CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 5

CRICKET.

KENT SECOND TO YORKSHIRE, ■ (BI i^LEGBAPH—rRESS ASSOCIATION^COPYniGnT.) London, August 27. Kent has secured second placi in tho epunty •championship after' a sepsi&ional victory nver ..Middlesex, Woplley '. tilling six wickets for 8 runs, ' ■ i Gloucester Surrey, who are now thjrd, 1 . . [ The result of the county championship, according to the-above'and the. preceding message, is to place Yorkshire first; • Kent, second, and Surrey third., Middlesex, which for some time stood even with Kent and ; Susoy for second place, goes back a stage, mainly through the agency ,of IV E, Woolley, a brillibt colt of 1006, who in 1007. 'was' sixth on] Kent's batting list with. 1081 runs, average 28,72. In 18Q7 he was a failure as a bowler,' taking only 16 wickets at a cost of 32,37 runs apiece "Wiaden, ip pointing out that AVoblley's JOl7 form was not up. to his promise of 1900, ladmi'ts that youth is on his side j and the capture pf pis Middlesex wickets' for 8 runs shorn that he can'be a deadly trundler, Whop tie last English mail left,' however, he :vad hptTin the first flight either in batting or'bowling.