Cricket 1896

M ay 28 , 1896. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 163 BETWEEN THE INNINGS. In spite of tho fact that about Thursday a break-up in the weather seemed imminent, and that rain had more than a slight effect upon the matches on two or three grounds, the scoring during the week ended May 23rd was bigger than ever. In the eleven first- class matches played, 8,491 runs were scored for the loss of 323 wickets—an average of well over 26 runs per wicket, which is more than two runs higher than that of the week before. Twelve centuries were scored, as against six of the preceding week, and eleven in the first week of the season. The Aus­ tralians have now begun to help in swelling the proportions of the century list, little Gregory getting away first, with Darling and Giffen in close attendance. I am delighted to see George Giffen making three figures so early in the tour. As my readers may remember, I express3d myself some weeks ago as extremely doubtful of the deterioration which was said to have taken place in his all­ round play ; and I think his wonderful bowling at the Crystal Palace, followed up by his almost perfect innings at Eastbourne, justifies me. If the weather continues fine — which one is constrained to hope, for the sake of the depressed agriculturists and the long- suffering bowlers, it will not do to quite to the same extent as since May-day—there are several other men in the Australian team who should soon follow suit. Trott, Iredale, Trumble, Hill, Donnan and Graham should each and all have at least one three-figure score to their names before the tour ends. It is pleasant to hear that the last named is out and about again, though he will scarcely be seen in the field before June. NOTABLE PERFORMANCES OF THE W EEK ENDING M AY 23. B o w lin g . C. J. Kortright, 10 for 57, Essex v. M.C.C., Lord’s—seven clean bowled. G. Giffen, 7 for 15 in second innings of England X I. v. Australians, Crystal Palace— five clean bowled, one lbw. E. Jones, 11 for 59, Australians v. England X I., Crystal Palace. W . G. Grace, 6 for 39, second innings of Kent v. Gloucestershire, Gravesend. F. H. E. Cunliffe, 11 for 72, Oxford University v. Somerset, Oxford. Peel, 6 for 28, second innings of Middlesex v. Yorkshire, Lord’s. B a tt in g . Twelve centuries. Two in an innings three times. Forty-seven individual scores of 50 and over in the eleven first-class matches. Totals of 543, 334, 381, 380, 374, 371, 347, 346, 328 (6 wickets), 314, 314 (11 wickets), 313, 312 (6 wickets). Three 1,000 run matches :— Oxford University v. Mr. W ebbe’s X I., at Oxford, 1,166 for 36. Yorkshire v. Sussex, at Bradford, 1,126 for 30. Middlesex v. Yoikshire, at Lord’s, 1,054 for 30. Long stands for a wicket:— 198.. 5...Peel and W ain­ wright ...........Yorks, v. 8x. B’ford. 18 213.. 2...Darling & Jiffen.. Aust. v. X I. of South. E’tb’ne. 21 218...1..Hayman & Stod­ dart Mx. v.Yorks. Lord’s. 21 130...1...Brown and Tunni­ cliffe ................Yorks. v.Mx. Lord’s. 21-22 145. ,1. Board & Wrathall Glos. v. Sy. Oval. 22 147...*...Brown & Tunni­ cliffe .................Yorks. v.Mx. Lord’s 23 *In these cases both batsmen were not out when the match ended, There were two instances during the week of a very uncommon happening—two men putting on over 100 runs while together in each innings of a match. Leveson-Gower and Pilkington (who looks to be certain of hi8 blue) did it at Oxford, Brown and Tunni­ cliffe at Lords. Writing from memory without time for prolonged research, I can only recall two instances of a like feat: Bames and Flowers, Notts v. Middlesex, Nottingham, 1883, 122 and 125; Hall and Ulyett, Yorkshire v. Sussex, Brighton, 1885, 123 and 108. The way in which Brown and Tunnicliffe won the match at Lord’s for their side was also rare, though again not quite unprecedented. I remember George Ulyett and Tom Emmett performing a very similar feat in a match between Yorkshire and the M.C.C. eleven or twelve years ago. Mr. Hornby and Barlow have also more than once gone in to make a hundred or more runs needed to win, and knocked them off without being parted. And no longer ago than last year Abel and Maurice Read hit up 99 and won the Middlesex match at Lord’s for Surrey without a wicket down in the second innings ; while Dr. Grace and Mr. Arthur Sellers made no fewer than 172 wanted in the I Zingari Jubilee match on the same ground. I have also a vivid recollection of a similar feat by Billy Bates and Joe Preston, two of Yorkshire’s most promising cricketers, who never quite attained to the places they seemed likely to fill in 1885. The match was Yorkshire v. Surrey at Huddersfield, and the two players named won it by hitting up 129 without being parted, with extraordinary rapidity. Curiously enough, Surrey and Yorkshire each won both its matches during the week by a margin of ten wickets. Perhaps, on the whole, the Yorkshire performances were the better. Sussex and Middlesex are somewhat more formidable opponents than Warwick and Gloucestershire; and matters scarcely looked propitious when Stoddart and Hayman put on over 200 runs without being parted at the very outset of the Lord’s match. I admire, above all