Ellerslie Collapses

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 853, 23 December 1929, Page 6

Ellerslie Collapses

BATSMEN FAIL AGAINST GREEN LANE

Fourth Suburban Matches

A FAST wicket that started to crumble and break up early contributed to Ellerslie's surprising: batting: collapse against Green Lane, when the fourth series of Suburban Association matches were commenced on the Domain on Saturday. The meeting ot' the championship leaden, who are level in points, was the focal-point of interest, and Ellerslie's failure at the crease allowed Green Lane to hat itself into a strong position to retain the leadership.

Favouring batsmen at first, the surface of the wicket quickly collapsed, developing trickiness that aided the bowlers. An extraordinary feature of Ellerslie’s debacle was the dismissal of seven batsmen by catches, mostly in deep field. Green Lane spent two and a-half hours at the crease until

stumps, and established a lead of 74 runs with two wickets to fall. Usual tail-enders of Harbour Board : were tried out first against W.Y.M.1.. ind gave good batting performances. ! compiling better scores in some case's j than more prominent players. Last J season's champions ran up a substan- . tial total of 232. Institute has lost two wickets for 54 runs. Starting off well, Albion is in fair j way to defeat Ponsonby, whose tail- i snders made a fine stand to avert a complete rout after seven w'ickets had fallen for 90 runs.

ELLERSLIE SKIES THEM

GREEN LANE’S GOOD POSITION The wicket was fast and in good order when Ellerslie commenced batting, but the turf did not preserve its condition long. Seccombe struck a good length almost immediately and started “rocking in” his fast ones with such effect that the opening pair, Hetherington and Yates, would not take any liberties. Kerr, at the other end, sent down medium breaks, which the batsmen punished vigorously. Then began a procession to and from the pavilion, principally because the batsmen were too eager to lift Kerr’s deliveries to the boundary, with the result the bowler secured a good average of five wickets for 45. Hollis alone made a spirited effort to save a complete rout. The bowling did not seem to trouble him and lie gave a sparkling exhibition of hitting. scoring rapidly with well-judged strokes on both sides of the crease. He knocked up 48, which included seven boundaries and a six. Green Lane had to face exceptionally tricky conditions starting its innings shortly after four o’clock. A. Kerr struck form with his bat for the first time this season, and displaying an excellent range of strokes, he played an attractive innings for 57. He sent away some stinging carpet-drives off Burton, and brought applause for his pretty leg-glances. He played soundly and steadily despite frequent changes of bowlers, and substantially helped to place his team in a strong position. Wroath held his end up well with stone-walling tactics, that enabled his partners to do the run-get-ting. his solid stand having a tiring effect on the bowlers. p-requent bowling changes were rung without much success, and the entry of Seccombe gave the scoring rate a ' substantial fillip. In a terrific hitting I innings of 38, he flogged Baxter’s ; slows unmercifully, opening his shoulders to one for a magnificent six. E. Watts played a vigorous and forceful innings for 26. Details: ELLERSLIE First innings YATES, c H. Watts, b Seccombe .. 10 MATTHEWS, c Paxton, b Seccombe 15 HETHERINGTON, c sub., b Kerr i R. BURTON, run out 4 WATKINS, c Paxton, b Kerr 9 ELLIOTT, c and b Seccombe .... 4 A. WATTS, b Kerr 0 HOLLIS, c Hughes, b Kerr .... 48 LAWRENCE, b Kerr 2 BAXTER, c Paxton, b Seccombe .. 0 WILLIAMS, not out 1 Extras 5 Total 107 Bowling: Seccombe, 4-57; Kerr, 5-45. GREEN LANE First innings PAXTON, b Burton n KERR, b Burton * - CLARKE, c Watkins, b Baxter .. .. 13 IVATTS, C., c A. Watt, b Baxter* WROATH. c Lawrence, b wlfkins 25 SECCOMBE, b Burton •»c HUGHES, b A. Watts ... 7 E. WATTS, b Elliott *. ’* ‘I 9* H. WATTS, not out S Extras .. 4 Eight wickets for 181 PONSONBY DEBACLE E. STALLWORTHY’S BOWLING Ponsonby's *bpening against Albion on Saturday developed into a debacle early in the innings, the highest score being that of Salien with 33. The Ponies seemed to be all nerves when they faeed the bowling of the younger team. E. Stall worthy was bowling a wellpitched ball which properly rattled the batsmen. Of the first six wickets he took five, the other man being run out. His final average five for f.l was a fine performance. Morman and feallen temporarily stopped the rot which had set in and between them added 60 to the team’s total of 145 vt 4.50 the innings closed, and after the tea interval, Albion went out to face the Ponsonby bowling. Cooper bowling' for the Ponies got two lbw decisions in succession, namely Wrisrhf two and Ft. Stallworthy eight. c.A f , ter the fall of Wri Kht and Ralph Stallworthy. Gedye and Viscoe got settled together in a run-getting partnership and treating the bowling with a certain amount of respect began to score steadily. Viscoe did most of the scoring, hitting several fours ancl braces of Cooper and compan.v. It was not until half an hour before stumps, that Gedye opened out and then he raised the scoring rate considerably, knocking up 31 not out.

