Cricket 1900

284 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J uly 19, 1900. SUSSEX v. HAMPSHIRE. Played at Brighton on July 16, 17 and 18 Sussex won by 232 runs. For once, the Pus-ex team was a long time in making its runs in its first innings. Nearly every man who went in played excellent cricket, but some­ how or other nobody got going. Mr. Fry being away, and Ranjitsinhji being out for 44 m^de all the difference in the world, and although the wicket was excellent, and the bowling nothing out of the ordinary, only 282 run* were put on in the course of a full day’s cricket. Vine playe a great innirgs, and kept up his end for ihree hours and a quarter, while Mr. Collins and Killick t roke the back of the bowling. A t thfe close o f the day six wicke's were down for 282, while on Tuesdiy morning Butt and Bland made runs quickly, and the total came to 407. Hampshire lost Mr. Robson and Mr. Sprot for a dubn’s egg between them, but W ebb and Barton made a stubborn resistance to the bowling, and thiilgs began to look very much better. Barton was the hero of the day. His side wanted runs very badly indeed, and no one was capable of making many with the exception o f him and Mr. Briggs, who played faultless cricket for 58. Barton was still going strong when stumps were drawn, having placed 175 to his credit out of a total of 330 for 8 wickets. The last two men gave him time yesterday morning to readh his second hundred and then he was bowled. He had o -ly been batting for three hours anI forty minutes. Thanks chiefly to his fine play, Sussex only led by 40 on the first innings, but with Relf and Mr. Collins putting on 125 for the first w.cket and preparing the bowling for Kanjit­ sinhji, the latter, after himself making 83 very rapidly, was able to declare his innings, leaving Hampshire to make 306 in two hours and a-half. Contrary to all expectation, they collapsed in the most remarkable manner before Bland. S ussex . Vine, c and b Barton 86 G. Brann. b Spro, ... 1 Butt, c Sprot, b Barton 25 Humphreys, b Barton 2 Bland,c Sprot, b W ebb 30 Tate, not out ...........11 B 16, lb 3 ...........19 Relf, c Sprot, b Bald­ win ................... ... 12 A. Collins, c Robson, b Q ravett................ 64 Killick, c Webb, b Gravett .......... ... 67 K. S. Ranjitsinhji, b Barton ...................41 Marlow, st Gay, b Robson .................. 47 Second innings: A . Collins, not out, 73; Relf, c W ebb, b Gravett, 75; Killick, c Robson, b English, 15; K. S. Ranjitsinhji, not out, 88; Extras, 1 4 - Total (two wickets), *265. * Innings declared closed. Total ...407 H am psh ire . First innings. C. Robson, c Vine, b Bland 0 W ebb, c Marlow, b Hum­ phreys ................... ..........27 E. M. Sprot. c Butt, b Bland 0 Barton, b Killick.................. 205 Rev. C E. Briggs, c Brann, b Humphreys .................. 58 E. A. English, b Humphreys 35 L. H. Gay, c and b Bland .. 5 D . A . Steele, c Butt, b Humphreys ................... 6 Light, b Killick ................... 5 Gravett, b Killick................... 3 Baldwin, not o u t................... 4 B 14, lb 1, nb 4 ...........19 Second innings, c Butt, b Bland... 10 b T a te ................... 5 c Tate, b Bland .. 9 c Butt, b Bland... 7 b T a te................... 2 cTate, b Bland... 5 lbw, b Bland ... 3 c Collins, b Tate 5 not out...................19 b Tat*?................... 0 b Humphreys ... 7 No-ball ... 1 Total... ...........367 Baldwin ... Gravett ... Barton ... Steele Robson ... W ebb ... Sprot S ussex . First innings. O. M. R W . 46 13 96 2 ... 46 11 100 2 ... 40 4 17 76 3 ... 6 13 Total ... 73 Second innings. O. M. R. W. 1 27 0 ... 1 40 1 ... 18 18 10 2 79 0 17 English ... Sprot bowled two wides. 25 0 12 0 11 1 H a m psh ir e . First innings. O. M. R . W . Second innings. O. M. R. W . T a te ................ . 16 3 49 0 ... ... 16 2 51 4 Bland ......... . 21 3 61 3 ... ... 16 6 20 5 Humphreys ... 22 2 96 4 ... ... 0*5 0 1 1 R elf................. 7 1 25 0 Ranjitsinhji .. Collins ......... . 7 . 3 2 2 44 1 0 0 Brann ......... ,. 7 1 41 0 Killick .........,. 54 0 30 3 Tate bowled three no-balls, and Killick and Bland each bowled a no-ball. G E N T L EM E N v. PLAYERS. A GREAT MATCH. Played at Lord’s on July 16, 17, and 18. Players won by two wickets. Although the names of W .G ., Ranjitsinbji, A . C. MacLaren, W . Gunn, Shrewsbury, and Lockwood were missing from the list of cricketers who usually play in this match, the Gentlemen’s team was most decidedly strong, while the Players were well represented. For once, however, they were not particularly strong in bowling. Th-} feature of the first day’s cricket was the admirable b itting of Mr. R. E. Foster, who, while nearly everybody else on his side played the bowling with difficulty, was completely master o f the situation. His strokes, as ever, were hard and perfectly timed, and while he was in there was no rest for the field, who only prevented him from making an even larger ecore by the most ener­ getic efforts, for nearly every ball which he hit would nave gone to the boundary if the field had teen slack. On the whole, the Players did as well as could have reasonably been expected of them, seeing that they had no fast bowler to make use of the slight fire in the wicket, and from first to last they kept everybody very quiet, with the single exception of Mr. Foster. A most useful innings was played by Mr. Fry, who, however, did not ehow his usual skill; he was often caught in two minds. Such an innings played by some men would have been considered excellent, but Mr. Fry has set himself such a very high standard, that when he does not live up to it. one feels that something is wrong. Mr. Jessop, who undoubtedly is seen at his best when the wickets are not so hard, began well enough, but the pace at which the ball leit the ground seeme . to bother him a little. The only other men who scored double figures were Mr. Em 8t Smith and Mr. Townsend, who both played well. There did not seem much chance that Mr. Foster would make his hundred, for when the list man, Mr. Martyn, c^ne in he had only reached 85, a total at which he had been for some twenty minutes. But he then took heroic measures, and scored thirteen off an over of J. Guun’s, and soon completed his hun­ dred, after being at the wickets for two hours and a half. This was a great feat for a man who was mak­ ing his first appearance in Gentlemen v. Players. As soon as the Players went in (they had an hour and a-quarter before them) it was seen that fast bowling would be exceedingly awkward to play. Abel was twice severely hurt by Mr. Jessop, much to the amusement of some of the crowd, who looked on the affair as a huge jo k e ; and Quaife also had a hard knock from him. When stumps were drawn the Players had lost Ward and Hayward for 66, so that the Gentlemen had made an exceedingly good start. The Players were altogether unable to cope with the bowling—more especially the fast bowling—on Tuesday morning. Abel, who was lame, was bowled by a yorker alter adding a single to his overnight score of 29, and a series of disasters followed. Naturally the Gentlemen were fielding for all they were worth. They brought off so r.e brilliant catches, and the Players were very much out of it. There was never any appearance of a decided t-tand, and long before lunch they were all out, being 161 runs behind. Natura ly the Gentlemen did not give them the chance of following on, but proceeded to increase th-ir lead to an extent which soon became alarming. They lost two wickets lor 43, but when Mr. Foster joined Mr. Fry the bowling was gradually played down. Mr. Foster played a great game, and eventually attained the hoLour, which is unique, of making two separate hundreds in a Gentlemen v. Players match. For any man, even Dr. Grace, this performance would have been remarkable ; for a first appearance it was astonishing. So brilliantly did he hit, that Mr. Fry was wis 'ly content to keep very quiet, and at one time only made 9 runs while Mr. Foster made 72—an experience which he, a splendid hitter himself, must have appreciated. After he had made his second hundred, Mr. Foster hit harder than ever, and eventually, with his total at 136, was well caught in the long field, after being at the wickets for only an hour and forty minutes—a great innings. Mr. Fry did not bat much longer. He had played a game which is not usually in his pro­ gramme, and he had played it exceedingly well. There was not much done after his dismissal. Nevertheless, the Players had to go in to make 601, and lost Albert Ward before time. Total, 44. The position of the game yesterday morning was that the Players had still to make 457 runs with nine wickets in hand, a task which seemed altogether beyond their powers. Quaife stayed in for an hour and five minutes for 26 runs, and fell with the total at 79, and so far there was no promise of a particularly long score. But when Abel came in and