Cricket 1895

390 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S ept . 5, 1895. SOMERSETSHIRE v. GLOUCESTER- , SH IRE. At Taunton, August 20. 30, and 31. The return match between the neighbouring western counties aroused an unusual amount of local interest, both elevens having an unbeaten record since the begin­ ning of the month. In the previous encounter, which was easilywon by Gloucestershire, thanks mainly to W. G. Grace’s great innings of 228, his hundredth 100, both counties were making their first appearance of the year, and the present contest terminates in a most appropriate manner their season engage­ ments. Somerset had the same side that beat Yorkshire, except that E. W. Bartlett took Westcott’s place, while Gloucestershire m^de one 'alteration in the eleven that represented themagainst Surrey, Roberts, who was indisposed, standing down for F. H. B. Champain. The start was most sensa­ tional, Townsend’s second ball beating Fowler, while with 7 scored Lionel Palairet was caught at the wicket. Then a great alteration was brought about by Dunlop and Roe, and 50went up in fortyminutes. In all 94were added, whenDunlopleft the total being 101, the result of an hour and a quarter's cricket. His brilliant 51 included six 4’s, two 3’s, and seven 2’s. With Roe and Porch associated there was another capital stand. Roe being not out 62. and Porch, after lunch, from Townsend’s first ball was caught at the wicket, the partnership having realised 49in forty minutes. Porch being responsible for 28. Nichols, the next comer, at 175 lost Roe, caught at mid off for ft faultless 71. for which he was batting two hours and tiveminutes. Among his figures were eight 4’8. five 3’s. and four 2’s. Woods and Hedley gave little trouble, but with Nichols and Bartlett 29 were hit up iu rather more tha •a quarter of an hour before Bartiett returned a ball to Towusend. The ninth wicket fell at 218, but 17 more were scored before the innings closed for 23b. Nichols carriedout his bat for a most vigorous and invaluable 41. Gra. e gave a very difficult chance to Paiairet at cover-slip. with his score at 17, and having put together 31 outof 35 in twenty-live minutes, he got caught at mid-off Ferris andJessopWtreboth sent backwithoutanother run being scored. Wrathall, who had gone in first wicket down, drove Tyler for three 4’s in one over, but was then caught. Hedley beat Townsend at 59, but on Grace, jun joining Rice, the total was carried to 91before the Lignt Blue was caught at cover-slip. Three wickets fell, with the total standing at 102. Sewell was caught at forward point, Rice played on, and (Jhimpain was out to a good catch by Porch, thus twice in the innings three wickets fell atone total. On Friday, 14runs were required to avert the follow on, with only one wicket to fall. Painter and Board, however, in ten minutes hit up 20beforeTylerbowled Painter, and the innings closed for 122. Tyler and Hedley, who bowled unchanged throughout, shared the wicketsequallyat a cost of 77and 43 respectively. Going in a second time with 113 runs to the good, Somerset did not do too well, though Palairet showed great skill. Fowler, when only 11 had been scored, wjs caught by Board off Jessop, who with Townsend kept an admirable length. Dunlop stayed while 35 were added, but the old Oxonian could get no one t •render him much assistance. Jessop hurt hi-* hand in atternpdng co catch a hot return from l'alaint, and had to give up bowling. Townsend, however, dismissed themen, bowling Dunlop, getting Roe caught at the wicket, and Porch caught at back­ wardpoint. The 50had gone up in three-quarters of an hour. After baninf? an hour and three-quarters, Palairet completed his 50 out of a total ot 97, and directly afterwards, Nichols, with a 4 to the off, sent up the hundred. He was then caught at cover-point for 16, his share of 29 realised by the partnership in forty minut's. After this there was no .