SPORT IN BRITAIN

Evening Star, Issue 19387, 22 October 1926, Page 4

SPORT IN BRITAIN

•*—*— ■—- [Fro a Our B.vcusa ConiiEsroxDEXT.] ■ 1 Sopteriihcr 1. NEW CRICKET. CH AMP lONS. Much depended oh the result of the cricket. matches this week, in which Yorkshire and Laiicaslii.ro were concerned. The former forced a fine win against Glamorganshire, a _ drying wicket so favoring the Yorkshire bowlers that the Glamorgan, batsmen were all out for 76 runs in their second innings. This win by IUO runs was largely duo to Macaulay, who took seven wickets for 62 runs, a fmo bowlt ing feat, oven considering the assistance he got from the stale of the pitch. Meanwhile Lancashire beat Notts by ten wickets, a result which gave the Lancashire men tile county championship. Makepeace ISO and Ernest Tyldesley 140 were the big scorers iq Lancashire’s first iiihihgs total of 454, whilst in the second innings of Notts Macdonald took six wickets for SO runs. . At one time it looked as though Yorkshire would Win the comity honors for the fifth year iu succession, bijt during the last few Weeks Lancashire gained sonic fine victories, Whilst Yorkshire slipped back when Surrey took points for a first innings load in a drawn match at the Oval. Lancashire claims seventeen wins out of thirty-two matches played, with only two defeats, giving a ■ perceritage of points of 75.71. Yorkshire enjoys an unbeaten record, and claims fourteen wins out of thirty games, percentage 74.28. This will be improved should the final match with Somerset result in a win, but the lead Of Lancashire cannot bo wiped out. . It is just as well for the general interest that the championship has gone to another county, and it is as long ago as 1904 that Lancs last won. It is someWnta remarkable that the champion comity of the season'was not represented in the final test match against Australia. This was the faujt of tli© selcctoys, who ignored public form in leaving out E. Tyldesley, the third best batsman in the country on current form, and It. TyldeSlcy from the bowlers, the latter ranking third in the merit list. A NEW RECORD FOR HOBBS. _ Jack Hobbs has stated that, ho is unlikely to take part in any more test matches, yet his performances this season make him stand out as the batsman of the year, including the famous players oh a visit from Australia. Playing against Middlesex at Lord’s this week, ho scored 316 not out, Which is his highest hillings and also one more than the previous record score, by Holmes, of Yorkshire, at Lord’s. He was batting just Under seven hours, and hit forty-one 4’s. The highest innings iu England is 424, by A. C. Maclaren for Lancs v. Somerset, at Taunt-oil, in 1885, but W. H. Ponsford eclipsed this at Melbourne in' 1923, when he scored 421) for Victoria against Tasmania., Another popular cricketer in E. Woolley batted splendidly f or Kent against Northamptonshire this week. He hit in his best style, arid scored 217 runs in 2h 40min, his hits including three 6’s and twenty-nine 4’s. Even With these lug scorers to the fore, soma of the bowlers have also claimed attention. Parker, of Gloucestershire, took his two-hundredth wicket of the, season during the match against Leicestershire, Which is the fourth time he has accomplished this feat. Rhodes, Tate, arid Richardson did so three times, lint the Gloster veteran has now gone one better. FOOTBALL. Extraordinary scenes marked the opening of the Association football season in England on Saturday. A blazing sun made the conditions more suitable for . cricket, and there are many who consider football might better bo confined to the months October to March, which ought to he quite long enough. .There are eighty-eight clubs concerned in the Football League, and the matches all drew big gates. Indeed, it is considered that the eleven first division .games drew close on 350,000 spectators. In spite ol the heat, there were no mishaps among the players—signs that they were in good condition.

A feature of the opening flay was the excellent way the London teams performed. Arsenal and Tottenham beat thoir visitors from Derby and Evertoa by 2 goals and 1. respectively, while West Ham .shared the half-dozen goals when at home to Leicester, Bury s)id well to draw, 2 goals each, when receiving Huddersfield, whilst Newcastle got-oft' the mark well by putting on 4 goals without response when at home to Aston Villa. .

