Cricket 1900

172 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M a y 31, 1900 MIDDLESEX v. LANCASHIRE- Played at Lord’s on May 28, 29 and 30. Lancashire won by 64 run9. Entirely out of form, Mr. MacLaren, acting up to his own theories, decided to put himself i i late and not to play too carefully. The result was nearly all that could be desired-not quite all, for he did not make one of his very big scores—for during his stay of forty minutes at the wickets he made some altogether delightful hits in his score of 44. He has, in all probability, played himself into form and h<s at anyrate done himself much more good than if he had poked about with the one idea of keeping up his wicket. He i* a wise man in his generation. On a wicket which improved as the day wore on Lancashire could not do much against Trott and Hearne, the latter being very seldom hit. A t the end of the first day’s play Middlesex, still with seven wickets in hand, were only 63 runs behind. Mr. Warner p ayed beautiful cricket and carried his bat for 80. To this he added another 66 on Tuesday morning, his entire innings having lasted for four hours and a half. He has played wonderfully good cricket at Lord’s this year. Mr. MacGregor played a sound innings for 52. Against a lead of 96 Lancashire began with their usual pair, W ard and Mr. MacLaren. They left no doubt in the minds of anybody on the ground that they intended to force the game. Mr. MacLaren made 46 in fifty minut°s out of the first 63; Ward made runs fairly quickly, and Briggs very rapidly ; while the tail hit boldly, W ebb scoring nineteen off an over from Roche. The result of this policy was that a total of 168 had to be made by Middlesex on a wicket which had begun to wear badly, and yester­ day morning the task was found altogether too difficult, Mold being irresistible. L a n c a sh ir e . First innings. C. R. Hartley, b Trott Ward, b Hearne ... ... Tyldesley, c Griffin, Hearne.......................... Briggs, b Trott ........... Cuttell, b Trott ........... . 0 . 21 i 3 , 15 32 A. Eccles, b Trott ...........14 A. C. MacLaren, lbw, b Trott 44 Sharp, c Warner, b Hearne 31 Smith, c Trott, b Hearne ... 30 Webb, b Trott ................... 5 Mold, not out .................. 0 B 12, lb 7.......................... 19 Second innings, b Hearne ... b Trott c sub., b Irott run out c MacGregor, Trott lbw, b Trott b Hearne ... b Trott c and b Trott c Griffin, b Trott not out... Total ...214 M id d le s e x , First innings. P. F. Warner, c Smith, b Mold ... ...........................146 H. B. Hayman, b Briggs ... 25 G. W . Beldam, b Mold ... 5 Rawlin, c Cuttell, b Briggs 34 R. S. Lucas, lbw, b Briggs 0 G. S. F. Griffin, b Briggs ... 0 Trott (A. E.), c Tyldesley, b Webb ..............................27 G. MacGregor, not out G. E. Winter, c MacLaren, b Briggs .......................... Roche, b Briggs .................. Hearne (J. T.), b Briggs ... B 9, lb 2, w 1 12 Total ...263 Second innings. av8ent................... 0 c Smith, b Briggs 22 b M old ................ 7 b M old ................. 7 b M old.................. 21 b M old.................. 0 c MacLaren, b Mold ........... 6 c Ward, b Mold 26 runout b Briggs ... not out........... Extras... Played at Nottingham on May 28, 29, and 30. Notts won by five wickets. There was a great contrast betw.ea th± batting in the early part of the Derbyshire innings and the end of it. Bagshaw, Storer, and Chatterton played so well ihat at one time it looked as if a very large score would be made, although the wicket, more particu­ larly at one end, bumped a good deal. But after lunch J. Gunn carried everything before him with __ __ Total..........................310 Total ...103 L an c a sh ir e . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. Trott ........... 36 9 113 6 ... ... 29'3 11 100 7 Hearne ........... 24 1 12 43 4 ... ... 28 8 97 2 Roche ........... 11 2 39 0 ... ... 6 0 42 0 Rawlin 4 2 12 0 Roche delivered a wide. M id d le sb x . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Mold ........... 32 7 73 2 ... ... 23 6 55 6 Briggs ........... 40 3 13 87 7 ... ... 23 3 9 40 2 Webb ........... 29 3 53 1 Cuttell ........... 15 4 38 0 Ward ........... 4 0 21 0 Sharp ........... 