COUNTY MATCHES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 28, 2 August 1926, Page 4

COUNTY MATCHES

KAIN HOLDS UP GAMES. 1 .

(Router's Telegram.)

'■I LONDON, 30th July.' ' .■Bain fell all over England, generally interfering .with county fixtures.

; Lancashire, playing-against Essex at Leyton, in the first innings made 359 (Makepeace 140, Hallows 67), O'Con-. ior taking five wickets for .81 runs. Essex, in tho -first innings, made 77, Iddon taking four wickets for 23, and in tho second 129, Macdonald taking six wickets for 52. Lancashire won by an innings and 153 runs.

.';' Playing against Kent at Blackheath, Middlesex, in the first innings made 72, irVright taking sixwickets for 29, and in the second 146, Marriott taking six 'wickets for 36. Kent; in the first iniings, made 95, Haig taking six wickets for 43, and in the second lost eight wickets for 125, Haig taking six wiciets for 54. Kent won by two wickets.,

"-, Hampshire, in the first innings igainst Notts at Nottingham, made 222 ;(Brown 56), Staples taking four wickets for 4.0, and in the second declared -with five wickets down for 271 (Mead, Snot out, 103). Notts, in the first mr Jungs, made 186 (Whysall' 52, George :Gunn.so), Kennedy taking four wickets •for 41, and Boycs five for 60, and in "the second innings lost no wickets for ;126 (George Gunn, not out, 74, Whysail, not out, 50). , Tho match was •drawn.

■ Sussex, in the first innings against at Bath, made 194 (Bowley 3.01), Hunt taking seven wickets for !61, and in the second innings declared ,with four wickets down for 122. Somerset, in tho first innings, scored 110, ?A. E. Gilligan taking four wickets for "59, and Mate four for 41, and in the Second innings lost nine wickets for ;161 (Maeßryan 58), Gilligan taking six -wickets for 45. Tho match was drawn.

•■■ Playiag for Worcestershire against Derbyshire, at Ilkeston, Fox made .105 jftot out, and Root in the first innings :took 5 for 56, and iv tho second G for :,83. For Derbyshire, Norton took 5 for #4. Derbyshire won.

- Playing for Yorkshire against G'ou."'•cestershire at Bristol, Macaiilay in tho -first innings took six wickets for 49, .'and in second eight for 43. For '.Gloucestershire. Porker took six ;'.wickets for !)5. 'Yorkshire won. '• Slaving for Glamorgan against Lci•cestcrshii'c at Swansea, Walters made 11.4 not cut, and Ryan took rive for 43. "For Leicestershire, Astil), in the first

innings, took five for 42, and in the second six for 68. Leicestershire won.

Playing for Nortkants against Warwickshire at Northampton, Timms scored 128, Walden 122, and Jupp took six wickets for 112. For Warwickshire, Parsons scored 171 and Wyatt took five for 75.