THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 1, 1997.
EDRICH'S FIRST COUNTY CENTURY
MAY BE LAUNCHING
OF GREAT CAREER
GRAY FRACTURES SMALL
FINGER
COLDFIELD BEHIND STUMPS
(By HOWARD MARSHAL):
London, June 8,
EDRICH was the hero of a perfect day's cricket
at Lord's, and his fine innings of 175 his first century in the county championship, incidentally, and the first scored for Middlesex in the champion- ship this season kept Lancashire struggling against the threat of defeat.
LANCASHIRE WERE 136 RUNS BEHIND ON THE FIRST INNINGS. THEY NOW LEAD BY 87, WITH SIX WICKETS: DOWN. EVEN IF RUNS MAY NOT BE EASY TO SCORE TO- DAY ON A WEARING WICKET, MIDDLESEX ARE OBVIOUS-
LY IN A COMMANDING POSITION.
Gray, by the way, was found to have fractured the little finger of his right hand while fielding on Saturday. He will be out of the game for three weeks or so, a severe loss to the Middlesex bowling strength. If Gray had been able to open the Middlesex attack yesterday afternoon, Lancashire's plight might well be far worse.
As protection against repetition of the accident which occurred to Mickey Cochrane, who suffered a fractured skull, baseball is con sidering the use of helmets for batters. Wally Moses, outfielder of the Philadelphia Athletics, is shown wearing a polo helmet,' an adaptation seriously considered.
Edrich's innings was a delight jury doubtless slowed him down- to watch. He batted for 34 and at 12.30 Edrich hooked Wilkin hours, and hit 15 fours in his son to the boundary, sent up the 175. The fact that this was †200, and survived an eccentric over his first century in county cric-from Booth with the new ball. ket does not greatly matter, but Hulme was s not so fortunate. He it may very well have indicated drove Booth smoothly past the co- to us the shape of things to vers, and then flicked the out-swing- come.
er to Duckworth, and so a partner-ATHLETICS Edrich is clearly an England ship which had put on 91 invaluable player in the making, and quite runs came to an end. possibly I make this suggestion- CULTURED CRICKET with deference to our Yorkshire! friends an England No. 1.
before
Human scored 17 very pleasantly, in the country house style, the shooter knocked out his middle stump, and Edrich next reached his 100 and gave Middlesex the lead by playing forward easily to Booth and sending the ball past mid-off to the
RIGHT TEMPERAMENT He has the temperament and the technique for an opening batsman. His method, unlike those of some of his very promising contemporaries, are fundamentally sound. He keeps his nose over the ball; his footwork boundary. is, quick and correct, and his for-
school of theorists.
So it went, this agreeable, cultur-
hotter and hotter, and spectators
RANGELEY WINS SPRINT
AGAIN
TENTH SUCCESS IN BANKS ATHLETIC TITLE
(By Bevil Budd)
London, June 9. ESTMINSTER BANK, with a score of 84 points, won the 25th
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ward play is a joy to the older ed cricket, with the sun growing Winter banks (senior) championship at Motspur Park last even- It would be unwise, no doubt, to taking off their coats, and runs coming. Lloyds were second with 48 points and Barclays just beat the make too much of one innings, ing steadily. Edrich might have Midland for third place by 36 points to 34.
In the junior championship, Cooks, the National Bank of India though as we watched Edrich we been stumped off Watson, Robins
W. could not help feeling that here was was beaten by a creeper, Sims was and the United Dominion Trust tied with 7 points each. something more than an incident in bowled by Pollard, and after lunch Rangeley won his heat of the 100 yards in 10.5sec., the semi-final in This was his fifth consecutive win, and a county match. There was almost Smith and Edrich came together. 10.3, and the final in 10.1.
his tenth since he first won it in 1924. was sorry that he did an air of ceremonial about
it, the
Smith began cautiously, produc- not equal the record of 10sec., but he was four yards in front of launching of a career which called ing gentle defensive - strokes not for the cracking of a bottle of cham-known to form part of his reper- such a genuine sprinter as J. H. Farmer (Bank of England), who
won his semi-final effortlessly in 104 sec. toire. Then he lunged at Booth and survived, and from that : mo- ment the genuine, original Smith Rangeley bumped his knee heav-Iyards half an hour later, he wisely decided to scrat from the semi- took charge. Edrich actually kept ily against the fence at the finish of the bowling and scored the faster, the 100 yards, and although he final
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pagne.
NOT HARDLY TRIED
We should add, perhaps, that the Lancashire bowling did not try Ed- rich very highly. It was anony mous stuff, most of it, only helped by the occasional vagaries of the wicket. Both "Human and Robins, for example, were bowled by dead shooters, a fact which doubtless saved Lancashire a deal of trouble. The match was very level when Edrich and Hülme resumed the Middlesex innings of the bowling of Pollard (Nursery end) and Phillipson. "The scène was peaceful; the sunshine glorious, and Edrich soon proved how well he was seeing the ball by truculently hooking' Phillipson his eyebrows.
off
UNUSUAL PLEASURE Lancashire, it seemed, were in for trouble, and we had the unusual pleasure of seeing Oldfield keeping wicket instead of Duckworth, who was receiving attention for a bruis- ed muscles
Duckworth arrived just in time to miss a chance of stumping Hulme off Wilkinson googly his in-
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But for this accident be would undoubtedly have scored his fifth successive win in this race also. He has won it eight times. In his ab sence Farmer gained a clear-cut win in 23gec.
9. MILES DISAPPOINTING In spite of the wealth of talent engaged in the three miles, the race was disappointing, although it had a lively finish E. B. Fowle (Lloyds), the holder led over the first mile for a
leisurely-ömin 8.68ec.
He was still leading at the end of the second mile (10min) 18.4sec), after a short excursion to the front by R. W. S. Hadland (National Pro- vincial), but neither he nor Had- was really in form, and it was 6. Stansbury (Lloyds), and hight ckwell M
last half-mile
ously they did so.
to a three-ys
ghout the last lap, w
out by