Cricket 1894

NOV. 29, 1894 CRICKET i A WEEKLY KECORD OF THE GAMEi 435 down by ten wickets at Brighton; the tables were turned on Middlesex at Lord’s ; Lancashire was beaten by 29 at Liverpool, and Hampshire by ten wickets at Southampton. The captain scored an innings of 125 in the last-mentioned match. At Dewsbury rain caused a draw with Yorkshire; and then Lord Harris’s batting, and the bowling of Mr. P. Lips­ comb and Wootton gave Kent a victory by eight wickets at Maidstone. Another draw—with Notts, Shrewsbury (127) and Barnes (72) putting on 144 together ; and another defeat—from Lancashire, Mr. H. B. Steel playing an innings of just 100 ; and then a victory over Derbyshire by seven wickets. Thereafter came a re­ markable game with Gloucestershire at Clifton. Surrey scored 404, the captain (101) and W.W. (135) adding 189 while together. The county of the Graces topped this big score by 20 runs ; two men, Mr. J. H. Brain (143) and Painter (133), made centuries, as on the Surrey side ; these two, as Messrs. Bead and Shuter had done, made a long stand while together, adding 145. W.G. scored 06, and helped Mr. Brain to put on 118. The game was drawn, as were the returns with Kent and Yorkshire which followed. Then the finale came with a victory over Sussex by four wickets—none too easily gained, five Surrey wickets going down for eight runs in the second innings. As in 1883, there had been a good deal of in-and-out running about the Surrey form, On the whole, though, the team had certainly increased its reputation ; and again no county could lay claim to a double victory over it, W.W. had again been the mainstay of the batting, scoring 1,254 runs, with an average of 89. Messrs. Shuter, Bowden, and Diver, and Maurice Bead had all scored 700 runs or more, with averages of over 20; and Abel, though hardly so good as in the former year, and the two new men, Wood and LohmanD, had all batted well at times. Henderson was kept out of the team by ill-health. Mr. Horner (110 wickets for 1,608) and Ted Barratt (135 for 2,529) did most of the bowling, and on the whole did it well. The season of 1885 was begun in fine style. Not until the ninth match did Surrey suffer a defeat. Essex was beaten by an innings and 48, W.W. scoring 143 ; Hampshire by an innings and 280, Mr. Shuter 135, Lohmann seven wickets for 13 in the first innings ; Leicestershire by an innings and 53. Then more formid­ able opponents, the Middlesex men, went down like ninepins before the attack of Beaumont (twelve wickets for 48 rnns) and Lohmann, being all out for 25 and 77, and losing by an innings and 64. Notts played a draw at Trent Bridge ; but Derbyshire also succumbed in an innings, with 02 runs to spare, Mr. Bead scoring 123. A draw with Oxford in the Parks produced 143 from Mr. Diver, 86 from George Lohmann, 65 from W.W., and 57 and 42 from Mr. A. E. Newton, the Oxonian and Somer­ set wicket-keeper. Middlesex was beaten at Lord’s by 12 run3 in a somewbst small- scoring match. So far, the success of the team had been almost phenomenal. Five matches out of eight had been won in an innings, and four centuries hid already bean scored. But now came the first reverse, Gloucestershire winning a well-contested game by two wickets. Then another long run of seven matches without a defeat. At Leyton, Essex went down by an incings and 174 runs, W.W. making 214 (not out). The Universities were beaten in turn on the Oval, Cambridge by 131 runs, Oxford by an innings and 17. Maurice Bead scored 88 (not out), 59 and 97 in these two matches. One of the most notable per­ formances of the year followed. Against Sussex a score of 631 was run up. Mr. Boiler played a chanceless innings of 204 : Mr. W. W. Bead made 144 ; and the pair put on 163 while together. Everybody except Mr. Diver (8) scored doubles ; and Sussex retired beaten by an innings and 221 . Hampshire lost by an innings and 252, Mr. Bowden scoring 125, and Lohmann taking twelve wickets for 34. Another big victory over Sussex followed, marked by a curious coincidence, Messrs. Boiler and Bead, who had made 204 and 163 res­ pectively at the Oval, scoring 144 and 101 at Brighton. The two put on 169 while together. Mr. Key carried out his bat for 82; and in spite of Mr. Newham’s 115 and Mr. G. N. Wyatt’s 33 and 65, Surrey won by an innings and 129 runs. Then the Lancashire match at Liverpool was drawn. Johnny Briggs, fresh from