Cricket 1893

182 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. JUNE 8, 1893 Bide, Said I to a friend—Should Sussex go in first, keep your eye on B e a n ; he’ s full of runs this year, and no man m ore likely to play the right gam e—the forcing—on such a wicket before it gets cut up. I was not very wide of the mark. Bean was all there (58); a very fine innings indeed, nearly half the total (125) D aft writes of him , “ I never saw a young player who gave greater prom ise than Bean did as a colt.” W hat he was tw o years ago we all rem em ber; how he went off last year, we are not likely to forget; and our bowlers are certain to know ‘*Bean, his mark," in 1893. 1 thought Yorkshire were “ in for it,” when their ninth man went at 6L. H ilton, who played once or twice in 1891, wTas m aking the ball do a lot—he was a second edition of Peel, only a trifle faster, and without that charac teristic throw-back of the bowling arm, so that the hand is hidden from the batsman, just before delivering the ball. But we had reckoned w ithout our hosts. Hunter (23) and H irst (33 not out) wero hosts in themselves, and the scoring board was m oved on exactly 60 runs, and by just perfect wicket. It’s no good you saying it was a fluke ; it was nothing of the kind; W . G. or Shrewsbury would have played no sounder game. One does like the last wicket to give a side a practical lesson in high class batting. County teams carry very few ‘ ’passengers ” now-a-days ; all our bowlers can bat, and a stumper ought, if not too tired, to be always good for runs. Down at the Oval on Thursday the last Surrey wicket (Richardson 69) put on no less than 105 runs, though the iest had only been good for 75 runs. Last-wicket scoring w ill form a capital topic for an article next winter. I am never likely to forget the stand m ade by Briggs and poor Pilling against Surrey at Liverpool in lb85, when more than 170 runs were added between the fall o f the ninth and tenth wickets. It was no disgrace to Sussex to 8top short at 61 in the second hands ; the wicket was done for, and W ain­ wright (6 for 16) was simply unplayable. Could Yorkshire be depended on to notch 76 runs in their second venture? A. Sellers—who has played him self into splendid lorm —took ad­ vantage of the effects of the roller, and before one realised it had thumped up an invaluable 20 ; and then the rot set in. One man, T un­ nicliffe, was not to be dislodged, though Bean (4 for 10) was bowling with wonderful skill. It was only last year, in the W hitsuntide match against Lancashire, that I saw Tunnicliffe save Yorkshire from defeat: six wickets were dowa for 30, just half the required number—he stopped to the finish. I said then that such an innings under circumstances so trying stam ped him as a big bat. H is services of last week confirmed that opinion. Yorkshire left off with four wickets in hand, and Sussex were beaten, but certainly not disgraced. I hope they will persevere w ith H ilton, for bowlers im prove quite as m uch as batsmen. H ilton m ay be the com ing man • one hopes so, for Sussex have stuck so man­ fully to their guns when the game seemed up with them that all true sportsmen wish them a turn in the luck. When Parris levelled 12 M .C.C. wickets at L ord’s last year he gave prom ise of being m ore than useful. Has he been dropped altogether ? Surely there must te som ething in him worth cultivating. All our counties need to exercise p atien ce; don ’t expect too m uch all at once. I heard a capital Btorv at Leeds. I won’t vouch for the truth of it. Our Yorkshire cricketers are such wags, a cd one Sam W eller in any team is certain to infect the rest. W hen W alter H um phreys presented him self at the gate as one of the cricketers engaged, he was refused admission. The janitor knew better, was not going to be “ had ” ; old men, with silvery locks, did not play county cricket to d a y ; nobody should pass in on the cheap, it was too palpable a joke ; he had better try on his little game somewhere else ; it would not work at Leeds. Y et he is only 44 years of age ; should I turn grey before I ’m 60, I will