Cricket 1896

S e p t . 3, 1896. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 397 YORKSHIRE v. A SOUTH OF ENG­ LAND XI. THE SCARBOROUGH FESTIVAL. Played at Scarborough on August 27, 28 and 29. Yorkshire won by five wickets. The eleven which played for the South of England was byno means representative, for Surrey, Somerset, Kent, Middlesex, Sussex, and Hampshire were all eD gaged in county m atches ; so that there only remained Gloucestershire and Essex to draw upon. Nevertheless, despite the absence of W.G., a fairly strong team was got together; fortunately enough, Mr. Spofforth was available. It was a bowlers match from beginning to end, and the onlyreally good stand was made in the first innings of the South by Mr. Sewell and Mr. Perrin, of whom the former scored much the faster. No play was possible on the first day, but on the second each side managed to get throughaninnings. While Mr. SewellandMr. Perrin were together a fairly large score seemed likely to be made by the South, who went in first, but the tail broke down completely against the bowling of Hirst and Denton. When Yorkshire went inMr. Spofforth had a great triumph with the ball; hestillseems able to hold his own against nearly all comers, and it was a great feat to take six wickets for 40 in 25 overs and a ball. With a lead of £6, the South of England eleven did but little on the last dayof the match, only Mr. Rice, Mr. Jessop, and Board making double figures. Peel was rem arkably successful with the ball, taking eight wickets for 27. Yorkshire had to make 103 to win, not altogether a ligh t task ; but as nearly all th e men who batted made a few runs, th e issuewas neverindoubt. Mr. Spofforth again bowled well. S o u th o f E n g la n d XI. First innings. R. W . Rice, b Hirst .......... Carpenter, c Moorhouse, b Wainwright ................. C. 0. H. Sewell, c Hirst, b Denton .................... 79 P. Perrin, not out............. 36 C. McGahey, b Denton ... 0 G. L. Jessop, c Wainwright, b Denton ....................... 5 F. G. Bull, b Denton........ o Board, b Hirst ............... 9 C. I. Thornton, b Hirst ... 1 Mead, b Denton ................ 7 F. R. Spofforth, b Hirst ... 0 B 8. lb 3 ..............11 Second innings, b Hirst.................23 c Wainwright, b Peel................. 6 c Tunnicliffe, b Peel................. 9 lbw, b Peel.......... 3 st Hunter, b Peel 1 c Wainwright, Peel............... lbw, b Peel... . not out.............. b Hirst ... . c Hirst, b Peel . c Smith, b Peel., B 1, lb 1 Total Total ... 76 Y orksh ire . First innings. Lord Hawke, b Spofforth ... 20 Brown, b Spofforth ..........11 Tunnicliffe, b Spofforth ... 0 E. Smith, b Bull................. 3 Denton, ht wkt, b Bull ... 4 Peel, not out........................33 Hirst, c Board, b Spofforth 2 Wainwright, c Sewell, b Spofforth ........................ 2 Moorhouse, run out ..........33 Mounsey, b Bull................. 2 Hunter, c Bull, b Spofforth 10 Byes ........................15 Second innings. b Spofforth..........li lbw, b Bull......... 2: st Board, b Spof­ forth.................li c Sewell, b Spof­ forth ................ 1 b Bull................. ' not out................. ' not out................. 1 J Total B 9,1b4,wl,nbl 15 ...135 Total (5wkts.) 103 S outh of E n gland . First innings. O. M. R. W. Peel .......... 12 6 23 0 Wainwright 18 4 43 1 Hirst .......... 174 8 20 4 Smith .......... 7 2 10 0 Brown.......... 5 1 12 0 Denton 12 1 42 5 Bull ... Spofforth Mead ... Y o r k s h ir e . First innings. O. M. R. W. ....... 17 3 58 3 ... 25-1 8 40 6 ... 9 2 22 0 ... Second innings. O. M.R. W. .1 5 6 27 8 6 1 17 0 . 9 0 30 2 Second innings. O. M. R. W. .1 3 4 28 2 161 2 42 3 . 