Cricket 1897

266 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u l y 8 , 1897. SURREY V. YORKSHIRE. h e n d b r s o n ’ s b e n e fit . Played at the Oval on July 1, 2, and 3. Drawn. So fine was the weather during this match and so great was the interest taken in it that on all three days the Oval was attended by a very large and very enthusiastic crow d; much to the advantage of Hen­ derson, with whom it will be remembered an inter­ view appeared in last week’s Cricket. From past experience it was to be inferred that the match would be begun on a wicket in favour of the batsmen, for there had been no rain immediately before the match. It was therefore considered to be a very great advan­ tage to Yorkshire when they won the toss, and the crowd settled themselves down—or as many of them who had not to stand up—to see Yorkshire batting all day. But whether from nervousness, or more than ordinary excellence in the bowling—which was cer­ tainly very accurate and well pitched—the Yorkshire­ men were for the most part seen at a disadvantage. Mr. Jackson played a great game from the beginning, but Brown and Tunnicliffe only made five each. The Yorkshire captain,who during his innings was severely hurt by a rising ball from Richardson, was out when well set and likely to make a long score, to a truly remarkable catch at third man by Hayward, who seemed to have no chance whatever of getting to the ball. There were four wicke's down for 65, which was not a cheerful prospect for Yorkshire, especially as the tail has this year occasionally collapsed. At this critical point of the game Wainwright came in and played a perfect innings, making a fine stand with Denton, who was also playing excellent cricket; and well for Yorkshire was it that these two men kept up their ends, for the tail, with the exception of Hirst, did next to nothing ; a good many of the York­ shire visitors to the ground would have been mightily pleased, when the rot began, if Lord Hawke had been at hand to stop it. The innings closed for 197, which was not deemed large enough by a long way. Fortu­ nately for Surrey, Richardson was in splendid form with the ball, and his eight wickets for 108 was a great performance in such a match on such a wicket. A t the end of the day Surrey had reason to be satis­ fied with their position, for with only two wickets down (Brockwell 30 an i Abel 21), their score was 94, only 103 behind, with eight wickets in hand. On Friday morning, as no rain had fallen, it was fully expected that the Surrey men would make runs freely. When Hayward (not out, 24) and Baldwin (not out, 17) resumed their innings, nothing pointed to the extraordinary collapse which followed, for both men played easily. But at 112 Hayward was stumped and Baldwin caught at the wicket; the partnership had produced 59 runs. Then in a sur­ prising manner, wicket after wicket fell, until with the score at 144 Richardson joined Mr Jephson, who had been playing very steady and sound cricket. Encouraged by the applause with which he was greeted on his way to the wicket Richardson smote the bowlers severely, and in a short space of time the total was increased by 41, of which 24 were made by Richardson. Mr. Jephson carried his bat for 28, a very fine defensive innings, coming just at the right time. With a lead of 12 runs Yorkshire, as was generally expected, did much better in their second innings; except that Denton failed, everyone came off. Hrown played a particularly good innings of 37, and Hirst and Tunnicliffe and Mr. Jackson all did well, but the stand of the day was by Mr. Ernest Smith and Wainwright. The former played a much more steady game than usual, hitting occasionally, however, as hard as'ever; it was an unusual experience for him to be batting for an hour and twenty-five minutes for 40, but it was a fine innings. Wainwright was in splendid form, and his 75 was the feature of Friday’s batting. When stumps were drawn seven wickets were down for 243, that is to say 255 runs on. Good batting on Saturday morning by Peel, Haigh and Hunter enabled the Yorkshire captain to close his innings with a wicket still in hand, leaving Surrey to make 322 to win in four hours and ten minutes, a not altogether impossible task, but one by no means likely to be accomplished. The beginning of the Surrey innings was most discouraging, Abel being run out through a misunderstanding and Hayward being well caught by Brown. Two of the best wickets down for 24. After this, however, a change came over the game, for Brockwell and Baldwin played so well that