PONSONBY AHEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1931, Page 15

PONSONBY AHEAD.

GRAFTON IN SECOND PLACE.

EDEN'S VERY NARROW WIN

EXCITING FINISH AT SHORE,

The concluding play of thejifth series of matches in the A.C.A. senior championship first round on Saturday brought some surprises. Despite tJis fact that the wickets were hard and fast, the scoring was low. Eden's strong contingent of batsmen went cheap before a Y.M-C.A. attack in which T. Lyon "was the star, and Eden had a very big struggle to pass Y.M.C.A-'s total of 202. the side being out for 211, a win by nine runs. University batsmen also failed against Ponsonby, and the side finished up with 133 giving Ponsonby a comfortable win: Cleverley and Finlayson got the wickets. United Suburbs were out against Grafton for 57 and 15S, leaving Grafton winners by four points, which puts them up second to Ponsonby in the championship. Cowie did the hat trick in getting three wickets for 22, all the runs coming after he had got the wickets. Martin and Allcott got the wickets in the second innings. At North Shore an exciting match, marked by a collapse, ended in an outright win for North Shore by 55 runs. The championship points now are:— Ch. P. W. D. L. Pts. Ponsonby 5 5 — — .13 Grafton « r . 4 — 1 14 Eden 5 4 — 1.13 North Shore 5 2 — 8 11 University 5 3 — 2 11 Parnell 5 2 — 3 0 Y.M.C.A 5 — — 5 4 United Suburbs 5 — — 5 3

UNIVESITY BATSMEN FAIL,

The failure of most of their batsmen to produce their best form resulted in University being well beaten by Po'nsonby in the game on No. 1 wicket at Eden Park. On the first day Ponsonby had hit up the highly, respectable total of 250 for the loss of eight wickets, and the innings was declared closed at this mark. With the conditions as they weTe it appeared that the University had a good chance of clearing the hurdle, but the students crashed and crashed heavily. The opening of the innings was a disaster —for University. One wicket, fell in the first over, another in the second, and yet another in the third. Three good batsmen were out and only five runs were on the board! University's- chances had faded almost out of sight in a few minutes, but the next batsmen. Garrard and Butler, got their backs to the wall, and for an hour or more .-. they;.„ made a splendid fight of it. The 'Varsity '' captain was in fine form, and.he scored all round the wicket. Butler was moie restrained thau usual, but occasionally he hit the Tmli with plenty of wood behind, it. • The partnership received affright early- in its existence, when Butler escaped being run out by the narrowest of margins. Between them the pair put on 78 before Garrard was beaten';sy Finlayson. With the exception of Jessup, a .colt from the Auckland Grammar' School, who showed promise, the remainder of the 'Varsity batsmen fared poorly, and the whole side was out for 133. Finlayson, who. took five for 56, bowled very steadily and by mixing his. deliveries well, had the batsmen guessing all the time.

Cleverley kept a much, better length than in some of the games before Christmas, and finished up with four for 55.

Wickets fell fast in Ponsoriby's second innings, and when the stumps came out five were down .for 92. Snedden, who got 4.3, was in his best form, and hit half a dozen boundaries.

Scores:— PONSONBT. First innings (eight wickets dec.) .... 250 Bowling: Jessup: took one wicket for 21 runs. Butler four, for 62, Garrard one for SS, Bush one for 81, Schnauer one for i*2. Second Innings. . . Sneddon, c Butler, b .Tessup.... 43 Monteith, t Lunn, b Butler. •. 2 Lendrnm, b Bush. 4 Fletcher, b Bush O Finlayson, not out SI Hoare, c Sutherland, b Bush 12 Extras 1 Total for five wickets JI3 Bowling: Bush three wickets for 43. 'Butler one for 23, Jessup one for 11, Bannister none for K5. UNIVERSITY.—First* Innings. Bush, Ibw, l> Cleverley : . ......... 0 Pearson, c Hunt, b Finlayson 2 Schnauer, c Sned<len, t> Cleverley .... 2 Butler, b Cleverley 44 Oarrard, b Finlayaon 41 Lunn, b Cleverley 1 Macklow, b Finlayson 6 •Tessr.p, b Finlayson 20 Dixon. Ibw, b Sneddeu 4 Bannister, not out 0 Sutherland, b Finlayson 4 Extras 3 Total 133 Bowling: Cleverley took four wickets for 55 runs. Finlayson five for 56. Snedden one for none, Smith, mine for 19.

