Northern Figures

NZ Truth, Issue 1302, 27 November 1930, Page 14

Northern Figures

BEST BATSMEN— Postles (Eden) 71 Byerley (Grafton) .V n.o, 70 H. S. Vivian (Parnell) ...,..n.o. 71 Garrard (Varsity) 70 Schrauer (Varsity) n.o. 64 BEST BOWLERS— Allcott (Grafton) 7 for 55 f Roy (Eden) 5 for 17 Lyon (Eden) 4 for 35

HimiiiiHiHMiimiimnuiiUMiimiiiimiiiimiimiimiiimmiiiHiimmnmmiimiii Grafton last year, but this is his first appeai;ance for the side during the present season. ■ JJe batted well and worked like a machine m partnership with Martin, finishing the day with a not-out score of thirty-nine. It looked like gingerbread for Ponsonby when they set out to beat North Shore's unsatisfactory score of 91, but Shore's fast bowler, Coates, ably assisted by. Saunders, managed to take most of the gilt off it for them, and at one stage Ponsonby's success hung m the balance. Ot one stage, the Ponsonby score was 50 for three, and a win seemed certain.- Then things began to hap. .pen; Snedden was the first to go for ! a mere five, , and Gulney followed ' shortly- afterwards! both clean-bowled off- Coates' lightning delivery. Taylor made things hum and pushed the Ponsonby score up to fifty m short time. The result seemed a foregone conclusion, when Warneford, Douglas and Hunt were dismissed m the course of a few minutes for well under twenty runs. A bye off Coates eventually gave Pon-