7 0 24 0 Sharp delivered a no-ball. NOTTS v. DERBYSHIRE. the ball, and the tail collapsed. Notts were in an excellent position at the end of the day, havim? scored 125 for the loss of f >ur wickets against a total of 193. Mr. Dixon was not out 47. Although Mr. Dixon played very fi e cricket on Tuesday morning, the tDtal came to far less Than seemed provable, and when the innings was completed Notts onl* hid a lead of 9 runs. Mr. L G. W right played t*plenoidly when Derbyshire went in again, and later Mr. Law­ ton, Walter Sugg, and Hume gave a good account of themselves. Notts had to mane 167, and iu an hofer and ten minutes I efore stumps were dr *wn they made 48 of them for the loss of a wicket. Yesterday th y made the remaining runs without difficulty. D er b ysh ir e . First innings. L. G. W right, st Carlin, b Gunn .................................... 4 b Wass ............40 Bagshaw, c Shrewsbury, b D ix o n ..................................41 Storer, b Gunn ..................63 Chatterton, c and b Gunn .. 42 A . E. Lawton, c Goodacre, b Wass..................................17 Sugg (W .), b Gunn ............ 2 S. H .W ood, c Jones, b Wass 2 Hulme,c Iremonger.b Gunn 6 not out...................37 Young, b Gunn .................... 7 c Iremonger, b Wass ........... 3 Bestwick, run out ............ 4 c Dench, b Gunn 2 O’ Connor, not out ............ 0 b Wass ........... 0 B 2, lb 3 .................. 5 B 1, w l, nb 3 5 Second innings, ss c Groves, b Wass 12 lbw, b Wass ... 0 c Dench, b Mas n 9 c Dench, b Wass 32 st Carlin, b <*unn 34 c Carlin, b Gunn 1 Total First innings. A. O. Jones, c Storer, Bestwick .......... ... . Shrewsbury, c W ood, Bestwick ........................ Dench, lbw, b O'Connor . J. A. Dixon, b Young ..193 N o tts . Total ............ 175 Second innings, b Hulme ............ 5 20 13 81 W . B. Goodacre, c Hulme, b O’Connor.......................... 2 run out G. J. Groves, c Chatterton, b Hulme .......................... 13 not out.................. 81 c W right, b O’Connor......... 23 Gunn (J.), b Bestwick ... 1 Iremonger, c Wood, b Y ou n g.................................. 26 0 Carlin, b Young .......... Mason, c Sugg, b Young . Wass, not out ........... B yes.................. c Chatterton, b O Connor ... 6 O’ Connor, b Hulme ...........35 not out... Extras Wass ... Gunn ... Dixon ... Dench ... Jones ... Total ................. 202 Total (5 wkts) 167 D e r b y sh ir e . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . 29 1 5 75 2 ........... 27-4 8 68 6 a0 7 76 6 ............ 14 4 57 3 9 2 20 1 ............ 2 0 8 0 6 4 6 0 ........... 4 0 11 0 ........... M ason ........... 16 3 47 1 Wass bowled a wide and Gunn three no-balls. N o t i s. First innings. Bestwick Hulme O’Connor Y oung.. Bagshaw 22 20 O. M. R. W . 30 7 97 3 ... 24 9 43 1 ... 14 0 40 2 ... ... 19 6-3 4 3 4 ............ 11 5 1 10 0 ........... Storer ... 8 1 23 0 Storer bowled a no-ball. Second innings. O. M. R. W. 8 44 0 7 46 2 5 33 2 4 16 0 SURREY V . SUSSEX. Played at the Oval on May 28, 29 and 30. Drawn. This was one of the most astonishing matches of the pr. sent season. Winning the toss, Surrey batted on a wicket which was a litt!e queer at the commence­ ment of the innings and did so badly that Susse* for once began to think that there were certain advan­ tages in losing the toss. Brockwell and Abel put up 43 in twenty minutes, the former playing brilliant cricket, and then Hayes and Lockwood fell for a couple of runs between them. Hayward made a valuable stand with Abel, and the two famous bats­ men seemed in a fair way to wear down the bowling when Hayward was caught at the wicket just before lunch, the score being then 124 runs for four wickets. Immediately afterwards Mr. Lev son Gower was run out. Half the wickets were down for 131, when Mr. Crawford came in to begin a memorable performance. He has so often had to go in under circumstances which would not be welcomed even by a veteran bats­ man, that it would not have been surprising if he had again failed. But he at once took charge of the bowling, and in the course of his seventy minutes’ stay at the wicket entirely altered the aspect of the game ; many of his hits were superb. His parnership with Abel produced lv8 runs, so tha* when he left the total had been rai*e 1to 259 for