WOOLLEY'S WORLD RECORD
When Woolley reached his 1,000 runs for the season during his innings for the Players against the Gentlemen at Lord's on July 14, he set up a record which is un- likely over to be beaten..
It is the twenty-eighth_English season in succession (exclusive of the war years) in which he has scored a thousand runs. Previous- ly he held this record jointly with Phillip Mead who reached a four- figure aggregate in the twenty- seven seasons from 1906 to 1936. (208197183111483)|||||||28-614-360-62203............
Jack Rodger, the Hong Kong Foot- ball Club “A' team bowls skip, has left the Colony for Shanghai on transfer.
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 16, 1988.
N.W.D. Yardley Now Best All-Rounder
Norman Yardley proved again at the best all-round sportsman in the Lord's on July 14 that he has the country. At St. Peter's, York, he big-match temperament, even if he was captain of cricket, rugger and cen- squash, and was also in the hockey does seem unable to make
team, For the last six years he turies. -
has been Northern squash cham-
It was a good test of Yardley's pion, and in 1935 took nine points batting to see him with Hammond off Amr Bey in the semi-final of on a tricky wicket. He caught the the amateur championship. eye more than Hammond, and scor- |ed twice as fast.
At Cambridge he has captained
the University at both cricket and Probably now that Owen-Smith is squash, and played against Oxford back in South Africa, Yardley is twice at hockey.
Lt. Comdr. J. W. "Tubby" Linton, who captained several successful by Tournament, has returned to the Navy fifteens in the Triangular Rug- China Station and is at present at. tached to H.M.S. Medway, dopot shio to the Submarine Flotilla, Linton was one of the finest forwards we have seen in the Colony, but I am informed that he is not likely to take part in senior games here.
George Hill, the Club soccer full- back and forward, left the Colony for England a week ago last Sunday, and will be away for practically the whole of the coming season.”.
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