KING'S THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
THE THREE WISE MEN of ENTERTAINMENT DE SYLVA BROWN and HENDERSON
Creators of that Screen Sensation "SUNNY SIDE UP" now bring to you their outstanding achievement
A FOX MOVIETONE PICTURE
The longest and loudest laugh of
your life
JUST IMAGINE
THE MOST AMAZING ENTERTAINMENT OF ALL TIME Directed by DAVID BUTLER
THE ONLY
THING
NEW
UNDER THE SUN
A Tuneful, Comedy Riot for Everybody, With a Remark. able Cast, Including
EL BRENDEL
MAUREEN O'SULUVAN JOHN GARRICK MARJORIE WHITE FRANK ALBERTSON
FOX
PICTURIN
Booking at the Theatre
Telephones:- 25313 & 25330,
THE CHINA MAIL.
COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF COUNTY
CRICKET IN MAY
BATTING AND BOWLING HONOURS
FULL RESULTS OF COUNTY MATCHES COMPLETE
WITH STATISTICAL TABLE.
YORKSHIRE'S STRONG POSITION
The Arst month of the County Championship programme has passed away clouded in thrilling struggles and creditable indivi dual achievements. It is at this stage that memories become short and futile discussions follow the fortunes of the respective counties and players. Thus it is that you have the complete figures for re- ference in case of any disagree- ment that may arise when discuss- ing cricket.
On the ferry the other day I was speaking to a friend interest- e in the County Championship straggle, and it is to him that I owe thanks for the most interest- ing compilation of figures given below. What I found of most in- terest was the table showing the average runs per wicket for a county and the corresponding average against that county. is a table seldom published but which is to the cricket enthusiast quite as important as the actual Championship table.
It
Yorkshire Team-Work, From the appended table it will be clearly seen that Yorkshire have the highest average runs per wicket and also the lowest runs per wicket scored against them. Considering that the cables have informed us
that only two cen- turies (Holmes 250 and Sutcliffe 120) have been registered for Yorkshire during the season, it can be taken for granted that the county has relied more on team work than on individual prowess. Vority has displayed even greater form than was expected at the close of the 1930 season and, with Robinson and Macaulay, has been the mainstay of the more than suc- cessful attack.
Formidable Kent Attack. · Kent, the present leaders in the race for championship honours, are also in 1 very satisfactory position. Here, again, on closer i observation we find that only two centuries have been scored in five matches-by Hardinge and Wool- ley. The Southern county's attack is very formidable at the moment with Freeman in form and Watt (quite a youth) and Hardinge lending valuable aid to what might once have been termed a "one man" attack.
In these early days of the new scoring system one cannot but notice the decline of the cham- piens, Lancashire. Last season they sustained no defeat, but the Jure
fifteen of
points
to all counties has been respon- sible for two defeats in the first month of this season. Curiously enough Lancashire have failed to register a firat innings win and have suffered two reverses in this department. Last season the champions won eight matches on the first innings out of twenty- eight.
Rousing Innovation.
It must be admitted that the new scoring system has brought out some really Are cricket dur- ing its short life. The match be- tween Surrey and Gloucestershire at the Oval provided what might be termed the season's sensation. Here we had two brilliant strate- gists, P. G. H. Fender and B. H. Lyon, striving desperately for the full points--and what a conclu-
sion! Again, at Bristol we read of a thrilling battle for pointe dur- ing the Gloucestershire-Hampshire match. Yes; I firmly believe that the new system has come to fur- ther the improvement of cricket from the spectators point of view. It would not be worth my while
to enter into details on the vari- ous interesting facts which have reaulted during the month of May as they are all so clearly set out amongst the following data."
May Results.
In the County Championship the positions held by the various coun- tles were as follows:-
KENT (85 points)
beat Essex by an fanings and 47
runs (h).
beat Derbyshire by nine wiekets (n). beat Northamptonshire by ten
wickets (a)
beat Somersetshire by seven wickets
led
Lancashire on first innings (4):
GLOUCESTERSHIRE (68 points.)
beat Sutrey by three wickets (6). best Derbyshire by four wickets (b). beat Notts by an innings and 181
runs, (h).
Jost to Middlesex on first innings (4). beat Basaex on first inninga (s). lost to Hampshire by 60 runs (1). best Somersetshire on first innings. .....(h).
MIDDLESEX (55 points.)
beat Glamorganshire by 135 runs
beat Gloucestershire on Brst innings
(b).
