Cricket 1892

54 CEICKETj A WEEKLY EE COED OP THE GAME. APRIL 14, 1892 Turner’ s day out, as after cutting a fourer, which raced Briggs to the boundary, and add­ ing 3 in a couple of hits, he was clean bowled. Six for 84 did not look like saving the one innings defeat, Gregory filled the breach, and before he had scored cut a ball like light­ ning into and out of W . G.’s left hand. After 100 had gone up, he twice despatched Attewell to the boundary. Sharpe and Briggs took up the bowling, and from the former’s first over Gregory smacked 12 runs, back-cutting two balls to the boundary, and hitting the next to leg for 4. Peel at once relieved the Surrey bowler, and Briggs was put on specially to trouble batsmen. The usual trap was set, close square point, silly mid-on, and silly point, and the Lancastrian tossed the balls up, making them bump as much as he could. As it has been in every match, the trap got its quarry. Bannerman stonewalls away every time, and keeps the ball on the ground perhaps for an hour, perhaps for two hours, and once for seven hours, but the end comes, and as in three or four previous instances this season, W. G. caught him at point. The little man played a valuable innings. (7—49—139). Clarke and Gould did not stay long, and when Callaway, the last man,'went in, the total was only 161, and the single innings defeat had not been averted. That was soon done, how­ ever, and despite several changes in the attack, and a luncheon adjournment, Gregory held his own, and hit brilliantly. At last Callaway was bowled after the last wicket had put on 49. Gregory played a wonderful innings, far and away the best in the match. He went in at a critical time and made 93 without a flaw, except the hard chance at the start. Not only that, but against the best bowlers of the old land he actually made 68 in an hour, and 93 in 85 min. The Englishmen easily made the runs required to win. Stoddart and Rad­ cliffe both shaped well, and looked like pulling the match off themselves, but Turner got them both. E n g la n d . F irst Innings. N ew S o u th W a le s . First Innings. Briggs, c Wales, b Gould ................. 6 Mr. G. M’Gregor, st Wales, b Gould ... 10 Attewell, not out ... 22 Sharpe, b Callaway 16 Extras.................14 Dr. Grace, b Callaway 45 Abel, b Callaway ... 48 Mr. A. E. Stoddart, b G ould................................................................... .. 16 Peel, b Callaway ... 29 Mr. O. G. Radcliffe, run out ............................................... . 0 Lohmann, c Gregory, b Turner.................................................................102Total ..................... 414 Read, c Callaway, b Turner .................................................................106 In the Second Innings Abel scored (not out) 0, Stoddart, lbw, b Turner, 17, Radcliffe, c Gregory, b Turner, 18, Brig«s, c Charlton, b Callaway, 1, Attewell (not out) 6 —Total, 42. N e w S ou th W a le s . First Innings. P. S. M’Donnell, c Briggs, b Lohmann ................. 5 S. P. Jones, b Attewell ... 5 A. C. Bannerman, c Abel, &b Grace ........................29 H. Donnan, b Grace......... 19 C. T. B. Turner, run out... 66 Clarke,cBriggs,b Attewell 33 Gregory,cAbel.bLohmann 46 Gould, lbw, b Peel .......... 6 Callaway, not out ..........19 P. C. Charlton, c Stoddart, b Lohmann ................. 0 S. Wales, lbw, b Grace ... 11 Extras ........................ 5 Total .................244 Second Innings. c Sharpe, b Loh­ mann .......... 2 c Grace, b Loh­ mann ..........13 c Grace, b Briggs 49 .11 . 7 b Grace b Attewell .. , c Attewell, P eel.............. not out ... , c Lohmann, Briggs ... . b Attewell... , 14 ; M’Gregor, b Lohmann ... 10 M’Gregor, b Grace .......... 0 Extras.......... 3 Total ... 210 BOWLING ANALYSIS. L ord S h e f fie l d ’ s T e a m . Turner .. Callaway. Charlton. Gould Donnan . First Innings. O. M. R. W. . 53 19 98 8 . 62.4 31 92 4 . 39 8 77 0 . 36 5120 3 4 1 13 0 Second Innings. O. M. R. W. 8.1 1 23 2 ,. ... 7214 1 , . . . . 2 0 5 0 Attewell .. Lohmann . Briggs ... •sharpe ... G rao......... P e e l........ . O. M. R. W. 54 1* 31 2 33 18 46 3 16 9 17 0 . 22 7 36 0 9 64 3 , 6 30 1 31.1 17 Second Innings. O. M . R. W . .......... 24 10 88 2 .......... 40 22 48 3 .......... 17 4 45 2 ......... 17 7 34 0 ......... 16 6 29 2 .......... 5 0 13 1 Callaway bowled two and Gould one no ball. TWENTY-SECOND MATCH—v.TWENTY- TWO OF ILLAWARRA DISTRICT. W ollongong , F ebruary 26 and 27. Having two days to spare before the Oroya left Sydney for Tasmania, Major Wardill arranged a match for the Englishmen at Wollongong, a mining district on the coast down south of Sydney. They were to play Twenty-two of the Illawarra district, A good time was expected in this, one of the show districts of N.S.W. It is mountainous, and near the Pacific Ocean, of which magnificent views are obtained. Wollongong was not reached until nearly one o’clock. Great pre­ parations had been made for the match, and the town, a fair sized one, was en fete, A special reception committee, consisting of the Mayor and other leading citizens, met Dr. Grace and his comrades at the railway station, and drove them to their hotel in a four in hand drag. Lunch was taken before there was any play, which did not begin till two o’clock. The weather was very unfavourable. Rain started falling at an early hour, and continued until ten. This interfered with the enthusiasm of a large number of the towns­ people, who would not venture out to get a soaking. After the rain cleared away a stiff gale of wind blew, and made the weather unfavourable. The game was