Cricket 1886

OCT. 28,1886. CEICKET: A WEEKLY REOOBD OF THE .GAME. 449 TH E EN G L IS H G E N T L EM E N IN AM ER IC A . By O ne of th e T e a m . We sailed from Liverpool on August 19, in the Adriatic, which took out last year’s team. Our passage was rather arough one during the first ive days, but latterly very calm. We had cricket on board one day. We landed at New York on Sunday, August 29, a blazing hot day. The first two days were devoted to practice on the new ground of the Staten Island Club, which was kindly lent to us. The first match was against the Staten Island Club, on Wed­ nesday, September 1st. They included in their team Lane and Butler, two professionals who played for Notts some few years back. The game began at 12.15 on a fairly good wicket. Roller began well by winning the toss. We sent in Bainbridge and Hine-Haycock to face the bowling of Lane and Lambkin, a bowler with a decidedly doubtful accion. Runs came fairly quickly until at 14 Lane bowled Haycock off his pads. Key was next man and for a time Bainbridge did all the scoring. As no wicket fell Butler went on instead of Lane. Key, who had been playing very carefully, hit the new bowler three times to the on boundary in one over, which punishment caused Lane to cross over while McGregor took the vacant wicket. Bainbridge was almost directly caught at the wicket for a steady innings of 29. 64—2—29. Turner made 13 very quickly and then Lane found his way into his wicket. Fortescue joined Key, and seemed far from comfortable ; the pair were, however, still together at lunch. On resuming, matters went badly for a time. Fortescue was caught at point, and Key bowled off his legs by Lambkin. He had played a good innings of 42. Buckland was quickly caught by War- burton at extra mid-off without having scored. Cobb and Roller, who was suffering from a bad wrist, were together. Cobb was playing in very fine style; his driving was particularly brilliant, including one hit out of the ground. Roller was bowled at 134, and as Cottrell did nothing it seemed as if our innings would not be a large one. Rotherham and Cobb, however, made a further stand till at 180 Cobb was bowled by Butler. He had played undoubtedly the best innings of the day. Sanders made 10, but Welman did not help the score. The innings closed for 203, Rotherham carrying his bat for an excellent 27. There was an hour and a quarter left for play. Our opponent’s start was disastrous, as two wickets fell for as many runs from Roller’s bowling. Massey, who played some years for Somersetshire, together with Wilson, made some stand till the former foolishly ran himself out. He had scored 22 by good hard hitting. Wilson was badly hit on the fingers and had to retire. Just before time Rother­ ham bowled Kessler, who had made 16by good cricket, the state of the game being English Gentlemen 203, Staten Island 49 for 4 wickets. In the evening we were hospitably enter­ tained by the Staten Island Club in their new club house. After a very pleasant and up­ roarious evening we all caught the last boat back to New York and beguiled the time with songsand strange noises. A ratherlate startwas made on Friday morning, it being quite 12.30 when Cottrell bowled the first ball to McGregor. Roller bowled from the other end. At 63 McGregor was finely caught at slip. Wilson, whose hand was still painful, came in to join Lambkin. He increased his score to 10, when Cottrell bowled him. After this no one could do anything against Cottrell. Buckland was tried at the other end, but without suc­ cess. No one of the tail made double figures, the innings eventually closing for 76. Cottrell during the morning had bowled marvellously well, taking 7 wickets at the cost of only 6 runs. Being 139 runs behind, the Islanders of course followed on. This time Rotherham and Cottrell were the bowlers. Before a run was scored a catch at point sent back Smith. Moore and Butler carried the score to 15, when Rotherham bowledMoore. Massey and Butler both played very well, Butler cutting in good style. Buckland took the ball from Cottrell and soon bowled Massey, who had made 10. Almost immediately on the arrival of Wilson Butler was beautifully caught at mid off by Turner. He had shown good cricket for 28. MoGregor was next batsman. After scoring four off Rotherham he saw Wilson bowled. Kessler joined McGregor, and the cricket became very slow. Turner bowled in place of Bucklana. Rotherham then dismissed McGregor, and Lambkin, who followed, was neatly caught at slip. On Lane joining Kessler the latter hit Turner for 4 and 2, causing him to hand the ball to Hine-Haycock. The change got rid of Kessler, caught at extra cover, while Outer- bridge was caught and bowled first ball. Rotherham bowled both Lane and Townsend, and the innings closed for 80, leaving us vic­ torious by an innings and 49 runs. [The score appeared in C ricket of ’Sept. 16, p. 415.] On Saturday morning we were all off to Niagara. After a long but very pretty journey we reached there at 11 p.m. We spent a day and a half in seeing all the sights, and then made our way to Toronto, to play against Ontario. SECOND MATCH.—v. ONTARIO. The game began on Tuesday, September 7. The weather was very fine and hot. Roller again won the toss, and Hine-Haycock and Bainbridge went in to face the bowling of Ferrie and Gillespie, who had both been so successful for Canada against America. The wicket was very bad indeed, and bumped in a most dangerous fashion. Our start was very disastrous, as Haycock, Key, Bainbridge and Turner were all out for 15 runs. Cobb and Roller carried tho score to 35, when Simpson, who had superseded Ferrie, bowled him for a useful 15. Buckland came in, but with the score unaltered our captain was caught at point. 