they obtained a complete mastery over the bowling, keeping up their wickets and scoring pretty fast for an hour and three quarters. Their partner­ ship had added 101 runs to the score when Brockwell was caught at the wicket for a beautiful innings of 69. Up to this time there had been j ust a chance that Surrey would make the runs, but when Mr. Cninnery was speedily out they had to abandon all attempts at doing this and play steadily for a draw. In this they were easily successful, although there were two or three occasions when Yorkshire seemed likely to w in; in fact the interest, which soon developed into excite­ ment, was kept up until within a few minutes of the time for drawing stumps. Baldwin’s innings of 103 was worthy of the very highest praise; Mr. Jephson once more came to tbe assistance of his side when things were looking very bad, and once more proved equal to the occasion. A t the end Mr. Key and Mr. Walter Read, whose only object was to keep up their wickets, stonewalled in a most successful manner, to the annoyance of some of the crowd, who in their wisdom seemed to think that hitting was the right game at the moment. But of course they were not cricketers. Peel bowled remarkably well in this innings. Y orksh ire . First innings. F. S. Jackson, c Hayward, b Richardson ...................29 Tunnicliffe, b Richardson.. 5 Brown, J. T., c W ood, b Richardson.......................... 5 Denton, c Jephson, b Richardson .................. 60 Moorhouse, c Baldwin, Richardson ........... Second innings. b Richardson ... 21 c Abel,b Hayward 24 b Hayward...........37 b H ayw ard......... 5 14 c W ood, b Hay­ ward................. Wainwright, b Richardson 41 b Richardson Hirst, not out OR K Peel, b Brockwell........... E. Smith, b Brockwell Haigh, b Richardson ... Hunter, b Richardson No-ball ........... b Richardson ... 31 notout.................. 34 c W ood, b Hay­ ward..................40 c Lees, b Richard­ son ..................11 notout..................18 Lb 1, nb 4 ... 5 Total ...........197 Total (9 wkts) *309 •Innings declared closed. S u rrey . First innings. Brockwell, b Haigh ...........30 Abel, b Smith ...................21 Hayward, st Hunter, b Wainwright .................. 34 Baldwin, c Hunter, b Hirst 25 H. B. Chinnery, c Tunni­ cliffe, b Wainwright ... 1 D. L. A. Jephson, notout... 28 K. J. Key, c Smith, b Hirst 1 W . W , Read, b Wainwright 1 Lees, run out.......................... 15 W ood, b Haigh ................... 3 Richardson, c and b Smith 24 Byes ........................... 2 Total ...185 Second innings, c Hunter, b Peel 69 run out ........... 0 c Brown, b Hirst 12 c Jackson, b Peel 103 c Tunnicliffe, b c Hirst, b Peel ... 28 not out.................. 7 not out.................. 8 B 5, lb 3 ........... 8 Total (6 wkts) 244 First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Richardson ... 40-4 9 108 8 ... ... 46 12 115 4 Lees ... ... 26 13 51 0 ... ... 17 5 41 0 Hayward . . 5 1 12 0 ... ... 31 6 90 5 Brockwell .. 15 4 25 2 .. ... 17 6 37 0 Jephson ... 5 0 18 0 Abel ... . . . 3 2 3 0 Hayward delivered four no-balls and Jephson one. S u rrey . First innings. Second innings O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Hirst ... 35 14 62 2 ... ... 27 11 66 1 W ainwright ... 25 8 42 3 ... ... 21 8 38 0 Haigh ... 21 7 46 2 ... ... 18 7 33 0 Smith ... 11*1 5 21 2 ... ... 16 4 36 0 P e e l........... ... 10 3 12 0 ... ... 36 15 44 4 Jackson ... 7 2 15 0 Denton . . . 1 0 4 0 ESSEX v. LANCASHIRE. Played at Old Trafford on July 1, 2 and 3. Lancashire won by 60 runs. The meeting between these counties was of unusual interest, partly because it is some years since the Essex team visited Old Trafford, and partly because both counties have done particularly well this season. There is no possible doubt as to the all-round strength of Essex, and Lancashire men were by no means confident of pulling off the match. On the first day’s play there was not much to choose between the sides, and the bowlers on the whole had decidedly the best of it. Although Mr. Bull, for Essex, was hardly as effective as usual, this did not much matter, as Mr. Kortright bowled extremely well, taking five w ickets-good wickets too—for only 28 runs. Tyldes­ ley and Ward, who played fine cricket, were the only Lancashire batsmen who were ever comfortable. Essex begin well, thanks to Carpenter, Mr. McGahey and Mr. Perrin, but they had lost their first five men when stumps were drawn, and although they were only 55 runs behind they did not seem to have much of an advantage, inasmuch as runs had been