Cricket 1891

DEC. 31, 1891 CRICKET: A WEEKLY EECORD OF THE GAME. 491 hits. Briggs made most of his runs from the other bowlers, who were changed repeatedly, while Mr. Stoddart also made some fine drives straight down the ground. At last Giffen got rid of Briggs, who was playing with extreme care to get his 100, the bowler run­ ning right down the wicket, and catching a ball about a dozen feet from the bat. It was a fine piece of work, well conceived, for Briggs had popped several balls up there, and Giffen had a long way to go. The little Lancastrian played a fine innings without giving a chance, and his play was not at all of that reckless character which one is apt to associate with his name. He took two hours to make his runs, and hit thirteen fours. Stoddart did not remain long after Briggs, a well played catch at extra mid-off disposing of him. He batted most gracefully for an hour and a half without making a mistake, and his innings was admired by everyone. The two Surrey men, Maurice Read and Abel, so dissimilar in their styles of play, were the next partners. Abel had just got set nicely and made 23 runs when afternoon tea was taken. The interval got his eye out, and a fast off theory ball was snicked into the wicket-keeper’s hands. Bobby Peel did not bat in his best form, but Read continued to score freely. When he had made 54 he was let off, but his time came 6 runs later, so that the fieldsman’s mistake did not cost the South Australians much. Maurice played with more care than usual. Occasionally he let out, and made some fine hits, two tremendous ones off Giffon's bowling flying clean amongst the crowd. Attewell, who was given three lives, repeated this per­ formance once, but Lohmann and M’Gregor were soon got rid of, and the innings closed for 323, giving thg Englishmen a lead of 160. The afternoon’s cricket was first class. The batting was splendid, and the fielding was the best ever shown by South Australians. George Giffen took the bulk of the wickets, but he was very expensive, and Haldane, a pure and simple off theory bowler, got the best average. Jarvis kept wicket in his most brilliant form, and did not allow a single bye. The third day’s play on Monday, October 23, was of course considerably robbed of interest to local people by the long lead the Englishmen had gained. Nevertheless, it was expected that the Colonials would score at least 200. Still there was a good crowd down to witness the utter collapse which took place. The wicket was good, yet the whole side were put out for 98. George Giffen, caught in two minds, was beaten by a splendid ball, Lyons and Jarvis were bowled off their pads, and Walter Giffen alone played up to form. He batted splendidly. Attewell again had a grand average, so did Briggs. M’Gregor was alto­ gether off colour, and missed a couple of easy chances of stumping. S o u t h A u s t r a l ia . First Innings- Second Innings. B. V. Scrymgour, b Atte­ well ............................ 87 b Attewell........... W. Delaney, c Abe', b Loh­ mann ............................20 F. Jarvis, b Lohmann ... 23 J. J. Lyons, c Stoddart, b Attewell ......................13 G. Giffen, c Grac^. b Peel 27 H. Le Haldane, b Atteweil 0 First Innings. Second Innings. B. M. R. W. B. M. R. W. Lohmann ... 234 20 74 2 ......... 12 1 5 0 Briggs ... 80 1 10 0 ......... 45 1 19 3 bharpe ... 102 7 18 1 ......... 51 8 3 0 Attewell Grace... ... 268 17 47 5 ... 36 3 4 0 ......... 234 20 3i 6 Peel ... ... 21 3 1 1 ......... 126 E n g l a n d . 7 31 1 B. M. B. W. B. M. R. W Giffen ... 246 5 152 7 F. Jarvis 72 2 34 0 Delaney 96 3 47 0 Reedman 30 0 29 0 Lyons 60 2 34 0 |Haldane 83 Haldane bowled a wide, 4 2.) 3 W. Giffen, b Attewell A. H. Jarvis, c Abe), b Sharpe ........................ 15 H. Blinman, run out ... 1 J. Reelmap. not out ...13 C.W. Hayward, b Attewell 0 B6, lb l, nb2 .......... 9 Total G. Bean, b Giffen ... 15 J. Briggs, c and b Giffen ............... 91 Dr. W. G. Grace, c Reedman, b Giffen 2 Mr A E. Stoddart, c Haldane, b Giffen 78 R.Abel, c A.H.Jarvis, b Haldane .........23 J.M.Read, c F.Jarvis, b Haldane .........60 R. Peel, lbw, b Giffen 19 .. 163 E n g la n d . b Briggs ......... c Grace, b Briggs b Peel............... b Attewell......... c and b Attewell not out .........■ b Attewell......... c Grace, d Atte­ well ............... b Attewell........ c and b Briggs B .............. . Total ... 17 BOWLING ANALYSIS. S o u t h A u s t r a l i a . G. A. Lohmann. c Blinman, b Oiffeu 9 W. Attewell, c Blin­ man, b Haldane ... 17 Mr. G. McGregor, c Scrymgour, b Gif­ fen ...................... 8 J. W. Sharpe, not out 0 W ................ ... l As the match was finished at half-past 3, and there were about a couple of thousand people present, the South Australians agreed to take the field and allow the Englishmen to give an exhibition of batting. This time Dr. W. G. Grace went in first, accompanied by Mr. Radcliffe, who did not play in the match. Giffen did not trundle himself, but gave the change bowlers a try. This was much appre­ ciated by the two batsman, who in an hour made 100. The champion was then caught at slip. His cutting was perfectly timed and hard, and he hit to leg well, while the feature of Mr. Radcliffe’ s batting was his leg-hitting. Mr. Philipson, the reserve wicket-keeper of the team, was the next man in. At 5 o’clock the exhibition was at an end. L o r d S h e f f ie l d ’ s E l e v e n . Mr. W. G. Grace, not Briggs... ... ... .. 16 out .................... .159 Attewell ......... .. 6 Abel .................... .. 29 Mr. G. McGrcgor ... 0 Lohmann ......... .. 39 Sharpe ......... .. 1 Mr. A. E. Stoddart .. 10 Extras......... ... 6 Bean .................... .. 0 — M. Read... .. 