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Humiliating Defeat for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Few matches are as embarrassing as the type in which a club gives up an astounding number of runs without scoring any runs themselves, and that is precisely what occurred to Wolverhampton Wanderers in a Third Division North match at Kingston-Upon-Hull on Monday, as almost three thousands of Kingstonians spent some three hours and twenty minutes in nearly constant laughter at the proceedings unfolding before them.

After an uneventful first innings, the home team Hull City Tigers scored four runs to take a commanding margin in the second. Then, the dam burst open in the bottom of the third as eleven Tigers found the plate courtesy of eight singles, three walks, and a mere one three base hit, and the rout was on.

The attack continued on with four runs in the fourth innings, three more in the fifth, and a single run each in the sixth and seventh before Tigers mercifully came up blank in the eighth innings and, being the home squad, never had to chance to pour on more runs in the ninth. Of the 27 base bits, only four went for extra bases, with bench second base man McKilkelly leading the way with five hits (including a three), four runs scored, and six runs batted in. Even Tigers pitcher Willie Ellis got into the fun with three base hits, including a home run, two runs scored and four runs batted in.

Meanwhile, Wanderers could only manage a meagre six base hits and three walks while striking out seven times. There is nothing else to say about their performance on "attack", except to say that at the end, their contribution was to the short end of a twenty four runs to nil caning at the hands of Tigers.

Peter Lonsdale, a quite good pitcher with Wanderers, had nothing on Monday and was hurriedly replaced after yielding 12 runs in two and one-thirds innings by Harry Charlton, who himself was betrayed by his defence and fared no better giving up eight runs, only four of them earned, in two innings. Old Charlie Oconnor put of the best performance, as it were, on the mound for Wanderers, yielding a mere four runs in his three and two-thirds innings.