THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 10, 1988.
BOWLERS REAP A RICH HARVEST
MIDDLESEX LOSE
TO SURREY
Australian Bowlers In Deadly Form
London, To-day.
Bowlers reaped a rich harvest of wickets in the County Cricket Championship programme which concluded yesterday and some very fine feats were performed, Hollies of Northants, taking 6 for 66 in each of Warwick's innings, although the latter county won by eight wickets.
Test players were very much in comfortable time against a Durham by the limelight, Goddard of Glouces-eleven at Sunderland and won ter, taking 5 for 61 and 7 for 26 an innings and 179 runs, the bowlers in Hants' second knock to give his wreaking havoc in the home eleven's county victory by 45 runs.
first knock to enforce the follow
At Nottingham, Ernest Paynter on.
O'Reilly had 10 wickets for 65 scored 140 against Notts, but Lan- cashire could only manage first in-¡runs and Fleetwood-Smith 10 nings points. Middlesex, who are wickets for 90 during the course in running for the Championship, the match. suffered a sad reverse at the hands of Surrey, at the Oval, the latter county winning by 200 runs.
AN EASY VICTORY
The Australian Tourists had &
LOCAL FOOTBALL SEASON
(Continued from Page 18) subject to the approval of the Coun- cil, at the next meeting.
OPENING FIXTURES
Mr. Wong drew the attention of the Committee to the fact that for many years the League Account had shown a loss, and he requested members to keep this matter in mind so that some concrete sugges- tions could possibly he made at the next meeting.
A meeting of club secretaries will be held at the offices of Messrs. Lo and Lo next Monday to arrange for the first few games, after which, the fixtures will be drawn up by a committee comprised of Messrs. Wong Ka-tsun, C. Gyimgan and Captain E. H. B. Neil.
The divisions of the Hong Kong Football League were decided as fol- lows:
FIRST DIVISION
Royal Scots
Hong Kong Football Club
Royal Navy
Kowloon Football Club
South China ““A”
South China "B"
St. Joseph's Football Club
Police Sports Board
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Eastern Athletic Association
Middlesex Regiment
Kwong Wah Athletic Association
SECOND DIVISION
Royal Scots
Hong Kong Football Club
Kowloon Football Club
South China
5th A.A. Bde.
St. Joseph's F.C.
Police
Eastern
Middlesex
Engineers (European)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Kwong Wah
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THIRD DIVISION
Royal Scots fles
Royal Army Medical Corps
Stonecuttera Wireless Station
Royal Artillery Stanley
South China
5th A.A. Bde....
Royal Army Service Corps
Powhatten Football Club
Kumaon Rifles· ·
Royal Engineers
Air Force
University
24th Battery Royal Artillery ---
20th Battery Royal Artillery
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Yesterday's, results as cabled Reuter were:
At the Oval, Surrey beat Middlesex by 200 runs.
Aft Worcester, the match between Worcestershire and Leicestershire was abandoned as a draw, rain 'interfering
Leicester: 136 (Jackson 4 for 17). Worcester: 82 for 8.
Surrey: 889 and 182 for 6 dec. Middlesex: 190 (Watts 5 for 43) and with play.
181.
At Hastings, Sussex beat Kent by an innings and 15 runs. Sussex: 447 for 9 dec. (H. T. Bartlett
114: Wright 7 for 113, Kent: 116 (James Langridge 5 for, 28) and 317 (James Langridge 6 for 91).
At Cheltenham, Gloucestershire beat Hampshire by 45 runs...
140.
Gloucester: 184 (Knott 5 for 51) and Hants: 172 (Goddard 5 for 61) and 58
(Goddard 7 for 26).
At Nottingham, Lancashire beat Nottinghamshire on the first Innings. Notts: 303 (Keeton 101) and 201 for 9. Lancs.: 442 for 6 dec. (Paynter 140).
At Sunderland, the Australians beat a Durham eleven in a two day match by an innings and. 179 runs.
| Australians: 380 for 5 dóc. (S. Barnes 140 not out, C. L. Badcock 108 not out). Durham: 105 (L. O'B. Fleetwood-Smith 6 for 58, W. J. O'Reilly 4 for 32) and followed on 90 (Fleetwood- Smith 4 for 87. O'Reilly 6 for 35).
-Reuter. At Sheffield, Yorkshire won by 210
runs
Yorks: 192 and 282 for 9 dec. (Worth-
ington 5 for 44).
Derby 118 (Smailes 5 for 89) and
101.
TO-DAY'S MATCHES
At Northampton, Warwickshire beat
| Lords—Middlesex `v. Kent. Northamptonshire by 8 wickets. Northants: 207 (Hollies 6 for 66) and Oval-Surrey v Australians.
169 (Hollies 6 for 66).
Derby-Derbyshire v Worcestshire. Warwick: 310 for 8 dec. (Buckingham Westcliffe-Essex v Northamptonshire.
Cheltenham-Gloucestershire 137 not 'out) and 57 for 2.
tinghamshire. At Weston-Super-Mare,
* Not-
Somerset Portsmouth-Hampshire v. Glamorgan. Weston-super-Mare-Somerset. y Lan-
of beat Glamorgan on the first innings.
Glamorgan: 110 (Wellard 5 for 32,
Meyer 5 for 46) and 234. Somerset: 147 and 51 for 1.
by
HAVE AN H.B.
AND THEN TRY"
cashire.
Hove-Sussex v Leicestershire. Leeds-Yorkshire v Warwickshire.
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