1938-08-29 — Page 21

THE CHINA

HOME CRICKET AVERAGES

OUR LONDON AIR. MAIL SPORTS NEWS

Ireland's Choice For International Golf Matches

|HAMMOND

STILL

HEADS LIST

Bradman Maintains High Figures

There are a few changes in the first class cricket averages up to and including August 13, Edrich, the England Test player, still lying second to W. R. Ham- mond, England's present Test

of The Selection Committee the Golfing Union of Ireland, meeting at Portmarnock Club, chose nine of the twelve representatives of Ireland to skipper. play in the international matches at

of Bowes,

Yorkshire, still

·WORCESTER PLAYERS

TO LEAVE

are

not

T6-

Worcestershire engaging Warno and Grimshaw at the end of the season.

Warne, a loft-hand bat - and right-arm slow bowler, is the son of a former Austrálian Test Match player, He came to England' in 1983 and joined Worcestershire, for whom he scored 1,000 runs in 1995. Grimshaw, a 22-year-old Yorkshire-born bateman, was taken on the staff in 1935.

[9]|||||||||||||||⠀⠀⠀⠀..............................

Bowling

Porthcawl, Wales, at the end of heads the English bowling fig-(Qualification: 40 wickets, average 24)

September, as follows:--

A. W. Briscoe (Castlerea.) J. C. Brown (Waterford.)

J. J. Bruen (Muskerry and Cork.)

J. Burke (Lahinch.)

R. C. Ewing (Co. Sligo.) J. Fitzsimmons (Bushsfoot.)

W. M. O'Sullivan (Dooks.)

G. H. Owens (Skerries:) R. Simcox (Cork), captain.

* * ***

British Women Players

Win In U.S.

ures, while Leyland, also of Yorkshire is second.

Watts

STARTLING RESULTS

ENGLISH SOCCER OPENING DAY

in with

London, Saturday. English soccer opened Saturday with shocks galore, notably the Third Division (South) which

teams won monotonous consistency, though to higher class the newcomers football, Ipswich Town scored a nice home victory.

away

Arsenal won, but the cup win- trouncing at Leeds ners took a 17.48 and the Villa celebrated their re- 17.56 turn to the First Division with 18.17 an away victory at Grimsby's ex-

19.35

19.48 pense.

0. M. R.. W. Aver. Bowes

722.3.240 1328 92 14.43 322.3 94 913 54 10.90 Bradman maintains his bat- Leyland

Verity .997.3 366 2048 121 16.92 ting average at over the century Mayer 561.4 118 1486 85 mark to head the Australian fig-J. G. Clay..561 138 1423 81 .489.1 95 1145 63 ures, while Fleetwood Smith tops K. Farnes

628.4 134 1684 87 the Tourists' bowlers although Copson

.621 108 1905 98

The results, as cabled by Reuter, O'Reilly is right on his heels.

.1066.5 220 2711 136 19.93 ...978.5 221 2028 131 20.06 follow: 244 2421-119 20.34 1031

990.4 198 2752 185 20,38 Arsenal 593.5 902101 100 21.01 705.1 188 1782 83 21.46 Birmingham 1 ..719.2 132 2265 105 21.57 Blackpool

78 22.56 Bolton 656.5 131 1760

County Averages

Batting

(Qualification: 16 innings, average 35)

Times Highest Inns. N.O. Runs. Inns. Aver

The British Wightman Cup players, Miss K. Stammers and Miss Margot Lumb, two of the "seeded" overseas W. R. Ham- players, easily won their first matches in the

fourteenth

round mond

Hutton'

5

Pollard

Nichols

Smith (J.)

Wellard

Mitchell

Smailes

Andrews

Pope (G.H.)

.667.3 187 2219 98 22.64 Brentford .846.3 208 2120 92 28.04

Australian Averages

Batting

0 Everton

FIRST DIVISION

2

Portsmouth Sunderland

2

2 Charlton

2 Huddersfield

2 Wolves

1

Aston Villa

2

2

Preston

2 Stoke

2

1

2 Chelsea

3. Manchester U. 1

SECOND DIVISION

Blackburn

Coventry

Fulham

3 Tranmere

1 Burnley

3 West Ham

Wright Hollies 31 2. 2592

271.89.37 Boyes

.823.4 225 1995 86 29.17 Derby annual H. T. Bartlett 26 4 1358 175* 61.72 Perks .928.2 106 2877 124 23.20 Grimsby

