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FINE GAME AT LORD'S
Eton's Struggle To Save The Match
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 18: Lords. The annual match between Eton and Harrow, which was concluded here yesterday, resulted in a drawn g.me, but, the honours fairly rested In each innings with Harrow. they had been threatened with disaster, and had fought back fine- ly, refusing to be throttled down Inte
Indeed.
defence. passive throughout the match they gave the impression of a side determin-
ed to all out for victory or
go perish in the attempt.
Their attack
collectively Was better than Eton's. though they had no bowler as dangerous as Rees-Davies. In batting they were probably less sound than their Tivais, but they had more strokes and were readler to play them. Studd's Innings stood out by itself In the match..
and
Eton were certainly a better side than they looked yesterday, but their batting is in danger of be- coming seriously infected by the mcdern views of two-shouldered defence. The elder Mann showed admirable nerve resource in the crisis of the evening. but Collins's case for movement and stroke-play perhaps left the hap- plest impression."
The first half-hour SW steady.
competent 20d.
batting against bowling of the same Cal- bre. Kaye made an occasional ball come back sharply, while Bond ran several away: off one Kerrison profited by an unsuccessful plece of jugglery between
and second silp, while off two more the ball sped for tour between slip and wicketkeeper. Neither bowler used or needed an extra cover.
first
some
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follows:
U.S. BASEBALL JACK LOVELOCK
Giants Continue
To Win
New York, Aug. 4.° The New York Giants' baseball team continues to increase its ad-
BEATEN
Special Mile Race
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London. Aug. 4. Jack Lovelock, the New Zealand
the sensational Wooderson, 04, I was stopped. The scores were as vantage over the other competing / miler, was again beaten to-day by clubs and a double-header to-day Blackheath Harriers, In a special gave them another two victories: mile race at Glasgow, before a their opponents being the Boston tumultuous crowd of 50,000 persona Braves,
Stephens
P. Morganl E. J. Edwards E Tuck. (skip)
Dobson
Concerto over Carris survived appeal for a catch at the wicket. Wilson had his stumps scattered to the winds, and in his third over Carris cut a Hising ball so hard that appeal was superfluous, Har- row had their backs now vergingy on a wall, and when Turnbull, who
S. Strange L De Rome riad shaped quite well edged a length ball to give Fisher his
F. Haynes second, and Rees-Davies his third (skip)...... wicket, with the total no more J. H. Gelling than 25, Eton were jubilant. Rees F. H. Glover Davies was bowling with rare fre
A. Jackson and commendable accuracy, but
A Brooksbank the wicket was so good that he had
(Skip) only made one ball lift to irregular Studd on the beight: this hit shoulder, but did not deter him from hitting the next Armly past cover for 4.
M R. Abbas M. el Arculli
D. 'M. Khan
A. R. Minu
12
(Skip)
A. K. Minu
11
11
Total
94
8. M. Rumjahn M. Adal
A. M. Rumjahn
(Skip)
A. H. Madar
9
14
A. M. Rumjahn
A. H. Rumlahn
A. R. Dallah
(Skip)
The Glants nad their opponents. completely out-played in the first game but in the second the Braves actually registered more hits than did the New York outfit but the Boston club
convert could only eight hits into one run while the Giants scored three runs from 'seven hits.
it
The Chicago Cubs, second to the Giants, shared a double header with Cincinnati Reds while St. Louis Cardinals, who were third, Total 33 twice wou from the Pirates and
'now displace the Cubs...
Phillies The Dodgers and the were engaged in a double header. the honours being shared.
The Harrow captain, Indeed.dence that Duveen had straighten-
thoroughly looked
undismayed. ed the ball. With half their side out for 48 and fifty minutes still to go, and Kaye and Daveen bowling with real accuracy, Eton was really up against it. Mann was out in a probably unprecedented in way cricket. He had played a bali of Duveen's down onto his crease, then turned and tapped it back- the to give it to presumably wicket-keeper; it hit the stumpa and Newman had no option but to give him out, "bowled."
and from the start took the eye with his unfashionable readiness to play forward and off drive: his one weakness was the tendency to get off the line of and so miss the ball wide of the leg stump. At 3.20 the next sensation occurred: from a full pitch from the younger Mann (Pavilion end) Studd gave a very difficult chance to deep square leg: two balls later he fell over in playing forward, and hurt his knee, and the very next ball should have been easily run out by cover. point, but the return was a very wide yorker!
