COUNTY CRICKET
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1939.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE. NOW
NOW RIGHT
OUT
OF THE
RUNNING
Lose Badly To Warwickshire
MIDDLESEX WIN
COMFORTABLY
LONDON, TO-DAY.-Following news of Yorkshire's victory over Kent which came through yesterday, comes word of the success of Middlesex over Somerset by 225 runs.
Gloucestershire, the only other team in a posi-
tion to challenge for the championship, are now de- finitely out of the reckoning as they went down to Warwickshire by 110 runs.
and 190 (Hill 6 for 38).
for 38).
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In this latter match scoring was generally low and it was only a fine | Hampshire-191 and 131 (Martin 6 century by Dollery in Warwickshire's second innings that enabled that county to win. Mayer also bowled well to take 6 for 40.
Somerset batsmen were no match for Middlesex bowlers Jim Smith and Sims and they were dismissed for 106 and 239 to enable Middlesex to win comfortably.
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WEST INDIES END TOUR IN ENGLAND
London, To-day. In view of the International situation, the Manager of the West Indies tour- ing cricket team announced that the tour would end immediately. The team left Greenock for Mon- treal last night-Reuter.
tonshire.
At Bournemouth
Yorkshire.
Hampshire
V.
At Dover-Kent v. Lancashire.
RAIN STOPS U.S. TENNIS
Forest Hills, To-day.
The first day's play in the women's Wightman Cup tennis match between Great Britain and United States was postponed owing to rain.
The second day's play in the inter- zone Davis Cup final between Aus- tralia and Yugo-Slavia was postponed for the same reason at Brookline, Massachusetts.-Reuter.
Australia and Yugo-Slavia are now level, both teams having won a single.
U.S. BASEBALL
New York, To-day.--The following are the results of major baseball games
At Ashby-de-la-Zouch -Leicester-played yesterday:- shire v.. Glamorgan.
At Nottingham-Nottinghamshire v. Gloucestershire,
beat
At Taunton-Somerset shire.
v. Derby-
At Northampton, Lancashire Northamptonshire by 95 runs. Lancashire-195 (Merritt 7 for 88) and
188 (Merritt 4 for 62). Northants-156 and 132.
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At Eastbourne, Sussex beat Derby- In other matches, Worcestershire shire by an innings and 39 runs. beat Hampshire by the narrow mar-Derbyshire-227 (Jim Parks 4 for 53) gin of 32 runs, Lancashire beat Nort-
and 157 (Nye 5 for 49). hants by 95 runs, and Sussex beat Sussex-423 (Flt. Lt. Holmes 94; Mit- Derbyshire by an innings and
chell 8 for 149).
runs.
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National League: New York Giants 7 Chicago Cubs 1;
American League: New York Yankees 11 St. Louis Browns 0; At Dudley-Worcestershire v. War- Philadelphia Athletics 0 Cleveland In- wickshire.
dians 6-Reuter.
PAM BARTON BEATEN
Darien, Connecticut, To-day-Feature of the third round of the Unit- States women's golf championship was the defeat of the brilliant young English former champion, Miss Pam Barton.
At Birmingham, Warwickshire beated At Lord's Middlesex beat Somerset Gloucestershire by 110 runs. by 225 runs.
Warwickshire-165 and 247 (Dollery Middlesex-211 and 359 for 8 dec.
108; Scott 5 for 87). Somerset-106 (Jim Smith 4 for 28) Gloucestershire-187 and 115 (Mayer
and 239 (Smins 6 for 108).
6 for 40).
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At Bournemouth, Worcestershire beat Hampshire by 32 runs.
Worcestershire-164 (Dean 4 for 38)
TO-DAY'S MATCHES At Lord's-Middlesex v. Surrey. At Claction-Essex
V. Northamp-
Miss Barton went down to Miss Charlotte Glutting of West Orange, New Jersey, on the 19th.
Other results:-
First round: Miss Marion Brown (Norbeck, Maryland) beat Mrs. Glenna
Collett Vare 2 up;
Semi-finals:-Miss Dorothy Kirby (Atlanta) beat Miss Georgia Glutting 1
up;
Miss Betty Jameson (San Anton io, Texas) beat Miss Elizabeth Hicks (Long Beach, Cal.) 3 and 1-R euter.
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PAMELA BARTON, is shown here with the glant trophy emble- matic of the Amorlaan Women's golf championship which she won in 1937.. Miss Barton was the second Englishwoman to win the title.