played on a matting wioket, which was not affected much by the rain, that is not materi­ ally. Rain rather improves matting wickets, as they do not play with so much fire. Dr. Grace won the toss, and decided to bat. The first men in were M’Arthur (a substitute) and Radcliffe. The former did not bustle much, but Radcliffe started going. He only got 5 before he came to grief. Briggs and Lohmann both failed, and three men were out with 15 not reached. W. G., who had been saving himself, now came and it was hoped that he would atone for the short comings of his pre­ decessors. He found the ball, however, difficult to get away, and it was some time before he got a single. After slowly raising his score to 6 though, he was snapped up, and had to retire. Bean’ s leg was sufficiently strong to enable him to play, and he quickly rattled up 17. Chapman, however, got both him and M’Arthur, and six wickets were down for 65. Then Abel and Peel got together, and carried the score to 134. They did not score very rapidly. It was not an inspiriting day, for rain fell at intervals, and several times the players had to adjourn to the pavilion. The two little professionals kept well together, and herein was another contest, for their averages were close. At last, when Abel had made exactly half a hundred in his most stylish way he was got rid of. Stoddart was clean bowled for the dreaded round one, but Attewell stayed with Peel to the finish, when eight wickets were down for 144. Peel’s not out innings put him at the head of the averages, and the honest little Yorkshire- man will take some displacing, as he is going well and scores regularly. Chapman and Beatson both bowled well, each taking four wickets, the former for only 31 and the latter for 45. On the 26th, rain fell all day, and the match had to be abandoned with tbe score as follows. L ord S h e f f ie l d ’ s T e a m . Mr. M’Arthur, c and b Chapman ......... 16 Mr. O. Radcliffe, c O’Brien, b Beatson 5 Briggs, c Pratt, b Chapman................ 0 Lohmann, c Richard­ son, b Beatson ... 0 Dr. W. G. Grace, c Chapman, b Beat­ son ...................... . 6 Abel, c Pratt, b Eeat- son ........................ Bean, c Galvin, b Chapman .......... Mr. A. E. Stoddart, b Chapm an.......... Peel, not out .......... Attewell, not out ... Extras .......... Total ..144 After returning to Sydney, the team, with­ out Messrs. McGregor and Philipson, who went to Melbourne to see the races, left in the Oroya for Hobart, where they arrived on the morning of March 29th, to meet a most enthusiastic reception. TWENTY-THIRD MATCH—v. FIFTEEN OF SOUTHERN TASMANIA. H obart T own , M arch 4, 5, and 7. A stiff struggle was expected with the Islanders, as they made 400 for thirteen wickets against Mr. Vernon’s team four years ago. The Southerners had prevailed upon four of the best players of the North to help them, the understanding being that the compliment should be exchanged. The match was played on the Hobart Oval, which is charmingly situated on the top of a hill. Splendid fast scoring wickets are, as a rule, obtained, but as the rainfall had been pre­ carious and uncertain, the curator could not do himself justice. The consequence was that the wicket was expected to be fair for awhile, and then crumble. Grace had the good fortune to win the toss from the Tasmanian captain—K. Brown—who was in England with the 1890 Australian Eleven, The Doctor, who was very glad to win the toss, went to the wickets with Abel. The bowlers were Kendall and Eady. Kendall had the batsmen in trouble, and got Abel caught at slip off a leg break when the little Surrey man had only made a single. Dr. Grace was not particularly at home to the bowling, but he managed to keep the ball out of his wicket, The fielding was very fine, Gatehouse and Collins in the long field doing wonders. Maurice Read went in, but although the playing ground was temptingly small he would not hit out, and was content, like the master, to make singles and twos. Thus Read made a baker's dozen before he was clean bowled. Radcliffe, the next man, opened with a fine hit to the chains. Burn, knowing Radcliffe’ s weakness for leg hitting, E laced two extra men there, and so the rilliant amateur did not find run-getting any too easy a matter. He kept strictly on the defensive, making runs with drives and his peculiar upper-cut. After seventy minutes’play a hit by the Doctor sent up the half century, so that it will be seen runs were not made furi­ ously. Bingham relieved Eady, and soon after Kendall got a ball past Dr. Grace. Bean was soon bowled by Kendall before he had pro­ perly settled down. Four wickets were down for only 61, when lunch was taken, and the Tasmanians were naturally jubilant. Directly after resuming Radcliffe was tempted out to hit a ball, whioh he missed, but the wicket­ keeper mulled the chance—an easy one—of stumping. At 80, Watts relieved Bingham, but he helped to get the next wicket off Kendall’s bowling, as, at 81, he caught Rad-, cliffe at leg. Lohmann followed, and settled down to play the game. As the result of two hours and a quarter’s play 90 was hoisted, and it speaks volumes for Kendall’s bowling that up to this stage he had taken all the wickets (five) for 38. Peel did most of the scoring, and seemed set for the century ]he has not been able to reach yet, when he was very finely caught by Savigny. Six wickets were down for 123, the last wicket having added 42. Peel made his 32 in faultless style. CRICKETERS— B e st <-CG-fra G oods City Agents — b e a r th is M ark. —Advt. P a rto n & L e s te r , 94, Q ueen St., C heapside.