Cricket 1898

332 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A u g 11, 1898. T H E C A N T E R B U R Y W E E K ’ NOTTS y. KENT. Played at Canterbury on Aug. 4, 5 and 6. Drawn. For the twelfth time this season a match in which Notts was one of the competing sides ended in a draw. It was not that the play was insufferably slow in the match at Canterbury ; it was rather that the bowling of both teams was decidedly inferior to the batting. On Thursday—the Ladies’ Day— Notts were batting, and by the time that play ended they had put on 322 runs for the loss of six wickets, the game, even at this early stage, thus pointing to a draw; for it was not to be expected that the Notts bowlers would be able to prevent the Kent men from scoring well. The hero of the day was Mr. Dixon, who played a remarkably good innings of 1£0 not out; he went in with the score at 48. The commencement of the innings was not very satisfactory, from a Notts point of view, for Shrewsbury, Mr. Jones and Gunn were all out when the total was65. Gunnwas run out through a misunderstanding about a short run. The stand of the day was made by Attewell andMr. Dixon; it produced 88in an hour and a quarter. Afterwards Dench played very well. On Friday, the innings was soon finished. Mr. Dixon only added five to his score; for his 165 he was batting five hours. Kent made a remarkably good beginning with Mr. Burnup and Alec Hearne, who put up 101 before they were parted, each scoring at about the same rate, and not very slowly. After this partnership was broken there followed such a collapse that a follow-on seemed imminent, but Mr. Marchant was in fine form, and as he was well backed up by Mr. Bannon and Martin, the tail gave a good account of itself, although Notts bad a lead of 75. With only a few minutes left for play, the Notts captain tried the plan of putting in some of the tail, with disastrous results, inasmuch as three wickets fell for 16. Notts began their day’s work on Saturday with a lead of 91, and seven wickets in hand. Except that Shrewsbury played a delightful innings of 77, and was still going strong when the captain declared there was nothing remarkable about the batting. Kent had no time to get the 247 runs required to win. N o t t s . First innings. Shrewsbury, c Huish, b Mason............... ..........24 A. O. Jones, c Huish, b Mason...............................23 Gunn (W.), run out ........... 3 J.A.Dixon,cHui8h, bMasonl65 Attewell, b Martin ..........44 Guttridge, c Bradley, b Martin...............................15 Dench, c Mason, b Bumup 39 Gunn (J.), run out .......... 9 Oates, not out ................. 4 Henson, b Hearne .......... 2 Mason (P.), absent .......... 0 B 14, lb 2, nb 1..........17 Second innings. not ou t................77 c Marchant, b Bradley..........34 cWright, b Brad­ ley .................28 b Wright ..........13 c Patterson, b Martin ..........12 b Wright .......... 3 b Wright .......... 0 b Mason .......... 0 Byes.......... 4 Total ............... 345 Total (7wkts)*171 ""Innings declared closed. K e n t . First innings. C. J. Buinup, c Oates, b Jones ....................................................54 Hearne (A.), c Henson, b Attewell .............................................58 J. R. Mason, c Oates, b Jones ....................................................11 W . H. Patterson, c Oates, b Attewell ........................ 6 not out.. Rev. W . Rashleigh, lbw, b Jones ................................. 10 notout.. B. D. Bannon, c Jones, b Henson ............................................ 21 F. Marchant, b J. Gunn ... 43 Martin, c Guttridge, b J. Gunn ....................... ... 24 Wright, not o u t ..................................... 10 Huish, b Mason ................................... 6 W. M. Bradley, c Henson, b Attewell ............................................ 19 B 3, lb 4 w 1 ............................ 8 Second innings, c Jones, b Atte­ well ................. 5 c Dixon, b Gut­ tridge ..........34 c Guttridge, b Attewell..........40 ... 2 ... 13 Total ...270 Lb 2, w 2 ... 4 Total(3wkts) 98 Wright Mason... Bradley Hearne Martin... Marchant Burnup N o t t s . First innings. O.M. R. W. 21 5 60 0 . 46 16 95 35 10 80 181 7 48 21 12 27 5 1 13 4 2 5 ... 20 ... 10 Second innings. O. M. R. W. 19 6 40 3 20 2 41 1 5 37 2 2 35 0 3 14 1 Mason delivered a no-ball. K e n t . