MID-WEEK CRICKET
j Chiefly as a result of a brilliant dis- j j Play by p. C. Furley, Strand-Majestic ! I Theatres beat Auckland Fire Brigade !at cricket yesterday by an innings and i six runs. Furley, who has scored j i over 600 runs this season in mid-week j cricket, made 123 and retired. Other j ; theatrical men who did well with the j bat were Poore (41) and Purdie (29). | Mackay, who kept a good length, was ' I t^ie b est of the Fire Brigade bowlers. ; He and Broadfoot, the well-known | boxer, each took two wickets, and Herewini three. The Brigade made ; 36 and 164 (Mackay 42, Broadfoot 19, | e od 16, Pierce 16 and Herewini 15). j Bowling for the Theatres, Wainwright | &rid Poore took six wickets each, j Purdie four, Furley two and Baird one.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 588, 14 February 1929, Page 16
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