Cricket 1898

372 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A ug . 25, 1898. MIDDLESEX v. LANCASHIRE. Played at Lord’s on August 22 and 23. Middlesex won by an innings and 33 runs. L ancashire are not fortunate ju st a t present, and therefore it was not surprising th at they should lose the toss again st M iddlesex and have to bat on a some­ w hat difficult w icket. M iddlesex did rem arkably w ell on M onday, keeping a t the wickets n early the whole of the day and m aking over 300 runs. N early every m an on the side was responsible for a good score, but the chief credit belongs to M r. W arner and M r. Ford, who put on 113 runs for the second w icket, and took the edge off the Lancashire bowling. M r. W arner’s innings w as, as usual, excellent in every w ay, w hile M r. Ford played a very high-class gam e, and h it very bard on occa-ions. The other innings which stood out prom inently was th at of M r. Cobb, although it was not to be compared with some of the others from the point of view of scientific cricket. For a long tim e after he w ent in he had very con­ siderable difficulty in k-eping up his w ickets, and even when he began to m ake runs he could never be said to be quite at home. B u t the latsm an who in the first m atch in which he is opposed to Mold is able to p lay “ like a book ” is yet to be found, and the great thing is to m ake runs against him somehow or other. This M r. Cobb did, and there are far more unlikely things than th at he m ay be found to be one of the b ett bats in the M iddlesex team when he has had m ore experience. L ancashire had a few m inutes b atting, and were fortunate enough not to lose a w icket. On Tuesday m orning M r. M acLaren had to retire after batting a few m inutes, and his loss was so severely felt by his side th at they never recovered from it. Some rain h id fallen during the night, and L ancashire could do very little w ith the bow ling. In the first innings only W ard and T yldesley m ade any­ thing like a stand, and a follow on was necessary. The second innings was also by no m eans satisfactory, and h alf the wickets were down for about a hundred. M r. M acLaren was unable to bat in the second innings ; he is said to be suffering from neuralgia in the neck, which m ay possibly be a m edical nam e for a slight sunstroke. H is loss w as, of course, a great blow to L ancashire, who gave but an indifferent account of them selves, although W ard again played a good innings. M iddlesex . 4 J . D ouglas, bB riggs... P . F. W arner, lbw , b M o ld ..............................42 F . G. J . Ford, b Mold 76 R . N. Douglas, b M old 58 R aw lin, c C uttell, b M o ld ..............................22 C. M . W ells, c R ad­ cliffe, b Cuttell ... 36 H . H . Cobb, not out... 55 T rott (A . E .), cEccles, b C uttell ..................... 0 L ancashire . F irst innings. A , C. M acLaren, retired ill 8 W ard (A .), c Trott, b Cun­ liffe .......................................35 T yldesley, c R . N. D ouglas, b H earne ..............................41 F . H . E. Cunliffe, c W ard, b C uttell ...1 4 G. MacGregor, c Sugg, b C u tte ll..................... 0 Hearne (J. T .), c Radcliffe, b Cuttell 18 B 12, lb 4 ............16 T otal .311 Sugg (F .), c M acGregor, Cunliffe ........................... B aker, c J . D ouglas, H earne.................................... A . Eccles, lbw, b Trott C uttell, b H earne.................. H allows, b T ro tt.................. B riggs, not out ................... M old, b Trott........................... R adcliffe, c W arner, H earne.................................... B 4, lb 1, w 3, nb 3 Second innings, ab sen t..................... 0 c MacGregor, b R aw lin ............43 c M acGrrgor, b H eam e ............10 2 b T rott... T otal ... 1 7 2061 3 11 ...117 not out.................... 22 c and b W ells ... 25 c Cobb, b W ells 24 c Cobb, b W ells 8 c and b H earne... 12 b H earne ............10 c J . D ouglas, b H earne ............ 4 B 2 , w l ... 3 T o ta l... B riggs Mold Cuttell M iddlesex . O. M . R . W . .3 2 10 83 1 I H allows .3 0 9 75 4 B aker . 26'3 7 75 5 O. M . R .W . , 23 6 62 0 2 2 0 0 L ancashire . F irst innings. Second innings. O. M . R . W . O. M . R. W . H earne ............. 31*2 26 29 4 .............. 29 13 46 4 T rott..................... 29 11 53 3 .............. 27 8 56 1 Cunliffe ............ 15 6 24 2 .............. 7 3 16 0 W ells ... 15 8 14 3 R aw lin... 10 2 26 1 Cunliffe bowled three wides and three no-balls. SURREY v. