Cricket 1896

M a y 28, 1896. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. 171 THE AUSTRALIANS. THE FIRST YORKSHIRE MATCH. (FIFTH OF THE TO U R .)' Played at Sheffield on May 25 and 26. Aus­ tralians won by an innings and eight runs. On the Sheffield wicket in a dry season it is a fine thing to go in first, and the Australian captain de­ serves well of his side for winning the toss. Through­ out the match the fast bowlers on both sides got up in a dangerous manner, but they only took a fair share of the wickets. Hirst went on fiist for York­ shire, and at once found a victim in Donnan who, after being severely hit twice on the hand, was caught off him in the slips. Giffen was run out, and Iredale showed once more that English wickets in their present state do not suit him. This looked very well indeed for Yorkshire, for when the three men were out the score was only 74, and at 86 Darling, who had done nearly all the scoring, was also out. Then a very long and valuable stand was made by Trott and Gregory, and the outlook for Yorkshire began to look bad. Fortunately for them the tail did very little, so that instead of a huge total it was only 262. But with the wicket a little fiery it is not easy to get 262 against the bowling of the present Australian team— in fact it has yet to be done. Yorkshire did not fare as well as Efsex, and only a little better than the Crystal Palace team. It is unnecessary to say any­ thing of the batting, except that Giffen and Jones had wonderfully good analyses, and that Denton in the first innings and Brown in the second played good cricket. The result of the match was a great feather in the cap of the Australians. It has practically assured the success of their tour. A u str a lia n s . H. Donnan, c Tunni­ cliffe, b H irst........... 1 J. Darling, c Mounsey, b Milligan ...........67 G. Giffen, run out ... 11 F.A. Iredale, c Hawke, b Peel 8 G. H. S. Trott (capt.j, b 'Wainwright.......... 61 S. E. Gregory, b Hirst 64 C. Hill, b Milligan ... 19 Y o r k s h ir e First innings. Brown, b Giffen ... . Tunnicliffe, b Jones . H.Trumble,cMounsey, b W ainw right.......23 J. J. Kelly, b Milligan 0 C. J. Eady, b Wain­ wright ................. 4 E. Jones, not out ... 5 B 18, lb 1 .......19 Total..............262 Second innings. Denton, lbw, b Giffen.......... Wainwright, b Giffen Peel, b Jones.......................... Hirst, c Kelly, b Jones Lord Hawke, c Eady, b G iffen .................................. Mounsey, not out.................. F. W . Milligan, b Giffen ... Hunter, run o u t .................. B y es.......................... 10 c Eady, b Jones 33 0 b Jones ... 18 12 c Trumble, b Giffen ... 0 34 b Giffen ... 8 13 b Giffen ... 9 13 b Jones ... 0 26 b Jones ... 7 5 not out........... ... 25 0 c Trumble, b Jones ... 15 0 b Jones ... 11 0 cEady, b Trumble 1 5 B 6, lb 2, w 1 9 W ain­ wright 21 Hirsl ... 23 Milligan 18 Total ...................118 A u s tr a lia n s . O. M. It. W. Total ...136 66 83 38 O. Peel ... 17 Moorhouse 1 Denton 1 M. R. W . 4 52 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 Y orksh ire . First innings. O. M. R. W . Jones ........... 14*3 3 46 3 ......... G iffen ........... 18 2 49 6 ......... Eady ........... 4 0 18 0 ......... Trumble 4 2 3 In the second innings Jones bowled a wide. Second innings. O. M. R. W . 21 3 74 6 17 2 50 3 MIDDLESEX v. SOMERSET. R a w l in ’ s B e n e f it . Played at Lord’s on May 25 and 26. Middlesex won by an inniDgs and 101 runs. The W hit Monday match at Lord’s seems to attract more spectators every season, and this year about 17,000 paid for admission on the first day. Even on the second day the attendance was very great, so great that those who came late found very great difficulty in seeing anything, except the backs of other people’s heads, and a variety of shirt collars. The doubt as to whether the match would last for three days may have had something to do with the anxiety to see the second day’s play After the way in which the wicket played during the greater part of the Yorkshire match last week, it was hoped that the era of good wickets at Lord’s had come again, and on the first day, when Middlesex were batting until past six o’clock, the bowlers had very little assistance from the ground. The Middlesex innings was remarkably attractive, and nearly