Cricket 1885

322 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. a d o . is, ms. being'i'fonly credited with 0 and 27 not oat. For Middlesex, though, the summer of 1877 was a very lucky one for him, and among many good score* may be noted his 100 against Notts at Nottingham, 75 againit Yorkshire at Sheffield, and 62 against Notts at Lord’s in the match for the benefit of the late George Howitt. Though again unfortunate at Lord’s against Cambridge, he showed capital oricket throughout the sum­ mer of 1878. On several occasions, indeed, he scored largely, and twioa during the season he was oredited with innings of three figures in important fixtures—118 for Oxford v. M C.C. and G. at Lord’s ; 100 for I Zingari v.Yorkshire at Scarborough. Against Yorkshire, too, at Sheffield, for Middlesex, he played fins cricket, and his score of 94 contributed in no small degree to the decisive victory gained by Middlesex in that fixture. The winter of 1878 saw him in Australia as one of Lord Harris’ Eleven, but he hardly played up to his English form and he was only eighth in the batting averages. His return home, though, found him as successful as heretofore, and he had the best batting figures for Middlesex at the end of 1879, an average of 29 9, to which a fine innings of 122 against Gloucestershire at Clifton con­ tributed materially. The season of 1880, too, placed him fir3t on the list .of Middlesex batsmen, and this year he was credited with an excellent average of 34 for sixteen com­ pleted innings. Opening the season well with 33 and 96 against Surrey at Lord’s, he rarely failed to score creditably, though his best performance was once more against Gloucestershire at Clifton, where he contri­ buted 142 and 33 to totals of 333 and 122. The season of 1881 was not a particularly successful one for him, and despite two good innings of 30 and 112 for ,the Gentle­ men against Oxford University at Oxford, he was so much below his best form as to be ninth in the batting averages of Middlesex. His ill success was, however, more than atoned for in the following season, and his scoring that year was stbove the average. Hia best innings was his 108 not out for the Gentlemen against Oxford, but in County cricket he also showed to great advantage, particularly in the two matches with Surrey— scoring in the former 207 infour innings—and against Yorkshire at Sheffield. An accident curtailed his cricket considerably in 1883, and he was only able to represent Middlesex in eight completed innings with one notable score, 72 not out, against Notts at Lord’s. The best of many excellent performances for Middlesex in 1884 was his 83 not out against Surrey at the Oval. On this occa­ sion, though the wicket was all in favour of the bowlers, he carried his bat through the innings, and, indeed, only gave one chance, and that when he had got 73. A better display of batting under every pos­ sible disadvantage can hardly be imagined. For the Free Foresters against the Aldershot Division last summer, too, he scored 214, though this is not the highest innings he has ever made,a distinct ion claimed by his 299 for Trinity against Exeter at Oxford in 1875. Of late years Mr. Webbe has eschewed first- class cricket almost entirely, with the excep­ tion of County matches. On Mr. I. D.Walker’s retirement the captaincy of the Middlesex eleven naturally devolved on him. Con­ sidering the severe losses the County had recently sustained, he had to take office at a very unfavourable time, and it can only be paid that in spite of a long succession of ill luck, he has striven hard to maintain the reputation of Middlesex cricket in the face of great difficulties. Possessed of exceptional powers of defence, Mr. Webbe is a very difficult batsman to g e t o u t. He can, too, hit well all round, and lose3 few opportunities o f punishing a loose ball, placing it, par­ ticularly on the off side, with great judg­ ment, especially through the slips, where he gets a lot of run3, Unlike most batsmen, he i3 seen to great advantage on a sticky wicket, watching the ball as he does very closely, and under suoh conditions he has few, if any superiors. He is also a safe field, and a fair change bowler (medium round). Mr. Webbe has also made a reputation as a footballer and racquet player. He repre­ sented Oxford at Prince’s in 1876 and the two following years, beating the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton in the single matches of 1877 and 1878. He is also a capable exponent of the Association game of football, and last season was credited with a large proportion of the goals scored b,y the Old Harrovians. Our portrait is from a photograph by Barraud of Oxford Street. The photographs from whioh our portraits of Mr. F. M, Lucas and Beaumont were taken were by Messrs. E. Hawkins and Co. of 103, King’s Road, Brighton. SURREY v. DERBYSHIRE. The Surrey eleven were able to claim another decisive victory over Derbyshire at the Oval on Saturday, winning by an inn­ ings and 50 runs to spare, Derbyshire,who have, unlike the previous season, been very lucky this year in the toss, were unfortunate in the »pin of the coin, and Surrey taking advantage of an excellent wicket were not out till the second morning. Rain interfered with the play a