THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY,
THE TYPHOON LEAGUE BASEBALL.
"BLOW" AND
SPORTS.
REPAIRING THE DAMAGE,
AT MATSEEDS AND CLUBS.
[BY STROLLER.
All traces of the typhoon "blow" of last week-end are speedily vanishing from the Colony, that
is to say where the damage was
FILIPIÑOS' FIRST WELL-
EARNED VICTORY,
JAPANESE OUTPLAY
AMERICANS.
[BY HONOLULU KID.]
The week-end ball games at the Happy Valley diamond were about the poorest staged, this
Besson.
On Saturday the game between the
AMERICAN BASEBALL.
NATIONAL AND AMERICAN LEAGUES.
THE RESULTS OF LAST
WEEK."
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)
New York, August 27th.
The following are the results in Japanese and the H.K. Ball Club the National and American Base bail Leagues for last week-from
August 28th:
LAWN BOWLS.
SATURDAY'S MATCHES.
DIVISION IN. CHAMPIONSHIP
NOT SETTLED,
AUGUST 29th, 1927.
HOME FOOTBALL.
COUNTY CRICKET:
ENGLISH', LEAGUE SEASON¦ LANCASHIRE BEATEN BY
OPENS.
WINS FOR HOME TEAM AND MANY DRAWS.
SUSSEX.
NOTTS TAKE' THE LEAD,
The championship of the second division of the Lawn Bowls League: The English Football League pro- has not yet been decided, although gramme opened again for another Kowloon CC have matters de long season, extending from the end cidedly in their favour. The of August up to early May, on .CC. and East Point R.C. won Saturday. The results, as cabled on Saturday and are now level, by Reuter's Agency, show some in. with 20 points each Kowloon will teresting happenings. win the championship if they beat
Saturday they, go to the Yacht "Club, but there does not seem much chance of them losing, as the Yacht Club have only obtained one vir cory this season.
LOCAL CRICKET.
YESTERDAY'S MATOH.
H.K. UNIVERSITY AND SINDI MERCHANTS.
The return match between the By far the most important fesult
Hong Kong University and the of the cricket matches finishing on Friday was the defeat of Lancashire Sindi Merchante was played yester by Sussex This result places Not. day morning on the Union ground.
Barrow margin of runs a fort. tinghamshire at the head of the The home team, who won by the table, and provided Nottingham can get a win against either Glam- night ago," was again successful and after collecting 199 runs dismissed organ, or Derbyshire, their two
their opponents for a total of 60 ruas.
enly the removal of a rool, or part was a one-sided affair, the. Risis Saturday, August 20th to Friday the Yach: Club next week, Next homa playing teams, in Division remaining Axtures, they will keep
of it, or the blowing down of a wall and partitions. All through the past week Chinese have heen busy repairing the havoc caused at sporting clubs of the Colony and at bathing beaches, etc., as well as at residences and busi- ness premises.
Д
were em-
Sun being by far the superior tean. and the Americans were walloped to the tune of 10-1:
The Filipinos-Portuguese struggie yesterday was, as expected, a close affair. Both teams were weak but as they were evenly matched, the fans were kept on their toce | until the last stanza," when the Filipinos bagged the winning run.
The Taglo boys played with a scratch team yesterday. Three of their regular players were away and the fact that they managed to turn the tables on the Recreio crew, clearly showed that they had the
The P.W.D. coolies ployed in getting the public bath ing matshed at Repulse Bay into shape on Saturday. The beach presented even then scene of wreckage and havoc played by the gale: Most, of the matsheds had a "drunken appearance, but sue cessful attempts had been made,.better joss." where the damage was not too! great, to prep them up sufficiently to allow them to be used by the week-end bathers. The public mat sbed which had been right down, was pushed up, but still had an awkward less on it, and the zoo! was nearly all off but was being replaced. Another week should sec practically aligns of the havce wiped out.
Similarly, the Chinese bathing matsheds at Quarry" Bay are being rebuilt, and the wharls and piers are being replaced along the sea front.
An attempt has ever been made to put Murray Barracks Parade Ground matshed into position" again, but it will have to be for the most part entirely replaced.
Necessity of New E.0.C. The Kowloon Cricket Club pav!- Kon, which did not escape the "blow"
and was a wreck in ap- made has been pearance, habitable.
