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The Spike or Victoria University College Review September 1927

Junior D

Junior D.

Last, but by no means least. Though kept as a convenience to the Club so that the higher teams could borrow our men, we put up a creditable performance. In the first round we won four out of the seven games played. We lost our first match through having had no practice, the match against Railways through the tactlessness of our captain, who actually had a twenty-first birthday on the same day, and the match against Midland through some of our members displaying an unwarranted interest in the turf. Individually the bowlers are more to be congratulated than the batsmen. MacDuff was the most consistent scorer, but no one attained the honour of hitting up a century—such things are not done in our grade. Riddell, with the invaluable aid of the umpire, reached 75, but then got bowled. If it had been l.b.w. he might have reached his century. It was in bowling that he specialised, Taylor heading the averages, Riddell also doing good work.

All round, considering that we had some 30 players at various times during the year, we are to be congratulated on doing so well.