CRICKET

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 September 1937, Page 8

CRICKET

♦ SEVERE ITINERARY. FURTHER ILLUSTRATION. GAINSBOROUGH, Monday. The Minor Counties’ match is another illustration of the severity of the New Zealanders’ itinerary. Although the Folkestone game was stopped two hours early to enable the players to catch a train, Gainsborough was not reached till after midnight. Considering the- team’s inevitable tiredness, no praise is too high for Saturday’s accurate and inexpensive bowling of Roberts and Galliclian. Tindill, with his wife, is visiting Paris and goes to Australia on the Orion. The main body is following a fortnight later on the Orontes. Dunning is unable to visit Australia and is returning via the Panama Canal on the Rangitiki. Wallace is now past Blunt’s first-class aggregate in 1927 and requires 235 to break Dempster’s record in 1931. Cowie needs two wickets to pass Merritt’s record of 107 in first-class matches in 1927. Dunning has bowled a record number of overs for a New Zealander in firstclass matches with England and is well ahead of Merritt ’s total in 1927. Strain, however, is iioav telling and he is not boAvling Avith the same venom as earlier in the tour. Roberts, on the other hand, is in top form and is boAvling as Avell as ever. He has been christened “The Tireless” by “The Times.” Vivian’s leg is again troublesome and lie is receiving treatment in London. The Scarborough match on Wednesday promises to be heavy Avork. The opposing team is almost a full strength England side, chosen from Wyatt, Sellars, MaxAvell, BroAvn, Hutton, Barnett, Hardstaff, Hammond, Paynter, Gimblett, Nelgard, Nicholls, and Worthington. COUNTY AVERAGES. DEMPSTER FOURTH IN BATTING. LONDON, Monday. The leading first-class cricket armrages up till 3rd September are as folloav: — BATTING. Runs. AA*ge. W. R. Hammond (Gloucester) 2437 60.92 J. Hardstaff (Notts) 2437 60.92 L. Hutton (Yorkshire) .... 2674 55.70 C. S. Dempster (Leicester) 1247 54.21 E. Paynter (Lancs.) 2865 64.05 R. E. S. Wyatt (Warwick) 2397 52.10 L. G. Berry (Leicester) .... 2440 52.04 J. H. Parks (Sussex) .... 2-942 50.72 H. Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) is seventeenth Avith 2015 runs at an aA-erage of 43.80, E. Ilendren (Middlesex), tAventytliird with 1748, 41.61, and M. Leyland (Yorkshire), thirty-fourth, Avith 1209, 36.63. BOWLING. Wickets. AA r ge. A. D. G. Matthews (Glamor-

R. W. V. Robins (Middlesex) is tenth Avith 97 AA’iclcets at an average of 19.61.

gan) 47 14.46 II. Verity (Yorks.) 187 15.62 T. W. Goddard (Gloucester) 235 16.77 J. Smith (Middlesex) 145 17.14 J. C. Clay (Glamorgan) .... 176 17.34 J. M. Sims (Middlesex) .... 124 18.20 W. Copseon (Derby) 76 18.39 M. S. Nichols (Essex) 136 18.56