Cricket 1896

34U CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A ug . 6, 1896 SOMERSET v. MIDDLESEX. Played at Taunton on August 3, 4 and 5. Drawn. A t the end of the second day’s play in this match, there was very little to choose between the two teams, f'»r with one wicket down in their second innings, Somerset were 21 runs to the good. Mr. Challen made his reappearance in the Somerset leam and scored 51, and five others made 20 or more in the first innings. Air. Wells bowled with success against the tail. The beginning of the Middlesex batting was unpromising, but Hawlin and Sir T. C. O’Brien made the first long stan 1, and afterwards Mr. Webbe, Mr. Davenp >rt and J. T. Hearne kept up the scoring. Mr. L. C. H. Palairet was well in with 46when stumps were drawn. On Wednesday the fortunes of the game fluctuated considerably, and at the end neither side could claim an advantage. Mr. Itoe played a great innings. S om erset . First innings. Second innings. L. C. H. Talairet, c Bray, b P h illips........................35 b Rawlin ...........63 J. B. Challen, b Hearne ... 51 c Bray, b Hearne 2 It. C. N. Palairet,c Stoddart, b Hearne ........................20 c Bray, b Hearne 27 W. N. Roe, b Phillips........ 13 cBray, b Hearne 106 Nichols, run o u t................. 7 c Wells, bHearne 3 S. M. J. Woods, c Webbe, b Hearne................. Robson, not out .......... G. Fowler, lbw, b Wells Capt. Hedley, b Wells A. E. Newton, b Wells Tyler, b H earne.......... Extras................. T otal.......... ... 248 M id d lesex . First innings. J. Douglas, c R. Palairet, b Tyler ............................... 15 R. S. Lucas, b Nichols ... 5 C. M. Wells, c R. Palairet, b Nichols ........................ 7 A. E. Stoddart, c Woods, b Tyler ................................... 19 Bawlin, b Tyler ................. 50 Sir T. C. O’Brien, run out .. 50 A. J. Webbe, b Woods 33 H. R. Bromley-Davenport, b Hedley ........................38 Hearne (J. T.), c Robson, b Nichols............................... 52 E. H. Bray, c Tyler, b Hed­ ley..........................................12 Phillips, not o u t................. 0 B 8, lb 1, w 1 .............10 c O’Brien, b Phil­ lips ................. 4 c Wells, b Hearne 17 c Rawlin, b Phil­ lips ................. I c Bray, b Rawlin 34 run out .......... 0 not out .......... 0 Extras.......... 0 Total ...257 Second innings. b Hedley .......... 4 c L. Palairet, b Nichols .......... 1 c Woods, b Tyler 24 not out ..........18 b L. Palairet ... 25 b Fowler ..........: Total .................289 S om erset . First innings. O. "" Hearne . Rawlin . Phillips . Wells ..........12 Stoddart.......... 5 M. R. W. 50 24 95 4 ... 22 10 43 0 ... 40 15 79 2 ... 5 22 3 ... 2 9 0 ... M id d le se x . not out .......... 0 Extras.......... 0 Total ...100 Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 52-2 19 100 5 ... 19 6 42 2 ... 41 9 81 2 ... 10 3 31 0 ... 1 0 3 0 O. M. R. W. O. Tyler ... ... 46 13 123 3 .......... 9 Nichols ... ... 42*2 16 84 3 .......... 11 Woods ... ... 9 0 36 1 .......... Hedley ... ... 13 5 25 2 .......... 19 Robson .. ... 4 2 11 0 .......... 4 Palairet... .. 9 Fowler.......... Robson bowled a wide. 5 THE CANTERBURY WEEK. KENT v. LANCASHIRE. Played at Canterbury on August 3, 4 and 5. Drawn. For the Week Kent hud arranged two most interesting matches. They began well by winning the tcss against Lancashire, and, what is of more impoitance, made a fine score. It is but natural that the Kentish people, who formed the usual good- natured crowd which is to be seen during the Canterbury Week, should have been delighted to see their own team make runs, but they would have applauded the Lancashire men just as freely; for your Kentish man is a rare sportsman. It would be hardly possible to pick [out three men in the world who would, if they all came off in batting on the S-ime day, give greater delight to spectators than Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Marchant, and Mr. Mason, for they all play cricket of the most attractive kind. On the Canterbury