JUST GOT THERE

Eden scored a, first inning's win over 1.M.C.A., but it wa<s a very close call between victory and defeat and the margin in Eden's favour at the close was a mere nine nuis. And at one etage it looked as though there would be a much j larger margin against them. Y.M. had j set up 202 in their first knock,, which J was considered as .offering Eden little trouble to wipe off, but runs are always ; hard to get when wanted and 60 Eden j found on" Saturday. Mills and Postlcs ; had opened the previous week and put | on 34 undefeated, and they continued { on Saturday. Postles only added a! couple to his score when T. Lyon, bowl-1 ing exceptionally well, scattered the j wicket.' Lyon was almost unplayable' and he next got G. L. Weir before the i latter had scored. Mills went shortly j afterwards, also a victim to Lyon, and Gilleepie had only knocked _ up sevei; when the bowler had- him back with tlia crowd Four wickets were. then, down for 81 ;md Eden's prospects looked far" from bright. However, behind every dark cloud ..there is a silver lining, and -A. F. Weir was it. He went to. the ( wicket determined to get runs or die in: the attempt, and get runs he did. He. '>i!t an end to the destructive- bowling of Lvon. Though the others did not

make a very solid stand with the exception of Aitken, they hold their wicket sufficiently long to allow Weir to pile tlie runs on. Gradually the scure mounted, but the batsmen were going too. Newdiek was the last man and Avith about 20 runs required the position was all in favour of Y.M. However, ■Xewdick proved, just the man Eden wanted, because not only did he score when the opportunity oilVred, but he

enabled Weir to .slog a couple of boundaries. Xewdick evened up the scores with a single and Weir got the winning run, when lie brought Eden'e total to 203. At 211 Newdick was run out and a most interesting match was narrowly won by Eden. In the early stages of play Lyon was almost unplayable, but Weir pulled him tip, the batsman playing vigorously and hie strike of S5 unbeaten won the match. Scores: — Y.M.C.A. First innints 202 EDEN. —First innings. Mills, c Smith, b T. Lyon 38 Postles, b T. Lyon 11 G: L. Weir, b T. Lyon 0 Vivian, c Smith, b T. Lyon 28 Gillespie, b T. Lyon . : 1 Aitken, c Elliott, b T. Ly0n..... 1C McCarthy, c Smith, b Elliott j> A. F. Weir, not out S3 Roy, c 'Smith, b JClllott 4 LaLgton, run out 0 Newdick, run out 13 Extras 6 Total 211 Bowline: T. Lyon took sis wickets for 01 runs. "Elliott two for 59, Cooper none for 10, ' Clark none for 43.

GRAFTON'S BOWLERS SUPREME.

.Grafton's bowlers had a day out on Saturday against United- Suburbs. ToJ wards the end it was a race against time, but they completed the rout of the Suburbs batsmen by 6.15 and won a four-point victory. Cowie really started the bowling triumph when he got the first hat-trick of the season in Auckland senior cricket by taking the first three wickets of the afternoon. His victims were Kerr, Lyon and Thakaban, the batting strength of Suburbs' team. In view of Grafton's big score, 3SO (declared), of the previous Saturday, it ' was a disaster from ■which Suburbs could . *~ . not recover. In an "hour and three-quarters they were all out in the second innings; and, although the follow-on began more confidently, it was soon - apparent that the bowlers were again on top. The only batsmen to make aiiy stand were Kerr (27), Thakabau (24),.Hendy (39) and Nicholas .(22). By : their, efforts the batting was bright at times. It seemed that' this was largely due to the strategy of Martin, who ■offered eiich tempting fare that .three batsmen were stumped off him by Horspo'ol and' two others were caught by MeCormack. It mattered little that "Martin.was lifted, for several big sixes, once on to the top of the roof of the members' stand. ' Such was the position that Grafton had to keep the batsmen from playing a defensive game; and the Allcott-Martin combination was com-1 pletely successful. Allcott got his four wickets in the second innings by clean bowling the batsmen in each instance. Scholium fell'to him in this way in both innings.