dye, for it’s young men that are in demand everywhere. One is glad to know that the veteran Sussex lobbist is not done for yet; that three runs victory over Gloucestershire was certainly his triumph, when at a cost of only 30 runs he accounted for seven wickets, whilst five Lancashire wickets fell before his right arm for 56 runs at Old Trafford on Saturday. The M iddlesex-Yorkshire match must be just m entioned—no more. A batting victory certainly ; the bowlers did next to nothing, though the m oderate first total (169) of the Southern County showed tnat somebody (it happened to De Ernest Sm ith—and his first appearance) could bowl a bit. A lter all, however, Yorkshire shone at the wickets—304 was a splendid effort. In it A. Sellers (105) notched his first county century. Good luck to h im ; whilst “ Our Jarge ” (53 and 15 not out) convincingly showred that he cannot, even after 20 years of heroic service, yet be dis­ pensed with. I am glad his lordship did not play, as announced, for U lyett would then have stood down. Last year he was done fo r : so said the knowing on es; and then he startled us all into silence by hitting up a second innings of 111 in this identical match. Forty- one runs by the seventh wicket (Moorhouse, 27 not out) was capital w ork ; and landed us hom e first w ith four men on their feet. One hardly knows how to explain Yorkshire’s present form ; certainly it is not the exclusive work of any one or two men. W ainw right is making no runs—a fact to be regretted—he will, though, before long. The Driffield m an— Brown—is quietly and ploddingly contributing h i-sh a re. Peel has yet to shine in the run- getting department. But throughout it is a good level team, playing perhaps a little above its form ; not with a*i inordinate share of luck—rather the reverse. Anyhow, Yorkshire, up to date, is the only undefeated county. When the Light Blue Captain can get off, and supposing he does not leave his genius in both departments at Cambridge, 1 orkshire will take a lot of beating. But the finest exhibition so far was at Old Trafford last week. One was not altogether surprised that Lancashire woke up against Sussex, and put together 346; not that Sugg (169 not out) and Briggs (100 exactly in the match) found the Southern bowling to their liking. It is not the first tim e the little man has made m erry at the expense of Sussex, witness two centuries at least in the past. B ut when one recalled the painfully-feeble batting displays Sussex have given at Man­ chester—witness 45 and 48 in 1891, and 35 and 24 inl890—(I apologise for this reminder, bygones should be bygones), one was not pre­ pared to pee Sussex pass the Lancashire total by just 100 ruDS. For any county, and under the iLOst favourable circumstances, first innings, perfect wicket, etc., 446 would be a wonderful score against Briggs, M old, and W atson. Only a fortnight ago, Sussex put on 200 runs before the first wicket (G. L. W ilson) fell ; both he and Bean reached three figures ; last week the scoring sheet show ed 300 before the second wicket (Bean again, this tim e 186) was taken. I fancy these are records for the county. May history soon repeat itself. Our old friend W . L. Murdoch (96) helped Bean to put on 226 for the second wicket. Not quite a record th is; I was at Old Trafford in 1887, when W alter Read and W . E . R oller were good for 305 whilst together. This of Sussex is, I think, the second best against Lancashire. 196 runs were scored off Mold — barring Sam W oods’ 201 la&t year in the Gents v. Players match at Hastings, I never rem em ber so many runs being hit off any bowler in a first-class match. Surrey’s douole victory was largely Richardson’s doing ; 22 wickets for 172 runs during the week ; he must be very near the I top now. Lockw ood has yet to sh in e; I thought at Nottingham he bowled too short to be very dangerous. W .G .’s. continued success w ith the bat gives him an average of over 40, and he must be within the first six in the averages. R ichardson’s hat trick (all clean bowled) against Gloucester was altogether put into the background by S hicklock’a