Cricket 1886

198 CRICKET:' A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. JUNE 17,1886. the Nondescripts, but for the last few years his services have been chiefly given to the Incogniti, which well-known wandering club he assisted in their tours, both in the West of England and. also in the North. In addition to his batting powers, Mr. Ford is also a very useful medium pace bowler, and a wicket­ keeper of no small ability. Always cheery and genial under any circumstances, it would be hard to find any one more generally or deservedly popular. Cricket at Marlborough College, which has produced so many good men recently, owes much to his influence and support. Mr. Ford is the eldest of a family of reven brothers, all of whom are excellent cricketers. One of them, Mr. A. F. J. Ford, will be well remembered as having played with much success for both Cambridge University and Middlesex, and the youngest brother, now Captain of the Repton Eleven, is said to be the most promising of the brotherhood. We may fitly conclude this notice by stating that Mr. Ford’s height is 6-ft. 3£-in.,« and his weight 17 stone 4 lbs. In appearance, especially in the cricket-field, he is not unlike the “ Champion,” Dr. W. G. Grace. TH E F IF TH A U S T R A L IA N T E AM IN ENG LAND . NINTH MATCH.—v. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. The Australian cricketers showed to marked advantage in this, the ninth match of the tour, played at Cambridge on Thursday last and two following days. Rain interfered considerably with the game on the opening day, and when playceased,onlyeightwicketsofthe Australians were down for 14(3 runs. The best feature of the batting so far had been the excellent form shown by the youngest member of the team, Mr. 13ruce. He scored 54 out of 84 while in, and altogether his play was of a high class. His runs were got in very neat style and while his defence was excellent, he hit all round with freedom. On resuming on Friday a spirited stand was made by the last batsmen, Messrs. Evans and Trumble. The pair added 67 runs, and both deserved commendation for a most creditable performance. Cambridge started very badly, and when the seventh wicket fell the total was only 48. Then Messrs. Marchant and. Rock became associated, and their stand entirely altered the aspect of the game. The former hit with great pluck, scoring 51 out of 81 got during the partnership. Though he ought to have been caught when he had made 42, he merited the warmest praise for his vigorous hitting, which was invaluable to his side, and in fact saved it in all probability from a defeat. Mr. Rock continued to play very carefully until he had got 38, and the two last wickets fell at 143, just as the follow-on h^d been saved. Giffen, who is bowling with great success just now, puzzled the Cambridge batsmen thoroughly. The first five batsmen were all secured by him, and, as will be seen, he took eight of the ten wickets at a cost of 58 runs. This it will be admitted is an excep­ tionally good performance on a run-getting ground like that at Cambridge. Some excellent batting was shown on Saturday by the Aus-. tralians, who had an excellent example set them inthesoundplay oftheircaptain,Mr.Scott. Messrs. Trumble and Bruce, the two youngest members of the team, who had shown such good cricket in the first innings, were again seen to great advantage, and every one will be heartily pleased to see them give such sub­ stantial proof of their ability after their early ill-luck. The best feature of the day’s cricket though was the fine display of Jarvis, who with Trumble added 133 runs, both being not out. Jarvis, in the earlier fixtures here,had certainly done little to confirm the high reputation he had earned as a batsman in Australia, and therefore his success was the more gratifying. His play on this occasion was of a high order of merit. His batting, indeed, was charac­ terised by all the freedom which has been claimed for it by Colonial critics. As far as we could see he did not give one chance in his score of 96 not out. At the close the Austra­ lians were 405 runs on, having still five wickets to fall. A u str a lia n s . Second Innings. First Innings. H. J. II. Scott, c Dorman, b Rock ......................... 9 S.P.Jones,lbw,bDorman 3 G. E. Giffen, c Buxton, b Dorman .......................... 28 A. H. Jarvis, c Dorman, b Rock ................................. 14 G. J. Bonnor, c Toppin, b Rock ..................................18 run out ..........57 c Buxton, b Dor­ m an.................30 c Dorman,bRock 4 not out ..........96 c Knatchbull- Hugessen, b Rock ............36 W. Bruce, c Knatchbull- Huge*sen, b Dorman ...51 b Toppin J. M’llwraith, c Rock, b Dorman ........................ 2 J.M’C.Blackham.c Thomas, b Toppin ....................... 7 T. W. <;arrett, run out ... 7 J. W. Trumble, b Rock ... 47 E. Evans, not out ......... 21 B 3,1 b 4, w 2 .......... 9 Total not out ..........56 B 10,1 b 2, w 1 13 Total ...326 C a m brid g e U n iv e r sit y . C. D.Buxton,cBlack­ ham, b Giffen......... 6 J.A. Turner, c Bonnor, b Giffon ................ 9 G. Kemp; b Giffen ... 3 H. W. Bainbridge, b Giffen... ................. 2 F. Thomas, b Giffen 0 A.M.Sutthery,b Bruce 12 C. Toppin, b Bruce... 