CENTURIES

NZ Truth, Issue 1200, 29 November 1928, Page 14

CENTURIES

.(From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) • When Graftpn let up a little m j .-their; fielding -on Saturday while i Ponsonby :was batting, they sounded their death -Jknell. Ponsonby notched an eleventh-hour victory. THE game was . full of interest ;;' 'throughout. Gr-afton set a fairly solid total to catch,- but when T. McLeod got going he, put. a different complexion oh "the game. He" accounted for 126 runs, and, as : first man for Ponsonby, put the club on its feet. McLeod commenced slowly, but he soon opened his shoulders and trounced the bowling!.' He should have been out three times before,' he was finally caught.-; •'■ ' ■■ • : ; ■ , When •McL.eod wenf out, with ; the total standing at: 218, there was . a slump m, the batting, which was > accounted for to some, extent by , the fine bowling of Goodwin. i He finished with four wickets to his credit' for ' fifty runs. I Parnell had all the best of it m the matclv against Varsity; finishing with a. win by. an innings arid i 3 runs. The batsmen had the advantage' of a perfect wicket, but it was with a score of only 33 that Garrard topped the list. United Suburbs placed a. good deal of faith m their opening score of 200, but fine batting by the Eden men soon shattered their hopes of a win. Mills arid Postles opened, and within an hour of Suburbs' commencement it was clear that the game was theirs. 1 Postles went out to a catch by McClaren from Martin's ball, but he had then knocked up 31 over his century, and Mills followed with, a- total of 80. ■ North Shore managed: to get home on a first innings lead of 15 runs, V.M.C.A. having succeeded m gaining only four winknts for 37.