Cricket 1893

AUG. 24, 1893 CRICKET? A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME;, 3bB Lancashire. The smallest accident will be fatal now. Kent and Sussex—Yorkshire’s foes—are perhaps not quite so formidable as Middlesex and Notts—Lancashire’s—though 1 should feel greater confidence in my county were Bramall Lane not chosen for to-day’ s match. At Bradford last week Yorkshire were at their best, and Middlesex were 145 behind at the finish. That the better team won nobody present could question for an instant. Yorkshire had four batsmen who passed the half century, Middlesex but one. Hearne (10 for 342), though he pegged away heroically, was many chalks behind Peel (7 for 54) and Hirst (5 for 37), whilst in fielding our boys took all the honours. The keenest field­ ing I have seen for many years was that of Lancashire in the second innings at Sheffield last season; that at Bradford last week on the part of Yorkshire was not a whit inferior. If he who saves runs makes runs, then I don’t wonder at Yorkshire’s present position among the counties; some of us are old-fashioned enough to attach as much value to effective run-saving as to dashing run-getting. We were sorry Stoddart was wanted elsewhere, as we all wished to see him run up a score, though not perhaps on this occasion: we wanted his presence, and yet we didn’t. Rawlin disappointed me, though a man cannot always be at his best; but his previous week’s work—innings of 32, 50 (not out), 74, and 12 wickets for 79 against Gloucestershire—made us look upon him with a degree of interest. Yorkshire felt that poetic justice was done when one of themselves did nothing either with bat or ball. Hirst (33) played as well as anybody; he tells me he has made up his mind to keep his place in the eleven as a bats­ man, if not as a bowler, and he may not be far out in his estimate of himself. When Ulyett was first tried—-in 1873—it was as a fast bowler, though his fame rests on his genius as a batsman. Many bowlers become batsmen, and lose their bowling, but I cannot recall one instance in which this order has been reversed. Batting may come to a man, but bowlers, like poets, are born, not made. The gate at Brad­ ford (£720), out of which the Bradford Club gets 10 per cent, under the new arrangement, should give that ground the preference over Bramall Lane when Peel takes his benefit. Pull down the present pavilion, build a new i and larger one 20 or 30 yards in the rear, and | then, with an extended area for playing ! Bradford will have a ground second to none anywhere. J. A. Dixon has established a record ai Trent Bridge similar to Shrewsbury’s record at Lord’s in the Jubilee year—3 centuries in successive matches; yet his last (133) was not able to prevent Middlesex running home an easy first with 260 notches in hand. When the match was more than half over, the odds were largely in Notts’ favor. To Rawlin (42) and F. Ford (86), Middlesex owe the turn of the luck. McGregor’s double (51 and 52) made his absence from Bradford look more serious than most people thought. Whilst Hearne’s ball work on Saturday (8 for 55) was the climax of the triumph of the men of the South. W ith­ out their captain’s score, the Notts totals (251 and 92) would look pitiably small for such a wicket. Twenty-years of first-class cricket have not exhausted the Middlesex skipper, whose 50 in this match was the result of good, sound, old-fashioned batting, with that characteristic straddle when waiting for the ball which 1 have noticed in only one other batsman, W . H. Hadow, also an Harrovian. Considering the frightful heat everywhere, J. T. Hearne’s 25 wickets during last week at a cost of less than 12 runs a wicket constitute a very unique achievement. Lancashire were evidently set on wiping out the recollection of their somewhat unfavour­ able draw with Sussex in June last, when Sussex capped their opponents’ score of 346 by exactly 100 runs. Bean, the hero at Old Trafford with a magnificent 186, could not play in the return at Brighton, and his absence may have made all the difference. Yet scores of 151 and 121 on a batsman’s wicket, and with first knock, were far below the recent standard of Sussex batting. Three innings merit notice in Lancashire’s total (385), Sugg’ s 64, the captain’s 60, and Albert Ward’s 126. No batsman has for the past two months played such consistent and biilliant cricket as W ard; he has steadily advanced in the averages until he is right up among the leaders and may yet finish at the very top of the poll. A. G. Steel once more donned the Red-Rose colors, but it would seem