Cricket 1898

THE FINEST BAT THE WORLD PRODUCES M ay 26, 1898. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 147 BUSSEY’S BUSSEY’S B E T W E E N T H E IN N IN G S . A QUARTER O F A CENTURY’S UNIVERSITY CRICKET. (Continuedfrom page 133.) Oxford’s first match was a favourable draw with the M.C.C., the club wanting 66 to win, with only three wickets to fall, the seven down having realised only 57. In the first innings of the club, Flowers (70) and W . D . Hamilton, of the 1882 Dark Blue team (54), added 123 for the fourth wicket. F. W. Pember scored 47 not out, and J. H . Savory, another old Oxonian, 30. For the ’Varsity Hine - Haycock played very steady cricket for 66 and 21, Ruggles- Brise scored 49 and 1, and Page 11 and 25, both not out, three of the new men (H ine-Haycock had played in two matches in 1882 though), thus early making their value apparent. But the best innings played on the side was J. G. Walker’s second of 63. The old Loret- tonian, in this, his fourth year at Oxford, was in really fine form, and proved quite the mainstay of the batting. G. E. Robin­ son had eight wickets for 69. The match with Lancashire at Oxford (the first of a series of twelve season of home-and- home matches) was lost b y 151 runs. There were twenty-one double-figure scores in the game, but the highest wa3 only a 52 by Johnny Briggs, who had made 35 in the first innings. S. M. Crosfield, with 43 and 49, was the biggest rungetter of the match, however. J. G. Walker, with 34, made just one-third of Oxford’s first tota l; H ine-Haycock scored 44, and the captain (M, C. Kemp) 43 in the second innings. The match with the Gentlemen was won by 76 runs, thanks mainly to Walker’s splendid 93 in the first innings of Oxford, a score which included thirteen 4’s, and Rabinson’s nine wickets for 94. W . E . T. Bolitho scored 28 and 32, and in the ’Varsity second Ruggles-Brise made 49, the con­ sistent H ine-Haycock 44 and Walker 29. The most notable scores for the Gentle­ men were C. C. Clarke’s 65 and F. E. R. Fryer’s 54 in the second innings. These two added 94 while together, and made a really big effort to pull the game out of fire for their side. In the first out-match, with Lancashire at Manchester, the Oxonians never had a chance. Their crack bowler, Robinson, was absent, and after Lancashire had run up 427 on a a good wicket, rain came on and spoiled the pitch. Walter Robinson (154) and Mr. Frank Taylor (96) put on 237 runs for the fourth wicket of the county. Oxford could only score 115 (Page 38, Kemp 25, B jlitho 22) and 102 (Grant- Asher 37, Bolitho 32), and were beaten by an innings and 102. Crossland had five for 14 in the second innings. They then faced the Orleans Club at Twicken­ ham, and beat them b y 290 runs. The Orleans men failed badly, E. Mills, the Notts pro., with 35 and 21, being the highest scorer for them, but there was some good batting for the ’Varsity. In the first innings Ruggles-Brise (73), Walker (39) and Page (36) were the only double-figure scorers; in the second, Grant-Asher batted three and three- quarter hours for a really splendid 182, a performance far in advance of anything else he ever did in first-class cricket, while Page scored 43, and Leslie, making his first appearance in the team this season, 34. E. Peake had seven wickets for 39 in the club’s second innings. The M.C.C. match at Lord’s was drawn, not at all in Oxford’s favour, as, with an innings to play, the Dark Blues would have had to make nearly 400 runs to win. Walker (29), Kemp (29) and H ine-Hay­ cock (26) did best for them. Iu the club’s first innings, W . H . Game (Oxford) made 92, A. G. Steel (Cambridge) 45 and R. Miller (Cambridge) 44; in the second, A. G. Steel (Cambridge) 68, Lord Harris (Oxford) 56, W . A. Thornton (Oxford) 51, R. Miller (Cambridge) 35 and Flowers 33. It is certainly a noteworthy fact, that of the eight scores of over 30 made for the club seven were by old ’Varsity players, of whom Miller was the only man who never g ot his blue. Fothergill took five wickets for 37 for the club. The sides in the ’Varsity match were:— Cambridge. —P . J. De Paravicini, Hon. M. B. Hawke, P. J. T. Henery, Hon. J. W . Mansfield, W . N. Roe, C. A. Smith, C. T. Studd, J. E. K . Studd, H . G. Topham, J. A. Turner, and C. W . Wright. Oxford. —E. W . Bastard, W . E. T. Bolitho, A. G. Grant-Asher, T. B. H ine- Haycock, M. C. Kemp, C. F. H . Leslie, H. V . Page, E. Peake, G. E. Robinson, H . G. Ruggles-Brise, and J. G. Walker. Studd won the toss, and his brother, J. E. K . and W right put on 45 for the first wicket before J. E. K. was bowled for 26. Hawke, who had scarcely of late played up to his form in May, went for a d u ck ; but the captain (31) helped W right to add 59. Then Mansfield (24) stayed while 48 more were put on. The fourth wicket fell at 155, the seventh with only 4 runs added, Page bow ling Paravi­ cini, and Peake getting rid of Mansfield, Henery, and R oe in the same way. Wright was now joined by Turner, who played a very steady game, and helped to add 51 before Wright was out for a splendid 102, the result of about three- and-a-balf hours’ batting, marred only by one chance. The innings closed for 215, Peake having taken five wickets for 27. Walker and H ine-Haycock scored 27 for Oxford without the loss of a wicket that evening. Next morning, on a rain- sodden pitch, the Dark Blues were all out for 55. But the bad wicket was not the only cause of the downfall, for bad judgment in running cost Oxford three wickets. The Dark Blues had to follow on. Walker (51) and Page (57) put on 92 for the second wicket, H ine-Haycock and Kemp made 24 each ; but the total only equalled that of Cambridge’s first innings, and the runs wanted to win were made b y the Light Blues for the loss of only three wickets, Wright being 29, not out, at the end. In the two