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Gunn (J.) ,... 18 6 45 2 ... ... 11 0 32 0 Attewell ... 41-4 18 59 3 ... ... 27 14 37 2 Henson ... 15 3 48 1 ... ... 8 2 13 0 Guttridge ... 3 0 ‘21 0 ... ... 8 4 12 1 Mason... ... 5 1 22 1 ... ... 1 1 0 0 Jones ... ,... 26 5 67 3 Attewell bowled three wides. LEICESTERSHIRE v. HAMPSHIRE. Played at Leicester on August 4, 5 and 6. Abandoned. It was exceedingly unfortunate for the Leicester­ shire men'when they at last had a splendid chance of placing a match to their credit in the championship, and thereby putting Susf-ex completely in the shade, to have victory snatched from their grasp by rain. On the first day’s play Leicestershire had very much the best of it. The Hampshire men could make very little of Woodcock, although Mr. H. W. Studd and Baldwin played good cricket. On the other hand, Leicester­ shire. after a bad start, began to make runs quickly, thanks to a brilliant partnership between Mr. H. H. Marriott and L. Brown. The latter made 103, his first hundred in county cricket, in a little over two hours ; the former was not out 84 at the close of the day, when the total was 232 for only tbree wickets. The promise of a very long tcore was not fulfilled, but thanks to go -d cricket by J. Brown and Agar the county had a lead of 153. Hampshiredid much better in their second innings, but when stumps were drawn they were only 56 runs on with four wickets in hand. Majur Poore was within nine of his hundred, and Captain Quinton and Mr. Studd batted extremely well. On Saturday,Major Poore’sfine innings came to a conclusion just before he had reached his hundred, and the tail did nothing, so 1hat Leicestershire only had to make 77. They seemed quite certain of victory until the rain came down, for they were within 37 of the runs required with nine wickets still in hand. It was indeed a lucky escape for Hampshire. H a m p s h ir e . First innings. Second innings. C. Robson, b Woodcock ... 4 cW ood,b Wood­ cock ................. 5 Webb, b Woodcock .......... 9 cMarriott,bStocks 0 Major R. M. Poore, c and b W oodcock........................20 c and.b^Stocks ... 95 Capt. F. W . D. Quinton, b W oodcock........................ 8 c;Coe,b‘Woodcock 40 E. A. English, c Whiteside, b Woodcock ... ..........12 runout..................... 1 H. W. Studd, c Coe,bWood­ cock ...............................49 b Coe ........... ... 44 E. C. Lee, b Stocks ..........20.1c Stocks, b Coe... 0 D. A. Steele, c Stocks, b W oodcock........................ 6 cJ.Brown,bStocks 7 Baldwin, not out.................38 c Marriott, b Woodcock ... 15 Tate, b Stocks ................. 7 cMarriott,bStocks 2 Martin, c Marriott, b Stocks 4 notout.................: 2 Byes ........................ 3 B 15, lb 3 ... 18 Total .................180 L e ic e s t e r s h ir e . T otal......... 229 C. J. B. Wood, st Rob­ son, b Baldwin ... 0 Knight, [c Robson, b Martin ................. 7 Brown(L ), c Quinton, b Tate ......... ... 85 H. H. Marriott, c Martin, b Tate .. 103 Coe,cWebb,b Baldwin 41 Brown (J.), not out... 26 C. E. de Trafford, b Baldwin ................. 0 Second innings :-C . J. B. Wood, not out, 24; Brown (L.), c Robson, b Martin, 6 ; Brown (J.), not out, 8 ; b 1, w 1.— Total (one wicket), 40. H a m p s h ir e . First innings. O. M. R. W. Woodcock......... 28 7 84 7 .............. 29'3 7 Coe ................. 4 0 26 0 .............. 17 4 A g a r.................... 10 4 i9 0 ..............19 9 Stocks................. 14 6 38 3 .............. 32 15 Brown (J,)... 7 0 L e ic e s t e r s h ir e . First innings._____ __ Second innings. Agar, run out ........37 F. W . Stocks, c Quin­ ton, b Baldwin ... 3 Woodcock, c Martin, b Baldwin .......... 6 Whiteside, c Quinton, b Baldwin................. 1 B 19, lb 4, w 1 ... 24 Total ..........333 Second innings. O. M. R. W. 65 3 35 2 32 0 60 4 19 0 Martin Baldwin Tate ... Studd ... Quinton Steele ... W ebb... Lee M. R. W. 1 . O. .24 3 68 , 41-1 15 69 26 10 64 4 O. M. R. W. . 