1 HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1938.
EDDIE PAYNTER SCORES CENTURY IN EACH INNINGS
SPLENDID FEAT BY LANCASHIRE TEST BATSMAN
MIDDLESEX WIN MATCH AGAINST SOMERSET
London, Aug. 16.
A century by Eddio Paynter, the English Test cricketer, in cach of Lancashire's two innings against Warwickshire was the out- standing batting performance in the County Cricket Championship programme which concluded to-day.
Paynter accred 125 out of 226 innings, Nichols taking six for 32, and The Brst innings and 113 not out, out 314 in the second, Barling scoring v2. of a total of 207 in the second, thus enabling Langashire to win by seven wickets at Birmingham.
The best all-round feat was that of Nichols, of Essex, who scored 133 not out against Surrey and took six wickets for 33 in Surrey's fist inn- ings.
was a
The Australian tourists defeated Kent by ten wickets at Canterbury. The feature of the maich magnificent century by Leste Ames, who hit threce sixes and 15 fours in his 139.
CLOUCESTER ♥, WORCESTER
At Cheltenham, Gloucetershire de- feated Worcestershire by two wickets. Worcester scored 270 in their first Innings and 101 in the second, while Gloucester replied with 204 and 250 for nighi wickets,
WARWICK «. LANCASHIRE
At Birmingham, Lancashire defeat- ed Warwickshire by seven wickets.
Warwickshire totalled 201 (Wilkin-
son 5 for $8) and 228 (Wilkinson 5 for 70), and Lancashire scored 220
Paynter
he scored a century in
cach Innings.
(Paynter 125) and 207 for three wickets (Paynter 113 not out).
NOTTS. v. DERBYSHIRE
At Nottingham, Derbyshire defeated Notts by 102 runs.
Derbyshire scored 233 (Voce 5 for 42) and 320 for four wickels declared (Worthington 108), and Notts replied with 188 (Copson 6 for 56) and 273 (Hardstaff 134)..
ESSEX, SURREY
At Westcliff, Essex defeated! Surrey hy 32 runs.
Against the bowling of Squires (5 for 40) and II. M. Garland-Wells (5 for 27), Essex hit up only 132 in their first innings, but improved in the second when they scored 320 (Nichols 133 not oui).
HAMPSHIRE v. SUSSEX
At Portsmouth, Sussex defeated Hampshire, by five wickets.
Hampshire made 150 (Wood & for 52), and 203 (Jim Paris 6 for 73), and Sussex replied with 300 and 108 for five.
MIDDLESEX. SOMERSET
At Lord's, Middlesex Somerset by 263 runs.
defeated
far 140) and 275 for nine wickets de- Middlesex totalled 207 (Wellard 7
clared, and Somerset nade 125 (Smith 6 for 36) and 154 (Gray 6 for 30).
KENT. AUTRALIANS
At Canterbury, the Australian cricket tourists defeated Kent by ten wickets.
The tourists totalled 470 runs in their first innings, E. S. White scoring 52. Watt took four wickels for 102 and Todd four for 148
Leading Cricket
Performances
The following were the lead- ing performers in the County Championship programme just concluded:
Batting
L Ames (Kent) v.
Australians
Hardstaff (Notts) v.
Derby
Nichols (Essex) v.
Surrey
Paynter (Lancashire) v.
Warwick
139
194
133*
125 and 113*.
Worthington (Derby) v.
Notts
Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) v.
Leicester
Barling (Surrey) v.
Essex
Woolicy (Kent) v.
Australians
࿄ ཎྜ ཨྰཿཀྰ ཎྜ ཏྲྱ8 asd
108
105
E. S. White (Australians) v.
Kent
Bowling
Verity (Yorkshire) v.
Warwickshire 7 for Wellard (Somerset) v.
Middlesex Nichols (Essex) v.
18
7 for 140
N w w w & 2
Surrey.. .. 16 for 32 Smith (Middlesex) v.
