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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 154, 2 July 1934, Page 5

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HIS LAST SEASON LANCASHIRE STALWART. E. TYLDESLEY TO RETIRE. LONDON, June 29. Ernest Tyldesley is retiring at the end of the season. He needs another century to become the seventh player to score 100 centuries. Since making his debut in first-class cricket in 1909, Ernest Tyldesley has been one of Lancashire’s cricket stalwarts. -Prior to the present season he had reached the 1000 mark in seventeen consecutive seasons, and his great scoring record brought him within reach of that of his brother, the late J. T. Tyldesley. If he passes his brother’s aggregate this season he will have hit more runs for Lancashire than any other player. He first appeared in Test cricket when W. W. Armstrong’s Australian team was in England, and he was a member of A. P- F. Chapman team in Australia. He has also been on two tours of South Africa. Ernest Tyldesley is now forty-five years o' age. The report that Tyldesley will be the seventh player to record a century of centuries is not quite correct, comments ‘‘Not Out” in the Evening Post. Already seven players have gained that distinction:—J. B. Hobbs. E- Hendren, C. P. Mead, W. G. Grace. F. E. Woolley. H. Sutcliffe, and T. Hayward. A. Sandham was on terms with. E. Tyldesley at the start of the present season, each hav’ng scored 93 centuries. Sandham has been making big scores this season, and he. too, must he on .the point of ’joining the select band of players who have made one hundred centuries