1 C. W. Rock, c Bruce, b G iffen.................38 F.Marchant,b Giffen 51 Hon. C. M. Knatcli- bull-Hugesscn, not out ........................ 5 A. W. Dorman, Giffen ......... B 7,1 b 7, w 2 b .. 0 ... 16 Total ..143 BOWLING ANALYSIS. A u s t r a lia n s . First Innings. Second Innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Rock ... ... 58.2 25 79 4 ......... 59 25 71 2 Dorman ... 37 12 66 4 .......... 42 12 90 1 Toppin .. 24 9 37 1 .......... 27 10 50 1 Buxton ... 11 6 16 0 .......... 18 5 41 0 Turner ... 4 0 15 0 ......... 14 4 30 0 Thomas 4 0 13 0 Sutthery 7 1 18 0 Marchant 1 1 0 0 Dorman bowled three wides. C am brid ge U n iv e r sity . o £ o M. R. w . Giffen .. 45.316 56 8 |Garrett 12 5 26 0 Bruce .. 30 10 42 2 I Evans ... 3 2 3 0 Bruce bowled two wides. On Saturday night the Australians were entertained at dinner by the Cambridge Uni­ versity Australian Club. bowling figures have been already given. His performance is one of the very best recorded to a bowler in important matches of late years. The Australians won by an innings and 12 runs. Score and analysis :— A u str a l ia n s . Mr.S.P.Jones,cBriggs, b Barlow ................ 54 Mr. H. J. H. Scott, lbw, b Watson................ 28 Mr. G. E. Giffen, b Barlow ........ . ... 3 Mr.W.Bruce,bBarlow 0 Mr. G. J. Bonnor, c Lancashire,bBarlow 2 Mr. A. H, Jarvis, b Watson ................. 0 Mr. J. W. Trumble, b Watson ................. Mr. J. M. Blackham, c Pilling, b Briggs 10 Mr. T. W. Garrett, c Yates, b Watson... 22 Mr. J. M’Hwr&ith, b W atson ................. 4 Mr.E. Evans, not out 2 B 5,1 b 4 .......... 9 Total ...145 11 L a n c a sh ir e . TENTH MATCH.—v. LANCASHIRE. The Australian team were credited with another victory—the fourth of the tour—in this match concluded at Manchester yester­ day. The result was in a great measure again due to the exceptionally fine performance of Giffen, who has been bowling with remark­ able success in recent matches. Altogether he was credited with sixteen of the twenty Lancashire wickets for65 runs, giving anaver­ age of just over 4 runs. Next to his bowling the chief feature of the Australians’ cricket was the excellent batting of Messrs. Jones and Scott on the first day. The rain only allowed an hour’s play on Monday, and during this time the two batsmen, making the best use of the wet wicket, scored exactly sixty runs. After this the game went more in favour of the bowlers, and thirty wickets fell for an average of a little over seven runs. The bat­ ting of the Lancashire Eleven was very dis­ appointing, though the wicketasit dried on the second day, it must be added, was decidedly difficult. Only one of them, Mr. H. B. Steel, got double figures in each innings, and he was responsible for 45of 123 from the bat GifTen’s First Innings. Mr. A. N. Hornby, c Scott, b Garrett ........................ Barlow, b Giffen................. Mr. H. B. Steel, c and b G iffen...............................21 Briggs, b G iffen................. 0 Mr. P. Dobell, b Giffen ... 0 Mr. F. Taylor, b Giffen ... 0 Mr. 0. P. Lancashire, not out..................................... 9 b Giffen Mr. H. Eccles, c Giffen, b Garrett... ... ... .........* 2 Yates,c blackham, b Giffen 1 Watson, b GiffeU .......... 0 Pilling, c Trumble,b Giffen 1 B 1,1 b 2 ............... . ... -3 Second Innings. c Trumble, b G arrett..........11 b Giffen ... ... 16 b Giffen ..........24 b Giffen .......... 4 c Scott, b Giffen 5 c and b Giffen... 2 b Giffen bGiffen b Evans ... not out Extras... ... 0 ... 7 ... 10 ... 1 ... 0 7 Total ..........46 Total ... 87 Watson Barlow BOWLING ANALYSIS. A u s t r a lia n s . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. ..66 2 38 53 5 IYates... 6 2 12 0 ...46 21 62 4 |Briggs ...151191 L a n c a sh ir e . First Innings. O. M. Giffen ... Garrett 5.3 10 26 10 R. W. 23 8 Second Innings. O M. R. W. .......... 40.1 22 42 8 ......... 31 16 35 1 Bruce 3 2 1 0 Evans 6 5 2 1 CROYDON v. HAMPSTEAD NONDE­ SCRIPTS. Played at Croydon on June 12. H. Wade, run out ... 15 J.S.Haycraft.b Austen 11 G.H.Woodhall.b Allan 0 ■\V.B.Casson,b Austen 0 C. Braithwaite, b Aus­ ten ........................ 0 F. J. Abbott, b Austen 8 F. F. Kelly, b Allan ... 18 L. Cooke, b Chin'g ... 23 C royd on . —A. Hill, c Casson, b Kelly, 1, R. J. J. Shrimpton, c Kelly, b Hutchinson, 1, A. W. Allan, (not out) 1—Total 3. C. F. Evans, J. Aris, T, L. Roberts, S. J. Ching, T. P. Austen, W. T. Taylor, M. B. W. Sealy and S- Ching did not bat. L. Hutchinson, b Allan .................38 A. J. Dare,b Allan... 0 R.L.Williamson, not out ........................ 5 B 12, lb 7 ..........19 Total ...137 CROYDON v. MR. J. W. HOBBS’. Played at Norbury on June 12. C roydon . w, b H. R. Groom, c Diver, b A d am s................ 8 C. Moss, b Mills......... 0 J. A. Knight, not out 73 E. R. Wilkinson, b Mills ........................ 0 J. C. Neech, c T. Adams, b Diver ... 14 W. T. Grant, c “ Esar- den,” b M ills......... 3 R. Biscoe, c T. Total ..........151 Adams, b “ Eden ” 16 Mr. J. W. H obbs ’.—E. J. Diver, b Whitehead, 34, Wheeler (notout),26, “ Eden” (not out),10; b l.lb S . —Total 73. Gould, “ Esarden,” Mills, T. Adams, Peters, H. Adams, Ayers, and Brown did not bat. F. Hill, 1 b “ Esarden ” H. W. Ward, st Adams, b “ Eden ” A. Whitehead, b '‘ Esarden” .......... E. H. Balch, retired hu rt................. ... B 5, n b 1 .......... . 5 8