SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
COMPTON'S FINE RECORD Rec. 8 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. Denis Compton scored 101 runs for the South of England against South Africa at Hastings, making his seventeenth century for the season, and breaking Hobbs’s record made in 1925. Compton reached 101 with a 4 and was out the next ball. Compton scored his 101 runs in 108 minutes. It was his twelfth century in his last 25 innings. Compton needs another 152 runs to pass the highest previous season’s total of 3518 runs by Tom Hayward in 1906. The scores were:—South Africa: First innings, eight for 510 declared (Dawson not out 166); South of England: First innings, nine for 341 (Compton 101, Edrich 64, Robertson 55: Rowan five for 108, Mann four for 97) - Other games:—Yorkshire: First innings. 257 (Richardson 61; Pollard four for 34) against M.C.C.; Second innings, two for 17. South: First innings, 357 (Todd 104 Dodds 78, Squires 69), against North: Second innings, four for 183 (Fletcher 76, Cooper 57.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26559, 6 September 1947, Page 7
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