all the best bats came off. To begin with, there was a splendid innings by Mr. Stoddart, who scored his first century of the season. Sir T. C. O’Brien was only in just long enough to whet the appetite of the spectators, but Mr. MacGregor played fine cricket for his 52. Hearne had a few good knocks, but everybody was prepared for a speedy end to the innings when Mr. Bromley-Davenport was in for the last wicket with Mr. Webbe, who up to this time had been playing a quiet and useful game. But the Somersetshire men had to field out for another hour, during which both batsmen hit beautifully, and in the end the total was 386. Mr. Webbe carried his bat, to the satisfaction of everybody. Somersetshire had ten minutes’ batting, and made 14 runs without loss. For an hour on the following morning, matters went well with Somerset, and some extremely good batting was shown by Mr. Fowler, who was out with the total at 76 for one wicket, of which he made 56. After this, however, there was a very rapid change of batsmen. Smith alone, who had gone in first with Mr. Fowler, kept up his wicket, playing carefully and scoring slowly, until, when things looked very bad indeed for Somerset, he began to hit finely. He was out just before the innings closed. A follow-on was necessary, and as the wicket became more and more difficult, it was a foregone conclusion that Middlesex would win in an innings unless Mr. Woods or Mr. Palairet played as they can sometimes play under difficulties. But Mr. W oods did nothing, and. Mr. Palairet was unable to bat. For the sake of Rawlin, who has done so much for Middlesex, it was a great pity that the match did not last until the third day, but he will receive a very substantial reward for his services. M id d le se x . A . E. Stoddart, st Wickham, b Robsonl21 H. B. Hayman, b Tyler 22 R. S. Lucas, c Smith, b Tyler ................... 7 Rawlin, c and b Tyler 0 Sir T. C. O’Brien, c Palairet, b Robson... 18 G. MacGregor, c and b Tyler............................. 52 A . J. Webbe, not out 79 S o m erset . First innings. Smith (D.), c Hearne, b Phillips ..........................62 G. Fowler, b H earne...........56 L. C. H. Palairet, b Phillips 5 W . N. Roe,b Phillips.......... 5 Capt, Hedley, b Heame ... 1 S. M. J. Woods, c Thornton b Phillips .......................... 9 Y. T. Hill, b H ea m e........... 6 Robson,cStoddart,b Heame 2 Nichols, b Heame ........... 6 Tyler, not out ...................14 Rev. A . P. Wickham, st MacGregor, b Heame ... 5 Byes ................. 8 Total ...179 M id d le s e x . O. M. R. W . Tyler ... 59 8 183 5 [Nichols.. Woods ... 21 12 46 0 Robson. Hedley .. 15 6 37 0 IFowler . Dr. G. Thornton, lbw, b N ichols................... Phillips, b Tyler Hearne (J. T.),c W ick­ ham, b Nichols H.R. Bromley-Daven­ port, b Fowler B 3, lb 3, w 2 ... Total ...i Second innings. b Heame ...........15 b Hearne ........... 2 absent.................. 0 c MacGregor, b Phillips ........... c Rawlin, b Phil­ lips .................. c and b Heame .. 0 b Phillips ........... c MacGregor, b Hearne ........... b Heame ........... 2 not out ...........10 b Heame ........... 0 Byes ........... 5 Total ...106 O. M. R. W . 30 13 60 2 24 8 52 2 •2 0 0 1 11 Woods and Robson bowled one wide each. Hearne ... 34 Phillips ... 20 Rawlin ... 8 - H.Davenport 5 S om erset. O. M. R. W . 15 47 6 ... 4 76 4 ... 2 26 0 0 22 0 O. M. R. W. 17*3 2 44 6 17 3 57 3 field to try their hands on. Nevertheless, when the score was only moderate six wickets were down. At this period of the game W . G. was joined by Mr. Thomas, and the score went up without ceasing, until the last over of the day, when Mr. Thomas was out for 109. W . G. had by this time passed his second hundred. On Tuesday he could get no one to stay with him, and carried his bat for 243 out of a total of 463. In this long innings Butt gave no byes, and there were only two extras of any kind. It is a sad thing to have to go in against a score of over 450, and often a side breaks down entirely in such a case. A t first, it looked as if Sussex would ao this, for Bean, K. S. Ranjitsinhji, and Mr. Newham only made ten between them. Nevertheless a very respectable score was made, although it was not big enough to savethe follow-on. Mr. Murdoch and Marlow played sound cricket. In the follow-on, Sussex gave a startling example of the way in which to play an up­ hill game. A famous stand was made by Bean and Marlow, who were not separated until the score was 211. After this K. S. Ranjitsinhji, Mr. Murdoch, and Mr. Newham all played splendidly, and with the total at 420 for only three wickets Mr. Murdoch was able to declare the innings, leaving Gloucestershire an hour and a quarter in which to make 204. As it happened the wickets fell rapidly, and Sussex nearly scored a win. G loucestershire . First innings. Second innings. W . G. Grace, not o u t...........243 b Collins ........... 