SHORE LOSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 301, 20 December 1937, Page 18

SHORE LOSES.

GALLANT Y.M.C.A. COLTS' GREAT STAND. SCOTT 208; LUND 139. ARCHER AND CLEAVE EXCEL. Ec'en Park maintained its reputation of the previous week. lor another quartet of players returned three-figure scores on Saturday. And not one of the latest hatch of cricket heroes is in the Auckland I'lunket Shield eleven to meet Otago here on New Year's l)ay! The two most valuable knocks were those of the young players. V. Scott and ('. 11.I 1 . Lund, as they added over 200 for Y.M.C.A.'a sixth wicket, and enable.l their side to top the useful tally of 344 before the former was caught after a chanceless innings of 208. He had already compiled the previous highest senior score of the season—l 74 not out, against University last month. Lund, given a couple of "lives," signalised his gratitude by carrying on to 139. Not so sound as his now famous partner, Lund nevertheless put up a remarkable performance, as it was his first appearance in big cricket. He had l»een conspicuous in senior B ranks and a month ago also hit 174 not out against Windmill. When T. H. C. Caughey dropped Lund when he was 60, Y.M.C.A. breathed an audible sigh of relief, as they were two men short.

Les Archer's unbeaten century for North Shore fails by comparison only because it did not bring victory to his tide. The young left-hander went in when the tide seemed likeiy to set igainst the champions. Undismayed by the position he set to work as resolutely as in the first innings, and when joined by captain J. T. Bush the two lefthanders gave Grafton much leather-hunt-ing.

From five wickets for 76 to nine for £59 was a startling change. Not only Has Archer still there when Busn "declared," but he had realised the goal of every cricketer's ambition and asked serious questions of the Xew Zealand express and Auckland's new slow bowler. It was a noble example to set the junior representatives who are this week to set out on an ambitious southern tour, as Archer himself was a distinguished Brabin Cup player a few seasons back. R. H. Cleave played a true captain's part for Ponsonby and it was no fault of his that the side did not come immeasurably closer to Eden's mammoth total of 495. Indeed, he actually ran up 109 of the 191 rune which went down on the score sheet off the bat. Pleased, indeed, were the selectors at this sterling exhibition given by the Cleave they had admired for his courageous batting and brilliant fielding in the Plunket Shield matches of Auckland's victorious jubilee year —1933. These four dominated their games to such an extent that'no other individual tally in senior cricket on Saturday I reached half a century. C. Burke, with six for 79, was the bigIgest wicket-taker, and following his five for 41 in the first innings, the Graftonian has provisionally justified selector Hugh Duncan's confidence in him. Rather sensational were the figures of K. Cantlay (Eden), who was at Mount Albert Grammar School last year, for he dismissed four Ponsonby men for only four nine altogether. No other bowler took more than three wickets in any of the four senior fixtures.

