Cricket 1897

J u ly 22, 1897. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 299 KENT y. SOMERSET. Played at Blackheath on July 15, 1Gand 17. Kent won hy 213 runs. It is the misfortune of Kent that they can seldom play a home match on a wicket which keeps perfectly true during the whole of the trame. and in the last innings the batting side sometimes have the greatest difficulty in making runs. Until the last day of the match there was not much to choose between the sides, for after each side had made a sc( re which in these days of perfect wickets was only moderately large, Kent had a lead of 29, and in the second innings lost seven wickets for 217, so that if the Somerset bowlers managed to get rid of the tail cheaply they had a reasonable chance of ■vinnirg. There was nothing remarkable about the Kent second innings except the batting of Mr. Mason, which was of a very high class indeed. On Friday evening he was not out 105, and on Saturday morning by bold cricket he in­ creased this to 163. finding useful partners in W right and Mr. Shine. Thanks chiefly to his fine innings Kent were able to put Somerset in to make 3-6—a very formidabe task. Until Mr. Mason went on Somerset did pretty well, but aided a little hy the wicket the new bowler brought about a collapse, taking five wickets for only 20 runs. K en t . First innings. Second innings. J. R. Mason, c R. Palairet, b Robson ..........................31 Hearne (A .), lbw, b Tyler... 10 b L. Palairet ...183 c R. Palairet, b Woods .......... 1 c Nichols, b Tyler 13 cL.Palairet.b Gill 13 F. Marchant, lbw, b Tyler .. 32 J. N. Tonge, b T yler.......... 9 R. O’ H. Livesay, b Woods 43 c Fowler,bWoods 16 G. J. V. Weigall, b Woods 65 cStanley,bWoods 2 H .C. Stewart, c L. Palairet, b Robson ..........................30 b Nichols .............41 Martin,cL.Palairet,bWoods 34 b Nichols ........... 6 Wright, b Fow ler................. 4 c Robson, b Tyler 16 E. B. Shine, b W oods........... 5 Huish, not out B 16, lb 3 Total ..................282 S om erse t. First innings. L. C. H. Palairet, b Shine... 16 R. B. Porch, b Shine.......... 29 H. T. 8tanley, c Huish, b W right... .......................... 0 Robson, b S h in e .................. 6 S.M.J. Woods, c & b Hearne 92 Smith(D.), c Mason, b Shine 17 R. C. N. Palairet, b Martin 11 Nichols, b Hearne ........... 2 G. Fowler, b Shine ...........35 Tyler, b Palairet .............19 not o u t................. 2 B 20, lb 2, nb 1 23 T o ta l...........335 Second innings, c Marchant, b Shine ...........32 c Huish,b Heame 13 b Mason ...........29 b Mason ........... 0 cStewart,bMason 12 Tyler, b Shine ......... Gill, not o u t ................ B 11, lb 2, nb 1. . 31 . 0 . 14 b Mason b Shine ........... c Huish, b Mason c Marchant, b Shine ........... not out.................. c Huish, b Shine B 6, lb 2, w 4... Fowler T y le r ........... Hobson Nichols L. Palairet.. W oods........... Gill Total .................. 253 K en t . First innings. O. M. R. W . 1 83 3 ... 41 2 ... T otal...........151 Second innings. O. M. R. W, 0 2 0 0 ... 0 ... 4 ... 0 21 0 ... ... 17 ... 11 1 21 6 92 3 85 2 27 2 54 1 35 24 5 67 3 17 5 85 1 W oods bowled one no-ball. S om erset . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . W right ........... 25 9 63 1 ............ 15 6 23 0 Shine ...- ........... 37'4 7 100 6 ............. 34 2 9 82 4 M ason.................. 14 5 32 0 ............ 15 7 20 5 M a rtin ...'.......... 9 3 11 1 ............ 1 1 0 0 Hearne ........... 8 0 33 2 ............ 12 6 14 1 Shine bowled one no-ball and five wides. LANCASHIRE v. SUSSEX. A H IGH SCORING MATCH. Played at Old Trafford on July 15,16 and 17. Drawn. Fortunate in winning the toss, as in the match against Yorkshire, Sussex did not crumble away before the Lancashire bowlers as they had done at Sheffield. On the contrary, they gave a really fine exhibition of cricket, all the best bats in the team, with the exception of Marlow, making a good score. After Marlow had gone for 4, a long stand by K. S. Ranjitsinhji and Brann, about the most consistent bat of the year, brought the total from 9 to 149. The Prince’s 87 was in every way worthy of him. The next partnership was between Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Br&nn, and when the latter was out for 69, made in two hours and a quarter, Mr. Newham came in and stayed with his captain, putting