5 Total ... ..281 Mr. 0. G. Radcliffe .. 13 Dr. W. G. Grace, c F. Jarvis, b Haldane 48 Mr. O. G. Radcliffe, lbw, b F. Jarvis ... 59 Mr. H. Philipson, not o u t ......................17 Mr. G. McGregor, not out ................ B ...................... Total .........1! SECOND MATCH—v. VICTORIA. A brilliant victory was gained in this match, against Victoria, begun at Melbourne on November 27. Though repre­ sented by their best available eleven, the Victorians, thanks to the fine bowling of Lohmann and Attewell, were dismissed for the small total of 73, of which number, two batsmen, Trott and Carlton, contributed 32. Every one of the side were caught. The match was favoured by splendid weather, and on the Englishmen taking the bat, Dr.W. G. Grace proved to be in phenomenal form. Though only moderately supported—Lohmann with 39 and Abel with 29 being the other highest scorers—Dr. Grace hit out magnificently, the close of the first day finding him still in with 102 to his credit. Of course, his success was immensely popular, as was evidenced by the largely inoreased attendance on the 29th. The English innings realised 284, of which number their captain contributed 159 (not out), going in first and carrying his bat through the entire innings. Too much cannot be said in praise of Dr. Grace’s innings, in which he made scarcely a single mistake. Victoria had to face a minority of 211, yet at their second attempt they again failed to do much with the English bowling. Upon Lohmann bowling vice Sharpe, the opposition dropped out quickly, and with the exception of a slight stand by Blackham and Carlton, little was done. In this innings Lohmann and Attewell divided the wickets, the former’s five costing 38 and the latter’s 42 runs. The English team thus won their second match by an innings and 107 runs. V ic t o r ia . Total ...323 Lord Sheffield, it is stated, caused the liveliest satisfaction amongst Australian cricketers by offering a trophy of the value of 150 guineas for a competition between the colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. The offer was gladly accepted. First Innings. Bruce ...................... ... 5 Second Innings. .............................25 Houston ............... ... 6 .. 4 }. E. Barrett ... 6 .. 1 Ross ...................... ... 1 ...................................... .. 25 Trott ...................... ... 15 .. 9 Morris...................... ... 7 .. 0 Trumble ............... ... 8 .. 6 H. Worrall............... ... 0 .. 0 Blackham............... ... 5 not out......... .. 20 Carlton...................... ... 17 .. 10 Kemp ...................... ... 2 ... 0 Extras ......... ... 1 Extras... ... 4 Total ... ... 73 Total ...104 TH IRD MATCH—v. NEW SOUTH WALES. The third match of the tour, against New South Wales, was played at Sydney on December 4, 5, and 7, and resulted in another win for England. But although represented by only a mediocre lot, the senior colony made a splendid fight, assisted, it is true, by conditions of ground which did not admit of high scoring. A large crowd witnessed the start, which was preceded by a heavy rainfall, ai d New South Wales, going in first, were dis­ missed for the poor total of 74. Towards this number Bannerman contributed a most useful 25, but of the rest only Gregory and Callaway reached double figures. When stumps were drawn on Friday the Englishmen had lost four of their best wiokets for 27, and continu­ ing next day, though the scoring ruled low, they managed to head their opponents by 20 runs. On an improving wicket New South Wales did considerably better the second time, Moses and Gregory playing really brilliant cricket while together. The innings realised 172, Attewell securing six wickets at a cost of 53 runs. Left with 153 to make, the English team did well to get them for the loss of six wickets. With that number of men gone, and the score under 100, it still looked anybody’s match when Lohmann partnered Peel. The former hit out finely, so that the necccsary runs were got without further loss. Turner secured five wickets in this innings for 80 runs. N e w S o u t h W a l e s . First Innings. Second Innings. S. P. Tones, c and b ........ 0 c ................ ... 0 C. T. B. Turner, c ........ 2 c ................ ... 40 A. C. Bannerman, c ........ 25 s t ................ ... 7 H. Doonan, c ............... 11 c ................ ... 32 H. Moses, c ..................... 0 c ................ ... 55 F. Iredale, c ..................... 4 c and b ... 9 P. O. Charlton, c and b .. 3 lbw, ......... ... 0 8. E. Gregory, c and b .. 15 c ................ ... 21 S. Callaway, not out .. .. 12 b ................ ... 3 J. Newell, c ..................... . 0 b ................ ... 0 J. F. Wales, c .............. 0 not out ... 2 B ........................... . 2 B ......... ... 3 T o ta l.............. . 74 Total ...172 L o r d S h e f fie l d ’ s T e a m . First Innings. Second Innings. Dr. W. G. Grace, c ........ 15 c and b ... 19 Mr. Stoddart, c .............. . 4 b ................ ... 28 Abet, c ........................... . 7 c ................ ... 3L Briggs, b .................... . 0 c ................ ... 0 M. Read, run out ........ 20 c ................ ... 6 G. Bean,c ..................... 17 c ................ ... 0 Lohmann, ...................... . 7 not out ... 34 Peel, c .......................... . 0 not out ... 26 W. Attewell, c ............. . 0 Sharpe, c .................... . 7 Mr. M’Gregor, not out . . 12 B .......................... . 5 B ........ ... 11 T o ta l............. . 94 Total ...155 CR ICKETERS-B est < € C B « G oods City Agents — b e a r t h is M a r k .- -Advt. P a r t o n & L e s t e r , 94, Q u e e n S t ., C h b a p sid e . NEXT ISSUE JANUARY 28