Cricket 1897

234 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J une 24, 1897. T H E PHILADELPHIANS. THE SUSSEX M ATCH— (FOURTH OF THE TO U R ). Played, at Brighton on June 17 and 18. Philadelphians won by 8 wickets. So far, the Philadelphians have been greatly ban- dicapped by the weather, but they seemto be getting used to trying conditions,and, although some of their best men have not yet got into form, the outlook is much more promising. Their bowlers, who have been “ damned with faint praise,” have accomplished a feat on a good •wicket of which they may well be proud ; they disposed of Sussexinthefirst innings for 46, Mr. Brann alone succeeding in getting into double figures. The visitors had the opportunity of batting first on an excellent wicket, and after losing Mr. Pat­ terson and Mr. Wood began to put on runs. Mr. Lester was again in fine form, and Mr. Biddle batted well. For the fourth wicket Mr. Lester and Mr. King put on 109and all seemedwell. But there was such an unexpected collapseafterwards that the total which was oncesopromising was notat all encourag­ ing. What was a matter of 216 runs to the Sussex batsmen against bowling which was considered poor at the best ? But when Sussexwent in theymet with a remarkable surprise. They could do absolutely nothing with Mr. King, who curled in the air, and neither could they play Mr. Cregar. They were out for 46 in less than an hour, and had to follow on, losing awicket for 12before stumpsweredrawn. On the second day they, of course, did better, but not as well as might have been expected. Ranjitsinhji played one of his beautiful innings, and Mr. Brann kept up his consistently good form, while Mr. New­ ham, who has been disappointing this year, at last came out of his shell; it is to be hoped he will now g o on and prosper. In the end the Philadelphians ad to make 83, and thanks to good cricket by Mr. Wood and Mr. Lester this was soon done. Mr. Pat­ terson again failed, but hewill doubtless before long give an exhibition of the fine batting for which he is sofamous in America. KENT v. NOTTS. Played at Gravesend on June 17, 18 and 19. Drawn. In this match Notts made one of the best up-hill fights on record. On Thursday Kent were batting nearly all day on an easy wicket, scoring no lessthan 406. Against this Notts were only able toput on 36 for the loss of four wickets beforeplay ended, sothat they were in evenaworse position than Lancashire in the Surrey match at the end of the first day. The Kentbattingwasremarkably good. Mr. Bumup once more showedthat heis one of thefewmodern players who can do as well for their county as for their University ; his 108which was made in an hour and three quarters was in every way a sound innings. Mr. Mason andMr. Livesay werealso in great form, while Martin surpassed himself by getting within ten of his hundred. On Friday Notts began their apparently hopeless task with only six wickets in hand. What theywould have doneif Mr. Dixon had got out atoncecaneasilybeimagined, butfortunately for his side he played the most brilliant cricket, and finally retired with a score of 102; hewas batting for three hours and five minutes. During this innings the bowlers had a great advantage ; Mr. Mason was particularly successful. Notts followed on in a minority of 238. So well did they begin that when stumps were drawn they had knocked off 174of the arrears for the lossofMr. A. O. Joneswho had played a splendid innings of 75. Shrewsbury was within measurable distance of his hundred, and Gunn had got into his stride. Unfortunately Shrewsbury was unable to continuehis innings on Saturday morning, but despite this handicap, the Notts men set about their work without being discouraged, and at the end of the day had given Kent a long and trying days’s fielding. For thesecond timeinthematchMr. Dixon played superb cricket, and it was a great pity that he just missed his hundred. He was backed up byPike, Dench, and aboveall by Attewell,whowhentheKent bowlingwas completelyworn out made suchgood use of his opportunities that he put on no less than 102. G. S. Paterson, c Butt, b Bland........ 