Somerset-
6 far Gray Middlesex! v.
Somerset .. G for Jim Parks (Sussex) v.
Hants
⚫Northants
36
39
6 for 73
In reply, Kent were dismissed for 108. Following-on, Kent scored 377,. C. Clay (Glamorgan) v. of which Lesalle Ames made 139 and Frank Woolley 81. Ames played one of the best innings of his career in hitting up 139. His batting was featured by magnificent driving and he was at the crease for 165 minutes during which time he hit three sixes and 15 fours, M. G. Waite captured five wickets for 85 runs.
Needing seven runs for victory, the tourists made them without loss.
Protest Against Faked Film
Louis-Schmeling Contest
Fred Wolcott Bies over the 120-yard high hurdles in 14 seconds flat
tole the American record and set a new mark for the national collegiate championships. The blond sophomore of Rice Institute of Houston Is performing the fent in the qualifying trials in the University of Minnesota stadion.
ATTEMPT ON SPEED RECORD
Capt. Eyston Has Narrow Escape
land
OFFER MADE TO İLEN HARVEY
Asked To Fight J. H. Lewis
YORKSHIRE BEATEN FOR FIRST TIME
THIS SUMMER Injuries Rob Side Of Its. Batting Strength
London, July 19.
Middlesex beat Yorkshire at Lord's by eight wickets in a match remarkable for its casualties. Yorkshire, indeed, were extremely unfortunate, for Hutton and Gibbs could not bat in their second innings, and Leyland, who had dislocated a thumb while batting on Saturday, could only play two balls before he retired.
With three of their best batsmen
There were vast displacements of out. of action, therefore, it hardly air until he hit Bowes with a one- surprising that Yorkshire could make handed clout to square-leg, and he no more than 163 in their second drove Smailea through the covers n Innings against some good bowling portion of the field which he does by Smith and Gray,
not usually disturb, with a sound Ilke n howitzer in action,
It was a great pity that these in- furles spoilt what promised to be a ilne match, and tobins must be thankful that he put Yorkshire in te bat on that very awkward wicket on Saturday morning.
Club, Incidentally, hes a deep scalp wound, and It is not yet certain whether he will be able to play at Leeds on Friday.
At 173, Edrich edged Smallcs' out- swinger to Wood behind the wicket, and at luncheon Middlesex had 100 runs on the board and eight me out.
SUTCLIFFE TRAPPED
He did his best to counteract Yorkshire's losses by suggesting to Immediately afterwards Smli ap- Sellera that Wood, the 12th man, pealed against the light, and there should keep wicket in place of the was a short delay before could injured Gibb, to which Sellers very return to his onslaught. He struck naturally agreed. This pleasant another blow or two, and then Mit- gesture softened the blow for York-chell in the deep took a beautiful shire, but they will soon begin to running catch. A few minutes more dislike Lord's, for Middlesex won a sudden leop by Wood
to catch there by an innings in the corres- Peebles off Bowes, and Middlesex ponding match last year.
were all out with a lead of 01,
The game was still very much alive.
and Yorkshire
began their second innings confidently enough against Smith and Gray. Sutclite looked so calm and certain that we 12 OFF ONE OVER
could imagine him still opening for Middlesex started the day with 50
England, and Mitchell, with his cap runs on the board, and two wickets
well on the side of his head, de- down, and Compton began with a
putised for Hutton with becoming flourish by taking 12
off gravity. runs off Smalles' opening over, but this ex- Wendover, Utah, Aug. 16.
uberance did not last long. London, July 30.
