The Archive · 1939

Clock at Lord's

London, May 12.

A great fight against the clock by Middlesex in their match against Essex was the highlight of the County cricket matches concluded today.

Middlesex were left 130 minutes to get 224 runs to win the match, which they did with three minutes to spare.

Other features of the matches v the eight centuries and one double made, Three centuries were Surrey batsmen. The t zeore was the 241 runs made he South: African, W. L. Cree Hipps (SAS.),

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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