A Hundred Hundreds.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 7 August 1914, Page 2

A Hundred Hundreds.

The record which Dr. W. G. Grace held of being the only batsman who has scored one hundred centuries in first-class cricket was equalled recently when, at Kensington Oval, Tom Hayward earned the right to be classed with the great Gloucestershire cricketer by a threefigure innings against Lancashire.

Old Tom—old, that is, in a cricketing sense, tor he is now fortytwo years of age—has stuck at ninety-nine for a considerable time, and it is curious that he should reach the height of his ambition against the county which provided him with his record score—the 315 not out he put together in 1898.

It was in 1895 that Dr. Grace completed his hundred centuries, and he was then forty-seven years of age. Since tha,t time, of course, he scored a further twenty-six hundreds, and probably his is a record which will stand for all time.

Hayward, of course, has his own record achievements, such as scoring the highest aggregate in 1906 of 3,518 runs, with an average of 66.37, and his name will long re-