Cricket 1899

424 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S e p t. 21, 1899 Score. Made by. Made against. Ground. 424 for 5 Essex ........... Warwickshire Leyton 423 ... M.C.C................. Notts................ Lord’s 421 ... Australia........... England Lord’s 420 ... Kent................... Warwickshire Catford 415 ... Surrey ........... O. University Oxford 415 ... Australians ... Yorkshire ... Bradford 415 ... Surrey ........... Middlesex ... Oval 414 ... Sussex ........... Australians... Brighton 411 for 2 Kent.................. Notts............... N’tt’gham 410 .... Notts.................. Sussex...........- N’tt’gham 406 .... Somersetshire Lancashire ... Taunton 406 ... Kent................... Gloucestershire Bristol 406 .. . Middlesex Gloucestershire Clifton 406 .... Middlesex Lancashire ... Lord’8 404 ... Gloucestershire Surrey ......... Oval 401 .. . Sussex ........... Gloucestershire Bristol N.B.—Warwickshire made two scores of over 600 in consecutive innings—657 for six wickets v. Hampshire, at Edgbaston, and 605 v. Leicestershire, at Leicester. A record in first-class cricket. T able N o . 6.—'TABLE SHOWING THE MATCHES IN WHICH ONE THOUSAND OR MORE RUNS WERE SCORED DURING THE SEASON. Runs. Wkts. Match. Ground. 1,296 for 26, Somersetshire v. Sussex ... Taunton 1,268 for 30. Gentlemen v. Players ... Oval 1.255 for 17, Surrey v. Yorkshire...........Oval 1,246 for 29, Worcestershire v. Hants. .. Worcester 1,243 for 80, Surrey v. Somersetshire ... Oval 1.201 for 35, Middlesex v. Sussex...........Lord’s 1,197 for 32, Leicestershire v. Hants. ... Leicester 1.193 for 26, Somersetshire v. Hants. ... Taunton 1.193 for 37, M.C.C. & G. v. Camb. Univ. Lord’s 1.182 for 25, England v. Australia ... Oval 1.182 for 34, Surrey v. N o tts...................Oval 1.181 for 18, Sussex v. Australians ... Brighton 1,176 for 29, Derbyshire v. N otts...........Derby 1,172 for 29, Somersetshire v. Surrey ... Taunton 1,166 for 25, Gloucestershire v. Notts ... Bristol 1,159 for 32, Warwickshire v. Glos. ... Edgbaston 1,158 for 17, Warwickshire v. Hants ... Edgbaston 1,153 for 21, Sussex v. Surrey...................Brighton 1,146 for 30, Suirey v. Sussex...................Oval 1,140 for 29, Somerset v. Aus'ralians ... Taunton 1,130 for 35, Gloucestersh. v. Somerset.. Gloucester 1,126 for 29, Yorkshire v. Notts ...........Bradford 1,125 for 39, Worcestershire v. Sussex... Worcester 1.123 for 30, Hants v. Somersetshire ... Portsmouth 1.123 for 30 Leicestershire v. Essex ... Leicester 1.118 for 29, Camb. Univ. v. Australians Cambridge 1.118 for 33, Sussex v. Oxford Univ. ... Brighton 1.116 for 31, Surrey v. Middlesex...........Oval l,-069 for 39, Yorkshire v. Australians... Bradford lj0€8 for 86, Hants v. Warwickshire ... Bournem’th 1,064 for 25, Hanls v. Leicestershire ... Bournem’th 1,057 for 29, Hants v. Australians...........S’thampton 1,055 for 35, Oxford Univ. v. Surrey ... Oiford 1,052 for 3 », Leicestersh. v. Warwicksh. Leicester 1,038 for 27, Gloucestershire v. Sussex... Bristol 1,027 for 31, HomeCounties v.R.of Eng. Hastings 1,0.5 for 40, Surrey v. Kent ...................Oval 1.016 for 25, Lancashire v. Yorkshire ... Manchester 1,015 for 40, Kent v. Somersetshire ... Tonbridge 1,010 for 80, Leicestershire v. Lancs ... Leicester 1.009 for 25, Gloucestershire v. Kent ... Bristol 1.009 for 32, Ox. Univ. v. Camb Univ.... Lord’s 1,008 for 30, England ▼. Australia.........Manchester 1,007 for 27, Sussex ▼. N otts...................Bright n 1,604 for 24, Oxford Un. v. Australians Oxford 1,004 for 27, Leicestershire v. Surrey ... Leicester N ote .