Cricket 1888

AUG. 23, 1888. CRICKET j A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME* 865 B 2, lb 1 G L O U C E S T E R S H IR E v. Y O R K S H IR E . A fter three fu ll days th is return m atch, m em orable for some h ig h scoring generally, and in particular for tw o notew orthy b a ttin g b Preston perform ances by M r. W . G . Grace and H a ll, was left un fin ished on S aturd a y evening on the C lifto n College Cricket G round. Glouces­ tershire left out Roberts, w ho had bow led so w ell the week before against th e A ustralians, w hile Y orkshire was w ith o u t Lee, w ho had in jure d h is foot. Gloucestershire, w inn in g the toss, rem ained in till five o’clock on T hursday, hav ing p u t together the very respectable total of 248. T he score on tho fall of the fou rth w icket was only 26, b u t M r. W . G. Grace received valuable assistance from Messrs. R adcliffe and B ra in , both of w ho m h it freely. M r. Grace has n ot been seen to such advantage for several weeks. H e was respon­ sible for 148 out of 218 got d u rin g his stay from the bat, a nd as he was only three hours a nd a h a lf at th e w icket, it w ill be seen th a t he got h is runs a t a great pace. Moreover, there was no flaw in a rem arkable display of batting. Cricketers of all olasses w ill be he artily pleased a t th is latest ex hibitio n of M r. Grace’s extraordinary v ita lity , and of his still u n im p a ire d powers as a batsm an. The Y orkshirem en, w ho on the first evening had lost tw o w ickets for 35 runs, on the follow ing day got the m easure of the Gloucestershire bow ling, and were still in at six o’clock, hav ing at th a t tim e reached the h igh figure of 427 for the loss of only eight wickets. The chief contributors to th is fine perform ance were H all, W orm ald , the wicket-kteper, W ade, a nd M oorhouse. H a ll and W o rm a ld added 130 runs for the th ird wicket, H a ll and W ade 116 for the eighth, and M oorhouse, w ho was not c u t on F riday evening w ith H all, m ade 59 out of the last seventy runs got on the second day, h ittin g a ll round in b rillia n t style. On S aturday M oorhouse added 27 more before he was caught, and as Peel, w ho was called hom e by the death of his m other, was absent, the in nin g s closed w ith the fa ll of the n in th w icket. A m ore rem arkable display of u n ­ w earying patience th an was show n by H a ll in this in n in g s has never been seen. H e was in forty-five m in ute s on T hursday and the w hole of F riday , a nd was n o t out after twenty-five m inutes on Saturday, h a v in g carried his bat throug h the in nin g s after ba ttin g a p art of each of the three days. A ltogether, he was b a ttin g for m ore th a n seven hours, a w orthy addition to an already long list of notew orthy perform ances for his county. G oing in a second tim e in a m in o rity of 233 runs, Gloucestershire, thanks to another exceptionally fine ex hibitio n of b a ttin g by M r. W . G. Grace, were able to m ake even a better show th a n on the first day. T he Yorkshire bow ling was seriously w eakened by the absence of Peel, b u t except P ullen and P ain ter no one gave the Gloucestershire captain m u c h help. M r. Grace’s unequalled powers of scoring were never perhaps show n in bolder relief. H e was only at the w icket for three hours a nd ten m inutes in the a ttain m en t of his 153, so th a t he scored at an average of just under 49 runs an hour, an extraordinary rate. W h ile he was in 253 runs were m ade, and as far as could be seen there was no chance of any k ind . H is score, we m ay add, was m ade u p of twenty-tw o 4’s, five 3’s, tw elve 2’s and twenty- six singles. T his is the th ir d tim e he has m ade over a hund red tw ice in first-class m atches. H is previous records were for the S outh against the N orth a t C anterbury in 1868, a nd for Gloucestershire against K e n t at C lifton last year. W ith th e exception of L a m b e rt—w ho got 107 n o t out