CRICKET.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 August 1925, Page 3

CRICKET.

ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIP BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT LONDON, A'ug. 22. FoOlowing are the leading positions for the championship : Yorkshire 85.60; Surrey 79.04; Lancashire 76.42; Middlesex 65.26; Kent and Notts 62.72; Essex 54.16; Gloucester 43.84; Hampshire 43.63; Nointliamts 41.73; Warwick 40.90; Sussex 35.38. ENGLAND'S HOPE PROMISING COLTS. LONDON, Aug. 22. The Observer, in an editorial, says: “The nuoisit. gratifying position in the season's onicke* iis the younger players’ emergence to more prominent positions in the game. We ought to have more effective means of verifying the coming men’s powers. Warner’s suggested North-South match would, in part, make good the indifferences to preparation and organisation for the tests which responsible authorities are showing. MaryJebone inertia, is bringing its status into a critical question. It seems to be inviting the time when it will hare to bo transformed into a more constitutional kind of monarchy.” HOBBS’ CRICKET BAT. PRIZE IN CHARITY COMPETITION. Received Aug. 24, 11.15 a.m. LONDON. Aug. 23. Hobbs is giving his record-making bal to the Daily News hospital Aidrelesi fund. The paper offers the hat as a prize for the winner of a competition forecasting Hobbs’ runs, centuries and hatting average at the end of the season. The competitors are contributing one shilling each to the wireless fund. The King, in a letter, congratulated Hobho on establishing a new record in the history of the national game. —Sydney Sun Cable.