Sports Jottings from Hawke s Bay

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 293, 2 March 1928, Page 10

Sports Jottings from Hawke s Bay

Captain of the New Zealand Maori team that went Home in 1926, and a, member of the great Hawke’s Bay sides since 1922, Barclay is a player of wide experience and proved ability. Like many native players, he has a pronounced streak of versatility, and for the Bay has played at wing threequarter, second five-eighths, and wing forward. Hash and determination are features of his game, and he is a great scoring man. Off the field he is a quiet-spoken gentleman, but an absorbingly interesting talker when he gets going. It was because of playing him when unqualified by the necessary length of residence that Hawke’s Bay had to yield the Ranfurly Shield to Wairarapa on a protest last year. * * * G. A. Rotherham, Cambridge University and Warwickshire county cricketer, who was hailed by Rangitikei fans as “a rod in pickle” for other provincial sides in the Hawke Cup competition, recently underwent a rather serious operation and is now holidaying at Okawa, near Napier, where the Lowry family has its sheep run. Rotherham, who is a first-class slow bowler and an able bat, ordinarily works with Ralph Lowry, who incideq-

tally was a Cambridge Rugger Blue, on the latter’s farm on the NapierTaihape Road. The holding is within the Rangitikei Cricket Association’s boundaries, and with his help the country association had hopes of lifting the Hawke Cup -this year.