as if the day had gone by when he could step out of club cricket into the very best matches and at once notch a century. For proof, see the M.C.C. v. Australia match at Lord’s in 1884. Still it is a sincere pleasure to see so great an all round cricketer—one of the very greatest of all tim e- on a county ground again. Mold’ s eight wickets (all clean bo wled) for 41 runs in Sussex’s second hands is one of the nattiest bits of bowling seen this season. Surrey did not make a second mistake with Somersetshire, though Lockwood was only a passenger, nor did Australia rest contented with a “ moral victory” over Gloucestershire. In Surrey’ s eight wickets’ victory, W .W . (63) and Brockwell (52) were once more in evi­ dence; the latter rose to the occasion in Lock­ wood’s practical absence, taking five wickets for 58 the second time of asking, though Richardson (nine for 105) did best service with the ball. Is Sam Woods (38 and 47) going to train on as a batsman ? It looks more than likely. Until W.G. can win the toss, Gloucestershire must expect defeat at the hands of all comers; nine successive failures to call for choice of innings is more than a joke. Young Townsend (six for 94 against Australia) looks like training o l ; re­ member he is only sixteen, the same age as W. W. Pullen when he scored 71 against Yorkshire for the men of the West in 1882. Giffen ably backed up his bowling at the Oval with 10 wickets for 76 at Cheltenham, Turner’ s six costing (in all) 38 P.S.—A correspondent kindly informs me that E. Crawley, Lord George Scott, an i V. T. Hill each notched a century in their first Inter-University match, in addition to Parson Rashleigh. I am obliged to him for this correction. B R O A D W A TE R v. O A T L A N D S P A R K —P layed at O atlands Park on A ugust 12. O a tla n d s P a b k . F irst Innings. Second Innings. J. M . B road, b R u ssell ...21 not ou t .............. 1 G . P rentice, b J. H olroyd 1 b B ett...................... 5 A. T. Drake, b R ussell ... 0 C . M . W illiam s, b R ussell 3 W . K . Murray, b T ait.10 handling ball ... 13 Jr. Sheppard, b Russell ... 3 L . U pton, b T ait ................ 9 K . B ruce, b R u s s e ll............11 n o t ou t ............. 6 H. H ickley, b R ussell ... 8 b D o w s o n ............. 1 H. F. D avie, n ot o u t................ 5 b D o w s o n ............ 10 K erry, c D ow son, b R u s ­ sell .......................................... 0 B ...................................... 2 B ........................ 1 T otal T otal............37 ............ 73 B ro a d w a tbr . W .D . M arshall,b Mur- R ussell, c M urray, b ray .............................35 Broad ............14 H .Fairtlougb, bK erry 12 T. C. B ett,b K erry 10 Rev. A.J. Tait, bKerry 8 J. H olroyd,c Bruce, M . M arshall, b Kerry 46 b M urray ......15 E . M. D ow son, c and B 15, lb 6, w l, n b 1 28 b U pton .................... 16 — G . H olroyd, c D avie, T otal ...........208 b W ilkin s ............ 6 D. S. M urray, n ot out fc* Sub did n ot tat. C L A P T O N v. W O O D F O R D W E L L S . -P la y e d at C lapton on A ugust 19. W oodford W e l l s . H .F.C ham en, run out H .H . B row n, c C rofts, b H ughes.., ............ 1 W .H .D ix on ,b Hughes 0 F . C. B . H unt, b C rofts .................... 2 W . R oper, b H ughes 33 W .K erasley.bH ughes 5 F.S. C artel, b Hughes 6 P . B lake, b M cE w en 11 C lapton . R . J. W . Harper, n ot o u t ................................12 T. S. B arw ell (sub), hw . b R obin son ... 17 H. W . R ich ard son (sub), b H ughes . 19 B 21, lb 4 ............25 T otal . 131 J. W . M cEw en, st D ixon, b K em sley F. A. B oy s.c Barw ell, b K em sley ............ J. H . R obinson, b R op er .................... F. W . Hughes, b R op er .................... H. J. M oore, b R oper P. R . W aterer, c Cham en, b R oper G .R C rofts, c D ixon, b R o p e r ..................... 3 H. O w en-Jones, b B oper ................... 21 J.J. W iggett, n ot ou t 6 W . H. R olfe, run out 9 R .T .H unt, fc K em sley lo L b ............................ 