Another Cricket Record

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 6 December 1946, Page 4 (Supplement)

Another Cricket Record

What is claimed to he a world’s record in cricket victories, the winning of n match without the loss of a wicket, is reported from Australia, in a game

between commercial travellers representing South Australia and Victoria. South Australia batted first and scored 337 without loss before declaring. Victoria’s innings realised 98 and. 154. The record claimed ffir the performance is probably a valid one, and it recalls a first-class game in England in 1932 which almost put everything in tiie shade. Herbert Sutcliffe and P. Holmes, opening for Yorkshire against, Essex at Leyton,

scored 555 together, boating the 554 scored 34 years previously for the same county by T. Tunnicliffe and J. T. Brown. When it was known that the score was 554 had been beaten. Sutcliffe more or less threw his wicket away, not knowing that the Yorkshire captain was going to declare the innings closed at the end of the over. Had Sutcliffe not gone for a hit, it. is almost certain that a performance unique in first-class cricket would have been recorded. Schoolboy’s Record Mile:

An 18-year-old pupil of Geelong College, Victoria. Don Macmillan, ran the mile in Imin. 27sec. at the public schools' combined sports in Melbourne recently. Fie. is 6ft. in height and weighs I4st. 71b. He is tremondouslv powerful and soeminglv has unlimited stamina.

Two hours before his remarkable mile run he won tlTb half-mile in 2Tnin. 0 l-10sec. His father won the mile and the half-mile on the same day for Geelong College 30 years previously. Macmillan seniors' time of 4min. TH.iscc. was a record. Don Masmillnn’s 4min. 27scc., which broke his one mile record time of 4min. 34.? sec. made last year, established an Australian record for a schoolboy, beating the previous best figures of 4minr CO.tsoc. made by D. Hill, Scotch College. Perth, in 1939. Light-Car Records.

Three world’s speed records were recentlj' broken by Lieutenant-Colonel Goldie Gardner, of Britain, in his 750 cc engined “magic midget” M.G. car on a Belgian Highway near Ostend. The records were 159,098 m.p.h. for the flying kilometre, 159.151 m.p.h. for a mile, and 150,467 m.p.h. for five kilometres. His top speed on one run was 164.722 m.p.h. These speeds are nearly 20 miles an hour faster than the former records held for seven years by Germany and once again prove Britain’s supremacy in the light-car field, The engine of the car. smaller than a normal 8 h.p. engine, is rated at about 10 h.p.