Rugby of Not,
It will have been seen from the
report of the meeting of the Hong Kong Football Club that the Rugby section has lost ite chance of play
the ing on the soccer pitch at Valley, owing to the Football Club having to erect a stand on some- thing better than trestles, and the boards used by the Chinese. The Public Works Department have taken exception to this, and stated that if the Club did not erect a proper stand around the ground in place of treaties and boards used by the, Chinese, they would do it themselves. But it is understood that the Rugger men did not parti cularly wish to play on the soccer pitch, and it is probable that the Government will find them another accessible suitable and easily ground, in view of the fact that in ambitious programme has beca planced with the Services
The Olympiad.
The results received, so far, of the Far Eastern Olympiad at Shanghai, show that China has been doing very well at the start. Home Football.
The
The Home Football season kas again begun. The Scottish League has been in progress for three weeks now, and the English League pro gramme opened on Saturday.
will urst results are interesting, as Le seen on reference to another column on our sports page. Home teams have done well, hat there have been a number of drawn matches, and the most remarkable will be found in Division I The clubs, who went up last season have also, for the most part, acquitted tremselves well,
GOLF.
HAPPY VALLEY CHAMPION-
SHIP.
Up to the fourth canto, the Portuguese lads were leading by 5-1. The Filipinon' fielders were at fault. Kitchell at third was, re- sponsible for a flock of errors. He left the field in the third frame through being injured, but Hough- did not ton who replaced him,
Zafra twirled a improve matters. poor game and even Terry Leonard, the Filipinos star first baseman and a good wielder, was badly off
colour.
Chodas Remedios who dished them out for the Portuguese was also out of frm.
The Filipinos were losing up to the end of the fifth frame although they managed to · scramble___[our" men bome in that stanza. Hopes were renewed" when the Portuguese drew a blank in the first half of the sixth. In the second moiety, the Filipinos garnered another four runs, putting themselves ahead by
two runs.
Excitement ran high when the Recreio equalized in the seventh, and when the Portuguese went in to bat for the last time, things did not look very pretty for them. Fortune, however, smiled on D. Leonard when an error put him on second and from there eventually to reach home and helped him incidentally giving the winning run to the Filipinos.
For the Recreio, H. Barros, Gosano and M. Barros contributed опе each on the first innings. Noronha scored a solitary one in the second. Pereira and A Alvares got two for their side in the fourth. Rocha was the only man to get home in the fifth frame. In the seventh, Alves and Gosano bagged one each.
For the Filipinos, Bautista scored the first run for his team. He piled up another in the fifth and houghton, Barretto and T. Leonard 'added
one each in the sixth stanza "Barretto, Arculli, Zafra and T. Leonard all cantered home. D. Leonard got the last and winning run for the Filipinos.
::
Yesterday's game, it
may he mentioned, was the first real vir tory for the Filipinos. They have so far faken points for only two games in this season's league. The stone being a walk-over con ceded to them by the "Tigers."
The contending teams follows:
Filipinos.
were
es
Recreio.
T. Leonard Ib. D. Alves Bautista 1.8. La Rocha » Zafra Fernandez Crüz
D. Leonard Barretto Houghton Arculli
p. C., Remedios
c. A. Alvarez
2b. M. Barros
L. J. Noronha
c. C. Pereira.
jb. Goanno
·r.f., J. Alvarez
Scores by innings :---
Recreio *pinos
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total 3102102
$...
0 0 0 1 4 4 1 10 Umpires:-Foreman and Baldo,
U.S.N.
"JAPANESE SWAMPED
AMERICANS.
The crack Japanese ball team played havoc with the Hong Kong Baseball Club in a seven innings set-to on Saturday at the Happy Valley diamond.
The Americans were given no "look in" from the start to the finish. The Nipponites were far better both in fielding and batting. 6. Hachiuma, the Japanese pitching
National League," Saturday (August 20th):
Brooklyn, Pittsburg 10. New York 6, Cincinnati 2.. Philadelphia 2, St. Louis &. Boston 6, Chicago 5. Boston 2, Chicago 1. Sunday (August 21st);
New York 9, Cincinnati 8. New York 6, Cincinnati 1. Brooklyn 1, Pittsburg 2 Monday (August and) «
Boston & Chiengo 3. Philadelphia 6, St. Louis 1. Tuesday (August 23rd);
Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 13. Wednesday (August 24th):
Philadelphia, Chicago 6. Philadelphia 1, Chicago 13. Thursday (August 25th):
Brooklyn 2, Cincinnati 1. Boston 5, Pittsburg 1. Boston 1, Pittsburg 8. Philadelphia 0, Chicago Friday (August 8th):
-2
Brooklyn 4, Cincinnati 3 Boston 6, Pittaburg 4. *New York and Chicago.
