Cricket 1897

F e b . 25, 1897. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 29 made in fifty-seven minutes, had been the only remarkable feature of a moderate innings by South Australia. When the last man was in it became a question as to whether South Australia would just save the follow-on. If they had done so it would have given them a considerable advantage, and this was recognised by the Victorians. Trumble, who was bowl­ ing, accordingly adopted the method of sending down no-balls, and so averted the follow on. Great dissatisfaction was expressed at this manoeuvre, as might have been expected—more especially by the South Australians, who would greatly have preferred to follow-on. As the match proceeded it became pretty evident that Trumble’s move was certain to be successful, and it is not at all unlikely that his side would have lost the match if he had not adopted it. In their second innings Victoria lost six wickets for 63, and, exactly as in the first innings, eight for 141. Of these runs Trott had made a very careful and well-played 63. Trumble was in great form, and scored 82, an innings of incalculable value. South Australia had to make 346 to win. The odds were, of course, greatly against them, but they accomplished a remark­ able performance, and had it not been for the collapse of the tail they ought to have won. Lyons and Darling made such a brilliant start, taking the score to 143 before the former was stumped for a great innings of 110, that the Victorian bowlers were becoming anxious. But after the dismissal of Darling for a good 65, the South Australians found the up­ hill task too great for them, although they, in the end, got within 49 of the required total. V ictoria . First innings. W . Bruce, b Jones ........... 0 C. McLeod, b Jones ...........32 H. Graham, b J on es........... 0 J. Worrall, run out ........... 4 G. H. S. Trott, b Jones ... 42 F . Laver, c Bailey, b Giffen 27 J. Harry, c Giffen, b Jones 14 H. Trumble, b G iffen........... 1 J. O’Halloran, not out ...128 M. Roche, c Giffen, b Jones 29 A . E. Johns, run o u t...........57 B 17, lb 5, nb 1 ...........23 S outh A ustralia . Second innings. b Jones ........... b Jones ........... run out ........... b Giffen ........... b Jones .......... i lbw, b Giffen ... b Jones ........... b Giffen .......... ! c R e e d m a n , b Jones ........... b Jones .......... not out.................. Extras ........... Total ...........357 Total S outh A ustralia . First innings. J . Darling, b Roche ........... J. J. Lyons, c Worrall, b Trumble .......................... G. Giffen, c Laver, b O’Hal­ loran ...............................40 C. Hill, b R o ch e ................. 3 B. T. R. Bailey, c Graham, b Trum ble......................... 2 J •Reedman, b Harry.......22 A. E. H. Evans, run out ... 39 E. Jones, b O’Halloran ... 5 R- Homburg, c Harry, b Trumble .......................lo J. Travers, not out .......10 A. H. Jarvis, hurt ......... 0 B 4, lb 1, nb 8 ... 13 Second innings, c Graham,b Trott 65 c Johns, b Trum­ ble ..................110 b Roche b Roche c Johns, b Roche 4 c Roche, b Trott 25 c and b Trumble 18 c and b McLeod 34 b Trum ble.......... 4 not out.................. 2 c Roche, b Trum­ ble .................. 0 Extras ... 17 Jones ... Evans Reedman Gitfen Homburg 1ravers Lyons ... Total ..................239 V ictoria . First innings. O. M. R. W . ......... 51 12 122 6 ... 13 3 63 0 ... 144 4 42 0 ... 22 5 71 2 ... 3 1 8 0 6 0 24 0 2 0 5 0 Total .......... 296 Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 31 9 84 6 ... 3 0 23 0 31-5 3 108 3 First innings. Second Innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Roche .......... 23 7 72 2 ........... 30 10 82 3 Trumble 27-4 6 67 3 .........,. 34 313 83 4 Trott ........... 11 23 3 1 .........,. 15 1 55 2 Harry .......... 6 0 22 1 ... . O’Halloran... 15 7 21 2 ... . . 9 4 29 0 McLeod . 11 3 23 1 Laveir 1 1 0 0 W . Bruce .,,. 2 1 7 0 N ew S outh W alks . Trumble bowled eight no-balls. NEW SOUTH WALES v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA (Return). Played at Sydney on January 8, 9 and 11. New South Wales won by an innings and 11 runs. It was a great disappointment to the South Australians that they failed so badly in the first innings. By so doing they placed themselves out of the running, and although they did far better when they went in again, they were then play­ ing a hopeless game. Howell was the chief cause of their dismissal for 159; he took six wickets for 40. Coningham and Turner did not take a wicket, but McKibbin bowled well. When New South Wales went in their innings opened in a startling manner, for Jones, at the expense of only nine runs, took the first four wickets in a few moments. As the batsmen were Donnan, Iredale, Gregory