TEST PLAYERS REVEAL GOOD FORM
There were
London, To-day.
th no upsets in County Cricket Championship mat ches which concluded yesterday. Yorkshire, the champions, beating Glamorgan at Cardiff, by 180, runs,' Leyland and Smailes each contri- buting a century towards the win- ners' first innings total of 343.
Middlesex, who are making bold bid for the championship thi: wir season, secured yet another when they beat Gloucestershire by an innings and 42 runs.
Edrich, one of England's latest Test recruits,
to form returned with a century, while Joe Hulme the Huddersfield footballer, scored a fine 148. Sinfield, who played the recent Test against the Aus tralians, took 6 for 184.
At Lord's the Australians proved too good for the Gentlemen of Eng land, winning by 282 runs.
At Chelmsford, Somersetshire beut Essex by 45 runs.
Somerset: 200 and 222 (F. Lee 103). Essex: 308 (Wellard 6 for 124) and 169
(Wellard 5 for 70, Andrews 4 for 00).
At Oxford; Lancashire beat the Uni- versity by 7 wickets. Oxford: 388 (Eggar 125) and 171 (Wil-
kinson 5 for 57). Lancs.: 358 (Oldfield 137; Young 6 for
58) and 185 for 3.
At the Oval, Surrey beat Cambridge University by an innings and 29 runs. Surrey: 512 for 8 dec. (Whitfield 198,
Berry 104 not out). Cambridge: 212 and 271.
At Hove, Nottinghamshire beat Sus- sex by 4 wickets. Sussex: 296 (Holmes 138 not out) and
183 (Butler 5 for 64). Notts: 155 and 326 for 6.
At Cardiff, Yorkshire beat Glamor- ganshire by 130 runs. Yorks: 343 (Leyland 127, Smalles 117; W. Wooller 5 for 90) and 221 for 4 dec.
Glamorgan: 250 (Robinson 5 for 93)
and 184 (Verity 7 for 63).
At Bristol, Middlesex beat Glouces- tershire by an innings and 42 runs. Gloucester: 209 and 822 (Allen 104,
Neale 94). Middlesex: 573
Fleetwood-Smith, the Australiar: | slow-bowler, was in a deadly mood when the Gentlemen went into ba a second time and had 7 wickets fo
fo! 44 runs to help dismiss them 149 in reply to the Aussies' seconbyshire by 37 runs. knock of 385 for 4 dec.
Badcock gave an audacious dis centur play of hooking for his which was scored in 175 minutes and which included 12 boundaries
P. A. Gibb, the Cambridge and Yorkshire batsman, saved the Gen. tlemen from complete disaster scoring 67 in 95 minutes including 12 boundaries, judicious scoring of the leg stump being the main fea ture of his knock.
Fleetwood Smith was bowling very cleverly, flighting and spin- ning the ball to the best advantage.
Results as cabled by Reuter, were:-
(Edrich 118, Hulme, 143; Sinfield 6 for 184). At Portsmouth, Hampshire beat Der-
Hants: 313 and 263.
and
Derby: 356 (Worthington 121)
183. At Tonbridge, Kent beat Worcester- shire by 7 wickets. Kent: 428 (Woolley 136, Fagg 190) and
172 for 3 (Ames 94).- Worcester: 220 and 379 (King 104;
Harding 5 for 99).
-Reuter.
At Lord's, the 'Australians beat the Gentlemen of England by 282 runs. Australians 397 (D. G. Bradman 104;
Meyer 5 for 66) and 335 for 4 dec. (J. H. Fingleton 121). Gentlemen of England-301 (D. R. 80; F. Wilcox 50, F. R. Brown Ward 5 for 108) and 149 (P. A. Smith 7 for Gibb 67 Fleetwood
44).
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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 18, 1938.
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Mr. E. J. M. Churn, of the China Provident, Loan and Mortgage Co., together with a passenger, Mr. A. Mackenzie, mot with a nasty accident whilst driving a car on the. waterfront, near Hill Road yes- terday.