Philadelphia and Chicago.
:
(* Match abandoned owing to bad light). American Leagua, Saturday (August 20th):
Cleveland 14, New York 8. Chicago 2, Philadelphia A. Detroit 5, Washington 0. St. Louis 8, Boston 4. Sunday (August 21st):
Cleveland 7, New York 4 Detroit 11, Washington 4. 8t. Louis 6, Boston 0.. St. Louis 4, Boston 2. Monday (August 22nd):
Cleveland 9, New York. 4. Detroit 4, Washington 2, Detroit 7, Washington 3. Chicago 8, Philadelphia 3. Tuesday (August 23rd);
Detroit A, New York 2. Cleveland 7, Washington 1. Chicago 4, Boston 3. Wednesday (August 24th):
St. Louis 3, Philadelphis 4. Thursday (August 25th);
Detroit 2, New York 6. Cleveland 7, Washington 8. Chicago 4, Boston 8. St. Louis 1, Philadelphia & Friday (August 26th):
Detroit 6, New York 8. Chicago 9, Boston L Cleveland 8, Washington 7. St. Louis 0, Philadelphis 7.
PING PONG" LEAGUE.
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SOME ENQUIRIES ANSWERED.
RESULTS OF MATCHES TU-DATE.
We have been requested by the Hon. Secretary of the Hong Kong
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Taikoo R.C., who are also in the running for the championship, have aght chance of getting it. They have now 17 points, and have the matches to play. They can obtain 21 points by winning both fixtures, but unless the KC. lone next Saturday they can only be runnera
up.
THE RESULTS.
DIVISION I.
In Division I., the Civil Service Cricket Club beas the Craigengower C.C after a close game, by the margin of s shot Civil Service scored 69, and the losers el.
The Police R.C., as was expected, beat the K.C.C. at the Valley, but only winning by a margin of 8 The K.C.C. showed im shots: proved form, but it has come too The scores
late in the season. were: Police 50, K.G.C. 52.
The Bowling Green Club sprang a surprise on Taikoo at-home, when they beat them by 12 shots. The winners scored 10 and Taikoo 58.
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DIVISION 11.
In Division II., the Craigeagower went down to East Point C, losing by 18 shots. East Point, who are now second in the League, wiped out the defeat they had from Craigengower recently, although not dy so large 1 margin. The scores were: 0.0.0. 47, East Point,
€3.
Taikoo R.C. beat the Recreio by a narrow margin of shots. The scores were: Taikoo 62, Recreio 55. The K.C.C. beat the Yacht Club by 27 shots, and if they can do any thing like a well next week at the Yacht Club, they are safe for honours. Tas scoles were: K.0,0. 70, Yacht Club 43.
The remaining match was be- tween the Bowling Green Club and the Civil Service C.C., which was won by the home team by 97 shota. Becres were: Kowloon H.G.C.. 66, Civil Service 39.
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NEXT WEEK. Next Saturday will see Division 1. programme completed. The Row- Dock are playing Taikoo. This match will be interesting, as it will decide whether the cham- pions are to hold an unbeaten re- cord for this season, or no.
The Bowling Green Club meet the Civil Service, and ought to do well. The K.C.C. should find it a com- fortable task in Division 1., al- though playing away, to dispose of the Yacht Club, and settle the Championship question.
LEAGUE TABLES.
The positions in the League te
Division I,
Ping Pong League to state that there have been many, inquiries dats are: regarding the time matches start, and also with regard to the League. results.
P..W.D. L. Pts.
0 22 0
.6 12
5 IL
0
7 10
In reply to the first query, all Kowloon D.B.C.. 11 matches start at 7 pm sharp, and Taikoo R.Q.11 7 1 3. 15 any team arriving 15 minuets late Police R.C.12 0 will be considered to have given its Kowloon 8.G.C.1 & 1 opponent teamr a "walk over," pro-Craigeagower 25
C.S.C.C............. 4 0 7 a viding the opposing team in ques-
Kowloon C.C......12 0 0 11 tion wishes to claim its privilege in this respect.
Shots For and Against. Kowloon D.R.C. 702 544 158
For. Agat. Up. Dn.
Taikoo R.E..... 630 699 Kowloon B.G.C. 863 830- €.8.C.C.
652
The following are the results of the League matches played off up to the preeent:-
Winners
Teams.
T. Institute v. C.C.Y.ML.8.
St. Peter's Club v.
YMCA,
St. Louis, Club `v.
