Cricket 1892

AUG. 18, 1892 C R I C K E T : A W E E K L Y R E C O R D O F T H E G A M E . 867 W . M . H E M I N G W A Y . W. M. H e m in g w a y , one of many brothers, of whom several have been very competent cricketers, was born at Macclesfield in 1873, and is now not quite nineteen years of age. At the age of ten he went to school at Malvern ■Wells, and was under the care of Mr. Gedge. There his cricket education was not neglected, and in his last year he gained the highest average, 15. In the spring of 1887 he went to Uppingham School and soon made his mark as a cricketer. In 1888 he was tried for the eleven but failed to come off or obtain a place, more through nervousness than from any lack of ability. The next season saw him a mem­ ber o f the eleven, but his average was only a little over six. Even then he showed an ability and willingness to hit, but his defence was weak, and he was very nervous at start­ ing. In ’ 90 his average had risen to 20 runs per innings, and he had developed into a very fine hitter, especially on the off side, while he had also become a very good fieldsman at extra cover, covering a great deal of ground while possessing a very safe pair of hands. Last season, which was very favourable for batsmen, saw his average risen to 23. Perhaps his best performances were a fine innings of 41 against Repton on a sodden and difficult wicket, and 53 and 44 in the Blackheath match, in compiling which he treated Walter Wright, of Kentish fame, with the very scantiest ceremony. His fielding was more brilliant than ever, and was the best in an eleven whose fielding all round was exception­ ally good. During this season he has been more successful than ever with the bat, his average being no less than 57 per completed innings. Perhaps the best among many good performances was his 70 not out against Orford's eleven, and his second innings of 164 against Haileybury. His hitting is very hard and clean, and he has a very strong defence when he cares to use it. He is still a little nervous and sometimes makes a bad stroke at starting, but if allowed to get set can hit with great power and brilliancy, especially on the off-side, and then no bowler seems to come amiss to him. At extra cover he is a most admirable fieldsman, picking up the ball cleanly, while he rarely, if ever, drops a catch. He can throw over 100 yards, and his fine turn of speed enables him to cover much ground and save many runs. His family have now removed to Longford, near Gloucester, and we hope to hear shortly of his representing his county. He is entered at King’ s College, and will proceed to Cambridge in October, where he is sure to be heard of in the future. M IDD LESEX v. KENT. After three days’ cricket w ith one interruption of about two hours on Tuesday m orning, the return m atch between these Counties ended yesterday in a drawn game. The scoring during the last week at L ord’s has not reached a very high rate, and Middlesex were in the whole of the first day for a total of 287. The start was suggestive of a better result, as Messrs. Stoddart and W ebbe were not sepa­ rated until they had made 88 runs. Even with such a fast run-getter as Mr. Stoddart, however, the pace of the run-getting was slow, nnd indeed he was in for two hours and fifty mins. for his 88, a well-played innings all the same. The score was 135 before the second wicket fell, but afterwards for a time Walter Hearne bowled with great succoss, and when the sixth batsman was dis­ missed the total was only 167. Thanks to the good cricket of Mr. Henery, Rawlin,Mr. McGregor, and Hearne a much better show was made, and the innings was not com pleted until just before tim e on Monday evening. Play on Tuesday morning was reduced by rain to half-an hour before luncheon, and when it aid recomm ence the batting was so careful as to be somewhat lacking in