POSITIONS AT STAKE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 229, 16 December 1927, Page 11

POSITIONS AT STAKE

Finish of First Round DRAW FOR SUBURBAN SENIORS THE leaders meet to-morrow in the Suburban Senior A competition. Harbour Board A, with a break of three points on Ponsonby, will have to keep wide awake to win and the match should prove a great battle. Then the competition will close until January 7.

TF Ponsonby, by some supreme piece A of luck, can snatch a win on two innings it would produce the interesting position of getting level with the Harbour people, but in a oneday match that is almost impossible. Discounting it as very improbable, the most Ponsonby can hope to do is to earn two points on the first innings, which would make it seven points to Harbour Board’s eight. Ponsonby will have quite a few dispassionate friends round the arena, for it has proved very consistent so far both in the field and at the crease. Glen Eden was in low gear last; Saturday, so that Ponsonby’s 240 for five wickets was not a true indication of its ability to bat uphill. But it can do so as was proved in its match against Green Lane when it stuck doggedly at the job and made 215 for nine wickets up to the time limit. Innes went cheap last match, but he and his colleagues, Fletcher and Stall-

worthy, the club’s training string for Wellington, will be popular cynosures to-morrow. HARBOUR BOARD BOWLERS Harbour Board has five men in practice for the Walker Cup team, Dunning, Mann, Turner, Martin and Badeley. It seems to have supplied the selector with a bunch of dangerous bowlers. Turner has been very consistent with the bat this season; his average must be standing at about 50. Harbour Board has not lost a game so far in the five played, but it has been a very in-and-out scoring side. It is really time Rreese shook off the bad luck that has followed him. He has only scored one run in the last two games. Ellerslie seems to be on easy street to-morrow. Glen Eden has the lead of a point on the racecourse side, but it made a very disappointing show last Saturday and it is now up against what on© must still persist in regarding as the best batting eleven in the grade. Gedye, both Burtons and A. Watts are in the running fo.r the representatives.

Glen Eden has not made a bad fist of its last two games. The side has not been able to score reasonable totals against either Harbour Board A or Ponsonby, and it has to do that to win a one-day match against Ellerslie. Fraser’s bowling has been very troublesome to batsmen so far. “THE WOODEN SPOON” Green Lane and Harbour Colts bring up the tail of the competition and their task to-morrow is to fight out the wooden spoon for the round. Both sides have been victims of rather hard luck, though in a competition as tight as the suburban senior grade bad luck may be taken as synonymous with just those minor shortages that makes it necessary that some team should go down. But the season is yet young and it may well happen that neither of these teams will hold the left-handed honours on the last day. SUBURBAN TEAMS LISTS OF PLAYERS Following are teams chosen for Suburban cricket matches on Saturday:— Senior A Grade Harbour Board. —L. Breese, L. Martin, A. Turner, W. Badeley, A. Dunning, T. Bennett, J. Mann, M. Hopkins, W. Matthews, K. Paxton, R. Sterling. Emergency: J. Harris. Harbour Board Colts. —W. Candy, C. Hayes, L. Xicklin, A. Mitchell, M. Thompson, L. Stewart, V. Richardson, P. Storey, S. Baldwin, C. Brighton, G. Norman. Emergency: -G. McLeod. Ellerslie. —J. Baxter, H. R. Burton, R. H. Burton, J. Elliott, AY. Funnell, A. Gedye, W. Hetherington, T. Kneebone, R. Lawrence, A. Watts, T. White, S. Yates.

