Cricket 1898

THE FINEST BAT THE WORLD PRODUCES M at 12, 1898 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 115 BUSSEY’S w u - IU +J . </) <5$ 09 BUSSEY’S BETWEEN THE INNINGS. l QUARTER OF A CENTURY’S UNIVERSITY CRICKET. (Continuedfrom page 101.) Then came the match with the Austra­ lians, distinct ly Cambridge’s best achieve­ ment of the year. The famous Third Aus­ tralian Team lost but four matches of 38 played, and no county proved strong enough to lower its colours. Y et Cam- b-idgeibeatit by six wickets. C. T. Studd followed up his 126 of a few days before with a splendid 118, made while 181 were being scored, and containing eleven 4’s. He got most help from W . H. Bather, who, though only scoring 24, helped him to add 118 for the fifth wicket. Fittingly enough, these two were the not outs when the match ended, Studd with 17, B ither with 15, Of the other batsmen, the elder brothers S udd were by far the most prominent, J. E. K . scoring 6 and 66, Gr. B. 42 and 48. All the Australian wickets were taken b y Eim say, himself an Australian, and C. T. Studd, their respective share being twelve for 179 and eight for 170. The Australians, uubeaten up to then, made a splendid fight after the first half of the game was over, for iu their second innings of 291, there were nine double-figure scores, Jones making 59, Horan 51, Boyle 39 not out, and Palmer 35; but they had lost too much leeway in their first, when, after Massie (37) and Bjnnerman (50) had put on 47 runs for the first wicket, Ramsay and Studd had wrought havoc with the rest of the team, ever to look like winning. One must not omit to mention, thatG B. and J. E. K. Studd sent up 106 for the first wicket in Cambridge’s second— the first time that three figures had been scored before a wicket fell against an Australian eleven in England. Altogether the victory was as notable as anything a Light Blue team has ever done. The return with Lancashire, played on a mud- heap at Manchester, and drawn ow ing to rain, presented no features of interest save the dismissal of the team which had just beaten the redoubtable Australians for the paltry total of 31 (Barlow taking five for 13, Watson four for 16), and the bowling of C. T. Studd, who in the county’s first innings had eight wickets for 40 runs. There followed an unexpected defeat, by seven wickets, from Surrey at tbeOval. Toe three brothers Studd, intwo innings each, totalled among them but 25 ru n s; and Hawke, with 58 and 15, was b y far the highest scorer for the losers. Walter Eead, with 22 and 47, did best for Surrey. The match with the M.C C. at Lord’s was won by 163 runs, the Cantabs holding the upper hand througbout. Mr. Hornby played splen­ didly for the losers, and his 172 runs (51 and 121 not out) represented more than the other ten M.C.C. batsmen, Barnes, Midwinter, Flowers, A . W . Eidley, and A. H . Trevor among them, could muster altogether. Eamsay had double honours for the winners, for, going in No. 9, he hit up 60 not out in the first innings of Cambridge, and took in the match nine wickets for 148. C. T. Studd was not a success either with bat or ball; but bis brothers sent up 163 for the first wicket in the second innings, the captain making 94, and J. E. K . 67. Hawke’s 44 in the first, and Wright’s 58 in the second innings, were the other notable scores. Meanwhile, Oxford had been doing anything but well. Their first match was against the Australians, and this they lost b y nine wickets, after a good fight against a decidedly superior side. Massie’s wonderful hitting was the feature of the m atch; it was his first public appearance in England, and he ran up 206 of 265 made while he was in, batting only a trifle over three hours, and hitting twenty-four 4’s. In the second innings he followed this up by. making 46 not out of the 64 whie'i gave his side the victory. Three men played really fine cricket for the b«aten side. E. D . Shaw, a senior from F >rest S hool, playing in the team for the first time, ctrried his bat right through the first innings of 189 for 78, and his fine defence against such bowlers as Spofforth, Palmer, B jyle, and G irrett caused hopes which were never quite realised to be entertained of him. In the second hands, Leslie batted in fine style for 56, and Whiting played an almost equally good innings of 55. W .W . Hamilton, another new man iu the team, made 37. In this innings, George G ffen t< ok seven for 78. A very weak team of the M.C.C, was beaten by an innings and 19, this being the D a k Blues’ only success of the season. The achievement was distinctly a creditable one, in spite of the weakness of the club team, for L ’ slie and Whiting were both absentees from the ranks of Oxford. J. G. Walker, a really fine batsman who was somewhat slow in com ing to the front,, played a splendid innings of 87; P -ske hit up 53, and Kemp made 37. Midwinter’s 34 not out in the first, Flowers’ 54 in the second, were the highest innings for the club, the six amateurs playing being lament­ able failures. E. D. S iaw followed up his batting feat against the Australians by taking seven wickets for 54 runs in this gam e; but his bowling, like his batting, proved something of a fUsh in the pan. The m itch with the Gent emen was lost by five wickets, E. D. Shaw, Kemp, and Whiting b ing all away from the Oxford side, however. There was some good batting in the first innings of Oxford, Lsslie making 77, Thornton and Ham il­ ton 53 each, and Walker 50; in the second Thornton made 49, Hamilton and Harrison 28 each. For the scratcb side Webbe played a fine innings of 108 not o u t; S. S. Schultz scored 90 and 31, and G. F. Vernon 41 aud 25. G. E. Eobin- son took six for 52 in their first innings. The match with Surrey at the O val was as close a game as the narrow victory of Cambridge over Lincashire. A t the close of an innings each, the County was 4 runs ahead; at the close of the match 16. Whiting’s 36 was the highest score of a game in which the bowlers always held the upper hand. B ir. att, for the County, took thirteen wickets for 73 runs; in the first innings of Oxford C. E. Horner, who had never managed to