Cricket 1898

A p r i l 14, 1898. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 51 BUSSEY’S 9 C - CR ICKET BATS ARE THE GRANDEST MADE. BUSSEY’S CR ICKET BALLS RETAIN THEIR SHAPE, AND LAST LONGER THAN ANY OTHER, BUSSEY’S <CCB« LEG GUARDS ARE EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD, AND THE LIGHTEST MADE, BUSSEY’S BATTING CLOVES ARE FAR SUPERIOR TO THE USUAL GLASS, BUSSEY’S < C G M CR ICKET BAGS ARE OF THE HIGHEST GRADE. BUSSEY’S SCORE BOOKS ARE THE MOST APPROVED. BUSSEY’S DIARY AND COMPANION IS A GEM FOR SIXPENCE. CATALOGUE ON APPLICATION TO 36 & 38, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, LO N DO N ; OR dealers all over the world . MANUFACTORY— PECKHAM , LONDON. TIMBER MILLS— E L M S W E L L , SU F FO LK . BETWEEN THE INNINGS. A QUAR TER OF A CEN TU R Y ’S U N IV E R S IT Y CR ICKET . (Continued from page 37.) CHAPTER III. 1873. There could be no doubt as to which was the stronger of the two ’Varsity teams in 1873. While Oxford (who had won but one game out of six in 1872) won every one of their five matches, Cambridge had but one win to their credit out of seven games, the other six all being lost. Oxford beat the M.C.C. by seven wickets (twelve a side playing), seven of her men making over 20 in the first inn­ ings of 321, E. 8. Garnier’s 66 not out (absent when innings was continued on the second day), Game’s 54, and Otta­ way’s 43 being the most notable scores; while C. W. Boyle, with seven for 40 in the club’s first innings, was the most de­ structive bowler. Then the Gentlemen, a strong team, were beaten in an innings, Ottaway making 82, and J. Maude taking six for 14 in the scratch team’s first effort. Middlesex made a fine fight at Prince’s, but went down by two wickets in the end. C. A. Wallroth scored a first inn­ ings of 109 for the victors; and the fielding must have been pretty smart, for the two most dangerous batsmen on the county side, R. D. and I. D. Walker, were both run out in the first innings. In a small- scoring match at Lord’s, the M.C.O. went down by 40 runs, C. W. Boyle taking 11 for 45 in the match, while for the opposi­ tion Alfred Shaw bad 11 for 85, Arnold Rylott 10 for 119 (twelve a side). Cam­ bridge made a fine fight, but succumbed in the end by three wickets, though C. Tillard’s bowling in the second innings (six for 62, of the seven wickets that fell) at one time looked like pulling them out of the fire. Ottaway made 41 and 52, while W. J. Ford scored 51 not out and 11 for the losers—one can guess by what mighty slamming, strongly in contrast with C J. O.’s cool, steady, scientific play. As for Cambridge, their first match, against a strong X I. of England, was disastrous, the team crumpling up before Alfred Shaw and Allan Hill for a first innings of 56; and, though their captain, F. E. R. Fryer, played a grand innings of 84 at the second attempt, they lost by ten wickets. William Oscroft scored 90 for the Eleven. A small-scoring match v. the M.C.C. was lost by 53 runs, C. I. Thornton hitting up 99 (of a total of 194) in the second innings against his old Alma Mater. Fryer was again top scorer for Cambridge with 59 in the first innings. G. Young took ten for 87, and Rylott had nine for 30 when the club took the field a second time. Then came the solitary win, one in a single innings over another X I. of England, and that by no means a weak team. G .E . Jeffery hit up 127, G. Macan made 57, W. Blacker 38, T. Latham 35 ; and C. Tillard bowled very finely, taking in all 12 for 115. Oscroft (who was engaged at Fenner’ s that season, by the way) made 96 and 21 of the Eleven’s 192 and 120. Though Tillard’s 62 not out against the Gentle­ men was considerably the highest score of the match, his side succumbed by five wickets; and at the Oval a week later Surrey beat them by 117 runs, Jupp and Dick Humphrey putting on 96 for the first wicket in the second innings. Against the M.C.C. G. H. Longman made 43 and 47 ; but no one else did much, and another defeat by five wickets was the result. Of the ’Varsity match I have already spoken. The teams therein were :— Oxford: —C. W. Boyle, S. E. Butler, C. K. Francis, W. H. Game, E. S. Gnrnier, W. Law, J. Maud, C. E. B. Nepean, C. J. Ottaway, A. W. Ridley, and C. A. Wall­ roth. (Lord Harris was kept out by an injured hand.) Cambridge :—W. Blacker, W. J. Ford, F. E. R. Fryer, G. Hone Goldney, H. A. Hamilton, G. E. Jeffery, T. Latham, G .H . Longman, H. M. Sims, A. S. Tabor, and C. Tillard. (This was the only match in which Ford played for Cambridge in 1873.) PRINCIPAL AVERAGES. B atting . Not B ’st Inns. out. Runs. Aver, score. C. J. Ottaway (O.) ... 8 ... 1 ..,. 278 ... 39 71 ... 82 C. E. B. Nepean (O.). .. 8 ... 1 .. 208 ... 29 71 ... 50 C. A. Wallroth (O.) ... 9 ... 1 .. . 190 ... 23-75 ...1(9 T. Latham (C.) ... ... 13 ... 1 .. . 264 ... 2-200 ... 48 TV. Law (0.) ... ... 9 ... 0 ... 198 ... 22-00 ... 39 G. E. Jeffery (C.).. ... 13 ... 0 ..,. 276 ... 2123 ...127 G. H. Longman (C.). .. 13 ... 0 ... 275 ... 2115 ... 49 F. E. R. Fryer (C.) ... 13 ... 0 .. B ow lin g . . 254 ... 19-53 ... 81 Overs. Runs. Wkts. Aver. C. W. Boyle (0.) ... ... 186-2 ..,. S85 ... 30 ... 950 J. Maude ( 0 .) .......... ... 192 ... 245 ... 23 ... 10f5 G. E. Jeffery (C.) ... C. Tillard (C .).......... ... 324 .. 460 ... 31 ... 1352 ... 196-1 ... 316 ... 21 .. 1504 1874. Two losses were chronicled against Oxford this year; but as the Dark Blues won their other four matches by big margins, they had an unquestionably better record than their rivals, who lost as many matches as they won. The Freshmen’s match at Oxford saw the debut of one of the best all-round men the ’Varsity ever had, F. M. Buckland, all too soon lost to first-class cricket; and a grand debut it was, for he ran up 136. In the corresponding game at Cambridge a still finer player, W. S. Patterson, scored 147, and followed this up with 75 for the XV I. against the X I. Yet neither of these men got his Blue this year, though both played in every match but the ’Varsity game. Oxford began with a game against the All England Eleven, in which, for some reason or another, they played fourteen men. After their un­ beaten record of the previous year one would have thought that they would have preferred to tackle even such formid­ able opponents level-handed. They won comfortably by 116 runs, a freshman, T. W. Lang (brother of Andrew of that ilk), taking seven wickets for 37, while Allan Hill had 13 for 116 for the losers. Then the M.C.C. lowered the Dark Blue flag by 40 runs, Mr. J. F. Crooke, who had a week before played an innings of 56 not out for the club against Cambridge, being the principal scorer in the game with a second innings of 52. W. Foord- Kelcey, of Kent fame, took nine for 69