interest. Mr. Stewart of the Blackheath Club, who was making his first appearance for Kent, at least in a first class match, got 23 at the outlet by good free cricket, but even with this score llie total on the fall of tho third wicket was only 35. Messrs. Fox and Solbe did little, and the only stand of the day was when Mr. Patterson and G. G. Hearne became partners. The latter, who had been left out o f the Kent eleven this season, after a time played with all his old care, and during his stay with Mr. Patterson 101 runs were added in just over two hours and a half. Mr. Patterson was out after making 65, and his runs were got as usual by sound and watchful cricket. Hearne lost Mr. Kemp without scoring, but W right lent him useful assistance and at theend of the day they were still in, Hearne with 49, and W right with 27 to his credit. When play was resumed yesterday m orniog, Kent wanted 20 runs to avoid a follow on, and George Hearne continued to play with such care that it was some tim e before this was saved. W right too was seen to great advantage, and when Hearne was at last out, eighty-one had been added for the wicket, Hearne had been in four hours and a half, and as a display of defensive cricket, his innings was worthy of high praise. W right also played well for his 54, and as Walter Hearne and Martin added ?5 for the last wicket the score ultim ately reached 265, or only twenty-two less than that of Middlesex. The innings in all lasted six hours and a quarter, so that the scoring averaged about forty-two an hour. W ith 22 in hand Middlesex began their second innings just before lunch, and in tho few minutes of play before the internal Mr. W ebbe hurt his hand so badly that he did not resume batting. On resuming the scoring did not advance at a very fast rate, and when the captain closed his innings at 4.55 the total was 106. W ith only an hour and a quarter left for play, and 339 to win, Kent only had to play for a draw, and in this they succeedod. the score at the finish showing 51 with only two batsm en out. M id d le se x . 88 First Innings. Mr. A. E. Stoddart, b G. Hearne .......................... Mr. A. J. Webbe, c Kemp, b W rig h t.......................... Mr. S. W . Scott, b W . Hearne .......................... Mr. T. C. O’Brien, b W. Hearne .......................... Mr. E. A. Nepean, b W. Hearne .......................... Mr. M. R. Jardine, b W. Hearne .......................... Mr. P. J. T. Henery, c Weigall, b W right.......... Kawlin, st Kemp, b G. Hearne .......................... Mr. P. G. J. Ford, c G. Hearne. b M artin........... Mr. G. M’Gregor, b A. Hearne .......................... J. T. Hearne, not out B 11, lb 2, n b l .......... Total ... ...5 ♦Innings declared closed. K ent .—First Innings. Alec Hearne, b Raw­ lin .......................... 5 Mr. H. C. Stewart, run out ... ...........23 Mr. G. J. V. Weigall, b Hearne .................. 3 Mr. W. H. Patterson, c Ford, b Hearne ... 65 Mr. O. J. M. Fox, c Jardine, b Hearne 4 Mr.P.Solbe, b Hearne 0 ♦Second Innings, lbw, b Martin ... 83! 30 retired (hurt) ... t 21 b W right ........... 8 13 stKemp,bWright 35 3 not out ........... 6 G 35 b W right ...........13 35 2 b Martin ... 7 not out ... B 5, lb 4... Total 4 ... 9 ..116 G. G. Hearne, b N e p e a n ..................62 Mr. M. C, Kemp, run out .......................... 0 W right, b Nepean ... 54 W . Hearne, c Raw­ lin, b Hearne........... 7 Martin, not out ... 24 B 14, lb 3, n -b l... 18 Total ...265 In the Second Innings Alec Hearne scored, b Hearne 4, Stewart (run out) 11, Weigall (not out) 22, G. G. flearne (not out) 8: b 4, lb 2.—Total 51. BOWLING ANALYSIS. M id d l e s e x . First Innings. Second O. M . R. W. O. Martin ...........29 14 W r ig h t...........45 17 W . Hearne ... 36 12 Alec Hearne... 29.2 15 G. G. Hearne 16 4 G. G. Hearne bowled a no-ball K e n t . First Innings. Second O. M. R. W . O. J. T. Hearne ... 