.38 Essex Country Club women's invita- Edrich

4 1984 245 58.35 R. J. Crisp.295.3 37 1040 44 23.63 Leeds 40

1996 291 57.02 Sinfield 1138.3 291 2678 118 28.69

Leicester tion tournament on August 15. Miss Paynter

1012 187 Stammers beat Miss Mariette, Arguim-C. S. Dempster 18: 0

56.22 Smith (P.) 1015.1 195 2966 125 28.72 ..26 2 1341 204 55.87 beau, of Boston, by 6-1, 6-2, and Miss P. A. Gibb

Goddard

149 1807 76 23.77 Liverpool ....088

Middlesbro' 55.61 Lumb beat Mrs. Chatfield Whitman, Fagg

.43 4 2169 244

51.60 27 4 1187 180 of Boston, by 6-0 6-2.

Miss J. R. Thompson 18. 1- 858 101

50.47 In spite of the great heat

'702 137 50.14 impressive Stammers gave an

dis-T. N. Pearce..19.5 Miss Lumb also had a very Ames

..17 1 761 170 47.56 play. easy victory, but she faces a sterner Langridge

.44 4 1844 227 46.10 task in the next round, in which she

23

921 Andrus. D. B.

3

198 46.05 meets Mrs.

is J. M. Lómas .:21 1. 908.124 45.40 Stammers's next round opponent

.29 Mrs. Donald E. Cameron (Worcester, Hardstaff

4 1131 .46 6 .1798 Mass.), a former well-known Scottish Gibbons of Oldfield

0 Sheffield U. 137 44.82 A. L. Hassett 25 81371220* 02.31 .39 4 1569 player, and Canadian champion

Dollery

1234 ..33 5

2 Bury 134.44.07 C. L. Badcock 28 3 1924 198 52.96 some years ago.

6 3 124 37 41.38) Wednesday ,1095 B. H. Valentine 26 1

151 Second round results:-

43.80 C. W. Walker Miss Stammers (Great Britain) beat Compton (D.) 39 5 1472 163 43.29 S. J. McCabe 24 2 902 232 41:00 Southampton 1 Tottenham Mrs.

Cameron

.38 D. E.

(Worcester, Iddon

2 1499 185 41.63 J. H. Fingleton 27 1 1018 124 39.15 W. Bromwich 3 Luton

9 2 264 63 37.17 THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH) Washbrook .36 5 1272 Mass.), 6-0, 6-2.

219* 41.03 S. Barnes

104 28.26 Bournemouth 1 Crystal P..

3 Walsall · 120 37.93 Brighton

(John)

Miss Whitfield-

162

Highest Times

M'cester C.

Inns. N.O. Runs. Inns. Aver. Millwall 45.24 D. G. Bradman 25 52862 278 118.10 Newcastle 178 44.95] W. A. Brown 26 3 1550 265* 67,89] Norwich ·

Miss Lumb (Great Britain) beat Mrs. R. E. S. Wyatt 32 5 1106 121* 40.96 A. G. Chipper- .18 8

Fishlock

field 165 42 1.1677

40.90 37 4 1343 135 40.69 B. A. Barnett 19 4

D. B. Andrus (U.S.A.), 6-4, 6-4.

Mrs. H. C. Hopman (Australia) beat Leyland Miss Lilian Warren (Beverley Farms, Lee (F. S.)..48 5 1628 162 -40.21 M. G. Waite ..20 8. Mass.), 6-1, 6-1.

*

*

*

Raith Rovers' Costly

Lapses

Losing two goals within one minute Woolley

just before half-time

39 2 1336 162 36.10

after

having Parks (H. W.) 39 in the Martin Rovers Dyson

34

4 1257 114 35.91 4 1098 128* 35.25

43

424

100

Notts. E.

5 Swansea

3 Chesterfield

2 Plymouth

1 Bradford'

54 23.64 Bristol R.

3

Cardiff

38

12

* Not out. Bowling

Mansfield

1 Exeter

1 Newport

4 Southend

,1

Aldershot

2 Queen's Park 4 Notts. C. ··

1 Northampton

2 Bristol C. .

DIVISION: (NORTH)

2. Lincoln

419 402

42** 18.71 E. S. White. 12 3. 131 Langridge

105. 88 29 17.60 (James) .868 1107 156 39.53 F. Ward.