35—6—5. Fortescue came to the rescue, and from this time the aspect of the game changed, the Parson playing fine cricket, while Buckland played a hitting game—un­ doubtedly the only thing on such a wicket. His hits were some of them high but dropped out of harm’s way. Allan took the ball from Gillespie, and Ferrie resumed. Runs came tremendously fast, so Gillespie went on again, Wilson went on instead of Ferrie, and at 1.30 the century appeared. It was not till the score reached 117 that Buckland was caught by the wicket-keeper in hitting to leg. He had made 54 by very free hitting. The pair had scored 82 while together. Cottrell made 8, and left with the score at 136. Lunch followed, after which, both teams were photographed. Play was resumed at three. Rotherham and Welman helped Fortescue to bring the lotal to 169. The last named carried out his bat for 58, an excellent performance, especially as it was far from a batstnan’s wicket. Ontario made a worse start than we did, losing six wickets for 18, before Cottrell and Rotherham. Harley, aided by Hamilton, made a stand, the former hitting with great brilliancy. After making 40, a very fine left-hand catch by Roller at point sent him back. No one else did any­ thing, and the innings closed for 72. Cottrell was the most successful bowler, taking six wickets for 31. Stumps were then drawn for the day. The game was resumed on Wednesday at 11.30. Ontario following on. An almost equally bad start was made, six men being dismissed for 23, Roller proving very destruc­ tive with the ball. Allan, however, played really fine cricket. He is a left-handea bats­ man, and hits well all-round. He was well aided by Ferrie and Gillespie, the former playing a hard-hit innings of 38. Their total reached 111, leaving us 14 to win. Key and Bainbridge were both dismissed before Roller made the winning hit. In the evening we were all very kindly entertained at dinner at the Reform Club by the citizens of Toronto. G e n t l e m e n o f E n g l a n d . F irst Innings, M r.H . W . B ainbridge, b G illespie ............. 2 M r. T. R . H ine-H ay­ co ck , b F errie ... 0 Mr. K . J. K ey, c H am ilton, b G illes­ pie ............................... 1 Mr. J. A . Turner, c H am ilton, b G illes­ p ie ..........................11 Mr. W . E . R oller, c F errie, b G illespie 5 Mr. A . R . C ob b, b S im p s o n .................15 T otal M r. E . H . B uckland, c V ickers, b S im p ­ son .............................54 R ev. A .T . F ortescu e, n o t ou t .....................58 M r. C. E. C ottrell, c G uthrie, b H arley 8 M r. H . R oth erh am , c G uthrie, b F errie 4 M r. F. T. W elm an, b W ilson ................... 3 B ............................. _8 ...169 In th e S econ d In n in gs B ainbridge scored b G il­ lespie, 0, H in e-H a ycock (n ot out) 7, K ey, c S im p­ son, b F errie, 4, R oller (n ot ou t) 2; extras, 2.— T ota l, 15. O ntario . F irst Innings. S econ d Innings. trell ...................................... 0 c B ain bridge, b R oth erh am ... 0 Mr. F. B. G . Allan, b R oth ­ erham ...................................... 0 b B oiler ............ 5 Mr. H . G uthrie, c K ey, b C ottrell ............................. 0 b R oth erh am ... 0 Mr. A . H . G illespie, c and b C o ttr e ll............................. 2 b R oller ............ 11 Mr. F. H arley, c R oller, b B u c k la n d ............................. 40 b R oller ............ 1 Mr. A . C. A llan, b C ottrell 0 c W elm an , b H in e-H a y cock 45 Mr. W .W .Jones, b R o th e r­ ha m ...................................... 1 b H in e-H aycock 1 Mr. M . H am ilton , c C ob b , b C o t t r e ll............................. 13 c R oth erh am , b B oiler ............ 2 Mr. R .B . F errie, c T urner, b C o t t r e ll............................. 7 st W elm an, b H in e-H a ycock 38 M r. G . B . S im pson,b B uck­ la n d ...................................... 0 c Bainbridge, b C o ttr e ll............ 4 Mr. W . R ose-W ilson , n ot o u t.............................................. 3 n ot ou t ............ 0 E xtras .............................. 6 E xtra s............ 4 T o ta l ..................... 72 T ota l ...111 B O W L IN G AN ALYSIS. E nglish G entlem en . F irst Innings. _ __ Second^Innings. O. G illespie Ferrie ... . S im p son , A. C. Allan 3 0 R ose-W ilson 5.1 0 H arley ... 11 G M . R . W . 13 55 4 10 43 2 8 22 2 0 14 0 18 1 9 1 O. M. R .W . 6 3 7 1 5.3 3 6 1 O ntario . First Innings. Sccond Inninps. O. M. R .W . O. M. R .W . Cottrell ... 38.3 7 3L 6 ............ 10 2 20 1 R oth erh am G 0 12 2 ............ 11 2 23 2 Turner ... 7 3 11 0 Buckland ... 9 4 12 2 ............ 3 0 15 n Hine-Haycock 113 4 11 3 Roller ........ 19 11 37 4 Bainbridge ... 5 1 15 0 We left Toronto by boat on Thursday at three o’clock; we went along Lake Ontario, arriving in the River St. Lawrence on Friday morning. We passed the Thousand Islands and went through the Rapids, finally arriving at the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, at eight o’clock. THIRD MATCH—v. SIXTEEN OF MON­ TREAL CLUB. The game began on Saturday on a slow wicket with very rough out-fielding. We won the toss, our first representatives being Fortescue and Bainbridge. At 20, the Parson was caught at point. Key came in and was immediately missed at point. This proved an expensive mistake for Montreal, as Key and Bainbridge made a determined stand. Lacey, Sills, Gough, Browning and Stancliffe were all tried. Each batsman hit Browning out of the ground. At 94, Bainbridge was caught at mid-off, having played an excellent innings of 47. Haycock was caught at the wicket. Turner and Key made a further stand, till at 127 Key was bowled off his foot by Savage, who up to this time had not been put on. Since Next Issue November 25