Cricket 1901

M a y 23, 1901. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 149 M.C.C. v. LEICESTERSHIRE. Played at Lord’s on May 16, 17 and 18. M.C'.C. won by 93 nine. REMARKABLE INNINGS BY MR. JESSOP. But for a mistake in the field almcst immediately after Mr. Jessop began his first innings, Leicester­ shire would, without much doubt, have won this match pretty easily. They had got rid of Dr. Grace and Alec Hearne for small scores, and found no diffi­ culty in keeping everybody else very quiet, exceptMr. Jeseop, who, as so olten before, upset all calculations. His innings, though remarkable enough, was not one of his best, which is not to say that it was a bad innings by any means. But he was missed when he had made 4, and also several other times during his innings, which, while it only lasted for an hour and three quarters, produced 169 runs; all the bowlers being unable to stop him from scoring rapidly. In twenty-five minutes he brought his score to 60, and and to a hundred in a hour. At certain periods of his innings he was even more than usually severe on the bowling, hitting King for four fours in succession, and making 27 in two overs of Woodcock’s. His biggest hit was one over the entrance gate into St. John’s Wood Road (the wickets were pitched low down), but he also made a very fine drive into the pavilion. His score.included a six, afive, and twenty- six fours. Mr. Murdoch also played very sound cricket, but during his partnership with Mr. Jessop, spectators almost forget his existence, although he was playing a splendid game. At the close of the innings Leicestershire had lost five wickets for 163, so that they had none tbe worst of the game. Mr. De Trafford was not out 33, a total which hecarried to 66 by most attractive cricket on Friday morning; his innings lasted an hour in all. The fine play of Geeson was extremely useful at the end of the inniDgs, and Leicestershire had a lead of six. At this period of the match there seemed no probability that they would be beaten, but by the end of the day they had allowed the M.C.C to obtain a leadof 294—the M.C.C. second innings having just been completed. The feature of the innings was the play of Mr. Murdoch, who seemed to have as complete a mastery over the bowling as in the years when, as the Australian captain, he was regarded as the second best cricketer of the age. He was eventually bowled by Woodcock for a superb 93, the highest innings he has made for for about three years. For the second time in the matchMr. Jessopastonished thebowlers, and although the Leicestershire captain was reduced to the expedient of putting seven men in the country in order to pick up a catch, he managed to get the ball to the boundary eight times before he fell for 49 after thirty-six minutes batting. Leicestershire had the whole of Saturday before them in which to make 295, so that there was not any likelihood that the match would be drawn if the weather remained good. They played a fine up hill game, but Mr. Wood was the only man who ever got going. M.C.C. First innings. Second innings. W. G. Grace, b Woodcock 11 b Woodcock ... IB W.L.Murdoch, cWhiteside, b Wood ......................43 b Woodcock ... 93 Hearne (A.), c and b King 2 G. L. Jessop, b Geeson .. 169 Thompson, b Woodcock ... Trott (A. E.), c Knight, b Geeson............................. Board, b Geeson............... A. M. Miller, c Crawford, b Woodcock..................... T.A.D. Bevington, b Geeson A.ConanDoyle, bWoodcock Heame (J. T.), not out ... 9 b W odcock c Whiteside, Woodcock c Whitehead, Geeson ... c Coe, b Wood b Woodcock runout 0 36 Byes .............. Total .............. 301 L e ic e ste rsh ir e . First innings. C. 0. B. Wood, b Trott ... 29 Knight, b Grace ..................16 Pougher, c and b Thompson 36 Coe, c Trott, b Thompson... 22 b Coe ......... c Whitehead, Woodcock notout... ... c Whiteside, Kirg......... B 7, lb 5, w 3 15 32 Total ...300 Whitehead, b Trott ... 