26 Pros Honorary Members Of MCC

Northern Advocate, 30 July 1949, Page 8

26 Pros Honorary Members Of MCC

LONDON, Fri. —Twenty-six retired professional cricketers have been invited to accept honorary membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club.

They are:'C. / J. Barnett (Gloucester). S. F. Barnes (Warwick). L. C. Braund (Surrey), W. E. Bowes (Yorkshire), G. Duckworth (Lancashire), A. P. Freeman (Kent). G. Geary (Leicester), G Gunn, senr. (Notts), J. W. Hearne (Middlesex), E. Henriren (Middlesex). G. H. Hirst (Yorkshire), .J. B. Hobbs (Surrey), H. Larwood (Notts), M. Leyland (Yorkshire). C. P. Mead (Hampshire). E. Paynter (Lancashire), W. Rhodes (Yorkshire), A. C. Russell (Essex), A. Sandham (Surrey), E. J. Smith (Warwickshire), H. Strudwick (Surrey), H. Sutcliffe (Yorkshire), M. W. Tate (Sussex), E. Tyldesley (Lancashire), W. E. Voce (Notts), F. E. Woolley (Kent). At their meeting earlier in the month MCC members were told by their president, the Duke of Edinburgh, that honorary life membership would be restricted to the really great, and would be a genuine recognition of their services to the game. The oldest invited is George Hirst, who will be 78 in September, and the youngest are Voce and Barnett, both 39 years old. The invitations will give particular pleasure and encouragement to Mead and Braund, who have. not been favoured by good health during their retirement. Braund has had both legs amputated and Mead is practically blind. County Cricket Results

LONDON. Fri. (11.30 a.m.).— County pnrkpt fp«!iilt?‘ Middlesex: First innings’ 8 for 450 dec. (Robertson 123. Edrich 182); second. 5 for 190 dec. (Compton 102 not out). Hampshire: First innings. 227 (Rogers 76); second, 276 (Dawson 97; Young 5 for .96). Middlesex won by 137 runs. Leicester: First innings. 280 (Tonlpkin 89, Berry 71); second, 243 (Berry 79). Surrey: First innings. 270 (Parker 83); second, 229 (Walsh 7 for 113). Leicester won by 24 runs. Somerset: First innings. 225; second, 367 (Buse 117; Cornford 5 for 75). Sussex: First innings, 336 (Cox 170); second, 1 for 258 (John Langridge 108 not out). Sussex won by nine wickets. Northants: First innings. 182; second, 87 (Kardar 5 for 26. Hollies 5 for 49). Warwick: First innings. 176 (Brown 5 for 62); second. 4 for 97). Warwick won by five wickets.