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Played at Clifton on August 22 , 23 and 24. Gloucestershire won by five wickets. The Surrey team has often found its opponents in rem arkably good form d uiing the tour in the W est, and there was no “cocksuredness” in the team wh n it began the match against Gloucestershire on a bowler’s w icket. I t seemed a t first an excellent thing to have won the toss, and an innings of 12") was by no means a bad performance again st the bowling of M r. Town­ send, who lias lately been carrying everything before him . The only score of any im portance was made by M r. Jephson, but several of the team m ade double figures, although everybody found M r. Townsend’s bowling very difficult to cope with. W hen Glouces­ tershire went in M r. Troup was very soon disposed of, but the Doctor and M r. Townsend did so w ell tin t the Surrey hcore seemed like’y to be exceeded by very m any runs. B ut after the partnership w as broken the bowlers began a t ones to take the upper hand, and six wickets were down for P7, one run less than the score made by Surrey for the same num ber of wickets. A decided rot seemed to hnve set in, but w ith the arrival of M r. Brown at the w ickets to partner M r. Townsend, the batsm en once more began to have a look in. Most of the runs were made by M r. Brown, whose innings of 30 was of inestim able value under the circum stances. M eanw hile M r. Townsend kept steadily on, and when stumps were drawn w ith the score ten runs ahead of th at m ade by Surrey, he was still not out with 39 to his credit—a slow but sure innings. Seven wickets were down. On Tuesday, on a sligh tly improved wicket, the tail played up brilliantly, and M r. Townsend still kept up his end. Board, whose m any fine performances this year have not gained him promotion in the order of going in , carried his bat for 31, and was going very strong when the innings closed ; it seemed a p ity that he had not teen put in earlier. M r. Townsend was out last for an invaluable innings. Surrey did none too well when they went in again, although Brockwell and Abel m ide a fairly good start. Some rain fell during the day which ma.de things look unprom ising for the side which had to bat last. Surrey lost five wickets for about 60, and were still behind the Gloucestershire total, but the ta il did much better. M r. Jephson again played a fine innings, while M r. Crawford m ade the highest innings on the side in excellent style, and showed clearly enough that the Committee were wise in still continuing to try him , despite a few failures after a successful d(5but. If somebody could have stayed w ith him , Surrey m ight yet have won the m atch, but as it was. G loucestershire, after a good fight, won pretty easily. S urrey . F irst innings. Abel, st Board, b Townsend 0 F irst innings. S urrey . Brockwell, c Sewell,b Jo;sop 4 H olland, c Sewell, b Jessop 12 Lockwood, b Townsend ... 15 H ayw ard,c Sew ell, b Towns­ end ....................................... 13 D .L.A .Jephson,bG race,sen. 32 H ayes, b Brown ..................... 10 Braund, b Brown.....................13 V . F. S. Crawford, c and b T o w n sen d .............................. 0 W ood, not out ......................11 Richardson, c Richardson, b Townsend ..................... 9 N o-ball Total... ..120 Total .. 216 Total... E xtras ............ 9 T otal (5 wkts.) 138 O. M . It. W . Townsend ... 26 2 8 61 5 . Jessop ............ 14 3 45 2 . Brown ............14 8 11 2 . Grace, sen............ 2 0 2 1 . Townsend bowled a wide, Jessop four no-balls, and Brown two n o -lalls. Second innings. O. M . R . W . 9 99 4 4 37 1 9 64 4 3 4 0 40 16 30 Second innings. stBoard,b Towns­ end .....................19 c Board ,b Towns­ end .....................17 b Brown ............ 0 c Board,b Towns­ end ..................... 8 run out ............ 7 c and b Jessop ... 40 c Sewell, b Brown 5 b Brown ............ 28 not out.....................48 c Cham pain, b Brown ............ 15 c Grace, sen., b Townsend ... 17 B 5 ,lb 1, w l,n b 5 12 G loucestershire . F irst innings. Second innings. W . G. Grase, sen., b Rich­ ardson .......................................27 c Braund,b Brock- W. Troup, c H ayw ard, b Lockwood .............................. 8 not out .............46 C. L . Townsend, c Richard­ son, b H ayward ............ 68 c A bel, b H ay­ w ard 11 C.O. H . Sewell, c Brockwell, b Lockwood ..................... 8 b Richardson ... 0 F. H . B. Champain, b Lock­ wood ....................................... 1 c Jephson, b n r t v L „ Richardson .. 30 C*. L . Jessop, b Richardson 3 n o to u t.. iq R. W . Rice, b Lockwood ... 3 W .S .A Brown, b Brockwell 30 c Wood, b Brock- W . G. Grace, ju n ., b Lock- ............ ^ wood ....................................... 13 A. G. Richardson, c Abel, b L ockw oo d.............................. 4 Board, not out ..................... 31 No-balls ..................... 3 G loucestershire . O. M . R W . O. M. R . W Richardson ... 29 13 71 2 ... ... 25 8 51 2 Lockwood... ... 34 12 82 6 ... ... 2 0 4 0 B rockw ell... .. 9 2 32 1 ... ... 17 6 40 2 H ayw ard ... ... 1-2 0 6 1 ... ... 9 4 21 1 H ayes ... 1 0 5 0 ... ... 4 0 10 0 Lockwood bowled three no-balls, R ichardson one no-ball, and H ayw ard one w ide. YORKSHIRE v. SUSSEX. Played at Brighton on August 22, 23 and 24. Yorkshire won by 193 runs. W ith their victory in the championship already practic t)ly secure Y orkshire, by th^ir cricket on the first day of tbe Susstx m atch, m ade th*-ir position as cei tain as anything can w ell be in cricket m atters. Brown followed up h is w onderful innings a t Chester­ field by scoring 1 50 in three hours and a h a lf without m aking any m istakes w hatever, while Tunnicliffe, his companion in the fam ous partnership, was also in great form. Before the two Yorkshirem en were parted the score was taken to 133 for the first wicket. M r. Jackson completed the dem oralization of the Sussex bowlers, although he hardly m ade his 50 runs as quickly as usual. B y the tim e th at he was out Yorkshire were w ell on their w ay 1 o a big score, and as Denton, Lord H awke and Rhodes a ll m ade runs, the total at close of p lay was 355 for nine w ickets. T his, on Tuesday, w as increas id by 73 runs, the last two men, H aigh and H unter, m aking a very fine stand. Sussex began their innings w ith M r. Fry and M r. Latham . On this occasion M r. L atham failed to distinguish himse’.f, but M r. F ry, who had not done as m uch as usual in the two m atches in which M r. L ath am w as so successful, once more returned to bis place as the highest scorer of the team . He was in particularly fine form, and although, except from M r. Murdoch, he for a long tim e received little assistance he batted so well th at the score began to be consider­ able. There was even a prospect of saving the follow on, and thus m aking a draw nearly sure. The pros­ pect soon became a certainty, for M r. F ry continued to bat freely and eventually carried his bat, after one of the best innings he has ever played. W hen Y ork­ shire went in again the w icket was not as good as it had been, and except for Tunnicliffe and Brown the side could do very little. Tunnicliffe played a splen­ did innings. W hen Y orkshire declared, it was gene­ rally felt that Sussex m ight have a difficulty in playing out tim e, and after a terrib ly bad start, M r. F ry and M r. M urdoch being out before a run was scored, Yorkshire had the m atch in hand, although it w as a race again st tim e. I t m ay be said that Bland was obliged to retire, owing to a strain, in the m iddle of the Yorkseire innings, at a tim e when he was bowling rem arkably well. Y orkshire . F irst innings. 8econd innings. Brown, c and b Hum phreys 150 c B utt, b P arris... 58 Tunnicliffe, st B utt, b Hum ­ phreys .......................................47 not out ............ 83 F . rt. Jackson, c B utt, b K illick ..................................... 50 b Bland ............ 9 Denton, c Parris, b B land 24 c B u tt, b Tate ... 13 E. Sm ith, b Bland ............ 6 Lord H awke, c L atham , b Hum phreys ..................... 35 n o to u t..................... 5 C. E . M . W ilson, b K illick 7 b T a te ..................... 8 F . W . M illigan, run out ... 0 b Bland Rhodes, b K illick... H aigh, b P arris ... H unter, not out ... . B 11, lb 3, nb 1 0 20 45 c H um phreys, T ate ... 29 b B land ... 15 E xtras... 11 3 4 Total .....................428 T otal (7 w kts.)*166 •Innings declared closed. S ussex , F irst innings. C. B . F ry, not out ....... 179 P . H . Latham , c H aigh, b Rhodes ............................. 7 W . L . M urdoch, c Sm ith, b W ilson ...........................25 C. L . A . Sm ith, c H unter, b W ilson ............................. l W . Newham, b H aigh ... 6 K illick, c H unter, b W ilson 19 P arris, b M illigan .........? 5 B utt, lbw, b Brown ........... 5 T ate, b M illig a n .................... 3 Bland, run out ..................19 H um phreys, ju n ., b Rhodes 4 B 6, nb 2 ............................. 8 Second innings, b Rhodes ............ 0 b M illig a n ............16 b Rhodes ... ... 0 b H aigh ............ lbw , b Brown ... c Rhodes, b Sm ith b W ilson ............ c Rhodes,b Sm ith b Sm ith ............ b Rhodes ............ not out..................... B 2, nb 1 ... Total ... ...311 Total ...........91