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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 30th October, 6th November 1937 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Essendon won on first innings) |
| Points | Essendon 3; North Melbourne 0 |
| Umpires | HP Crossley, WJ Moore |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 250/9 (Vosti 54*, Reynolds 4*) |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CE Kerville | c Meikle b Dempster | 28 | |||||
| SV Palmer | st Quin b Meikle | 33 | |||||
| FW Sides | lbw b Meikle | 35 | |||||
| *WJ Horrocks | c Murphy b Nowland | 8 | |||||
| WY Wilson | b Nowland | 2 | |||||
| JL Stephens | st Quin b Meikle | 8 | |||||
| RJ Sitch | st Quin b Meikle | 37 | |||||
| RE Marsh | b Dempster | 18 | |||||
| AR Vosti | not out | 54 | |||||
| +AR McInnes | c Dempster b Meikle | 8 | |||||
| RS Reynolds | not out | 4 | |||||
| Extras | (8 b, 4 lb, 3 nb) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 66 overs) | 250 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-36, 2-85, 3-106, 4-112, 5-114, 6-121, 7-158, 8-189, 9-223 | |||||||
| North Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Deveney | 11 | 1 | 54 | 0 | - | ||
| Dempster | 8 | 2 | 23 | 2 | - | ||
| Murphy | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | ||
| Nowland | 22 | 5 | 58 | 2 | - | ||
| Meikle | 22 | 0 | 84 | 5 | - | ||
| North Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| T Barty | retired hurt | 4 | |||||
| J Sutherland | st McInnes b Stephens | 50 | |||||
| LL Curwood | c Palmer b Reynolds | 0 | |||||
| RA Dempster | c McInnes b Marsh | 4 | |||||
| *+SO Quin | b Stephens | 76 | |||||
| GS Meikle | lbw b Wilson | 6 | |||||
| RW Mead | run out | 14 | |||||
| FB Deveney | c Sides b Wilson | 4 | |||||
| T Murphy | not out | 8 | |||||
| JW Nowland | run out | 0 | |||||
| AL McMillan | b Wilson | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (4 b, 3 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 44.5 overs) | 177 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21, 2-40, 3-110, 4-125, 5-163, 6-164, 7-172, 8-173, 9-177 (44.5 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wilson | 15.5 | 1 | 41 | 3 | |||
| Reynolds | 10 | 2 | 35 | 1 | |||
| Vosti | 5 | 0 | 31 | 0 | |||
| Marsh | 7 | 0 | 27 | 1 | |||
| Stephens | 7 | 0 | 33 | 2 | |||
| Essendon second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CE Kerville | b Deveney | 21 | |||||
| SV Palmer | run out | 24 | |||||
| FW Sides | not out | 20 | |||||
| RJ Sitch | not out | 6 | |||||
| *WJ Horrocks | did not bat | ||||||
| WY Wilson | did not bat | ||||||
| JL Stephens | did not bat | ||||||
| RE Marsh | did not bat | ||||||
| AR Vosti | did not bat | ||||||
| +AR McInnes | did not bat | ||||||
| RS Reynolds | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 9 overs) | 71 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-26, 2-57 | |||||||
| North Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Deveney | 3 | 0 | 32 | 1 | |||
| Nowland | 4 | 0 | 28 | 0 | |||
| Meikle | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | |||