GREAT BATSMAN
HAMMOND'S RECORD INNINGS OF 302 NOT OUT LONDON", August 3 W. R. Hammond, playing for Gloucestershire against Glamorgan at Bristol, made 302 hot out, the highest score lie ever made in England. Hammond heads the first-class cricket averages with the remarkable figures of 93.09 runs in 24 innings. Ho requires only five more runs to reach 2000 for the present season, during the early part of which he missed several county games owing to a strained back. Frank Woollev has been presented by the Kent Club with £IOO, to commemorate tlio 100 centuries ho has made for the county alone.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 11
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102GREAT BATSMAN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 11
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