TALL SCORING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 210, 3 August 1935, Page 7

TALL SCORING

THE COUNTY MATCHES. ESSEX BOWLER’S SUCCESS. “FASTEST IN ENGLAND.” (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph. Copyright.) Received August 3, 9.15 a.in. LONDON, Aug. 2. The batsmen continued to hold tho upper hand in the county cricket matches just concluded. Essex were all over Yorkshire. Read took ti for 11 and Nichols 4 lor 17 and 7 for 37. NYciiols also compiled 140 runs to demonstrate Ins ability as a great all-founder. The Daily Mail says that Read is the fastest bowler in England. Ills pace was only excelled by Larwood last year. Lancashire and Hampshire produced good batting and bowling figures at tneir meeting. Hopwood made 104 and Oldfield 101, not out, for Lancashire, the former also taking 5 wic\yets for 20 runs. In the reply, JlcCorkell made 154, not out. . There were four centuries fn the Kent v. Worcester match. Aines made 118 and Todd, tho all-rounder, 104 (not out) for Kent. Walters, the stylish bat, made 118 and Martin 103 for Worcester.

Keets, one of Notts’s oustauding batsmen, maintained his good record with 184, not out. An innings of 114 saw Hendren prominent in the Middlesex match with Somerset.

The young left-hand all-rounder, James Langridge. compiled six over tho century for Sussex. Details are as follow: Kent v. Worcester. —Kent: First innings, 430 (Ames 118, Todd, not out 104); second innings, 9 tor 204, declared (Howorth 5 for 70). Worcester: First innings, 315 (Walters 118, Martin 103); second innings, 2 for 205 (Walters, not out, 94). Kent won on the first innings. Yorkshire v. Essex. —-Yorkshire: First innings, 31 (Read 6 for 11, Nichols 4 for 17); second innings, 99 (Nichols 7 for 37). Essex: First innings, 334 (Nichols 146). Essex won by an innings and 204 runs. Leicester v. Notts. —Leicester First innings, 176 (Larwood 5 for 53); second innings, ' 190 (Armstrong 82; Voce 5 for 93). Notts: First innings, 5 for 403 declared (Keeton, not out, 184).. Notts won by an innings and 37 runs. Somerset v. Middlesex. —Somerset: First innings, 117 (Sims 6 for 41); second innings, 234 (Owen-Snuth 6 for 72). Middlesex: First innings, 255 (Hendren 114; Wellard, _0 for 91); second innings, 1 for 97. Middlesex won by nine wickets. Sussex v. Derby.—Sussex: First innings, 194 (Neville 74); second innings, 244 (James Langridge 106; Copsom 6 for 42). Derby: First innings, 213 (Worthington 91; J. Cornford 7 for 76); second innings, 5 for 227. Derby won by five wickets. Lancashire v. Hampshire.—-Lanca-shire: First innings, 4 for 472, declared (Hopwood 104, Oldfield, not out, 101, Tyldesley. 89). Hampshire: First innings, 175 (Hopwood 5 for 26). They followed on to lose 3 for 317 (Mc-Corkell, not out, 154). Lancashire won on the first innings.