-tand of any length. Palairet lost his wickethitting at a ball wide ou the off. He was seventh to leave, the total being 140, the result of two hours an 1twenty minutes’ bit­ ting. During lint time, P.dairet had only given one chance, that to Jessop, j.nd his hits included four 4’s, four 3’s. -»nd eight 2 ’s. Woods made matters exiremely lively during his stay of forty-fiveminutes, hitting with g.eat power. Newton put together a useful 13 bet re being taken by Jessop (his third citcii), the innings terinintting for 199, having extended over thiee hours and tive minutes. There was an hour and titty minutes left for play when Gloucestershire started on their heavy task of getting 8U to win. Only Hluns had been obtained, when Grace skied a ball from Hedley to square-leg, and was out to a well-judged catch by Newton, who ran quite thirty yaids. . The champion’s dismissal, for a time, appear*d to demoralise the batsmen. Cham­ pain, who was sent infirst wicket down, being bowled at 11, while -ewrll was bowled by Tyler at ;j8. Rice jo:ned Ferris, and for 55 minutes they detied the efforts of Tyler, Hedley, and Nichols, till, with the total 99.the last-named got Rice caughtat the wicket for an invaluable 27. The partnership had realised 61. but after the I- 0had gone up in asmanymiuutes, Wrathall was leg-before to Tyler. A quarter of an hour was left for play, when Townsend came in, and 13 were added without further loss. On Saturday Townsend and Ferrismade an excellent show, and at one time when Painter was hitting it looked as if Gloucester might make the runs, but after he was caught off the slow bowler the innings came to an end, Somerset winning by 57 runs. Score and analysis:— S omerset . First innings. Mr. G. Fowler, b Townsend 0 Mr. L. C. H. Palairet, c Boarel. b Townsend........ 1 Mr. C. E. Dunlop, b Jessop 51 Mr. W. N. Roe, c Grace, jun., b Townsend ........71 Mr. R. B. Porch, c Board, b Townsend ............. 28 Nichols, not out ............. 41 Mr. S. M. J. Woods, lbw, b Townsend .............. 1 Capt. W. C. Hedley, b Champain..................... Mr. E. W. Bartlett, c and b Townsend.................... 18 Mr. A. E. Newton, b Cham­ pain ........................... 0 Tyler, b Townsend ........ 6 B 2, lb 6, nb 2 ........ 10 Second innings, c Board, b Jessop 7 cJes8op,b Painter 68 b Townsend ... 12 c Board,bTowns­ end .............. 4 c Grace, sen., b Townsend ... .8 c Rice, b Painter 16 c Wrathall, b Townsend ... 41 c Grace, sen., b Townsend .. 8 cJessop,bPainter 8 cJessop,bPainter 13 not out............. 4 B 8, lb 2........10 Total ..............235 Total ...19! G loucestershire . Second Innings. First Innings. Dr. W. G. Grace, c Woods, b Tyler .....................31 c Newton, b Hed­ ley .............. 4 c Bartlett,b Tyler 52 stNewton.b Tyler 17 Mr. J. J. Ferris, c'and b Hedley ... ............ 4 Mr. G L. Jessop, c Nichols, b Hedley ..................... 0 Wrathall, c Porch, b Tyler 17lbw, b Tyler ... 0 Mr. R. W. Rice, bHedley 20cN ew ton , b Nichols ........27 Mr. C. L. Townsend, Hedley .............. Newton, b Hedley ........62 Mr. W. G. Grace, jun., c Palairet, b Hedley ........18 cWoods, b Tyler Mr. C. O. H. Seweli, c Hed­ ley, b Tyler.................... 4 b Tyler.............. Mr. F. H. B. Champain, c Porch, b Tyler.............. 0 Painter, b Tyler ... . Board, not out ... . Byes................... ... 2 19 b Hedley ........ 4 14 cNichols, b Tyler 47 6 not out..............11 B 2, lb'4........ 6 Total .. ...122 Total ...255 BOWLING ANALYSIS. S omerset . First Innings. O. M. R. W. Townsend ... 38110 122 7 Jessop........ 24 8 49 1 Painter........ 4 2 5 0 Grace, jun.... 9 3 20 0 Champain ... 7 1 29 2 Second Innings. O. M.R. W. . 43 7 103 5 8 0 24 1 . 281 9 53 4 2 9 0 Jessop bowled two no-balls. G loucestershire . First Innings. Tyler ... Hedley... O. 24 23 M. R. W. 5 77 5 ... 9 43 5 ... Nichols Woods... Palairet Second Innings. O. M.R. W. ... 50 9 145 6 .. 28 8 67 3 ... 21 7 29 1 . . . 2 1 6 0 . . . 2 1 2 0 SCARBOROUGH FESTIVAL. YORKSHIRE v. M.C.C. AND GROUND. Played on August 29th, 30th, and 31st. The eleven brought down by the M.C.C. was a strong one, including as it did Storer, Attewell, Chatterton. l)avi son. Mead, and H. T. Ilewett, with the veteran cricketer. Lord Harris, and C. I. Thornton. The Vorkshiremen, with the advantage of going in first, did none too well. Lord Hawke, who went in with fivemen out for 77, was missed before scoring by Lord Harris, but then contiibuted 51 outof the last 74runs in an hour, and carried out his bat. This score enabled himto complete his 1,00>1runsfor the season. His figures included a 5 (all run), nix 4’s, three 3’s, andfour 2’s. Three others made double figure scores, but only Peel besides his lordship exceeded 20. In the hourand twentyminutes’ batting the Marylebone Club had, their batsmen didw611.andmadean admir­ able start. Hewett hit with vigour, and after he was out at41Wright and Chatterton raised the aggregate to 89in a little over an hour. Chatterton andDavid­ son had taken the score to 124 before play closed, and on Friday continued the innings. Chatterton added 3 and Davidson 12 (10in one over of Hirst’s) before <hatterton was caught at point at 139. The stand had produced 60runs. Burns followed in and contributed the next 15runs