TEST CRICKET

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 June 1926, Page 4

TEST CRICKET

THE CHIEF TOPIC. COAL CRISIS NEGLECTED DAILY HERALD’S LAMENT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, June 12. A curious editorial in tho Daily Herald imagines a historian of the future writing: “At a crisis, in a national industry when two and a half million people w T ere unemployed, the chief interest of the population of England, according to most newspapers of the period, was a cricket match. The merits of the players representing England and Australia were everywhere discussed and most elaborate arrangements were made for reporting tho match. Every other topic was overlooked, and anyone would suppose the nation was never more prosperous or less troubled.” Tho editorial proceeds: “It is of no use to lament the Test’s hold on 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.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. EXCITEMENT AT NOTTINGHAM. CONDITIONS OF THE GROUND. ' Received 11.45 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Juno 11. The coal stoppage has almost been forgotten in th e cricket fever in Nottinghamshire, which, is more remarkable. as there ato live collieries within the city boundaries. The ground is in perfect order, and the wicket is stated to be fast. There was a shower at 12.30 p.m., but if HO more rain falls the wicket will be hard and fast.—Reuter. . Hendry has fully recovered, and hopes to' leave hospital in a few days. —Reuter. COUNTY GAMES. RAIN INTERFERES WITH (PLAY. HAT TRICK BY LARWOOD, OF CAMBRIDE. LONDON, June 11. In county cricket rain generally interfered with play. Lancashire, in their first innings against Middlesex, made 222 for six wickets (Makepeace 85, E. Tyldesley 50). The match was abandoned. Playing against N'ott-s, Cambridge University made 106 in the first innings. Larwood took four wickets for two runs, including, the hat triok. Notts, in their first strike, made'-265 (Payton 80, Fender 81). Irvine took six'wickets for 90 runs. The match was abandoned. Somerset, in their first innings against Hampshire, made 234 (Young 62). Kennedy took six wickets for 87 runs. In the second innings, Somerset made 34 for the loss of two wickets. Hampshire’s first innings yielded 347 (Mead 161). White took six wiskets for 100 runs. The match was abandoned. ; Playing for Yorkshire against Glamorgan, Macaulev took, in the first Innings, six for 29, and in; tlm second six for 52. Yorkshire won. Playing for Sussex against Gloucester, Gox took six wickets for 45. The match was drawn. —Reuter.