— F ive consecutive matches played on the Oval resulted in over one thousand runs being scored in each, as follows :— 1,025 for 40, Surrey v. Kent. 1.116 for 81, Surrey v. Middlesex. 1.182 for 34, Surrey v. Nottinghamshire. 1.255 for 17, Surrey v. Yorkshire. 1.182 for 25, England v. Australia. T a b le No. 6.— TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF COMPLEI ED MATCHES OF FOUR HUNDRED RUNS OR LESS. 165 for 30 Middlesex v. Somersetshire Lord’s 281 — 30 Surrey v. Leicestershire ... Oval :j31 — 33 Middlesex v. Glouc’tersbire Lord’s 351 — 30 O if’dU.v. Mr.Weble’sX I. Oxford. i-65 — 30 Lancashire v. Somersetshire Manchester N o te . —The two instances at Lord’s occur­ red in the same week. 'Ihe match between Middlesex and Somersetshire was completed in one day-the only match of the season completed in so short a time. T a b le No. 7.—TABLE SHOWING THE NUM­ BER OF TOTAL SCORES OF FIFTY OR LESS IN COM PI ETED INNINGS HIT IN FIRST-CLA8S MATCHES DURING THE SEASON. Score. Made by. Made against. Ground. 28... Leicestershire ... Australians ... Leicester 30 ... Leicestershire ... M.C.C. and G. Lord’s 35 ... Somersetshire .. Middlesex ... Lord’s 37 ... Essex...................Surrey .............Leyton 40 ... Leicestershire ... Surrey ...........Oval 43 .. A.J.Webte’sX I. Oxford Univ. Oxford 44 ... Gloucestershire Yorkshire ... Bristol 44 ... Somersetshire ... Middlesex ... Lord’s T a b le No. 8.—TABLE SHOWING THE NUM­ BER OF MATCHES IN WHICH CLOSE FINISHES WERE "WITNESSED. Margin. Match. Ground. 1 wkt. Yorkshire beat M.C.C. and G. ... Lord’s 1 wkt. Essex beat Sussex..........................Leyton 2 wkts. Derbyshire beat M C.C. and G .... Lord’s 2 wkts. M.C.C. and Ground beat Kent ... Lord’s 2 wkts. M.C.C. and G. beat Camb. Univ. Lord’s 2 wkts. Kent beat Australians.................Canterb’y 11runs Yorkshire beat Worcestershire... Worcester 29 runs I ancashire beat Sussex ...........M’Chester 30 runs Kent beat Middlesex .......... ...Maidstone Nothing above two wickets or 30 runs is here noted. T a b le No. 9.—TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF MATCHES IN W B I0H ONE SIDE MET W ITH A HEAVY DEFEAT. (a) In n in g s a n d 100 R u n s o r M vk. Margin. Match. Ground. Inns. & 379 r. Surrey beat Somerset ... Oval Inns. & £01 r. Yorks beat Somerset ... Bath Inns. & 249 r. Aust. \ eat Derbyshire .. Derby Inns. & 230r. Aust. beat Middlesex ... Lord’s Inns. & 230 r. Surrey beat Hampshire Oval Inns. & 223 r. Essex beat Leicestersh... Leicester Inns. & 218 r. Worcs. beat Derbyshire Worcester Inns. & 196 r. Yorksh beat Glos. ... Bristol Inns. & 194 r. M.C.C. & G. beat Notts. Lord’s Inns & 180 r. Notts beat Derbyshire ... Nottingham Inns. & 170 r. Lancs, beat Leice^tersh. Leicester Inns. & 161 r. Surrey beat Derbyshire... Chesterfield Inns. & 160 r. Yorks, beat Derbyshire Derby Inns. & 158 r. Warwicki-h. beat Leics. Leicester Inns. & 151 r. Hants beat Somersetsh. Taunton Inns. & 121 r. Surrey beat Lancs.......... Oval Inns. & 117 r. Gloucestrsh. beat Etsex Clifton (b) 2C0 R u n s o r M o r e . ?65 runs. Kent beat Notts ...................Nottingham 332 runs M.C.C.&G. beat Worcestersh. Lord’s 269 iu d s. Lancashire beat Derbyshire Glossop 248 runs. Australians beat Leicestersh. Leic< ster 241 runs. Yorkshire beat Essex .......... Leyton 204 runs Warwicksh. beat Worcestcrsh. Worcester (To be continued.) CONTRASTS. The feature of the “ Badminton Maga- ziue ” for September is a long article entitled ‘ English and American Games and Pastimes.” We give a few extracts which will show ho w carefully the writer, Mr. Price Collier, has studied his subject. The whole article is of great interest:— “ Englishmen have come to look upon sport as a character, as well as aphysical developing factor, in civilisation; while the interest