Cricket 1893

22 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. FEB. 23, 1893 W. G. did score the century. The fixture was against the Gentlemen, and was limited to two days on account of the Derby Day. The Australians batted first, and scored 179— Jones 61, M’Donnell 41. Then the Gentlemen made 490 —W. G. Grace 165, W. W. Head 109, J. Shuter 71, W . H. Patterson 45, K. J. Key 33, and O. G. Radcliffe 25. Bannerman and Bonnor began the sesond innings of the Colonists, and their parting did not come until the score had reached 151, when Monty Bowden accomplished one of the smartest stumping performances of the year, and the giant had to retire for 119. "With Jones for a partner, Alec stonewalled on, and when time w as called, with the score at 213, he was (not out) 30, and Jones had scored 51. The match w as, of course, drawn. The Players were next met, at the Oval. M’Donnell was absent from the team with a bad hand, and Jones, though he played, was too unwell to be of real use, so that it was not surprising that the pros had a victory by ten wickets. Still, it must be admitted that their victory was won by superior play at all points of the g-ime. Harry Wood’s 44 and Trott’s 41 were the biggest scores of the match. Another defeat, by a similar balance, at the hands of Notts, awaited the Australians. J. A. Dixon scored two fine innings of 83 and 26 (not out); and Jarvis, with and 35, showed up best for the Australians. Before he had been out in the field for more than a quarter of an hour Jones became so ill that he had to be taken to the hotel, and within a very short time he was lying almost at death’s door with small-pox. The greatest care was taken both to avoid infection and to preserve the secret of his malady, for if the knowledge of what it was had spread the tour woutd have been ruined. Only a few even of the team were allowed to know the true state of affairs. It must have been an anxious time for them ; but they fought through it pluckily, and, as one of them afterwards said, “ bluffed well.” In Jones, the team lost undoubtedly their best, most scientific and most consistent bats­ man. For the next two or three matches they didl not, indeed, feel his absence much, but the^e were many times later in the tour when the presence of Sammy Jones, in good health and good form, might have had a decided effect upon the issue of the game. The next match, v. Cambridge University, was a high-scoring one, aad ended in a fairly even draw. For the ’ Varsity H. J. Mordaunt scored 78 in his first innings, while G. M. Kemp made 64 and 56, and C. D. Buxton 30 and 40. M’Donnell,making his re-appearance, hit brilliantly for 66 and 49 (not out), while Bonnor (49) and Jarvis (36) in the first innings and Trott (37), in the second, also batted well. At Leyton a team of Oxford University, Past and Present, was then defeated by 74 run3. Bannerman scored 25 and 43, whilst scores of 66 by A. C. M. Croome, 62 by C. F. H. Leslie, 65 by Bonnor, 50 (not out) by Edwards, and 46 each by M’Donnell and Trott, helped to swell the various totals. Middlesex were next beaten in a small scoring match, much inter­ fered with by the rain, by eight wickets, Turner and Ferris bowling unchanged throughout. A somewhat scratch eleven of England, at Birmingham, then suffered defeat by ten wickets, the highest scores of the match being O. G. Radcliffe’s 71, Bonnor’s 73, M’ Donnell’s 67 andiWorrall’s 46. The M.C.C. match, won by 14 runs, was notable for little but the bat­ ting of M’ Donnell (who made 41 in the first innings) and Trott (29 and 45), and the fine bowling of Turner and Ferris. The English team cut up badly on a wicket by no means especially difficult. There was high scoring in the drawn match with Yorkshire which followed. Bonnor made 115, Wainwright, the young county pro­ fessional, 105, Louis Hall 67 and 42, Fred Lee 83 and 16, and Alec Bannerman 