COUNTY CRICKET
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 12, 1989.
ADVENTUROUS CRICKET
AT BRISTOL
Glamorgan's Fine Win Over Gloucestershire
Yorks And Middlesex Both Successful
London, To-day-There are no changes in the top two posi-
tions of the County Championship cricket table as the result of matches completed yesterday..
Both Yorkshire and Middlesex won with something to spare and biggest surprise of the programme, was the de- feat of Gloucestershire by Glamorgan by 6 wickets. Gloucestershire
by were means outplayed but their adven- turous methods combined with Welsh aggressiveness, contributed to their downfall.
no, evidently pinning his faith on the ability of Test bowler Goddard to get the other side out cheaply. He failed, and Glamorgan passed this total for the loss of 7 wickets. This match reflects the present Although up against one of the. spirit in which first-class cricket is stronger counties, they then de- being played at Home this season.clared with a slender lead of 12 Both teams were looking for out- | runs. right victory throughout the match, Gloucestershire declared their first innings closed at 223 for 7, W. R. Hammond, their skipper,
AUSTRALIA'S EASY VICTORY OVER CUBA
Scabright, New Jersey, To-day. -Australia eliminated Cuba from the Davis Cup competition by 3 matches to nil-Reuter.
She will now meet Yugo-Slavin in the inter-zone final for the right to challenge United States, hold- ers of the trophy.
A.B. JENKINS SMASHES RECORDS FOR MOTORING
Bonneville, To-day. On the salt flats of Utah, A. B. Jenkins, broke the world motoring record for 1,000 miles with an average speed of 170.767 m.p.h. against the pre vious record, held by himself, of 1668.11.
Other records broken by Jen- kins were:-average speed for six hours 170.85 against his own mark of 168.15, and 2,000 kilometres at 169.4 m.p.h. against the previous record held by George Eyston of 163.6 m.p.h.-Reuter.
Gloucestershire took up the chal- lenge and with a lead of only 116 | Leicestershire out for 103. runs, declared once again.` Glam- organ knocked these runs off for the loss of 4 wickets.
ROBINSON AGAIN Yorkshire were not as convinc- ing against lowly-placed Leicester shire as one would have expected. Indeed, in their first innings they must have been in some fear of dropping the points innings lead as they were dismiss- ed by Walsh for only 155 runs.
LAWN CHAMPIONSHIP
PAIRS SEMI-FINALS NEXT WEEK
of
The draw for the Semi-final the Open Pairs and the Third Round of the Open Singles Lawn Bowls Championship took place yes- terday and resulted as follows.
MONDAY
At Kowloon C.C.
A. R. Dallah v F. V. V. Riberio A. M. Calman v C. M. Silva
At Kowloon B.G.C. F. Cullen
V B. Basto or
C. G. Silva or R, F. Luz
V
M. N. Rakusen
H. A. Alves At Kowloon D.R.C.
v J. A. Luz v C. F. Remedios
H. White R. Basa
C. Dowman
At Civil Service C.C.
v C. C. Pereira At Kowloon F.C.
V
A. E. Coates
V A. J. Hall
At Craigengower C.C.
In securing an innings victory |T. A. Madar V A. R. Minu over Kent at Canterbury, Middlesex
At Club de Recreio H. Nish had to thank their two amateur
H. Gittins trundlers, G. O. Allen, making one of his rare appearances, and Ian L. J. Silva Peebles. Allen took 6 for 46 in D. W. Waterton v M. R. Abbas Kent's first innings and Peebles took 4 for 46 in the second.
THURSDAY
v A. K. Minu
At Civil Service C.C. B. W. Bradbury v U. M. Omar
At Kowloon F.C.
v E. G. Post YA. M. Omar
COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP At Northampton, Derbyshire beat A. E. Carey or for the first
Northants-169 (George Pope 6 for 38) A. W. Grimmit
G. Perkins Northamptonshire on the first innings.
and 208 for 8 (Brookes 101 not out).