four wickets with consecutive balls against Somersetshire on Saturday last. A t the m om ent I cannot recollect quite such a bowling feat in front-rank cricket—hitting the sticks four times in one and the same The Australians w ill have to do heaps better to extend England. Perhaps their bare defeat of O xford was less glorious than Surrey’s victory over them by 68 runs. No disgrace, on a broken wicket, to be beaten by Lockw ood and Richardson, but it was hardly creditable not to achieve a great batting triumph over the weak University bow ling. Graham is out-and-away their m cst depend­ able batsman. I hope that whichever county ultim ately com es out first, it will not be beaten tw ice by any other, as happened last year. F or surely it is a violation of m orals, or a perversion of words, to call any county “ ch am pion” that has had to cave in to any one rival. CLAPTON v. TOTTENHAM—Played at Totten­ ham on June 3. C lapton . J. H. Douglas, o Robinson, o Renals 20 F. A. Bishc^J.cCrafts, b litna’s .................12 R. R. Bruce, c and b Crafts .................26 J. H. Robinson, b Crafts .................19 H. Royton, cHawley, b Sykes .................26 T ottenham . S. A. Asser, b Sykes F. G. Wood, b Crafts G. R. Crofts, b Sykes W. H. Bedell, notout 9 Dr. T. Jones, b Sykes U Anderson (sub), b Sykes ................. 0 b 6, lb 1 ................. 7 Total ...129 J. H. Renals, lbw, b Robinson.................23 P. Perrin, c Wood, b Bishop ....................12 H. T. Benton, b Bishop .................. 6 A. Rodda, run out ... 8 E. Thomas, b Bishop 0 A. A. Rotinson, b Bi hop ....................13 E. Stainton, b Bishcfp 0 J. Hawley, not o u t... 19 H. B. Woolridge, b Bishop ................. 2 E. Crafts,^ c Ander- I son, b Bishop ... 3 J. L. Sykes, b Bishop 0 B10, lb 3 .......... 33 Total . 99 LONDON AND COUNTY h»ANK v. BRIXTON WANDERERS.—Played at Dulwich on May 21, 30, and 31. B rixton W anderers . E. V. White.bBishop 19 F. Rider, c Bishop, b Cull ........................11 A. Edwards, run out 6 F. k . Thomson,c sub, b Walrond .......... 7 E. H. Cross, cPattin- son, b Bishop R. J. Burlington, b Walrond.......... ... 79 W. J. Brown, c Cull, b B lom fleld.............15 F. Odell, not out ... 67 H. Odell, b Bishop ... 10 H. K. Scott, b Bishop 0 S. Wordsworth, c Jackson, b Bishop 3 B 3, lb 6, w 2, nb 1 12 Total ...........238 L ondon and C ounty B ank . W. R. Pattinson, not out ........................30 B 2 ,lb 2 ,w 3 .......... 7 C. E. Blomfie.d, not out ........................42 F. J. Finlinson, c H. Odell, b Brown ... 1 — A. Jackson, c Ed- Total ..........119 wards, b White ... 89 F. H. Thirlwell, T. Bishop, C. R. Trowel , E. De C. Ricci, H. W. Walrond, C. E. Cull, and C. J. N. Say did not bat. HAMPSTEAD v. H. SMITH TURBERVILLE’S XL—Played at Hampstead on June 3. H. S mith T urbbrvilij E’ s XI. First Innings Second Innings W.J. F ori, bPawling ...11 c Dollar,bThorn- ton ................. 0 E. Rodriguez, c Lips- comte, b Thornton ... 7 Ibw, b Spofforth 0 Geeson, c sub, b Pawley... 1 c andb Spofforth 0 P. Rus«el, c and b Spof­ forth ............................... 34 b Spofforth ... 10 H. Nelson, cLipscom be.b Pawling ........................ 3 lbw, b Thornton 6 F. Nelson, c and b bpof- b Pawley, b forth ............................... 25 Thornton ... 5 G. Clayton, b lhornton ... 2b Tnomton ... 10 H. Smith Xurberville, not out................ ................. 2b Thornton ... 7 J. C. Toller, b Spofforth ... 0 not out .......... 1 T.Barret Smith, c Danby, b Spofforth ................. 3 b Thornton ... 0 H. T. Shackel, b Thornton 0c Toller, b Spof­ forth 0 B 11, lb 3 .......................14 B l, lb l ... 2 Total .............102 H ampstead . Total ... 41 G.J.Q.Besch,bRussel 1 W. Danby, b Ra89el 24 T. Farmiloe, c Toller, b Russel ................. 1 F.R.Spofforth,stF< rd, b SmithTurberville 37 J. Thornton, o F. Nel­ son, b R u ssel 0 H.H. Lipscombe, not out ........................49 P. Dollar, b Clayton S. S.Pawling, lbw, b Geeson ................. F.S.Alford, b Geeson F. Selfe, b Russel ... G. Criley.b Geeson... B 9, lb 2................. Total ...142