Whenever he dropped one the right length, Mann looked threa- tening to either "batsman, but as a rule the margin of the length, was materially wider than his father's back, and the Harrovians thankfully helped themselves to a series of fours. Harrow
Before, 4 p.m..|
The Harrow Leiders crowded in on be batsmen. Kaye and Duveen went on bowling a length, Cassa- vetti gave a chance at the wicket with 12 minutes still to go, and then-Collins broke the tension by glancing Kaye to leg for four and hitting the next two balls glorious.. ly through the covers; and the game was över.
!!
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HARROW
First Innings had reached 100, and B. D. Carris, b Rees-Davies Studd 50, and repetition of their G. R. R. Wilson, e Macindoe, b..
Rees-Davies Arst inning's recovery seemed well on the way.
Detroit Tigers also continue to increase their lead in the Ameri- can League, winning from the Cleveland Indians while the New York Yankees, their nearest rivals, were beaten by the Washington Senators, Results follow:
of
to-day's
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston
matches
R HE
2
8 2 0 "12 New York
Wally Berger scored a home run for the Braves and Jackson for the Gians}"
Boston
New York
'
1 8 0 3 7. 0
Philadelphia
(Ieslie scored a home run for the Dodgers)..
Brooklyn Philadelphia
4 10
1
1 8
11
Brooklyn
4 15
1
5 B ม
43
M. T. Turnbull, e Jackson, h
Rees-Davies Such Harrow hopes received a
0
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Chicago
1
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Cincinnati
5
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43
88
Chicago.
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8 1
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Eton were climbing into comfort when Kerrison lifted his head and was bowled trying to drive Duveen; the wicket bad added 72 invaluable runs. Back came Bond and Kaye, the former to bowl with commend-rude shock when Stogdon, who had P M. Studd, b Rees-Davies able fire and no great luck, the made some fine strokes, but nevera. A. Stogdon, e Rees-Davies, b
Macindoe `..... latter less accurate in direction looked too secure, was bowled play. than the new ball warrants. But ing no particular stroke at all, and W. R. H Joynson, b Wild ..... Wild found a length ball to go up M. D. Watson, c Jackson, b it was he who got the wicket, and
'open Macindoe the hill through Joynson's Cassaveti, playing forward, as is his wont, with overmuch right gate." Undeterred by the M A. C. P. Kaye, c Rees-
Davies, b Wia hand edged a length break-back creasing "burden on his shoulders. into his stumps. He had served Studd never wavered: two grand the state well and played very drives off Rees-Davies went racing competently on the on-side, Bond's past mid-off to the Pavillon bank, fil-luck pursued him, and at 12.30 and tea at 4.30 saw Harrow "85 we saw Duveen and Carris, hardly ahead with half their wickets to R. E. Whetherly, not out
Extras an ideal contrast, on together.
A GREAT CATCH Eton, it seemed, could now well afford some enterprise, but though Collins, who stands and moves like ericketer, seemed willing enough, the Eton captain was rather full-chested and impassive. Just as the game seemed drifting into an impasse." Daveen made a grand catch, and that from a hard drive by Collins, whe-had played an innings of unquestionable pro- mise, and eight wickets were down for 261.
fall.
AGGRESSIVE BATTING
Tea failed to reanimate the Eton attack, and some loose bowl- ing encouraged Studd
to make
A H. C. Duveen, c and b Rees-
Davies
R. N. Bond, e J. P. Mann, b
F. G. Mann
Davies
Total
Second Inntags
more fine drives, and. Watson to B. D. Carris, e Fisher. b Rees- forget the early anxieties through which he had fought with credit. G. R. R. Wilson, Rees-Davies c Fisher, b Indeed. by 5.15 Harrow were at M. T. Turnhull, tacking the ball with an aggression
Rees-Davies
that suggested that they were the P. M. Studd, not out........ attacking side: 60 runs came in G A. Stogdon, b Macindoe... less than forty minutes, the elder W R. H. Joynson, b Wild Mann supplying the major quota,
The second 100 game before 5.30
5309
6
Cincinnati (Herman scored a home run for The Reds),
The Englishman, Wooderson, was wel in front of his rival, and his ime was four minutes 12 7/10 sec- ends, as compared with Lovelock's four minutes 15 3/5 seconds.