A very keen struggle was seen at Burnley, where the homo side registered the odd goal in seven against Cardiff. Tottenham again played splendidly against Sheffield Wednesday on Monday, scoring seven times to 3 goals by the visitors. ■ ~

Huddersfield received West Bromwich and came out on top by 4 goals to 1, whilst Aston Villa and Liverpool drew, a goal each, cm the former’s ground. Turning to the second division, Chelsea opened .splendidly by. beating their Middiesborough visitors 3 goals to nil, and followed this,-up by going to Wolverhampton on Monday and putting on three g!»als without response. This is a lino start for the Stamford Bridge Club, and should encourage the team in its quest for promotion. Celtic appears to have a very fine side this season, _as in tho Scottish League match against Queen’s Park on Saturday the visitors scored six times to onto by Queen’s Park. Glasgow Dangers also won when at homo to Partick Thistle, but only by tho odd goal in three. SWIMMING.

Tho very ,hot weather during August has made for favorable conditions for swimming the Channel between Franco and Eng I a nd, and this has been clone twice again during tho last few days. Another American woman swimmer in Airs Corson accomplished tho feat in 3 fill 2Smin, .second only to Miss Ederlo, whoso time was 14i 30min, Hardly had ibis news been broadcasted when it was announced that Vierkotter, of Germany, bad succeeded in swimming from France to England in 12h 40min. These .performances have greatly altered the feeling regarding the_ difficulties of the feat. Tho respective performances of women and men champions over, say, the mile in a hath are so much in favor of the man that it is reasonable to think tho Channel record will bo much reduced when some of the world’s leading men swimmers try under favorable conditions. Some authorities consider that, sonto sort of official supervision should bo tho rule in these Channel swimming feats. It is very truly pointed out that without this there will always be some element of doubt. During tho hours of darkness a swimmer might be towed, and perhaps when the tide was adverse. It would save a, lot of talk if some of tho Channel swimmers could bo induced to take part in a propcrly-orgftnised lest next August, all starting together. ATHLETICS. The English women athletes gained many successes at tho Olympiad hold at Gothenburg, and, scoring JSO polios, easily led their rivals. France 27. Sweden 20, Czecho-Slovakia 19, and Japan 15 word next, the'United States and Germany not being represented. France supplied the fastest sprinter in Milo M. Badidoau, and England the best runners from 250 metres. Miss Edwards, of London, broke tho record when winning tho .250, metros m 33 4-10 sec, and 'Miss Crossley also established a new best when winning the 1.000 metres walk. The 1,000 metres run also went to England, MiSs Tnckey winning. Japan sent a fine athlete-in Miss Hitomi, who won- tho standing and

running long jumps and gamed second place i!i the discus throw and third place in the .100 metres run. Thus she scored 15 points, and scrared fifth place for her nation. She aim broke-tho_re-cord in the running long jump, just beating 18ft.

boxing. The Ring, London, was the scene of an international boxing contest tluo week, J.-Cuthbert (of Sheffield) and I. Svbille (of Belgium) being the featherweights concerned. The bout was over fifteen rounds, and it proved very interesting, the referee announcing a a draw, though, as usual, there was some disagreement. Supporters of the home boxer thought he should have been declared the winner; arid ibis is another illustration in favor of the custom or “ a draw if both boxers are on their feet at the end of the stipulated number of rounds.”

BILLIARDS. Few followers of billiards expect that anything will come of the offer niado by Newman to Fred. Liridrum, dr Australia. The English champion’s suggestions that half the matches, shall he with ivory and half with composite halls sound quite fair to the average individual, but actually this is riot so. Newman has hod plenty of experience with both varieties, but the Australian champion- plays almost entirely with composite balls. Every billiard player of -note is well aware that ivory balls are not suitable for the climate of Australia; and, indeed, the climate of Britain leads to variations, s 6 that the ivory is untrue. It will he a good thing for the game when composite balls are the rule for all championship games. Newman and Smith have opened the season in a match of 8,000 up at Scarborough. The scoring so far has been on the small side, it being natural that the players take some time to strike their best form. So far as the match has progressed it looks like a win for Smith, as he established a Iclid of 751 on the second day. GOLF. Owing to very hot _ weather goll courses are dried up, which makes for a long run oil the hall, pin consequence good players are reaching the greens in two instead of the orthodox three strokes. Putting is very difficult, however* greens being fast, which partly offsets the other advantage. Some remarkable scores have been recorded, one of the Whitcombe brothers dojng eighteen holes under sixty strokes. One of the notable encounters recently was between the brothers Hartley (Amateurs) and Mitchell and Ray, this ending all square after the amateurs had been 2 up at the fourteenth hole.