Cricket 1899

J an . 26, 1899. CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 13 172, the chief scorer being Iredale, with 55 not out. S outh A ustralia . First innings. J. J. Lyons, c Gregory, b Noble .................................... 6 J. Darling, b Noble ...........27 C. Hill, c Kelly, b Howell... 73 G. Giffen. c ond b Noble ... 15 J. C. Headman, c & b Noble 38 F. Jarvis, b McKiobin ... 21 H. Cbinner, c Howell, b N o b le ......... ................... 3 E. Jones, c Noble*b Howell 82 A. E. H. Evans, b Noble ... 0 J. McKenzie, not out........... 33 V. Hugo, st Kelly, b H owtll 25 N -b 10, w 1 ... ...........11 Second inniDgs. b Noble ........... 1 cGregory,bHowell70 b Howeil .......109 b Howell ........... 3 b Pye ...............25 b McKibbin ... 27 o Mackenzie, b McKibbin ... 0 cGregory,bHowell 3 not out ........... 4 c Noble, b Howell 7 b Howell ......... 0 E x tra s......20 Total ...£34 Total ...269 N ew S outh W ales . First innings. A . C. K . Mackenzie, b Hugo H. Donnan, not out ... M. A . Noble, run out... S. E. Gregory, b Jones F. A . Iredale, c Darling, Jones .......................... V . Trumper, c Jones, J a rv is..................................68 L. W. Pye, lbw, b Giffen ... 16 R. A . Duff, b Jones ...........25 J. J. Kelly, c and b Giffen 53 W . Howell, c Jarvis,b Giffen 0 T. R. McKibbin, c Hugo, b G ifftn .................................. 0 U 1, lb 4, nb 1, w 1 ... 7 Total ................. 374 Second innings, st MackeLzie, b Giffen .......10 ...160 cReedman.bGiffen 0 ... 1 cand b Giffen ... 30 ... 3 b Jones .. 1 6 c Darling,b Giffen 55 c Jarvis, b Lyons 0 c Hugo, b Giffen 9 c Jarvis, b Giffen 7 not o u t.................27 b Jones ........... 1 b Jones ..............23 Lb 6, nb 2, w 1 9 Total ......... 172 S outh A ustralia . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Noble ........... 37 8 126 6 ........... 9 3 27 1 B ow e’.l ........... 18 2 73 2 ........... 39'3 10 116 6 McKibbin ... 205 1 9 2 ........... 11 1 46 2 P y e ................... 8 2 19 0 ........... 23 5 52 1 Trumper........... 4 1 6 0 ............. 1 0 8 0 Noble bowled tbree no-balls and two wides, M c- K ibtin five no-balls and one wide, Trumper three no-balls, Pye one no-ball and two wides. N ew S outh W ales . First innings. Jones Giffen Jarvis Lyons Hugo Evans Reedman 0.~ M. R. W . ... 50 16 1H 3 . ... 39*4 6 111 6 4) 4 14 5 41 2 25 2 15 . 20 ... 19 ... 10 Second innings. O. M. R. W. . — - 62 3 -----------83 6 , — — 5 0 — — 13 1 Jones bowled one wide and Evans one no-ball. NEW SOUTH WALES v. VICTORIA. On December 27 this match ended in a defeat for New South Wales at Mel­ bourne, whose chances of winning the Sheffield Shield had been highly thought of, b y 190 runs. Trumble had a great deal to do with the success of the V ic­ torians, taking three wickets for 45 in the first innings and eight for 58 in the second. It will be remembered that in the match against South Australia he took eight wickets in the first innings for 123, and three in the second for 36. Victoria had the good fortune to bat first, and thanks to 109 by Worrall made a total of 189 on a difficult pitch. Howell took five wickets for 75. When New South Wales w>nt in the wicket had become very treacherous, and the team could only put up 99 runs. M cLeod took six wickets for 42. In the second innings Victoria did better, and ran up a total of 219, of which the best score was made by Graham, 45. Nothing remarkable was done in the way of bow ling; but M 'K ibbin had three wickets for 29. W ith 310 to make New South Wales collapsed before Trumble, and were all out for 119, of which Gregory claimed 49. VICTORIA v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA (Return). A t Melbourne, Victoria beat South Australia, on January 3rd, by an inning j and 218 runs. The victory was chiefly due to the fact that the home team were lucky enough to bat first on a perfect wicket, whereas rain completely upset the chances of their opponents. Victoria’s score was 455 (L iver 137, not out, Trumble 70). Jones took four wickets for 138, and Giffen three for 145. On a heavy wicket, South Australia-made 136 (Darling 62) and 101 (H ill 33). As ia his two other inter-colonial matches this year Trumble took eleven wickets—eight in one innings and three in the other. In this match his three were taken in the first innings for 57, and his eight in the second for 39. McLeod took six wickets for 37 in the first innings, and two for 36 in the second. SOUTH AUSTRALIA v. QUEENSLAND. Queensland were defeated at Brisbane early in January by South Australia by an innings and 283 runs. Queensland batted first, and made 101. South Australia put up 583, of which Darling claimed no fewer than 210. In the second innings Queensland were