Cricket 1900

332 CEICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A ug . 9, 1900. T H E CANTERBURY WEEK . KEN r V . LANCASHIRE. Played at Canterbury on August 6, 7 and 8. Drawn. Many things, including the war, led one to antici­ pate that the famous Week would be shorn of some of its attractions, but the people of Can erbury are not easily moved and with a few unavoidable exceptions, the festivities left very little to be desired. But the weather was disheartening in the extreme. On M on­ day the simplest of amateur weather prophets could have foretold with a remarkably near approach to certainty that the afternoon would be wet, but despite this, a large crowd, numberir.g avout 4,000, were at hand to see the cricket when the match began. A punctual htart was made, and f<>r nearly an hour, during which Kent had the utmost difficulty in making runs, the spe tators were able to study the Lancashire • owliog and fielding. But with the total at 23 for the loss of Mr. Burnup, who in the first mat h between the teams this season had scored 200 runs, the rain came down and there was an end of cricket for the day. On Tuesday, in much better weather, the bowlers were seen to advantage, and but for the determined play of Mr. Mason, the Kent total would have been very small indeed. Alec Hearne played a useful innings. It was not a large total that Lancashire had to go in against, but when Hallows, Ward, Mr ‘ Eccles and Mr. MacLaren all failed for small scores, thiigs looked very promising for Kent. Tyldesley, h >wever, played good cricket and afterwards Mr. Hartley and Briggs stopped the collapse effectually, and in the end Lancashire had a lead of 18 runs. But by this time it was nearly five o’clock; so that it was clear that, unless something entirely unexpectel happened, the match would be drawn. Kent made 81 for the loss of Mr. Burnup, who p ayed very well indeed for 32. Alec Hearne was not out 28, and Mr. Baker not out 14. Yesterday the feature of the innings was the determined cricket shown by Mr. Baker, who made 51 out of 70 in forty minutes for the second wicket, Mr. Blaker and Mr. Stewart played attractive cricket, and Alec Hearne kept up his wicket for about three hours ; it was a very useful innings in many ways, but if the last 25 runs had been made in half the time, his side might possibly have won. As it was they made Lancashire very apprehensive indeed as to the result, and it was only by a similar kind of innings to Hearne’s by Ward that the Northern county escaped a crushing defeat. K ent . First innings. Secmd innings. C. J. Burnup, c Sharp, b Cuttell ...............................11 Hearne (A.), b W ebb..............29 P. C. Baker, c Webb, b B riggs.................................... 7 8. H. Day, b Cuttell ............ 5 J. R. Mason, b W ebb..............73 T. N. Perkins, c Ward, b W e b b ......................................10 H. C. Stewart, b Cuttell ... 0 R. N. R. Blaker, c Briggs, b Cuttell.................................... 0 Huish, b Webb ... ............ 0 Blythe, not out .................... 1 W . M. Bradley, b Webb ... 0 B 1, lb 2 ........................... 3 Total ....................139 lbw, b Sharp .. 32 c and b W ebb ... 59 c MacLaren, b W ebb ...........51 c Hartley,b Sharp 15 b Webb ........... 1 run out ........... 1 c Eccles, b Sharp 34 c Sharp, b W ebb. 23 c Eccles, b Ward 5 not o u t .................13 b Briggs ...........18 Extras...........17 L ancashire . First innings. Ward, c Mason, b Blythe... 9 Hallows, b Blythe ........... I Tyldesley, b Blythe ...........26 A. Eccles, c Day, b Blythe 7 A. C. MacLaren, b Hearne 0 C. R. Hartley, b Mason ... 44 Cuttell, c Mason, b dearne 5 Briggs, c Stewart, b Bradley 39 Sharp, st Huish, b Blythe .. 16 Pennington, b Blythe........... 0 W ebb, not out ................... 2 B 8, lb 1 ........................... 9 Total ...................158 K ent . First innings. O. M. R. W . Briggs Cuttell Sharp Webb 32 . 7 . 12 10 39 16 41 Total ...........279 Second innings. b Blythe ........... 0 c Mason,b Blythe 18 c Huish, b Blythe 5 b Blythe ........... 7 c and b Hearne... 8 run out ........... 2 not o u t................. 0 B 5, lb 2, n b l... 8 Total (8wkts) 82 Second innings. O. M. R. W . 