Betty Carlisle and Maggie Allesley met with better luck, and the score began to creep up.

The Seaton girls breathed more freely.

Audrey Redfern and Lizzie Morris came up next.

Lizzie broke her duck in the first over, and gaining confidence began to get her eye in, and with Audrey stone-walling with dogged persistence at the other end, and now and then making a single, the score reached fifty-three.

There were only ten minutes left.