Cricket 1899

394 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S e p t . 7, 1899. THE SCARBOROUGH FESTIYAL. TH E AUSTRALIANS. THE MATCH AGAINST MR. C. I. THORNTON’ S TEAM. TH IRTY-FO U RTH OF THE TOUR. Played at Scarborough on August 31 and September 1 and 2. Abandoned. With the exception of Captain Wynyard and Leveson-Gower the team which was collected together by Mr. C. I. Thornton represented the North of England, but not by any means the North at its strongest. Nevertheless, except in the matter of bowling, it was a good team. Fortunately the weather, which had been very unpromising, held up on the first day, and although the wicket was slow it was not of any great difficulty. There were no interruptions from rain, but for all that cricket was in progress for only four hours and three-quarters. In that time the Australians, who have greatly quickened their rate of scoring since the disturbance at Lord’s—it may or may not be accidental— put up 233 runs and got rid of three of their most famous opponents for 54, so that they had much the best of the match when stumps were drawn. There was nothing remarkable in their innings except the steady and withal attractive batting of Trumble and Iredale, but most of the team were responsible for a fair score. It was noticeable tbat by far the most successful bowler was Wynyard, whose lobs seemed to puzzle the batsmen consider­ ably. Mr. Thornton’s X I. had to bat in a shockingly bad light, and it was not surprising that the great pace of Jones made them uncomfortable, or that he succeeded in getting two of the three wickets which fell. On the following morning things went very badly with the home team until Wainwright and Leveson-Gower came together with the score at 102 for eight wickets, twelve runs being required to save the follow-on. The two men did not attempt to play the fashionable game; on the contrary, they went for the bowling, and both of them came off. By the time that they were parted they had put on 79 runs very quickly, so that when the inn­ ings closed the Australians were not leading by very much. A good deal of rain had fallen in the early morning, and although the sun did not come out, the Australians had the opportunity of sampling Rhodes on a bowler’s wicket. They soon iound that he had not lost his form. He only just missed taking all ten wickets, and from first to last nobody could do anything with him except Trumble, who kept in for and hour and twenty minutes. In the course of the innings Rhodes three times took two wickets with successive balls. When hewent on for thesecond time he bowled four overs and four balls for five runs and seven wickets. Thanks to him Mr. Thorn­ ton’s team had to make a much smaller total than seemed likely when the Australians went in. But there was the feeling that what Rhodes had done might also be done by Trumble, and the last day’s play was awaited with some curiosity. But it was not Trumble who was in evidence on the following morn­ ing. It was Jones who for the moment carried everything before him. Captain Wynyard was caught at short-leg at 5, Gunn went at 11, Jackson ran himself out at 19, and in a short time six wickets were down for 37. The match seemed over. But Hirst and Wainwright improved the state of affairs by bringing the score to 60, leaving 72 still to be made with only three wickets in hand. It seemed that only a few more minutes would be required to bring the innings to a conclusion when Hirst and Leveson-Gower completely altered the appearance of the game, and had just got comfortably going when heavy rain came down and stopped play. The match was thus drawn in a very interesting state, for it was not likely that on a wicket which had been flooded Jones would have been able to get a foothold. Leveson-Gower had shown in the previous innings that he was quite able to take care of himself, while the ability of Hirst to make runs when plenty of nerve is required is well known. A reference to the “ sawdust” incident will be found in Gossip on page 397. A u str a lia n s . First innings. H.Trumble,c Jones, b Smith 60 C. McLeod, c Jones, b 8m th 26 V.Trumper,cStorer,bRhodes 14 M. A. Noble, b Smith........ 23 J. Darling, c and b Wynyard 6 F. A. Iredale, c Rhodes, b Wynyard ........................49 S. E. Gregory, b Hirst ... 1 F. Laver, not out.................21 J. J. Kelly, c Storer,b Smith 4 E. Jones, b Wynyard..........19 Second inniogs. c Storer.b Rhodes 29 b Wainwright ... 0 c Storer.b Rhodes 12 lbw. b Rhodes ... 0 b Rhodes ..........20 b Rhodes .......... 0 stSto.er,bRhodes 0 cLeveson-Gower, t Rhodes........ 14 cJackson.bRhodes 0 c M itchell, b Rhodes .......... 2 W. P. Howell, c Gunn, b Wynyard ...................... 0 notout... B 9, lb 1 ....................10 Total ..................233 Total M r . C. I. T h o r n to n ’ s XI. F. S. Jackson, b Howell A. O. Jones, b Jones ... Gunn( W.),c Iredale,b Jones 2 F. Mitchell, c Laver, b Trumble ........................11 E. Smith, b Howell .......... 4 Oapt. E. G. Wynyard, c Darling, b Trumble.........10 Storer, c Jones, b Trumble 19 Wainwright, not o u t..........54 Hirst, c and b Trumble ... 3 H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, c Noble, b Trumble ..........36 Rhodes, c and b Trumble... 1 B 9, lb 1, w 1 ..........11 runout.................15 c Darling, b Mc­ Leod................. 7 b Jones .......... 2 b Jones .......... 2 c Darling,b Jones 1 c Laver,bJones... 10 cLaver.b Jones .. 8 notout................ 24 not out... Wide Total .................185 Total (7wkts) 81 A u s tr a lia n s . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Hirst.......... ... 18 9 28 1 ... Rhodes ... ... 19 9 27 1 ... .. 18 4 10 24 9 Wainwright ... 8 2 13 0 ... .. 10 2 26 1 Jones......... . . . 8 1 14 0 .. Smith ... 26 4 94 4 ... !! 6 2 24 0 Jackson ... ... 9 4 17 0 ... . 5 2 9 0 Wynyard ... ... 152 4 30 4 .. M r. C. I. T h o r n to n ’ s X I. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Jones ... . . ... 13 6 24 2 ... ... 21 9 35 5 McLeod .. . . ... 17 6 33 0 ... .. 17 8 27 1 Howell ... . . ... 18 8 31 2 .. ... 4 1 18 0 Trumble . ... 20 2 70 6 ... Noble ... . . ... 5 3 14 0 ... Laver ... . . . . . 1 0 2 0 ... Trumble and Jones each bowled a wide. ESSEX v. WARWICKSHIRE. Played at Leyton on August 31, September 1 and 2. Abandoned. It was just as well for Warwickshire, who were without their amateurs, that the rain came down and caused the game to be aban­ doned at four o’clock on Saturday afternoon, for they were not in a very good position, although it was quite possible that they would have managed to play out time. They won the toss and made a tcore which seemed likely to be quite big enough on a wicket which had been affected by the rain, but Essex, aided by a few opportune showers, ran up a very large score and were able to declare about twelve o’clock on Saturday. Warwickshire started on their second innings in their usual metho­ dical manner, and when, after a sudden and heavy storm, they had lost a couple of wickets for 26, they laid themselves out seriously to pass away the remaining time. In the next hour 24 runs were put on, and things seemed to be going in a very satisfactory manner for them when W. G. Quaife was out at 50. Lilley then began to hit out, but another storm came, and no more cricket could be played. The feature of the match was the fine cricket shown by McGahey, Fane, Car­ penter, and Perrin. The latter and McGahey were partners while 136 runs were put on. McGahey, at time*, hit brilliantly, and his innings only lasted for two hours and three- quarters. He had played exactly the sort of cricket which was required by the state of the game and the wicket. W a r w ic k sh ir e . First innings. Second innings. Kinneir, c Carpenter, b McGahey ..................... 19 c Mead,b Bull ... 11 Quaife ( W.), c Ayres, b Bull 15 c Young, b Bull 4 Lilley, c Russell, b Bull ... 45 notout.................26 Quaife (W.G.), c Russell, b Me id .............................35 c Perrin, b Young 5 Diver, c Ayres, b Mead ...27 notout................ 8 Law, c Ayres, b Mead ... 29 Santall, c and b Young ... 2 Charlesworth, st Russell, b Bull ........ . ..............53 Whitehead, b Y ou n g ....... 1 Forester, not o u t............... 8 Dickens, c Inns, b Mead ... 2 B 8, wb 1, nb 2 ..........11 B 10, lb 2, nb 4 16 Total... ...247 Total (3 wkts) 70 F. L. Fane, c W. G. Quaife, b Santall ... 94 Carpenter,bWhitehead 61 P. Perrin, b W. G. Quaife ....................68 C. McGahey, c Lilley, b Dickens ..................130 Inns, c Lilley, Dickens .......... Ayre?, not out ... Russell, not out .. B 16, lb 3, w 6 8 10 Total (5 wkts) *424 Innings declared closed. A. P. Lucas, F. G. Bull, Young and Mead did not bat. W a r w ic k s h ir e . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. 1 0 2 Young ... .. 39 21 47 2 ... ... 11 8 10 Mead ... .. 37-4 10 76 4 ... ... 22 15 16 Bull ... .. 19 5 66 3 ... ... 15 7 23 McGahey .. 9 1 24 1 ... Carpenter .. 4 0 15 0 ... Ayres ... .. 6 2 16 0 ... !!! 5 4 5 Perrin ... .. 1 0 3 0 ... Young bowled one wide and two no-balls and Mead bowled four no-balls. O. E sse x . M . R . W . O. M. R. W . Santall... 37 12 93 1 Forester 9 4 25 0 Dickens 31 14 73 2 Quaife(G)33 12 66 1 Whitehead22 4 95 1 Charles- worth 11 2 47 0 Santall, Whitehead and Quaife each bowled two wides. SURREY v. HAMPSHIRE. Played at the Oval on Aug. 31, Sept. 1 and 2. Surrey won by an innings and 230 runs Having not only escaped defeat at the hands of Kent, but made a most honourable draw, Surrey had but to make drawn games with Hampshire and Warwickshire to win the cnampionship pretty easily. Under these circumstances the team was not overwhelmed with grief when it was discovered that not a single one of the Hampshire officers was play­ ing, Captain Wynyard being at Scarborough, where he was assisting Air. Thornton’s team. As the weather had changed for the worse there was no telling how the wicket would play on Thursday morning, but Mr. Key, on winning the toss, decided to take first inn­ ings. The day was a great triumph for three of the Surrey batsmen, inasmuch as on a wicket, which, whileit turned out not to be very difficult, could never be considered easy, they put up a score of 286 between them, in vary­ ing proportions, out of 341 for eight wickets. Despite the many fine innings which Abel has played during the season, he has seldom shown more complete mastery over the bowl­ ing than in making his 167, an innings which lasted for three hours and three-quarters. It will be seen from this that he was in a more aggresive mood than usual; in fact, he played a vigorous game. Hayward broke the spell of bad luck which had attended him since the