Harbour Board Ahead

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 567, 21 January 1929, Page 6

Harbour Board Ahead

SUBURBAN COMPETITION

Great Bowling by Kerr

THE Harbour Board team is well on the way to getting a substantial lead in the Suburban Association's competition. On Saturday afternoon the fifth series of matches in the competition was started—Harbour Board playing Gi-een Lane, Ponsonby against Glen Eden and Ellerslis against Victoria.

Harbour Board which is at present leading Ponsonby by one point is in a fair way to win its match, while Glen Eden seems to have an excellent chance of beating Ponsonby. If Ponsonby loses and Harbour Board wins, the latter will have a substantial lead in points.

The most remarkable feature of the afternoon’s play was R. Burton’s 87 for Ellerslie in the Ellerslie-Victoria match. Burton * gave an hour and a-half's dispiky of chanceless cricket and in partnership with Gedye, who got 76, played an innings worth watching. A batting display which was a contrast to the innings of Gedye and Burton was the play of the first seven men of the Ponsonby team, who collapsed before the bowling of the veteran Kerr for a total of 57. Had it not been for a bright and sparkling partnership between Mackie and Robertshaw, the side would have been dismissed for a trifling total. As it was, although the seventh wicket fell when the score waa 57, the tenth did not do so till it was 161. Even then Kerr had the satisfactory average of nine for 71. The trouble, of course, was that the Ponsonby batsmen played back carefully to slow, tricky breaks. Had they run out and hit hard the score would have gone mounting. In the Green Lane-Harbour Board match the best batting display was given by Cox, for Green Lane. Elliott was a good second and between them they stopped what might have developed into a serious rot.

COX BATS WELL

HARBOUR BOARD LEADS GREEN LANE’S POOR SCORE Green Lane went in first, Clive Watts and Elliott opening. They seemed to be getting well set and the team’s chance to be improving when Watts was clean-bowled in an attempt to pull a comparatively slow one from Dunning. Two more wickets fell in rapid succession and hopes began to fall also. Then in came Cox and pulled things together again. He played very cautiously for a time and then began to open out, giving a very pretty display of show cricket. Elliott, who partnered him for some time, was extraordinarily lucky, being missed twice in the field and the umpire refusing to give him out on several appeals for wicket catches. Nevertheless, he played a good and useful innings and showed that, on his day, he can get runs with the best of them. Martin, the Harbour Board bowler, began to find his length by about 3.30. He dismissed Elliott and the rest of the team followed fairly cheaply. In the latter half of the innings Martin bowled really cleverly and finished up with the useful average of six for 44. Certainly, the wicket probably helped him, being dry, hard and very fast —at times he was almost unplayable. Harbour Board opened well, Badeley, Paxton and Dunning all hitting out in great style. Dunning ran up 64 in only a little over an hour’s play, and Paxton, who turned out for Harbour Board for the first time this season, made a useful 26. By the time stumps were drawn Harbour Board was 15 runs ahead of Green Lane, with only five wickets down. GREEN LANE First Innings. WATTS, b Dunning 33 ELLIOTT, c Candy, b Dunning .... 22 WROATH, run out # HUGHES, b Dunning 0 COX, c Baxter, b Martin 34 WATTS, S., b Martin 7 CLARK, b Martin i* SHIPHERD, b Martin 2 McGregor, not out 22 WARNER, c Turner, b Martin . . .! 1 WRATHALL, b Martin ] Extras 4 Total 129 Bowling: Martin, 6-44; Dunning, 3-26: Matthews, 0-9; Turner, 0-23; Mann, 0-23. HARBOUR BOARD First Innings. BREESE, c Sliipherd, b Cox 4 BADELEY, c Warner, b Wroath .. 23 PAXTON, c McGregor, b Wrathall. . 26 DUNNING, b Elliott 62 MARTIN, not out 24 Extras .. .. * 5 Four wickets for 141

