SUBURBS LETS SLIP ITS BIG OPPORTUNITY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 497, 29 October 1928, Page 6

SUBURBS LETS SLIP ITS BIG OPPORTUNITY

WHY SPECTATORS GO HOME Dreary cricket by a side which ► was given the sporting chance of 1 making 120 runs to win outright in 115 minutes, describes United Suburbs’ first innings win against • Parnell on Saturday. I Suburbs had a lead of 27 runs on (ho first innings when Parnell went in to bat a second time. The wicket was certainly rather patchy in the early stages, but it was no excuse for An--1 thony pottering about for an hour and a-half for a half-century, the value of t which was considerably reduced by 7 tlio laboriously slow scoring of the 6 veteran when runs were wanted \ quickly. Fortunately for Parnell, V Von Rotter opened out in aggressive - style for a bright and breezy 61, and l Duncan infused a good deal of over- • duo keennes sinto the running be- ’ tween the wickets. Parnell declared at the tea adjournment with five down for 146. Any hope of a thrilling finish was 7 badly shattered by the ultra-cautious 4 methods of the Suburbs’ batsmen. The 0 wicket was better than at the start, but the batsmen made the bowling ? look much more formidable than it ti was by their burn-door tactics. Sub--9 urbs may have succeeded in their 9 objective'in getting a clear two points, 5 but they threw away a glorious chance 0 of gaining a “four-pointer,” apart from 1 completely failing to popularise a 100 2 per cent, increase in the gate charge, s Parnell might have won had three catches and a chance of running a man out been accepted in the early stages of the innings. Bush ill and Martin, however, gave ;o their side a splendid start with 48 6 runs for the first wicket. The bats--2 men who followed them, however, with tho exception of McLaren, were hopcs lessly ineffective against the consistent 3 bowling of Goodsir and the mixture 2 of good and bad served up by the - versatile McCoy. _ Goodsir showed something of his