WORCESTERSHIRE suffered the ignominy of being bowled out for a paltry 24 runs against Yorkshire at Huddersfield this week 100 years ago.

The home side responded by declaring at 75 for one, and Worcestershire were again in a desperate plight in their second innings with six wickets down for just 27 runs when rain, which had already severely disrupted play every day, brought the game to a merciful end for the visitors.

The Yorkshire bowling duo of Rhodes and Hirst did all the damage. In Worcestershire's first innings Rhodes took five wickets for four runs, and Hirst five for 18.

But Berrow's Journal sought to limit the humiliation by stressing that a total of 24 was "far from unprecedented. There have been several lower aggregates, most notably 13 all out by Notts, also against Yorkshire."

Also on the sporting front, the Worcester Journal of 250 years ago had some strong words to say about the outdoor game of quoits, played with heavy metal rings.

"On Friday last, as some men were playing at Quoits at a publick house near this city, one Davis, a weaver, unfortunately received such a desperate bruise on the head with a quoit that he died last Saturday. Tis a pity that this and other sorts of vulgar diversions are not wholly suppressed seeing the many accidents that have happened thereby, and the too frequent practice of them being played by the idle and sottish."