3 0 18 Spofforth bowled one wide and one no-ball. SURREY v. SOMERSET. Played at Taunton on August 27 and 28. Somerset won by 9 wickets. At the end of the first day’s cricket Surrey had the no inconsiderable lead of exactly 100 runs and had only two more Somerset men to gft out; asthewicket was all infavour of the bowlers, JSomerset had.little to hope for in the remaining stages of the match. It is curious that the only Surrey batsman who made a bigfscorewasW. W. Read, who has hardlybeenseenat his best this season. His innings of 51 seemed likely to turn the match very much in favour of his side., Baldwin and Wood also did well. Robson was the most successful of the Somerset bowlers, taking five wicke's for 47. Hayward and Richardson proved quite too good for Somerset who at the close of the day had lost 8 wickets for 72. Just before the end of the day Richardson strained himself and was unable to take any further part in the game, which was a blow from which Surrey did not recover. On the next morningTylerand V. T. Hill, the notcuts, made an extraordinary stand which completely altered the appearance of the game. Tyler made 66and Hill 61. Both played vigorous cricket, and both had a little luck, but they had the satisfaction of bringing the score to 182 before they were separated, putting on 127 during their partnership for the ninth wicket. The last wicket fell without any addition to the score of which the absence of Richardson was very severely felt during the long partnership; the other bowlers seemed to troublethebatsmenbutlittle. Still, Surrey wereonly tenrunsbehind, and onthewhole had rather the best of the game, for Somerset had to bat last. But there was a breakdown in the batting, the great batsmen of the team failing one after the other; Hayes, however, succeeded in keeping up his wicket to the end, when he was not out 29. This, more than any of his former innings, proved what a really good manhe is. The innings closed for 69, CaptainHedley getting most of the wickets. It was thought likely that Somerset, although they only had to make 60 to win, would have to work very hard before they could gain the victory, but a^ it happened L. C. H. Palairet and Captain Hedley practically knocked off the runs for the firstwicket. Theservices of Richardsonwere again badlymissed. S u rrey . First innings. Abel, cNichols, b Tyler ... 13 Brockwell, c and b Hedley 12 Hayward,c Woods,b Robson 16 Baldwin, c Hill, b Robson 22 Hayes, c and b Woods ... 0 K.J.Key,c Woods, b Robson 9 W. W. Read, c and b Tyler 51 Henderson, c Bill, b Robson 2 Lohmann,cWoods,b Robson 1 Wood, st Newton, b Tyler 27 Richardson, not out .......... 5 B 9, lb 2 ..............11 172 Total Second innings, c and b Hedley... c and b Hedley... cCh Allen, bWoods cNichols,bHedley notout................. cChallen,bWoods b Woods .......... b Hedley ......... c Hill, b Robson 10 b Hedley .......... 1 b Hedley ......... 0 B 4, lb 2, w 1 7 Total..........69 S om erset. First innings. L. C. H. Palairet. b Hayward.................20 Capt.Hedley,c Woods, b Richardson.......... 1 R. C. N. Palairet, b Richardson ..........10 W. N. Roe, b Hayward 3 Robson, b Hayward ... 6 S.M.J.Woods,cBrock- well, b Hayward ... 0 Second innings: L. C. H. Palairet, b Hayes, 36; Capt. Hedley, not out, 24; R. C. N. Palairet, not out, 0 ; Extras, 0.—Total (I wkt.) 60. J. B. Challen, b Richardson .......... 2 V. T. Hill, b Hayward 61 Nichols, b Hayward... 6 Tyler, b Lohmann ... 66 A. E. Newton, notout 0 B 5, lb 2 .......... 7 Total ...182 S u rrey . First innings. O. M. R. W. Tyler ... Hedley ... Robson... Woods ... Nichols... 15 3 2 47 16 4 39 28 10 47 19 11 26 2 1 2 3 ... 1 ... 5 ... 1 ... 0 ... Second innings. O. M. R. W . ,. 17-2 8 26 6 , . 7 3 17 1 . 10 3 19 3 Woods bowled a wide. Richardson . Hayward Lohmann . Abel ... . Brockwell . S om erset First innings. O. M. R. W. 13 5 23 3 , 27-3 10 9 3 Second innings. O. M. R. W . . , 6 ... 0 39 1 ... 0 29 0 ... 1 14 0 ... 