4 A. M. Wood, b Tate... 10 J. A. Lester, b Tate ... 92 L. Biddle, c Butt, b Tate .............. ... 21 J. B. King, c Ranjit­ sinhji, b Tate........ 58 C. Coates, jun., b Tate 4 F. W. Ralston, b Tate 13 P h ila d e lph ia n s . H. L. Clark, lbw, b Bland ............... H. P. Baily, c Bean, b Tate ............... E. M. Cregar, cButt, b Bland ............... P. H. Clark, not out Leg-byes ........ Total 0 0 4 216 Second innings: G. S. Patterson, b Bland, 4 ; A. M. Wood, b Tate, 4 2 ; J. A. Lester, not out, 3 4 ; L. Biddle, not out, 1; Leg-byes, 2 .— Total (2 wkts), 83. First innings. W. L. Murdoch, b King ... Marlow, cP. Clark, b King K. S. Ranjitsinhji, b King G. Brann, b King ........ 1 W. Newham, c Biddle, b P. Clark ........................... Vine, b King..................... Killick, c Ralston, b Cregar Bean, not out ............... Butt, b King..................... Tate, b King..................... Bland, cBiddle, b Cregar... B 1, w 2 ..................... Second innings, csub., b King ... b Baily...............1 cH.,bP. Clark 7 cWood, b King 4 b Bang...............6 c Patterson, b Cregar ........ cKing, b Cregar bKing.............. 2 bKing............... bKing.............. not out ........ B 1, lb 4, w 1 K ent . Hearne (A.), c Dixon, b Attewell ......... 0 J. R. Mason, c Pike, b Jones ................. 57 C. J. Burnup, c W. Gunn, b Dixon ...108 G. J. Mordaunt, b Jones .................15 R. O’H. Livesay, c and b Dench ...........63 G. J. V. Weigall, c Jones, b Guttridge 13 N o tts . First innings. A. O. Jones, bWright ... 4 Shrewsbury, c Mordaunt, b Mason.............................16 Gunn (W.), bMason......... 21 J. A. Dixon, c Wright, b Mason........................... 102 Martin, run out........ 90 Easby, b Dench........ 13 F. Marchant, c W. Gunn, b Attewell ... 21 Wright (W.), c Pike, b Attewell ........ 5 Huish, not out ........ 6 B 10, lb 4, w 1 ... 15 Total ..406 MIDDLESEX v. YOllKSHIRE. Played at Lord’s on June 17, 18 and 19. Drawn. It is not particularly surprising that Yorkshire scored veiy heavily off the Middlesex bowling last Thursday and Friday at Lord’?, for the home team had already been fielding during the whole of the previous day against Notts, not to mention an hour onthe Tuesday. If, after such along outing in the field, Middlesex had broken down in batting no one would have pointed the finger of scorn at them, more especially as the Yorkshire bowlers were for some time helped by the state of the wicket, which had been affectedby the rain onMonday night. But after making an unpromising beginning thay pulled them­ selvestogether in amanner which was worthy of all praise, and despite the large totalmadeagainstthem, were within about half a dozen runs of saving the follow on. Sowell did they bat when they went in again that when thematch ended their position was very satisfactory indeed. No one of the thousandsof spectatorswho sawthe match could have complained that the cricket was uninteresting, for when batsmen like Mr. Jackson. Wainwright, Lord Hawke. Mr. Havman, Mr. Stoddart, Mr. F. G. J. Ford, Sir T. C. O’Brien andMr. Webbe all come off there are few dull moments in a game. Wainwright’s171 was the great innings of the match ; it lasted for four hours, and included 24 fours, and was the highest innings ever played by the popular Yorkshire professional. Lord Hawke, who made his first appearance this seasonin inter-county cricket, was in great form; he has seldom been seen to greater advantage. Mr. Jackson was run out, through no fault of his own, when he waswell set. But despitethe excellence of the Yorkshire batting it yielded in attractiveness to the display of Mr. Ford, who at the present time is themost punishing hitter playing. His two innings of 79and not out 43were wonderfully good ; the 79 was made at atime when very little was wanted to give Yorkshire the upper hand. In