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Show Star fielder Lock holds 7 catches SURRIDGE TAKES FIVE FOR 46 By PAT MARSHALL OrARE a moment, please, in the general rejoicing, for those two Surrey stalwarts, incomparable Alec Bedser and his enthusiastic skipper Stuart Surridje, who, before Manchester's smal!est-ever crowd (200) yesterday, put Surrey on the road lo another Championship triumph. For Surrey's strongest, rivals for the title are probably Lancashire ... or they were before Bedser and Surririge ccicDraiea coronation uay. A the start of the dav the I 'scores were level with Lancashire ; still hav.ng seven second :iiii.!i?.s wicke's m hand. I A mi nut e la tT the scores were ' still level . . . Lancashire with s. ; wickeLs si and mi;- for Geo'! Kdr'.ch j had presented Stir rid ?ii w:tn a i ' uliv catch oft Becker's second j ; delivery. Bv the time they were la lr, front Lancashire had only three, wickets Icit. Ken Grieves bens taken by Tonv Lock in the le: trap off Surrldse. Nitjel Howard : failing for the same dodge nei 1 ball, and wicket-keeper Frank i Parr offering an easv catch off: htf glove from another Bedser 'flier." ! I Gallant stand ! Enter Lancashire battlers A'aiJ Wharton and Malcolm Hilton and! Lancashire's firm stand-bv, the: ram, which held up proceedm.s for 90 minutes. ! Then Hilton and Wharton went; for the champions, putting on a gallant 61 in 44 m i n u t es . H : 1 1 n r. j took three 4's oft Lock in one over i two in succession through the! covprs and anorner rnnnH in finp ! leg. i Back came Surrldge and out' I went Wharton, well caught b Bernard Constable in the covers. 1 j Roy Tattersall provided Surrulse, i with his fifth victim icost 46 runsi j I Hilton fought tiard. He com-! plet'ed his 50 before providing1 i Bedser with his fifth wicket Hive for 62). It's catching Fielding honours went to Tony Lock with seven catches in the ! match five In the second innings. I Surrey got the 103 thev needed In 80 minutes for the loss of David Fletcher and Eric Bedser. Whoever skippers Oxiord University Univer-sity next season will think twice ; before he decides on a coach for I the Varsity boys. This season. Leicestershire's! Australian Jack Walsh did the Job. i Yesterday the 40-year-old bowler of chinamen turned in one c the greatest penormances of his long career by taking eight Oxford wickets for 115 which gave him a match record of sixteen lor 225. Evidently Jack spotted some weak spots in Hie Oxford batting during his pie-season spell at the Parks ! A word for M'' Somerset Harold Gimblett. Co;; annng his policy of attacking Lh- openers with the new ball, farm Harold scored o0 out of Someis-rt s hrst 62 against Warwickshire. |