Cricket 1896

A ug . 13, 1896. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 349 MIDDLESEX v. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Played at Clifton on August 6, 7 and 8. Gloucestershire won by six wickets. After their great victory over Sussex, Gloucester­ shire had to try to turn the tables on Middlesex, who at Lord’s had beaten them with very great ease. It was not an omen of victory that Middlesex won the toss, and when Mr. Stoddart and Mr. Douglas began to pile on the runs it looked as if history was going to repeat itself. But one can never be certain of Middlesex ; their batsmen are sometimes capable of anything, at other times, even on a perfect wicket, they are most disappointing. There seemed no reason why a very large score should not be made, but although after the first two batsmen had gone Rawlin, Sir T. C. O’Brien, Mr. Webbe, Hearne, and Mr. Lucas made runs, the total only came to 279, which was not enough to hold out much prospect of victory if the Doctor came off. But for once W.G. was got rid of very cheaply, and when Mr. Rice and Wrathall werealso disposed of for small scores things looked bad for Gloucestershire, for at the end of the day these three men were out for 48. Mr. Townsend and Mr. Hemingway improved matters a little, but it was left to the tail to put the Middlesex total in the shade. Mr. Sewell. Mr. Jessop, Mr. Champain, and Board, all did wonders, with the result that Glouces­ tershire had a lead of 54 on the first innings. When Middlesex went in again they began as badly as had Gloucestershire — in fact, worse — Mr. Stoddart, Mr. Douglas, Hearne, and Rawlin, only making 18 between them. At the close of the day, however, the score had been advanced by some fine play by Sir T. C. O’Brien, who was not out 49. On Saturday, Mr. Webbe, Sir Timothy, and Mr. Lucas, all played well, but if it had not been for rain there could have been no question that Gloucestershire would win pretty easily. As things turned out, they had to make 168 in a few minutes over two hours - a very difficult task, which they accomplished with half an hour to spare, thanks to some very resolute hitting by Mr. Jessop, Board, and Wrathall. M idd lesex . First innings. Second innings. A. E. Stoddart, c Rice, b Roberts ........................ 48 stBoard,b Towns­ end ................. 2 J. Douglas, ran out .......... 46 c Grace, jun., b Townsend 9 Hearne (J. T.), b Jessop ... 17 c Roberts, b Townsend 0 Rawlin, b Jessop................. 31 c Grace, sen., b Townsend 7 A. J. Webbe, c Hemingway, b Townsend ................. 15 c Champain, b Townsend 39 SirT.C.O’Brien.b Townsend 59 b Townsend 65 R. S. Lucas, o Grace, jun., b Townsend ................. 28 not out................. 63 C. M. Wells, b Jessop 9 st Board,bTowns- end ................. 20 H. R. Bromley-Davenport, b Jessop ........................ 4 c Hemingway, b Townsend 2 E. H. Bray, b Jessop.......... 6 b Roberts .......... 11 Phillips, not o u t................. 0 c Townsend, b Jessop .......... 1 B 9, lb 4, nb 3 .......... 16 B 9, lb 1, nb 2 12 Total ... ... ...279 Total ...231 G loucestershire . First innings. Second innings. W. G. Grace, sen., b Hearne 5 not out........... 6 R. W. Rice, c Davenport, b Heame...............................12 Wrathall, b Rawlin .......... 7 c Wells, bHeame 29 C. L. Townsend, b Heame 49 W . McG. Hemingway, b Hearne...............................24 cWebbe,bHearne 19 W. G. Grace, jun., lbw, b W e lls ...............................16 C. O. H. Sewell, c Stoddart, b Phillips ... .................88 notout.........24 G. L. Jessop, c Heame, b B.-Davenport .................41 c Webbe, b Phil­ lips 66 F. H. B. Champain, b Wells 53 Board, lbw, b Wells ......... 28 b Hearne .....20 Roberts, not o u t ................. 0 B 13, lb 3................... 17 B 4,lbl,n bl... 6 Total ..................343 Total (4wkts) 170 M idd lesex . First innings. O. M. R. W. Second innings. O. M. R. W . Townsend ... 31-2 8 93 3 ... ... 42 12 108 8 Roberts . 24 5 68 1 ... ... 62 1 20 1 Jessop......... . 28 13 52 5 ... ... 35 11 91 1 Grace, jun. .. 5 2 14 0 ... Grace, sen. ... 