Cricket 1895

244 CRICKET. A WKEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u ly 4, 1805. the side of the bowlers, although I can thoroughly appreciate high-class batting. But I want a change after seeing any indi­ vidual batsman score fifty. So, now that W.G. has topped the century of centuries, I trust he’ll never get beyond half that number when I am present. I want to know what pleasure there is in getting 100, over and above what is yielded by making 30, except of course the proud satisfaction of being talked and written about as &c., &c. After this confession don’t be surprised or disgusted when I declare that on Tuesday of last week I had one hour’s perfect enjoyment, no more; but then I didn’ t want more. Yes, just an hour’ s scientific batting against the most accurate and varied bowling. And it was when Gunn was playing Peel and Hirst at Bramall Lane, and. Richard Daft and I were each enjoying a cigar. I never hope to see better cricket, and I devoutly wish I could often see as good. Every ball wanted playing on the dusty wicket, and every ball was played. As I said to Daft, “ there’s only one Gunn.” Yet the little man, who stuck to him with the rarest pluck, bowled him at last for 32. “ Only 32! ” sneers Young England, and votes one down as an old lunatic. Next morning was not edifying, Notts taking eighty minutes to add 28 runs. No, that was tedious: yet by sound batting it was impossible to get the ball away. So the Midland Captain afterwards assured me. One of his team perhaps was not very wide of the mark when he whispered confidentially, “ barring Gunn, we are a lot of second-raters only, now' that Arthur and Flowers can’t play.” It was not a specially exciting match. The Amateurs did well for Notts, although five out of eleven had a most uncanny look. Did Notts ever play so many before. I can remember when neither Notts nor Yorkshire had an amateur in their ranks. For many a year J. G. Beedor was the only ballast to the professionals. Wright and Dixon scored 63 apiece. I was glad the visitors had with­ drawn a vow solemnly made in my hearing, never to play at Sheffield again after the behaviour of the more juvenile end of the ring when they were there last. Tunnicliffe (104) once more did himself justice, and accounted for nearly half the score of his side: he gave a chance or two, but then so did all the batsmen that got into double figures. A case of butter-fingers all round. Yet whoever dreams of dropping a player because he drops the ball? Tunnicliffe reached 100 by a splendid drive; the next ball was despatched a • little farther ; the third ball of the same over—he forgot Attewell was the bowler, and the stumper had an opening. And what a bowler he is, too ; mind you, it is not my ideal of bowling. I have told W. A. more than once that, if he posts two men on the boundary, he ought occasionally to give them something to do. But then his way is not my way. Anyhow I take it that Attewell is, with the solitary exception of Alfred Shaw, quite the most accurate bowler seen for twenty-five years. Jackson was play­ ing his best cricket when the match came to an end, Yorkshire having nine wickets intact. Brown can’t get runs. Have these presenta­ tions spoiled him ? Like Brockwell, he should have a week’s rest, and during that interval should be forbidden to play in smaller club matches. But can he be spared? - Who can take his place? Surrey have a number of reserves—witness their second string’s per­ formance against Hertfordshire. How York­ shire are to get through the present season with creditable success is quite beyond my comprehension. They have an unbroken series of matches right up to the close cf August. I is delighted to learn from the county secretary that he has already deposited to Peel’s credit the sum of £1,700, and there may be £50 more to add to it. In these days of records innumerable, it is pleasant to find that benefits are no exception. Middlesex had a “ variegated ” week, losing to Surrey, and then waltzing round Lanca­ shire. It is to be hoped that some county will soon give Surrey the coup de grace. They have at present more points than the rest of the first-class counties can muster between them. Nobody can question their ability; the toss does not favour them. No matter; in their recent series of matches Yorkshire gave them most trouble, seeing that Surrey beat them by only eight wickets. Another hundred to Hayward, his third this month. He is his uncle over again ; not so brilliant, but just as sound and reliable, whilst he promises to be every whit as handy with the ball. Street (60) seems bent on keeping up a family reputation. Richardson (ten wickets) is the first of that name, but he is a host in himself; like all great men, he is his own ancestor ! How he can stand the work he puts in, and in the tropical heat of last week, astounds me. I can believe him when he assured me he had never but once felt tired on a cricket field, and that was at Sydney during the recent tour. Abel keeps up his neat little average match after match, and it is close upon 70 ! A small scoring match at Old Trafford, and I was happy for once. Just 500 runs only for the loss of 37 wickets! Vernon’s 40 was the “ leger.” Ward broke down at last, and so, as I expected, Lancashire came to grief-. Briggs has lost his old secret for run-getting. Mold took six wickets for 49 in the firsthands, but in the second was harmless on the slippery turf. MacGregor’s presence made all the difference in the result. For suppose he had been playing against Surrey, and Hayward, when his total stood at eight, had snicked a ball into his hands ; theremight have been no century that day. All the local critics—and isn’t every spectator a critic in his own estimation ?