Glen Eden.—A. Belsham, A. Kerr, M. Ivay, A. Anderson, E. McNeill, D. McNeill, E. Kent, G. Shepherd, /J. Fraser, A. Spear point, J. Belsham, G. Herring. Green Lane. —Wrathall, Watts (3), Kendall, Cole, Wroath, Seccombe, Elliott, Robinson, Shepherd. Senior B Grade L. D. Nathan, Ltd. —J. Tinkler, P. Carr, H. Larsen, R. Hook, F. Shanaghan, A. Hall, C. Robinson, W. Sutcliffe, J. Tanlin, H. Spencer, T. Moore, T. Bell, F Simms. Harbour Board. —L. Munn, W. Jaquiery, A. Simpson, J. Armstrong, S. Learning, H. Bennett, A. Saxon, H. Douglas, F. Turner, A. Beresford, L. Rose. Ellerslie. —W. Williams, - B. White, R. Simpson, L. Nairn, C. Mitchell, L. Olliff, C. Smith, A. Stanley, Miskell, Watts, Cowan, C. Gedye. Second Grade Tamaki. —J. Appleyard, E. Coleman, W. Clark, F. Webster, R. Hill, L. Olliver, Ringrose, E. Inwootl, Cleghorn, N Browne, C. Strange, Hirtsel. L. D. Nathan, Ltd. —H. Dawson, R. Menzies, E. Crowe, L. Ure, V. McCredie G. Harris, F. Palmer, R. Martin, C. Godfrey, J. Callander, J. Woods, D. Morrow. Public Works. —Rea, Sheridan, Wallace, McKinna, Ross, Abbott, S. Crewther, Weaver, R. Crewther, Costello. Hoyt, Te Paa. Edendale A. —Bruce, A, Blockley, Fulton, Jones, R. Warren, Ninkie, Rankin, Stanford, "Waugh, East. - Emergencv: Mitchell. Green Lane A. —Beeson, Judd, Clarke (2), Percy, Kilgour, Carter, Hunter, Leach, Green, Saunders. Emergencies: Cullum, Singe. Manurewa. —D. Peebles, A. L. Adams, C. Gray, K. Gibbons, G. Gibbons, P. Robinson, B. Robinson, ,T. Middleton, J Sainsbury, T. King, B. Wilson. Third Grade Railway.—G. Davis, C. Gutry, E. Roughton, L. Roseraan, J. Hume, J. Hawkes, L. Parkes, G. McLaren, W. Williams, J. Pascoe, A. Finnel, S. Bishop, S. Evans. Otahuhu. —Clark, White, Speedy, Rainsford, Miller, Marfitt, Kemplay, Bay, Turner, Hieatt, McConnachie, Gillies, Highfield. Epsom Baptists. —E. Cox, A. Thompson, M. Priestley, B. Watts, H. Ansley, C. Fulljames, F. Cornwell, B. Harris, F. Harris, N. Ireland, J. Jupe, J. Hay, M. Benfell. Power Board. . Tabrum (2), Jacob, Strong (2), Richards, Hunter, Burns, Barrett, Taylor, Wilson, Means, Webley, L. Richards, Ford. Gas Garage A. —Bayliss, Billings, Bailey, Bell, Cole, Davis, Grant, Lang, Little, Peachey, Paltridge, Pearce, Skinner, Robinson. Haydn. —Agnew, Brock well, Hankers, Hogg, Kingdon, Leary, McNamara, Rae, Skeen, Swift, Turner. Reserve: Kendall. Waratahs. —l. Denize, B. Speck, R. Patterson, O. Chambers. H. White, Callaghan, H. Barrett, W. Burrell, C. Smalle, H. Ludgate, W. Dick, W. Whitley, T. Moofe. L. KeaL Tamaki. —S. Diamond, G. Diamond, D. Russell, W. Hoyte, G. Spinks, A. Ginders, P. Shirley, N. Hill, B. Smith, M. Hutton, A. Lloydd, W. Fletcher, Stone. Public Works. —J. W. Parker, Lynch, Mist, Hodge, Simpson, Abbott, W. Parker, Dufty, F. Parker, Biekerstaffe, Weaver, Wheeler. Edendale B. —L. Blockley, C. White, Lewis, M. Williams, G. Warren, East, , Motion, Walton, Robinson, Wigmore. Emergencies: West, Bunting. Glen Eden. —Arnold (2), Withers (2), Rogers, Montgomery, Mclvor, Marlow, Dorman, Paice, Lloyd, Everitt, Shepherd. Carlton.—Shanly, Douglas, Stewart, Johnson (2), Havill, Larsen, Atkins, Charlton, Hurry, Foster, Harding, Smith. Blincoe. Green Lane.—Beeson, Drake, Phillips, Dillon, Hockenhull, Fofsman, Harford, Molesworth, Rivers, Irvin, Melrose. Emergencies: Bevan, Cullum. Ellerslie.—B. Kerr, R. Keesing, U. Williams, Year, Forrester, Bourdot, Hollis, Johnson, Butterworth, Tinkler, Matthews, Tuohey. F. J. Fawcett Ltd.—E. Fawcett, W. Fallon, L. Braith waite, C. Iggulden, A. Axon, T. Andrews. W. Mays, H. Robin- i son, A. Cole. E. Harris, S. Cooper, W. Higgins. Manurewa.—C. Palmer, J. McGreal, Rev. Griffin, F. Jeffs, E. Walker, N. Walker, L. Young’, W. Cox, D. Robertson. L. Murray, J. Middleton. Fourth Grade Glen Eden. —Rogers (3), McDonald (2), I Kershaw, Constable, Haycock, Morman. j Woods', Wilson, Everitt. i Carlton.—Shanly, Dixon, Sutcliffe, | Atkins, Keenan, Partelow, Davey, Watts, j Hart, Wallace, McKinnon, Dick, Cam- | eron, Moyle. Green. Lane. —Sampson, Wrathall, Mci Lennan, Wheeler, Jeeves, Cohen, DougI las, Ching, Hickings, Forsman, Foubister. i Emergency: Russell. Fifth Grade Carlton.—Thornhill, Paul, Williamson (2). Sims, Burton, McDougali, Cleal, Moyes, Matthews, Atkins.