Ponsonby or Shore?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 293, 2 March 1928, Page 11

Ponsonby or Shore?

FIGHTING FOR THE LEAD Keen Cricket To-Morrow THE matches in the Auckland Cricket Association’s Senior Grade competition, to be completed to-morrow will determine to a large extent the final positions of the various teams on the competition ladder.

PONSONBY -with a lead of one point over Eden is fighting hard at Dev_port With the North Shore side, and the match at the drawing of stumps last Saturday was still anybody’s game, shore ran up a well-deserved 135 in its first innings, and Ponsonby has lost two wickets for 77. Snedden and Langridge are the two victims, however, and ponsonby’s tail is not altogether famed (or its dependable batting. The veteran Smith is 38 not out, and unless someone else comes to light the result of the match will depend a great deal on the stand he and F. S. Taylor make. Favoured with fine weather, however, it is not easy to picture eight Ponsonby men being dismissed for under sixty runs. Of course Saunders or Player may come off in a sensational manner with the ball. EDEN ONE UP There cannot be a great deal of doubt about the finish of the Eden v. Parnell game, for in having to bat on Saturday last Parnell gave away as good as a hundred runs with the wicket in the state it was. Eden with two down for 67 looks to be in for a three-pointer, especially as Cooper with a fine 37 to his credit is still going strong- Parnell’s 121 in the first innings was hardly as bad as it might have been, but it would be rash, to

say the least of it, to contend that man for man, is as good a team as Eden. Y.M.C.A.’s chance With every evidence of finishing un with a lead on the first innings against United Suburbs, it appears that the Young Men also will take a step up the competition ladder, although they, being now in the B section, have no chance of ever getting to the top this season. The Y.M. side was out for 108 on Saturday in its first innings, and seeing that Suburbs have only 72 against their name with nine wickets down it does not look as though they have a great chance of topping the century as Y.M. did, thanks, possibly to the slight advantage they had of first use of a wicket which for the first twenty minutes presented no difficulties and allowed Bowley and Elliott to put on an invaluable thirty. Varsity, too, should win. After a disastrous start, Gee and McDougall staged a fine recovery and succeeded in hoisting 188 in the students’ first strike. Grafton so far has four wickets down for 78, but there are none of the remaining six with a very great likelihood of doing anything much to raise the total to the double century..