65. Then came a match of small scoring against the North of England, a match which M ’Donnell fairly won for his side, for going in first in the last innings, he very quickly knocked up 82 out of 86 made for the first wicket, and left his men with only fifteen to get to win, which they managed to do ten minutes before tim e. Liverpool and District were beaten by 130 runs, Worrall bowling well. Leicestershire then won a narrow victory by 20 runB, the Australians having certainly the worst of the wicked, though not to such an extent as to justify the poor show they made against the bowling of Pougher and Arnall-Thompson, who, with Warren, were the heroes of the match. Derbyshire was beaten by an innings and 79 runs, and an Eng­ land Eleven, at Stoke, by an innings and 135. Against the Peak County, Edwards and Boyle put on 75 for the last wicket, while M’Donnell was top scorer with 52 in the other match, in which the ground was so bad that correct batting was at a discount. Scotton carried his bat through the first iunings of the English side for nine, the total being 28 ! In these last two matches Turner had 26 wickets for 94 runs; but, indeed, his bowling about this period of the tour, when wickets were at their worst, was nothing short of phenomenal. On a batsman’ s wicket we should be disposed to consider Ferris quite as useful as the ^Terror; but no player in the world can do more on a wicket spoiled by rain than Turner. Messrs. W . G. Grace, T. C. O’Brien, W . W. Read and A. G. Steel, with Abel, Barnes, Briggs, Gunn, Lohmann, Peel and Sherwin were the eleven opposed to the Australians in the next match, that v. England at Lord’s. O’Brien was substituted almost at the last moment for Attewell, in the hope, which proved a vain one, that his hitting would be useful. The ground was so wretchedly bad after the rain that the match was simply tossed for. The Australians won the toss, and with it the game. Still, to give them their due, they showed all-round cricket really superior to that of the Englishmen, and once getting a good lead kept it to the end, and won easily by 61 runs. Ferris batted with great pluck for them, and W . G. played best for England. A surprise was in store in the next match, which Sussex won by 58 runs, Humphreys, the lob-bowler, taking nine wickets for 40. Cambridge University, Past and Present, then drew a game at Leyton. Bonnor scored 78; and Bannerman, carrying his bat through the innings, made 93, and was in all proba­ bility only prevented from attaining his century by the absence of Blackham, who was too unwell to bat. A. P. Lucas made 50 for the Cantabs. Small scoring matches with Yorkshire and Surrey then ended in somewhat unfavourable draws; and an eleven of England, at Hastings, suffered defeat by an innings and 27 runs. Lyons played his first good innings in England, a well-got 32 ; M ’Donnell slogged up 36; and Turner had actually 17 wickets for 50 runs in the match. Kent was then beaten by 81 runs, at Canterbury, Jones, now restored to health, though far from as strong as of yore, making his re appearance. Bonnor and Marcliant played good hitting innings for 43 and 41 respectively. Then Gloucester­ shire won by no less than 257, Turner being absent. F. Townsend scored 66 and 92, O. G. Radcliffe 29 and 99, and W . G. Grace 6 and 61. For the losers Trott made 59 and 28, and M’Donnell, who went in much later than usual, 42 and 38. The next match, v. England, at the Oval, was a very poor exhibition on the part of the Australians, who were beaten by no less than an innings and 137 runs. Mr. J. Shuter, Frank Sugg, Ulyett and Wood displaces Messrs. O’Brien and Steel, with Gunn and Sherwin. The chief contributors to England’s score of 317 were Abel (70), and Barnes and Lohmann'(who was notout) 62 each. Notts then ran up 441—Gunn 91, Barnes 90, Flowers 62, J. A. Dixon 49, G. Beves 42, Attewell 