INTEREST IN TEST.
(Received this day at 12.25. p.ra.) LONDON. July 29. Arthur CiUigan’s broadca t account of to-day’s Test play was delivered with a specially installed microphone in Donnelly’s bedroom at the Great Central Hotel ,which Sir T. Wilford requested the Post Office to provide. As evidence of the widespread public interest in the match, every seat at the Oval was sold. COUNTY CRICKET. LONDON, -July 28; ' Rain marred County cricket. Somerset, first 244 Second, 1 - for 28. Essex, first, 6 : for 249, declared. Essex won on the first winnings. Lancashire, first 249 (Horrocks not out 100, Harris 8 for, 80). Notts first 263 (Tyldesley 5 for 79). Notts won on the first innings. . • , Kent, first 7 for 257 dec. Second 3 for 67 declared. Surrey, first .121 (Harriot 6 for 59). Second 6 for 134). Kent won on the first' inmngs. Northants, first 1 for <-51 declared. Second 59 (Clay 5 for 22). Glamorgan, first 2 for 51 declared.' Second 5 sor 60. Glamorgan won By five wickets.
Gloucester, first 9 for 182 declared. Second 70 (Macnuley 6 for 27). Yorkshire, first 7 for 118 declared" (Parker 5 for 38). Second 1 for 137. Yorkshire won by nine wickets. Derby, 'first 184 (Storer 70, Peebles 5 for 58). Second 1 for 138. Middlesex, first 200. (Slater 5 for 32). Middlesex won on the first innings. Worcester, first. 96, (Langridge 6 for 15). Second: 132 (Wensley 5 for 75); Sussex, first. 3 for. 361 declared (Duleepsinhji not out 161). Sussex won by' an innings and 133 runs. Leicester, • first 304 (Astrill.-. 115)... Warwick 128, followed on 2 for 167. Leicester won on the first■: innings. It is claimed that Glamorgan’s declaration was illegal, because it . did not allow Northants a hundred minutes’ batting. Turnbull’s declaration raised a new cricket problem. He and Jupp, also the umpires, hold that the rule regarding a hundred minutes’ batting does not apply, owing to Northants already having declared. Yorkshire’s plucky declaration when behind on the first innings was rewarded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1931, Page 5
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336INTEREST IN TEST. Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1931, Page 5
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