and Mackenzie, this must be considered as one of the finest things that Jones has ever done. Afterwards, however, every­ thing went in favour of New South Wales. Jones was not given sufficient rest, and when he became tired it was all up with the chance of his side. Kelly surpassed himself, and played a very sound innings of 108, which came as a great surprise to friends and opponents alike. But the surprise of the innings was the 131 by T. W. Garrett, who has been intending to give up intercolonial cricket for years. He came to England for the first time with the team of 1882— the first team which visited England. He was then a bowler and no bat at all. When the bowling was quite worn out McKibbin had an enjoyable time and scored 75. The total was so large that there was every prospect that South Australia would be beaten in an innings, and despite a splendid 104 (not out) by Giffen, they could not quite catch up to the N.S.W. score. Except for Giffen’s batting there was little that was of interest in the innings. S outh A ustralia . First innings. J.Darling,clredale,b Howell 24 J. J. Lyons, b Howell...........18 G. Giffen, c and b McKibbin 17 C. Hill, c Kelly, b Howell.. 42 J.Reedman,c sub., b Howell 11 B.Bailey,c Iredale, b Howell 8 A. Evans, c Kelly, b Mc­ Kibbin .................................. B. Scrymgour, c Kelly, b M cK ib b in .......................... Evans bowled a no-ball. E. Jones, b McKibbin J. McKenzie, b Howell A. Carracher, not out... Extras .......... Total .......... Second innings. run out ......... 4 b McKibbin ... 14 not out..............104 c Coningham, b McKibbin ... 5 c Turner, b Con­ ingham .......32 c Donn&n, b Con­ ingham .......45 c Coningham, b McKibbin ... 13 c McKibbin, b Coningham ... 3 c Iredale, b Con­ ingham ....... 10 c Iredale, b M c­ Kibbin ......... 0 c G a r r e t t , b Howell .......14 Extras ......... 6 C. T. B. Turner, c Carracher, b Jones 23 T. R. McKibbin, c McKenzie, b Jones 75 W . Howell, not out ... 4 Extras...................16 Total H. Donnan, b Jones... 0 A. Mackenzie, c Mc­ Kenzie, b Jones ... 1 F. A. Iredale, c Mc­ Kenzie, b Jones ... 10 J. J. Kelly, run out ...108 S. E. Gregory, b Jones 4 M. A. Noble, b Jcnes 38 A. Coningham,b Jones 10 T.W . Garrett, c Giffen, b Reedman ... ...131 S outh A ustralia , First innings. B. M. R . W . 120 9 40 6 30 0 26 0 72 2 28 0 119 1 62 4 Coningham and McKibbin bowled one wide each. N ew S outh W ales . B. M. R. W . Jones ... 306 11 157 8 Evans ... 114 0 293 0 Giffen ... 60 4 21 0 ..420 Howell ... . Coningham . Turner ... , McKibbin Second Innings. B. M. R.W . ...129 6 43 1 ...102 6 69 4 ... 60 2 31 0 .. 210 6 101 4 B. M. R. W . Reedman 101 3 68 1 Carracher 108 0 51 0 Lyons ... 30 1 14 0 ...160 Total... ...250 LORD H A W K E ’S TEAM IN THE WEST IND IES . THE QUEEN’S PARK (TRINIDAD) MATCH. (First of the tour.) Played at St. Clair on Jan. 29 and 30. Drawn. Arriving at Trinidad on Wednesday, Lord Hawke’s team began the first match of the tour on the following Friday. The visitors won the toss and kept in the whole of the first day, delighting the spectators by some vigorous batting. The home team was weak in bowling, and relied mainly on C. Gittens to take the wickets, although he was not con­ sidered good enough to go on first. Without any doubt the best batting of the day was shown by the first two men, who put on 71 in an hour, and were not parted until the score was 87 when Bardswell was lbw for 46. The Queen’s Park men were greatly struck by his play. Every man who came in made a good stand, and the bowling was so soon worn out, that it was just as well that the Englishmen had not had time to get into form; otherwise a startling score might have been made. There could be no doubt as to the popularity of Lord Hawke for when he went to the wickets the spectators rose as one man to greet him. He began somewhat unsteadily, but soon made some beautiful hits, one of them, to square leg, going right over the rails for six. During his partnership with Warner, the latter reached his 100. In Lord Hawke’s score of 30 there were no singles; his hits were a 6, five 4’s and two 2’s. Warner was out soon after him for a finely played 119, which included fifteen 4’s. Except for some good hitting: by H. R. Bromley-Davenport the rest of the innings was not remarkable; everybody scored some runs, and helped consider­ ably towards the big total of 428. On the Saturday morning, Queen’s Park made an even better start than their visitors, L. S. D ’Ade and M. Smith putting on no less than 94 before they were separated. They were both out within a few minutes of each other and made almost the same total. But the brilliant start was not followed up well, and there were no batsmen like Lord N E X T ISSUE, THUR SDAY , MARCH 25.