EAST’S STRONG POSITION

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21366, 10 March 1941, Page 8

EAST’S STRONG POSITION

BRIGHT SCORES 149 i j PARTNERSHIP WITH GANEEV | WOOLLEY SHAPES WELL A determined stand by Pat Bright i for 149. assisted by Cassidy, Woolley i and Ganley, placed Hamilton East in j a strong position against Hamilton : on Saturday. When stumps were | drawn the side had 277 on the board , for the loss of six wickets, Ganley {being 47 net out. The bowlers and j fieldsmen were hampered in the lat- > ter stages of the game by misty rain I which made the ball greasy and | difficult to handle, without affecting j the wicket. Winning the toss, Hamilton sent * East in to bat on a wicket which | seemed a little tricky after the rain I that had fallen during the morning, j but which, nevertheless, did not prej sent any serious problems to the j batsmen. Runs came mainly from i brisk singles, neither Cassidy nor | Bright showing any inclination to j treat the bowling with disrespect. • though it had little sting. Twenty j runs appeared on the board in even time and the thirty came shortly afterwards when Bright, getting well on to a short-pitched delivery from Avery, lifted it over the bank for six. Singles interspersed with several boundaries carried the score along past the half century, giving East a good first-innings start. Bright in Form At 65. Cassidy was clean-bowled by N. Winger, after a useful contri-

bution of 18 runs. Woolley opened brightly, assisting his partner, who was producing his best form for some weeks. Two successive sixes, hit with considerable enthusiasm, carried Wooilcy to 20. Alter a forceful innings for 33, which had been scored in fast time. Woolley was caught by Avery off Winger's bowling. The scoring rate began to slacken as Bright, who had passed 80 and was

in sight of his century, played every ball on its merits. Two more wickets fell before Bright got the reward for patient batting, scoring his first century in club cricket this season. On at least three occasions he was in sight of his century when he was dismissed

unexpectedly and his success on Saturday was well-deserved. He gave a vigorous display as soon as he passed his hundred and, partnered with Ganley, took the score quickly to 250. When he was 149 he threw his wicked away, in attempting a big hit, driving the ball high to the boundary for Everest to | take the catch. Included in his j score were 12 fours and five sixes. j At stumps Ganley was batting . particularly well and had 47 to his | credit, undefeated. Details:— HAMILTON EAST—First Innings. J. D. Bright, c Everest, b Winger 149 W. J. Cassidy, b Winger 18 M. Woolley, c Avery, b Winger 33 C. Tarr, 1.b.w., b Avery 2 G. Atkinson, 1.b.w., b Avery .. 2 R. Tarr, c sub, b Avery 7 T. Ganley, not out 47 R. Brierty, not out 8 Extras H Total for six wickets .... 277 Bowling.—E. Avery took three wickets for 80 runs; N. Winger, two j for 53; A. Davies, none for 57; Bary, | none for 56; Buisson, none for 20. i GOOD RECOVERY j CI.AUDELANDS' POSITION BROWN SCORES 83 Claudelands made poor use of its initial advantage of winning the toss on Saturday. From the start, Cassells and Baldock were on the defensive and showed no signs of mastering the bowling. After a few overs, during which several singles were scored, Lyon took a cattch from Baldock off his own bowling. Edwards lost his wicket to Clough’s bowling after he had scored a single and two wickets were down for six runsv Claudelands’ position became precarious when Cassells played a delivery from Lyon on to his wicket. T. Ewan, making his reappearance in club cricket, failed to survive the first ball he received from Lyon and the fourth wicket fell at 16. Brown and Hemi formed a profitable partnership, runs coming steadily from all round the wicket as Brown repeated the form he showed against Hamilton East a fortnight previously. From less than 20 the score mounted past the 50, making Claudelands’ total appear a little more respectable. Brown’s Fine Stand The partnership ended when Hemi hit a ball from Clough into Higginson’s hands. All the remaining batsmen could do was to try to keep their end up while Brown collected the runs. Kelly and Nodder were dismissed by Lyon with successive balls and Oates was clean-bowled by Clough before he had scored. When the ninth wicket fell shortly before the century was hoisted, the end of Claudelands’ innings seemed to be in sight. A last-wicket partnership, however, by Brown and Knowles, proved a setback to Old Boys’ hopes of an outright win. Brown showed that he is a player of promise by making some particularly aggressive shots without any fear of the bowling. He was unfortunte not to reach his century as he was 83 not out when the last wicket fell. In any case he changed the position of the game from an utter rout into a reasonably good score. Old Boys’ first innings began cautiously and at stumps one wicket was down for 40 runs. Details:— CLAUDELANDS—First Innings H. Baldock, c and b Lyon 0 W. R. Cassells, b Lyon 8 J. Edwards, b Clough 1 T. Ewan, b Lyon 0 D. Hemi, c Higginson. b Clough 20 L. Brown, not out 83 G. Acres, b Clough 4 M. Kelly, b Lyon 6 A. Nodder, 1.b.w., b Lyon .... 0 R. Oates, b Clough 0 A. Knowles, b Clough 12 Extras 18 Total 152 Bowling.—T. Lyon took five wickets for 50 runs: R. Clough, five for 55; A. J. Aitken, none for 17; D. Scobie, none for 12. OLD BOYS —First Innings T. Lyon, b Cassells 10 A. J. Aitken, not out 27 R Clough, not out 3 Extras 0 Total for one wicket .... 40 SENIOR B CRICKET HAMILTON AND CAMBRIDGE Virtually the deciding match in the senior B cricket competition for 1940-41 was played by Hamilton and Cambridge, at Cambridge, on Saturday. Apart from a forceful innings for j 57 by R. Tooman, Hamilton’s first inj nings was rather poor, the side being dismissed for 94. Included in Tooman’s total were five boundaries and three sixes. The only other player to reach double figures was the skipper, A. Taylor, with 13 runs to his credit. Crawshaw took five wickets for 41 runs. At stumps Cambridge had no wickets down for 11 runs. SEMI-FINALS BEGIN AUCKLAND COMPETITION (Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Sunday In the semi-finals oi' the Auckland j Cricket Association’s senior cham--1 pionship yesterday afternoon, the bowlers of the leading team (Y.M.C.A.) had the Eden batsmen pinned down to defence for the greater part of the time. Scoring was slow considering the favourable conditions. Mills (50) and Postles ! (54) were the principal scorers, and later H. J. H. Harrison, the Eden I fast bowler, registered over half a j century. Eden was all out for 279. I The second team in the champion- ! ship, University, played itself into a | winning position against Ponsonbyj Balmoral. Middlemorc, last season's champion made 371 against Grafton. ' Leading the way was L. E. Vivian ' with 103, making his second three- ‘ ligu/c score in consecutive innings.

Of Papakura Camp's medium total of 116 against Training College, P. E. Whitelaw accounted for 52. J. B. Stevenson was responsible for a fine bowling effort of five for 49. O. C. j deal replied for the soldiers and j took six of the first seven wickets | which fell. At Devonport W. M. Wallace's 81 | gave Parnell a lighting chance against | North Shore. Details:— Papakura Camp: First innings 116: ! second innings two wickets for 9 v. ’ Training College: First innings 93 for seven wickets. Parnell 199 v. North Shore 43 for two wickets. Eden 279 v. Y.M.C.A. Middlemorc 371 for seven wickets j v. Grafton. Fonsonby-Ealmoral.l4s v. Univer- ; faity 237 for six wickets.