and 157 for Sussex (w ith Osbaldeston and Lam bert) against E psom a t L o rd ’s on Ju ly 2, 1817, and four follow ing days— be is the only cricketer w ho has accom plished the feat in im p o rta nt m atches. Yorkshire, w ith 104 to w in, had only tim e to get 28 of th e m w ith o u t the loss of a w icket before the gam e ended, and the draw was therefore very m uc h in th e ir favour, A s a proof of the excellence of the w icket it need only be said th a t 1,053 runs were scored in the three days for 29 w ickets, giving an average of nearly 36£ runs. G lou cestersh ir e . First Innings. Second Innings. Mr.W .G. Grace, c Ulyett, Mr. E . M. Grace, c W or­ mald, b P e e l................. 5 c ...148 c Parratt, b Ul- yetfc..................153 Mr. W . W . P. Pullen, c W ormald, b Preston ... Mr. H. B. Charapain, b Preston ......................... Painter, c W ainw right, b Peel ......................... 6 W ainw right, Preston ... . 11 Mr. O. G. Radcliffe, c and b Peel .........................31 b W ade............ Mr. J. H. Brain, c Moor­ house, b P re sto n ..........47 b Moorhouse Mr. F. Townsend, b Pres­ ton ................................ 1 c and b U lyett ... 37 0 b W ade.................. 2 c Parratt, b Pres­ ton ..................31 Mr. H. V. Page, not out... 0 Mr. E . Peake, c Moor­ house, b P reston .......... 0 Woof, b Preston .......... 0 c W orm ald, Preston ... not o u t.......... T otal... ..248 b W ainw right ... 10 c Thewlis, b Pres­ ton ................... 5 B4,lb5,wl,nb3 13 T otal...........316 Y o r k s h ir e . First Innings. Parratt, b W oof ... 11 Wade, c Townsend, b W oof ................. 68 Moorhouse, c Brain, b E . M. Grace ... 83 Peel, absent .......... 0 B 16, lb 5 ..........21 Hall, not out ......................................................... . 29 Ulyett, b W o o f.............................................................. 16 Thewlis. b W oof ... 0 W orm ald, c W . G. Grace, b Peake ... 80 Preston, c Page, b Townsend .............................................................. 23 W ainwright, b E. M. G race........................................................................... 23Total ......................461 Lord Hawke, b Woof In the Second Innings Thewlis scored (not out) 2, Hawke (not out) 21; b 3, lb 2.—Total, 28. B O W LIN G ANA LYSIS. G lo u c e s t e r s h ir e . First Innings. O. M. Peel ....... 53 Preston ... 41 Parratt ... 9 W ainw right. 9 W ade ....... 10 U ly e tt........... 6 H all ........... 3 21 80 14 82 5 * 12 0 29 2 17 2 14 0 11 Second Inning*. O. M. R .W S u sse x . 32.3 10 22 8 34 9 24 19 Moorhouse 11 6 11 1 Preston bowled one wide and three no-balls. Y o r k sh ir e . First Innings. Second Innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R .W Peake .......... 64 27 124 1 «. . 6 0 20 0 W oof .......... 96 64 87 5 ... . 5 4 3 0 W . G. Grace 50 2J 87 0 Townsend... 13 3 34 1 Radcliffe ... 15 8 20 0 Page .......... 13 8 17 0 E. M. Grace 20.3 1 62 2 Brain .......... 2 0 11 0 Mr. F. H . Gresson, c Young, b Roberts... 4 Quaife, run out.......... 0 Mr. W . Newham, c Young,bArm strong 4 J. Hide, run out..........34 H um phrei s.bRoberts 31 Mr. C. A. Sm ith, b W y ny ard................. 142 H a m p sh ir e . First Innings. Mr. A. L . W atson, c Sm ith, b A. Hide ........................... 1 Mr. CJ. R . Seymour, b S m ith .................................. 4 Dible, c J. H ide.b Sm ith... 11 Mr. E. G. Wynyard, lbw, b A. Hide ........................... 3 Mr. F. E . Lacey, b Sm ith... 0 Mr. H. W . Forster, c and b Humphreys .....................28 Baldw in, b A. H id e .......... 4 Mr. G. Brann, lbw , b F o r s te r .................. 8 Major, b Armstrong 22 A. Hide, run out ... 6 Phillips, b W ynyard 29 Tate, not out .......... 1 B 12, lb 7, n b l ...20 Total ...30, Second Innings, lbw, b Sm ith ... ( b A. Hide b Sm ith , 15 , 0 0 b J . n id e ... b Humphreys ... 22 Mr. E . O. Powell, b J. Hide 16 Young, not out ..................37 b J . Hide ... . st Phillips, Humphreys b J. Hide ... c J. Hide, Humphreys 19 31 • 7 2 b H um phreys. S U S S E X v. H A M P S H IR E . T he H am pshire eleven m ade a bad com ­ m encem ent in this re tu rn m atch a t B rig h to n on T hursday in losing the toss, a nd the gam e after the first half-hour w ent so m u c h in favour of the hom e team th a t the result was never in doubt. The score on the fall of the fifth w icket of Sussex was only 115, b u t M r. S m ith , the captain, received valuable assist­ ance from the colt, M ajor, and the veteran, P hillip s, a n d the last h a lf of the in nin gs added 186 runs. M r. S m ith was only in tw o hours and 50 m inutes for h is 142, and as a display of resolute w ell-tim ed h ittin g it de­ served the highest praise. H e was m issed at the w icket w hen he h a d m ade 58, b u t th is was the only m istake. H is figures consisted of tw enty fours, six threes, twelve twos, and tw enty singles. The H am pshire eleven m ade a very m oderate show against the bow ling of the Hides, M r. S m ith , a nd H um phreys, and M r. Forster, w ho proved to be the highest scorer w ith 47, was the only batsm an to get double figures each tim e . T he m a tc h was oyer by 3.45 on F rid a y afternoon, Sussex w in ­ n in g by an in nin gs and 63 runs. Mr. R. Armstrong, b H u m ­ phreys .................. . Roberts, c P hillips, b S m ith ................................ 2) not out ............. 0 B .................................12 T otal ..................138 Total...........100 B O W L IN G ANALYSIS. S u s se x . O. M. R . W . Roberts ... 34 17 62 2 Lacey ... Armstrong 47 21 68 2 Baldw in Forster ... 31 9 58 1 Dible ... Young ... 14 5 36 0 W ynyard O. M. R.W . 10 0 21 0 6 1 U 0 6 0 14 0 4.11 11 2 H an ts . First Innings. O. M . R . W . A. Hide .......... 31 13 46 3 Mr. Sm ith ... 32 14 46 4 J. Hide .......... 8 5 13 1 Humphreys ... 9 2 21 2 Second Innings. O. M. R. W. . ... 22 8 40 1 . ... 12 6 18 2 ... 18 7 25 3 ........ 8.3 0 17 4 R IC H M O N D v. E A S T B O U R N E . P layed at E astbourne on A ugust 15 a nd 16. R ich m o n d . F irst Innings. W. P. Harrison, c Bouch, b Ford................................ A. Springett, run out.......... R. S. Lucas, b F o rd .......... W. Furze, c Bouch, b Ford ................................ W . G. H unt, lbw, b Ford... L.H . Bacmeister, c R obin­ son. b Ford .................. E. Needham, c Ford, b R o b in s o n ......................... G. Stevens, c and b R obin­ son ................................ W. Barker, b Ford .......... F. A. Nicholl, not out W . Lemm on, c G rant, b Ford ................................ Second Innings. 6 lbw, b Ford ... 20 0 c Bouch, b Ford 12 22 b Morrison ... 43 6 not out ..........83 0 c Huntingdon, b Ford................. 3 8 c Ford, b W ood 37 9 b Ford................. 5 Lb b Ford.......... b Robinson run out c Robinson, Ford.......... L b ... ... 6 ... 4 ... 21 b ... 0 ... 2 Total ..................67 E a st b o u r n e . Total ...235 First Innings. R. E. Bouch, c Nicholl, Barker......................... 7 c A. F. J. Ford, c Springett, b Barker .........................78 E . Robinson, b Barker ... 12 C. R . Morrison, b Barker 6 C.D.Seligman, b Needham 3 J. West, lbw, b Needham 0 R . C. Griffith, not out ... 6 Second Innings. Nicholl, b Barker .......... ( S. H. W ood, b Barker M. Grant, b Needham ... 1 A.W . Huntingdon, b Need­ ham ... ....................... 0 A. R. Hay, b Needham ... 0 B 3, lb i, w 5 .......10 Total ............. 123 not out .......... I b Needham run out .......... b Needham b Bacmeister ... c Lucas, b Need­ ham ................. cNicholl.b Need­ ham ................ b Barker .......... c Nicholl, b Bacmeister ... 6 not out .......... 0 B 1,1b 3, w l 5 T otal...128 O n Tuesday, the 14th inst., W illiam Jam es Robinson (slow medium), playing for the Lawyers against the Doctors at Sunderland, bowled three wickets w ith successive balls. '1he first of these three balls sent the off bail a distance of 28 yards