13 4 13 0 13 0 3 31 0 0 18 0 1 13 0 5 11 5 Lee and Martin each bowled a wide. ESSEX v. LANCASHIRE. Played at Leyton on August 4 and 5. Essex won by nine wickets. Less than a month ago Essex accomplished a remarkable performance against Lancashire at Man­ chester, having to go in to make 336 to win, and coming successfully out of the ordeal with four wickets still in hand. At Leyton last week they out­ played Lancashire at almost all points of the game, and gained the easiest of victories. For this they have to thank in very great measure Mr. Kortright, who, after he had met with a little success at the beginning of the innings, seemed to bowl faster than ever, and in neither innings were the Lancashire men aVle to time him properly. In addition to this he was helped a little by the wicket, which was not quite perfect, and to a bowler of Mr. Kortright’s pace this makes all the difference in the world ; it requires a certain amount of nerve to stand up to him when the wicket is absolutely perfect, if he is at his best, but when there is the least flaw in it only a very bold man can hope to hold out against him for long. Some rain had fallen in the night before the match began, and there was prospect of more rain to come, so that it looked well for the prospects of Lancashire when they won the toss. But neither against Mead or Mr. Kort­ right could they make any headway. By lunch time six wickets had fallen for 99, and the remaining four added only anothtr 20 runs to the total. Such an exceedingly bad beginning pointed to a severe defeat. By the timethat stumps were drawn Essex had placed themselves in an excellent position, having put on 179 runs for the loss of four wickets, 1hus leading by 60 runs. A good beginning was made by Mr. Owen and Carpenter, which was followed up by a fine stand by Mr. Perrin and Mr. McGahey, the latter of whom was not out 61 at the close of the day. He only increased this by seven runs on Friday, but his innings, which was exceedingly well played, was of inestimable value to his side. Mr. Fane was in great form on Friday, and Mead very considerably increased the total towards the end of the innings. Lancashire had to go in against a lead of 169, a balance which was likely to be far too heavy for them, for although there was little probability that they would collapse as in the first innings, there was also little probability that they would get the mastery over Mr. Kortright. It was a case of “ once bit, twice shy.” If it had not been for a very plucky stand at the end of the innings by Baker, Mr. Stoddart and Smith, the defeat would have been overwhelming. It was most unfortunate for Lancashire that Mold was unable to play. L a n c a s h ir e . First innings. Second innings. A.C. MacLaren, b Kortright 10 st Russell, b Bull 17 Ward (A.), b Mead ..........20 b Kortright Tyldesley, c Kortright, b Mead ............................... Sugg, b Kortright................. C. R. Hartley, st Russell, b Mead ................. A. Eccles, run out . 28 b Kortright b Kortright 20 Cuttell, b Kortright .......... 7 Baker,c Russell,b Kortright 4 W . B. Stoddart, c Russell, b Kortright ........................ 0 Briggs, b Koitright .......... 0 Smith, not out ................. 5 B 5, lb 3 ................. 8 Total .................119 cMead,bKortright 7 c Carpenter, b Kortright .. 4 c Lucas, b Koit­ right................. 7 st Russell, b Bull 70 c Reeves, b Mead 13 lbw, b Mead ... 8 not ou t................31 B9, lb 2, w 3... 14 Total..........211 C.J. Kortright, c Sugg, b Stoddart ......... Reeves, c Earthy, b Stoddart ................. Mead, b Baker ... , F. G. Bull, b Baker , B 20, lb 1 ... , Total ... .. 36 .. 12 .. 21 ..268 H. G. Owen, c Baker, b Cuttell.................SO Carpenter, c Smith, b Cuttell .................33 P.Perrin,lbw, b Briggs 24 C. McGahey, lbw, b Stoddart.................68 A. P. Lucas, b Baker 4 F. L. Fane, not out... 42 Ru8sell,lbw,bStoddart 7 Second in n in g s H . G. Owen, not out, '21; Car­ penter, c Tyldesley, b Stoddart, 5; P. Perrin, not out, 17.—Total (one wicket), 43. L a n c a s h ir e . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R.W . O. M.R. W . ... 27 9 50 6 ........... 28 7 56 6 ... 13 7 22 0 ........... 26 2 6 62 2 ... 3 1 10 0 ........... 10 4 24 0 ... 16-3 5 29 3 ........... 20 2 55 2 Kortright Bull ... Reeves... Mead ... Bull bowled three wides. E s s e x . First innirgs. O. M. R.W . Stoddart.......... 42 12 104 4 .. Cuttell .......... 31 9 78 2 .. Briggs ........... 22 6 44 1.. Baker .......... 17*4 3 41 3 .. Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 12 5 15 1 ... 7 0 15 0 !!! 4*3 1 13 0