0 King (J. H.), c A. Hearne, b Trott ............................. 3 C. E. de Trafford, b J. T. Hearne........................... 66 Geeson, ht. wkt., b Grace... 71 R. T. Crawford, c A., b J. Hearne............................. 8 Woodcock, st Board, b J. Hearne............................ 0 Whiteside, not out ....... 17 B 19, lb 2 0 ..............39 Total .............307 Second innings, bTiompson b Grace ......... b Ttompson c A. Hearne, b Thompson b Thompson b Grace ......... lbw, b Grace ... 13 cMurdoch,bGrace 16 c Thompson, b Grace b Thompson not out B 2 , lb 3 Total .. 201 First Woodcock King......... Coe ......... Wood .. .. Geeson Crawford .. M.C.C. innings. O. M. R. W. ... 22 6 ... 10 1 43 ... 6 0 29 ... 6 1 38 ... 10-4 0 72 ... 2 0 25 Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 24 3 82 5 ... 5 3 0 35 1 11 2 33 1 0 46 1 1 81 1 10 13 6 8 0 Pougher . Geeson bowled two wides and King one. L eicesteb sh ib e. t innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Firs Heame (J. T, Grace Trott Thompson '.) 31 26‘f , 33 17 11 71 3 8 53 2 5 93 3 5 51 2 Jessop... 5 1 22 3 8 1 121 1 7 1 19 0 68 5 28 0 60 5 21 0 LANCASHIRE v. WARWICKSHIRE. Played at Manchester on May 16, 17 and 18. Lancashire won by 243 runs. The fine all round batting of the Lancashire team and the bowling of Sharp, Mold, and Hallam were the chief causes for its easy victory. For Warwick­ shire, Hallam bowled finely in the first innings. L ancash ire . First innings. Ward, c Hargreave, b Kinnier ...................... 41 H. G. Garnett, c Whittle, b Santall.............................11 Tyldesley, b Santall ......... 8 YORKSHIRE v. WORCESTERSHIRE. Played at Dewsbury on May 16, 17 and 18. Yorkshire won by 90 runs. The scoring in this matchwas very even in the first innings, and when stumps were drawn on Friday, Worcestershire seemed to have a fair chance of winning if they could do about as well as in their first innings. Unhappily for them they found that Rhodes was helped by the wicket, and their oppor­ tunity was gone. Ihere was no remarkable batting of the Yorkshire side, but what is of much more importance, the tail as usual considerably dis­ tinguished itself, while onlytone man on the sidefailed to make a useful score in one innings or the other. Things were very different on theWorcestershire side, for except for Bowley, who played fine cricket in both innings, and Mr. Wilkes, the team quite failed. Yobkbhibe. Second innings. cStraw,bBurrows 20 c Foster,bWilson 12 cW ilkes, bWilson 34 lbw, b Burrows... 4 st Straw, b Pear­ son ............... 24 First innings. Tunnicliffe, c Bowley, b Wilson............................. 0 Brown, b Wil«on................ 4 Denton, c Bowley, b Wilson 0 T. L. Taylor, c Foster, b Wilson.............................44 F. Mitchell, run out .........20 Hirst, c Pearson, b Bannis­ ter ................................... Cuttell, b Moorhouse.........27 A. Eccles, b Hargreave ... 28 C. R. Hartley, b Santall ... 19 Hallows, b Whittle .........47 Sharp, b Hargreave ......... 0 Webb, lbw, b Hargreave ... 1 Smith, c Lil'ey, b Whittle 6 Mold, not out ................ 4 B 12, lb 3 ................15 Second innings, c Whittle, b Har­ greave .........50 lbw, b Whittle ... 32 c Hargreave, b Santall .........52 c Kinnier, b Har­ greave ......... 0 c Lilley, b Har­ greave .........67 c Whittle, b Har­ greave .........70 lbw, b Hargreave 15 c Devey, b Santall 25 c Whittle, b San­ tall ................ 0 not out................ 3 b Hargreave ... 0 B 17, lb 1, nb 2 20 Total ............... 207 W abw icksh ibe . Total .. 334 Wainwright, c Wilkes, b Bannister............. Lord Hawke, c Wilson, b Bannister............. Baigh, c Straw, b Bannis­ ter .......................... Hunter, not out B 3, lb 4 ... 11 c Burrows, b — — Bannister 40 Total .........189 Total ...109 47 b Burrows......... 14 L ancashire . tirst innicg 8 . Second innirgs. 9 lbw, b Bannister 21 O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Santall ......... 