Beat Leicestershire on first innings
(By "Run Oat"]
beat Sussex by eight wickets (h). beat Essex by nine wickets (h). YORKSHIRE (19 points.)
beat Essex by an innings and 8 runs
(x).
beat Warwickshire by an innings
and 25 runs (h).
beat Lancashire on first innings (a). drew with Warwickshire (n). NOTTS (38 paista.)
lost to Gloucestershire by an innings
and 131 runs (a). beat Worcestershire by ten wickets
(1).
beat Northamptonshire on first inn-
∙ings (5).
beat Somersetshire by 139 runs (a). lost to Surrey an first innings (h). LANCASHIRE (38 pointa.)
lost
to Sussex by four wickets (h).- beat Ertex by ten wickets (h), lost
to Worcestershire by 120 runs (n).
beat Glamorganshire by 240 runs
(1).
lost to Yorkshire on first innings (h). lost to Kent on first innings (h). SUSSEX (28 points.)
beat Lancashire by four wickets (n). Jost to Gloucestershire on first inn-
ings (h).
bent Surrey on first innings (a). lost to Middlesex by eight wickets
(a).
bea! Nerthamptonshire on first inn-
ings (n).
LAWN BOWLS REVIEW.
Owing to pressure on our space to-day "Short Head's" weekly review of the Lawn Bowis League matches is heli Lover fill to-morrow.
HAMPSHIRE (27 points.)
beat Somersetshire on first innings
(a).
lost to Surrey on first innings (a). beat Gloucestershire by 66 runs (a). drew with Glamorganshire (a), WORCESTERSHIRE (24 points.)
beat Northamptonshire on first inn
ings (h).
lost to Notts by ten wickets (a). beat Lancashire by 120 runs (h). lost to Esacx by 154 runs (a), drew with Derbyshire (h). SOMERSETSHIRE (44 points.)
lost to Hampshire on first innings
bent
Warwickshire by 49 runs (a). lost to Surrey on first innings (a). lost to Notts by 139 runs (5), lost to Kent by 7 wickets (h). fost to Gloucestershire on Arai inn-
Ings (p).
SURREY (24 points)
los to Gloucestershire
wickets (h).
by three
lost to Derbyshire on first innings
(h).
beat Somersetshire on first innings
(h).
beat Hampshire on first innings (h). , lost to Sussex on first innings (h).
beat Notts on first innings (a). lost to Leicestershire on first innings
(a). DERBYSHIRE (22 points.)
beat Leicestershire on first innings
(b).
Jost to Gloucestershire by four
wickets (a).
beat Surrey on first innings (a). last to Kent by nine wickets (h), beat Essex on first innings (a).
lost to Warwickshire on first inning.
(a).
drew with Worcestershire (1). LEICESTERSHIRE ( pointa)
inst to Derbyshire on first intrig
(a).
beat Essex on first innings (1). lost to Middlesex on tirat Tunings (a) beat Northamptonshire on first inn
ings (a).
brat
Surrey on first innings (1). ESSEX (21 points.)
font to Kent by an innings and 47
runs (n),
lost to Yorkshire by an innings and
Я runs (h).
24
lost to Lancashire by ten wickets (2). lost to Leicestershir. on first innings
(a).
lost to Derbyshire on first innings
(h).
bent Worcestershire by 154, runs (h), lost to Middlesex by nine wickets (n). GLAMORGANSHIRË (10 points.)
beat Warwickshire by 101 runs (6), lost to Middlesex by 135 runs (B). lost to Lancashire by 246 runs (h). drew with Hampshire (h). NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (12 points)
lost to Worcestershire on first inn-
ings (a).
last to Notts on Arst innings (2), lost to Kent by ten wickets (h). lost to Leicestershire on first innings
(h).
lost to Sussex on first innings (b). WARWICKSHIRE (9 points.)
last to Glamorganshire by 161. russ
(h).
lost to Somersetshire by 49 runs.(h), lost to Yorkshire by an innings and
25 runs (a).
beat Derbyshire on first innings (h). drew with Yorkshire (h).
(a) and (h) signify away and home matches.
Century List.
The following scored centuries in the County Championship com- petition:-
Homes (Yorkshire v. Warwick) 250 Hammond (Gloucester v. Sussex) 188" K. S. Duleepsinėji (Suenex T
Surrey)...
162
Lee (Derby v. Eanex) C. C. Case (Somerset v. Surrey) 155 147 Howley (Susacx v. Surrey)
A. W. Carr (Notts v. Northants) 140 P. G. II. Fender (Surrey 7.
Derby)
O'Connor
(Essex v. Kent)
P. G. HI. Fender (Surrey v.
Samernet)
Smith (Derby v. Essex)
100
100
139
C. C. Cake (Somerset v. Hants) 131 Sandham (Surrey v. Somerset) Sutcliffe (Yorkshire v, Warwick) 129 Ilardinge (Kent v. Essex)
128 Hobbs (Surrey v. Somerset) 128 Hendren (Middlesex v.
Sussex)
1254 117
(Surrey v v. Bussex)
Hobbs Alderman
K.
v. Surrey).. 113.