CAC.
T. Institute.
Y.M.C.A.
Postponed.
Club de Recreio «.
C.R.C.
W. Y. College s.
8.0.A..A
Hop Ying Club ."
W.Y.O.B.U.
T. Institute ..
E.M.C.A.
Police B.C 663 729
Craigangower ... 601 715 Kowloon C.C... 562 781
Division II.
91
20
6
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198
P. W. D. L. Pt. Postponed. Kowloon C.0.13 10 0 3 20 East Point R.C...14 10 0 4 20 S.C.AA. Taikoo B.C ....12 8 1 3 17 Kowloon B.G.C.13 3 0 5 18 W.7.0.B.U. Club de Recreio 14.5
1. 8 11 U.SC.C............14 5 0 0 10 Y.M.C.A.
Craigehgower....14 4 0 10 8 Royal H.K.Y.C...10 1
Mabon was the only one to reach the home dish for the Americans. The game ended in a score of 10-1 in favour of the Japanere.
Y. Hachiuma Honda Murate
The teams lined up as follows:-
Japan
Hong Kon Mahon 2b.. Lesser ace, had complete mastery of theS. Hachiuma P
1b, Muccio About twenty-players-participated oil and successfully blanked his
Cocker in the competition for the Golf opponents in six out of seven
Saido S
8.8.
Bowker Championship of Happy Valley atentos.
Takatomi 1.E Craven the Valley course yesterday.
Tajima 3b.
Murray Play was over 38 holes, and the
Koga
cl... Lammert honour of the day went to Mr.
Hamanaka I.1. Gruld R. M. Smith, who scored 102.
Substitutes:- Other olose scores were:
Yoshikawa r.f. Soejima
K B. Robertson ....... 172. A. E. Laaman ............ 174 W. Douglas
MOSTRAR
174
E. E. Ballantyne 14
C. O. Stark 174
Cockey, "the
American
twirler, was rather off colour, his deliverier being somewhat erratic.
The fielding of the Clubites was below par, particularly Gruld at right field and it was through his misjudgment that Y. Hachiuma made the home circuit on a two "bire-hit
(Continued on next Oolumn.) 4
Scores by innings-
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total Japanese ... 107 1950:10 Hong Eung... 000 0 100 1
|
Shots For and Against,
East Point R.C...845 799-123
For. Agst. Up. Da Kowloon C.C... 793 601 102 Taikoo R.C. 743 631.92. Kowloon B.G.C. 773, 490 Club de Recreio 788 800 C.S.C.C. E
152838 Craigeagower 4145) 846 Royal H.K.Y.O. 498,682.
74
20
56
101
184
INTER-DEPARTMENTAL BOWLS.
?
Wherens most of the wins went to
It. there were a remarkable number of draws, and incidentally, except în one case, all by the same margin. Portsmouth, who went up from Division II. last season, drew their first match in the senior division against Sunderland, who Anished third last season, but Middles borough, who also
went up last season failed against Manchester United. There were six home wins, three away wins, and two drawn matches Goals scored totalled 38, by home team and 11 by away teams.
the lead. Lancashire have still to play Leicester. In logic Leicester should win; they have twice de tested. Sussex, who have just besten Lancashire, but logic takes a back scat at cricket and the Midlanders. are more likely to lose then to win.
It will be by no means a bad thing for first 'class cricket if Notts are this year's champions. Yorkshire and Lancashire, neither the most exhilarating of sides to watch, have bad quite a fair share of the honours and it as well for counties
who play a more happy-go-lucky game to get a look in, though in- deed George Gunn of Notts has never been on the brisk side.
In Division II., Stoke City, who went up last year, won their open- ing match against Southampton while Bristol City, who accompani
It would also be a fitting triumph ed them into the first division won against Notts County. Both Bris- for A. W. Carr who had such atro- tol City and Stoke City were play- ciously had luck as Captain of ing away. Leeds United and West England last year. He is a fine player, a shrewd judge of the game and a real sportsman.
Bromwich Albion, who went down into the second division last season, won and lost, respectively, against South Shields and Oldham Athletic. Both Leeds and W. Brom ware playing away. Goals scored totall- ed 47, home teams obtaining 20 and away teams 27. There were six drawn matches, five being by the same margin. There were four away wins and one home victory.
The chief individual performances
were:--
Batting.. Holdsworth (Sussex) Leyland (orks)"
..........134
A. E. Gilligan (Sussex)
Bowling.
