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| Venue | South Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 27th November, 4th December 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 | South Melbourne 0; Essendon 3 |
| Umpires | C Dwyer, JH Hughes |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 304/6 (Sides 151*, Stephens 18*) |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CE Kerville | b Nash | 17 | |||||
| SV Palmer | b JN Flavell | 62 | |||||
| FW Sides | not out | 151 | |||||
| RE Marsh | c RA Flavell b Morris | 1 | |||||
| *WJ Horrocks | lbw b Nash | 5 | |||||
| WY Wilson | b Nash | 43 | |||||
| RJ Sitch | run out | 0 | |||||
| JL Stephens | not out | 18 | |||||
| AR Vosti | did not bat | ||||||
| +AR McInnes | did not bat | ||||||
| RS Reynolds | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 1 lb, 2 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, declared, 51 overs) | 304 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24, 2-148, 3-151, 4-174, 5-262, 6-271 | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Nash | 12 | 1 | 58 | 3 | - | ||
| JN Flavell | 17 | 0 | 83 | 1 | - | ||
| Johnson | 13 | 0 | 85 | 0 | - | ||
| Morris | 4 | 1 | 27 | 1 | - | ||
| RJ Hassett | 5 | 0 | 44 | 0 | - | ||
| South Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IS Lee | c Kerville b Stephens | 30 | |||||
| WJ Cornelius | c Palmer b Wilson | 13 | |||||
| AL Hassett | c Horrocks b Stephens | 25 | |||||
| LJ Nash | lbw b Wilson | 5 | |||||
| IWG Johnson | not out | 52 | |||||
| *RJ Hassett | c Marsh b Stephens | 0 | |||||
| A Kendall | st McInnes b Stephens | 0 | |||||
| JN Flavell | c Sitch b Stephens | 14 | |||||
| J Morris | c McInnes b Stephens | 0 | |||||
| RA Flavell | c Reynolds b Wilson | 20 | |||||
| +CN Parry | c and b Stephens | 70 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 2 lb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 47.4 overs) | 236 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-33, 2-47, 3-61, 4-91, 5-91, 6-91, 7-113, 8-118, 9-142, 10-236 (47.4 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wilson | 14 | 1 | 66 | 3 | - | - | |
| Reynolds | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | |
| Stephens | 16.4 | 0 | 98 | 7 | - | - | |
| Marsh | 10 | 3 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Vosti | 3 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Essendon second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AR Vosti | not out | 13 | |||||
| +AR McInnes | c Cornelius b AL Hassett | 8 | |||||
| CE Kerville | did not bat | ||||||
| SV Palmer | did not bat | ||||||
| FW Sides | did not bat | ||||||
| RE Marsh | did not bat | ||||||
| *WJ Horrocks | did not bat | ||||||
| WY Wilson | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Sitch | did not bat | ||||||
| JL Stephens | did not bat | ||||||
| RS Reynolds | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 6.6 overs) | 21 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21 (McInnes, 6.6 ov) | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| RA Flavell | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||
| Cornelius | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Lee | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |||
| AL Hassett | 1.6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |||