1932-07-08 — Page 5

FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1932.

Holmes And Sutcliffe At Leyton

Sensational Incident Follows Sutcliffe's Dismissal

RECORD'S NARROW ESCAPE

SHEFFIELD'S TRAGIC BLUNDER DOUBLY UNFORTUNATE.

The world's first-wicket record partnership between Holmes and Sutcliffe on June 17 at Leyton was not unattended by thrills. When he had scored only 3 Holmes was dropped by Sheffield in the slips off Nichols, and he went on to score 224 not out, and assisted Herbert Sutcliffe to add 555 for Yorkshire's first wicket.

Sutcliffe threw his wicket away immediately the record had 'been smashed, playing a very casual stroke to one from Eastman. When the pair, however, were going to be photographed before the scoreboard, the figure 554 appeared on the board. The scorers did The huge crowd demanded not agree with the scoreboard officials! that 555 should appear, and eventually this was done so, á no ball being overlooked explaining the disparity between score book and score board.

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The crowd had flocked excitedly. CRAIGENGOWER AT

across the pitch, and. they loudly demanded that the record-breaking ecore should be restored. Even-1 tually this was done, an overlooked |

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no-ball explaining the disparity be- To-day's League Tennis

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tween score books and score board. Later on I was permitted an inspec- tion of the score books, and there As weather conditions are now is no doubt about the no-ball hav-looking favourable, the thrice- ing been registered when it occurr-arranged "B" Division tie between ed-in Daer's thirtieth over.

the Cralgengower Cricket Club and the Hong Kong Cricket Club league teams will be played off at Happy Valley this afternoon, com- mencing at 5.15 pm:

By sheer mischance, however, the scorers had omitted to place their customary distinguishing. mark above the entry of the sevenball over, and their rec- koning and checking did not include it. It was on a re- search that the omission was rectified. Let this statement of the case dispose for once and all of any lurking suspicion that Holmes and Sutcliffe are not really entitled to their great honour.

For the first time this season the home team is in a position to line up its regular sextet, comprising J. Leonard, W. Howard, E. Zim- mern, R. Choa, G. Lia and Y. Hachiuma, and with this full side should be able to account for the Hong Kong Club.

The same team

will turn out)

against the Civil Service Cricket courts: It will be recalled that last seasor's clash between these two teams resulted in a defeat for the Craigengower, and they will

Club on Saturday on the latter's]

All afternoon telegrams of con- gratulation to the day's heroes poured into the ground, one of the earliest being from Lord Tennyson, At first the Hampshire captain. the messengers were allowed on to consequently be all out to reverse

the verdict to-morrow. the field, but when they threatened to become a procession the tele- grams were heaped up in the Yorkshire dressing-room instead. and opened at the close of play.

And Holmes and Sutcliffe de- served every one of them. Theirs had been a magnificent feat in all

Below is appended the full report of the Yorkshire pair's great in-ways, especially of endurance, for

mings as witnessed by White Willow, and also an account of Verity's deadly spell which gave Yorkshire victory by an innings and 313

runs.

London, June 16.

Eight Bowlers Tried Essex marshalled every possible,

Holmes 45 and Sutcliffe 38, where- as Brown and Tunnicliffe were 29 and 32 respectively.

What a contrast of riches and poverty there was when Essex be- gan their reply a few minutes be- fore lunch One wicket for

and then to

10

Under the gaming skies at Ley- ton yesterday, Yorkshire's opening bowler against them-eight alte-runs, with Crawley clean bowled batanen, Holmes and Sutcliffe, gether but although the fight of by Bowes! No wonder the bats- men who came next, already with- were kings of the match from morn the ball was made slightly puzzling out heart, were easy victims first till evening, the Essex bowlers and by a refreshing breeze, and Nichols to Bowes' pace off the fiery pitch fieldsmen being their abject slaves worked like a gallery-oareman, only

Verity's superbly- in a bondage that is not yet end-Smith gave an impression of other fighted bowling into the wind. At ed. Opening the innings for their than mediocrity. Within two days 19, 19, 48, 59, 60, 66, 72, 74, 78 side, these famous partners put on the Esex attack has had such ten wickets toppled, Nichols, 423 runs, of which Sutcliffe has punishment at the hands of Surrey O'Connor, and Eastman scoring 61 scored 231 and Holmes 180, and and Yorkshire that 732 runs, in-

between them. they were still invincible at the cluding four centuries, have been close of play..

scored by the batsmen without the| consolation of a single wicket.

As the sun went down the sky Holmes and Sutcliffe nearly crown-

Sensational Discovery

London, July 17. ed their magnificent achievement:

Unique and thrilling deeds have by creating a world's first-wicket record, but this remains a possibi. made the match between Essex and Yester- lity in store for to-day. Their Yorkshire unforgettable. monarchy has become ao absoluta day at Leyton the expected happen- that it seems as if only a revolu.ed, and Holzes and Sutcliffe, con- tion will end it-or else a captain's tinuing their order to hit, or an early declara- tion.

They might already have broken the record if they had not dealt mercifully between lunch and tea with an attack that was then at a standstill, helpless and without hope of anything except that one or the other would get himself out. A feat which was also missed through that 60-an-hour run- getting, instead of about twice the rate, is the completion of Sutcliffe's 1,000 for the season. He needed only 14 when stumps were drawn.

great partnership,; created a world's first wicket re- cord in circumstances which led to a sensation off the field of play. And then, facing a score of 555, at which Yorkshire declared with only one wicket down, Essex caused a further sensation by collapsing in a fashion that spelt inevitable de-

zal.

Nothing but a breakdown in the weather could save them, and that appears improbable. Splendid bowling by Bowes was succeeded by & deadly seven overs from Verity, during which he took five wickets for 8 runs, and Essex were all out for 78 Following on 477 behind, That no more than 124 runs were and at the close had scored 92 for scored in two hours after luncheon, they showed rather more courage, on a pitch that resembled a slab five. To-day they were dismissed of marble, caused a slight barrack- for 164 to lost by the colossed mar- ing among a crowd that were other.gin of an innings and 313 runs wise grateful and generous. At the . Frodigious figures! But they end of the morning 113 were on the have arisen almost inevitably out board, Sutcliffe being 61 and Hol- of a prodigious game that took its mes 60, but the moderate pace of place in cricket history at one this pre-lunch period may be ex-o'clock exactly. For an hour and plained by the fact that the bats-a half in the morning Holmes and men were playing themselves in, Sutcliffe had gathered runs majex- and perhaps a little more cautically, the previous night's total tiously, because Holmes had been of 433 being carried into the fifth missed behind the wicket off a fast hundred in fifty minutes. Before ball from Nichols when he was only that, of course, Sutcliffe had com-

pleted his 1,000 runs for, the ses

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Traffic Blunder.

This lost chance, which was all

the more unfortunate because

son.

Sutcliffe's Highest Score Sutcliffe had also broken his per- Sheffield was one of the few Essex sonal batting record of 255-made, men who maintained a high stan- curiously, against the same coun- dard in the field throughout atry at Southend eight years ago. wearying day is aleady a tragic Thus when he reached 800 It was blunder. Neither bataman tempted for the first time in his career. fate apart from that, but they Finally, to the accompaniment of could not have been so sober after funch only for that reason.

At 8 o'clock, when the 150 went up, Sutcliffe, was travell- ing through the 80's, and Mol. mes was in the 60s, and yet it was more than half an hour later after he had batted three hours and a quarter, that Stu- cliffs reached his century-his 97th-out of 195, and Holmed took half-an-hour longer, the score then being 218.05. Holmes used fewer strokes than

enthusiastic applause, Sutcliffe hit Eastman twice to the boundary in the same over--he made thirty- three 4's in all, and Holmes twenty

he madn. ETOINT T T THTH -and the immortal names of Brown and Tunnicliffe Yorkshire- men again-were relegated to second place in the annals of first- wicket partnerships after standing supreme for 84 years.

Now came that off-the-field:: sensation, Sutcliffe had." straightway and a little pre-

his partner, so that it was not sur-maturely thrown away his wic

prising to flad Butcliffe leaving him behind after tea, when Yorkshire were 237. During the third and last of the day's two-hour spells. Sutcliffe hit delightfully, and in- creased his total by 110, white Hol mes made 717 So far Sutcliffe has scored a 6 and twenty-one 5's; and Holmes sixteen 4'a

ket by playing on to Eastma with a very casual stroke in- deed, whereupon the Yorkshire Innings was declared at 555 for one, But as Holaies and But v "cliffe-stood in front of the

score-board == waffle"-to: photographed the figures altered to 55416

be

Verity's success, those who deny him the ability to "fight" the ball will be interested to note, was all gained in the air. He opened with three maidens and two wickets for no runs. When Essex followed on it was Bowes who chiefly worked the havoc and he was barracked for making the ball fly.

China Mail Sports Diary.

TO-DAY.

FOOTBALL-Hong Kong Foot- ball Association, Meeting at Jar- dine, Matheson's Board Room at 5.30 p.m.

v.

HOCKEY-Radio Sports Club Bord wers on the Marina ground at 5.30 p.m.

TO-MORROW,

LAWN BOWLS-

First Division. Civil Servico C.C. v. Police R.C. Kowloon C.C. v. Kowloon Docks, Kowloon B.G.C. v. Craigengower. Recreio v. Taikoo R.C.

Second Division. Craigengower v. Kowloon B.G.C. Yaelit Club v. Civil Service 0.0. Taikoo R.C. v. Club de Recreio. H.K. Electric v Kowloon C.C.

LAWN TENNIS-

"B" Dit isien. Civil Service v. Cralgengower. Club de Recreio v. Indian R.C. Army T.C. v. Kowloon C.C. University v. Chinese R.C.

"C" Division. South China A.A. v. University. Y.M.C.A. v. India R.C.

Folice R.C. v. Hong Kong C.C. Graduates Assoc. v. Army T.C. Radio Sports v. Club de Recreio. Craigengower v. Kowloon C.C. Chinesa R.C. v. Filipino Club.

A GOOD CIGARETTE

FINN BREAKS JAVELIN

THROWING RECORD.

Swedish Figures Shattered By Amazing Fast.

UVA KATHETERS Helsingfors, June 27. The world record for javelin throwing was broken at Aboe to-day by a Finn, Matti Jar- vine, who reached a distance of 74.02 metres.

The former record was held by E. Lundoirst, the Swedish champion who touched 292 ft. 11% ins. In 1928. ・・・

"D" COMPANY ARGYLLS TRIUMPH

Narrowly Beat Head- quarter Wing at Tennis.

H.K. AREA, LEAGUE

Trimdon Wins Ascot Gold Cup

For The Second Year In Succession

SKILL OF JOE CHILDS

DEFEAT OF FAVOURITE BY TACTICS AND INITIATIVE.

By HOTSPUR.

Ascot, June 18. The Ascot Gold Cup has been won in great style to-day by the winner of a year ago.. Trimden, in the colours of Brig. Gen. Charles Lambton, came in two lengths ahead of Salmon Leap, in the colours of Mrs. Arthur James, Third was the Aga Khan's Ut Majeur, beaten a length and a half from the second.

"D" Company, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, defeated The favourite was Salmon Leap; Ut Majeur was second favour. Headquarter Wing, Argyll and ite, and the winner divided third favouritism with Shell Transport. Sutherland Highlanders, by 5 sets to 4 in the Kowloon section of the General expectations were fulfilled in the sense that the three out. Hong Kong Area Tennis League. standing horses filled the first three places, though not exactly in

Full scores:

the order predestined for them by popular opinion.

Pte. Baird and Pte. Sutherland |("D" Coy,):--

beat Pte. McKay and Pte.

Perry

loat to Pte. Yeoman and Pte.

Follan

beat Pte. Brown and Pte.

McLaren

I hesitate

to call it a fancy. He was at once busy in re 7- 5 race. How сал one pos- straining him. Sir Andrew was sibly apply the description to left several lengths. Yet he was what was a mere dawdle for up with the rest before they had more than half of the two and a covered more than a furlong. That 6-8 half miles? The time shows how statement illustrates what a Cpl. Morrison and Pte. Bryson absurd was the pace. This sorteraw! they were

engaging in. of thing happens so often in what Shell Transport, meanwhile, was ("D" Coy.)

6- 2 should be a convincing test over a being pulled up as though 6- long distance. One hoped that he had broken 1 Jeg. There 6- 1 Bomething better would be achiev- is no exaggeration Brandered this time from the meeting of that; it was really what it looked in saying some of the best horses of the like. As they came past the The kindest critic must Stands they were proceeding so 4- 6i period. 46 hesitate to blame the jockeys; they leisurely that they might have been 8- 6 must be bound down by orders. ambling along to the starting post. But those instructing them' cannot Then Childs decided to make a escape criticism.

beat Yeoman and Follan beat Brown and McLaren beat McKay and Perry

Pte. McIndore and Pte. ("D" Coy,)

lost to McKay and Perry lost to McLaren and Brown loat to Yeoman and Follan...

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TABLE TO DATE.

Kowloon Area.

"C" Co. Argylla 6 0 0 H.K.S.R.A.

5 4 1 & 4 2

R.C.S.

"A" Co. Argylls

81st R.A.... 20th R.A..

change. He knew he was on

Joe Childs, the very able and ex-proved stayer, and If the affair wero perienced rider of Trimdon, alone to develop into a mere sprint the P. W. L. Pts. showed himself capable of initia-stayer might easily be fluked out 6tive in circumstances which had of the race. So he went on, and 4not been mapped out in rule of only then did the rest settle down; 4thumb calculationa. It was what in Indian file formation Sandwich, 2 one would have expected of him, taking second place, three lengths 8. 1 and, indeed, I cannot imagine any behind, followed by Salmon Leap 21 trainer would bind him down to and Sir Andrew, with Ut Majeur 8 1 specific orders.

improving from a place nearly 3. 2

4 2

2

4 1

8

1

1

"B" Co. Argylls.. 4 "D" Co. Argylls.. 5 2 "H.Q." Co. Argylls 5 0

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Obviously if every jockey la told last

0 to wait and not make running.there They only really rated from must be the dawdle that took place about a furlong before making the this time. It is a quick and easy Jast turn into the straight, when transit from dawdle to farce. Yet Salmon Leap, Sir Andrew, and UE it affords some special satisfaction Majeur took close order. By this to be able to say without any re-time Shell Transport and Bruledur servation that I believe Trimdon were talled off. Trimdon showed would have been the winner in any the true merit of the stayer because circumstances..

his powere had really not been Nearly a Non-Starter, tapped. When Childs roused him All the horses looked well in the he answered so willingly that first paddock with the exception that Sir Andrew retired, and then Sandwich was 'sweating and ap- Sandwich yielded up third place to peared to be worrying more than Ut Majeur, who was probably was justified by the heat of the day, ably travelling the fastest of the The mare Nitsichin was not taken lot through the last 100 yards seriously. She was outclassed Salmon Leap could not find the and the Stewards were wise in giv-]burst of speed he showed at Epsom, ing permission for her to be excus-and though, as the race was run, jed the parade and taken directly to he appeared to be clearly second

the post.

She would probably best, I do not hesitate to "say the have upset some of the horses, honours want to the best horse." Bruledur, the French horse, has a "Childs' sound judgment was common appearance.

what one expected of him. He was also well served by

Trimdon is a grand type of weight-carrying horse and a credit his knowledge of the

horse..

to his splendid, sire, Son-in-Law, for he won the Gold Cup. on Very few of those who saw him in him a year ago and the Yorkshire the ring and who backed him knew Cup not. BO long ago. It that he had been distinctly lame as must be a big help to know one's recently as last Saturday. He was bares, the "feel" he gives, and the then found to be amiss after reserves left on which to call. exercise, to the great concern of Tribute to Trimdon's Trainer. Gen, Lambton and his wife, who Joe Lawson, who has so dis- happened to be at Manton watching tinguished himself in the training his last gallop that morning," A of Trimdon, must be praised for. first it was feared there was ten- his big part, and finally it is a don trouble and had it been so he great pleasure to be able to con would never have gone to Ascot. gratulate a man so well liked as Suffering from Shin Sorenesï" Brig. Gen. Lambton. I may men-

An examination revealed abin' tion again that he holds the Korse soreness, which, while common in on lease from the executors of his two-year-olds, is very rare with old brother, the late Lord Durham. horses. However, it depends when Trimdon will be a fine acquisition horses start racing. Trimdon was to the stud when the time comer. not trained until he was a four-

year-old, which is one reason why

he is so very good now and pro- RADIO SPORTS TEAM

bably at his prime.

Intensive treatment relieved the pain, and in a day or two he was all right, though JoeChilds, who rode him in his work on the course yesterday morning, thought there was still some· · trace of soreness. I will say this for the horse was given a beautifully smooth raça because he was allowed to be bar anced and racing within his powers, while most other ing pulled back and general ried in order that they should not go to the front too soOU!!

- Childs Makes” he

Sandwich for

rest and Harry Wragg.found him running muc

for his

FOR TO-DAY

Hockey Encounter Against Borderers.

The following will represent the Radio Sports Club against the South Wales Borderers on the Marina

round to-day of 6.80 p.m.

B.Bingh; B. "Sing! J. Singh Hamid Tack, TATI (Captain) A. E. PAGue Atta Singh, Kalwant

HSingh

Gilchrist