Bowes Captain George Eyston's Thunder- An offer has been cabled to Len sauntered up to the wicket from
All went well until at 31 Sutcile bolt attained a speed of 270 miles an Harvey to meet John Henry Lewis, the Pavillon end, appealed once for committed the frivolity of hitting hour during trial preparation to-day the negro holder of the world's b.w., appealed again off the next Edrich straight into Peebles' hands for breaking Sir Malcolm Campbell's light-heavyweight championship, in ball, and Compton was unmistak-at square leg. Even then the situa
Amerles, but Harvey will probably
ably out. speed recurd.
tion was not desperate, and Barber Middlesex thus had three wickets and Mitchell carried the score to 70 The car run smoothly, but Capt. prefer to stay here and await de- Eyston was almost asphyxiated by velopments in the British heavy-down for 60, and Edrich and Hart before Mitcheli was caught and
felt that little concentration was exhaust fumes due to the burning weight situation.
bowled by Peebles, and that was the brakes,
required.
Polnt. "I was scarcely able to see for half his British title, half a dozen of our art struck him firmly to
Since Tommy Farr relinquished. Verity came on for Smalles, and
runs later Barber was bowl- extra-ed neck and crop by Smith, and at the eight and a half mile run. My heavyweights have been scrambling cover, who surprised us by dropping 83 Yardley played a ball on to hig escape from suffocation was due to for recognition as championship con- an easy catch. This was an unex- wicket. the respirator," sald Capt. Eyston tenders.
pected lapse for Yorkshire, but they after the trial. 85
What
the is needed to clarify that structural position The trin means
were still aggressive, and Edrich had 43
is a statement from the
some uncomfortable moments against alterations of the cockpit and the
of Control, but this is not to Bowes, edging one through the slips, Board ventilating system must be effected be expected until the Board have and giving a possible chonce to before the actual speed attempt is received alllcini notinention of Farr's short-lez. made,-Itruter,
withdrawal.
The only information
Verity, In the meanwhile, was have they hav
Is contained in newspaper suggesting witchcraft, and at 98 Hart Interviews
leant forward to him and gently de- If, when the time is opportune, flected the leg-break to Mitchell at the Board. as has been suggested, slip. sanction the fight between Eddle Phillips and Jack Doyle at Harrin- xay in September as a championship, Yorkshire were doing well, but Harvey will protest and not with Hulme and Edrich checked their out cause.
progress with fierce determination. Harvey is the British light-heavy. For the first time the bowling was weight champion and * former disrespectfully treated, and Hulme champion. Ho has, nearly killed the scorers with a six moreover, beuten Phillips twice, and off Verity. there seems to be no reason why This seemed to whet Hulme's up
H. M. Garland-Wells (Surrey) v. Essex ...... 5 for 27
5 for 29 E. Davies (Glamorgan) v.
Northants
5 for 42 Voce (Notts) v.
Derby
42 5 for Squires (Surrey) v.
Essex
5 for 46 Wood (Sussex) v.
Hants ... 5 for 52 Copson (Derby) v.
Notts
5 for 56 Wilkinson (Lancashire) v.
Warwick
.....5 for 58 and 5 for 70 M. G. Waite-(Australians) v.
Kent
5 for and 4 for Bowes (Yorkshire) v.
Leicester Watt (Kent) v. Australians Todd (Kent) v. Australians
America's
4 for 30
4 for 102
4 for 148
Bowls
New York, July 30.
Jeading sports Alleging that a fuked version of
writers the fin of the recent world cham describes the manner in which the and Max Schmeling is being shown plonship fight between Joe Lauls German film version was made.
He declares that "ellps were taken
in Germany, Louis manager, John from aims of the first Schmeling- Roxborough, has asked the American Louis fight, showing Max indieting Ambassador in Berlin to protest to the German authorities.
severe punishment On Joe, first punch Louis is shown landing the right that caught Max in the kidney,"
films
TWO SMART RECOVERIES WITNESSED
The A. Hyde-Lay And
In a cable to Mr. Hugh Wilson, the Wish Ambassador, Mr. Roxborough sald:
to inform you that shown
The next shot, the writer in Germany are not truc pictures of the fight at Yankees, is that of Max, with his mouth open. This is "frozen" for Stadium
con-
Max
on June 22 last. They coft. while the German announcer have been deleted, cut and combined explains that this is where with pictures of the first Schmeling protested vainly to the referee. vo. Louts fight to the advantage of Schmeling."