3 Wrathall, c Bean, b Parris 43 st Butt, b Tate ... 13 W . M. Hemingway, c Mur­ doch, b C ollm s.................. Board, c Ranjitsinhji, b Collins.................................. C. L. Townsend, b Parris H. S. Goodwin, b Collins C. O. Sewell, b Tate ... C. L. Thomas, b Tate. S. de Winton, c Collins, b Tate ................. Murch, b Tate Roberts, c Bean, b Collins Leg-byes ................... GLOUCESTERSHIRE v. SUSSEX. Played at Brighton on May 25, 26 and 27. Drawn. So popular has the W hit Monday match with Gloucestershire become at Brighton, that it was not surprising that from nine to ten thousand people were present. No doubt the great majority of them would have preferred to see Sussex win the toss, but they settled down to watch W . G. bat with a great deal of pleasure. And W . G. was in splendid form. All the bowling seemed easy to him, and it did not take him long to get to the bottom of it. Wrathall was also in good form, and it must have been rather with relief than surprise that the Sussex men saw him out for 43—72 for the first wicket. When he went the bowlers began to make headway among the other batsmen, and if only they had succeeded in disposing of W . G. they might have been able to look back with pleasure on their day’s work. W . G., however, could not be induced to hit at the wrong ball or to make a mistake at all. He had given a very difficult chance when his score was only twelve, but there were no others for the 1 cMarlow.bCollins 12 c and b Collins ... not out.................. ... 11 ... 10 ... 19 b Tate .. .. .109 b Tate .. 10 b Killick 4 Tptal ...463 S u ssex . First Innings. Bean (G.), c Hemingway, b Grace .................................. 2 Marlow, c Murch, b Town­ send ..................................61 K . S. Ranjitsinhji, c W ra­ thall, b Roberts........... ... 7 W . L. Murdoch, b Murch ... 47 W . Newham, b Murch ... 1 G. Brann, b Townsend ... 26 A.Collins,c Roberts,b Murch 21 Parris, c Boftrd, b Townsend 10 Killick, b M u rch ..................... 25 Butt, not out............................. 34 Tate, lbw, b Murch ..............11 Byes ........................... 1 B 7, lb 1 ... 8 Total ............. 88 Second innings. c Board, b Murch 113 c Grace, b Towns­ end ....................108 not out...................114 cRoberts,bMurch 23 not out.....................57 Extras ... 5 Total.................. 246 Total (3 wkts) *420 * Innings declared closed. G lo u c e s te r s h ir e . Tate Killick... Collins... Parris ... Brann ... Bean ... First innings. O. M. R. W . 49 10 102 25 4 86 43 4 8 113 23 4 58 19 2 56 21 3 46 Second innings. O. M. R. W . 17 11 1-1 1 15 8 26 3 0 1 54 3 Grace ... Roberts Townsend Murch ... S u ssex . First innings. O. M. R. W . 16 3 51 1 .. 17 3 37 1 .. 27 3 95 3 .. 23*2 8 62 5 ., Wrathall .. Second innings. O. M.R. W . 49 17 114 0 ... 42 4 149 1 ... 66 23 133 2 ... 3 0 19 0 LANCASHIRE v. KENT. Played at Old Trafford on May 25, 26 and 27. Lancashire won by 3 wickets. Disappointed of their usual Whit-Monday match with Yorkshire, the Lancashire eleven did a very good thing in arranging for Kent to visit them, and a large holiday crowd came to see the match. The recent performances of the home team, except in the Sussex match, had not been such as to greatly encourage their friends, either in batting or bowling, and after losing the toss against Kent they could not have been dissatisfied in getting them out for 254, Mr. Simpson, who made an unsuccessful debut for Kent a short time ago, played fine cricket for 94, and Mr. Weigall, who is in good form this season, made over 50. The rest did very little. Notwithstanding the absence of Martin, owing to the sad loss of his mother, the Kent bowling was good enough to dispose of Lanca*