Cricket 1899

J une 15, 1899. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, 197 TH E AUSTRALIANS. THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MATCH. TENTH OP THE TOUR. Played on the University Ground on June 8, 9 and 10. Australians won by 10 wickets. This was an altogether remarkable match. For once the Australian bowlers had to see what they could do on an absolutely flawless wicket, when Cambridge were batting in the first innings. Inm ost of their matches the peculiar season has been the cause of the wickets not being perfect, although some of them have come very near perfection. A t Cambridge, on Monday, there was nothing about Jones’ bowling of a terrifying nature—it was very fast, and that was all. In the same way the sting was taken out of the other bowling, and the Australians found that they were only human. Under the circumstances the Cambridge men came off with flying colours. They began extremely well, so well, indeed, that all sorts of things were prophesied as to what would be their total. A partial collapse was followed by more brilliant cricket, and in the end the total was the highest made by any team against the Australians. It was not to be supposed that the moderate Cam­ bridge bowling would have much effect upon the visitors, but the University would have had a lead of at least a hundred if they had not missed catches towards the end of the innings in a manner worthy of a second-rate village eleven. As it was, the first innings of each side produced a total of 436. When Cambridge went in a second time on Saturday they had the consciousness of having done extremely well, and there seemed not the slightest reason to suppose that any other result than a draw would be possible. But it was here that the excellence of the Australian bowling came in. The wicket had deteriorated to an almost imperceptible degree, and at once a man was found to take advantage of it. In the hands of Howell the Cambridge batsmen were as club cricketers, and a most disappointing collapse took place. The tail pulled themselves together and prevented an ignominious breakdown, but it became clear that the Australians would win if they had time. When they went in again they only had to make 123, and as there was none among the Cambridge bowlers who could imitate Howell’s example the wicket was once more, to all intents and purposes, perfect, so that Darling and Worrall knocked off the runs rapidly. Nevertheless, their feat was a very remarkable one, for they had to score at a tremendous pace. The heroes of the match were L. J. Moon and T. L. Taylor. The former, who is in the third year of residence, shswed great promise when he went up, but had never done anything of note until he met the Australians, when his batting was so remarkably good that he was given his blue at the completion of his innings. He was at the wickets for only two hours and twenty minutes making his 138, so that he could not be accused of letting the grass grow under his feet. Taylor, who also scored over a hundred, was batting for two hours and 40 minutes; his cricket was also of the best. Nearly all the other batsmen more or less distinguished themselves. To the great surprise of the onlookers the Australians made a most disastrous start, losing W orrall, Darling and Noble for 38. But then came a iplendid stand by Hill and Gregory, which lasted for a couple of hours and produced 217 runs. When the two famous batsmen had become settled they found absolutely nothing in the bowling, and accordingly made hay of it. W hat would have happened if Gregory had not been missed when he had only made 25 is another story. Iredale played well, but before stumps were drawn there was another collapse, and at the end of the day the visitors were still more than a hundred runs behind with three wickets to fall. On Saturday morning the Cambridge fielding went to pieces in a startling manner, and Jones and Howell put on 85 runs in 25 minutes, giving chances with impunity. Jessop bowled with great success. The rest of the match was a triumph for the Australians, and Cambridge men will not look back upon their cricket of Saturday with feelings of delight. C am bridge U n iv b b sitt . First innings. Second innings. L. J. M oon, c Noble, b Howell..................................138 c Iredale, b Jones 18 E. R. W ilson, lbw, b Noble 12 b Howell ........... 0 J. H. Stogden, b Noble ... 43 st Johns,bHowell 3 S.H.Day, c Darling, b Jones 17 b Jones ........... o G. L. Jessop, b Howell ... 