123 8 . i7 8 70 9 63 lo 79 0 22 0 ...........25 4 34 5 ........... 34 W ard ..1 1 _ _ Hallows 1 1 0 0 Ward bowled a no-ball. L ancashire . First innings. Second innings. Hearne .......... 12 2 fc8 2 ................16 11 17 1 Ulythe ...........H 6 40 6 ............. 28 13 32 5 B radley........... 7.3 1 22 1 ............ 3 2 b 0 Mason ......... 5 0 19 1 .......... 10*5 5 17 1 Blythebowledano-ball. MIDDLESEX v. SOMERSET. Played at Taunton on August 6, 7, and 8. Middlesex won by one wicket. Although it was only possible to play for two hours on Monday in the afternoon, a fair amount of progress was made in this match. 1his was chiefly due to Albert Trott, who, on a tricky pitch, took all ten wickets of the Somersetshire team for 42 runs. At tbe commencement of the innings it did not seem that there was any extreme difficulty with the bowl­ ing, but when the partnership of the fh>t wicket wa<< broken there was a startling collapse. The feature of the innings was the batting of Mr. Hill, who, al­ though his score was only 35, played very good cricket indeed, which included some fine hits off Trott, and saved his side from a bad breakdown. Middlesex lost Mr. Warner and Mr. J. Douglas, and. with the sc -re at 35, stumps were drawn. On Tuesday, Mid­ dlesex did nothing remarkable, but, thanks to good batting by Mr. C. M. Wells, Mr Nicholls, and Raw­ lin, the county had a lead of 50 runs. This looked like being very useful indeed, but a surprising change came over the game when Mr. L. C. b . Palairet and Mr. Bernard went in a second time for Somersetshire. The Middlesex lead was soon knocked off, and it was not until the total was 126 that Mr. Bernard was out He had played remarkably good cricket for his 72 runs, which had been put together in an hour a id thirty-five minutes. No one would have been par­ ticularly surprised if this fine stand had been followed by a partial collapse; but when Robson joined Mr. Palairet the bowling was again mastered, and runs came rapidly. Mr. Palairet’s innings was a model of patience and grace; it lasted for two hours and forty minutes. Afterwards Mr. Woods did well, and when stumps were drawn the total—257 for six wickets— seemed large enough to give good hopes of victory. It was increased to 327 yesterday, and Middlesex were thus left with 278 to win. The struggle which followed was exceedingly interesting. 8everal men played very well indeed, but it was Mr. Warner's splendid batting which really won the match for Middlesex. S omerset . First innings. L. C. H. Palairet, b Trott .. 12 C. A . Bernard, b Trott ... 23 Robson, b Trott ................... C. E. Dunlop, b Trott 8. M. J. Woods, lbw, b Trott Lewis, c and b T ro tt........... J. Daniell, lbw, b Trott ... V. T. Hill, b Trott ........... A. E. Newton, c Warner, b Trott .................................. Tyler, b Trott ................... Cranfield, not out ........... Leg-byes ................... Total ...................89 M iddlesex . First innings. P. F. Warner, c Tyler, b Cranfield ...........................14 J. Douglas, b R obson......... 7 R. N . Douglas, c Bernard, b Cranfield.......................... 22 b Tyler C. M. Wells, c Bernard, b Cranfield ...........................15 B.J.T. Bosanquet, b Robson 0 Second innings. b Hearae ...........{ c Trott, b Bosan­ quet ........... b W illiams.......... b Trott ........... b Hearne ........... run out ........... b Rawlin ........... b Trott................... b Rawlin ...........18 not out.................. 7 cNicholls,bRawlin 3 Extras...........10 Total ...327 Second innings. lbw, b Paiairet . 84 c Newton,b Lewis 29 ... 27 G. MacGregor, b Cranfield 0 R . W . Nicholls, b Cranfleld 32 Rawlin, b Cranfleld ...........22 Trott, c Robson, b Palairet 13 W . Williams, b Cranfield... 3 Heame (J. T.), not out B 6, lb 1, w 1 ... Total . b Robson ...........35 c Robson, b Cran­ fleld .................19 c Newton, b Rob­ son ................... 1 stNewton,bCran- fleld...................15 b Cranfield...........21 not o u t..................34 c Daniell, b Cran­ field ................... 3 not out ........... 0 B 8, lb 4 ... 12 ...139 Total(9 wkts)280 S omerset . First innings. O. M. R. W . H eirae ... ... 15 4 45 0 ... Trott ........... 