1 17 0 27 2 0 12 Read 1 01 MIDDLESEX v. KENT. Played at Lord’s on August 27, 28 and 29. Middlesex won by 149 runs. The absence of Mr. Patterson, Lord Harris, and Wright greatly weakened the Kent team; on the otherhand Sir T. C. O’Brienand Mr. Webbe couldnot appear for Middlesex. Not a little depended on the winning of the toss, and although Middlesex made a very bad beginning, losing Mr. Stoddart and Mr. Douglas very quickly, some very good batting was seen when Mr. Warner and Mr. Bromley-Davenport were in. On the whole, however, the batting was not at all interesting. The samemay be said of the Kent batting, although the total approached nearly to that of Middlesex. By far the btst innings was played by Mr. Rashleigh, who, in making his 70, took much longer time than usual. The feature of the match was the very fine stand made by Mr. Stoddart and Mr. Douglas for the first wicket in the Middlesex second innings. Mr. Stoddart played what was perhaps hisbest innings thisyear, making 127; during the last fortnight he has been quite the Stoddart of two or three years ago. After this long stand, which produced 166 runs, the bowlers began to gain the upper hand, and the innings soon closed. Kent had to make 313. There was very little chance that they could do this, and they never looked like coming off victorious ; but Mr. Burnup played fine cricket, and a good stand was made by Mr. Stewart and Mr. Livesay. The successful bowlers in the match were Heame, 12 for 137; Martin, 8 for 130, and Mr. Bradley, 10 for 196. M id d le s e x . First innings. J. Douglas, c Huish, b Bradley ........................ 2 A. E. Stoddart, c sub., b Martin............................... 0 F. G. J. Ford, b Bradley ... 10 Rawlin, c Uradley, b Martin 21 P. F. Warner, b Hearne ... 74 H. R. Bromley-Davenport, b Bradley ........................55 C. M. Wells, c Huish, b Martin............................... 0 R. W . Nicholls, not out ... 25 C. A. Beldam, c Huish, b Bradley ........................ 8 E.H.Bray, cEasby, bMartin 4 Hearne (J. T.), b Bradley... 1 Lb 4, nb 2 .......... 6 Total... ...206 Second innings, lbw, b Mason ... (5 c nuisli, b 'Brad­ ley ... *..........127 b Bradley ..........19 b Martin ......... l b Bradley ..........25 c Rashleigh, b Martin .......... 7 b Bradley ... ... 2 c and b Martin ... 9 notout.................11 cMason, bMartin 17 b Bradley .......... 0 Leg-byes... 4 Total ...287 K ent . First innings. J. R. Mason, c Stoddart, b Hearne..................... . ... 22 Hearne (Alec), c Stoddart, b Hearne ........................ C. J. Burnup, c Wells, b Hearne.............................. Rev. W . Rashleigh, c Douglas, b Wells .......... F. Marchant, c Douglas, b B.-Davenport .................10 R. O’H. Livesay, run out... 1 H. C. Stewart, b Beldam ... 24 Easby, not out ................. 5 Martin, c Ford, b Hearne ... 0 Huish, lbw, b Wells .......... 0 W. M. Bradley, b Hearne... 1 Lb 3, w 1.......... 4 Second innings. c Stoddart, b Hearne ..........14 b Rawlin .......... 5 c and b Hearne .. 35 b Hearne ..........19 c Stoidart, b Hearne ........ b B.-Davenport b Hearne .......... b B.-Davenport not out................. c Bray, b Hearne b Hearne .......... Leg-bye Total... .. 181 Bradley .. Martin Hearne(A Mason M id d le s e x , First innings. O. M. R. W . 31-1 12 81 29 9 4 16 6 50 41 1 28 .......... 11 .......... 13 Stewart- 4 Burnup 3 Marchant 1 Total ...163 Second innings. O. M. R. W. 361 7 115 5 9 80 4 3 27 0 5 31 1 0 10 0 0 16 0 0 4 0 Bradley delivered two no-balls. K ent . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. Hearne ... 49 1 27 635 ............ 35 4 15 74 7 Rawlin ... 18 7 270 ............ 8 1 23 1 Wells ... 37 16 482 ............ 17 6 30 0 B.-Dav’np’rt 6 0 251 ............ 10 1 35 2 Beldam ... 5 1 141 ............ Bromley-Davenport bowled one wide.