CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1926, Page 3

CRICKET.

[Reuter Telegrams.]

(Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, August 15.

Surrey in the first innings made 192 (White taking 6 for GO) and in the second 191 (Snndham 59). Glasgow took 4 for 52 and Whito 4 for 61; against Somerset first innings 103, (Pencil taking 6 for 39, Fender 4 for 39). The match was abandoned. Hampshire first innings made 416 (Meade 127. Day 103), Haig taking 5 for 115, and in the second innings lost wickets for 188 (Brown 103 not out), against Middlesex first innings 257 (Ilendren 104). The match was drawn. Playing for Lancashire against Worcester Makepeace made 114. Lancashire won.

For Essex against Derby, Russell made 102 not out. For Derby, Morton took 5 for 59. The match was drawn. For Notts against Gloucester, Walker made 105, and Staples took 7 for 38. For Gloucester Parker took 8 for 73. Notts won.

For Leicester against Sussex Dawson made 118. For Sussex Browne took 5 for 72. The match was drawn.

For Yorkshire against Northants Maeauley took 6 for 26. The match was abandoned.

THE ATTENDANCE. (Received this day at 1.30 pm' LONDON, August 15. It has been suggested that the surprisingly small attendance on the first day of the test was due to the English aversion to play out matches; also to | the fact that the newspapers conveyed the impression all the week that it would be practically impossible to gain admittance to the Oval. This, together with tho publication that a queue of one hundred had formed at six o’clock the previous evening, convinced thousands that it would be useless to attempt to enter. Very likely there will he a different story on Monday for the praises of the most wonderful day’s cricket of the present Australian tour, will ring loudly.