OVERSEAS SPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 152, 30 June 1927, Page 7

OVERSEAS SPORT.

Yorkshire Beaten By Kent On First Innings.

MORE CENTURIES

LONDON, June 20. Rain generally interfered with all the matches in the county cricket championships. Details of the games arc:— Marylebonc v. Cambridge.—Marvlebone first innings 295 (Hcndren G7, Ivdd 52). Cambridge first innings 228 (Longfield 71). Match drawn.

Somerset v. Surrey.—Somerset first innings 148.'Surrey first innings IS3 fo.' six wickets (Barling 07). Match abandoned. Kent v. Yorkshire.—Kent first innings 243 (Valentine CO). Jacques took four wickets for 39. Sccond 10 for one wicket. Yorkshire first innings 131 (Wright took five- wickets for 45, Woolley four for 35). Kent won on the first innings. Batting for Hampshire against Northants Mean made 141. Newman took sixwickets for 48. For Northants Adams made 154 not out. Hampshire won. Bowling for Leicester against Warwick Skclding took five wickets for 01. Match drawn. For Notts against Gloucester Whysall made 117 not out. Voce took five wickets for 37. For Gloucester Parker took six wickets for 111. Notts won. For Sussex against Worcester J. Parks took five wickets for 39. For Worcester Root took seven wickets for G2. Sussex won. For Oxford against Leveson-Gower's eleven Holmes made 13li not out and took six. wickets for 55. Oxford won. (A. ancl N.Z. aiid_Sydney "Sun.")

COLOUR WAR.

African Natives Demand Equal Pay. *

" DRIVE WHITE MEN OUT."

CAPETOWN, June 29. Inflammatory speeches made by officials of the Native Trade Union in South Africa culminated in a lightning strike of natives at the Natal coal mii.es for higher wages. Tho strike was a failure, but the position in other parts of the country is serious.

Thousands of natives have organised themselves into a trade union and claim eight shillings a day for work on farms The natives are demanding the same rato of pay for all kinds of labour, and are indulging in extravagant language. Some agitators are saving that they will (jrive the white men out of l the country.

RESPITE GRANTED,

COMMUNISTS' CONVICTION,

(Received 9 a.m.) BOSTON, J'»:ie 29. Governor Fuller, of Massachusetts, has announced that 30 days respite will be granted to the Italians Sacco and Vanzetti, who were convicted of the murder of a pay clerk in Massachusetts six years ago, and who were sentenced last April to death by electrocution during the second week in July. The respite has been granted in order that the investigation now being conducted into the men's conviction may ho completed.

The trial of these men has dragged on for years, while strenuous efforts io obtain their release have been made by Communists, who allege that the men were tried less for murder than as being engaged in fomenting industrial unrest and class war.

POPE GETS FRIGHT.

SELLS HORSES—BUYS CAES

(Received 12 noon.) ROME, June 29. The Pope is dispensing with his horses and has bought a motor car. This is due to an accident during his daily drive, the horses taking fright and crashing into a marble column.