by 6.30. while his partner w ,s unbeaten at 46. The total at 6.30 was tw.i wickets for S 9. Details: PONSONBY First Innings. MASTERS, 1> E. Stallworthy .. ~ WARD, c Longville. bE. Stallworthv =, BARNES, run out ’ c ROBERTSHAW, c McGregor, b K. Stallv'orthy » EDMONDS, c and 1> E. Stallworthv .. n WITHERS, o and b E. Stallworthv . •* MORMAN, lbw. b R. Stallworthy .. 3S ALLEN, b K. Stallworthy . .... r,r, COOPER, b Wright 33 MoFARLANE. b Wright 14 NICKLIN. not out % Extras ‘ 33 Total 145 Bowling: *E. Stallworthy. 5-51; R. Stallworthy, 2-46; Viscoe. 0-16; Dickson, 0-1$; Wright, 2-3. ALBION First innings WRIGHT, lbw. b Cooper * STALLWORTHY, lbw, b Cooper .. VISCOE, not out . 44 GEDYE. not out .. .. .. .. . - .. .. ii Extras .. 2 Two wickets for .. $$

HARBOUR BOARD HITS OUT

W.Y.M.I.’S POOR START When .Mann and Candy opened for Harbour Board against W.YJf.I. at the Domain on Saturday, their displays did not give promise of a very spectacular innings. Candy fell at nine when Kasper sent down an easy looking one whicn went skyward for D. Chapman to hold. His partner returned to the pavilion shortly afterwards when he stepped out to the same bowler and was stumped by Thomas. He had made 16. The nexu partnership, that of Matthews and Bennet, effectually stopped the temporary rot which had been the result of the Board’s opening with the tail-enders. Having shifted both Candy and Mann, Kasper seemed to lose his sting and it was eventually Corney who sent down the ball that broke the combination. Bennet lifted it well up and D. Chapman just held a difficult catch. Bennet had made the even 50 when he fell. After the loss of his partner Matthews did not last long, being run out at 53. Breese one of last week’s top scorers seemed to be off form and only hit lip 18. The fielding of toe Young Men was not brilliant and extras totalled 24 when the innings closed at 5.15 for a total of 232. C. Williams was undefeated at 40 at the close of the strike. Institute’s opening after the tea interval was not brilliant and the

first two wickets fell for S and 0 respectively. At the call of time Kasper was 40 not out, and Yates three. The stumps total was two wickets for 54.

Details: — HARBOUR BOARD First Innings. CANDY, c D. Chapman, b Kasper .. ? MANN, st., Thomas, b Kasper .... 16 BENNET, c D. Chapman, b Corney 50 MATTHEWS, run out '53 WTLLIAMS, V., st Thomas, b Corney " BREESE. st Thomas, b Corney .... 1*! DUNNING, lbw, b Corney 13 MARTIN, c H. Chapman, b Scott .. * BADELEY, b Kasper « TURNER, absent j WILLIAMS, C., not out 4° Total 232 Bowling: Corney, 4-61; Scott, 1-26: | Kasper, 3-30; Albrecht, 0-28; Yates, 0-45: S F. Chapman, 0-6 ; H. Chapman, 0-2. W.Y.M.L First Innings LEWIS, lbw, b Williams * CHAPMAN H. ibw, b V. Williams « KASPER, not out YATES, not out J Extras •• •••• * Two wickets for 54 SENIOR GRADE B Invicta v. Ellerslie.—lnvicta: First innings, 187 (Davis 74 not out, Houeten 4.», McLaughlin 19). Ellerslie: First innin£ s: 127 (Smith 32, Mitchell 27). Fawcett v. Harbour Board.—Fawcett First innings, 241 for eight wickets declared (Skene 114 not out, Kilgour Matheson 18 not out). Bowling for Harbour Board: Denize 7-103, Storey 1-*° 1 Harbour Board: First innings, 115 (Douplas 28, Armstrong 23, Storey 20. Denra* 15 not out). Bowling for FawcettBell 9-51, Axon 1-19. A two-point win for Fawcett by 126 runs on the nr't innings. THIRD GRADE Gas Garage v. Royal Oak.—Royal Oak : First innings, 73 (Hine 22, Bentley Gas Garage: First innings, 102 (Moor* 31, Billings 19, Pearce not out 16. Bayliss 13). Gas Garage won by 29 run* —a two-point win. _ Auckland Milk Company v. L. u Nathan’s.—Nathan’s: First innings, *[■ Second innings, 61. Milk Company First innings. 118 for nine wdekets. declared (Braithwaite 29 not out, W. ButJe--32, Chalmers 20). Milk Company w. 1 by an innings and 27 runs. FOURTH GRADE Olympic v. Aotearoa.—Olympic: Fir? 1 innings, 79 (Allen 21, Connihan .9, CaJU' nan 13. Volz 11). Aotearoa: First innings, 31 (Frearson 13). Second inning- > 8. Olympic won by an innings and runs—a four-point win. LODGE COMPETITIONS Good Intent v. Remuera.—Good lot*®' • First innings, 116 (Stewart 57, - ; 18). Second innir.gs, 33 for no wicKe ’ . (Atkins 17 not out, Mason 13 not out • Remuera: First innings, 60 (Palmer : Dickson 17). Second innings. 81 (*J* - mer 26, Blewden 20). Good Intent wt 1 by 10 -wickets. h Pupuke v. Mount Albert.—Mou, , Albert: First innincs, 87 <R. c(t ’ Allen 22). Second innings, 134 (Htljs • Larsen 20, Allen 17). Pupuke: Ftm v : nings, 164 (McKee 69 not out. Hope [ Paterson 12. A. Davies 12). SeCOBJ r nings. 100 for three wicket * (A. D* .r e 1 53 not out. R. Paterson 1«) PupUK won by wi.-kc> t