on 110 runs with him in an hour and a half by beautiful cricket. Vine was run out after making 18, which was a "pity, as he seemed likely to make runs. At the end of the day Bean and Parris ndded another to the list of long partnerships, and when stumps were drawn the total was 407 for 6 wickets. This was slowly increased on Friday to 476. a total which to almost any other county would have pointed to victory. But the Sussex eleven has learned that it is never safe to holloa till they are out of the wood, and it is not likely that they were very greatly surprised when Lancashire put on 291 for 5 wickets and afterwards increased this to 420. The scoring was not quite as consistently regular as that of Sussex, but a long innings of 174 by Tyl­ desley made up for this. Ward, Baker and Smith were the other chief scorers. Sussex have at present to rely upon Bland as much as Surrey upon Richard­ son, and it say.s much for his bowling that he took seven wickets for 152 when no other bowler could take more than one. As the Lancashire innings closed only just before lunch time it was pretty evident that the match could not be brought to a conclusion, even if Sussex made a poor show in their second innings. All question of this was dispelled 1y a fine partnership between Mr. Brann and Marlow, who put on 123 for the first wicket. After this it did not much matter what happened—not even when Ranjit­ sinhji was out for a duck. In the end Sussex were 310 runs on with four wickets in hand, so that they could afford to be well satisfied with their doings against Lancashire. Mr. Brann played a great innings of 107; he had strained his leg and had a man to run for him. S u ssex . First innings. Marlow, c Baker, b Mold... 4 G. Brann, c Cuttell, b Mold 69 K. S. Ranjitsinhji, b Mold... 87 W . L, Murdoch, c Smith, b Briggs..................................77 W . Newham, b Cuttell ... 61 Vine, run out ..................18 Bean, c Briggs, b Mold ... 64 Parris, c and b Briggs..........46 Butt, c Cuttell, b Mold ...11 Bland, b Mold .................. o Tate, not ou t.......................... 4 B 19, lb 15, w 1 ...........35 8econd innings. cHa<tley,b Baker 61 stSmith,b Briggs 107 c Hallam,b Baker 0 lbw, b Briggs ... 27 runout.................. 6 cSmith,b Hallam 9 not out.................. 12 not out.................. 20 Total ................476 L an cash ire . B6, lb 5, nb 1... 12 Total(6wkt8) 254 Briggs, b Bland............ 8 Smith, b B land........52 Cuttell, b Bland........ 11 Hallam,b Ranjitsinhji 4 Mold, not out ............ 0 B 9, lb 6, w 2 ... 17 Total ...4-20 A.C. MacLaren, cRan- jitsinhji, b Bland ... 19 Ward (A.), c Brann, b Parris ..................... 67 C. R. Hartley, b Bland 14 Sugg (F.), b Bland ... 1 Tyldesley, c Vine, b Bland ....................174 Baker, c Vine, b Tate 53 S u ssex . First innings. O. M. R. W . Briggs .................. 60 6 174 2 Mold .................. 53 28 77 6 C uttell.................. 38 13 64 1 H allam .................. 40 14 98 0 Sugg .................. 2 0 14 0 Baker ................... 3 1 14 0 Briggs bowled one wide and Cuttell one no-ball. L an cash ire . O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Second innings. O. M. R. W . .. 6013 132 2 ... 8 2 13 0 .. 3213 42 0 .. 5 2 18 1 15 5 37 2 Tate Bland Parris Vine ... 52 18 112 1 ... 68-4 14 152 7 ... 39 16 67 1 ... 5 0 22 0 . Parris and Marlow each bowled a wide. Marlow ... 7 2 23 0 Bean ...........4 1 13 0 Ranjitsinhji 8 2 14 1 LONDON & WESTMINSTER BANK v. LONDON JOINT STOCK B A N K —Played at The Grey­ hound on July 12 and 13. L onoon J oint S tock B an k . Reading, b Podmore .. 0 Hughes, b Simpson ... 4 Hawkins,b Simpson... 27 Harris, b Simpson ... 8 Ashberrv, b Podmore 0 Scammell, b Podmore 15 Wright, b Simpson ... 0 Cripps, not o u t ........... 6 Finch, st Brook, b Snell.......................... Mori is, c Podmore, b Sim pson.................. Thomeycraft, b Simp­ son .......................... B 4, lb l, w 1... Total , L ondon and W estm inster B an k . C. A . Snell, c Reading, b Ashberry .......... 9 J. M. Allcock, c Cripps, b Ashberry ...........27 W . Bradbery, not out 38 N. O. Manfleld, b Ashberry.................. 6 C. J. Bowman, st Cripps, b Hawkins... 21 J. Bradbery, C. C. Simpson, A. Podmore, and A. W . Harris did not bat. L. Pitt Brook, b H aw kins................. 0 A . G. Gough, not out ..........................10 Extras ...........12 Total (5 wkts.) 123 ESSEX v. WARWICKSHIRE. Played at Leyton on July 15, 16 and 17. Essex won by an innings and 49 runs. The most inveterate optimist would hardly care to pin his faith on Warwickshire in a match between these two counties at the preeent time, even if they won the toss. They lost it at Leyton, and after they had got the home team out, the only thing that they could do was to play as steadily as possible and try to make a draw. At. no time did the Warwickshire bowling look good enough to dispose of Essex for anything like a small score, and every batsmen seemed able to play it with ease. Everybody except the “ not out” made double figures. Mr. Perrin playing a splendid innings of 153, and Mr. Fane, Mr.McGahey, Mr. Owen and Mr. Bonner adding largely to the total. As regards their firit innings, Warwickshire seemed very likely indeed to come out of the match with credit to themselves, for by the most steady play, which, though it was exasperating to the field and the spectators, was the only game possible, they had saved up three of their wickets for the last day of the match and had made 22). W . G. Quaife was batting for two hours for 27 not out, and it was impossible not to admire his patience. Unfortunately for the success of their scheme Warwickshire found that the wicket on Saturday did not quite maintain its excellence, and occasionally the bowlers received assistance from the ground - just enough assistance to make it difficult to keep up one’s wicket. Warwickshire made a good attempt to play out time, but at twenty minutes past four the match was over. E ss e x . F. L. Fane, b Pallett .. 67 Carpenter, c Lilley, b Santall ................. 12 P. Perrin, st Diver, b Pallett ................. 153 C. McGahey, c Field, b Santall.................81 A. P. Lucas, b Field .. 27 H. G. Owen, c Lilley, b Santall .................36 J. W . Bonner, c Lilley, b Field .................44 W a r w ic k sh ir e . First innings. H.W.Bainbridge cMcGahey b Pickett .......................... Quaife, W ., c Kortright, b Bull .................................. J. F. Byrne, c Pickett, b K ortrigh t.................. Lilley, b Mead ........... Quaife, W . G .,b Bull... Diver, b Mead ........... T. S. Fishwick, b Bull A . C. 8. Glover, b Mead Santall, b Mead ........... Pallett, not out ........... Field, b Kortright C. J. Kortrighfc, b Santall ..................14 Mead, c Byrne, b San­ tall ..........................12 F. G. Bull,b Santall... 20 Pickett, not ou t........... 0 B 20, w 3 ...........23 Total Second innings. 26 b Mead ...........18 1 cKortright,bBull 17 B 24, lb 7...........31 Total Santall Field... Pallett Byme ...274 E ssex . O . M . R. W . . 62 19 130 6 .37 9 91 2 . 44 12 114 2 15 1 55 0 b Mead..................15 c and b Bull ... 23 c Lucas, b Pickett 3 bM ead..................17 c Kortright,bBull 25 c Kortright,bBull 0 c Mead, b Pickett 12 not out.................. 13 c Mead, b Kort­ right ...........12 B 8, lb 3 ... 11 Total .. 166 O. M. R. W . Lilley ... 8 0 22 0 Quaife, W . 7 1 28 0 Quaife, W. G. ... 4 0 26 0 Santall, Pallett, and Quaife, W . each bowled a wide. W a r w ic k s h ir e . First innings. Second innings. Kortnght .. 27-2 9 49 2 . . ... 13 4 32 1 Bull ......... 44 12 89 3 . . ... 19 4 44 4 Mead ......... 39 17 82 4 . . ... 27 8 63 3 Pickett......... 7 2 18 1 . . ... 4 0 16 2 Carpenter .. 1 0 5 0 . RICHMOND v. EAST MOLESEY. Molesey on July 13. E ast M o lesey . -P layel at East H. R. Parkes, b Den­ ham ..........................13 F. G. J o h n s o n , st Furze, b Williams 38 H. C. Pretty, b Den­ ham ..........................22 H. E. M. Barker, b W illiam s..................27 L J.Moon, b Williams 10 W . H. Rumbell, lbw, b Denham ........... 8 R ich G.W.Beldam. b Stoner 7 G. Crimp, b Stoner ... 6 H.S.Greaves, b Stoner 133 J.M. Brydon, b Stoner 6 C. A. Carbon, b Pretty 11 R. N. Hinck, st Moon, b Stoner ... ..........32 Stoner, c Fraser, b Carbon ...................25 Reddick, c Hincks, b D en h a m ................... 4 H. Marl^y, run out ... 20 E. Poter, c Crimp, b Denham ................... 6 A. P. Keeling, not out 5 B 4, lb 2 ........... 6 Total ...........184 [OND. H. B. Denham, lbw, b Stoner .................. 4 W. Williams, b Stoner 13 L. Frazer, not out ... 1 B 12, lb 4, w 1 ... 17 Total W. Furze anu W. F. Womb*ell did not bat. 230