"Of course, Max did not protest Under the heading "Der Max wins at all." the writer concludes. "He
the Cutting Hoom," one of was howling with pain."
Surrey made 106 In the Arst in-in
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HULME'S SIX
Doyle should be promoted over Har-pelite. He hooked Bowcy violently, vey to the status of contender for and when Smailes appeared at the Pavillon end, Hulme hit him for (The Board has now
three 4's In an over, one square and Farr's withdrawal and has decided two through the covers. that Harvey should incet
Eddie Phillips in a title fight).
accepted
on somewhat
Yorkshire were fading away, und at 80 Smith took his 100th wicket of the season by bowling Smalles. Sellers was fighting with his custom- ary tenacily, but Leyland bad his dllocated thumb so badly Jarred that after playing a couple of balls he had to retire, much against his will.
It was trogle to see Yorkshire thus ! reduced, and, despite two dropped catches, Gray polished off the in- nings by 5.15. Middlesex
Sellers at
thus wanted only 431 runs to win, and Robertson seemed anxious to put Yorkshire out of thefr
eir misely. He hit a grand 0 and a couple of 4's off Smailes in one over, and when he was caught by at fine leg off Yardley, Middle- sex needed only six runs for vic lory. They lost Brown at 42, but Compton chopped his first ball from Bowes to third man, and unlucky Yorkshire were beaten for the Arst time this season.
YORKSHIRE First Innings
Exhilarated by this success. Hulme had another slash In Smalles' second Two peculiar matches were de-
over, but the ball rose, and he was cided yesterday in the fourth
caught behind the wicket. The Sutoline, e. Robertson, b. Gray round of the Lawn Bowls Singles Kowloon F.C., was
Middlesex total was 140, and Bowes llution, b. Edrich...... championship of the Colony. The similar lines. Fincher led 0-1 after returned to have Price 1.b.w. with-ichele Gray, b. Smith
P. A. Gibb, retired inert.... winners were A. Hyde-Lay six heads and 19-11 at the end of the
out another run scored.
N. W. D. Yardley, c. Compton, b. Gray Erich was still there, monument-Leyland, b. Smith.......... and J. V. Ramsay, both of whom 19th. Thereafter he was came up strongly from behind to while Ramsay took one, three, two, ed a ball from Bowes into his stumps, Snailer, C. Robins, b. Smith
blankedaily patient, but at 165 Robing pull- Harber, c. luimr. b. Oray A. . Seller, b. Smith...... three and one. The match ended on and that brought us to Smith'z gar- Verity, not out...... the 24th head.
Kantuan gestures of deflance,
win.
In Hyde-Lay's case, he had con- geded 14 shots to T. Coleman after the first slx heads in their match on the Club de Recreio green, and
Bowls Results At A Glance
The following were the re- sults of the two matches play- ed in the Bowls championship: J. V. Ramsay beat E. C. Fin-
cher 21-19 on the 24th.
A. Hyde-Lay beat T. Cole-
man 21-20 on the 21st.
though he scored seven shots in the Royal Comoy briars
next four heads, he could not pre-
vent Coleman from reaching 20
when his own score was only 12,
But a run of successes on the fol- Comoys Virgin lowing six beads enabled him to ob-
tain the nine shots which he required
to win the game. It was a remark- able
recovery,
Оп the 18th head, however, when Coleman was leading 20-16, there was a good measure for the shot, In fact, an outsider had to be called in! to decide.
The match terminated on the 21st
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Colemau started off in great style with a
a three, one, two, four, two and two in that order, but after that he could only score on three heads, a two on the 11th, three on the 13th and one on the 15th. Hyde-Lay's big- gest count was a three on the 12th.
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