Cricket 1900

Aug. 23 1900. CRJCKKT ; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 357 ESSEX v. WARWICKSHIRE. Played at Leyton on August 16, 17 and 18. Drawn. There was nothirg in the play shown in this match on the flret day before lunch to indicate that the Warwickshire m^n would run up a huge score -g linst E-*sex, f**r although there was obviously nothing the matter with the pitch four wickets were down for 137, Mr. Fishwick having made a good 71 in an hour and tbree-quaiters. But after lunch the two Quaifes came together, played themselves in with the utmost steadiness, settled down slowly, and were still masters of the situation when stumps were drawn. In the three and a half hours they increased ihe total by 256 runs, so that however monotonous one may have considered their batting, they made runs at a fair rate. The total at the end of the day was 392 f r fourwicket8. W .G . Quaife 185, and Walter Quaife 104. On Friday morning Walter Q iaife was out after adding 11 to his total, his score of 115 having been made in three hours and three-quarters, the partner­ ship having produced 268. Mr. Bainbrid.e made runs quickly while he was in, and the innings was over before lunch. W . G. Quaife carried hi* bat f r a great innings of 223, made in six hours acd-a-half. During part of the time that he was at the w ckets he made runs quickly. It now remained to be seen whether Essex could make a draw, for all chances of victory had died away long ago. They had twenty minutes batting before stumps were drawn, and in that time 1>st Carpenter, Mr. Fane, and Mr. Lucas for only six runs. They were thus in an extremely awkward position when the game was resumed, and they never recovered from this bad start. Before stumps were drawn on Friday they had completed an innings which left them 3^4 runs behind, t<nd had made 91 in the follow-on for the loss of Mr. Fane, Carpenter being notout 44, and Mr. Perrin not out 34. Thus on Saturday with nine wickets in hand they had practically to keep in all day to escape defeat. Mr. Perrin and Carpenter began to score at a rapid rate, and one might have fancied that it was the Sussex team battling for a draw instead of that of Essex. ThiH wicket produced 133 runs in ninety-five minutes. Mr. McGahey and Mr. Perrin made another long partnership, but before lunch time the latter was out for an extremely fine innings of 125, made in two hours and-a-half, and five wickets were down for 235. A t this stage of the game Warwickshire seemed pretty cer am of an easy victory. But Mr. Garrett and Russell afterwards played splendid cricket, and then Tremlin held out grimly and the match was saved. Tne finish was intensely exciting. W arwickshire . T. 8. Fishwick, lbw, b M cGahey...................71 Kinneir, b Mead ... 0 Lilley, b Mead ...........22 Quaife ( W .G .),noteut223 Charlesworth, c Kort- ri?ht, b McGahey ... 0 Quaife (W .), run outllS H. W . Bainbridge, c Tremlin, b Reeves... 43 E ssex . First innings. Carpenter, b Hargreave ... 0 F. L. Fane,lbw,b Hargreave 4 A. P. Lucas, b F ie ld .......... 2 C. McGahey,cLilley, b Field 18 P. Perrin, c Kinneir, b Har­ greave .................................. 8 C. J. Kortright, c Diver, b Field ...................................21 W . T. Garrett, b Field ... 9 Reeves, c Kinneir, b Field 20 Russell (E.),c Lilley, b Field ^ Diver, b Reeves........... 4 Hargreave, b Tremlin 0 Hopkins, b Mead ... 13 Field, c Fane, b Mead 1 B 3, lb 10 ...........13 Total .. 505 Tremlin, b Hargreave Mead, notout Leg-byes .. Second innings. c and b Field ... I c Lilley, b Har­ greave ...........10 b Hargreave ... 1 b H opkins...........46 lbw ,b Hargreavel25 c Lilley, b Field... 0 not o u t.. ...........64 b Fie d .................. 1 c Fiahwick, b Charlesworth .. 61 not out.................. 8 B 1?, lb 6... 19 Total .................I ll Total (8 wkts)394 W arw ickshire . Kortright 8 2 32 Mead ... 34 2 12 73 Carpenter 31 6 97 Reeves ... 32 8 86 Tremlin 19 2 65 O. M. R. W . 0 4 0 0. M. R. W. McGahey. 24 3 • 5 2 Lucas ... 12 1 44 0 Garrett... H 2 13 0 Perrin ... 4 2 7 0 E ssex . First innings. O. M. R .W . ^ield ........... 23 5 7 68 6 ... Hargreave... 19 4 t’9 4 ... Kinneir ... 4 0 10 0 ... Charlesworth Hopkins Second innings. O. M. R. W . 60 14 120 3 64 19 113 3 24 13 34 0 16 5 39 1 14 2 47 1 Quaife (W . G.)... 4 1 6 0 L ille y ................... 