-17-. Crici^tNdT]&b. Midweek cricket has proceeded fairly uneventfully on its way this term, but rain seriously interfered with the ^veekend matches. Throughout the whole term only one game ^ the lastonewas played in fine weather. This was particularly unfortunate, inasmuch as the Ist XI was very young and inexperienced (larrington being the only old colour) and needed all the match practice possible. Consequently, it is hard to judge the capabilities of the side. The impression one has is that it was potentially a good side, but that its capabilities were not made manifest until the last'game of the season. The batsmen may definitely be divided into two classes:the "heartbreakers" (Coutts, Burnett and Booth) and the "runmakers": (Larrington, Dyer, Henry, Mason & Gilliat), with Jacobs, perhaps, half-and-half. Each section is equally important, as wae witnessed in the Eshowe match where Coutts (24 in 2 hours) and Jacobs (27 in 1"^ hours) broke the bowling, for Larrington to score 54 in s-bout half-an—hour. The bowling was mediocre, and was further weakened by the unfortunate absence of Reeves. The four stock bowlers; Coutts, Henry,Reeves and Mason, were too much alike to be very dangerous and towards the close of the season there appeared to be more possibilities about the spin bowling of Dyer and Good. The Alphabets were shorn of some of their interest by the too-powerful Dyer-Mason combination of team "A", where Dyer' s batting average of over 80 and Mason's 22 wickets for less than 3 rxms apiece gave the opposition no chance. Throughout the term easily the best batsmen were Dyer, Mason, Henry, Jacobs and Gilliat,while amid a host of bowlers Mason, Dyer, Henry and Good were most effective. The competition was easily won by "A" (Dyer, Mason, Driman I, Pearce, Thomas T, Theunissen C. Dunster, Thomas Raw A, Carr, Abraham and Hittler TI.) Among the juniors, who were prevented by lack of conveyance from placing the usual series of games against Stanger School, there are signs of promise in Thomas, D. Raw, Piper (as wicket
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