out for 198. Giffen bow led with remarkable success. SOUTH AUSTRALIA v. NEW SOUTH WALES (Return). New South Wales turned the tables ou their former visitors, and won by three wickats at Sydney on January 11. They batted first, and made 579 (Gregory 89, Kelly 66, Pye 51, not out). Jones took six wickets for 154. South Australia made 164 (Lyons 41) and 469 (H ill 159, Reeiman 68, not out). M ’K ibbin took five wickets in the first innings for 54, and five in the second for 168. New South Wales, with 256 to make, lost seven wickets. The chief scorers were Noble, 101, and Iredale, 77. [The complete scores of some of the above matches have not yet reached us. — E d .] P R E S S v . P A R L I A M E N T A T S Y D N E Y . T he Press and the Parliamentary repre­ sentatives had a field day at the Sydney Ciicket Ground on December 11th. “ The field d a y ” applies in a double sense, for both had their share of leather-hunting. The eleven of the fourth estate were un­ able, however, to get their best team together, owing to a bar being placed on one man, viz,, Iredale. . . The score-sheet showed that the Press had registered 237, and that Parliament had lost four wickets for 189; therefore the match was drawn in favour of the legislators. The latter were held much too cheaply b y their opponents, who, having put up a few over the hundred with the loss of but one wicket, thought they could not lo s e ; but after one had thrown his wicket away, and another retired, the remainder did not offer much opposition. Then it came to the Parliamentary men to go to the wicketi, and they had a dark horse up their sleeve. W e all knew that O ’Gonor had in the past given promise when he played for Central Cumberland of being one day a front-rank batsman ; but as it was a couple of years since he had played regular cricket we hoped that he had lost his form. Our minds were, however, soon disabused of that idea. He laid about him in all directions, hit often and hard, and finally retired with 100 to his credit. As a last resort some of us formed a deputation and waited on our modest ciptain and begged him to use his best endeavours to effect a separation. He promised to con­ sider the matter and the deputation thanked him and withdrew. Shortly after we were much gratified to see him toe the bowler’ s crease and we softly murmured to one another, “ N ow we shall see our op­ ponents completely put to route,” and for myself my thoughts wandered back to a similar scene some twenty years or so ago, when I was one of a junior eleven on Moore Park. Our captain then was our best bowler, but like the press leader he was much too modest and. kept himself off. Our opponents had reached to within one of our score with but seven wickets down and we in desperation begged him to go on. He did so and performing the hat trick straight away we won by one run. M y anticipations of a similar achievement on the present occasion were, however, destined to be rudely and ruth­ lessly shattered. I think two overs sufficed, bat in that twelve b ills the score had been augmented to the tune of 23, and one ball O’ Conor lifted into the grand stand. It was quite a relief to us that we were spared the task of forming another deputation to urge him to try someone else. Ferguson on joining O’Oonor assisted his comrade in leading us a pretty dance. However, as everything come3 to him who waits, we at length got rid of “ F ergy,” as his brother legislators called him, and we thought we had started on the tail, b u ; again we were doomed to disappointment, for Boydell proved to be possessed of sounder defence than his fore­ runner. He saw O’Conor get his hundred and retire, then came the Minister for Lands (the H on. J. H . Carruthers), and he too showed us that he had not f jr- gotten to use the willow as he had ia old days of the Oarlingford Club. A t length our captain gave Iredale a show with the ball. I may here say in parenthesis that though the Australian Eleven man had an embargo placed on his batting he was allowed to taae his place in the field. On seeing him take the ball the gallant leader of the Government ,pro tem, turned to me and gave voica to his feelings iu a prolonged sigh, then, “ Does he break ? ” i put my hands wide apart indicating a break of three feet, and then came a face that could not have been more elongated had a vote of censure been cariied against the Government. The wicket was so per­ fect that the best bowler in the world could not have turned the ball more than a couple of inches. He, however, remained till the last ball of the day, when Iredale bowled him. Those of the Press who showed any knowledge of batting at all were J. C. Davis 71 retired, A. Gregory 67, and Wilkinson 37 not out. —Sydney Mail.