ANOTHER
CENTURY FOR JAMES PARKS
Aggregate Now Stands At 763
London, May. James Parks, leading batsman of big the year, covered another stretch of the road to 1,000 runs in May, when he helped Sussex to an- other fine start against Northants at Hove yesterday.
Parks scored another fine century -122-and brought his total for the season to 763! Sussex, after
a delayed start, scored 318 for wickets, which gave them manding position in
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2 com- their fifth
RACING DRIVER
INJURED
Hurled Across Road In
T.T. Practice Spin
C. Mervyn White, the English motor-racing driver, was severely injured at Cork yesterday during a practice run for to-morrow's inter- national car race. He was hurled across the road after his car had
and struck skidded at a bend ditch:
a
White had just taken over from an auxiliary driver when the ac- cident happened. After hitting the ditch the car struck the oppo- site kerb and came to rest beside its unconscious driver. White had extensive head injuries and was taken to hospital, where he lies in a critical condition.
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 15, 1937.
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ENGLAND'S SOCCER
TRIUMPH
STEELE'S SEVEN GOALS ON TOUR
FINLAND LOSE 8 GOALS TO NIL
Helsinki, May 21.
ENGLAND wound up their tour of Scandinavia
with an easy victory by eight goals to nil over Finland, at the old Olympic Stadium here to-day. In their three matches England have scored 18
County Championship match, three ................................................................................. goals without reply.
of the previous ones having been won on the first innings.
Cox left two runs later and Sussex had lost two wickets for 19, Parks had no easy task. Again- but Cook and Parks then mastered st the bowling of Clark and Par- the attack and when Parks reached
announced tridge on a wet wicket, only seven 59 loud speakers
his a8 700. runs came from the bat in the half aggregate for the season
hour's play possible before He drove, cut and hit to leg freely
more once his side's lunch, and with only eight
supremacy was scored after the interval John Lan-established, and gave a delightful gridge was caught at the wicket. display of batsmanship.
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STEELE, WHOSE PLAY HAS BEEN A FEATURE OF THE TOUR, GOT TWO MORE GOALS, MAKING HIS TOTAL SEVEN. PAYNE, WHO DID QUITE WELL AT CENTRE-FORWARD, SCORED TWO, AND KITCHEN, JOHNSON, WILLINGHAM AND ROBINSON ONE EACH.
All the English forwards were good individually, and the de- Male fence always appeared to have the situation well in hand. and Hapgood, playing together again, hardly put a foot wrong, while Betmead and Willingham, especially the latter, distinguished themselves in their first international match.
The form of the Finns was agreeably surprising; they were equally as good, if not better, than the Swedes. With a little coaching from a good English; professional, whom the Finnish F. A. hope to engage next sea- really son, they should make a fine side.
Before England could settle down
on
to their strange surroundings, the showed what a class player he is Finns attacked with clever football. by the clever manner in which he Their quickness
the ball, swerved round a back, and scored marking, tackling, and ball control with a hard left-foot drive. Im- were excellent, but they frittered mediately afterwards he fumbled a away chances by weak shooting. chance of increasing the score. The inside forwards, too, made the mistake of hanging back too far.
STERLING GAME.
in- About a minute before the terval Johnson made a lot of ground on the left, and dribbling round the right back, neatly, placed the ball Virtanen, on the right wing, was the net from a difficult angle, the best of the Finnish forwards, give England an interval, lead but he received little support from his colleagues. The full-backs were steady under pressure, their posi- tioning being good. Karjagin play- ed a sterling game against Johnson, who was always prominent.
Mr. S. F. Rous, secretary of the F.A., said: "Despite the terribly rough state of the ground, frozen until a week ago, making ball con- trol difficult, the English players gave a good display individually.
"The Finns were desperately keen
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HOSKING AND STONEHAM IN THIRD ROUND
(Continued from Page 18)
With the score at 11 all on the 11th head, J. Forrest and A. E. Carey gave a good display against to succeed where Norway and Swe- A. E. Silkstone and F. Goodwin, but very den had failed by scoring a goal. lost by 17 shots to 19 in a The player to have done so would All have become a national hero. three games have been played in a perfect sporting spirit.”
POOR SHOOTING
England did the scoring, however, Kirchen netting somewhat against the run of the play after six minu- tes. The Finns continued to play surprisingly well and gave
even tussle.
The following were the results of yesterday's games.
J. S. Logan and I. G. Meyer beat G. Stephens and P. Morgan 33-10. R
E. M. Hanlon and J. C. Gill beat J. A. R. Selby and J. Rodger 28-18.
J. A. Luz 'and" R. F: Lúz: beat J. Hoosen and A. R. Minu 24-13.
H. F. Stoneham and C. B. Hosking beat J. S. Landolt and B. W. Bradbury 1915.
A. E. Silkstone and F. Goodwin best
Eng-J. Forrest and A. E. Carey 19-17.
W. Mulcahy and J. W, Brown best land a good game, but their shoot-E. Kirman and J. Pengelly 17-13. ing was poor.
England's second goal came after 28 minutes when Payne, after drib bling round the centre-half, and passing to Kirchen, headed în from the latter's return. pags.
FINE POSITIONING
the
W. Russell and E. W. Lines beat F, X. Delgado and V. N. Atienza 1716. S. Eccleshall and A. W. Grimmitt beat W. Kershaw and F. P. Anslow 31-9.
M. Purvis and W. Hillyer beat Gitting and S. J. Houghton 25—25.
J. Rebie rand AJ. G. Brown beat. AN Groves and W. Green 18-12.
PB Parks and M. Ferguson A. Bakar and A. K. Minu 24–17. The Finnish forwards made
ANG POSTPONED GAMES mistake of hanging too far back, The games between JV Ramsey. but a feature of the defence was and J. McKelvie and A. Macfarlane the fine positioning of the full and J. Russell,, and P. E. Knight and J. Holliage and N. B. Fraser backa, Karjagin and Oksanen.
of England now had more
the and J. S. Riddell, were not played"
of McKelvie play and Johnson and Payne both owing to the illness shot over... A minute later Steele and Höllidge.
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