1 160 42 16.00 Clapton O. Sutcliffe .89 5 1321 142 38.85 W. J. O'Reilly 11

Ipswich 32 2 Worthington

1166 121: 38.35 L. O.B. Fleetwood-

.:14 6'

71 10 8.87 Port Vale O'Connor :42 3 1451 152 37:20 Smith Parks (J. H.) 41 3 1409 169 37.07 E. L. McCor-

.11 1

3.80 Reading mick

Swindon Geary1

6 878 116* 36,37 30

Torquay 0. M. R. W. Aver Watford more than held their own

3 1409 149 35.22 L. 0.B. Fleetwood-

82 16.122 THIRD Smith 416.3 83 1240

Barrow preceding exchanges, Raith were defeated by Ayr United at Mitchell (York-

951 *shire)

29 2

133 35.22 W. J.

O'Reilly Somerset Park, Ayr, on August 13

538.4 162 1327 87 15.25 Bradford C. .40 4 1264 137 35.11

...373.5 84 1182 63 18.70 Carlisle That notwith-Crapp

F. Ward by two goals.to one.

* Not out.

117 485 23 21.08 Chester E. S. White 287 standing, the Kirkcaldy side created a good impression on their return to

M. G. Waite 449.1 141 966 44 21.95

Crewe First Division football, and when they

easy A. G. Chipper-

18 155. 6 25.83 Doncaster. 54.1 Whitelaw

.field scored through

eighteen Gilmour all missing reasonably

Neither of the wingers.

7 *26 1 26.00 Halifax minutes from the end, there seemed chances. a possibility of them saving a point. Glen or Mackay, was at his best, and A. L. Hassett 17

Haywood E. L. McCor-

mick'

48978 33 .....290 Over-anxiety on the part of the for- Gilmour has played better. wards, who were prone to run off and Whitelaw were the best of the at-

S. J. McCabe 164 45 403 13 side, combined with some steady back tack.

Also bowled: C. L. Badcock, 2—0- The attendance was 10,000 in sunny play by Dyer and Strain, and sound

10-0. goalkeeping by Hall, prevented them weather. securing the wanted goal, in a rous- ing closing rally:

If for no other reason than the manner in which Yardley, the Ayr centre-forward, snapped up his two scoring chances, the home club de- served their win, although they had much for which to thank Hall in goal Yardley was, the best of the United front rank, which was decidedly weak on the loft. Dinumer, at inside right, might with advantage have played more to Ayr's only newcomer, Hope, from Clyde, who could not be judged on this game, so little did he got of the ball.

For the Rovers, M'Creadio' did well in goal, the Low, although beaten, on occasion by the subtle Yardley, justi fied his inclusionat centre-half, Allan gave a sound display at right back, and Baxter, and Cabrelli," the wing half-backs, recovered well-after While the defence. a shaky start.

3. OUTSTANDING BARGAINS

IN OUR

LAST WEEK OF SALE

་

6 Darlington 2. Hartlepools

1 Hull

3 Gateshead

1 York

3 Wrexham

1

2 Accrington

29.63 31.00)

New Brighton 0 Stockport Oldham Rotherham Southport

4 Barnsley

7 Rochdale

Arbroath

Ayr

Celtic

Genuine-Simco (made in England) TWIN STUDIO. COUCH."

1'only. Originally $350, To clear at

Simmon's Inner-spring Mattress.

Hair upholstered. Floating action of the Beautyrest pocketed colls.

$65, Originally $125. SALE

Marmet Folding Prams $118. SALE

$100.

Falkirk

SCOTTISH LEAGUE.

(FIRST DIVISION

Hibernian

Motherwell

Partick

4 Hamilton

1' Albion

1

Aberdeen

0 Clyde

2 Queen O'S.

5- Kilmarnock 3 Hearts

St. Johnstone 4 Queen's Purk St. Mirren. 1 Rangers Third Lanark 5 Ralth

SECOND DIVISION

1. Dundee U. Airdrie

5 Edinburgh Alloa Cowdenbeath 5 Leith Dumbarton

1 Morton

Dundee

East Fife

3 Sten'muir

7 East Stirling King's Park 1 Dunfermline

Forts

must take some blame following WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD. Montrose

Yardley his two score

ought to have had a lead

forward!

prior to that, 1 okay. Whitelaw, and

St. Bernard's 7-Brechin -

-Reuter.

1

ING2NOHNOOON: