Cricket 1897

293 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u ly 22, 1897 SURREY v. MIDDLESEX. Played at Lord’s on July 15, 16 and 17. Surrey won by 8 wickets. There can be no doubt that Middlesex after losing the toss had to play an uphill game from the com­ mencement, and although the wicket never deterior­ ated very greatly it gave the bowlers some assistance towards the end of the match, and this is quite enough to enable Richardson to get a good analysis. Surrey were battiog all Thursday for the loss of 8 wickets, and as most of the great batsmen on the side came off there was plenty of good cricket to be seen. The scoring was never slow, while the bowling was never loose, although there was perhaps a little too much done by Hearne and Cunliffe. There were two long stands during the day. In the first Hay­ ward and Abel put on 135 in about two hours and a quarter, by very good cricket, while Mr. Key and Holland made 151 during their partnership in about an hour and a half. These were the only two stands of importance made during the day. On Friday morning Kichardson and Lees had a short but lively stay at the wickets, and the innings closed for 424. It may be interesting to note that although eight bowlers were tried four of tbem were only on for 17 overs between them. The Middlesex batsmen with the exception of Mr. Stoddart were disappointing. Mr. Stoddart, however, made his highest score of the season 91, in something like his old style, although not with his dash of a few years ago ; his success was very popular. Mr. Ford, Rawlin and Mr. Hayman made useful scores, but most of the team could do nothing with Richardson and Lees. In the follow on Mr. Stoddart again played well, and Mr. Webbe, Mr. MacGregor, Mr. Bromley Davenport and Rawlin (for the second time during the match) made useful scores, but the bowling was always good enough to make scoring very difficult. S u rrey . K . J. Key, c Hearne, b Thornton ........76 Lees, not out ........33 W ood, b CunlifFe ... 8 Richardson (T.), b Hearne ................20 B 7, lb 6, w 3, nb 5 21 Brockwell, b Cunliffe 20 Abel, b H earne...........62 Hayward, b Hearne... 82 Baldwin, b Cunliffe... 7 D. L. A. Jephson, b Cunliffe .................. 14 H. B. Chinnery, c Warner, b Hearne.. 11 Holland, c Stoddart, b B.-Davenport ... 70 Second innings :—Brockwell, b B.-Davenport, 25; Abel, not out, 20 ; Baldwin, c Stoddart, b Thornton, 6; Holland, not out, 0 ; b 4, lb 3, 7.—Total, (2 wickets), 57. M id d le se x . Total ...424 First innings. H. B. Hayman, o Wood, b P. F. Warner, c W ood, b Richardson..........................12 A. E. Stoddart, lbw, b Lees 91 Rawlin, c Wood, b Lees ... 41 F. G. J. Ford, b Lees.......... 39 Dr. G. Thornton, c W ood, b Second innings. b Richardson ... 1 c W ood, b Rich­ ardson ......... 1 b Hayward...........5 b Richardson ... ' b Hayward........... Richardson... A. J. Webbe, not o u t... . G. MacGregor, c Abel, Richardson.................. , 15 b Richardson .. 16 c H. B. Bromley-Davenport, b Richardson .................. F. H. E. Cunliffe, b Rich­ ardson .................................. Hearne (J. T .),b Richard­ son.. Baldwin, Brockwell.. 2 c Hayward, Richardson 0 c Hayward, Richardson 2 b Richardson 2 notout... THE PHILADELPHIANS. THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE MATCH (ELEVENTH OF THE TOU lt). Played at Bristol on July 15, 16, and 17. Gloucestershire won byan innings and 29 runs. It cannot be said that the visitors were seen at their best in this match. They lost the toss, and were un­ lucky enough to find W.G. in grand form, and to come across Mr. Jessop at a time when he is causing a panic among bowlers. W.G. made a hundred for the first time this season, being content to play a very steady game, while Mr. Jessop, although he did not do any­ thing very startling in the way of rapid scoring—partly because W .G. managed to get most of the bowling— knocked up 101 in an hour and a-half. There was very little in the Gloucestershire batting worthy of notice, except the play of these two men, although when the bowling was quite worn out, the tail made some runs. The Philadelphians were a little off colour when they went in to bat in both innings. Two men, Mr. Lester and Mr. Patterson, greatly distinguished themselves, but the rest did piactically nothing. In the second innings Roberts and W.G. had very good analyses. G loucestershire . W . G. Grace, c King, b Bates ..................113 A. G. Richardson, b K in g ..........................10 F. H. B. Champain, b K in g .......................... 0 Wrathall, b Clark ... 0 G. L. Jessop, c and b Cregar .................. 101 C. L. Townsend, c Scattergood, b Baily 8 W . M. Hemingway, c Clark, b Patterson... 28 Board, c Patterson, b Bates..........................24 W . S. A. Brown, b B a ily ..........................23 E. C. Wright, not out 30 Roberts, run out ... 14 B 5, lb 1, w 5, nb 1 12 Total ...........3 P h ila d e lph ia n s . First innings. Second innings. Jessop, b 25 17 10 A. M. W ood, Grace .......................... H. C. Thayer, b Roberts J. A. Lester, b Jessop... G. S. Patterson, not out F. H. Bohlen, c and b Townsend .......................... 7 J. B.King,c Board,b W right 0 E. M. Cregar, c Board, b Wright ... .................. 8 F. H. Bates, b Jessop...........22 P. H. Clark, st Board, b Grace .................................. 9 c Board, b Grace 19 c Roberts,b Grace 1 c Board, b Grace 62 cBoard,b Roberts 53 c Grace,b Roberts 0 c Champain, b Roberts ........... 0 c Hemingway, b Roberts ........... 4 c Hemingway, b Roberts ........... 4 c W r i g h t , b Roberts ........... 2 c Brown, b Grace 1 H. P. Baily, c and b Grace 0 J. H. Scattergood, b Jessop 13 notout... B 2, lb 4, w 2, nb 3 ... 11 B 1, lb 1 Total ..................181 G lo u c e s te r s h ir e . O. M. R. W King 36 7 100 2 Clark ... 18 5 43 1 Baily ... 34 9 81 2 Cregar ... 8 0 46 1 Total ...153 O. M.R. W . Lester ... 6 0 33 0 Patterson11‘2 3 25 1 Bates ... 6 1 17 2 Baily bowled one wide and one no-ball, and Cregar bowled four wides. B 8,1b 7, w 1, nb 1 ... 17 B 1,1b 1, w 2, nb 2 6 Total ... ...271 S u rrey . First innings. O. M. R. W . Total...........209 Second innings. O. M. R. W . Hearne......... 59 2 25 126 4 ... . . 4 1 13 0 Cunliffe 54 20 144 4 ... . . 6 1 24 0 Stoddart ... 14 5 34 0 ... Rawlin......... 14 5 40 0 ... Ford ........... 2 0 12 0 ... Hayman ... 8 1 23 0 ... B.-D ’ vnport 4 1 11 1 ... ." 4-1 0 13 1 Thornton ... 3 0 13 1 ... . . 2 2 0 1 Hexrne bowled two wides, Cunliffe five no-balls, and Stoddart one wide. M id d le s e x . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W . Richardson.. 34-2 8 97 6 ... ... 38-2 19 96 7 Hayward 20 7 52 0 ... ... 14 3 35 2 Lees ......... 28 7 62 4 ... ... 24 6 50 0 Jephson 4 2 10 0 ... Brockwell .. 15 4 33 0 ... 7*. 6 1 22 1 Hayward bowled one wide and two no-balls, Lees bowled one no-ba’l and two wides. Townsend Roberts Grace ... Jessop ... W right P h ila d e lph ia n s . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . -------------------- 18 4 12 4 18 6 161 4 13 7 1 1 3 3 12 2 O. M. R7 W. 11 3 30 0 23210 32 24 10 47 8 1 23 8 3 Townsend bowled two wides, and Roberts three no­ balls. the appearance of the game was greatly altered when J. Gunn went on, and made the ball kick. The Yorkshire tail, which for the occasion included Mr. Jackson, who was unwell, did very little, and to the surprise of the home team, had to follow on, having only j ust failed to make the necessary runs. It is some­ what remarkable that Notts did not give away a few byes to prevent the follow on—they did not hesitate to do this in the match against Kent at Canterbury in 1892 - but they probably thought that they had got their formidable opponents at a great disadvantage, and hoped to get rid of them for a second time for a small score. But the batting of the Yorkshire team in the second innings was very different from what it had been in the first. It is true that Brown was bowled by the redoubtable J. Gunn, with the score at 21. but Mr. Jackson then went in, and, with Tunni­ cliffe, played such excellent cricket that when the partnership was broken just before the close of the day the runs had been wiped off and it was not until the total was 140 that Mr. Jackson was out for a brilliant 77, an innings which was the more valuable in that it was played when the game was in a very critical state for Yorkshire. But before stumps were drawn, Denton and Moorhouse were both out to J. Gunn, so that once more the prospects of the home team were bad. On Saturday, however, Wainwright played splendid cricket for 103, Tunnicliffe raised his score to 58 and Mr. Milligan was in fine form for 55, that Mr. Jackson was enabled to declare his innings with the score at 353 for nine wickets. Notts then set about making a draw, and thanks to the good >ractice which they have lately had in this branch of he game, they succeeded in accomplishing their object after a very severe struggle, during which W. Gunn played a masterly innings of 86 not out. N otts . First innings. Shrewsbury, c Bairstow, b Hirst ..................................... 33 Mason, c Brown, b Wain­ wright ..................................... 32 Gunn (W .), c Milligan, b Hirst ..................................... 10 Attewell, c Mounsey, b Jackson....................................25 J. A. Dixon, c Bairstow, b Jackson....................................53 Dench, b Jackson......................42 A. O. Jones, c Brown, b Hirst .....................................20 Daft, c Brown, b Hirst ... 7 Gunn (J.), notout.................. 9 Pike, b H irst........... Henson, b Milligan Byes ... 16 7 Second innings. c Wainwright, b Haigh ...........10 cJackson ,bHaigh 2 not o u t................. 86 c Tunnicliffe, b Hirst...................10 cMilligan,b.Hirst 2 lbw, b Jackson... 18 b H irst................. 0 b Haigh ........... 0 c Tunnicliffe, b Wainwright ... 2 not out................... 8 B l l , lb 2 ...1 3 Total ...........260 Total (8 wkts.) 15i Y o r k s h ire , First innings. Brown, c Pike,b Attewell... 21 Tunnicliffe, c Dixon, b Attewell .......................... 23 Denton, c Pike, b J. Gunn 44 Moorhouse, b J. Gunn.........11 Wainwright, c Attewell, b J. Gunn.................................13 Hirst, b Attewell.................. 1 F. W . Milligan, b J. Gunn 1 Mounsey,c Dench, b J.Gunn 7 F. S. Jackson, not out.......... 10 Haigh, b J. Gunn................... 0 Bairstow, absent (hurt) ... 0 B 4, lb 3, w 1 ... 8 Second innings, b J. G u n n ........... 6 c Daft, b Henson 58 b J. Gunn ........... 9 c Pike, b J. Gunn 0 c J.Gunn,b Dixonl03 b J. G u n n ...........23 b Dixon ...........55 c Pike, b Henson 6 c Daft, b Jones... 77 not out................... 4 17 B 15, lb 2 Total ...........139 Total (9 wkts.)*358 •Innings declared closed. v YORKSHIRE v. NOTTS. Played at Dewsbury on July 15, 16 and 17. Drawn. The result of this match was anticipated with a certain amount of interest, because there was a very fair chance that Yorkshire might, at last, come out in their true position as the leaders in the county competition, while Notts might drop to a position which would be more in accordance with their merits. But once more Notts by great good fortune managed to escape defeat, and the county can still boast of having won a hundred per cent, of its finished matches. After the first day’s play, during which Notts were batting on a good wicket, until within a few minutes from time, Yorkshire were 240 runs behind, with all their wickets in hand, so that they seemed to have an excellent chance of winning ; for the Notts bowling this year is not particularly formidable. As has so often happened of late Mr. Dixon and Dench made the highest scores for Notts. On Friday morning, Yorkshire began fairly well, but First inning O. M. 41 16 14*1 3 5- 17 5 31 9 4 0 N o tts . Hirst .. Milligan Wainwright.. 19 Haigh ... Jackson.. Brown ... , W . ) 5 d 1 7 1 0 0 9 3 3 0 Second innings. O. M. R. W . ... 23 7 39 3 ... 4 0 14 0 ... 17 7 24 1 ... 27 10 37 3 ... 12 5 24 1 Y o r k s h ir e . First innings. Henson ... Attewell... Gunn (J.) Second innings. R. W . O. M. R. W. 46 0 28-1 11 49 2 63 3 49 21 81 0 22 6 47 16 114 4 Daft.. 9 1 32 0 Dixon 12 2 29 2 Jones 13 3 36 1 C ANTERBURY CRICKET W EEK (2nd August). 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