—failed to hit upon one plausible excuse for Lancashire’sfailure, so it must have been bad indeed. Hearne (eight for 112) and Rawlin (nine for 85)—who were unchanged in the second—had the largest share in the three-wickets’ Victory. Repeat it against Surrey to-day, and you shall be canonized. Excuse me if I pass over the latest triumphs of the Dark-Blue batsmen ; five separate innings of 100 down at Brighton, and a larger average per wicket than was ever before reached in any first-class match here or else­ where. 1,410 for 28 wickets, which is a lot better per wicket than the 1,614 for 40 wickets at Sydney during the past Australian outing. Mordaunt (264 at the rate of almost a run a minute) overshadowed everybody else, although 303 for the first Sussex wicket deserves a line to itself. That Cunliffe (six -for 62) and Brann (four for 57) should have bowled so well for their respective sides is to me quite as noteworthy as the run-getting. Match drawn, the usual result at Brighton this year. Not so the Maidstone match; a victory for Oxford by 215. Kent must be getting accustomed to this result. Somerset­ shire, too. Fry (99) nearly repeated his feat (125) down at Brighton, but his captain was comparatively quiet. I am glad the old Carthusian—G. O. Smith - has got his blue, innings of 34 and 100, and both unfinished, deserve such a reward. Alec. Hearne ran into three figures, and then failed to break his duck — 105 and 0. Raikes (8 for 86) will have cause to grumble at the fates, supposing Bardswell is well enough to do battle against Cambridge. The latter can afford to lose this year’s match, for at present they have a pull of three in the entire series of 60 matches. But we shall see. The other matches—especially those played by Essex, in which the nett result was exactly balanced—must stand over until the end of the season. There was more bowling than batting in their fight with Warwickshire, Mead, Pallett, and Santall claiming nine wickets each. And but for Essex’s second innings of 30*2, the same might be said of their successful tussle with Hampshire. But why doesn’t the gallant captain don flannels for the southernmost county ? Q U E R N M O R E H O U S E S C H O O L v. S ID C U P C O L L E G E .— P laye d a t Sidcup on Ju n e 26. S idcup C o lleg e . F irs t Innings. L . Sandercock, c Cazeaux, b E ck fo rd ........................... 0 W . N oble, b E ck fo rd . J . Colbran, b E ld e r . R .T ich e n e r,stW a lto n ,b E ld er 0 F . Greenham , b E ck fo rd ... 17 V . M ilnes, b E c k f o r d .......... 0 J . Thom pson, st W a lto n , b E ld e r .................................. 2 S. Stam pe, b E d e y ........... 6 M .D in w id d y,can d b E ck fo rd 0 W . Lovibon d, b E c k fo rd ... 0 Second Innings. c C a z e a u x , b M org an ........... c Stru dw ick, b M org an .......... b M o rg an ........... n ot o u t.................. S. D in w id d y, not out E x tra s ................ b C azeaux . c Edey, b M org an b E ck fo rd ........... c W a lto n , b M o r­ gan .................. not o u t ........... E x tra s ........... .. 28 Q.UERNMORE HOUSE SCHOOL. G . C. M organ, b Thom pson ........... 7 H . D . Powi% c L o v i­ bond, b G reenham 28 T . H . Edey, b M iln e s 4 R . E ck fo rd , b T h om p ­ son .......................... 9 W . H . E l d e r , b Thom pson ........... 9 H . R . M . Groves, b T ic h e n e r...................11 R .W alto n ,b Greenham 2 S. Cazeaux, c T hom p­ son, b Tichener ... 7 W .Stru d w ick ,bGreen- h a m ........................... 0 P . Strudw ick, n o t o u t 0 W . A rm stro n g , c Stam pe, b Greenham 1 E x tra s ...........10 T o ta l Q U E R N M O R E H O U S E S C H O O L v. St. B E R ­ N A R D ’S, W O K IN G .— P layed at W o k in g on June 27. Q uernmore H ouse S ch ool . F irs t Innings. H . D . Pow is, b M ac- lennan ................... 2 G .C .M organ, b S tric k ­ land 16 T . H . Edey, b M ac- lennan ................... 0 R .E ckfo rd ,c G ardiner, b S tricklan d ........... 9 W . H . E ld e r, c and b S trick la n d ...........10 R . Cazeaux, ru n out... 18 H . R . M . G roves, b S trick la n d .......... 0 S. Cazeaux, c and b S trick la n d .......... 4 R .W a lton,b S trick la n d 12 W . S t r u d w i c k , b S tricklan d ...........12 P. S tru dw ick, n ot ou t 2 E x tra s .................. 6 T o ta l ..........91 In the second in nin gs R . Cazeaux scored (not out) 11, W a lto n (not out) 8.— T o ta l, 19. S t . B ern ard ’ s F irs t Innings. S tricklan d , c W .S tru d w ick, b E ck fo rd .......................... 19 M aclennan, b S. Cazeaux ... 10 Ja m b lin , c S. 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