little on Thursday and Friday, though the ground never at any time materially favoured the bowlers. The bulk of the run getting for Surrey was done by Mr. W . W. Read, Abel, Mr. Shuter, and Mauric* Read, who were responsible for 325 of 387 got from the but. Mr. Sbuter, Mr. Read and Maurice Read all scored fast, and indeed the rate of run-getting was high throughout. Mr. Shuter hit well for his 84, and Mr. Read and Abel while together scored a hundred runs in fifty-three minutes. Mr. Read was only at the wickets two hours andforty-tbreeminutes for his 109, a capital innings, though he was twice missed, when he had made 31 and 83. Abel played really good cricket for his 82. He did not give a chance throughout, and his batting alto­ gether showed great freedom, his cuts in particular being very smatt. Derbyshire had to follow on in a minority of 243, and a splendid piece of fielding by Maurice Read brought the second day to a elose with the dismissal of Cropper, one wicket being then down for 23. On Saturday morning Mr. Eadie and Wood-Sims played with the greatest care, and they were together an hour for the addition of only thirty-three runs. After Wood-Sims’ retirement, how­ ever, things went badly for Derbyshire, and the next four wickets only added 4 runs. Some spirited hitting by Chatterton and Mr. Walker improved their position materially, and these two batsmen put on 72 runs for the ninth wicket, in just over forty minutes. Of these 72 Mr, Walker made 48 by some of the best hitting seen at the Oval for a long time. Chatterton deserves the highest praise for his excellent score of 00 not out. He give a hardish chance in the long- field when he had got 41. but with tbii excep ion he made no mistake of any kind. S u b r e t . Mr. E. Diver, o Disney, b Walker..................y Mr. J. Shuter, c Sugg, bChatterton .. .. 84 Mr. W. E. Roller, b Cropper..................18 Mr. W . W. Read.o and b Wood-Sims .. ..109 Read, c Hall, b Walker 40 Abel, b Cropper .. .. 92 Mr. M. P. Bowden, b Walker ..................10 D e r b y s h ir e First Innings. Shacklock,e Shuter, b Beau­ mont ..................................0 Wood-Sims, c Abel, b Roller 0 Mr. W . S, Eadie, e Wood, b Roller..................................2-3 Mr. I,. C. Docker, o W . W. Read, b Beaumont .. .. 4 F. H. Sugg, b Lohmann ., 85 W . Chatterton, b Jones .. 29 Mr. E. A. J. Mfcynard, c Shuter, b Beaumont .. 15 Cropper, not ou t.................. IB Hall, o Diver, b Lohmann .. 17 Mr. G.G.Walker, b Lohmann 5 Disney, c Abel, b Lohmann 5 B10, lb 4.. .................14 Lohmann, o and b Shacklock................... 1 Wood, c Hall,b Shack- lo s k ...........................5 Jones,c Sugg, bWalker 18 Baiumont, not oat .. fi B 17,1 b5 .. .. 22 To tal , 409 Second Innings. c Shuter, b Roller 6 b Jones.. .. ..2 1 e Abel, bRoller .. 18 b Jones...................0 b Jones............... 4 not out...............60 runout., .. .. 0 runout..................13 b Roller .. .. 12 b Roller .. .. 48 b Roller .. .. 0 B8, lb 5 .. 8 Total .................. 166 Total.. ..193 BOWLING ANALYSIS. S u r r e y . O. M. R. W. Walker .. 42 12 81 4 Hall.. .. 28 7 75 0 Shaoklock. 43 14 99 2 Cropper .. 24.810 57 2 0. M. R. W . .1 8 2 49 1 4 O 10 0 Chatter- ton . Docker . Wood-Sims 8 8 16 1 D e r b y s h ir e . First Innings. O. M. R. W. 28 18 32 2 80 14 84 3 81.814 58 4 3 0 7 0 20 13 21 1 Roller .. Beaumont Lohmann Abel .. Jones ,. Second Innings, O. M. R. W 80 15 84 5 23 10 45 0 81 14 40 0 4 10 27 0 27 18 39 8 NORTHBROOK v. ADDISCOMBE Played at Lee on August 8. N o r t h b r o o k . S.O.Wcolmer, c Brock, b Sheard..................1 L. Burroughs, b Sl,eard .................. 6 C. Highsm, b Sheard 6 W. W. Butler, b Wild­ man ..........................45 F. Cowen, c Bio k, b Sheard .................. 6 H. N. Smith, b Caaon 88 Total C. S. Cooke, b Wild­ man .. .. .. .. 0 A d d is c o m b e . A.A. Kennard, b Wild­ man .......................... H. Simmonds, b Wild­ man ........................... M. Cavcniughjb Wild­ man .. .. .. .. A. H. Holinos, not out 32 B 12,1 b 2, w 1 .. 15 149 0 T. Sheard, b Co*en W. B. Brock, b Caven­ augh ..........................0 A. Pulford, b Cowtn .. 2 C. Davin, b Higham .. 88 J. W. Ellis, c Highara, b Cavenaugh .. F. Ironmonger, Cooke, b Butler W. L. Pare, not out .. 10 B. Wildman, b Cowen 11 A. Blair, b Cowen .. 0 C. C. Bradley, b Cavenaugh .. .. 0 E. J.Ca«on,c Woolraor, b C »venaugh B 2,1 b 1 Total 8 ..118 BARNES v. HON. ARTILLERY COM­ PANY. Played at Finsbury on August 8. B a r n e s . C. Nettleton, c Jones, b Saeger .................. 0 J. Blunde'l,b Matthews 7 O. G. Ladelle, 1 bw ,b Biehop ..................17 C. J. Stevens, b Baeger 12 C. E. Ratcliff, c »nd b Bishop ..................0 A. G. II. Stevens, o Graham, b Saeger .. 8 W.H.Jacques,bBiahrp P. Nettleton, run ouc W. K. Carter, b Bishop H. 8heriff, b Bishop.. A. Sheppard, not out B 8,1 b 8, w 1 .. Total , 0 4 7 R 7 62 H. A. C. 8. M. 8impson,b Carter 15 J. N. Satgir. b Ratcliff 1 H. Pocock, b Carter .. 1 H. Graham, b Carter .. 0 F. Matthews, b Ratcliff 7 K. J. Thorp®, b Ratcliff 1 Cowell, c P. Nettleton, b Ratcliff.................. 5 W.F. Bibhop, c P. Net­ tleton, b Ratcliff .. 3 N. H. Jones, not out 10 Bftllsntine.cSheppai d, b Carter Jinks, b Carter ■ B 3, 1b 1 Total , a l , 4 01