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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 29th October, 5th November 1938 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | South Melbourne won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn (Essendon won on first innings) |
| Points | Essendon 3; South Melbourne 0 |
| Umpires | HE Nichols, A Sharp |
| Close of play day 1 | South Melbourne (1) 3/0 (Flavell 0*, Nichols 2*) |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CT McCall | c Lee b Fitzmaurice | 12 | |||||
| *WJ Horrocks | c Johnson b Kildey | 87 | |||||
| FW Sides | c and b Watmuff | 122 | |||||
| SV Palmer | c Flavell b Watmuff | 14 | |||||
| JL Stephens | b Watmuff | 0 | |||||
| RJ Sitch | lbw b Watmuff | 0 | |||||
| JID Leembruggen | lbw b Watmuff | 25 | |||||
| +JL Kidd | st Parry b Nichols | 16 | |||||
| TA Carlton | not out | 9 | |||||
| K Chamberlain | c Parry b Watmuff | 12 | |||||
| RS Reynolds | absent | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 6 lb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 59.6 overs) | 308 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-39, 2-177, 3-208, 4-218, 5-218, 6-255, 7-286, 8-288, 9-308 (59.6 ov) | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kildey | 15 | 0 | 53 | 1 | - | - | |
| Fitzmaurice | 14 | 0 | 60 | 1 | - | - | |
| Johnson | 12 | 0 | 78 | 0 | - | - | |
| Watmuff | 15.6 | 1 | 90 | 6 | - | - | |
| Nichols | 3 | 0 | 16 | 1 | - | - | |
| South Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RA Flavell | c Kidd b Chamberlain | 20 | |||||
| WH Nichols | b Stephens | 58 | |||||
| *IS Lee | lbw b Carlton | 23 | |||||
| KR Miller | run out | 13 | |||||
| WJ Cornelius | c Sides b Carlton | 12 | |||||
| K Brown | c Horrocks b Stephens | 1 | |||||
| DJA Fitzmaurice | not out | 24 | |||||
| IWG Johnson | b Carlton | 0 | |||||
| FJ Watmuff | b Carlton | 22 | |||||
| +CN Parry | c Reynolds b Carlton | 15 | |||||
| EK Kildey | st Kidd b Carlton | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 44 overs) | 197 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-37, 2-106, 3-118, 4-128, 5-134, 6-136, 7-137, 8-169, 9-197, 10-197 (44 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Carlton | 20 | 2 | 75 | 6 | |||
| Chamberlain | 7 | 0 | 36 | 1 | |||
| Reynolds | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |||
| Stephens | 13 | 0 | 61 | 2 | |||
| Essendon second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CT McCall | not out | 18 | |||||
| SV Palmer | not out | 17 | |||||
| *WJ Horrocks | did not bat | ||||||
| FW Sides | did not bat | ||||||
| JL Stephens | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Sitch | did not bat | ||||||
| JID Leembruggen | did not bat | ||||||
| +JL Kidd | did not bat | ||||||
| TA Carlton | did not bat | ||||||
| K Chamberlain | did not bat | ||||||
| RS Reynolds | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (no wicket, 16 overs) | 35 | |||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kildey | 5 | 1 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Fitzmaurice | 5 | 2 | 11 | 0 | |||
| Johnson | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||
| Watmuff | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
| Cornelius | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||