8 1 17 0 SOMERSET v. KEIST. Played at Taunton on August 16 and 17. Kent won by an innings and 3 runs. Some, set lost this match by their p’ay in the first innings. They could make nothing of Mr. Bradley and Mythe, and there waj no stand of any note made during the innirgs. Kent, on the other hand, began well and never looked back. Mr. Burnup and Mr. Stewart put on 61 for the first wicket, making 31 of them in the first quarter of an hour, after which they steadied themselves. Mr. Burnup played an excellent innings, and afterwards Mr. Mason, hitting well all round tie wicket, but particularly on the off, scored 66 in an hour, while in the last forty-five minutes Huish and Mr. Perkins added 63 to the total without being parted, the former being not out 40 when stumps were drawn with the total at 283 for seven wickets. On Friday morning the two not outs very soon took the bowling in charge, and were not parted until they had added 140 to the total in eighty-five minutes. Huish made 78, the highest score of his career, and Mr. Perkios 62 A t the tnd of the innings Mr. Bridley made one of his rare appearances as a batsman who can make runs, and the total was 292 more than that of Somerset. A second time was the Somerset bat'ing disappointing, for although Mr. L. C. H. Palairet and Lewis did well at the com­ mencement, eight wickets were down for 148 at four o’clock. This was chiefly due to the remarkable success met with by Mr. Mason, who after being hit about a good deal suddenly took five wickets in six overs for four runs. Then Tyler and Gill were both missed, and both of them began to treat the bowling so severely that in time it teemed that the innirgs defeat would be avoided. By hitting of the most determined, if not perhaps the most stylish, character the two men put on 135 for the ninth wicket in an hour and a-haif, and when they were parted only nine runs were required to save the innings defeat. 8 OMER 8 ETBHIRE. First innings. Second innings. L. C. H. Palaiiet, b Bradley 6 b Mason .......... 75 Robson, b B ly th e ................. 0 c Stewart, b Bradley ........... 9 Lewis, c Dillon, b Bradley .. 0 b Mason .......... 37 J. Daniell, c Stewart, b Bradley ................. 17 b Mason .......... 0 S. M. J. W oods b Blythe ... 12 b Mason .......... 0 G. Fowler, b Blythe ........... 9 b Blythe .......... 4 Gill, b Blythe .................. 0 b Bradley ..........78 C. E. Dunlop, b Mason ... 26b Mason ............ 4 A. E. Newton, b Hearne ... 29b Blythe .............16 Tyler, b Mason .................. 7b Mason ............. 54 Cranfleld. not out.................. 0 not out................. 4 B 1, lb 1, nb 1 ........... 3 B ..................... 8 Total .. ......... 109 K ent . Total... 289 C. J. Burnup, c Daniell, b Tyler .................63 H. C. Stewart, c New­ ton, b W oo d s.......... 32 P. C. Faker, c Lewis, b Tyler ...................27 Hearne (A.), b Bobson 2 J. R. Mason, c W oods, b Robson ... .......... 66 E. W . Dillon, b Tyler 16 S omersetshire . R.N.R.Blaker, b Tyler 10 T. N. Perkins, b Cran­ fleld .......................... 62 Huish, b Gill ...........78 Blythe, not o u t ........... 9 W . M. Bradley, b Gill 23 B 11, lb 2 ...........13 Total ..401 Bradley ... Blythe ... Mason ... Hearne ... Cranfleld Robson Woods O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. ... 14 1 39 3 ... ... 13*5 0 81 2 ... 14 5 35 4 ... .,.. 21 3 80 2 ... 5 0 23 2 .. ... 18 6 43 6 ... 4*3 2 9 1 .. .,.. 13 3 46 0 Burnup .. 5 0 90 0 Dil on .. . 4 0 12 0 Bradley delivered a no-ball. K ent . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W . 25 7 80 1 1Tyler ... 31 4 122 4 29 8 97 2 Gill ... ... 13 3 56 2 6 0 34 1 | GLOUCESTERSHIRE v. YORKSHIRE. Played at Cheltenham on August 16 and 17. Yorkshire won by an innings and 44 runs. Such a splendid fight was made by Gloucestershire in the first match this season betwt en the two counties that the int-rest in the return was considerable. Unfortunately for Gloucestershire Mr Jessop, the hero of tbe first match, is altogether out of form with the bat just at present, and in neither innings did he get going. Gloucestershire really lost the match by playing a very poor first innings. It was almost a procession of batsn en after the first wicket ha i fallen, and Mr. Rice was the only man who ever seemed able to play the bowling of Rhodes and Haigh. He, how­ ever, steadily kept up his end all through the innings, scoring seldom, but waiting patiently