ANOTHER CENTURY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19267, 8 March 1937, Page 8

ANOTHER CENTURY

CARSON AT AUCKLAND I .• The Poverty Bay, Auckland, and Now Zealand representative cricketer added another century to his list of the season on Saturday, when he pasted the bowling of Grafton in a club fixture in Auckland, and finished with 101 runs.

Things were not going too well for Eden when Carson went to the crease, the first wicket having fallen for five runs. Carson joined Postles, the remaining opening batsman, and from that point on the game provided the spectators with plenty of interest. Both Postles and Carson drove hard, and the score mounted rapidly to 81, w’hero Postles was caught beautifully by Angus, who was fielding substitute iii the slips. A. F. Weir, Mills, and Cnntly were with Carson for a time in each instance, and the ex-Gisborne batsman reached his century after two hours and five minutes’ play, pulling a medium-fast ball to the fence. Vivian was with Carson at tjte interval, and the break in the game proved disastrous to the big hitter, for immediately after tea he put one up for Parks of Grafton to take an easy catch.

The, Eden star had made 101 runs and put his side in a decidedly useful position, the innings closing for 257, a striking contribution being made by Burgess, who went in following Carson’s dismissal, and hit out brilliantly, having 69 on the board when the innings closed, Burgess being the not-out man.

The bowler oil whom Carson was caught out, Cowie, accounted for practically the whole of the Eden side, taking eight wickets for 70 runs. Five of- tire batsmen were dismissed by catches, mostly taken in the slips.