14 4 43 0 ... Jessop bowled five no-balls. G loucestershire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. Hearne .......... 46 16 138 4 .......... 17 2 79 3 Phillips .......... 23 5 68 1 .......... 8 1 35 1 Bawlin .......... 13 3 37 1 .......... 7 2 36 0 W ells............... 13-2 1 54 3 .......... Stoddart.......... 3 0 17 0 .......... Bromley- Davenport... 3 1 12 1 ........... 5 2 14 0 Davenport bowled one no-ball. YORKSHIRE v. HAMPSHIRE. Played at Harrogate on August 6 and 7. Yorkshire won by ten wickets. On a bowler’s wicket at Harrogate, Hampshire, in the absence of Soar who had strained himself, were much weaker than usual in bowling, and suffered accordingly. It was not to their advantage that they won the toss, for the wicket was always difficult. It will be remembered that in the first match between these two counties this season, Captain Wynyard made 268 for Hampshire, and that Yorkshire had the greatest difficulty in the world in making a draw. In the return match there was never any question of time, for with two or three exceptions the batsmen were unable to distinguish themselves at all. The exceptions were Mr. Ward, Mr. Lacey and Barton for Hampshire, and Brown, Hirst and Mr. Smith for Yorkshire. Perhaps the best innings of the match was the 44 of Mr. Lacey, for he was batting at a very critical period of Hampshire’s first innings and was opposed to some very difficult bowling, inasmuch as the Yorkshiremen, finding that they were easily gaining the upper hand, were at their very best. Brown’s 120 was also a very fine innings, but he had to cope with much less deadly bowling. Wainwright and Haigh, the former in the first innings and the latter in the second, proved altogether too good for the Hampshire batsmen. In the Yorkshire first innings Barton bowled with fair success. H am psh ire . First innings. Second innings. H. F. Ward, c Smith, b Peel ............................... 31 c Tunnicliffe, b P e e l................ 0 Barton, c Tunnicliffe, b Hirst ............................... £6 b Haigh ........ 34 Capt. Wynyard, c Haigh, b Wainwright .................... 15 c and b Haigh ... 27 Capt.Quinton,bWainwright 0 b Haigh ......... 13 Webb, c Hunter, b Wain­ wright ............................... 5 b Haigh .......... 1 F. E. Lacey, c Tunnicliffe, b Wainwright................. 44 c Hunter, b Haigh 31 E. C. Lee, c Tunnicliffe, b Peel ............................... 2 b Haigh .......... 1 A. A. Pillans, c Hunter, b Wainwright ................. 17 b Haigh .......... 4 D. A. Steele, c Hirst, b Wainwright ................. 26 c Wainwright, b Haigh ......... 0 Baldwin, not out.................. 6 not out.................. 7 B. B. Hitchcock, c Hunter, b W ainwright.................. 1 absent, i l l ........... 0 Leg Byes ................. 3 B 2, lb 1 ... 3 Total... ..176 Total ...121 Y orksh ire , Brown, J. T., c Wyn­ yard, b Barton ...120 Tunnicliffe, c Quinton, b Baldwin ......... 4 Denton, c Quinton, b Lee ........................ 7 Moorhouse, c Quinton. b Pillans . ........ Peel, c Quiaton, t Pillans ................. Hirst, c Lacey, t Baldwin 15 , 65 Wainwright, c Wyn­ yard, b Barton ... 7 E. Smith, c Wynyard, b Steele .................35 F. W. Milligan, c Lee, b B arton................. 4 Haigh, c Quinton, b Barton .......... ... 6 Hunter, not out ... 0 Lb 1, nb 1 ........... 2 Total Second innings Wainwright, not out, 7 ; F. W Milligan, not out, 25.—Total (no wicket), 32. H am psh ire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Peel .......... 31 12 44 2 ... ... 21 9 38 1 H aigh.......... 10 2 86 0 ... ... 19 8 35 8 Hirst .......... 15 4 28 1 ... ... 9 4 22 0 Smith .......... 1 0 11 0 ... Wainwright 26-4 6 55 7 ... 12 6 23 0 Baldwin L e e ........ Pillans .. Barton .. Steele Lacey Ward Y orkshire . First innings. O. M. R. W. 31 7 24 6 17 15 2 1 2 4 1 0 3 17 0 Lacey delivered one wide. 85 58 31 46 10-2 4 24 1 0 Second innings. O. M. R. W . 