13 c Jones,b Howell 11 T. L. Taylor, b Howell ...110 retired hurt ... 4 G. E. Winter, b Howell ... 16 cGregory,bHowell24 R. N. R. Blaker, c Howell, b M cL e o d ...........................26 b Howell ............. 0 E. F. Penn, lbw, b Noble ... 21 b McLeod .......... 27 A.E.Hind,cW orrall,b Noble 2 lbw, b Howell .. 14 H. H. B. Hawkins, not out 11 not out.................. 11 B 13, lb 1 4 .................. 27 B 6, lb 4 .1 0 Total .........436 Total ...122 J. Worrall, c Wilson, b Jessop ................... 8 J. Darling, b Hind ... 0 C. Hill, c Hawkins, b Jessop ................... 160 M. A. Noble, c Taylor, b Jessop ................... 8 S. E. Gregory, c Moon, b W ils o n ....................102 F. A. Iredale, c Taylor, b Jessop ......................40 A u stralian s . Y.Trumper, c Wilson, b J essop .................. 3 C. McLeod, c Stogdon, b J e sso p .................. 2 E. J ones, c Winter, b W ilson .................53 W . P. Howell, not out 49 A. E. Johns, c Moon, b W ils o n ................. 4 B 3, nb 4 ........... 7 Second innings:— Darling, not out, 60 Total (no wkt.), 124. C ambridge U n iv e r sity , Total ...436 , W orrall, not out, 53; J. extras (b 6, lb 3, nb 2), 11.— First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R W. Jones ... ... 43 7 124 1 ... .. 23 8 48 2 Noble .. ... 29 3 105 4 ... ... 1 0 1 0 McLeod ... 19 4 68 1 ... ... 1*1 0 2 1 Howell ... ... 28*4 6 91 4 ... ... 20 3 61 6 Worrall .. ... 6 1 15 0 ... Gregory ... 1 0 6 0 ... A u s tr a lia n s . O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Jessop ... ... 35 3 142 6 ... ... 11 1 33 0 Hind ... 22 3 60 1 ... ... 11 1 55 0 W ilson ... ... 25 2 1 145 3 ... Hawkins ... 9 0 34 0 ... !’.! 2 i 0 9 0 Penn ... 7 1 24 0 ... ... 2 0 16 0 Winter ... ... 3 0 24 0 .. Jessop bowled six no -balls. YORKSHIRE v. DERBYSHIRE. Played at Derby on June 8, 9, and 10. Yorkshire won by nine wickets. Weak enough in all conscience, owing to their successive misfortunes, Derbyshire had to deplore the absence of Chatterton in this match, and although they played up well to the last they were outmatched by the Yorkshiremen. The most noticeable facts of the game were the innings of Mr. Jackson and Storer, who both were within easy distance of the hundred when they were disposed of. Other Yorkshiremen greatly distinguished them­ selves with the bat, notably Tunnicliffe, Wainwright and Hirst, whilst Rhodes and Hirst were in grand form with the ball. Y orksh ire . LordHawke,bBerwick 8 Hirst, not out ...........63 Haigh, b Berwick ... 2 Rhodes, c Humphries, b Berwick ...........12 Hunter, c Humphries, b Bestwick ...........10 B 23, lb 2 ...........25 Brown, c Humphries, b Hulme ...................16 Tunnicliffe,cWright, b Berwick ..................43 Whitehead, c Hig<nn, b Storer ................25 F. S. Jackson, c Hum­ phries, b Bestwick .. 82 F.Mitchell, lbw, b Ber­ wick ...........................11 T o ta l...................313 Wainwright, b Best­ wick .......................... 46 Second innings : Brown, b Higson, 13 ; Tunnicliffe, not out, 19; Whitehead, not out, 1 Total, 33. D e r b y sh ir e . First innings. Second innings. L. G. Wright, b Rhodes ... 4 c Hirst, b W ain­ wright ................22 Bagshaw,c Jackson,b Haigh 16 b Hirst .....................40 Storer, lbw, b Jackson ... 96 c Rhodes, b Hirst 33 Ellis, b Haigh ................ 0 c Hawke, b Hirst 11 T. A . Higson, c Hunter, b Rhodes................................31 c Rhodes, b Hirst 6 Hancock, c Whitehead, b Rhodes Hulme, b Hirst .......... Berwick, not o u t ........... Young, c Tunnicliffe, Rhodes.. 0 cHunter,bRhodes 14 . 38 c Wainwright, b Rhodes ...........16 ..1 1 c Haigh, b Hirst 1 0 c and b Rhodes... 0 Humphries,cHirst,bRhodes 0 not out...................12 Bestwick, b Jackson........... 2 st Hunter,bRhodes 8 B 4, lb 2 ................... 6 Bl,lb 5,w l,nbl 8 Total...........203 Y o b k sh ir e . Total ...171 O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Hulme........... . 34 4 75 1 ... Bestwick ... ..27 7 44 3 ... Hancock ... ..21 4 48 0 ... Storer ........... .11 1 39 1 ... Berwick .. ..25 3 82 5 ... Higson ..5 0 22 0 ... 4*3 0 10 1 Young........... . 5 2 8 0 ... W right . D e r b y s h ir e . ... 4 0 23 0 O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Rhodes........... ...32 12 65 5 .. ... 14*2 4 50 4 Hait<h ........... ...21 6 49 2 .. Jackson........... ...17-3 6 39 2 .. ’.!! 9 4 12 0 Wainwright ... 8 3 18 0 ... ... 15 5 29 1 Hirst ........... ...16 6 26 1 ... ... 24 6 57 5 Whitehead .. ... 4 0 15 0 Rhodes delivered a wide and Hirst a no-ball. SURREY v. LANCASHIRE. Played at Old Trafford on June 8, 9 and 10. Surrey won by an innings and nine runs. The Lancashire men are still, sad to say, out of the way of luck. They did so badly in their first in­ nings against Surrey that seven wickets were down for 117. Then the captain and Sharpe, the old Aston Villa footballer, made a most valuable stand, putting on 115 while they were together by remarkably good cricket, and in the end the total was respectable, al­ though it was not considered as likely to be large enough for the county to have any chance of victory. But when stumps were drawn on Thursday night Brockwell and Hayes were both out and the total was only 73. On Friday morning, however, Abel and Jephson played finely, and afterwards there was a succession of good innings, Lockwood and Hayward being in splendid form, and W ood and Lees making hay of the tired bowling. Surrey ended their innings with a lead of 172 runs, and Lancashire never looked like saving the innings’ defeat. Lockwood again came into the Surrey eleven after his accident, and although he was unable to bowl with any effect he showed that his batting is still as good as ever. Tyl­ desley for once failed to do anything in either innings for Lancashire, which is quite a remarkable thing in its way. L a n c a sh ir e . First innings. Second innings. Ward, b Lees ...................39 b Jephson ... ... 37 Paul, c W ood, b Brockwell 8 b Brockwell ... l Tyldesley, c W ood, b Brock- c Jephson, b well ................................... 2 Richardson ... 5 C. R. Hartley, c W ood, b Richardson..........................26 b H ayward............17 Cuttell, c Brockwell, b Lees 5 run out ...........24 Baker, c Brockwell, b Hay­ ward ................................... 4 b Jeph son........... 0 Briggs, b Richardson......... 23 c and b Hayward 5 A.Eccles,stW ood,b Jephson 60 b Richardson ...31 Sharpe (J.), c Lockwood, b cWood.bRichard- Jephson .......................... 57 son .....................16 Smith, not out ................... 9 not o u t..................19 Mold, c Hayes, b Brockwell 14 c W ood, b Lees... 1 B 9, lb 5, nb 1 ...........15 W 4, lb 2, nb 1 7 Total ...262 Total ..163 S u r r e y . Brockwell, c Baker, b Cuttell ................... 0 Abel, b M old ...........54 Hayes, c Eccles, b Mold 7 D. L. A . Jephson, c Smith, b Briggs ... 64 Hayward, c Paul, b Cuttell ...................67 Lockwood, c Sharpe, b Mold ...................76 H. B. Richardson, b Cuttell ................... l K . J. Key, c Smith, b M o ld .........................20 Lees, lbw, b B riggs... 42 W ood, n o t o u t ...........61 Richardson, st Smith, b Briggs ...................28 B 10, lb 4 ...........14 Total ...434 L a n c a sh ir e . First innings. W . Second innings. O. M. ft. 0 . M. R. W . Brockwell ... 21 5 64 3 ... ... 13 5 21 1 Jephson 16 4 32 2 ... ... 9 0 19 2 Lockwood ... 13 0 41 0 ... ... 1 0 1 0 Lees ........... 17 4 38 2 ... ... 6 4 7 1 Richardson ... 15 6 30 2 ... ... 26 7 59 3 Hayward 5 1 24 1 ... ... 17 3 39 2 Abel ........... 4 0 18 0 ... Lockwood and Hayward each bowled a no-ball, and Brockwell bowled four wides. S u r r e y . O. M. R. W . 0 . M. R. W . Cuttell ... 53 18 113 3 Baker ... 17 0 67 0 Mold ... 44 12 97 4 Briggs ... 35-1 18 46 3 Sharpe ... 11 4 48 0 Ward ... 22 6 49 0 KENSINGTON v. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL. —Played at W ood Lane on June 3. K en sin gton . C. E. Bloomer, lbw, b Comyns ................... 2 O. J. Damian, o and b Comyns ................... 2 W . L . Murdoch, lbw, b Com yns.................. 28 W . W . Read, b Neame 40 L. de Montezuma, c Morris, b Wright ... 78 G. A . Nicholls, G. T. Davies, and J. Briggs did not bat. • Innings declared closed. L ondon C ou nty C ouncil . A. English, b W right 30 C. E. Currie, not out 12 A . E. Damian, not out 9 B 4, lb 6, w 1, nb 3 14 Total (6 wkts.) *215 W .V.Morris,cDamian, b Currie ................10 A . E. Terry, o and b Currie.......................17 A.P.Comyns,cDamian, b Read .................... 2 L. S. Jackson, notout 39 J. Wright, b Currie ... 3 H. J. Comyns, e Mur­ doch, b Montezuma 14 F. S. Neame, retired hurt ............................ 0 T. Cathoart, b Monte­ zuma ......................... A . R. W intle, c Read, b Montezuma ... ... G. Washington, c Da­ mian, b Montezuma L. Anderson, b Monte­ zum a........................... Byes ................... Total . 94