R. BURTON HITS OUT

GEDYE A GOOD PARTNER ELLERSLIE WELL AHEAD Opening good and fast for Ellerslie, Hollis and Gedye averaged well over one run a minute, until Hollis was bowled by Moore. When K. Burton joined him, Gedye kept up the pace, but the newcomer scored even faster. Dickson did not start in the best of form, the bowling being sent to the boundary more often than usually. Gedye, when over the half-century, was nearly run out. ike paused outside his crease to a call fiom Burton; but the ball thrown from about five yards distance missed the wicket. Moore and Stallworthy could not tempt the batsmen to uncover their wickets, and so the fours and occasional sixes soon piled the score to l s f\ , Tl l en Edmonds took a neat catch behind Burton’s wickets, when that batsman was 13 short of the century Gedye's new partner was Matthews who batted slowly for 14. The former's wicket, knocked down by Stallworthv followed that of Matthews, when the board showed more than a double century. The ball reached the line ior 46 out of Gedye’s 76. Dickson sent Whelan straight back to the pavilion, lbw, before he had scored. H. Burton then joined Elliott who, soon after, was caught by Stallworthy off Dickson. Williams then catted with the survivor. °’ clock six Wickets had fallen Scoring continued steadily until all

DOWN THE GRADES

were out for 271. No further big hits were made. Victoria’s first innings, started by Wright and Edmunds, had totalled 42 for no wickets when stumps were drawn. Details:—• ELLERSLIE. First Innings GEDYE. b Stallworthy 76 HOLLIS, b Moore IS BURTON, R. c Edmonds, b Dickson *7 MATTHEWS, c Moore, b Stall worthy 14 ELLIOTT, e Stall worthy, b Dickson 11 BURTON, st Edmunds, b Stallworthy 21 WILLIAMS, c McFarlane, b Stallworthy 10 McKEON, run out 13 LAWRENCE, c Stallworthy, b Dickson _. ~ . . 6 WHELAN, ii>w : , b Dickson 0 GATES, not out Extras 14 Total -*1 Bowling: Stallworthy, 4-S2; Moore, 1-20; Turner, 0-28; Dickson, 4-76; Manly, 0-13; McFarlane, 0-21; Wright, 0-17. VICTORIA First Innings ■WRIGHT, not out 18 EDMUNDS, not out 20 Extras 4 No wickets for 42

PONSONBY V. GLEN EDEN

MACKIE HITS KERR ABOUT GLEN EDEN STARTS WELL Kerr’s bowling, and the batting of Gedye and R. Burton, together aroused most interest at the Domain on Saturday. A look at the score-board would indicate a procession of Ponsonby men to and from the wicket; this was the case, except for the unexpected stand put up by Robertshaw and Mackie, the not-out man. Though the pitch was equally a batter’s and bowler’s surface, “Alec” took matters into his own hands. Blair, run out, was the only Ponsonby batsman whose “how’s that” was not through Kerr’s tricky bowling. His overs were a mixture of very pronounced off-breaks, slight leg-breaks, and straight tosses. The former tangled the batsmen most seriously, as the ball curved sometimes two or three feet. Robertshaw, 37, and Mackie, 52, not out, made a wonderful stand against all comers, forcing the ball all over the field, until the second-highest scorer was trapped by another of those offbreaks. Seven wickets had fallen for 58 when this partnership stopped the rot. Robertshaw hit seven fours. The next highest scorers were Fletcher, Blair and Davis, who made 12, 12 and 13, respectively. Glen Eden opened with Kerr and Clarke, who made good scoring off the Ponsonby bowlers. After a little over half an hour, the register was 50. Clarke continued to 70, when Spicer skittled him. * Anderson and Davis held the wicket well, the former to miss a half-century by one, the latter to pass it by five, still in. Four Glen Eden wickets are yet to fall. Details: PONSONBY First Innings. FLETCHER, b Kerr 43 SPICER, b Kerr 0 COOPER, b Kerr 5 INNESS, b Kerr g BLAIR, run out .. .. 12 WITHERS, b Kerr * 8 ROBERTS, b Kerr 3 ROBERTSHAW, b Kerr 37 MACKIE, not out 52 NJCKLIN, b Kerr 3 DAVIS, b Kerr 43 Extras s Total iei Bowling.—Kerr, 9-71; Anderson, 0-37; Morman, 0-26; Belsham, 0-19. GLEN EDEN First Innings. KERR, c Mackie, b Robertshaw .... 14 CLARKE, b Spicer 70 MORMAN, lbw, b Nicklin . 4 BELSHAM, not out 2 EVERETT, lbw, b Mackie .. 9 ANDERSON, b Withers 49 DAVIS, not out 55 KENT, b Withers 0 Extras 9 Six wickets for 203

Senior B Grade Playing at Manurewa, the local team suffered its second defeat of the season at the hands of Harbour Board, The home team batted first, making 83. Harbour Board’s total was 112, of which total V. "Williams accounted for 72. He was the only batsman to reach double figures. Slack fielding