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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8538, 19 September 1907, Page 6

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ENGLISH BATTING AND BOWLING AVERAGES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Received September IS, 7.2 a.m. LONDON, September 17. C. B. Fry, the Sussex batsman, heads the hatting list for the season with an average of 462 runs. Champain, of Gloucester, was second, his average being 46 3-5, and P. F. Warner of Middlesex, third, 46|. Hayward, of Surrey, came fourth, with an average of 45|. Others well up are: Hobbs, Surrey, 37J; Hayes, Surrey, 352; Gunn, Notts, 32 3-5; Tarrant, Middlesex, 32 1-3; Hutchings, Kent, 30 4-5; Crawford, Surrey, 30|; A. 0. Jones, Notts 28,|; Fane, Essex, 28 2-5; Young, Cambridge. 28; Hardstaff, Notts, 27*; Braund, Somersetshire, 26i; Marshall, Queensland and London County, 24g; Poidevin, New South Wales and Lancashire, 23g; Cuffe, Worcestershire, 23 3-5; Rhode?, Yorkshire, 22g; Humphries, Derbyshire, 12 2-5 (?). Schwarz, South Africa, one of the team which recently toured England, heads the bowling averages, with 137 wickets at a cost of 1.1 4-5 runs per wicket. Kallam, Derbyshire, ran into second place—l.o7 wickets, average 12-g. Haigh, Yorkshire, was third, 102 wickets for an average of 12 4-5; Wass, Notts, fifth, 163 wickets, average 14:|; Blythe, Kent, tenth, 183 wickets; average 15 2-5; Rhodes, Yorkshire, 177 wickets, average 15J; Tarrant, Middlesex, 83 wickets, average 152; Fielder, Kent, 172 wickets, average 16$: A. Trott, Middlesex, 96 wickets, average 15g; Crawford, Surrey, 124, average 17; Cuffe, Worcestershire, 107 average 19; Braund, Somersetshire, 62, average 25 1-3. (Of the players mentioned Jones, Young, Hutchings, Crawford, Fane, Humphries, Fielder, Braund, Rhodes, Blythe, Ha;:dstaff, Hayes and Hobbs, are members of the Marylebone team to tour Australia.)