Lovelock, who recently soundly beat Bonthron and Cunningham. the American mile ace, in the 80- called "Mule of the Century" had
'Cunningham naturally been looked upon as the fastest mller living holds the record for the mile. But Wooderson showed the New Zea- ander his heels in a driving Anish to-day. The was Britain's "Mile of the Century" and a much more sensational event than thas which Lovelock won with ease in America a few weeks...ugo.`
GRUELLING FINISH Wooderson's victory was not un- expected. He beat Lovelock not long ago in an invitation mile, and the suggestion of some that Love- look 'WES out of form and that Wooderson's win was a "duke" was swept away by is impressive. -TA- peat win.
Starting run scratch Wooderson and Lovelock raced side by side. following Reeve, of the Polytechnic Harriers, who had a twelve yard start, and Riddell, of Shettleton a thirty-five Harriers, who had
yards start. Reeve, who won. was only five yarris ahead of the streak- ing Wooderson, whose legs moved like pistons in the las terrific drive he made. Wooderson was twelve
yards in front of Lovelock' at the tape, although the New Zealander was coming at top speed, fully ex- tended-
Reuter.
ROYAL MARINES HONOURED
To Be Backingham Palace Guards
The Royal Marines, of which the Ang is Colonel-in-Chief, consider
Pittsburgh **********
3. 10 H 12 3 St. Louis
themselves highly honoured in be- (Young scored a home run forange chosen to provide the guards
the
ac Buckingham Palace and other 15 the Pirates and. Frisch for
were 18 Cardinals There ten in- points in the Metropolis during August and September, while, the 24 nings).
tamous Guards engage in Army inaboeuvres. The actual guard will muster over 200 of all ranks. while the band accompanying them will be made up to a strength of soune ou men, including the drum- mers--!
249
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
11
5
9 0
8 14
2
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia
R. H. E.
6 13 1
7 13
4
(Higgins scored a home run for the Ahieties and Cronin and Wil lams for the Red Sux).
2
0
Boston...
7
100
33
1"
Philadelphia
M, D. Watson, e and b J. P..
Manu
Boston
..48
M. A. C P. Kaye, not out .......
Extras
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St. Louis
15
Chicago.
Total (6 wkts. dec.)... 204
the White Sox).
St. Louis
Chicago
10
*ETON First innings
It was open to speculation, whe-p.m., and then Watson hit against ther Eton would sacrince their last a short legbreak, with the off-side two wickets in order to get Harrow gaps yawning for the 4 that would io for a nasty twenty minutes be- have given him his 58, and return- fore lunch: they did not go so far ed it quietly to the younger Mann. as that, but Fisher did begin to He had played a valuable and attack the bowling, and with most gallant innings Studd's 100 Kaye's feld well-nigh divided be- tween off and on runs, though the gaps were coming at a good rate. when Duveen, diving to his right and falling on his shoulder, made a glorious catch at cover point.
The two Eton fast bowlers in- a to preter calculably decided little quiet batting practice to ten minutes assault on Harrow before lunch, and the stream of early lunchers wended its way to the tents On the practice-ground, secure in the knowledge that hoti ing that mattered could how possi- bly happen till 2.15. Wild, having curbed his not inconsiderable hit ting powers for twenty minutes, holed out quietly at second slip Just before 1.30
this fourth this season) and de-F. G. Mann, b Kaye claration followed immediately; he JB, Jackson, è Duveen, b Kaye had played a grand innings both J. A B. Dickson, run out...... for his side and as an entertain-D. A Macindoe, e Carris, b
Duveen ment, and in these "safety first"
days it is a real delight to see a A. J. 8. Cassavetti, b Kaye".... school captain take fortune by the J. P. Mann, b Kaye'
40
4 11 3. в 0
3
10 11 2
4 2 10 (Radeln scored a home run for
4
1
(Burns and Cif scored
0 runs for the White Sox).
