Port Moresby's Fathers
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Receive Annual Hiding
Pt. Moresby, Jan. 23
TTHE fathers of Port Moresby have taken their annual hiding in good spirit. Juvenile honour is satisfied, the people of Port Moresby have enjoyed the annual cricket match, and all is well.
Every year numerous sons come from Australia to Port Moresby to spend their annual school holidays with their par ents, and the practice has grown up of forming two cricket elevens—Fathers v.
Sons. Among the fathers there are some cricketers of experience but, in this annual match, experience somehow does not seem to count. The sons point jubi J lantly to the score as the only thing that matters: and everyone ignores the
bitter plea that the sons have little else to do all the year except practise cricket, while the poor fathers are very busy ear
ning a livelihood and getting shockingly
out of form.
This kind-hearted correspondent will not publish the full scores of the 1937 match (held on January 15) but here is a bit of it: FATHERS—Second Innings Williams, b Gore 20 Dupain, c Ryerson, b Rosser 1 Wyatt, c Clark, b Munro 11 Boileau, run out — - 0 Clarke, not out — - 10 Champion, run out 1 Bland, run out - 0 Bignold, run out — 12 Gore, b Foley - 0 Lockhart, b Foley 0 de Groen, c Clarke, b Gore 2 Sundries 15 Total - —■ 81