Scores were as follow: — GRAFTON. First innings, nine wickets (declared) 380 UNITED SUBURBS: —First: Innings. Kerr, c Wilson, b Cowic 4 I/von, lbw; b Cowie '...'. 4 Scholium, b Allcott 4 Thakabau, lbw, b Cowie 0 Reikis, c Allcott, b Wilson 10 Hendv, c Allcott, b Wilson ......... IS Archer, c McCormack, b Allcott —. 0 Webster, b Byerley f Coleinan, b Byerley » Nicholas, b Byerley 0 Dineen.- not out • • •' *-> Extras 4 ■ Total ;....... E57 Bowliug: Cowie, three for 22; Allcott, two for 21; Wilson tv o for 9; Byerley three for 1, .»' . Second Innings. Kcrr, st Horspool, b Martin 27 Thakabau, o MeCorwuicfe, b Martin .. •±i Scholium,.b A11c0tt.......; l" Leikis, st Horspool, b Martin i Ilendj, b Allcott fl Archer,', b Allcott :'W I, n Webster, c McCoraack, b Martin .. u Coleman, not out ........... |j Nicholas, st Horspool, b Martin .... _~ Dineen, b Allcott • j. Extras • _ Total 15 f Bowling: Cowie took no wickets lor 14, Byerley none for 24, Martin live ior S3, Allcott four for 27. A four pointer to Grafton.

PARNELL COLLAPSE.

The last man in and the iast over of the dav. Tins was the portion Parnell were placed in on Saturday when they concluded their against North Shore at Devonport. With no chance of gaining a-four-point win, but holding a seven run margin on thv first innings, Parnell took,no risks with th. bowling at all, and the cricket was very slow. It was particularly bad luck lor the : last wicket .to .all at the final stage, but the ■partnership between the pair fetelir and Goodsir had lasted over half an hour. Sielu' perhaps made a mistake ui gotig I for a hit, but* the catch that dismissed 'him was a wonderful one, Webb diving forward and, although turning a sonierleault, still held the ball. Willi a deficit !of seven runs on the first innings, North j Shore opened badly w their second venture, the score being only five when Gcrirard was dismissed. The wickets then J fell at intervals of i bout 10 runs and it was not until the two Webbs became 'associated that the score began to i mount, the partnership adding o> foi i the ninth wicket. Macindoe j, .ye a very 1 patient display for his 24 taking one and a half hours to compile his total. He gave only, one chance while at the wicket. Webb was top scorer with 40, ■ which included six fours; He scored in very quick style, and if he was not so impetuous he would compile some verv ffood scores. H. Webb gave a sound [display; but the other batsmen failed, land Shore were all out ,or 142, tins i leaving Parnell 136 to get to ga.n a fourpoint win, there being only 1A hours to

