A GREAT RECORD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 October 1922, Page 3

A GREAT RECORD.

F. E. Woolley has scored 21,993 runs -with, an average of 38 per innings, and -taken 1447 crickets at a fraction under 18. runs apiece. He began county at 19, and has secured the runs and wicket^ in 16 years. Woolley Obtained sixjjenturies each against Somerset and .Hampshire, five against Worcester, four against Sussex, Leicestershire, and Gloucestershire, two against Surrey, Northants, and Middlesex, and one against Notts, Warwickshire, Oxford University, Essex, and Lancashire. Yorkshire howlers have during his great career stalled him off getting the coveted three figures. His Biggest score in the county series' was 224 not out against .Qxford. Against Somerset he notched a double century. Of his seven remaining three-ngure snores, four were made in Australia and one 'in South Africa. At Hobart, Tasmania, he' scored 305 not out. compiled in three and a half hours, not a single maiden over being bowled in the innings! East season, in the test match at Lord's, he scored 95 in his first innings and 93 in his second. Seven times in the course of a season has Woolley scored 1000 runs and got 100 wickets. The largest numßer of wickets he ever obtained in one game was 14, at a cost

of six and a half runs, against Warwickshire. He has dismissed in one innings eight men of Sussex, Gloucestershire, Middlesex, and . Warwickshire "(apart from the above performance). "He "took six wickets for 8 runs against Middlesex at Lord's, in 1908, off 37 balls, enabling Kent to win ten minutes before timeC lie and Blythe each took five Warwickshire wickets for 8 runs in. the season before the war. He took seven wickets for 5 runs against Surrey, off 24 balls. Against Worcestershire two years ago he took five wickets for 5 runs. His best season' 6 bowling average was in 1920, when he obtainedlßo wickets at an average of 14.23 runs, and scored 1924 runs off the bat, at an average of 40.93 runs. Twice he bowled unchanged through both innings of his opponents, against Yorkshire and Notts. In the Surrey match in 1919 he performed the "hat trick," and j n the following season took three' wickets in four balls against Northants.