Cricket 1899

A u g , 24, 1899. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 361 NOTTS v. YORKSHIRE. Played at Trent Bridge on Aug. 17, 18 & 19. Yorkshire won by an innings and 42 runs. Notts had all the worst of the luck in this match. The wicket had begun to crumble a little by the time that they went in, and in their second innings the light was shockingly bad. To complete their discom­ fiture it rained heavily for a couple of hours on Saturday morning, and Rhodes found the wicket exactly suited to his bowling. The great innings of the match was the 138 by Hirst, who was at the wickets for two hours and a half ; at one time while he was in he made five consecutive 4’s off Wass, all by cuts. Y o rk sh ire . F. Mitchell, b J. Gunn 13 Tunnicliffe, c Shrews­ bury, b W ass..........52 Denton, c W . Gunn, b W ass........................50 F. 8. Jackson, c Good­ acre, b Wass ..........20 Wainwright, c Carlin, b Wass ................. 2 Hirst, stCarlin,bJonesl38 N otts , First innings. J. A. Dixon, b Hirst. E. Smith, b Jones ... 16 Haigh, c Dixon, b Jonfs........................16 Lord Hawke, b Jones 25 Rhodes, b Dixon ... 38 Hunter, not ou t........ 0 B 11, lb 5, w 2, nb 3 21 Total ...391 35 Dench, c Tunnicliffe, b Sm ith............................... 7 J. Gunn, c Mitchell,bSmith 9 W . Gunn, b Rhodes A. O. Jones, c Smith, Wainwright .............. Shrewsbury, c Mitchell, Khodes............................ W. B. Goodacre, run out . 47 Second innings, st Hunter, b Rhodes ..........16 b Wainwright ... 16 b Rhodes .......... 1 c Hunter, b Smith 4 G. J. Groves, run out ... 6 Carlin, b Wainwright.......... 9 Attewell, not out.............. 51 Wass, c Denton, b Rhodes 15 Lb 3, nb 1.................. 4 51 cJarkson,bRhodes10 c Smith,b Rhodes 18 c Tunnicliffe, b Rhodes .......... 1 b Rhodes .......... 0 notout........ ... 7 c Smith, b Rhodes 9 b Rhodes .......... 5 B 4, lb 1 ... 5 Total ..........257 Y orksh ire . Total ... 92 O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Wass . 30 8 96 4 Attewell 12 4 33 0 J. Gunn . . 33 15 60 1 Goodacre 9 1 33 0 Jones . 18 0 71 4 Dixon .. 3-4 0 81 1 Dench . . 14 6 47 0 Attewell and Gunn each bowled a wide and Gunn three no-balls. Rhodes Smith... Denton Hirst ... Wainwright 15 N o tts . First innings. O. M. R. W . 40-2 14 74 3 ... 26 7 74 2 ... 11 2 35 0 ... 10 3 34 1 Second innings. O. M. R. W . 3 36 2 Haigh Jackson 14 38 8 7 88 1 1 12 1 0 2 0 2 2 0 Smith delivered a no-ball. TH E AUSTRALIANS. THE RETURN GLOUCESTERSHIE MATCH. TH IRTIETH OF THE TOUR. Played at Cheltenham on Aug. 17, 18 and 19. Drawn. After their recent uncomfortable experiences at Canterbury and the Oval the Australians seemed likely to have a fairly easy task in beating Glouces­ tershire, although in the firstmatch they had anything but a walk over. But, as things turned out, they had once more to play for a draw, for when with 276 to win in three hours and a-quarter they had lost half of their wickets for 74 they were in a desperate position, from which they were, however, extricated by the plucky play of Darling and Iredale. It was not to be expected that the team would be seen at its best immediately after the anxiety of the big match at the Oval, more especially as the Australians did not reach Cheltenham until very late on Wednesday night or rather early on Thursday morning. For the same reason it was to be expected that Glouces­ tershire would find Townsend, on whom so much depended, a little off colour. But while Gloucestershire were batting on a wicket which was not quite perfect, the ball getting up dangerously at times, there was nothing to show that the Australians had been taking g art in the severest struggle of their tour, for their elding was as good as ever, while their bowling lacked none of its variety or devil. For the ninth time in the last ten matches Darling lost the toss. The commencement of the Gloucestershire innings was promising enough, although Rice was promptly bowled by Jones, for Champain and Townsen-i p aj ed excellent cricket which was continued ty Jei>up. While Champain was in he did nearly all the scoring, putting up 51 in fifty minutes out of the first 6S runs made. Jessop did not adopt his modern manner of playing himself in with great care, but Vegan to hit at once, treating Jones in a way to •which he is not accustomed. He was missed from a very hot change off Jones when he had made nine, and then proceeded to make 28 off him in three consecutive overs. His innings, while it lasted, was m o't attractive and not without excitement, for once he had a very narrow escape of being hurt by a bumping ball from Jones which hit him in the head ; he was at last, after being in an hour, bowled by Trumble by a ball which he thought was too far away to hit the wicket. Mean­ while Townsend had been plodding on in his steadiest manner for about an hour and ten minutes, but after he was out the batiing broke down, although Board made things look a little better by playing a lively innings. It was not a tig total that the Australians had to go in against, and they began well enough, but Trumper, who has not of late k pt up his brilliant form, did nothing, and at close of play four wickets were down for 113. Thus the Australians were in a fairly good position, for with Noble not out there was a possibility of a good score on the morrow. Noble kept up his end on Friday morning and p ayed a fine defensive game for two hours and twenty minutes, which was very fortunate for his side, for although when six wickets were down the Gloucestershire total had been exceeded ty 17, the tail collapsed in a remarkable manner, so that after all the Australians only had a lead of 25. Gloucestershire did so badly when they went in again that in about half an hour they lost Champain, Rice and Jessop and were only 16 runs. But as long as Townsend and Troup re­ mained the game was not over, as the Australians soon discovered. At the end of the day the score had been taken, slowly enough but certainly, from 41 for three wickets to 163 without further loss; the two Gloucestershire men were together from a quarter past three until six o’clock. At that time Townsend had come within eleven of scoring his two-thou andth run. On Saturday morning he soon made these eleven runs, and continued to bat in as collected a manner as ever. But at 178 Troup went for an in­ valuable innings, which had lasted for two hours and fifty minutes, and four wickets were down. In a minute or two five were down. Then Hemingway came in and hit boldly, and Board followed his example. When the innings closed the game was in a most interesting position for the Australians had time to make the runs. But they contented them­ selves with playing for a draw. For a time it looked as if they would accomplish their object with the greatest ease. Trumble and Worrall began well, but afterwards a great change came over the game until five wickets were down for 74. At this critical time Darling, who, like Hayward, must be getting thoroughly used to doing what is required at critical moments, was joined by Iredale, and steadily the hopes of the home team declined until they were gone altogether, and the bowling fell off. G lou cestersh ire . First innings. F. H. B. Champain, c Kelly, bJonee...............................51 R. W . Rice, b Jones .......... 0 C. L. Townsend, c Iredale, b Howell ........................ 24 G. L. Jessop, b Trumble ... 57 W . Troup, c Kelly, b Howell 1 WT.S. A.Brown,c&b Trumble 1 W. McG. Hemingway, b Howell............................... 0 Board, c Iredale, b Jones ... 42 H. S. Goodwin, b Trumble 6 Paish, c Kelly, b Noble ... 13 Roberts, not o u t ................. 6 B 1, lb 1 ................. 2 Second innings. cGregory,b Jones 25 b Howell .......... 6 not ou t.................135 b Jones ........... 5 b Howell .............51 b Jones ........... 4 cKelly,b Trumble 42 c Darling, b Trumble..........23 run ou t................ 0 cIredale,bTrumble 2 c Jones, b Lttver 0 B 5, w l,n b l... 7 Total ...203 Total ...300 A u str a lia n s . First innings. Second innings. J. Worrall. c Goodwin, b Townsend.....................34 c Goodwin, b Paish ........17 H. Trumble, c Paish, b Townsend.....................32 c Board, b Paish 36 M. A. Noble, b Paish.......77 c Townsend, b Roberts ........... 0 V.Trumper, c and b Roberts 1b Paish ............ 2 S. E. Gregory, run out ... 16 c Townsend, b Paish ........... 3 J. Darling, c Jessop, b Townsend ... ............. 24 notout................41 F. A. Iredale, b Jessop ... 15 notout................54 F.A.Laver,cBoard,bRoberts 9 J. J. Kelly, not out ........ 5 E. Jones, b Roberts ... ... 0 W . P. Howell, c Troup, b Paish ............................. 2 B 8, w 1, nb 4 ......13 B 13,1b5,w 2, nb 2 22 Total ...228 Total (5wkts) 175 Jones Noble Howell ... Trumble... GLOrCESTERSIlIRfi. First innings. O. M. R. W. ..........202 3 81 3 ........... ..........10 1 41 1 .. .. ... 23 10 36 ... 13 3 43 Second innings. O. M. R. W. 47 18 99 3 10 3 42 0 33 15 58 2 11 65 3 1 29 1 33 Laver ... 10 Jones delivered a na-ball and Howell a wide. A u str a lia n s . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. •<. W. Paifh ................. 14*4 2 35 2 .......... 19 6 32 4 Roberts ..........13 3 ,c8 3 .......... 11 2 34 1 Townsend .......... 35 6 80 3 ........... 21 5 48 0 Brown.................. 10 5 21 0 .......... 3 1 11 0 Jessop................. 16 3 41 1 .......... 17 5 28 0 Jessop delivered four no-balls and Roberts two no-balls and three wides. LEICESTERSHIRE v. HAMPSHIRE. PlayedatBournemouth onAugust 17,18 and 19. Drawn. The Hampshire eleven, although without Cap'ain Wynyard, Major Poore, Captain Bradford, Mr. Heseltine and Soar, nevertheless gave an excellent account of itself in batting, but when it Cdme to bowling ic was not remarkable that very little could be done. The great partnership of the innings was between Barton and Mr. Steele, the latter batting w.th great vigour and making 80 out of 137 in a couple of hourd. Another very good i»nings was played by Webb. On Friday night Leicestershire had made 231 for the loss of three wickets, so that there was practically no chance of finishing the game. Mr. de Trafford played a most attractive innings on Saturday, his 107 being put together in about two hours; he was missed with his score at one run. His partnership with Geeson prodnced 110 runs in 70 minutes. When the innings closed there was evidently no time to finish the match, but except for a splendid innings of 67 not out by Mr. Rob­ son, Hampshire did not do very well. H am psh ire . First innings. C. Robson, c and b Geeson 5 A. J. L. Hill, c Whiteside, b Ge son............................... 14 Webb, run out .................91 Capt. Quinton, c Marriott, b Pougher........................46 Barton, not out .................126 E. C. Lee, c McDonald, b Agar ............................... 27 D. A. Steele, b Pougher ... 80 Phillips, b Agar .................40 Baldwin.cWhiteside,bAgar 9 Tate, c Fowke, b Geeson ... 17 Sutherland, c Whiteside, b Agar ............................... 21 Byes 13, lb 5, w 3 .. ..2 1 Second inniD gs. not out.................gr c Whiteside, b Pougher.......... 3 b Pougher.......... 0 b Pougher.......... 4 cWhiteside,bAgar 14 not out................. 3 b Pougher.......... 0 Total... ...497 Total (5 wkts) 91 L e ic e s t e r s h ir e . Robson, b Knight, c Steele... .................65 H. H. Marriott, b Baldwin .................32 G. H. S. Fowke, c Sutherland, b Hill... 55 R. McDonald, c Rob­ son, b Baldwin ... 32 C.J.B.Wood.bBaldwin 67 Pougher, c Baldwin, b T a te ........................24 C. E. de Trafford, c Steele, b Baldwin ...107 Geeson, c Steele, b Baldwin................ 61 King (J.), c Robson, b Baldwin ..........10 Whiteside, b Baldwin 9 Agar, not out .......... 9 B IO, lb 4, w l ...15 Total . 476 H am psh ire . First innings. O. M R. W. Agar ......... 41.2 8 117 4 Geeson......... 58 18 130 3 Wood ......... 22 4 61 0 Pougher 40 11 74 2 Macdonald .. 10 2 42 0 Marriott 2 0 16 0 Fowke......... 4 1 18 0 King ........ 6 1 18 0 Second innings. O. M.R. W. ... 10 4 20 1 ... 10 2 32 0 19 6 39 4 Wood bowled two wides and King one wide. O. Phillips ... £6 8 60 0 H ill.......... 40 6 105 1 Baldwin .. 67.1 24 137 7 Quinton... 18 5 46 0 L eiceste r sh ir e . M. R. W . O. M.R. W . Tate......... 26 7 52 1 Steele ... 21 7 40 1 Sutherland 7 2 21 0 Hill bowled a wicVe.