J play. The batsmen took things quietly ' for' a start, and then a rot set in, wickets falling in very quiek time, and eight wickets were down for 45, with still an hour to play. Newdick added a couple, and was then bowled by Coates. Goodsir was the last man to partner, i Stehr at the wicket, The pair held their ' j end up and Shore supporters were get-1 ting anxious, but ofT the fourth ball of j I the last over Stehr drove Saunders hard! ! to the off and D. Webb took a brilliant j catch. Stehr had played a great lighting innings, meeting the ball with the full face of the bat. The total for the inn-1 ings was 80. giving North buore a fourpoint win by 55 runs. Scores: — PARNELL. First inuings m Second Innings. Yiviuu, b Coatos 5 Wliitelmv, c Bush, b Coatcs 13 I Anthony, c Webb, b Wenslcy (i Singleton, b Coales 0 McCoy, c Gerrard, b Wenslcy . 1 1 Hay, b Wensley 0 luuicau. Ibw. b Wensley 7 .Stelir. e D. Webb, b launders 25 Aitkon. b Coates 2 Xewdick, b Coates 2 (Joodtilr, not out 11 Extras 8 Total 80 Bowling: Coates five for 2S, Wensley four for clj, Saunders one for 9. NORTH SHORE. First innings 104 Second Imings. Gerrard, c Viviaji, b Goodsir l Wensley, c Hay, b Goodsir . .>.. 34 Macindoe, b Aitken 24 Hush, c sub., b Vivian 2 Ediuuirids, c Newdick, b Vivian C Saunders, b McCoy 6 Matthews, st Newdick, b McCoy .... 0 Goldsworthy, b Aitken 1 1) Webb, st Newdick, b Vivian .... 40 Coates, b Vivian ] 11. Webb, not out 20 Extras 27 Total 142 Bowling: Goodsir two for 39, Vivian four for 21, McCoy two for 37, Aitken two for IS. SENIOR B GRADE.

UNIVERSITY V. MOUNT ALBERT. University.—First innings, 154 (McKearney 42, McKay 33). Second innings, 45 (Ilowell 11). Mount Albert. —First innings 95 (Jamieson 21). Second innings, 110 for live wickets (Stewart not out 45, Hearst 41). Mount Albert won by live wickets.

SECOND GRADE

KING'S COLLEGE OLD BOTS V. TAKAPUNA. Takapuna.—First innings, 97 (Foreman 30. Dal ton 15, Coheu 13). Bowling: Jolinson live for 34, Keddle five for 50. Second innings. 82 (Craig 14, Yarnton 22 not out, Clark 14). Bowling: Johnson six for 22, Buckland two for 21, Keegan two for 23, CiildPf none for 9. King's Old Boys.—First innings, 193 (Brinsden 7!» not out, Keegau 31, Johnson 27, Keddle 13). King's Old Boys won by an innings and 20 runs. A four-point win. PAPATOETOE V. MOUNT ALBERT. Papatoetoe.—First innings, 207. Second innings, 103 (G. M. White 45 not out, Dyke 21, Lusby 16). Bowling: Pickens seven wickets for 3S, Woods two for 13, Young none for 32, Twining none for 6. Mount Albert. —First innings, 181 (Calder 76, Twining 40, Miles 16, Woods 11, Hirst 11). Bowling: Dyke seven for 03, Ma-cKcnzie one for 2, HaviU one for 33, li. R. White one for 34, Lusby none for 43. Second innings, 134 for six wickets (Calder 51, Twining 23, Woods 21 not out, Miles 12). Bowling: G. R. White three for 12, Dyke two for 18, MacKenzie one .for 40. Lusby none for 48. A four-point win to Mount Albert. POINT CHEVALIER V. "STAR. ,, "Star." —First innings, 69. Second innings, 61. . Bowling: Skinner took three wickots for 5 runs, G. Wallace five for 20. Point Chevalier. —First innings, 23R. Point Chevalier won by an innings and 108 runs—a four point win. PONSONBY V. EDEN. Ponsonby.—First innings, 89. Second innings, 149 for eight, declared (Commons 87 Sellars 18, A. Warneford 13, H. Warneford 12, Matheson 10, Douglas 36 not out). Bowling : Blair two for 18, Jamieson two for 25, McNabb two for 20, Hintz two for Eden.—First inuings, 66. Second innings, 99 for six (Cantley 26, Wilson 19, Blair 19 not out). Bowling: Binmore two for 37, Gillespie one for o, H. Warneford one for 12 and A. Warneford one for 18. Ponsonby scored a three-point win.

