THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 15, 1938.
LANCASHIRE TAKE COUNTY LEAD
McEWAN-YOUNGER DARTS, BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER LEAGUES
Series
Crapp Just Misses 100 In Each Innings
LIGHT BLUE SCORES 191
London, To-day. Lancashire have secured the lead in the County Cricket Cham- pionship table as a result of their win over Glamorganshire, by 9 wickets, yesterday, Middlesex the previous leaders, having been | displaced as a result of their defeat at the hands of Yorkshire, on
Monday.
Bowlers again came into thefr
At Taunton, Somersetshire beat Not- Notts: 171 (Andrews 6 for 51) and 178 tinghamshire by 10 wickets. (Andrews 4 for 86). Somerset: 298 and 52 for 0.
Derby: 487 (Smith 122). Kent: 167 (Alfred Pope 5 for 68) and followed on 184 (George Pope 7 for. 57).
--Reuter.
TO-DAY'S MATCHES
Lord's-Gentlemen of England v. Aus-
tralians. Chelmsford Essex v. Somerset. Oval-Surrey v. Cambridge University. Cardiff Glamorgan v. Yorkshire. Bristol-Gloucestershire v. Middlesex, Portsmouth-Hampshire v. Derbyshire. Wood, of Sussex, was also in very by an innings and 86 runs.
At Tonbridge, Derbyshire beat Kent Hove-Sussex v. Nottinghamshire.
Tonbridge-Kent v. Worcestershire. 'Oxford-The University v. Lancashire. good form and had 7 for 52.
R.A. Lyemun Head Both own yesterday and some fine per- formances were recorded, Herman, of Hampshire, being mainly re- sponsible for Sussex's one wicket defeat, capturing 11 wickets for 181 runs in the course of the match.
Mc- and
LATEST RESULTS Royal Artillery, Lyemun, are at present leading in both the Ewan-Younger Darts League the McEwan Younger Billiards and Lancashire proved much too good Snooker League as a result of ma-for Glamorgan in a match featured tches played on May 31 and June 7. by five centuries, three of these fall- The Garrison Sergeants' Mess ing to Washbrook (124), Hopwood are at present lying second to the Lyemun Gunners in the Billi- while Emry Davies, the
(127) and Oldfield (122) of Lancs., brilliant ards and Snooker League, two points in arrears with the same reach his 100, and Brierley scored Welsh all-rounder, just managed to number of games played.
being
The following are the latest re- sults and the League standings to date in both series:
McEWAN-YOUNGER DARTS
LEAGUE
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P. F. A.
R. A. Lyemun
4 32
8
Pts. 32
R. Scots "A"
4
26 14 26
Middlesex
4
22
18
22
R. Engineers
4 21
19
21
R. A. S'cutters
4 15
25
15
Garrison Sgt.'s
Mess
4 14
26
1
R. Scots "B" R.A.M.C.
3 11
29
11
3 9
31
9
116.
At Leicester, Crapp, of Glouces- ter, just missed the distinction of scoring a century in each innings against Leicestershire, who won by 5 wickets.
Crapp was undefeated for 90, out of 237, in Gloucester's first knock; and scored 137 in their second ven- ture at the wicket.
High scoring featured the match between the Light Blues and the Free Forresters, at Cambridge, J. MCEWAN-YOUNGER BILLIARDS & R. Thompson, formerly
of Ton- SNOOKER LEAGUE
P.
ES
R. A. Lyemun 4 16 Garrison Sgt.'s
8%
F. A. Pts.
4
16
Mess
4 14
6
14
R. Scots "B"
3 9
6
9
R. Engineers.
4
9
11
9
Middlesex
4
11%
81%
R. A. S'cutters
4
7
13
R. Scots "A"
4
6%
7 13% 6%
R.A.M.C.
3 5
10
5
LEAGUE
MCEWAN-YOUNGER DARTS
5
bridge, and now up at the Univer- sity, scoring a brilliant 191, while P. A. Gibb, also of the Varsity, scored 104.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Yesterday's results, as cabled Reuter, were:--
by
At Horsham, Hampshire beat Sussex by 1 wicket.
Sussex: 227 (Herman 7 for 74) and 165 (Herman 4 for 58, Heath: 5 for 50).
Hampshire: 209 (Wood 7 for 52) and
184 for 9 (Smith 5 for 25).
At Kettering, Worcestershire beat 5 Northamptonshire by 10 wickets.
Worcester: 388 (Gibbons 102 not out)
and 7 for 0.
Results of matches played on May 31: R. A. Lyemun 6 V R. Scots "A" 4 R. Engineers 5 V Middlesex Garrison Sgt.'s
R. A. Mess
5 v S'cutters +R. Scots. "B”. — V R.A.M.C. Results of matches played on June 7: R. A. S'cutters 4 V R. Engineers 6 R.A.M.C.
6 V Garrison
1 Sgt.'s Mess R. Scots "A" 8 V R. Scots "B" 2 Middlesex
v R. A. Lyemun 6] 4 MCEWAN-YOUNGER BILLIARDS & SNOOKER LEAGUE
2
Results of matches played on May 31: R. A. Lyemun 4 V R. Scots "A" 1 R. Engineers 3 v. Middlesex Garrison Sgt.'s R. A.
Mess
5 v S'cutters +R. Scots "B" v R.A.M.C. Results of matches played on June 7: R. A. S'cutters 5 V R. Engineers O R.A.M.C. - 2 V Garrison
Sgt.'s Mess 3 R. Scots "A" 11⁄2 v R. Scots "B" 3 Middlesex 2 V R. A. Lyemun 3
+ Postponed.
Crompton To Manage
Blackburn Rovers
Mr. Bob Crompton, the former Eng- land international full back, has been appointed, team manager of Blackburn Rovers.
Crompton came to the assistance of the team in their struggle to avoid re-
Northants: 164 (Perks 5 for 45) and
225 (Brookes 113).
At Old Trafford, Lancashire beat Glamorgan by 9 wickets. Lanés.: 564 for 9 dec. (Washbrook 124, Hopwood 127, Oldfield 122) and 25 for 1. Glamorgan: 163 and 425 (Emry Da-
vies 100, Brierley 116).
At Cambridge, the University drew O with the Free Forresters.
Free Foresters: 036 for 7 dec. (Kil- lick 124, Valentine 111) and 223 for 6. Cambridge: 533 (Gibb 104, Thompson
191).
-At the Oval, Surrey beat Essex by 186, runs.
Surrey: 270 and 291 for 4 dec. Essex: 124 (Watts 5 for 40)-and 251:1
beat
At Leicester, Leicestershire Gloucestershire by 5 wickets. Gloucester: 237 (Crapp 90 not out)
and 441 for 9 dec. (Crapp 187). Leicester: 418 (Geary 105) and 266 for
5. (C. S. Dempster. 105).
EARLIER RESULTS
At Leeds, Yorkshire beat Middlesex
legation from the Second Division to- by "7 wickets.
wards the close of last season, and he Middlesex: 106 (Leyland 5 for 15) will now co-operate with the secretary" z~148"(Howes 4 for 85)
Mr. Taylor, in all matters affecting the Yorks: 178 (Robins 4 for 24) and welfare of his old club.
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