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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 6, 1988.

Only One Match Completed

HENRY COTTON

AMONG THE LEADERS

British Open Golf

Event Proper

Starts To-day

London, To-day.

Rain Interferes With County Cricket

E. R. T. HOLMES SCORES FASTEST

CENTURY

London, To-day. Only one match, that between Hampshire and Essex, at Ports- mouth, was not interfered with by the rain which swept the country yesterday, resulting in all other County Cricket Championship matches being decided on the first innings.

.. runs,

At Manchester, Lancashire beat. Nottinghamshire on the first frnings. Lancs.: 441 for 7 dec. (Paynter, 177,

Nutter. 98).

Notts: 200 (Wilkinson 5 for 72) and

followed on 82 for 2

-Reuter.

TO-DAY'S. MATCHES

Hampshire won by 227

Chesterfield-Derbyshire v. Essex. At Portsmouth, Hampshire beat Es- Cardiff-Glamorgan v. Kent. thanks to centuries by Hill (122) sex by 227 ruhs.

Southampton-Hampshire v. Middlesex. and Moore (111), while Heath was Hants: 195 (Nichols 5 for 50) and 323 Nottingham-Notts v. Leicestershire. in good form with the ball to take

(Hill 122, Moore 111; Nichols 7 Northampton-Northants v. Lancashire. for 112). 6 for 45 in Essex's first knock.

Birmingham-Warwickshire v. Sussex. Essex: 127 (Heath 6 for 45) and 104. Bradford-Yorkshire v. Worcestershire. England Test players were very The qualifying rounds for the much in the limelight yesterday, British Open Golf Championship, Wright, the Kent trundler, taking which were held over the Royal St. 6 for 32 to help dismiss· Derby: for] George's and Prince's Courses, at 116 runs, while Barnett, the Glou- Sandwich on Monday and yester-cester bat, contributed 90. towards day, saw Henry Cotton Ashridge) his county's total of 183, against the holder, among the leaders of Glamorgan. the field, of qualifiers with rounds of 72 and 71 for an aggregate of 148.

Other leading qualifying scores

were:

2

ST. GEORGE'S

Leonard Crawley. Brancepeth Cas- tle) J. J. Busson. (Pan-

nal)

.73 and 71 144-

.72 and 72 144

PRINCE'S

on

Nichols, who has just been select- ed as one of the 13 players for the Third Test, which commences Friday, was in deadly form

with the ball and although Essex were beaten, he took 12 wickets for 162 runs in the course of the match. | Paynter, hero of the first two Test [matches, scored 177 out of Lanca-

shire's total of 441 for 7 dec..

FASTEST CENTURY

E. R. T. Holmes, the Surrey skipper, scored his century in 65 minutes to establish the fastest time for the 100 mark this season, beat- ..69 and 73.142ing Don Bradman's mark by

minutes.

John Fallon. (Hud-

dersfield)

Lightning struck the umbrella

held by J. E. Crapper (Harrogate) Yorkshire, were most unfortunate who was badly shaken and who was temporarily out of the game.

not to beat the Australians, at

'He finished his round, however Sheffield, rain înterfering

such

· with an 82 for an aggregate of 164 an extent that the match was ab and failed to qualify.

120 QUALIFIERS

andoned after the County had scor

ed 83 for the loss of 3 wickets and only needed another 67 runs for victory.

One hundred and twenty players-Results, as cabled by Reuter were:: with aggregates of 157 or better At Sheffield, rain interfered with -will take part in the competition play, Yorkshire and the Australians proper, over 72 holes, which will being featured in a drawn encounter.

Australians: 222 (D. G. Bradman 59, commence to-day.

A. L. Hassett 94, S. J. McCabe 13, J. H. Fingleton 2 and S. Barnes 10) and. 182. (Bradman 42 Smalles 4 for 45; Verity 3 for 46). Yorkshire: 205 (Wood 41; Waite 7 for 101) and 83 for 3 (Sutcliffe 38 not out) rain-match abandoned.

Other well known players who qualified with an aggregate of 144 were D. J. Rees. (Surbiton),. A. D'Arcy Locke (unattached, South Africa), Sydney Brews (Houghton, South Africa), A. J. Perry (Lea-]! therhead), Eddie E. Whitcombe At the Oval, Surrey beat Sussex on (Porter's Park).

the first innings.

Among those who failed to Surrey 547 (Squires 187, Holmes 108). qualify were the veteran. Abe Mit-Sussex: 250 and followed on 22 for 0. chell (Verulam), Robert J. Sweeney At Birmingham, Warwickshire.beat jun. (Prince's) former British Leicestershire on the first innings. Amateur champion, T. A. Bourn Warwick: 348 (R. E. S. Wyatt 107).

Leicester: 175 and followed on 263, for and J. J. Taylor (Potters Bar). Reuter!

8 (Mayer 6 for 60).

At Kettering, Somersetshire, beat

MCEWAN YOUNGER Northamptonshire on the first innings.

LEAGUES

TABLES TO DATE

MCEWAN-YOUNGER "DARTS

LEAGUE

P-F

-Pts.

R. A. Lyemun

5218

52

R. Scots “A”

17 44, 26

44

R. Engineora

29'

41.

Middlesex

39 31

89.

27

R. Scots "B"

0 25 45

25

R. A. Stonecutters 7 2748

Garrison Mess 7.-25 45 25 R.A.M.C...

61758 17:0

Somerset: 354 (Lee 115, Buge 182) and

181 (Gimblett 105):

Northants: 248 and 221 for 7.

At. Lord's, the 'Varsity match be- tween Oxford and Cambridge drawn.

Oxford: 317 and 126 fon 6.. Cambridge: 425 (P. A. Gibb 122).

WaB

At Buxton, Kent, beat Derbyshire on the first innings.

Kent: 201 (Mitchell 5 for 56) and 70.

for La

Derby: 116" (Wright 6 for 32), A

beat

MCEWAN-YOUNGER BILLIARDS At Neath, Gloucestershire

AND SNOOKER LEAGUE sed Glamorganshiro on the first innings. P. EN AZPts. Glamorgan: 118 (Sinfield 5 for 27) and

R. A.Lyemun 7 8053802 161 for 8.

Garrison Mess

R. Scots "B"

R. Engineers®

Middlesex

R. A. Stonecutters, R. Scoth

R.A.M.

7 28 123028444

61911-193

7 17 18 17 1

7 16 18% 16%

1954 29.181

loucester: 188 (Barnett 90);

At Worcester, Middlesex beat Wor cestershire on the first innings.:

346 (Ma

for 4 dec.

for 85) and

201 (Gray 5 for

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