a wedding in which he had played an important part, made the highest score of his career; and poor Dick Pilling actually helped him to add 173 for the last wicket. Mr. Shuter scored 111 in his two innings for Surrey, A reverse followed at Sheffield, where Loui? Hall carried his bat through Yorkshire's second innings for 79, and Bates took eleven wickets for 68. Then Kent was beaten by one wicket at Maid­ stone, the colt Lohmann showing any amount of nerve at a very critical time ; and a second drawn game with Notts was played, W.W. scoring a grand 135. Derbyshire went down by an innings and 50, Mr. Bead making another century (109) ; and Somerset was beaten by an innings and 301 runs, although Mr. O. G. Badcliffe (101) and Mr. H. T. Hewett (86) added 129 in the Western County’s second innings. Maurice Bead scored a not out innings of 186, W.W. made 98, and Abel 81; the Surrey toial was 035. A long scoring game with Kent ended in a draw. Lord Harris batted for thirty- five minutes with one hand, the o:her being injured, Surrey's second innings was 441, Lohmann making 92 (notout), Mr. Diver 90, Maurice Bead 77, and Wood 59. The return with Lancashire was won by one wicket. It singularly resembled the game of 1883, though this time Mr. Diver and Abel were the : eroes instead of Mr. Boiler and Mr. Key. Then came a second reverse from Gloucestershire in the match at Clifton, W.G. scoring 104 in the first innings of his team, and Abel carrying his bat right through Surrey’s first attempt for 88. Journeying on to Taunton, the Surrey men beat Somerset by an innings and five runs. Then at the Oval Yorkshire repeated the Sheffield victory, though Mr. Shuter and Abel made a splendid start for Surrey by scoring 125 before the first wicket in the match went down. The season finished’ with a draw, owing to rain, at Leicester. Only two teams beat Surrey in 1885 ; but those two each beat her twice. And yet it cannot be said that on the yoar’s form either Yorkshire or Gloucestershire was Surrey’s equal- The feature, par excellence, of the county's cricket this year was undoubtedly Mr, W. W. Bead's phenomenal batting. He scored altogether 2134 runs, with an average of close on 60 ! Next to him the team probably owed most to Lohmann and Beaumont, who took respectively 152 wickets for about 13.j each and 123 for 15. They bowled so finely that Barratt and Jones were left out of the team in most matches, and Mr. Horner in several. But, apart from the batting of Mr. Bead and the bowling of the other two, there were run-getters enough in the team to have ensured, with even moderate trund­ ling, a -fair degree of success. Maurice Bead scored 1017 runs—average 37, Abel 1026—27, Mr. Boiler 720—36, Mr. Shuter 841—24, Mr. Diver 832—23, Wood 507— 23, Mr. Bowden 424—18, and Lohmann 570—17. The average per wicket throughout the season was over 26. III. Quite a new departure was taken in 1886, the first match of the season—v. Gloucestershire—being played on Easter Monday (which fell as late as April 26th) and the days following. Diver played his first match as a pro. Thero was a century on each side, B obby Abel making 110 (his first three-figure score for Surrey), and Mr. Frank Townsend 103. Surrey won by five wickets. Hampshire was beaten in an innings, Lohmann taking seven wickets for 12; and then an exciting match against the Australians found Surrey victors at the end by three wickets, Lohmann both batting and bowling well in this, his first game against a Coloui il team. The next three matches were all won also ; York­ shire being beaten (by 27 runs) for the first time ii: nine years, Beaumont, himself e Tyke by birth, bowling extremely we 1 for Surrey ; Middlesex succumbing in an innings ; and Essex going down by four wickets only, in a match in which Beau­ mont did the hat trick. Then came the first defeat, in tbe absence of Messrs. Bead and Boiler, from Oxford, by five wickets. None of the. next seven matches was lost. Walter Bead's batting and Lohmann’s bowling brought about victory by nine wickets over Lancashire at the Oval; the return with Essex proved a soft thing, Surrey winning in an innings; and a draw was played with Notts, at Trent Bridge, Diver (94) and Maurice Bead (83) putting on 168 while together, and poor Scotton carrying his bat through the innings of his side lor 110. Then the return with Middlesex was won, in spite NEXT ISSUE DECEMBEB 28