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LOCAL SPORT: A GENERAL REVIEW.
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Current Comment by "Tantithan."
Another Washout — Sunday's Rain — Visitors Disappointed
— Saturday s Results — Fairymead Reverse —
Monarchs Again — West-South Draw — -To-cLiy's
Matches — Tennis Talk — Summer Fixtures.
. Junior cricketers were the privileged
section of the sporting community on
oaturday, as tne weather remained
Jue till they had completed their set
f. fixtures before setting in on an-
etner period of excessive dampness.
Thereby further progress was made
towards reducing the long list of
I matches set down by the B.C. A. be
fore finality is reached in the 1938-39
premiership, tfjnday was, however, a
wash-out as far. as cricket was con
cerned. Rain fell almost continuously
throughout the day in some form or
other and everything reeked of mois
ture. It was unfortunate for Glad
stone and Lowmead teams to . be
greeted by such conditions on their
visit.
So as far as week-end sport goes
there is only Junior play to deal with
in our regular review. Saturday's
play saw Fairymead beaten for the
first time this season when their bats
men found runs hard to get against
"News-Mall" pair of medium paced
openers. Tom Stevenson and -Tom
Buckingham. Moderate scoring feat
ured the game, "News-Mail" making
99 and ' Fairymead 77. The former
batted first making a fairly good start
by reaching 37 before the first wicket
fell of which the departing batsman,
Percy Gray, had contributed 25. Roy
Hansen and Tom Buckingham carried
on till 57 woA posted when the first of
a trio of run outs occurred. Hansen
being the victim after placing 17 to
his credit. 'Wickets went more quickly
afterwards, Buckingham, who made
19, and D. Argus (12) being the only
other double figure scorers, though O.
Marks and Tom Stevenson each add
ed a useful 8 to the total of 99. J.
Mason was Fairymead's most success
ful bowler with 4 for 21.
EARLY DISASTER.
Tom Buckingham bowled Cook with
the last ball of his first over to start
Fairymead's chain of disasters. Then
followed 2 for 3, 3 for 4, and 4 for 19.
S. Barlow stemmed the run for a
while, adding 19 himself to the- total,
still the score read 9 for 42 when
Brown and Bonding saved the situa
tion somewhat by adding 35 for the
last wicket. "News-Mail" kept the
same pair of bowlers on till the end.
Both sent down a dozen overs ench.
Buckingham bowled three maidens
arid wound up with three wickets for
! 29. Stevenson's bag was six for 45,
two maiden overs being included hi
his efforts. By this victory "News-
Mall" goes . into second place hi the
list of points, being one behind Fairy
mead, The latter, has still to have a
bye and must drop a point or so as
a result.
Monarchs helped themselves to a
few more -points when they met and
defeated Catholic Club on Saturday.
Three minor units rtoresented Mon
arch's first effort at' the creases. R.
Hall headed the list with 34 with F.
iMcKcwen 16 not out, N. Leeson 13
and S. Nell 11 also helping. Catholic
Cluo made a promising start but after
L. Moore 20 and N. Mcintosh 24 were
dismissed there was a marked slump
in results with the J)at- When the
sheet showed a wickets for 66, the in
nings was closed. Monarchs batted
again to lose the first four wickets
for 20. Then H. Hall and N. Leeson,
the batting heroes of thet first inn
ings, got together and stayed the
slaughter. Between them they took
the total to 57 without further loss,
i Thus Monarchs enjoyed a win by
45 runs on the first innings. N. Leeson
proved himself a useful all rounder
by securing 4 wickets for 9, R. Thomp
son bowled well for Catholic Club in
the second Innings, securing four for
12, which at one stage was 4 for 8.
HONOURS TO HIGH.
Against UP.A. High School had the
honour of the highest aggregate dur
ing the afternoon, to wit, 194. To
wards this C. Hawes on'his own, con
tributed no fpwer than 90. This was
by far the best individual effort of the
day and a praiseworthy first appear
ance performance in ' competition
matches. We can expect more from ,
the same quarter. UP.A. totalled 101,
towards which E. Toft 22, R. lord 21
and C. Hills 19 had a close tussle for
highest score honours. When seven
of High School's best batsmen were
out for 72 UP.A. had happy visions of
victory, but then Hawes and E. Mech-
esney came to light with a sound
partnership in winch 90 runs were
added for the wicket. That settled
the. matter most definitely and Highs
ran out winners by 93 runs on the first
innings. i
DRAWN GAME.
West and - South had an even game
at West End No. 2 wicket and when
still needing 27 with the last men in
an appeal against the light brought
West's inlngs and the game to a con
clusion at an Interesting stage. In a
sense it was hard luck, for W. Dia
mond, who bowled splendidly for i
South to secure 5 wickets for 20 runs
in ten overs. After his withdrawal
from the bowling crease West did
much better and held out till stumps
to save themselves from impending
defeat. H. Ross 20, J. Ranklne 38 ana
E. Potter laid the foundation of
South's total of 127 runs. West at
stumps had lost nine for 101. So this
Interesting game ended in a draw
after all.
COMPETITION POINTS.
Including last Saturday's matches,
po.nts now arc: —
Fairymead 15
"News-Mail" 14
Blngcra 13
High' School 13
West 11
South .. ..." 11
Monarchs 9
Catholic Club 5
U.P.A 5
To-day's fixtures are:— -Fairymead v.
Wests, West End No. 1; South v.
U.P.A.,.High School: High School v.
Catholic Club, West End No. 2; Bin-
gem v. "News-Mail," Hinklor Park;
Monarchs, . bye.
ANOTHER WASHOUT.
Apart from spoiling to a marked
degree the railway picnic the rain on
Sunday prevented any play in the
arranged cricket matcnes between
Bundaberg and Gladstone and Low-
mead. Players from ' both of those
centres made the Journey to Bnuda-
berg not expecting to run into weather
such as happened to be operating
here, and had to spend the day in
other ways than playing cricket. Such
a state of affairs was regrettable but
the advent of rain is one of those
items of ' life' thntj is - yet beyond the
control of- humans,
To-morrow tho resumption of senior
grade ' fixtures is listed when it is
hoped that better conditions will pre
vail. North with three wickets down
for 196 are to continue against Milla-
quin. Eric Hastings 116 from the nrst
day's play and D. Gould 13 are likely
to open play. On the other wicket
Combines with two down for 60 are
to chase Colts flrst innings total of
258. ,
ENCOURAGING START. I
Noel Wright, one of our representa
tives In country week cricket in Bris
bane anq who is now stationed in the
capital city, did not take long to de
monstrate his batting ability amongst
the Brisbane players. In a friendly
match, he played with Western Sub
urbs team and struck, form at once.
He batted attractively for 82 before
retiring to make why for other bats
men. He would have preferred stay
ing at the wickets in order to en
deavour to reach the coveted century
in his match. Still, he gave a most
irnpressive display and naturally Wes
tern Suburbs Is anrlous to secure him
for their team. However, Noel has
been » llotted to the Colts' team, and
will play his first competition match
to-day, under the captaincy of W. A.
Brown, who is re-appearing after
doing so well in Engand with the
Australian eleven.
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