COUNTY MATCHES

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 10

COUNTY MATCHES

INTERFERENCE BY RAIN

SEVERAL POOR TOTALS

(Received June 8, 10 a.m.) i LONDON, June ft.

Rain seriously interfered with 'the county cricket championship matchies, and batsmen found themselves in dlifficulties on damaged wickets.

Several sides were dismissed i for under 100, M.C.C. falling to Warwickshire for .70; Derbyshire to Worcesltershire for 54; and Hampshire to Yorkshire for 63. In the LeicestershjireGloucestershire and Cambridge Univer-sity-Somerset matches all of the first innings failed to produce 100 runsj. SUTCLIFFE ECLIPSES GRACK. The best score of the series was)put up by Yorkshire against Hampshire, the northern county declaring its first innings closed with a score of 315 \ 4>r five wickets. The principal contributor was H. Sutcliffe, who scored an ewn century. It was his 127 th century in first-class cricket, and enabled him to eclipse the record of W. G. Grace. > '. [The distinction of having scored, Itie most hundreds in first-class cricket, belongs to J. B. Hobbs, whose thireefigure scores total, 197. Then comfl E. Hendren 149, C. P. Mead 147, and P. E. Woolley 133. At the end of i last season Sutcliffe had scored 123 Centuries.] i At the head of the bowlers who.' put up outstanding performances was. H. Verity (Yorkshire), who took seven wickets cheaply in both innings. Seven wickets were also taken in an innings by C. Parker (Gloucestershire) and Andrews (Somerset). .; Results are:— .M.C.C. v. Warwickshire, at Lorcf's.— MC.C. 70 (Mayer five for 32, IJaine five for 20). Warwickshire 38 for Itwo. The match was drawn. i Surrey v. Sussex, at the Oval.—(Surrey 149 (J. Parks six for 45). Sijssex 80 for one wicket. The match was drawn. Worcestershire v. Derbyshire,, at Worcester.— Derbyshire 197 and 54 (Howorth six for 16, Jackson foul: for 14). Worcestershire 161 (Mitchell' five for 56) and 91 for one. Worcester/shire won by nine wickets. i Lancashire v. Glamorgan, at Blackburn.—Lancashire 212. Glamorgan 27 for two. The match was drawr* Hampshire v. Yorkshire, at H^all:—• Hampshire 63 (Verity seven for 31) and 117 (Verity seven for 47). Yorkshire 315 for five, declared (Sutyliffe 100, Mitchell 90). Yorkshire wo*i by an innings and 135 runs. j Leicestershire v. Gloucestershire, at Gloucester.—Leicestershire 97 (C.'j Parker seven for 49). Gloucestershire 72 (Smith four for 27, Geary four iop 44). Leicestershire won on the first inrjings. Oxford University v. Minor Counties.— at Oxford.—Oxford 169 for 'lour. The match was drawn. \ Cambridge University v. Somerset, at Cambridge.—Cambridge 96 /((Andrews seven for 29) and 292 for six declared (Tindall 117). Somerset 66 (Rought-Rought five for 41) and 160. Cambridge won by 162