40, H. B. Daft 34; and the Australians, going all to pieces, were beaten by an innings and 199 runs. Further defeats followed at the hands of Gloucester­ shire (W.G. 92) and au eleven of England (composed of Sussex and Derbyshire players) at the Crystal Palace. A draw with an eleven of Oxford and Cambridge, Past and Present, which did not include a single good bowler (and against which Bannerman made 76, M’Donnell 69, and Turner 60, while for it W. H. Patterson made 84, and .Lord Harris 52), was followed by another defeat from England, at Manchester. Mr. Shuter and Wood gave way to Gunn and Pilling. An innings and 21 runs was the extent of the beating, the scoring being small on both sides, though W. G. made 38 for Eng­ land, and Lyons batted very pluckily for 22 and 32. An Eleven of England, at Harrogate, were beaten by 56 runs, and then Lord Londes­ borough’s Eleven—practically an England team—at Scarborough, won by 155 runs. Then two matches with Shrewsbury’s team (which had visited Australia in the previous winter), at Holbeck and Manchester, resulted in defeats, though Trott scored a grand innings of 73 in the second one. The South of Eng­ land was met at Hastings, and defeated by nine wickets, and Surrey (in an extra match, played in consequence of the general desire to see the champion county of the year pitted once more against the Australians) succumbed by 34 runs. Thus the tour, beginning so well, and continuing with such chequered fortunes, closed triumphantly. The all-round oricket in these last two matches was decidedly good. Lyons played a brilliant innings ol 84, Trott made 50 and 31 not out, and M’Donnell 45, against the South, for whom Grace’s 53 was the highest score ; while against Surrey Bonnor, returning to his form of the early part of the tour, slogged up 87, Maurice Read scoring 57 and 32 for the other side. The record of the tour was 19 games won, fourteen lost, seven drawn, so that it could scarcely be called an entire failure. The play was, at least, marked by far more decision than that of Scott’s team. Blackham kept wicket as well as ever, and M’Donnell and Trott were the most consistent batsmen after Jones fell ill. The averages will show how much work was got through by Turner and Ferris, and how amentably some of the batsmen failed tojustify their past reputations. BOWLING AVERAGES. Inns. Tim es Runs. M ost in Aver. not out. an Inns. P. S. M ’Donnell 62 ... 1 .. 1393 ... 105 .. 22.51 G. J. Bonnor ... 64 ... 3 .. 1204 ... 119 .. 19.45 G. H. S. T ro tt... 65 ... 2 .. 1212 ... 83 .. 19.15 A.C. Bannerman 63 ... 7 .. 943 ... 93*... 16.47 S. P. Jones........ 23 ... 2 .. 303 ... 61 .. 16.15 C. T. B. Turner 60 ... 2 .. 807 ... 103 .. 13.53 J. J. Lycns 43 ... 6 .. 489 ... 84 ... 13-8 J. D. Edwards... 53 ... 12 .. 527 ... E0*.. 12.35 A. H. Jarvis ... 52 ... 3 .. 597 ... 39 .. 12.9 J. J. Ferris 61 ... 16 .. 528 ... 39 .. 11.33 J. W orrall........... 61 ... 10 . . 561 ... 46 .. 11 J. M. Blackham 58 ... 1 . . 548 ... 96 .. 9.35 H. F . Boyle 29 ... 11 .. 153 ... 36 .. 8.9 S. M. J. W oods 10 ... 0 .. 54 ... 18 .. 5.4 BOW LIN G AVER AG ES. Overs. Mdns. Runs. W kts. Aver C .T.B . Turner 2589.3 ...1222 ...3492 ... 314 .,.. 11.38 S. P. Jones ... 68.3 ... 19 ... 134 ... 10 .... 13.4 J. J. Ferris ... 2222.2 ... 998 ...3103 ... 220 .,.. 14.23 H. F. Boyle... 149.1 ... 72 ,... 203 .,.. 11 ... 18.5 J, W orrall ... 259 ... 101 ... 455 ... 24 ... 18,23 G. H. S. Trott 503.8 ... 149 ...1145 ... 48 ... 23.41 8. M. J. W oods 158 ... 59 ... 298 ... 11 ... 27.1 J. J. Lyons ... 229 ... 54 ... 514 ... 18 ... 23.10 J. M. Blackham 12 ... 4 ... 26 ... 1 , ... 26 G. J. Bonnor ... 31 ... 12 ... 66 ... 2 ,... 33 A.C. Bannerman 53 ... 20 ... 117 ... 3 ... 39 J. D. Edwards... 9 ... o ... 40 ... 1 , ... 40 P. S. M’Donnell 8 ... 2 ... 28 ... 0 ... 0 W ICK ET-K EEPING . Blackham, stum ped 21, and cauh 21. Jarvis, „ 12, „ {To be continued.)