ENGLISH COUNTY GAMES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18772, 28 July 1924, Page 7

ENGLISH COUNTY GAMES.

PERCENTAGE OF TEAMS.

HIGH INDIVIDUAL SCORING.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. iKecd. 6.5 p.m.) LONDON. July 25. The county championship percentages are:—. Middlesex «« B » 77.14 Yorkshire »«••«« 73.33 Surrey 67.69 Lancashire k < ~ 66.31 Somerset .*• .« 65.29 In the county matches, Hampshire in their first innings against Lancashire made 173 runs (Mead 69). Macdonald took five wickets for 55 runs. In their second innings Hampshire scored 3178 (Mead 60); R. Tyldesley took five wickets for 37. Lancashire's first innings produced 199 (Makepeace 72, E. Tyldesley: |54). Brown took five wicketa for 29. In. their second innings they made 09 for one wicket.

At Lord's, a navy team in their first innings against an Army team made 119. Fowler took seven wickets for 22. The second inning's yielded 33 for two wickets. Army made 533 for seven and declared (P. Williams 123, Rogers 154). Playing for Sussex against Warwick, A. H. Gilligan made 80 not out, and Wilson 108 not out. For Warwick Cawthorpa scored 108 not out. Playing for Yorkshire against Glamorgan, Holmes made 118 not out. Rain interfered with play.

CRICKET 5N AUSTRAUAV

PLEA FOR HOBBS' INCLUSION. A. and N.Z. LONDON. July 26. Mr. Gilbert Jessop, the famous Gloucestershire cxicketer, writing in the Evening Standard, comments on Hobbs' non-inclusion in the team which is to tour Australia. He states that for a professional on his first trip the remuneration was liberal, but it seemed inappropriate to offer the same conditions to players who had borne the heat and burden of the day on several trips. Such arrangements did not prevail before the Marylebone Club controlled the tours, says the writer, and if the former conditions were now the vogue Hobbs would, without asking, receive a very handsome figure. Doubtless the prospect of three seasons' continuous cricket did not appeal to Hobbs, but if his appears ances were restricted to the tests and the opening fixtures against the States, he might be persuaded to revoke his decision.

TOUR OF AUSTRALIA. ;

N.S. WALES ASSOCIATION.

A. and. N.Z. SYDNEY, July 26. The annual report and balance-sheet of the New South Wales Cricket Association shows a surplus lor tha past year of £1693, as compared with £918 for the previous year. The surplus from interstate cricket amounted to £443 L