MIDDLESEX LEADS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 20

MIDDLESEX LEADS.

DUEL WITH YORKSHIRE NECK-AND-NECK STRUGGLE. FEATDKES OF IJtTE COUNTRY :? /;- : :. series. -(Received 10 a.m.): .' ' LONDON, August 24, By defeating .Kent, Middlesex gained 15 points, and has established a lead of 2.38 points over Yorkshire in the neck-and-neck struggle for the counties' championship. Both teams have still to play two matches. It is uncertain whether the challenge match between the two teams will be played, as Yorkshire has not yet officially endorsed- it.

The outstanding feature of the series of county cricket matches which began on Saturday were L. B. Fishlock's feat in scoring two separate hundreds against Yorkshire, at the Oval; C. J. Barnett's double century for Gloucestershire against Lancashire, and the second successive three-figure score for Somerset .by J. H. Cameron; the youthful West Indian who represented Cambridge University against Oxford 'in- 19135 and 1936 and took all ten wickets for the .Rest v. Lord's Schools in "the annual match in 1932. and ..principal performances:— Middlesex: First innings, 277 (Hendren 60). Second innings, seven for 325 declared (Hart'.'" 118).. '-'Kent:' First innings, 173 (Ames 73). Second innings, 358 (Chalk 107, Ames 90; Robins five for 49). Middlesex won by 71 runs. V / Yorkshire: First innings, 463 (Hutton 73, Ley land 77, Yardley 101). Surrey: First innings, 273 (Fielilock 113). Second innings (followed on), six for 295 (Fishlock 105, Gregory 109). Yorkshire won on the first innings. Somerset: First innings, 411 (Cameron 413,':Meyer 125);. Second innings, six for 188 declared. Sussex: First innings, 401 (J-.. Parks -.112). • Second innings, three for 9. Somerset won on tne first innings. Leicestershire: First innings, 152 (Clay six tor 66). Second innings, 217 (Matthews i f ?, r |8). Glamorgan: First innings, I r ' j Davies 88)/ Second innings, one tor M. Glamorgan won by nine wickets.

; iriningß, (Nichols 79, ,^® rc ;Hodge 108). Second innings, five for 241 (Avery lffll) Notts: First innings, 340 (Keeton 136, Gunn 86; Farries five for 90).: Essex won on. the first innings. . Gloucestershire: First innings, 427 (Barnett 232; Phillipoon six for 97) Second, .innings, four for -204 declared" Lancashire: First innings, 230 (Iddon 114)! Seqbnd."innlng»,. 186 (Goddard seven for I':'; 1 Gloucester won by 215 runs. _ .First innings,' -351 (J upp 84), Second inlungs; 195 (Hollies five for Firßt jnnings, eight for 3&1 declared (Groom 177), Second innings, one Tor 157. Warwickshire won by nine wickets. -V.;... . Derbyshire . (1936* champions): First Second innings, 270 (Worthmgton 75). Woreeste re hir e ; First Second innings, 215 (Kimpton 106). Derbyshire won by 45 rune.