ground the boundary is small, and when men like these are in the ball seems to be reach­ ing it about twice in every over. The Kent innings lasted all day, and when stumps were drawn nine wickets were down. Mr. Ma->on made 115 in just over three hours and a half, and Mr. Marchant 59 in an hour and a half. But the great innings of the day was that of Mr. Rashleigh, who only required an hour and forty minutes in which to make 109. It cannot be said that the Lancashire batting in their first innings was disappointing, for some very fine cricket was played by Ward, Mr. MacLaren, Sugg, and Briggs; but, somehow or another, the team seemed capable of doing better things. A follow on was necessitated, and Mr. MacLaren and Ward batted so well that they kept up their wickets until stumps were drawn with the total at 57. There was yet a chance that Lancashire might not lose if Mr.Mac- Laren could manage to get beyond the 40 or 50 which seems to be his limit this year, and he succeeded in doing this very easily. Lancashire made a lot of runs, but it was useless to declare, and Mr. MacLaren therefore found time to pass his second hundred—his best performance this year, and a great one. K en t . F. Marchant, b Mold 54 Wright (W.), b Mold 11 Martin, not out.......... 9 E. B. Shine, c Mac- Laren, b Mold ... 2 Huish (F.H.), run out 11 B 1, lb 3 .......... 4 Total.. J. R. Mason, c Bards­ well, b Briggs...........115 Hearne (A.), c Ward, b Baker ....................43 W.H.Patterson,b Mold 3 C. J. Burnup, c Bards­ well, b Briggs.............22 Rev. W. Rashleigh, c and b Briggs ...........1C9 G. J. Y. Weigall, b Briggs .................. 2 L an cash ire . First innings. Second innings. E.Rowley.cMason, b Martin 4 b Shine.................20 Ward (A.), lbw, b Wright 20 c Huish, b Mason 29 A. C. MacLaren, c Weigall, b Wright ..................... 31 not out.. Tyldesley, c Bumup, b Wright ..................... 12 ...385 ...226 A. c Mason, b Hearne .......... c Shine, b Heame b Mason .......... (F. H.), c Martin, b Shine ............................. . 41 Baker, c and b Wright ... 7 G. R. Bardswell, c Huish, b Shine ............................29 c Marchant, Martin ... Briggs, c Huish, b Hearne 74 not ou t........ Smith (C.), run out ........ 0 Hallam, c and b Heame ... 13 Mold, not out ............... 0 Lb 3, w 3............... 6 Extras ... Total Briggs... Mold ... Hallam O. 65 53-2 20 . .. 237 K e n t . M. R. W. Total (6 wkts) 393 28 103 4 10 173 4 3 47 0 O. M. R. W. Baker ... 12 5 33 1 Bardswell 4 0 25 0 L a n cash ire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R.W. Wright ... 38 ]3 70 4 ... ... 41 13 a5 0 Martin ... 40 16 69 1 ... ... 32 11 52 1 Shine ... ... 16 4 57 2 ... ... 11 2 36 1 Hearne ... 17-1 8 24 2 ... . 31 12 63 2 Mason ... 4 0 11 0 ... ... 34 15 70 2 Patterson ... 15 3 39 0 Bumup... ... 5 0 16 0 Marchant ... 5 1 23 0 Shine bowled one wide and Wright two1wides. GLOUCESTERSHIRE v. SUSSEX. A REMARKABLE INNINGS BY DR. GRACE. Played at Bristol on August 3, 4 and 5. Gloucestershire won by an innings and 123 runs. In the first meeting between these two counties in Whitsun week, at Brighton, W. G. scored 243 not out, after winning the toss, but despite his fine innings, and another of 109by C. L. Thomas, Glouces­ tershire only escaped defeat by a very little indeed. In the return match W. G. again won the toss, and again, on a perfect wicket, made hay of the Sussex bowling, and again when the innings seemed nearly at an end, he found a partner who could make a long stand with him. At the end of the first day’s cricket he was not out 193, and only three wickets were down. Most of his runs were made in partnership with R. W . Rice, whom, despite his frequent failures, the Gloucestershire captain has always believed to be an excellent bat. Mr. Rice’s innings of 84 was one of the best he has ever played. On Tuesday, W . G. still kept calmly and steadily—but not too slowly-on his course, and though lie saw one after another of his team out for practically nothing, he at last had the satisfaction of seeing