six wicket*. His tine innings included a flv*1and twelve 4’s. Meanwhile-, Abel had been plodding -teadily on, never beirg at a lo«s to know how to play the 1owling, which when .Vr Jephson came in was again mast re 1. At the end of the day the total was 465 fo s-ve.i wickets, Abel being not out 151 and Lees not out 61. On Tuesday m'>rnirg he was very so >n out, his extrem°ly useful inning's having lintel for five hours a>>d three- quarters. Lees hit boldly and nearly made his hun­ dred—a fine innings. Sussex bfgan by losing Mr. ColJins very so >n, but Mr. Fry and Kill'ck made a good stand. Ranjitsinbji, who was lame and had a substitute to run for him, did not last long but Mr. Fry continued on his triumphant rare-r, scoring near-y all the runs, and playirg admirable cricket. In his partnership with Relf 95 runs were put on in about an hour and a half. of which \he professional only claimed 38 Mr. Fry was at the wickets for thrte hours and twenty-five minutes in scoring his altogether admirable innings of 115. Laie in ihe day Mr. Brm n and Viue put on 83 in an hour by very good cricket indeed, and when ► tumps weie drawn it was pretty evident that the game c >uld not be finish* d for with four wickets in h rnd Sussex had scored 326 runs. Yesterday morning three of the Sussex men soon got out, but Bland hit away merrily for the last wicket while 85 runs were put on in fifty- five minutes. Vine carried his bat for a very steady and very sound 71. When Surrey went in again Abel was dismissed cheaply, but Lockwood and Hayward played magnificent cricket, and there w s never any hope of finishing the game. During the match 1,155 runs were made for the loss of only 22 wickets. S u r r e y . First innings. Abel, c Vine, b T a t e .........165 Brockwell, c Cox, b Bland 37 Hayes, c Butt, b Bland 0 Lockwood, c Tate, b Bland 2 Hayward, c Butt, b Killick 40 H. G. Leveson-Gower, run out.......................................... l V. F. S. Crapford, c Butt, b Fry .................................. 89 D. L. A . Jephson, c Vine, b Tate ..................................48 Lees, not out..........................93 W o id, c Cox, b T a te ........... 7 Richardson (T.), c Vine, b Tate .................................. 4 B 1, w 2 .......................... 3 Second innings. b T a t e ...................12 notout...................29 c Vine, b Fry ... 66 c Bland, b Relf... 146 c Ranjitsinhji, b R t l f ...................30 Total..........................489 S u ssex. C. B. Fry, b Lockwoodl45 A.Collins bRichardson 7 Killick,lbw, b Richard­ son .......................... 18 K . S. Rar-jittinhji, lbw, b Lees ... 17 Relf, c L.-Gower, b Brockwell..................38 G. Brann, c Hayes, b Richardson ...........64 S o r r e y . First innings. O. M. R. W . Total (4 wkts)28 i Vine, not out ........... 71 Cox, b Lockwood ... l Butt, c Jephson, b Lockwood ...........li Tate, c and b Lock­ wood .......................... 7 Bland, b Hayward ... 69 B4, lb 2, w 4, nb 5 16 Total . 443 Bland Tate... Cox ... Fry ... Killick R elf... Brann 62 8 207 3 ... . 462 16 114 4 ... Second innings. O. M. K. W. 7 0 18 4 3 2 1 1 19 8 30 0 ., 12 0 60 1 . 6 0 37 1 . ........... 4 0 19 0 . ........... 6 3 19 0 . Col ins 6 1 Brann and Killick each bowled a wide. O. M. R W 10 . 10 . 6 . 8-1 17 29 0 54 1 35 0 39 1 13 0 41 2 1 51 0 18 0 Lockwood 3) 12 117 4 Rich’rds’n 40 9 131 3 Brockwell 17 4 48 1 O. M. R. W . Jephsm 17 5 47 0 Lees .. 18 2 81 1 Hayward 2 0 4 1 Lockwood bowled three wides and four no-balls, and Richardson one wide and one no ball. WORCESTERSHIRE v. HAMPSHIRE. Played at Worcester on May 28, 29, and 30. Drawn. Although Captain Wynyard was absent, the Hampshire meu dll fairly well in the first inniogs. There were no big scores, but, on the other Land, nearly everybody made runs. When stumps were drawn, however, they seemed to be in anything but a satisfactory position, for Worcestershire, for tne loss of only two wickets, had scored li9 against 2 5, Bowley being not out 56, the highest score of the day. He increased his total to U8 on Tuesday morning, but did not receive as much as>-istance as might have been expected, only Mr. H. K. Foster and Burrows making many runs. Nevertheless, Worcestershire had the comfortable lead of 67 runs, 47 of which