of the majority of Americans is confined to the excitement expected from a contest. Many Americans, par­ ticularly in the West, look upon these international yachting and other contests almost as though they were serious battles, and are elated or depressed accordingly; while the majority of Englishmen, though eager to win, wel­ come these contests as being good for the sports and games themselves, by intro­ ducing fresh blood and new interests. “ Let me put it more clearly by saying that the proportion of the spectators at Lord’s on the day of the University or Public School cricket matches, who have themselves played the game, is much larger than the proportion of spectators present at a base-ball match between Harvard and Yale. Or again, out of the Eton and Harrow ‘ elevens/ the fathers of twenty and possibly the grandfathers of fifteen of the boy players have them­ selves been cricketers—some of themeven of sufficient prowess to be on their school eleven. Of the last year’s Harvard and Yale base-ball nines, probably not one of the eighteen youths had both a father and grandfather who had played on the University nine, and there were few whose fathers even had been experts at the game. Though Americans believe, or pretend to believe, with Cicero, that every man begins his own ancestry, one is forced to admit that a game with a long ancestry of tradition will differ in all probability from a game with little or none. It must be admitted, too, that a lad whose father and grandfather, whose uncles and brothers, all play some game or take an interest in some form of sport, will grow up to look upon sport differ­ ently from a lad whose relatives take little or no serious interest in any game. Englishmen seldom realise that sport lacks entirely this atmosphere of almost sacred tradition in America, and Ameri­ cans forget that in England some form of sport is one of the serious occupations of many, and the serious avocation of the majority of the able-bodied............ “ This ancestry of sport marks a differ­ ence in the way we Americans look at sport, and it also marks a very great difference in the auspices under which we practice it. In America boys play with boys almost exclusively ; even a professional coach for crew or ball nine is a source of much discussion and dis­ sension. English schools have not one but several professionals, and what is most important of all, English boys play their games, part o f the time at least, with men. Old Carthusians, old Etonians, old Wykehamists, go back to play their school eleven or their school football team; old University men play the youngsters, country gentlemen have house parties of cricketers, and the writer only the other day had the pleasure to play against a team at a country house where the host of fifty kept wicket, and captained an eleven no member of which was under forty; and it is with mingled feelings of pleasure and pain that he adds that they won. This fact alone, of thepar­ ticipation of the adult and middle-aged element so universally in English sport, accounts for a very wide difference in the way in which sport is looked upon and the way in which the games are played. Where boys and youths are accustomed to play their games—cricket more par­ ticularly—with grown men, it introduces an element of sobriety, courtesy, and re­ ticence into their play and behaviour, which must be lacking to some extent among boys and youths who play exclu­ sively among themselves. Games played under such auspices assume their rational place, and receive their proper relative value in life; for men do not feel defeat so keenly, nor do they look upon victory as the greatest of all achievements. Men