All matches resulted in first innings victories: — Grafton beat North Shore (1935-36 and 1936-37 champions) by 104 runs. Y.M.C.A. beat King's Old Boys by 134 runs. Eden beat Ponsonby by 291 runs. Parnell beat University by 83 runs. With one more series to go before completion of the first round, which will not be resumed until January 15, the positions of the clubs are:— Out- First No right. Ins. re- Ch. P. W. h. W. Ij. suit. Pts. Eden 6 — — 4 1 119 North Shore 6 1 — 2 2 1 18 Parnell 6 1 — 2 2 1 18 Grafton ....6 — — 3 — 3 18 Y.M.C.A. .. 6 — — 2 2 2 14 Ponsonby . . 6 1 1 — 2 2 12 University .6 — — 1 3 211 King's 0.8. .6 — 2 — 2 2 6 Detailed scores:— GRAFTON V. NORTH SHORE. (At Eden Park, No. 2 wicket.) GRAFTON. First Innings 224 Second Innings. Tj. Spring, e Edmonds, b Simpson .... 9 N. Ellis, b McDevitt 41 G. Wallace, not out 34 G. Ratcliffe, c Webb, b Simpson 40 Extras 14 Total for three wickets 138 Bowling: J. D. Simpson two for 43, W. J. McDevitt one for 39, V. Sale none for 14, D. Webb none for 28. NORTH SHORE. —First Innings. D. B. Edmonds, st Marshall, b Burke . 14 S. A. Ferguson, lbw, b Cowie 6 Jj. Archer, cG. Wallace, b Burke .... 32 V. S. Sale, b Burke 20 I* Curtayne, c Cowie, b Felts 3 R. W. Emery, st Marshall, b Burke . 0 W. J. McDevitt, b Felts 2 D. Webb, lbw, b Felts 6 J. B. Simpson, c Marshall, b Burke ... 8 J. T. Bush, not out 13 C. G. Walters, b Spring 6 Extras 10 Total 120 Bowling: C. Burke took five wickets for 41, J. Felts three for 25, J. Cowie one for 20, L. R. Spring one for 24. Second Innings. C. G. Walters, b Burke 32 D. B. Edmonds, lbw, b Felts 19 !R. W. Emery, st Marshall, b Burke .. 15 V. S. Sale, c Horspool, b Burke .... 2 J. B. Simpson, c Ratcliffe, b Burke .. 1 U Archer, not cut 118 J. T. Bush, c Angus, b Burke, 31 S. A. Ferguson, lbw, b Ratcliffe 8 D. Webb, b Ratcliffe 0 W. J. McDevitt, st Marshall, b Burke. . 22 L. Curtayne, not out 5 Extras 6 Total for nine wickets (declared).. 259 Bowling.—C. Burke took six wickets for 79 runs, G. Ratcliffe two for 22, J. Felts one for 38, G. Wallace none for 8, L. K. Spring none for 44, J. Cowie none for 62. Y.M.C.A. V. KING'S OLD BOYS. (At Eden Park, No. 3 wicket!) KING S OLD BOYS. First innings 344 Y.M.C.A.—First Innings. E. R. Sutherland, c S. Smith, b Hewitt 32 B. Nelson, b Hewitt 34 L. Duke, c li. M. Smith, b Pearson ... 3 I. W. Cooper, c an>l b Martin 5 H. D. Gillespie, lbw. b Andrews t> V. Scott, e Foster, b 1,. M. Smith 208 C. Lund, c Caughey, b Pearson 1:19 R. Falvey, b Pearson 2t> H. Pipe, not out 1~« D. Solomon, absent 0 B. Donaldson, absent 0 Extras 10 Total 478 Bowling: Simmonds took no wickets for -i runs, Andrews one for 124, Hewitt two vrV ,r ear ! on Ihree for 92, Martin one f'l nont for 22, Foster none 1 o'r an for 20> u M Smith one ior ©o, bimmonda none lor 60.

