COUNTY CRICKET

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28302, 13 June 1957, Page 15

COUNTY CRICKET

Laker And Lock In

Form For Surrey (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 11. J. C. Laker and G. A. R. Lock, the Surrey and England "spin twins." bowled Surrey, champions for the last five years, to the top of the county table at Nottingham today. Laker had his best return of the season—seven for 16—after Lock had demoralised Nottinghamshire with his seven for 49 in the first Innings. The victory put Surrey on top with 90 points, six ahead of Derbyshire. Laker took five <of the last six Nottinghamshire wickets for only two runs in 8.5 overs (seven maidens). Those six wickets added only 20 runs and Surrey won by an innings and 119 runs.

Another splendid bowling performance came from Northamptonshire’s Australian slow left-arm spinner. Jack Manning, who celebrated his thirty-third birthday today by taking five Leicestershire wickets for 48 at Northampton to give the home county an innings victory. Leicestershire was out for 133 In their second innings with Michael Allen, another left-arm slow bowler, taking three for 24 in support of Manning. . Colin McCool, Somerset’s Australian all-rounder, hit 101 not out in 150 minutes against Gloucestershire. Scores:— Northamptonshire two for 277 declared beat Leicestershire 115 and 133 (Manning five for 48) by an innings and 29 runs. Surrey four for 303 declared beat Nottinghamshire 125 and 59 (Laker seven for 16) by an innings and 119 runs. Warwickshire 236 and one for 130 (Gardner 55) beat Derbyshire 190 and 172 (Hollies five for 47) by nine wickets. Hampshire six for 343 declared and one for 180 declared (Marshall 103; Gray 56 not out) drew with Kent, eight for 344 declared and four for 61. Essex 199 and eight for 250 (Insole 150 not out) drew with Worcestershire 331. Somerset 207 and five for 230 declared (McCool 100 not lout) drew with Gloucestershire 327. Yorkshire 153 and 183 (Illingworth 53; Tattersail five for 51) drew with Lancashire 113 and nine for 175. Free Foresters nine for 306 declared and five for 126 declared beat Cambridge University seven for 231 declared and 186, by 15 runs. Clergyman’s “Sing-Song” Many Gothic-type cathedrals designed in imitation of a medieval church had atmosphere, but were notoriously bad for sound, said Mr Clive Sansom, the visting English poet, in Auckland. “They are the main cause,” he said, “of what is sometimes called ‘clergyman’s sing-song’—the artificial inflection and pronunciation adopted as a means of being heard at all and which has possibly driven more people out of the churches than the fear of hellfire has driven in.”