Browne, Olliver. Takanini.—H. Rowe, W. Clayton, T. Mclntosh, H. Mclntosh, E. Roberts, B. Hewitt, J. Sturgeon, T. Warner, B. Cox, G. Reid, B. Pope. New Lynn.—Mardle, Riggs, Simpson, Dyer, White, Park, Mc.Leish, Young, Neeley, Kay, Meese, Holland. Junior B Grade Auckland Tramways.—J. Woods, H. Dawson, R. Menzies, V. McCredie, L. Ure, J. Callander. R. Martin, R. Pepper, Lovett, G. Harris, C. Godfrey. Third Grade Green Lane. —Hoclcenhull, Harford, Cohen, Ching, Forsman, Dillon, Lee, Wheeler, Irvine, McLennan, Molesworth. Ellerslie. Butterworth, Forrester, Johnson, Knaggs, Keesing, Kerr, Matthews, Smith, Hollis, Vear, Williams, Bourdot, Tuohey. Tamaki.—Diamond, Hoyte, Diamond, Smith, Spinks, Russell, Hutton, Shirley, Hill, Ginders, Fletcher. gavdn —Blow, Gaily, Hankers, Hogg, Hislop, Kingdon, Leary, McNamara, Rae, Skeen, Turner. Reserves: Swift, Teat. Epsom Baptists.— Cox, Priestley, F. Harris, Benfell, F. Cornwell. Thompson, Preston, Hay, B. Harris, Ansley, Watts. F. J. Fawcett, Ltd. —W. Fallon, L-. Braithwaite, T. Andrews, A. Axon, vV. Afavs C-. Iggulden, D. Wilson. A. Coles, C. Shepherd, E. Harris, H. Robinson, S. Cooper, A. Robinson, W. Higgins. An Aerial Bowler”

The height of bad taste surely is that of flying in a bowler hat. What else can one expect than that it should be blown off? No doubt somebody wanted to create both a diversion and something historically peculiar in cricket at Johannesburg in the first test match of the 1927-28 series between England and South Africa. Quite a Diversion Airplanes worried the South African batsmen. One of the machines swooped down across the ground, causing the players to scatter and necessitating a stoppage of play, to "the great indignation of the crowd. A change from rain, at any rate. The game was stopped for five minutes, during which Catterall consulted Deane, the African captain. The bowler hat of one of the airmen fell near the wicket, and after a while the airplane disappeared. No reward was offered, one imagines.