in S. A. P. Kitcat, a partner who could keep up his wicket. So the game went on for hours until at last, just after W . G. had passed his 300, he was bowled. It was a wonderful innings, and he has only twice exceeded this total. Kitcat carried his bat for a sound 77. Against such a for­ midable score as 551, Sussex began as well as could be expected: when stumps were drawn on Tuesday they had made 132for 3. Marlow played a beautiful innings of 57, but Killick and the captain only made small scores. K. S. Ranjitsinhji and W. Newham were not out, and they must have felt that a very great deal depended on how long they could keep together on the following morning. The Prince was soon out and a follow on was necessary. Newham played very fine cricket for 63 not out. The second innings «as only remarkable for a good 5* by Ranjitsinhji. G lou cestersh ire . W. G. Grace, sen., b C. O. H. Sewell, b Collins ................ 301 Parris ................. 4 W. G. Grace, jun., b G. L. Jessop, lbw, b Hartley ................. 1 Parris ................. 2 R. W. Bice, c Parris, Board, c and b Parris 0 b Ranjitsinhji 81 S. A. P. Kitcat, not W. McG. Hemingway, out ........................ 77 c Killick, b Hartley 30 Roberts, c Parris, b C. L. Townsend, c and Killick ................. 2 b Tate ................. 30 B 17, lb 3 ........ 20 Wrathall, c Parris, b — T a te ........................ 0 Total ..........551 S u ssex . Firat innings. Marlow, c Hemingway, b Townsend .......................57 Killick, b Jessop.................13 K.S. Ranjitsinhji, b Roberts 38 W.L.Murdoch, b Townsend 12 W. Newham, not out..........63 Bean (G.), c Jessop, b Townsend........................ 8 A. Collins, c and b Roberts 23 J. C. Hartley, c Grace, sen., b Roberts ........................ 0 b Grace Parris, c Townsend, b Grace, sen.......................... 1 Tate, b Roberts ................. 4 R. W . Fox, b Roberts Extras.............. Second in n iD gs. c and b Townsend 21 b Jessop ..........20 c Grace, jun., b Jessop ......... 54 run out .......... 9 lbw, b Grace, sen. 11 c Wrathall, Grace, sen. not out 6 14 0 ... 22 ...250 b Roberts .......... 4 lbw, b Roberts ... 30 lbw, b Townsend 0 Extras.......... 9 Tate Hartley Collins.. Parris .. Total... G lou cestersh ire , O . M . R. W. 65 24 134 2 37 5 115 2 24 7 48 1 63 30 103 3 Total ...178 S ussex . First innings. O M. R. W. Killick Bean .. Ranjit­ sinhji 12 1 O. M. R. W. 322 11 57 1 13 4 34 0 40 1 Townsend Roberts ... 27 Jessop.......... 19 Grace, sen... 10 Grace, jun.. 4 Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 26-3 3 67 2 ... 24 10 14 7 2 40 2 7 50 5 ... 4 52 1 ... 3 30 1 .......... 19 11 23 3 0 8 0 .......... Townsend bowed one wide, and Roberts and Jessop each bowled three no-balls. FOREST HILL v . NORTHBROOK.-Played at Lee, on Monday August 3. F orest H il l . H, A. Hooke, b Goodall ... 13 b H igham .........11 C.Welchman,csub,bGoodall 14 runout................27 C. Phillips, c Willis, b C. Higham ........................ 8 c Smith, bGoodall 18 W. L. Pierce, c Higham, b Goodall ........................ 7 C. Rew, b Higham ......... 19 B. Batchelor, c Butler, b Goodall ................. 1 W. M. Bradley, b Higham 0 J. W . Pratt not out ..........11 b H igham .........17 A. H. Hume, c & b Goodall 2 cGoodall,bHigham 0 H. S. M. Rew, b Higham 7 v TT:-1 - R. Boyd, b Goodall .......... 4 Extras............................... 0 b Goodall ..........18 cButler,bHigham 0 c sub. b Willis ... 0 b Higham .......... 1 b Higham . not out Extras Total ... 86 Total ...111 N orthbrook . J. Dacres.c Pierce,b Bradley 0 W. D. Butler, b Welchman 0 C. Higham, run out .......... 1 c Pratt,b Bradley 7 H.Goodall, cPratt,b Bradley 0 b Welchman ... 12 F. Willis, c Hooker, b Welchman........................ 5 not out.............29 W. C. Collins, b Bradley ... 12 runout.............. 3 W. O. Willis, b Welchman 0 J. W . Knowles, Welchman............... A. Witton, b Bradley. W. Collins not out A. H. Smith,b Bradley E xtras..................... & b 0 0 31 37 . 13 not out... b Welchman Extras 15 0 13