CRICKET IN ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 19275, 14 June 1926, Page 2

CRICKET IN ENGLAND

COUNTY MATCHES PretJ Aisociatlon— By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 11. Rain generally interfered with the county matches. ' Lancashire against Middlesex scored 226 for six wickets (Makepeace 85, E. T\ Wesley 55). The match was abandoned. Cambridge 106 (Larwood took lour for 2, including the hat trick); Notts 265 (Payton 80, Turner 81: Irvine sis for 90). The match was abandoned. Somerset: First innings, 234 (Young 62; KennedyOtook six for 87); second innings, 34. for two. Hampshire: First innings, 347 (Mead 161; White six tor 100). The match was abandoned. Playing for Yorkshire against Glamorgan, Macauley took in the first innings six for 29, and in the second six tor 42. Yorkshire won. Playing for Sussex against Gloucester Cox took six for 45. The match was drawn. —Reuter. Ireland, playing Oxford, scored 221 runs in the first innings. Serrurior took four for 59. Oxford in the first innings made 285 for five wickets. The match was drawn. Playing for Kent against Derby, Hardinge made 136, and Wright took five for 36, The match was drawn.— A. and N.Z. Cable. HENDRY RECOVERING LONDON, Juno 11. Hendry (who took ill shortly after the arrival of the Australians in England) is recovering, and hopes to leave the hospital in a few days.—Reuter, BRITAIN’S CHIEF INTEREST NATIONAL CRISIS OVERSHADOWED. Pres® Association— By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 12. A curious editorial in the ‘ Daily Herald ’ imagines the historian of tho future writing; “At the crisis in the national industry, when there were 2,500,000 unemployed, tho chief interest of tho population of England, according to most newspapers or the period, was a cricket match. The merits of tiro players representing England and Australia wore everywhere discussed, and the most elaborate arrangements were made for reporting the match. Every other topic was overlooked. Anyone would suppose that tho nation was never more prosperous or more untroubled.” The editorial proceeds: “It is no use to lament the hold that teste have on the public imagination. What we have to do is to train up a generation that will not be prevented by pleasant things like cricket from attending to things that really matter.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. LATEGT AVERAGES LONDON, June 12, The following are tho latest urstclass averages BATTING.

C. V. Grimmett is placed twentyfourth, with an average of 19.95, having taken twenty wickets for .399 runs. S. C. Everett is at the bottom of the list, with an average of 34.0(1, having taken six wickets for 208 runs.—A. and K.E. Cable.

>/. tp c; "z 6 | u p 47 . £3 J. M. Gregory ... 12 6 494 82.33 If. L. Hendry 0 130 69.50 K. Hendren 16 5 7 HI 69. IS H. T. W. Hardinge 11 I I'llIS 60.80 W. M. Wood full ... 12 .1. 053 59.36 A. Snnrlham Id 1 785 56.07 — Brown 35 1 734 56.1X1 G. T. P. Stevens n 1 527 52.70 T. F. Shepherd ... 15 1 696 40.71 A. J. Richardson 9 5 197 40.25 C. P. Mead 14 1 629 48.38 T. J. E, Andrews 18 2 530 48.18 G. G. Msc.art.ner occupies twentythird place, with an average of 42.11. BOWLING Wkts. Runs. Aver. W. Rhodes 4} 428 9.72 M. Cox ... ... 2o 287 , 11.48 A. J. Richardson 28 328 11.71 T. L. Richmond 57 681 11.94 II. Tyldesley 40 481 12.05 11. Larwood 43 544 12.65 C. G. Macaulay 53 604 13.09 C. G. Macnrtnev 30 .896 13.20 M. \V. Tate ’... of) 783 1.3.27 C. H. Parkin ... 68 1,004 14.76