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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 191, 22 November 1910, Page 7

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SCHOOLS COMPETITIONS. The result of yesterday's matches were as follows:—High School B team beat Central by 32 runs, and High 'School A beat Fitzroy by five runs. Scores:— Central.—Monteath, c Hamblyn, b Grey, 5; Day, b Grey, 2; Avann, b Little, 3; Aldridge, b Little, 0; Howson, b Grey, 1; Lealand, c and b Little, 1; Harvey, c Chong, b Grey. 0; Williams, c Little, b Grey, 1; Smith, c Hamblyn, b Little, 0; Bellringer, b Little, 0; Taylor, not out, 0;. extras, G; total, 10. Bowling analysis: Little, 5 for 5; Grey, 5 for 11. High School B. —Little, b Monteath, 2; Richards, c Howson, b Monteath, 1; Grey, b Day, 15; Simpson, b Monteath, 4; Chong, hit wicket, b Day, 2; Crone, b Monteath, 5; Adlam, b Monteath, 4; Hamblyn, b Monteath, 6; O'Brien, b Day, 0; Gibson, not out, 3; Bacon, b Avann, 1; extras, 8; total, 51. Bowling analysis: Monteath, 0 for 23; Howson, 0 for 10; Day, 3 for 13; Avann, 1 for 0. Fitzroy.—Campbell, b Throssel, 10; Oliver, b Throsselj 0; Hooker, run out, 5; Francis, c Mander, b Throssel, 6; Mack, b Bayly, 0; Kirton, b Bayly, 5; Arden, 3; Kelley, not out, 1; Todd, run out, 1; Mack, b Throssel, 0; Ward, l> Bayly, 0; extras, 0; total, 37. Bowling analysis were not recorded.

High School A, —Monk, 1.b.w., b Hooker, 11; Norris, c and b Hooker, 5; Tlirossell, b Campbell, 8; Bayly, run out, 5; Mander, b Campbell, 1; Newell, b Hooker, 0; Weston, not out, 4; Brokensliire, not out, 3; three to bat; extras, 5; total, 42. Analysis: Campbell, 2 for 26; Hooker, 3 for 12.

NOTES. Yesterday the Junior Championship Committee held a meeting concerning the match playe4 between High School and Athletic last Thursday, the result of which was originally given as a draw. Messrs. Gordon (New Plymouth Club), Tribe (Carrington Road) and Roch (Fire Brigade) attended the meeting. After scrutinising the score-books very carefully, the committee decided that Athletic had won the game by one run, and therefore awarded the match to Athletic.

The usual cup fixture, Waitara v. Athletic, will be played in the Recreation Ground on Thursday. The inflation of the balloon has been so arranged as not to interfere with the playing field. Mr. F. Pearson, the English cricketer

who has been engaged as coach by the Auckland Cricket Association, arrived from London by the Ruapehu recently. The record of John T. Tyldesley, who heads the batting average in England foi the first time this year, is 51 innings, 2265 runs, 46.22 average. He alone scored 2000 runs. South Africa desires the visit of the Australian team to be deferred from 1912. The Imperial Conference arranged the programme so that the Australians should play in Africa on their way back from England and the triangular contest. The Transvaal Union made a gross profit of £4163 from the matches ol the English team, out of which it paid £982 to the South African Cricket Association, being 15 per cent, of profits on Transvaal matches, and 25 per cent, of profits on the two test matches, as laid down in the rules of the South African C.A. The Board of Control has decided that the sum of £25 per match, as in the past, shall be paid to each Australian player in the test matches, in addition to railway fares, etc., and 12s per day for hotel expenses.

The other afternoon M. A. Noble was asked if he were going to play against the South Africans, and his reply was, "No; there are lots of young and promising players coming on." All the same, if. say, the Australians are doing badly in the tests, one would not be surprised if the great player were to come forth and help to "stem the tide of adversity." In the opinion of ,J. H. Broad, who has arrived from England under engagement to coach the Hawke's Bay cricketers, cricket is at a very low ebb in England at the present time. The youngsters are a very poor lot from a cricketing standpoint, and the old ones easily lead. He points that the deeds of Tyldesley, Sharp, Butt, Mason, Jessop, Warner, and others confirm this opinion.