CRICKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1940, Page 9

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WAIRARAPA ASSOCIATION SENIOR GAMES ON SATURDAY. WINS FOR RED STAR AND COLLEGE. The senior championship matches were continued on Saturday in dull weather with a slight shower or two of rain. At the College ground the College team scored a five point win over Lansdowne, and at the Park, Red Star beat Old Boys by an innings and 122 runs.

SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP RED STAR v. OLD BOYS, A HOLIDAY SPIRIT. The wicket at the Park was somewhat dead for the Red Star v. Old Boys match. Red Star got Old Boys out for a small total in the first innings. Six wickets were down for 6 runs at one stage, but thanks to Patrick’s excellent 42 (including eight 4’s) the total was taken to 71. The second innings of Old Boys was reminiscent of holiday cricket, both teams entering with a jovial spirit into the game and getting plenty of amusement out of it. Seven wickets were down at one stage for 35 but the tail wagged. O'Kane, the Red Star footballer and cricketed filled a gap in the Old Boys ranks as they were one short, and he hit up 24, not out, including a 5 and four 4’s. Hibbs played a solid innings for 24 which included three 4’s, while •Barr registered four 4’s in a well compiled 19. After the afternoon tea adjournment Lambourn had a turn at bowling, Jack Renner going behind the wickets. Then the fun started. A bowlei- would be reprimanded for taking a wicket, and immediately taken off; a fieldsman would be chastised for stopping an overthrow, and two fieldsmen assisted by a spectator were seen indulging in a game of soccer with a ball hit by a batsman, the -spectator finally scoring a “goal” by kicking it over the boundary, a 4 being registered to the batsman. And so the fun continued right to the end of the game, which closed when a Star fieldsman caught out the last Old Boys player, not heeding an earnest appeal by a clubmate to drop the ball and not spoil the game, as “time” was a long way off. Scores:— RED STAR. First Innings 302 OLD BOYS. First Innings. Parsonson, c Beil, b Coleman 1 Munn, run out , 2 Shearer, c Bell, b Coleman 3 Hibbs, b N. Hoar 0 Whitburn, b N. Hoar 13 McMichael, b N. Hoar 0 McGill, c Lambourne, bN. Hoar .... 0 Patrick, b Reid 42 Smith, c Bell, b Roys 3 Barr, not out 1 Extras 6 Total 71 Bowling: N. Hoar, 4 for 10; Coleman, 2 for 21; Reed, 1 for 4; Roys, 1 for 7; Renner, 0 for 22. Second innings. Patrick, b Reid 0 Munn, b Reid 5 Parsonson, b N. Hoar 6 Whitburn, b N. Hoar , 0 Hibbs, b Paterson 24 Shearer, b W. Peterson • 10 Smith, b W. Peterson 0 McMichael, c W. Peterson, b Paterson .... - o McGill.* c Bell, b G. Peterson .... 13 Barr, c W. Peterson, b Bell 19 O’Kane, not out 24 Extras 2 Total ; I°9 Bowling: N. Hoar, 2 for 5; Reid, - for 9; Paterson, 2 for 13; W. Peterson, 2 for 25; G. Peterson, 1 for 0; Bell, 1 for 10; Hatch, 0 for 12; Lambourne, 0 for 30.

COLLEGE v. LANSDOWNE. CENTURY TO THOMPSON. Lansdowne occupied the wickets all the afternoon on the College ground, putting together 221 and suffering defeat by 75 runs on ,the first innings. Thompson played a brilliant innings for 101, which included seven 4’s, a 5 and eleven 2’s. Groves and Stubbings also batted well. Scores:— WAIRARAPA COLLEGE. First Innings 296 LANSDOWNE. First Innings. Groves, c Schofield, b Donnelly 30 i A. Whiteman, lbw b Stevens 0 Greer, lbw b Stevens 0 Miller, b Stevens 3 Thompson, c Tier, b Slatter 101 O’Connor, b Donnelly 16 W. Whiteman, run out 9 Stubbings, b Schofield 31 A. McCalmont, c Donnelly, b. Slatter •' Cairns, not out 3 M. McCalmont, b Slatter 0 Extras 12 - Total 22 l Bowling: Slatter, 3 for 35; Stevens, 3 . for 41; Donnelly, 2 for 23; Schofield, 1 for 42: Taylor,, 0 for 9; Welch, 0 for 58.

POSITION 'OF TEAMS

Eight points are allotted tor an 0.. - right win, and five points for a win on the first innings.

JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP Red Star A v. Wairarapa College.— Red Star secured a 5 point win. Scores: Red Star IGB (Longworth 48. Bellworthy 33), Wairarapa College 58.

Won Lost Ch. Pts. Red Star 3 •— 18 13 College 2 1 o 8 Old Boys 1 z o o Lansdowne .... 0 6 nut-