considering the successful effort of Middlesex tomake a match of it, Mr. Webbe’sfineinnings of 74and Dr. Thornton’s56 must not be forgotten, for when they came together the position of their county was such that a defeat seemed almost certain. Mr. Stoddart’s 57 in the follow on was one of his bestinnings of the year, and Mr. Hayman, who also reached his 50, was in fine form. Altogether the honours of the match were equally divided. The bowlers did not greatly shine, but Hearne, Mr. Jackson and Peel had fairly good analyses. Y orksh ire . F. S. Jackson, run out 36 Bland Tate ......... Killick Ranjitsinhji Bean ........ Total.....................46 P h ila d e lp h ia n s . First innings. O. M. R.W. ........ 32 14 53 3 ... . ...... 88 12 84 7 ... . 12 4 30 0 ... . , 5 2 22 0 . 7 2 23 0 King . Cregar S u ss e x . First innings. O. M. R. W. ............ 10 5 13 7 ........ 10 2 30 3 Baily ... 17 P. Clark 16 Patterson 5 Coates ... 1 Cregar bowled 3wides. Total ...252 Second innings. O. M.R. W. ,. 13 2 37 1 . 17-110 21 1 .. 9 2 23 0 Second innings. O. M. R.W . . 38*111 102 6 13 2 41 2 Dench, c Bumup, b Mason 11 C. W. Wright, b Wright ... 0 Attewell (W.), c Mordaunt, b Wright ..................... 0 Pike, b Martin ............... 9 Mason (P.),cEasby,bMason 0 Gunn (J .), cEasby, bMason 4 Guttridge, not out ........ 0 Leg-bye ............... 1 Total Second innings. cBuraup,bMason 75 retired unwell ... 77 cLivesay, bMar­ tin ...............28 cHeame,bMason 91 ht wkt, b Mason 34 b Wright ........ 1 b Marchant ...102 c Mordaunt, b Wright ........ 45 cand b Heame... 10 notout.............. 7 c Mordaunt, b Mason ........ 13 B 6,w 1, nb 3 10 Total........ 493 K en t . O. M. R. W. Attewell 43 16 90 3 Guttridge 25 4 82 1 Dench... 23 4 82 2 Jones ... Gunn (J.) Dixon ... O. 17 7 33 M. R. W. 0 93 2 1 28 0 0 16 1 Tunnicllffe, cWarner, b Heame................. 11 Brown (J. T.), c Mc­ Gregor, b Rawlin ... 17 Denton, b Hearne ... 34 Moorhouse,bStoddart 4 Wainwright, cFord, b Heame ...............171 M id d l e s e x . First innings. H. B. Hayman, run out ... 12 P. F. Warner, st Hunter, b Peel ........................... 0 A. E. Stoddart, st Hunter, b Peel...........................26 Rawlin, cand b Peel....... 4 Ford, c Brown, Hirst, b Hearne........ 9 Peel, cFord, b Phillips 46 Lord Hawke, c Hay­ man, b Hearne Haigh, not out ... . Hunter, b Rawlin B 4, lb 12, w 1 , 75 13 6 17 Total Second innings, c Hirst, b Peel... 56 c&bWainwright 27 cHawke, b Jack­ son .............. 57 c Hirst, b Wain­ wright 79 notout... 27 not out... 22 Guttridge delivered awide. Wright Mason ... Martin... Heame... N o tts . First innings. O. M. R. W. )'4 9 30 14 18 7 10 2 22 Easby ... Marchant Burnup ... Wright delivered a no-ball, Mason awide and two no-balls. Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 44 8 112 2 ... 57*318 141 4 ... 49 17 76 1 9 62 1 7 49 0 1 26 1 0 17 0 F. G. J Hirst Sir T. C. O’Brien, c and b Hirst ........................... Dr. G. Thornton, c Hirst, b Peel ...........................56 A.J. Webbe,cHirst,bJack- son ...........................74 G. McGregor, c Brown, b Jackson .....................22 Hearne (J.T.) cTunnicliffe, b Jackson .....................10 Phillips, not ou t................ 0 Leg-bye. 1 R 10,lb 4.. Total . ...311 Total Heame.., Phillips... Rawlin ... Stoddart Y o r k s h ir e . O. M. R. W 59 22 105 5 43 5 124 1 34-111 74 2 18 5 63 1 Thornton Ford... , Warner Hayman. o . m:. r . w . Ford bowled onewide. 11 0 22 0 19 0 4 0 MARQUEES, TENTS from16/-, complete; all kinds, sizes, prices. New and secondhand. Before pur­ chasing write for list.— H e a t h fie ld , Lauderdale Buildings, Aldersgate, London. W HA T OFFERS! Yols. 2 to 13 of “ Cricket” in good Library Condition ; alsoVol. 9of “ Scores and Biographies” and other rare books.—H. Tedder, 254, Leathwaite Road, Clapham, S.W. M id d l e s e x . First innings. O. M. R. W. Second innings. O. M. R.W. Peel .. ... . Wainwright , Haigh Hirst Jackson ... 37 18 . 18 . 27 . 16 28 8 23 7 11 4 6 1 23 11