for a hitter to keep him company. But for once the hitters were all at sea, and the innings closed for a total of 101, which was exceeded by 29 before the first wicket of the Yorkshiremen fell. Lord Hawke was in splendid form, and in the course of an hour and three-quarters put together an admirable 79. This looked very bad indeed for Gloucestershire, but Mr. Jessop met with some success with the ball towards the end of the afternoon, and when stumps were drawn six York­ shire wickets had fallen for 203, Hirst being not out 31 and Wainwright not out 12. Yorkshire then had a lead of 104, and as two more wickets fell for an addit onal two runs, it looked as if the side might have to go in a second time with a pretty stiff task before them. Hirst, however, upset all calculations by hitting tremendously hard, and, with Rhodes and Hunter to help him, he succeeded in reaching his hundred. Bis entire innings lasted for two hours. The innings was all the more remarkable because the pitch, which had never been perfect, was showing considerable signs of wear. Thus after all Yorkshire had the very useful lead of 204 runs. Agam Rhodes and Haigh carried everything before them, and on Friday at half-past four the match was over. G loucestershire . First innings. Second innings. R. W . Rice, not out ...........38 lbw, b Rhodes ... 1 Wrathall, c Hunter, b Hirst 12 c Hawke, b Rhodes ... ... 37 C. L. Townsend, c Smith, b Rhodes .................................19 b Haigh .............. 7 A . G. Richardson, c Denton, b Rhodes ........................... 2 c Wainwright, b Rhodes .............. 37 G. L. Jessop, c Denton, b Rhodes.................................. 7 st Hunter, b Rhodes ............. 1 Board, c Tunnicliffe, b Rhodes.................................... 7b Haigh .............. 8 W . 8. A . Brown, b Rhodes 3 c Hawke, b Rhodes ..............28 H. S. Goodwin, b Haigh ... 4 b Haigh ............ 4 F. N. Towmsend, c Hunter, b Haigh ........................... 0 st Hunter, b Rhodes ..............26 A. H. C. Fargus, b Haigh... 2 c Wainwright, b Rhodes ............ 1 Paish, b R h od es................... 1 not out.................. 1 B 3, nb 1, w 2 ............ 6B 6, lb 2, w 1... 9 Total ............160 E. Smith, b Jessop Wainwright, c Rice, b Fargus........... Haigh,b Brown... Rhodes, b Jessop Hunter, not out... B 13, lb 2, nb 4 14 0 Total ...305 Total.......................... 101 Y orkshire . Lord Hawke, b C. Townsend......................79 Tunnicliffe, c Board, b Paish ......................16 Brown,c C. Townsend, b Jessop ......................36 Denton, b Jessop ... 0 T. L. Taylor, c and b Jessop ... ............ 9 Hirst, b B row n ............108 G loucestershire . First innings. Second innings. O. M . R. W . O. M. R. W . H irst...................12 1 39 1 ............ Rhodes ......... 21’2 11 36 6 ............ 27*4 7 67 7 Haigh ........... 10 3 20 3 ............ 20 2 64 3 Smith ........... 5 1 15 0 Wainwright... 3 0 6 0 Hirst delivered a no-ball and Rhodes three wides. Y orkshire . O. M. R. W . O. M . R. W . Jessop ... 29 7 67 5 1Brown ... 13 5 5 53 2 Paish............ 23 3 73 1 C. Town- Fargus ... 16 2 61 1 | send ... 8 1 32 1 Fargus deliveied three no-balls and Jessop one no-ball. MIDDLESEX v. NOTTS. Played at Trent Bridge on Aug. 16, 17 & 18. Middlesex won by an innings and 170 runs. Middlesex showed to immense advantage in this match, and they altogether outplayed their opponents. There was nothing remarkable that they should score 468 on the first day for the loss of seven wickets, for they are at the present time a very strong batting side, but it was distinctly remarkable that Notts should have been disposed of so easily. Butalthough the wicket was not at its best when Notts had to bat, their hesitation when playing against Mr. Wells placed thtm entirely out of the running. From the time that the first ball was bowled on Thursday Middlesex were masters of the situation. They nearly all made good scores, and made them quickly, and after the first two loog partnerships the Notts bowlers were quite helpless to keep down the runs. Mr. YNarner’s 134 was the feature of the innings ; it was made in three hour*, and although there was one bad mistake in it, it was a delightful display of correct batting. Next to his innings that of Mr. W ells may be placed in point of merit, for the batsmen who came afterwards might easily, without much stretch of