W. Gill
v. J. C. Remedios Derbyshire-199 for 6 dec.
OPEN PAIRS (SEMI-FINAL) TUESDAY
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However, Robinson, who has been their most successful bowler
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Match at Manchester between Essex style and took 6 for 34 to dismiss and Lancashire was abandoned as Leicestershire for only 89.
draw with Essex 289 for 8 dec. and Yorkshire declared their secondLancashire 83 for 2. innings closed at 134 for 3 and an unknown in Johnson, then put
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At Kowloon C.C.
At Civil Service C.C. ·
W. V. Field and
J. Gibson
T. Robson and V H. Nish WEDNESDAY
At Kowloon Football C.
Sussex by an innings and 63 runs.
At Worcester, Worcestershire bent J. F. V. Riberio & H. A. Alves and
L. J. Silva V F. V. V. Riberio Sussex-62. (Martin 8 for 24) and 172
(Martin 5 for 64).
BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIP
Worcestershire-297 for 8 dec.
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Match at the Oval between Hamp SILVA AND RIBERIO
shire and Surrey was abandoned as a draw with Hampshire 233 (Bailey 94;
Gover 5 for 41) and Surrey 99 for 2. IN SEMI-FINAL
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At Leicester, Yorkshire beat Leices- tershire by 97 runs. Yorkshire 155 (Walsh 5 for 56) and
134 for 3 dec. Leicestershire-89 (Robinson 6 for 84)
and 103 (Johnson 5 for 16).
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beat
At Bristol, Glamorganshire Gloucestershire by 6 wickets. Gloucestershire-223 for 7 dec, and 128
for 3 dec.
| Glamorgan-285 for 7 dec. (Smart 101)
not out) and 120 for 4.
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At Canterbury, Middlesex beat Kent by an innings and 64 runs,, Middlesex-358 (Smith 101 not out). Kent-138 (G. O. Allon 6 for 46) and
158 (I. A. R. Peebles 4 for: 46).
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At Weston-super-Mare, Notts beat Somerset by 97 runs.
Notts 111 (Andrews 6 for 47, Mayer
4 for 28) and 154 for 5 dec. Somerset-72 (Voce 8 for 30) and 96
(Butler 6 for 17):
OTHER MATCHES At Birmingham, West Indies drew with Warwickshire,
West Indies 225 (Mayer 6 for 54) and
17 for 4 déc.. Warwickshire-180 (C. B. Clarke 5 for
57) and 100 for 5:
At Lord's match between Army and Public Schoola abandoned ná a draw with Army 112 for 7 and Public Schools 246-Reuter.
TO-DAY'S MATCHES
At Öval Surrey v. Mikidlesex. At Southend--E450x Derbyshire.
At the Kowloon Bowling Green Club L. J. Silva and J. F. V. Riberio scored C. G. Silva and J, E. Noronha by 21. an easy vistory over their club mates
shots to 6, to enter the Semi-Final Round of the Open Pairs Lawn Bowls championship, where they will meet another Recreio pair in H. A. Alves and F. V.. V.. Riberio.
U.S. BASEBALL
New York, To-day. The following arā the results of major baseball matches played yesterday:
National League:-Philadelphia 2 New York Giants 1; Pittsburgh Pirates 2 Chicago 3;
American League:-New York Yan-. kees 9 Philadelphia Athletics 5; St. Louis Browns Detroit Tigers Reuter
tershire.
At Southampton-Hampshire v. Leices- At Northampton-Northamptonshire v.
Warwickshires.--
At Nottingham-Nottinghamshire.
At
Lancashire.
V.
Weston-super-Mare--Somerset Glamorgan (A. W. Wellard's. Be- noft),
At Hastings-Sussex v. Kent. .... At Bradford Yorkshire v. Worcester-
shire
At Cheltenham (College Ground)-
Gloucestershire est Indien,