teams, the team that can play an uphill game ; and that Yorkshire, as at present constituted, can certainly do. Down to the very last man they are full of pluck, though the three of them upon whom I should place most reliance for making runs at a pinch are not the three biggest scorers of the side, for my choice would be Moorhouse, Wainwright, and Mounsey. No batsman on the side has a bigger heart than Moorhouse. He had a tremendous amount of ill-luck during the years he was trying hard to play himself into a regular place in the team ; and the Yorkshire executive are to be congratulated upon their judgment in persevering with him almost as much as is he upon the dogged pluck which he showed. It was the Surrey match at Sheffield in 1893 that first made me look upon him as having the makings of a great batsman within him. I never saw any­ thing more gallant on a cricket-field than the way in which he stood up to Richardson and Lockwood on a fiery wicket, getting punished all over his body, yet never once losing heart, never once flinching. He must have been pretty nearly black and blue afterwards ; but he scored 77 runs for once out in the match— nearly three times as many as anyone else on the side made—and Yorkshire’s victory by 58 runs was practically due to him. Wain­ wright, too, is a man whose nerves seem made of finely-tempered steel. I don’t say he has never failedat a pinch—thatwould be too much to say of any man—but I am sure he has never failed through funk. Little Joe Mounsey is not a player of the same class as these two; perhaps I am not justified in setting him before such great batsmen as Brown and Jackson as a good man at a pinch; but he has so often made runs j ust when they were needed that I have some excuse for my opinion. If Yorkshire and Surrey can both maintain their splendid form, what a benefit George Lohmann will get when August comes round ! I wish, for George’s sake, that the Oval match were to be played on the date fixed for that at Sheffield, June 8th. It is scarcely possible that one side or the other should not have gone off somewhat before August; and the match is sandwiched between two of the other important engage­ ments of Surroy’s season—the first game with the Australians and the Bank Holiday match with Notts. Nevertheless, given fine weather, Lohmann ought to reap at least £1,200 from the game. J.N.P. GOLDSMITHS’ INSTITUTE (2) v. TOOTING GRAVENEY.—Played at New Cross on May 16. T o o tin g G r a v e n e y . Bennett, c Bowler, b W ise........................... 6 Lucas, b B each .......... 0 Rhoades, b Adams ...70 Jackson, c Cozens, b Medway .....................10 Cath, c Beach, b Good 14 Vollaire, not out...........16 Gallagher, not out ... 7 B 11, lb l, w 1, nb 2 15 T otal... ...138 Mattingley, Devereux, Charter, and Allen, did not bat. G oldsmiths * I n stitu te . F.Bowler,bMattingley 0 H. Knapton, b Cath... 5 W .B. Barry, cCharter, b Gallagher .......... 11 J. A. T. Good, b Mat- tingley .................. 0 S. G. Cozens, not out 33 Total H. Vezey, b Cath ... 0 W . G. Beach and S. W ise did not bat. A. J. Adams, lbw, b Rhoades .................. 4 A.Baldwin.b Devereux 6 E. M. Medway, not out 4 B 14, w 1 ...........15 , 78 GOLDSMITHS’ INSTITUTE v. CHISLEHURST WANDERERS.—Played at Chislehurst on May 16. G oldsmiths ’ I n stitu te . W . H. Joanes, lbw, b Hill .......................... 7 H. Cryer, c GoldiDg, b White .................. 59 H. Murrell, b H ill ... 16 H. Mayo, c GoldiDg, b White ...................16 L. T. Easton, not out 27 W . T. Read, b Elgar .. 1 P. Brownfield,bHill... 21 F. C. Ladd, not o u t ... 10 Bye .................. 1 Total ..158 S. R. Best, W . H. Manley, and S. J. Holmes did not bat. C hislkhurst W anderers . H. Cox, b Holmes ... M. W ood, b Murrell. . H. Skinner, b Murrell W . J. Cooper, run out A. J. Elgar, b Holmes E. Hill, c Manley, b Holmes ................... A. Crichter, c Easton, b H olm es................... W . Phillips, b Cryer... 10 T. Goulding, not out... 0 R. Whayman, b Cryer 0 S. White, b Cryer ... 0 Byes ................... 4 Total 49 PALLINGSW ICK v. HON. AR TILLER Y COM­ PAN Y.—Played at Finsbury on May 23. H on . A r tille r y C om pany . W . E. Waigh, c Hoo­ per, b Campbell ... 12 S. F. Kemp, b Collins 0 T. Adam, c Carter, b Collins ........... ... 5 S. Cheesman, cCollins, b H ooper.................. 47 A . Thomson, c Rowley, b Campbell .......... 19 A. J. Clarke, b Camp­ bell ......................... 5 G. Blizard, c Mayo, b Hooper ..................19 P a llin g sw ic k . M. Leggatt, lbw, b Budden ..................16 Parke, hit wicket, b Collins .................. 2 C. L»wford, c Collins, b Budden.................. 1 W . H. W oolf, not out 0 B 31, lb 3 ...........34 Total ...160 E. A. Collins, c Parke, b Blizard .................. 10 J. F. Kieman, not out 4 F. Sanderson, not out 0 B 26, lb nb 1... 30 F. S. Heynemann, b Leggatt .................. 64 H . G. Rowley, b Leg­ gatt .......................... 0 B. A. Carter, b Clarke 33 B. W . Gonin, b Leg­ gatt ..........................17 Total H. V. Hooper, bClarke 0 F. S. Mayo, c Leggatt, b B lizard.................. 18 C. Hay Campbell, H. W , Budden did not bat, ...176