began to play a game like that which he played at Leyton on the previous Friday, and when Brown began to increase his total at a fair rate, one began to wake up to the fact that after all the game might be drawn—one did not look any further than that. A t lanch time the two bats­ men were still in with the total at 242, and then it was clear that the Players had a possible chance of winning. When play was resumed there were 259 runs to win and three hours and forty minutes. When four more runs had been made the partnership was broken, Abel being out for 98, an altogether beautiful and attractive innings, which had lasted for two hours only, the stand having produced lt>6 runs. Hayward was the newcomer, and another long partnership followed, producing 102 iuns in an hour and a half. Brown was the first to go. Bis 163, made in four hours and fifty minutes, was by far the best and highest that he has played this year, and had a great d^al to do with the ultimate victory of the Plaj ers. Four wickets were now down for 348. Thus there were still 153 runs to be made in two hours, and the probability of a close finish became great, for although Hayward was playing a mag­ nificent game and Lilley helped him considerably, both men were out when they were nearing the goal, and it was anybody’s game, with the Players for choice, time as well as wickets >having to be con­ sidered. Still another wicket fell and then it was all over, for Trott and Rhodes kept in till the match was won. It was one of the finest of the many fine finishes in these matches, and the Players are to be heartily congratulated on coming out triumphantly after such an uphill game. G en tlem en . First innings. Second innings, ward, b 9 A. O. Jones, Trott ................... C. B. Fry, b Rhodes .........68 C. L. Townsend, run out ... 30 R. E. Foster, not o u t ........102 J. R. Mason, b T r o t t ........... 2 D. L. A. Jephson, lbw, b Rhodes.................................. G. L. Jessop, c .Lilley, b R hodes................................. S. M. J. Woods, c Lilley, b Rhodes.................................. 7 c b Rhodes ........... hit wicket,b Ward 72 b Rhodes ...........22 c Brown, b Trott 136 c Lilley, b Irott.. 27 9 not out... 11 b Trott... 8 Carpenter, Ward E. 8mith, c Rhodes, b Gunn 26 c Brown, b Trott. 16 C. J. Kortright, b Gunn ... 4 c sub., b Trott ... 12 B . Martyn, c Brown, b Gunn ..................................... 3 c Quaife, b Trott 4 B 15, lb 4..................19 B 5, lb 4...9 T o t a l........................297 P laters . First innings. Abel, b Jessop ...................30 Ward, c Jones, b Mason ... 16 Hayward, b Jessop ........... 8 Quaife (W. G.), c Foster, b Jessop.................. ........... Brown, sen., c Foster, b M ason.................................. 18 Carpenter, run out ...........14 Lilley, b Mason ...................10 Trott (A. E.), c Foster, b M ason.................................. 9 Gunn (J.), c Martyn, b Kortright ........................... 4 Rhodes, not out ................... 1 Mead, b Kortright ........... 4 B 9, lb 4 ...................13 Total... . Total ............339 Second innings, c Jones, b Jessop 98 cMartyn,b Jessop 4 c Martyn, b Kort­ right....................I ll 9 lbw, b Jones ... 29 c Jones, b Smith..163 b Woods ... ... 9 b Mason .............. 39 not out .. . 22 Rhodes Trott Mead Gunn ...........136 G en tlem en . First innings. O. M. R. W . b Kortright... not out........... Bl3,lb8,w l,nb4 26 Total (8 wkts) 502 93 21 5 68 0 ... 17*3 3 61 3 ... Ward 14 7 10 Quaife.. 1 P l a t e r s . Second innings. O. M. R. W. 16 2 51 2 20-2 0 142 6 1 57 0 3 23 0 3 39 2 0 18 0 Kor! right Jephson Mason .. Jessop Jones First inning 4. O. M. R. W. 12*4 4 17 14 5 30 2 . 9 0 . 40 4 . 28 3 . 16 0 . W ojds fcmich. Townsend Second innings. O. M. R. W. 18 4 61 2 19*5 3 70 18 3 67 2 0 8 Mason delivered four no-balls, and Woods a wide. YORKSHIRE v. WORCESTERSHIRE. Played at Worcester on July 16, 17 and 18. Drawn. Heavy rain fell in this match on Monday morning at about ten o’clock, with the result that play did not begin before twenty minutes to three. Yorkshire, who won the toss, could not make much out of the wicket for some time, and lost five men for 91 runs. But Hirst was again in great form, and as he received valuable assistance from some of the tail, the total was much larger than seemed likely at one’ time. Mr. E. R. Wilson was hit in the face by a short-pitched ball from Wilson, the Worcestershire