3 1 2 0 5 0 26 0 SUSSEX y. SOMERSET. Played at Taunton on August 6, 7 and 8. Drawn. It is not very often that Mr. Murdoch can manage to win the toss, and even when he does, his side often fails to take advantage of his good fortune; but at Taunton he had no reason to complain of the way in which his men conducted themselves at the wickets. After losing Marlow for 4, Sussex at once began to make rims with great rapidity, and by lunch time they had put on no less than 177. It is true that in doing this they had lost K. S. Kanjitsinhji, Mr. Fry and their captain, as well as Marlow, but each of them had played a fine innings, and, altogether, a good start had been made. The worst of the Sussex team is, that if the first few batsmen fail, the tail is likely to come a cropper, or at least to only give a moderate display of batting. But at Taunton, Killick went in later than in recent matches, and as neither he nor his partner Mr. Newham showed the least disposition to get out, there were hopes of a fairly good score, hopes which before the end of the day had been realized. For when stumps were drawn, the total was 395, and only onemore wicket - that of Mr. Newham— had been lost. Mr. Newham played one of his usual perfect innings, and only just missed his hundred. Killick was not out 116, his second hundred in county cricket, and Bean, not out, 41. The prospect for the morrow was not favourable for Somerset, and it was not until past three o’clock that the innings closed. Killick was the last man out. His score of 191 was made in six hours and ten minutes, the last part of his innings being much slower than the first; it was a very fine display of sound cricket, and as Killick is still very young, it would seem that almost anything is possible to him in the future. The Somerset innings was no less remarkable than that of Sussex. Mr. Challen was at once out, but for the rest of the day the two Palairets were making hay of the Sussex bowling, and when stumps were drawn, the total was 181 for one wicket—L. C. H. not out 109, andR. C. N. not out 69. On Saturday, L. C. H. increased his score to 154—a perfect innings, and his brother continued to play wonderfully good cricket until he had made 156. It was obvious that the match must end in a draw, and there was little interest in the rest of the play, which was only remarkable for a fine innings by Mr. Roe, who for the second time this year was dis­ appointed of his hundred when it seemed almost within his grasp. For rain came down and prevented play just before 5 o’clock. A previous storm in the middle of the.day had handicapped the Sussex bowlers considerably. S u ssex . Marlow, c Hill, b Tyler 4 C. B. Fry, b L. Palairet 46 K. S. Ranjitsinhji, b Hedley ................ 54 W.L.Murdoch,cWick- ham,b Nichols......... 21 W.Newham,lbw,b Hill 92 Killick, c Wickham, b Woods .................191 Bean, b Hedley..........42 A. E. Collins, c R. Palairet, b Woods.. 6 J. C. Hartley,b Hedley 38 Tate, b Robson..........38 R. W . Fox, not out... 4 B10, lb 10, w 3... 23 Total ..........559 L. C. H. Palairet, c M. J. Woods, Bean, b Killick ...154 J. B. Challen, b Tate 1 R. C. N. Palairet, c Collins, b Hartley ...156 W . N. Roe, not out ... 85 Robson, c Killick, b Hartley ... Collins, b Hartley... 3 Y. T. Hill, c Fox, b Fry ...................... 1 Capt. Hedley, not out 27 B 5, lb 2, nb 3 ... 10 ... 39 Total (6 wkts) 476 S u ssex . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. .28 6 73 1 | L . Palairet 22 8 109 1 .14 7 31 1 Robson ... 31 16 64 1 33 3 7 74 2 |H ill............. 13 4 39 1 54 11146 3 j Nichols, Woods, and Hedley each bowled a wide. S om erset . O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . 39 9153 II Collins ... 21 9 50 0 31 6 1011 Killick ... 8 1 23 1 43 6121 3 I Bean............ 4 0 18 0 Fry bowled three no-balls. Tyler Nichols Woods Hedley Fry ... Tate ... Hartley CHARLTON PARK v. LESSNESS PARK.—Played at Charlton Park on August 8. C h arlton P a r k . A. J. Newson, not out 103 Capt. McCanlis, st Baiss, b Cannon ... 13 H. C. Sargent, b Bevis 36 A. F. Lovey, not out , B 4, lb 3 ... . 30 7 Total H. C. Ogilvy, S. R. Sargent, A. J. Mascall, F. D. Gibbes, S. Thomas, J. Hunter, and A, G. Newsom did not bat. * Innings declared closed. L essness P a r k . J. Shuter, not out F. F. Johnson, Ogilvy .......... R. S. H. Baiss, not out 36 .............. 6 Total ..........134 T. G. Cannon, T. Bevis, Whitby, Greenway, West, Chater, Fooks, and Graham did not bat.