Mr. Churn was at the wheel of car No. 2224 when the acci- dent occurred. He swerved to avoid a pedestrian and thereby
with became confronted tramcar. Once again he was forced to swerve to avoid crash and his car toppled into the sea.
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A passing constable helped both Mr. Churn and Mr. Mac- kenzie out of the water. Mr. Churn was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital but was not de- tained, while his companion escaped without injury.
LAST DAY AT ASCOT
London, To-day. Glorious sunshine again prevail- final ed at Ascot yesterday, the day, when their Majesties the King and Queen were again present.
The Workingham Stakes went to a North country horse in Bold Ben (9 to 1) which is owned by A. E.! Berry, giving jockey Elliott another victory. Bold Ben beat Mrs. C. Smith's Kinder Scout (10 to 1) by a length with Miss Parson's Davy- Do-Little (8 to 1) a head away, third. There were 26 starters;
Trainer Lawson had an early "double" yesterday, Lord Astor's Caveman (5 to 4) the favourite, winning the Jersey Stakes, while Sir Abe Bailey's Maranta (11 to 4) the favourite, won the Hardwicke: Stakes. Both were ridden by Gordon Richards..
There was a real turnup in the Britannia Stakes in which 34 horses faced the starter. Mr. Lislely-Saght's Tin Hat (20 to 1) beat Sir Charles Hyde's Suez (100 to 6) by a lead.
Mr. James Rank's Epigram (4 to 1) won the Queen Alexandra Stakes.
Mr. Phillip. Dunne's unbeaten colt Portobello, starting at evens, recorded its fourth successive win in taking the Windsor Castle Stakes, by 11⁄2 lengths, and in- cidentally preventing Gordon Richards, who was riding Money Down (2 to 1) from completing his "treble:"
"The King's Stand Stakes result- ed in the American entry, Mr. Marshall Field's Foray (3 to 1)
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winning by threequarters to 4),
length from Shalfleet
While King's Armour (5 to 2) was third. There were eight starters.
Reuter.
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Hankow, To-day. The Yellow River floods are shift forcing the Japanese to
Hankow their main drive on from North Honan to the Yang- tse Valley, where the Japanese are probably beginning their big push westward shortly, ac- cording to Chinese military de- spatches.
Three Japanese columns are expected to participate in the forthcoming drive.
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The first column, Chinese cir- cles believe, is pushing Chienshan from its base at Hofei and Shuchen, the second is striking north-westward from Anking on Wankiang, and the drive third is attempting to south-westward after making a landing at Kiukiang.
The third column is expected to to advance from Hsiushui
Changsha in order to cut the Canton-Hankow Railway.
The south bank of the Yang- tse in the vicinity of Anking is now practically cleared of Japanese troops, except for a small detachment holding out south-west of Liushoushan, de- clares the Chinese military spokesman.
Chinese troops are now coun- at ter-attacking the Japanese
Severe Anking and Shuchen. fighting is going on the out-
two cities. skirts of the Reuter.
Two European ladies were involved in a collision with a lorry in Nathan Road yester- day afternoon as the result of which one of them has been admitted to Kowloon Hospital' suffering from an injured knee. The injured lady is Mrs. Way, of Kingsclere Hotel. She was a. passenger in driven by Mrs. Wilson, who escaped unscathed.
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Hoihow, To-day. A Japanese plane taking off from one of two Japanese- warships anchored outside the Hoihow harbour raided the town yesterday morning. Four- bombs were dropped.
Chinese junks outside the harbour were attacked by Japanese marines sent out in two pinnaces by the warships.
Central News.
Canton, 8.40 am. To-day. The air raid alarm sounded at 8.05 this morning, and coastal spotters report 18 Japanese planes heading for Canton from the Chungshan district.
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Up to 8.40, no planes had yet appeared. Reuter.
Imperial Airways plane from Bangkok has again been delay- ed and the mails dated June 9. and 12 will now arrive to- morrow evening. The outward · mail will not be changed.
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