59 29 815 ............ 9 Nepean ... ... 25 4 532 ... ... 8 Rawlin ......... 51 28 551 ............. 4 S todda rt........ 20 10 240 ............. 10 F o r d ................. 19 5 340 ............ 8 Innings. M. R . W. 7 34 2 14 41 3 3 32 0 Innings. M. It. W 6 4 1 1 25 0 3 1 0 5 8 0 6 7 0 DERBYSHIRE v. YORKSHIRE. Though there was no material advantage to either side at the end of Monday’s play, at Derby, the consistent batting of the Yorkshirom en on Tuesday gave them such a long lead as prac­ tically to determine the result in their favour. When the game was resumed on Tuesday morning Derbyshire went on w ith their batting, having overnight scored 50 for one wicket against a total of 193. Mr. Smith’s fast bowling, however, proved too m uch for the m ajority of th6 batsmen, and though there were eisht double figures, when the tenth wicket fell they were 42 behind. In their sccond innings the Yorkshiremen gave a fine display of free cricket. Lord Hawke and Wardall set an exam ple of fast run-getting, which was so well followed by the other batsmen that in the three hours and a quarter 288 were scored for the I obs of six wickets, at an average of just under ninety an hour. Yesterday the Yorkshire captain closed his in­ nings with the score 355 for seven wickets. Going in for the fourth innings Derbyshire made a ve y bad start, four o f the best wickets being down for only five runs. Mr. Evershed’s resolute hitting raised tbe hopes of his side, but in spite of a de­ termined stand by Malthouse and Storer, and some useful cricket by Hall, Derbyshire were all out for 210, and thus lost by 187 runs. Y orkshire . First Innings. Lord Hawke, b Hall... ♦Second Innings 3 c Chatterton, b Porter ........... Mr. E. Smith, st Stoser, b Hall ................. T ... 12 b Sugg.., Wardall, st Storer, b Hall 5 b H a ll... Peel, c Chatterton, b Hulme ..........................36 c and b Sugg ... 30 Wainwright, lbw, b Hall4 b Davidson...19 Ulyett, c Storer, b David­ son ..................................19 c Hulme, b Sugg 85 Tunni--liffe, c Bagshaw, b Hulme ................... Browne, c Malthouse; ... 80 ... 71 Hulme Moorhouse, not o u t ........... 3 Hirst, run out .................. 0 Hunter, c Wright, b Hall 3 .. 75 c and b Sugg b not out 32 B 4, lb 6... ... 10 B 10, lb 2 ... 12 Total ........... ...193 Total ...355 ♦Innings declared closed. D e r by sh ir e . First Innings. Second Innings. Mr. L. G. Wright, b Smith 26 b Hirst.................... 0 Bagshaw, c Hunter, b Sm ith..................................14 b Smith ............ 0 Chatterton, c Hunter, b Sm ith..................................30 c Ulyett,b Smith 0 Mr.8. H. Evershed, c War­ dall, b Smith ...................12 Davidson, b Hirst ... . Hulme, c Wainwright, .Sm ith............................... Storer, b H ir s t................ Malthouse, b W ardall . Hall, c Hunter, b Smith, W. Sugg, not out ... . Porter, c Tunnicliffe, b Peel .................. B 4, lb 1 .......... c Hunter, b W ainwright... 32 1 b Hirst ........... 0 i 11 c Moorhouse, b W ardall...........17 16 c Hunter, b Peel 51 2 c Hunter, b Peel 52 lbw, b Wardall... 33 16 b Hirst 6 ... 14 not out ........... 7 1310, lb 2, w 1 13 ...210 Davidson H all......... Hulme .. S ure ... ., Porter .. Total .................. 151 Total BOW LING ANALYSIS. Y orkshire . First Innings. Second Innings. ~ --------- O. M. R . W. O. M. R. W. ... 38 21 45 1 ... 31.4 9 65 5 Wainwright Smith ... W ardall... Peel........... Hirst 13 4 32 3 .......... 10 4 18 0 ......... 9 3 23 0 Chatterton 7 D e r by sh ir e . First Innings. Second Innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. 11 2 , 20 5 , 16.3 4 ... 38 14 0 , 8 , 35 11 3.4 2 2 , 18 10 22 13 8 94 6 6 15 1 ... 12 15 1 , 27 11 67 2 6.4 1 17 1 ........... 26 8 43 2 2 ........... 18 6 38 3 Ulyett 3 0 17 0 Smith bowled one wide ball.