EDEN V. PONSONBY. (At Eden Fark, No. 1 wicket.) EDEN*. First Innings 494 Second Innings. H. Harrison, b McNabb 0 A. 1". Weir, e Warneford, b Clark .... 17 C. A. Siifdden, lbw, b Clark 6 L. E. Vivian, not out 14 G. liurjri'ss. c Cleave, b McNabb 0 X. MrMahim, not out 20 JO x I ra a 0 Total for four wickets C 3 Bowling: Mi Nabb took two wickets for 0 rnnri, Clark Iwo for 20, Warneford none for 10, Cleal none for 11, Williamson none for 1. I'ONSONRY.—First Innings. It. H. Cleave, lbw. b Cantlay 109 J. Barber, lbw, b Postles 20 H. Cotterall, b Carson 10 W. Hare, b Harrison 12 K. Clark, e Smith, b McMahon 8 (>. Cleal, run out 9 J. Douglas, lbw, b Snedden 9 H. Warneford. st Smith, b Cantley ... S M. Williamson, not out 4 E. McNabb. c Mills, b Cantlay 2 P. Scholium, b Cantlay 0 Extras 13 Total 204 Bowline: Snerlden took one wicket for 14 runs. Carson one for 40, Postles one for 23, McMahon one for 62, Cantlay four for 4, Harrison one for 27, Weir none for 21. PARNELL V. UNIVERSITY. (At Devonport.) PARNELL. First innings 260 Second Innings. M. Wallace, not out 42 P. Whitelaw, not out 3<i Extras O Total for no wickets 78 Bowling: Cooper no wickets for C, Butler none for 7, Hush none for 9, Aickin none for 12, Lange none for 14, and Crammond none for 30. UNIVERSITY.—First Innings. W. R. Crammond, c Mutton, b Clark .. 6 H. Cooper, c Whitelaw, b Goodsir .... 7 R. Aickin, b Goodsir 4 W. Lange, c Carroll, b Clark 0 L. Schnauer, run out 18 C. K. Jack man, b Goodsir 0 V. C. Butler, c Clark, b Mutton 22 D. K. Garrard, b Mutton 31 R. G. Bush, b Clark 33 A. M. Matheson. not out 33 W. Winter, b Mutton 5 Extras 18 Total 177 Bowling: Goodsir three for 32, Mutton three for 42, M. Clark three for 56, Childs none for 7, Clapham none for 22. SENIOR B. KING S OLD BOYS V. NORTH SHORE. King's Old Boys.—Flrbt innings, 165; second innings, 110. North Shore.—First innings, 247; second, 35 for one wicket. A six-point win for Shore. Y.M.C.A. V. UNIVERSITY. Y.M.C.A.—First innings, 152 : second innings, 105. Bowling: Bell live for 46, Roberts three for 14. University.—-First innings. 109 (Shanley 32 not out. Hog be i i 25) ; necond innings, 154 for three (Shanley 03, Rokerts 33, Haden 33 not out). An outright win to University. PAPATOETOE V. BALMORAL. Balmoral. — First innings, 177 : second innings, five for 104, declared (Johns<on 851. Papatoetoe.—First innings, 117; second innings, 93. A six-point win to Balmoral. BDMX V. PONSONBY. Eden won outright by nine wickets. SECOND GRADE. UNIVERSITY V. PAPATOETOE. University.—First innings, 157 ; second innings, six for 152 (Bullen 44, Shepherd 35, IJaveson 25). Bowling: Burnside four for 48. Papatoetoe.—First innings 289 (H. Swaffield 70, Kerr 57, Burnside 29, Burns 28, Bellis 20). Bowling: Shepherd three for 57, Black three for 04. Y.M.C.A. V. PARNELL. Y.M.C.A.—First innings : 178 ; second innings, 249 (Skeen 50. Broberg 28, Thomas 19, Greenwood 18, Sherer 14 not out). Bowling: Lord three for 53, Probert four for 50. Parnell.—First innings, 229 (Hambrook 06, Probert 28, Kelly 20). Bowling: Coates five for 48, Broberg three for 57. A fourpoint win for I'arnell. INTERMEDIATE. GRAFTON V. PAPATOETOE. Grafton. —Firs>t innings, 145 ; second innings, 92 (Shaw 39). Bowling: McCorkindale seven for 24. Papatoetoe.—First innings, 119; seconxl innings. 111 (Ltisby 40). Bowling: Isherwood five for 27. A six-point win to Grafton. THIRD GRADE. KING'S OLD BOYS V. PONSONBY. King's Old Boy?.—First innings, 146 (Mowbray 4T). Bowling: Bond six wickets for 60, Ellis three lor 46. Ponsonby.—First innings, 80 (Midwood 31 not out). Bowling: Jordan four wickets | for 26, I*. Mowbray three for 30. Brldgens v. Balmoral. — Bridgens ; First innings, 126 (Hood 38, Ardern 24 not out, E. Fincham 19). Balmoral: First innings, 59 (Fabian 14, Evans 13 not out). Bowling: Hood live for 20. A four-point win for Bridgens. FOURTH GRADE. COMRADES A V. PAPATOETOE. Papatoetoe.—First innings, 89. Comrades A.—First innings, 146 (Attwell 69). Bowling: Kinjf four for 23. A four-point win to Comrades A. W.Y.M.I. V. TAMAKI. W.Y.M.l.—First innings, 46. Bowling : Smith three for 0, Walters five for-10. Second innings, 82 for two wickets (J. Robinson 29 retired). Tainaki.—First innings, 33. Bowling: F. Robinson six l'or 9, Warrington four for A six-point win to W.Y.M.I. PRACTICES AT EDEN PARK. ONLY REPS. TO CARRY ON. It is notified for general information that there will lie no clult practices at Eilen Park until after the I'lunket Shield matches terminate on January 11. The representatives, however, will carry on as usual, a practice programme having been arranged for the players wbo are to play against Otago and in the provin'i- 1 tournament at Gisborne.