Noritul (Sussex v.
Arnold (Hants v. Gloucester) Woolley (Kent v. Lance.) Lee (Middlesex v. Glamorgan) Itev. J. H. Parsons (Warwick .
Smerset)
Byne
gan)
(Sussex v. Lancs.)
(Middlesex v. Glamor-
112
111
108
107
106
105
104
Bowley (Sussex v. Gloucester) 103 Croom (Warwick v. Derby) .... 103 Hammond (Gloucester v. Notts) 103 Walker (Notts v. Northants) 102* Cook (Sussex v. Gloucester) ... 101* Hearne (Middlesex v. Glamorgan) 101*
* denotes not out.
•
† scored in his benefit match,
Hearne scored a century in each
innings.
(Continued on Page 8.)
AVERAGE RUNS SCORED PER WICKET FOR AND AGAINST
THE VARIOUS COUNTIES.
Opponents,
Rune Wickets Avge. per Scored. Loat
Buns Wickela Avge per Wicket. Scored
Lost. Wicket.
Kent
Gloucestershrie Middlesex Yorkshire Notic
1,587 1,939
53 85
29.96
22.81
1,516 2,126 120
90
16.84
17.71
2,142
69
31.04
1,527
80
19.21
1.402
37.16
86
56
14.08
1.426
1,302
23
17.83
1,770
21
1,845
97
14.02
19.02
TA 77
1.991
32.63
1,690
55
80.72
1,218
28.32
1,355
58
23.36
1.263
16.48 1,407
16
1851 18.51
2,002 101
19.82
2,504
30.01
2,447 $5
28.78
30.33
1,992
59
2.239
87
25.96
56
27.21
1,218
58 21.00
Est
2051
17.83
2,200
71 71
80,98
2498
Glamorganshire Northamptonshire
1257
67
£7
18.91 1,359
50
27.18
Warwickshire ..............
1,584 1,433
71
$1
22.30 1,699 17.69
1,889
45 37.75
68 27.77
Lancashire Sussex Hampshire Worcestershire Somersetshire Surrey Dershire
1,524
22.38
The above table shows that; 29,028 runs were, scored for the lom of 1,242 wickets during the month of May-an average of 23.97 runs per wicket.
FIRST CLASS COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE TO DATE.
Kent (5) Gloucestershire (2) Middlesex (16) Yorkshire (8) Notta (4) Lancashire (1) Sussex (7)
nire (13) Hampshire Worcestershire (10) Somersetshire (14) Surrey (8) Derbyshire (9) Leicestershire (12)
Essex (6)
Glamorganshire (11)
Northamptonshire (17)
Warwickshire (15) ........
ist Inna. No Pesa,
W. L. W. L. Result Pts..
75
0 28.
5 0 0 3 2
71 402
106
4-12 0 0
60
5 0 1 0 4,0
76
.ដឌឌឌនឥឥឥឥន្ទ
The figures in brackets were the positions occupied by the counties at the close of the 1980 season. The method of scuring this year is as follows:-16 points for a win; 7% points for a tie; 5 points for win on the first innings and B points for a loss on drat innings; 4 points for a tie on the first innings and 4: -points for a no result..
AT THE
TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1931.
•OF NONG KONG
STAR
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20
WARNER BROS. Spectacular SINGING
Success
AT THE
The
DESERT SONG
WARNER
A singgering auc cession of be witching Song successes - co}- ourful-magnetió -presented with boundless mag- nificence and stir. ring intensity!
BROS VITAPHONE NU
TO-DAY ONLY
WORLD At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20
WILLIAM_FOX PRESENTS
WORDS MUSIC
~ LOR
TOM
FAVID
MORAN> PATRICOLA← PERCY HELEN TWELVETREES, FRANK ALBERTSON, ELIZABETH PATTERSON
IW
ALL TALKING
SINGING, DANCING
MUSICAL REVUE-
Majesti
THEATRE
TO-DAY AND
TO-MORROW
AT
2.30, 5.20,
7.20 &
9.20 P.M.
THE
ISLE OF
LOST SHIPS
PHOTO SUPPLIES,
Pickerar
PHOTOS TAKEN DAY AND NIGHT. Zelas, Kodaka, Cameras, Flims, Plates, and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging, AT 24 HOURS SERVICE
Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
THE KWONG KWUI CO., LTD.
74, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, Tel. 22170.