CRICKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 13

CRICKET.

AUCKLAND ASSOCIATION.

'VARSITY UP AGAINST IT!

PARNELL'S TOUGH CONTRACT,

When the Auckland Cricket Association's senior competition i« resumed to-morrow, appearances point to Univers;t>, Parnell, King's Old Boys and Ponsonby having a hectic afternoon.

On No. 1 wicket at Eden Park the h?ht blues are six down for 38 against Carson and Co.'s 256.

\ .M.C.A. made 381, t-o which Parnell's first reply was a miserable eight rune for the loss of eight wickets.

Grafton, having declared at 244 for six wickets, did not get cm so well as expected against Kings Old Boys, for after two wickets fell cheaply L. M. Smith and Morrin took the score to 73 without jurther loss. But the maroons have still a long way to go with captain, Jack Cowie, in a mood to answer some of that criticism of his selection for England.

Across the Waitemata North Shore has the measure of Ponsonby, who followed on 122 runs behind and then last a wicket for two runs. As New Zealand Selector

N. C. Snedden will be batting to-morrow (a place having been kept for him owing to official duties at Dunedin last Saturday) no doubt a good- crowd will be out to see the fun, as there is alwajte "something doing -when Ponsonby visits Devonport. Positions of teams: —

PARNELL. Thirds Grade. — Kavanagh. Worth, Probert, Dixon, Mullinger. Stitchbury, Judson, -Stonix, Stone, Treweek, Robinson, Watts. EDEN. Third Grade. —C. Auger, A. Halliday, M. James, Axon, Apperley, Langstaff. W. Lewis, McCook, White, Matthews, S. Halliday, M. Carter. Fourth Grade.—Pickens, Dimery, Tremewan, Gup till, R. Thomas, D. Thomas, Honeycombe, Bennett, Melklejohn, McLaren, IfcLeod, Shaw.

Out- 1st No right ins. re- Ch. P. W. L. W. L. suit. Pts. North Shore ..92 — 313 31 Grafton 9 1 — 4 1 3 29 Eden .V. 9 — 1 5 1 2 2 o University 9 4 3 2 23 Parnell 9 2 3 4 19 Ponsonby 9 — — 1 4 4 . 16 King's Old Boys 9 — 2 2 3 2 15 Y.M.C.A 9 — 5 3 13 Teams:—