FEW BIG SCORES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19337, 29 May 1937, Page 5

FEW BIG SCORES

CRICKET IN ENGLAND SURPRISE POR DERBY CENTURY BY DEMPSTER GODDARD'S 13 WICKETS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. May 29, 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 28.

This week's county cricket competitions were notable for the variation in play, some of the leading teams making poor scores and some of the weaker ones showing surprising form.

The champions, Derby, got a surprise when their first innings score of 87 gave Somerset a lead of five runs on the first innings, but in the second innings Derby scored the required runs with seven wickets in hand.

The New Zealander, C. S. Dempster, contributed 110 to Leicester's total of 351, but the Sussex batsmen were in tine form and put on 446 for the loss of. only four wickets, John Langridge, Cook, and Holmes each making centuries.

The splendid bowling of Goddard resulted in Gloucester being dismissed twice for less than three-figure scores. 11l their first innings Goddard took six wickets for 57, and in the second seven for 45, Yorkshire securing an outright win in a match in which fewer than 500 runs were scored in four completed innings.

Matches commenced on Wednesday resulted as follows: —:

Hampshire in the first compiled 326 (Hold 78, Budd 77 not out). In the second they made 240 for five and declared (Pothecary 87). Surrey's first produced 265 and the second 236 (Knight 105; Herman six for 65). Hampshire won by 71 runs.

Yorkshire in the first scored 156 (Goddard. six for 57), and in the second 147 (Goddard seven for 85). Gloucester in the first were dismissed for 77 (Robinson seven for 45), and in the second for 87 (Hargreaves four for 26). Yorkshire won by 140 runs.-

Essex in the first made 370 (Eastman 90). In the second they lost nine wickets for 253. and deelai’ed (Woolley five for 59-. Kent in the first ..scored 127 (P. Smith four for 29-, and in the second 174. Essex won by 322 runs. Lancashire’s first yielded 239 (Oldfield 90). In the second they lost four for 172. Worcester in the first made 197. Lancashire won on the first innings. Leicester in the first compiled 351 (Dempster 110, Prentice 82). Sussex in the first put on 446 for four (John Langridge 112, Cook, not out, 141, Holmes, not out, 122). Sussex won on the first innings. Somerset in the first were all out for 92 (Mitchell six for 34), and in the second for 104 (G. Pope four for 20). Derby in the first made only 87 (Andrews five for 28). In the second they lost three for 113, and won by seven wickets. MARYLEBONE GAME THE REST BEATEN VICTORY FOR TOURISTS (Reed. May 29, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 28. In the Marylebone cricket match the tourists defeated the Rest by 79 runs.

The tourists, who had scored 376 runs in their first innings, w r ere out for 173 in the second. Wyatt made 42 and Hardstaff 24. Gover took seven wickets for '44 runs and Todd two for 46. . - - --

The Rest, whose first strike included 235 runs, made 245 in the second. Hutton made 50, Parkes <54, Paynter 21, Dollery 41, and Langridge 22 not out. Allen took three wickets for 65 runs, Verity three for 55, and Wyatt two for 13.