6
197
103
Parker (Gloucester) 7 for 38 Tate (Sussex)........ Root (Worcester) ...... B Browne (Sussex) Mills (Gloucester)..... 3
28
76
21
19
,, 23.
In Division III (Southern) Ply- mouth Argyle runners-up of last season started off well by putting if across Merthy Town. There were two home wins, and one draw. Goals scored totalled 47, 38 by homes teams, and 11 away teams.
In Division III. there were four away wine, home wins and twe drawn matches. Goals scored totalled 31, 18 by home CHAMPIONS OUTPLAYED" ALL teams, and 13 by away teams.
"THE RESULTS. The results follow:
Division I.
(Northern) ve
Aston Villa 0, Leicester C. a. Blackburn R. 2, Burnley 1. Bury 6, Arsenal 1. Cardiff 2, Bolton W. 1. Derby C. 2, West Ham U. 3. Everton 4, The Wednesday (0. Huddersfield 1, Newcastle U. 3. Manchester U. 3,. Middlesboro' 0. Sheffield U. 1, Liverpool 1. Sunderland 3, Portsmouth 3. Tottenham H. 1, Birmingham (0.
Division I
Barnsley 1, Hull C. 1. Blackpool 2, Swansea T. 2. Fulham 2, Preston 2.
Grimsby T. 2, Clapton Orient 2. Notts County I, Bristol City 2. Oldham A. 3, West Brom. A. 1. Port Vale 2, Notte Forest 2. Reading 1, Chelsea 2. Southampton 3. Stoke C. 6. South Shields 1, Leeds United 5. Wolves 2, Manchester C. 2.
Division III. (Southern). Bournemouth 2 Swindow T. 0. Brighton & H.A. 5, Brentford 2 Britol R. 5, Walsall 2... Charlton A. 1, Gillingham 0. Northampton 5, Millwall 9. Norwich C. 4, Crystal Palace L Plymouth A. 5, Merthyr T. 07 Queen's Park R. 4, Newport 0. 2 Southend U. 1, Luton T. O Torquay U. 1, Exeter C. 1. Watford 3, Coventry C. 1.
Division III. (Northern), Ashington, Bradford C. 2 'Barrow 1, Rochdale 3. Bradford 4, Durham C. D. Chesterfield 0, Wrexham 1. Crewe A. 1, Halifax T. 1. Darlington 3, New Brighton & Doncaster 3, Lincoln 0.0. Nelson 1, Accrington B. 4 Stockport C. 2, Rotherham. U. 0. Tranmere 1, Southport 0. Wigan Boro' 0, Martlepool 2 Scottish League: Division Í. Aberdeen 1, Kilmarnock 2." Airdrieonians b, Queen's Park of Boness 2.. Hamilton 2. Celtic 3, Falkirk 0. Cowdenbeath 1, Rangers 4. "Hearts 5, Clyde 0.
Motherwell, Hibernians "1. Partick T., Dunfermline 1 St. Johnstone 2, Baith 1. St. Mirren 0, Dundee 0.
The teams were:
SUSSEX BEAT LANCASHIRE.
ROUND.
L1
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H. Pritam, who took 5 wickets for the Merchants, and Lam, who secured for 31 runs, were the two most successful bowlers.
The scores follow
UNIVERSITY X1. H. T. Bartha, b Karani....i C. W. Lam, b Pritam ....... F. Hiptools, e sad b Pritam 0 B. N. Sudan, 1.b.w.,
Karyai C. E. Ong, b. Pritam G. E. Yeah, b Daswani
A. Baba, run out ..............
...
A. B. Saoharan, b Pritam... 0
No. Р. Катарів, в Кагалі
S. H. Wu, Pritam
A. A. Ariz, not out
Extras
Total
6
129
Bowling Analysis.
0.
10.1 I
53
11.3
8 2
19
H. Pritam Karsai Daswanie Ctumel
4 1 MERCHANTS H. H. Mahtani, b' Lam Us T. Thadani, e Barma,
Sulieman...
G. P. Daswani, e Yeoh, b
Sudan
F. G. Tharani, ce Org, b Lam 17 S. Y. Karani, b Lam ........ N. T. Ulam, Hiptools.
L. A Mahtani, c, Barma, b
Sulieman
H. Pritam, e and b Lam
F. T. Melvani, b Hiptools
"J. P. Moolani, not out
M. H. Moojani, lb.w., b. Lam
Extras
Total........
Bowling Analysis,
0:
R
T.
Lam Suliemsn.co Sudan Hiptools
11 1 91-5
16
0
8
7
U.S. AMATEUR GOLF.
