CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1927, Page 1

CRICKET.

><£v —— (By Telegraph—Per Press Association. NOTTS DEFEATED. LONDON, April 2. Players made 501 for 0 and declared. Gentlemen 199. Players won by an innings and SL runs. Sussex first innings 317 (J. Parks 7-1. 1.1. Parks 54), second innings 111. Nicliolls took 3 for 44, Loudon -1 for 32. Essex first innings -111 (Culmore i 2. O’Connor 02, Russell 110, Franklin not out 60). Second innings 18 for 0. Essex won by 10 wickets. Alarlcbone first innings 199 (Douglas not, out 101). Douglas look 5 for 37. Second innings 147 (A. E, Gilligan not out 51). Macaulay took 7 for 70. Yorkshire first innings 212. Clay took 4 for 32. Second innings 138 for 2 (Holmes not out 09, Tvilner not out 51). Yorkshire won by eight wickets. Notts first innings 233. Ryan took 5 for 81. Second 01. Mercer took 6 for 31, Ryan 4 for 24. Glamorgan first innings 375 (Bates 103). Richmond took 5 for 102. Glamorgan won by an innings and 81. As a result of Glamorgan’s .surprising defeat of Notts, the latter failed to win the County championship, which is still held by Lancashire. Leading County championship figures are: Lancashire, 68.75.

Notts, 67.85

Yorkshire, 02.54. Kent, 62.01. Derby, 01.87. Surrey, 00.70. Glamorgan, 35.77. Worcester, 18.51. NOTTS’ BAD LUCK. LONDON, Sept. 2. The popular Australia, idea that English county cricketers are past masters in playing out. time was rudely upset when Notts journeyed to Glamorgan, requiring hut a. mere draw, and not oven a win on the first innings in order to win the top percentage and its first championship since 1007. Few could have prophesied that tho season would end in such a blaze of sunshine and sensation; yet two Glainorganitcs. who between them had been responsible for some of the most unexpected wicket-skittling ever seen in English cricket dismissed the most stolid Notts county ba.tsmcn for a meagre score of SI runs. Even when Notts continued their play this morning, no one expected that the eight remaining wickets would fail to secure the 111) runs necessary to save an innings defeat—especially in view of the fact that the reliable Payton and the more reliable "Wliysall remained ; but soon it was a- case, of Notts being in knots. Every chance was accepted, Glamorgan doing everything that- they, ought not to do; and the crowd became widely excited. Only one flash of the Notts usual brightness was seen when Barrett and Voce made 17 for the last wicket—the highest partnership of the innings. Glamorgan, who hitherto have not won. one match, thus presented its second .successive championship to Lancashire. whose captain, Major Green, sent a, message of sympathy to Notts, and recalled that Notts was in similar a case in 1892 when Somerset were responsible.

BONDIN’, Sept. 2. There were scenes of the wildest excitement at Swansea during and after Glamorgan’s dismissal of Notts. Tills opportune victory was a great fillip to tho Glamorgan Cricket Club, which is in. low water financially, after a wretched summer. The Nottingham enthusiasts were intensely disappointed. They greedily bought the newspapers which they flung away in disgust. The arrangements for a civic welcome and jollification at Nottingham were cancelled. Tt is recalled that Swansea were unlucky. for Notts last year defeated they by two wickets.

’Hie Evening News attributes the defeat of Notts to its misfortune in losing Larwood, through a damaged knee and to the retirement of Carr when his able captaincy was most essential. “The Times.” commenting on the cricket championship, in a leading article says: “Mercer’s admirable medium deliveries made him the hero of the hour against Notts. He is one of the real howlers of the present time in England, where the majority of tho youngsters adopt the modern craze for swinging and swerving, hut a mediumpaced accurate bowler is able to 'continue for long spells without losing his length or spin, and is invaluable, especially on Australian, wickets. A lack of such bowlers may he the undoing of the next British test team, lacking Rhodes to call on in an emergency.