made with difficulty. But on the morrow Mr. Owen played very steady and sound cricket for 60, not out, and as he was greatly helped by the tail, Essex had a lead of 43runs. Lancashire soon made up the leeway without losing a wicket, and brilliant cricket by Ward, who made his hundred, Baker, and Tyldesley, enabled the home team to put on a large score, and to set Essex a very difficult task —a task which they made a very bold attempt to accomplish. It only wanted one or two men to make a little longer stand together and the desired end would have been attained. As it was, half a dozen of the team made over twenty, but no one made what might be called a winning score. L an cash ire . First innings. Second innings. C. R. Hartley, c Kortright, b Mead......................................41 b B u ll.................28 W ard (A.), b Kortright ...1 4 b Pickett .....118 Sugg(F.), cTurner,b Kort­ right ................................... 0 b Kortright ... 0 Baker, c Owen, b Bull ... 3 c Turner, b Car- Tyldesley, b Kortright ... 54 Briggs, b Mead ................... 1 S.M.Crosfield,htwkt,bMead 24 Smith, b Kortright ........... 6 Cuttell, c Carpenter, b Bull 7 Hallam, not o u t ................... 2 Mold, b Kortright ........... 7 B 5, lb 3 ................... 8 penter c Perrin, b Car­ penter ........... b Mead ........... run out ........... b Kortright c Russell, b Kort­ right................... not out.................. b Kortright.......... B 7, lb 6 ......... Total ....................167 E ssex . First innings. C. McGahey, b M o ld .............. 21 Carpenter, b Mold ............. 36 T otal...........297 Second innings. P. Perrin, c and b Mold ... SO A. J. Turner, b M old........... 3 Russell, c Smith, b Mold ... 3 A. P. Lucas, b Briggs......... 5 H. G. Owen, not o u t .............€0 C. J. Kortright, st Smith, b B riggs................................. 13 Mead, c Smith, b M old ... 3 F. G. Bull, b H allam ...........25 Pickett, b Briggs.................. 10 Leg-bye .................... 1 Total ...................210 22 29 21 12 3 b Hallam c Tyldesley, Cuttell ... . c and b Briggs . b Cuttell ... . b M old................ b Mold................ c Smith, b Briggs 11 b Briggs ........23 b Brigffs ......... 4 b M old............... 24 n o to u t................. 5 B 5, lb 4 ... 9 T ota l.......188 L a n c a s h ir e , First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Bull ......... ... 28 8 73 2 ... ... 26 5 68 1 Mead........... ... 41 19 49 3 ... ... 27 9 60 1 Kortright... ... 20-2 9 28 5 ... ... 21-4 3 73 4 Pickett ... ... 4 3 2 0 . . . . .. 15 3 49 1 Turner ... ... 2 0 7 0 . . . . .. 2 0 5 0 Carpenter ... 7 0 29 2 E ssex . First innings. O. M. R .W . Cuttell ........... 114 22 0 .. Mold ........... 375 103 6 .. 351 10 44 3 .. 17 5 40 1 .. Briggs ... Hallam ... Second innings. O. M. R. W . 14 8 17 2 . 34 3 11 72 3 . 39 13 67 4. .1 0 3 23 1 MR. T. W . GIRDLESTONE’ S X II. v. MR. J. B. HOTHAM ’S X II.—Played at Sunningdale School on July 3. M r . T. W . G ir d le s to n e ’ s X II. O. T. Cooke, c Forbes, b Hoare ................... 7 Hon. T. H. F. Egerton, c Symes-Thompson, b Hoare .................. 0 H on . W . B la k e , b Drummond ...........39 E. W . Piper, b Forbes 11 Hon.W . C.W . Egerton, b Forbes .................. 0 W . M. Cooke, b Forbes 0 C. H. Marten, b Forbes 3 Mr. J. B. H oth a m 1 Rev. J. O. Young, run out .......................... 18 T. W . Girdlestone, c Symes - Thompson, b Ward .................. 16 J. S. Strange, c Ward, b Drummond........... 4 C. F. Ryder, not out 29 A. P. Strange, b Lane 16 B10, lb 8, nb 1... 19 Total... i X II. ...162 H. Symes-Thompson, c Ryder, bW .M. Cooke 9 R. C. Lane, c Ryder, b P ip er.......................... 4 C. Hoare,cW.M Cooke, b Piper .................. 0 R. H. Peto, lbw,b Piper 0 R. A . F. Brewster, b W . M. Cooke ......... 11 C. Forbes, b W . M. Cooke.......................... 0 Hon. G. Ward, not out 14 H. Williams, b W . M. Cooke ................... J. E. Drummond, b W . M. Cooke.......... J. B. Hotham, b Piper R. D. Oxley, c Young, b Piper ................... G. F. Connal-Rowan, b W . M. Cooke ... B 3, wb 1 ........... Total... 48 Second innings :—R. H. Peto, lbw, b W . C. W . Egerton 0; R. A. F. Brewster, not out 24 ; Hon. G. Ward, b T. H. F. Egerton 11; J. E. Drummond, c W. M. Cooke, b A . P. Strange 1 ; R. D. Oxley, c W. M. Cooke, b A. P. Strange 6 ; G. F. Connal-Rowan, b J. S. Strange 0 ; extras 4.—Total 46. W ANTED, at once, two copies of title and index to Cricket , Vol. X II. (1893).—W .M ., Cricket Office, 168, Upper Thames Street, E.C.