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The ranks and band units will begin to assemble at Eastney this week, before leaving for Indon middle of August. about the Detachments will be sent from Ply- mouth Portsmouth, Chatham, and Deal, with Lieat. Col. T. L. Hun ton, of Portsmouth, a former ad- jutant at Plymouth, as the com- mauding officers. The adjutant will be Capt. R. F. Cornwall, of Chatham.
To the band the Plymouth Divi- sion will contribute about twenty inusicians, the others being drawn from Portsmouth and Chatham. The musical director will be Capt. P. S. G Q Donnell, formerly of home Plymouth and now of the Chatham
Division.
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10 14 2 11 12 1
(Selkirk scored a home run for
New York
43
Washington
49
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19
the Yankees).
34
33
Cleveland
33
Detroit
B
2
Extras
27
Total
208
Second Innings
beard, and a batsman, recognise a R. G. G. Kerrison, b Duveen half-volley for what it has always v Collins, c'and b Duveen... been. and, pace many moderns, B M. Fisher, c Duveen, b Kaye V. L. Wild, e Wilson, b Kaye. still ls.
There were 105 minutes left W. R. Rees-Davies, not out when Eton went in with 157 runs needed for victory. Forty minutes later there were still 130 neaded, Jackson had fallen to a horrid ball from Kaye that went up the hill
like a flash. Harrow had bowled F. G. Maru, b Duveen very steadily, and Eton had shown J. B. Jackson, b Kaye
no inclination to go for the runs. J. A. B. Dickson, e Duveen, d
Kaye... With an hour to go Dickson seem-
UP AGAINST IT
Extras:
SHIP CUT INTO TWO SECTIONS
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Bridges pitched for the Tigers). Reuter
STELLA WALSH SETS. NEW RECORD
Warsaw, August 5.
A new world record for 200 metres was established here by Miss Stella Walsh who covered this distance in 23-6/10 seconds, lower ing her own previous record time by 2/10 second-fleuter.
Q
5
A
13 Watson
29
12 Duveen
Stogdon Carrie
Total" (8 wkts).
BOWLING ANALYSIS Harrow-First Innings -
94
Of the Harrow bowlers Kaye was much the most successful, but ed to feel that he was well enough D. H. Macindoe, b Kaye.... Bond deserved nearly as many in to launch an attack; he played A J. 8. Cassavetti, not out ... wickets and had heart-breaking a fine forcing stroke past mid-on JP. Mann. lbw,b Duveen luck with the ball that moved for four, and then went for an off- R. G. G. Kerrison, b Duveen down the hill and beat the bat drive only to fall to another V. Collins; not out It might have paid to give him a magnificent catch by Duveen, who chance from the Pavilion end, dived at the ball at cover. Duveen was steady and intelligent, without looking dangerous. Con- sidering the dificulties of the sur- face, the Harrow telding was live #ly and good, "Duveen's two catches will be long remembered. Whether ly let a good number of byes, mainly on the leg side, but wicket wards point to play a straight Macindoe
length ball towards squars-leg: JP Ma missed it and was bowled. Mann F G. Man Junior joined his senior moved down the pitch to his third ball were early thrills after and missed It the umpire's con- Bond Raes Dadey first demnation may be taken as ev!- Kaye
keepers, who are the only real fudges of their own mystery, ap- proved of his method.
ETON JUBILANT
The next ball knocked Macin- doe's off-stump out of the ground, and the applause, which so far had been Ironically perfunctory, burst into partisan violence, to be soon Rees-Davies renewed when Kerrison walked to Wild
Harrow
Rees-Davies LA MARAW. [Wild:
|3|66|3|| Macindoe
19 5 48 2 J. P. Ma 247 532 FG.
55 0
First Innings
Bond ORM W. Kaye 2898470
* 91.2 10 01
310
67 3.
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0
4 10 0
Second "Innings
R. M. W
5 47 3 38 1 383
45.
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