Cricket 1900

J u n e 21, liOO. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 213 LONDON COUNTY y . DERBYSHIRE. Played at Derby on June 14, 15 and 16. Drawn. There was no play on Ihe second day of this match, owing to heavy rain. The team which represented London County was by nu means as st'ong as that which played against the W tst Indian cricketers, but it managed to gi\ e a fair account of itself. There was not a well-known bowler on the side except W .G., who was only on for six overs Und#>r the circum­ stances it was as well for the visitors that the match was not played tn a batsman’s wicket. L ondon C ounty . Firpt innings. Second innings. W . G. Grace, lbw. b Eulme 2 lbw, b Bettwick... 0 8. M. Tindall, b O’Connor... 8 b Eulm e ......... 16 J. Gilman, b Hulme ........... 6 c Stortr.b Bulme 1 W . L. Murdoch, b Hulme... 13 b Bestwick........... 1 L. 8. "Wells, b Hulme........... 4 b O’ Connor........... 5 C. J. B. W ood, c Lawton, b Bagshaw...........................16 not rut.....................70 L. Walker, b H u lm e........... 7 Trott. who, in the first innings, scored 112 by fine all­ round cricket in two hours and a quarter, nevtr fcecomiDg reckless in h;s hittirg. Mr. L. J . Moon, who, when he gets goitg is one of the must atti active of batsmen to watch, has, after a most unsuccessful season, at last played himself into form, and no better cricket could be wished for than his two innings in this match. Mr. BeJdam also played sound cricket in boih innings, although his style may not be particularly attractive to watch. Mr. Warner was still at sent from the Middlesex team, and Rawlin was unable to play. On the other hand, Paish was away from the Gloucestershire team. The success with the ball of ihe new right-hand fast Gloucester­ shire bowler, Mr. A . H. C. Fargus, was n its way as remarkab'e as that of Mr. Jest-op with ihe bat. He took twelve wickets for 87 runs in the match. Seymour, b Hulme .......... 1 Hr C Moon, c & b Bagshaw 17 Huish,cChatterton, b Best- wick ...................................12 Sladen, not out ... ... 1 B 6, lb 4 ...................10 Total ... not rut c Chatterton, Lawton ... not out........... b Hulme ... 6 . ... 97 / , D erbyshire . L.G. W right, c Sladen, b Seymour ...........28 Bagshaw, b Sladen ... 18 Storer, c W alker, b Tinda 1 ........... ... 83 Cbatterton, c W ood, b Sladen ...................87 A.E. Lawton, c Huish, b Murdoch ........... 3 Sngg, c Seymour, b M u rdoch ................... 0 B 4, w 2.. T, tal (7 wkts) 170 S. H. W ood, llw , S eym ou r................ Young, c Grace, Sladen ................ Hulme, b Sladen Pestwick, b Sladen . O’Conm r, not cut . B 8, lb 2, nb 1 . Total . 14 . 9 . 1 . 3 . 11 .173 H ulm e... O’Connor Bagshaw Beetwick L ondon C ounty . First innings. O. M. R. W . 20 8 0 11 2 0*4 0 Fecond innings. O. M . R. W . 25 12 33 3 14 , 7 17 . 5 4 Yourg Lawton Bcstwick and O’Connor each bowled a wide. D erbyshire . O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Sladen .. Grace Seymour . W ells . 261 9 6 0 20 3 2 1 Sladen bowl Tindall W alker Murdoch ... ed a no-ball. MIDDLESEX v. GLOUCESTERSHIRE REMARKABLE CRICKET BY MR. O. L. JESSOP Played at Lord’s on June 14, 15 and 16 Gloucestershire won by 7 wickets. The rain, which upset the calculations of batsmen nearly all over England, had to some extent forgotten the wicket at Lord’s, and on Thursday the wicket was not unfavourable to batsmen, but on Friday there was a different state of affairs, and the bowlers could at first find no one to offer any serious resistance to them with the single exception of Mr. Jessop. But unfortunate'y for them he was very much at home. From the moment that he went to the wickets he began to hit with the utmost determination. The risks which he ran were very considerable indeed, but it was not the time to think about risks, for it was quite certain that unless something desperate was done Gloucestershire would be in a hopeless minority. Of course,.all his strokes were not perfection, but he was not there to give an exhibition of stylish batting. He was severe on all the bowlers, none of whom could keep him quiet for even an over. In half an hour he made his 60; in an hour he had scored ICO out of 112; he was dismissed seven minutes afterwards for a score of 109, which included a 5 and twenty-one 4’s. He lofted the ball at times, but as it went in the pavilion, or over to the stands this did not matter in the least. In one over of Hearne’s he hit four 4’s, ar d three fours off one of Trott’s. It was an altogether remarkable display of batting on a bowler’s wicket. On Friday the nine other Glouce»tershire batsmen who were at the wickets only made 40 between them. In the second innings Mr. Jessop made f8, not out, in about thirty-eight minutes, hitting twelve 4’s. Some admirable batting had been shown by Mr. C. H. O. Bewell and Wrathall on Thursday evening, and again on Saturday, when Gloucestershire had to go in to make 224, Mr. Townsend and Board also played remarkably good cricket. There was pltnty of good batting on the Middlesex side, notably by Albert M iddlesex . First innings. H. B. Hayman, c Uagart, b Jessop........... ...................16 L. J. Moon, b Jesse p .........48 G.W.Beldam, llw , t Town­ send ..................................61 E. 8 Littlej( hn. b Jes op . 0 Trott (A. E.), b Fargus ...112 G.MacGiegor,c andbFargus 18 G. P. F. Griffen, b Roberts .. 5 G E. Winter, c Je sop, b Fargus..................................16 W . "V illiams, b Fargus ... 0 Roche, not out ................... 4 Hearne (J. T.), c Board, b Fargus.................................. 1 B 12,1b 6, w 1, nb 1... 20 Total . 291 Second innings. b Jessop ........... 1 c Brow n,b!argus 46 b Rol erts ...........88 Ibw, b Brown ... 16 c Board,b Fargus 24 c Townsend, b Fargus ........... cBrown ,b Fargua b Fergus ........... b Fargus ........... not out................. c and b Fargus... B 6, lb 2, n b l... Total ..........1 Mr. Crawford, and Hayward—in addition to Hayes, so that with six wickets in hand they were still 30 tuns behind. Abel was out in an unlucky manner ; in trying to keep a bumping ball out of his face he played on. On Friday, so much rain fell that it was not possible to continue the game until a little before four o’clock, when Bayward and Mr. Jephson tried to save the game. The latter did not last long, but Bayward succeeded in keeping the ball out o f his wicket and out of the fieldsmen’s hands for an hour and twenty-five minutes, during which time he scored .2 runs. Be was half-an-hour at the wicket without scoring, and his first four runs were made in seventy minutes. Unfortunately for Surrey, such batting as this does not go far to win matches on bowler’s wickets unless there is someone who can hit at the other end. W ith six wickets down, Surrey still wanted 10 runs to save an innings defeat, and the arrears were not knocked off till Brockwell and Lees were together for the eighth wicket. Brockwell played the right game, but could get no one to help lim. Lancashire had to make 31 to win, and in twenty-five minutes they were victorious. S urrey . First innings. V . F. S. Crawford, b W ebb 7 G loucestershire . First innings. Second innings. C. L. Townsend, c Trott, b Hearne .......................... 8 rot out... ..........< W rathall,cLittlejohn,bTrotl 58 lbw, b Trott C. O. B . Sewell, c W inter, b Heam e..................................51 b Roche ............. 1 Board, b H earne................... 8 b Trott................... G. L. Jessop. b Roche ...109 n otou t................... W . S. A . Brown, c Mac­ Gregor, b Hearnc ........... 6 H. J. Bodgkins, c Hayman, b Roche .................... ... 7 N.O.Tagart.lbw, bWilliams 1 A .H.C. * argus,stMacGregor, b W i liams.......................... 2 O. E. W reford-Brown, b Roche ................................... Roberts, not out ... B 12, lb 1 ... 6 0 18 Total .267 B 11,1b l,n b 1. Total (3 wkts) 224 M iddlesex . First innings. O. M. R. W . Jessop... . Roberts Brawn... . bodgkins . Fargus Townsend . 29 14 . 8 3 124 5 . 10 0 Second innings. O. M. R. W ... 12 6 19 ... */4 9 ... 13 1 65 34 192 4 , 6 1 Hodgkins delivered awide and Jessop two co-balls G loucestershire . First innings. Second innings, O. M.R. W . O.M. R. W . Hearne (J. T.)... 235 117 4 ............ 17 6 46 Trott ................... 17 0 74 1 ............. 13 3 67 •Williams ........... 9 1 39 2 ............ 10 1 55 R och e................... 7*3 0 24 3 ........... 6 0 41 W inter... 1*2 0 12 Roche delivered one no-ball. SURREY v. LANCASHIRE. Played at Old Trafford on June 14 and 15 Lancashire won by 8 wickets. The batting in this match proved conclusively, pro< f were needed, that when 1 he wicket is entirely in favour of the bowlers, a few men who could play a determined game are more useful to their side than all the steadypiayerain the world. As it turned out, it was anything but an advantage to go in first, and as few of the 8urrey men attempted to hit boldly, the bowlers carried everything before them. Eight wickets were down for 40, and then Richardson and Mr. Jephson, taking their chances, hit out with vigour, and added 33 in a quarter of an hour. The Lancashire men did not play a very steady game, and some of them, notably Mr. Hartley and Mr. Eccles, came off pretty well, with the result that ihe Surrey score was headed by 67 runs, a most important lead on such a wicket. In less than an hour’s batting Surrey lost three of their best men—Abel. Abel, c and b B riggs........... 6 Hayes, b W ebb ................... 4 Lockwood, run out ........... 9 Hayward, b W ebb ........... 0 D. L. A. Jephson, not o u t .. 23 Brockwell, b W ebb .......... 0 Lees, c W ard, b W ebb ... 0 Smith, st frmith, b Briggs... 4 Richardeon (T.),c&b\V ebb 17 Stedman ,cTyldeslty,bBrig 2 s 0 Byes ........................... 4 Second innings, c Tyldesley, b Hallam ........... b Sharp ........... c Smith,b Hallam c B allam, b W ebb b Webb ........... b W ebb ........... not out................... st Smith, b W ebb c Ward, b W ebb c Ward, b Hallam c Hallam,b Sharp Total ................74 L ancabbire . T o ta l...........97 A. C. MacLaren, b Lockw ood ........... W ard,b Bayward ... Tyldesley, c Stedman, b Lockwood ........... Briggs, b Lockwood... A. Eccles, c Stedman, b Lockwood ........... C.R. Hartley, c Smith, b Brockwell ........... 31 Holland, not out Sharp, c Crawford, Brockwell.......... Smith, b Lockwood Webb, b Brockwt11 Hallam, run out... B l, n b l ... Total ... .. 19 b ... 3 ,.. 2 ... 1 ... 3 ... 2 Second innings A. C. M acI aren,b Brockwell, 11; Ward, c Stedman, b Lockwood, 10; Tyldesley, not out, 6 ; Briggs, not out, 0 ; lb 4.—Total (2 wkts.), 31. S urrey . Briggs W eob First innings. O. M. R. W . ................... 18 3 5 39 3 ................... 18 9 31 6 Second innings. O. M. R .W . ... 5 1 10 0 L t>..............28 5 38 5 Holland... 21 8 39 3 Sharp ... 3 0 5 2 Ward L ancashire . First innings. O. M . R. W . Lcckwood ...........<2 3 63 5 . Hayward .. ... 9 2 28 1 .. Richardson ........... 7 1 38 0 . Brockwell ........... 5 2 93 ., 1 0 1 0 Second innings. O. M. R. W . ... 4 1 21 1 ... 3 1 1 6 1 Lockwocd delivered a no-ball. N ATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK v. LONDON JOINT STOCK BAN K .—Played at Lower Syden­ ham on June 11,12 and 13. L ondon J oint S tock B ank . Reading, abs 2nd day 82 Cripps, c White, b Richards ................... 6 Ashbery, b Richards... 9 Spearing, c Price, b Richards ...................20 Pevereux, b Cosser ... 5 Hawkins, b Richards 0 Thornicroft, c and b Richards ...................10 Scammell, c McCon- achy, b £ ichards ... Hughes, c Price, b Cesser ................... Lunnon, b Richards... Morris, not o u t ........... B 7, lb 1 ........... T o ta l..........1 N ational P rovincial B ank . E. W . Aimstrong, c - Lunnon.bThoruicroft 3 i A.D.Phillips.cLunnon, b T hornicroft...........14 J. Price, c Cripps, b Spearing ...................32 J.W.Richards,cThorni- croft, b Ashbery ... 6 G.A.Cosser, b Spearing 21 P.M .W hite,b Spearing 3 H.C.J.McConachy, not out ...........................17 W .H .Fear,b Spearing F. E. Tyler, c Lunnon, b Spearing ........... A.F. Aylen, c Reading, b Spearing ... . W . J. Wheeler, b Thornicroft ........... B 13,lb 4 ........... T o ta l........... 13