3 Y O R K S H IR E v. K ENT. K ent w ere particularly unfortunate in having to m eet Yorkshire w ith th eir full side at Shef­ field this w eek, them selves weakened by the loss o f W alter H eam e, W . H .P atterson and M .C.K em p. On the other hand th ey were fortunate enough to w in the toss, and this it w as lh ou gh t m ight prove a great advantage as the w ickets at B ram all L ane have been wearing this year. Still, th e m en of Kent failed to m ake any use o f their opp ortu n i­ ties, at least for a tim e, and six o f the best bats­ m en on the side were ou t w ith the tota l only 53. T h ou gh the next tw o w ickets w ere dism issed for an addition o f 47, a plucky stand by M artin and W right gave the gam e a m u ch better appearance for th e in-side, and it was m ainly due to the vigor­ ous h ittin g of the form er, w ho carried his b at for an in valuable score o f il , that th e innings realised a creditable total, considering the early failures, of 161. W hen Y orkshire w ent in Jackson w as bow led w ith ou t a run. A fter B row n ’s dism issal, how ever, Sellers and T unnicliffe m ade a determ ined stand and just as tim e waa'S.up on M on day, the latter w as but w ith the total 86 for three wickets. On Tuesday m orning Sellers and Sm ith added 33 in fifteen m inutes, bu t after the latter was caught K ent h ad a m uch better tim e o f it, and w hen the eighth w icket fell, Yorkshire w «re still 23 to the bad. Just w hen it look ed as if there w ould be little or n o difference in the scores, H irst and M oorhouse becam e partners. B oth profession als hit fearlessly, and in forty m inutes the tota l was increased by 53 runs. H irst got his 43 in fifty m inutes, ana w ith h is dism issal the innings cam e to a close, the last tw o w ickets having added 63. In a m inority o f 50 K ent began their second iDnings very in auspiciously, so m u ch so that w hen the sixth w icket fell they were still on e run to the bad. O w ing to a blow early in the gam e, H irst, w h o had been bow ling very w ell, was obliged to leave the field, and in his absence L e Flem ing and W right played so w ell that the total after all reached 127. W anting 78 to w in, Y ork­ shire in the tw enty m inutes that rem ained on T uesday m ade 30 w ith ou t the loss o f a w icket, Sellers naving scored 23. and Jackson 7. Y esterday m orning the n ot ou ts look ed like w inning the m atch off their ow n bats. W ith the score at 67, how ever, a separation w as effected, and it w as left to B row n and Tunnicliffe to decide the m atch in favour o f Y orkshire w ith eight w ickets to spare. K e n t . F irst Innings. S econd Innings. A lec. H earne, c Sm ith, b P eel ......................................23 c Jackson , b H irst ............12 Mr. f1. C. Stew art, c Him ter, b P eel........................13 b H irst .............. 1 G . G . H earne, c W ain­ w right, b H irst ............. 4 c W ainw right, b H irst ............ (j M r W . L . K now les, c S m ith, b P e e l...................... 4 c Selle s, b Peel 24 R ev. w. R ashleigh, c H unter, b W ainw right 2 c W ainw right, b H irst ............ 2 Mr. J. L e F lem ing, b P eel 2 c and b Jack son 45 M r. G . J. V. W eigall, c Sellers, b P e e l.................... 25 run ou t ............. 1 M r. F . M archant, c Sm ith, b P e e l..................................... 18 c T unnicliffe, b W a in w righ t... 22 W rig h t, c W ainw right, b S m ith ................... ... 14 n ot ou t ............ 6 M artin, n ot o u t .....................41 c Sellers, b P eel 0 M r. E . M alden, st H unter, b P e e l...................................... 9 b J a c k so n ............. 3 B ...................................... 6 B ..................... 2 T otal .................161 Y o r k s h ir e F irst Innings. T ota l ...127 M oorhouse, c R a sh ­ leigh, b A. H earne 35 Peel, b A . H earne ... 1 U lyett, c K now les, b W right ..................... 9 H irst, b A lec H earne 43 H unter, n ot ou t ... 0 B 5, lb 1 ............ 6 T otal .211 T otal ... 67 Mr. A. Sellers, M alden, b W righ t 50 Mr. F . S. Jackson, b A lec H e a r n e ............. 0 B row n ,c A lecH earne, b W rig h t.....................17 T unnicliffe, b M artin 33 Mr. E . Sm ith, c R ashleigh,bW righ t 17 W a i n w r i g h t , c M alden, b W righ t 0 In th e S econd Innings Sellers scored c Stew art, b M artin, 42, Jack son , c and b G. H ea m e, 25, B row n (n ot out) 12, T u n n icliffe (n ot ou t) 1.— T otal, 80. B O W L IN G A N A L Y SIS. K e n t . F irst Innings. S econd Innings O. M . R . W . O. M . R . W . H irst.................... 11 5 26 1 ............... 1G 7 28 4 P e e l ....................44.3 20 607 ............. 28 10 55 2 W ain w righ t ..2 8 18 28 1 ............ 7 0 27 1 Sm ith ........... 9 1 31 1 Jackson .............. 3 0 10 0 ............. 8.3 5 13 2 M oorhouse 4 3 2 0 Y o r k s h ir e . F irst Innings. S econd Innings. O. M . R . W . O. M . R . W . W rig h t ............ 40 17 735 ............... 10 3 25 0 A. H earne ... 25.3 8 784 ............... 13 4 30 0 M artin ............. 18 9 40 1 ............. 7.4 3 19 1 G . H ea m e ... 5 2 14 0 ............. 3 0 6 1