ere he too fell to a catch at point. Thus the county’s total was headed with six wicketss’anding. Onehundri d and seventywent up without further loss, when a series of disasters occurred in rapid succession, Davidson being taken cleverlyatthewicket,and Storerbow-led. Da^idson’s 39was in every way an excellent display, extending over an hour. Northcote joined Lord Harris, but was caught at point at 173, and at 174 Hirst bowled King and Attewell with successive balls. Thus wi»h only a wicket to fall the club after all were but 23 runs on. Mead was missed by Denton, and,profiting by the escape, the Essex man and Lord Harris made runs fairlyfast untilhis lordshipwasbowledat twenty minutes to two with the aggregate at 195. Yorkshire hadamajority of 41against them. Brown andWain­ wright, the first pair, played lively cricket, and in less than twenty minutes, from Mead and Attewell, obtained 33 runs. Then the Driffield batsman was bowled by a- yorker. Directly Tunnicliffe came in Attewell, at 34, sent backWainwright with a bailer, while Denton only scored 3before falling to a'catch at the wicket at 39. Thus three men were out before the deficit was wiped out. Tunnicliffe, who was missed when 3. was a long time getting set, but he stayed white Moorhouse hit, and Yorkshire’s pros­ pects improved considerably until Mead resumed in place of Attewell at 62, when three wickets fell quickly, Moorhouse being bowled at 68, Peel playing on, and Hawke being bowled at 88. All this time Tunnicliffe stopped in, but as a result of an hour and twenty minutes’ batting his score was only a dozen. He began to hit with more resolution when Frank came in, and 21 runs were put on before the amateur left. Tunnicliffe himself was iu altogether an hour and three-quarters for 32, and then returned a ball to the bowler at 120. At 139 consecutive balls from Mead dismissed Mounsey and Hunter, and brought the innings to a termination. The M.C.C. required 96 to win. and they entered upon the task at half-past five. Theymadeateiriblybadstart, however, against Hirst’s bowling, newett. Lord Harris, and Wright left with the score respectively at 2, 3. and 4 This brought Davidson andChatterton together. Chatter­ ton hit Peel to leg for 2 and snicked him for 4. and Davidson cut Hirst prettily for another 4. When stumpswere drawn the totalwas 21 for three wickets. On Saturday Chatterton was soon disposed of, but Burns joining Davidson the bowling was mastered and the runs hit otf, M.C.C. winning by four wickets. Score and analysis :— Y orkshire . FirstInnings. * Second Innings Brown, b Mead ............... 4b Attewell.........12 Waiuwright, c sub., b Mead 9b Attewell......... 21 Tunnicliffe, b Mead ........ 15 Denton, c Storer, b Attewell 6 Moorhouse, b Davidson ... 18bMead... Peel, c sub., b Davidson ... 2t b Mead... Lord Hawke, not out....... 51 bMead.. Mr. R. W. Frank, b David­ son................................. 0 bMead............... 7 Mounsey, c Northcote, b Davidson ............... ... 0 bMead.............. 14 Hirst, run out ... ........ 13 notout.............. 8 Hunter, c Hewett, b David­ son................................. 2 bMead.............. 0 B 5, lb 4 ..................... 9 B l, lbl ... 2 Total ................151 Total .. 139 M.C.C. and G round . First Innings. Second Innings. Mr. C. W. Wright, c Hun­ ter, b Wainwright ....... 35 c Wainwright, b Hirst............. 1 Mr. H. T. Hewett, c Wain­ wright, b Hirst..............24 b Hir*t.............. 2 Chatterton, c Brown, b Peel 34 b Hirst..............11 Davidson, c Hunter, b Peel 38 not out..............41 Bums, c Browu, b Hirst ... 15 not out............. 38 Storer, b Hirst ............... 4 Lord Harris, b Peel ....... 14 o Frank, b Hirst 0 Mr. P. Northcote.lbw. bPeel 2 Mr. H. C. King, b Hirst ... 0 Attewell, b 11irst............... 0 Mead, not out ............... 9 B 17, lb 2, nb 1 ... ...20 B 2, lb 1......... 3 Total..................... 195 Total (4wkts) 96 BOWLING ANALYSIS. Y orkshire . c and b Mead ... 32 c Storer, b David­ son .............. 3 23 17 . 0 First Innings Second Innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Mead ........ 20 4 46 3 ........ 23 3 4 67 7 Attewell 29 16 53 1 ........ 21 6 46 2 Davidson ... 13 4 24 5 ........ 20 11 24 1 Chatterton 1 0 8 0 ........ Bums ........ 3 1 11 0 ........ M.C.C. and G round . First Innings. Second Innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Hirst ........ 30 7 72 5 ........ 15 5 35 4 I’^el ........ 28 12 51 4 ........ 12 4 23 0 Wainwright 7 0 18 1 ........ 51 0 28 0 Brown........ 4 0 22 0 ........ Moorhouse... 5 2 12 0 ........ 4 1 7 0