THIRD GRADE OPEN.

BALMORAL V. WESTERN UNITED,

■Western United. —First innings, 05 (Hudson 22) Bowling: Elie five wickets for 24, Hammill four for IS. Secoud innings, 126 for six wickets. Balmoral. —First innings, 91 (Johnson 31, Hammill 19). Bowling: Nichols four wickets for 32, Roger four lor 24, McBride one for 8. A three-point win for Balmoral.

FOURTH GRADE

STANLEY BAY V. PARNELL.

Stanley Bay.—First innings, 123 (J. Sainty 12, A. Sainty 20, P. Kobiutson 12, L Chaplin 23, VV. Chaplin 23, V. Sheehan lti): Bowling: Connell tive for 21, Otto three for 4S. Second innings, eight wickets for S4 declared (L. Chaplin P Sheehan IS, C. Kobinson 17, W. Chaplin'l3).' Bowling: Otto uix for 36, Cleal Parnell. —First innings, 65 (Connell IS. Cleal 15). Bowling: P. Sheehan four for 23 A. Sainty two for 29. Second innings, 130 (Cleal 01, Otto 20). Bowling: Stevens three for 30, Sheehan three for 31.

PAPATOETOE V. TECH. OLD BOYS., Papatoetoe. —First innings 105 iFyfe 51. McSweeuey 24, Knight 11 not out). Second ' innings, 64 (Fyfe 2S). Bowling: Munns ten wickets, Oldbury six, Paul three. Blow one. Tech. Old Boys.—First innings, 10S (Munns 30, Paul 23, Oldbury 18, Mackenzie 12). Second innings, 66 (Paul 19, Munus 21 uo£ out). Bowling: Jones nine wickets, Boggs three, McSweeney one. A four-point win to Tech. Old Boys.

HOUSE MATCHES

FRIINKHAM V. FARMERS' FREEZING COMPANY. Frankhajn.—First innings, 101 (Kenncdv 6-li, Howart 25, Burford IS). Bowling: Good four for 2S, Grey two for 27, Ridley two for 37. Fret-zing Company.—First innings. 13S (Gray 40, Woodsworth 33). Bowling: Burford three for 9, Leggett two for none.

GIRLS' ASSOCIATIOH

SENIOR GRADE. Grammar Old Girls v. Training College A.—Training College A won by default. JUNIOR GRADE. Hockey Association v. Y.W.C.A. —Hockey: First innings. 00 (M. Richardson 14, Mrs. Mason 10, Mrs. Nicholson lo>. Bowling: M. I'hcthean took two wickets for 16 runs. J. Burkell three for 6. G, Kayes one for IC. S. Scott one for 32. Y.W.C.A.: First innings, 30. Bowling: M. Whitelaw two for 7. P. Dawsou one for 5, M. Richardson one for IC. Second innings. 18 (J. Burkell 12 nok out). Technical Old Girls v. All Saints. — Technical: First innings. 195 (U. BuHsey 74, M.Francis 55, A. English 15. C. Jones 14. B. Waters 10). Bowling: G. Ryan took five wickets, S. Ryan four. All Saints: First innings 31. E. Jeffrey took two wickets, M. Francis two, Second innings 20.

PLUNKET SHIELD

SOUTHERN TEAM CHANGES. (By TelegrapU.— Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Sunday. L. V. Browne, of the Old Boys' team, has been selected to replace \V. Hepburn in the Wellington team, which has been chosen to moot Auckland at Auckland in tli.c PlunKet Shield match this week. Hγ is a batsman of the dashing type who uses his wrists well, and is a fast-moving fieldsman with a safe pair of hands. R. J. Read, who has recovered from an injury, will replace J. T. Burrows in the Canterbury team to play Otago at Dunedin on Friday. T. Kennedy will be twelfth man.