ANOTHER VICTORY FOR "BOBBY JONES,
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
MINNEAPOLIS, August 27th. Bobby Jones beat Quimet 11 and 10.
Yorkshire could not have beaten Worcester more soundly than Sus- sex routed Lancashire BR East- bourne. The champions were out- played at every turn of the game losing by an innings and 196 runs. In their first knock Lancashire only made 99, but the wickets were evidently shared. Tate is atil the best bowler in England and, the Bev. F, R. B. Browne, who can play all too seldom, is a bowler quite
Evans beat Mackenzie after a tie. able to go through the best side, Jones virtually won in the first Old Cox, and young Parks and nine and was 530 at the turn, win- Wensley can all bowl well, and Aning by 35 strokes. A large gallery E. R. Gilligan on his day is pretty was delighted by his superb golf. formidable. But still there is apart He finished the round 8-0 in 60, from Tate nothing much above Outmet winning only one hole. ordinary county standard and one The Jones-Evans match ended doesn't expect a Lancashire side to strangely on a 117 drive in the 20th, crumple. Then Sussex proceeded to Both players were well on from the run up a big score of 371. A. Etee, Jones inside. Evans putted to Gilligan (103) and Holdsworth within four feet of the Cup. Jones (154) made a good proportion of laid an approach putt "almost on these, but the remaining eight men the rim. After Evans had stanced easily topped Lancashire's score for his putt that would have halved The Northerners went in again, and the hole, he suddenly dropped the found Tate and Browne unplayable, putter and walked to Jones, shook Of course there may have been a his hand and congratulated him, for lot of bad luck, with regard to the he had touched the ball as he wicket-but no Sunday intervened started his putt, thus counting a and it looks if Sussex proved the stroke giving" Bobby" the hole. better side, just as Warwick" did At the conclusion of the 27th on the two occasions this year when Jones was up. The 28th was halved. they met Yorkshire Tate got aix Jones won the 29th and the match. wickets for 25 and Browne 4 for 21. Jones was 6 up at the end of the
first round.
LATKE. Bobby Jones beat "Chick" Evans 8 and 7.
Score:-
!!
Laceshire: 90 and 76. Bussex: 371..
NOTTS BEAT GLAMORGÄN,«
In this match against Glamorgan ́ at Nottingham, the home team won by 12% runs. This places them at the head of Championship title.
Score:--
Notta: 25 and 960 (for
wickets declared). Glamorgan: 175 and 197.
GLOUCESTER DEFEAT WORCESTER.
Worcester at home lost to lou- cester by the big nine wickets.
U
YORKSHIRE DRAW WITH ESSEX,
Only ten wickets fall during the course of the match between Essex and Yorkshire at Leyton The match was left drawn. Leyland, for Yorkshire, contributed 127 runs,
Score:-
Yorkshire: 240 (for” 5 wickets
declared). Essex: 128 (for 3 wickets).
MORE RAIN,
MATCHES ABANDONED, Parker, who recently took his 4,000th wicket in first class cricket, Neither the match at the Oval against proved the mainstay in nor that played at Lord's was Small Units: Manghan (1), West Gloucester's attack and, with the finished, rain interrupting play lake (2), Moss (3), Deacon (skip). able assistance of Mills, made during the early stages of the Revenue Trengrove (1), Tolian victory certain for his county by game. Both the Surrey Leicester | (2), Watt (3), Grimmett (skip). aking seven wickets for 39 runs in and the Middlesex-Kent match will The match between the Harbour Worcester's second innings. Mills not, therefore, count in the cham- Department and the Police recaptured the other three wickets at pionship. mains to be played before the semi- the cost of 23 runs final round is reached. This match. has now.been postponed four times, wickets for 75" runa
For the losers, Root claimed six In the Inter-Departmental Bowls and it is not known when it is to competition yesterday afternoon.|_be_played. the Small Units best the Revenue The PW.D. meet the Sazitary Department by 31 shots to 16. §. is one semi-final, and the Small margin of 15 shipts.
Units now have to meet the win- (Continued at foot of next column.) nem of the outstanding match.-
SMALL UNITS BEAT REVENUE.
Score:
Worcester: 222 and 12. Gloucester: 301 and 14 (for one
wicket) (Continued on next dolumn.)
In the Oval match, Leicester had scored 90 runs for four wickets when rain fell and the match wEN abandoned,
At Lord's Kent batted first and declared after knocking up the total of ida for three wickete Middlesex replied with 46 for three when play was interrupted.