14-2 5 42 10 ... Rawlin ... Wells Williams Second innings. O. M. R. W. 7 57 2 4 116 2 1 29 3 1 38 0 5 . 22 31 . 7 12 Bosanque2 ... o 1 51 1 Rol son Cranfield Tyler... Palairet M iddlesex . First innings. O. M. R. W 24 8 50 2 ... 25-2 5 74 7 , 29 1 0 ... 6 1 ... Lewis ... Second innings. O. M. R. W. 12 56 2 7 106 4 2 48 1 3 37 1 1 22 2 ... 12 ... 14 ... 10 Cranfieldbowledawide. WARWICKSHIRE v. WORCESTER­ SHIRE. Played at Worcester on August 6, 7 and 8. Drawn. No play was poss ble in this match on Monday. On Tuesday Warwickshire lost Devey very quickly, and the a Mr. Fishwick and Kinneir made a great stand, which eave their side a fine start. The partnership produced 75 runs in an hour and a quarter. After­ wards Kinneir and Walter Quaife nearly wore down the bowling, but when the Jatter was out tnere was an astonishing collapse, Kinnier, however, keeping up his wicket to the end ; his innings lasted f or tnree hours and three quarters Worcestershire lost two wickets for 5 before the close of play, but yesterday Arnold batted so finely that all danger of a defeat was soon averted, and the match was obviously fated to be drawn. W arw ickshire . First innings. Second innings T. P. Fishwck, c Foster, b Days ..........................62 Devey, b W ilson ................... 2 Kinnier, not o u t .................. 102 Quaife (W . G.), b Days ... 5 Lilley, c Straw, b W ilson ... 0 Quaife (W .), c and b Bannister .......................... 24 H. W. Bainbridge, c Foster, b Bannister......................... 8 Charlesworth, lbw, b Fere­ day .................................. 3 n otou t.. . not out .. c Bird, b nister Pan- Whitehead, run out ........... Hargreave, c Wilson, b Bannister .......................... Field, c Wilkes, b Ban­ nister .................................. B 5, lb 2, w 1 ........... c W ilson, b Ban­ nister Total ...218 Total (2 wkts) 24 W orcestershire . Bowley, lbw. b Field 33 Fereday, b Whitehead 2 Arnold, b Hargreave 113 W. H. Wilkes, st Liiley, b Whitehead 5 H. K . Foster, c Lilley, b Hargreave ...........22 W . W . .Lowe, c Lilley, b K inneir.................. 11 Bird, lbw, b Field ... 10 Days, b Whitehead ... 1 Straw, c Field, b Whitehead ...........17 Bannister, not out ... 10 W ilson, c W . Quaife, b W hitehead........... 6 Extras ...................11 Total . ...246 W arw ickshire . Wilson Arnold Lowe ... Bannister Day ... Fereday First innings. O. M. R. W . ........... 26 9 53 ...........15 4 3 0 ... 16*2 5 27 0 ... 15 0 ... Second innings. O. M. R. W . ... 10 2 23 0 4 ... 6 42 2 ... 2 34 1 ... . ... 17 ... 10 Wilson bowled one wide. 9 8 1 2 W orcestershire . O. M. R. W . O. M .R. W . Hargreaves 40 13 82 2 |Field ... 18 3 45 2 Whitehead 29’5 9 56 5 K inneir... 14 2 28 0 Charl’sw’th 7 2 21 0 [ Charlesworth bowled two wides, and Field one wide and a no-ball. SUSSEX y. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Played at Bristol on August 6, 7 and 8. Drawn. On Monday there was no play in this match, owing to heavy rain, and on Tuesday it did not s em likely that many runs would be made by either side, despite the well-known ability of several Gloucestershire and Sussex men to play go^d cricket on queer wickets. There was certainly nothiug at the commencement of the Gloucestershire innings to point to a fairly big score, for Mr. Rice, Wrathall, Mr. Jessop, Mr. Townsend and Board—that is to say all the finest bats, bar one, in the team—failed with completeness. But Mr. Champain, the other great batsmau, kept going, and was presently joined by Mr. Brown, and some excellent cricket f llowed. Sussex men must have breathed more freely when they were at last parted, for there was a strong probability that the innings would very soon be over. But Langdon and Mr. Fargus quite upset all calculations, and by resolute hitting, they added 87 runs for the ninth wicket in flfty-flve minutes. The total— 268 —was distinctly a good one for the wicket. Sussex began with Mr. Fry and Mr. Goldie. The latter soon went, but Mr Fry was in fine form, and made a good stand with Killick. By the time that the latter was out Mr. Fry was very well set, and when he was joined by Ranjitsinhji a delightful exhibition of cricket was seen. When stumps were drawn the two famous