22 6 47 3 ... ... 29 6 74 3 3 c Straw, b BanHargreave ... 20 6 53 3 ... ... 36-3 11 78 6 nister.............. 28 Moorhouse ... 14 5 38 1 ... ... 6 0 29 0 40 b Burrows........ 36 Kinneir......... 11 4 22 1 ... ... 6 2 39 0 SO not out................ 4 Whittle ........ 7-4 2 32 2 ... ... 16 3 68 1 7 B 5, 1j 2, w 1 .. 8 Charlesworth ... 4 1 25 0 Total Total WOBGEBTEBSHlKE. First innings. _ Second innings. Bowley, c Tunnicliffe, b Hirst ...........................63 Pearson, b Rhodes ......... 1 Arnold, b Hirst ................ 0 R. E. Foster, b Rhodes ... 5 W. H. Wilkes, c Hunter, b Brown.......................... 109 Smith, b Hirst ............... 0 lbw, b Rhodes ... 73 c Hunter, b Hirst c Tunnicliffe, b Rhodes ... c Tunnicliffe, b Rhodes ......... b Brown ... . c Tunnicliffe, Hirst............. Wheldon, c Wainwright, b Hirst ............................. 2 b Rhodes Bannister, c Wainwright, b Haigh............................. 11 Burrows, c Wainwright, b Rhodes.............................18 Straw, not out ................ 0 Wilson, st Hunter, b Brown 4 B 2, lb 1, w 1, nb 1 ... 5 c Tunnicliffe, b Rhodes ......... b Haigh ......... not out................ c and b Rhodes... B 6 , w 1 ......... First innings. Kinnier, b Sharp................54 Devey, cGarnett, b Webb... 16 Quaife (W.), b Mold......... 4 Q,uaife (W. G.), c Smith, b Mold .............................55 Lil ey, b Webb ................11 T. S. Fishwick, c andb Mold 13 Charlesworth, c Smith, b Sharp.............................27 Santall, b Sharp................ 6 Whittle, b Sharp................ 0 Moorhouse, b Mold ......... 1 Hargreave, not out No-balls Second innings, c Smith, b Mold 10 c Sharp, b Webb 8 lbw, b Hallows... 4 c Smith, b Sharp 23 lbw, b Sharp ... 26 cHallows,bsharp 0 c Smith, b Sharp 2 b Hallows......... 1 c 8 harp,b Hallows 12 c Garnett, b Hal­ lows ............... 16 not out................ 0 Lb 6 , nb 1 Whittle and Moorhouse each delivered a no-lall. W a rw ic rsiu rk . First innings. O. M. R. W. Second innings. O. M. R. W. Webb ......... 28 5 106 2 .......... 9 2 26 Mold ......... 24 7 56 4 .......... 6 1 19 Hallows......... 4 1 9 0 .......... 53 1 15 Sharp ......... 13*1 5 16 4 ......... 14 4 42 W elb delivered two no-balls and Sharp one. Total First Wilson Bannister ... Burrows ... Pearson ..................... 218 Y orkshire . innings. O. M. R. W. .. 29 2 99 5 ... ... 33 15 43 4 ... ... 16 2 43 0 ... 4 0 13 0 . Total ...142 Burroughs bowled a wide. Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 28 1 93 2 ... 34-210 54 3 ... 27 7 63 4 10 2 27 1 First i W orcestershire . Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. 21 Hirst......... ... 24 7 77 4 ... ... 24 3 61 2 Rhodes ... 23 6 74 3 ... ... 24*3 7 54 6 17 Wainwright ... 6 0 18 0 ... 7 Haigh......... ... 8 1 85 1 .. 3 1 3 1 5 Brown .. 3*5 0 9 2 ... ... 2 0 17 1 — Wainwright delivered a no-ball, and Rhodes and Hirst each bowled a wide. MARLBOROUGH BLUES v. E'her on May 18. E sher . First innings. H. G. Peachey, b Bere ... 12 M. M. Barker, b Bere ... 8 J. H. Weatherby, c Kitcat, b B lack............................. 11 J. H. Roberts, b Bere........ 23 T. Westray, c sub., b Black 4 P. Barker, b Bere ......... 7 J. A. Peachey, b Bere.........17 O.E.Wreford-Brown,b Bere 1 C. B. Peachey, b Kitcat ... 14 C. C. Barker, b Kitcat ... 0 F. Bowler, not out ......... 5 B 13, lb 5 ................18 ISBER.—Played at Second innings, lbw, b Kitcat ... 50 c Burdett, b Bere 24 b Kitcat not out... 4 57 b Bere............... 1 b Harwood......... 5 B 16, lb 2, w 1 19 Total ...............120 Total (5wkts) 160 M arlborou qh B lu es . W. Mortimer, b C. Peachey ................ 5 H. M. Harwood, c P. Barker, b C. Peachey 59 S. A. D. Kitcat. c J. Peachey, bM.Barker 36 H.N.Milnes, b Bowler 0 K. D. Thorbura, b Bowler ................ 1 F. W. Bellamy, b C. Peactey ................ 3 H.G.Burdett, c C.,b J. Peachey ............. 23 J. Cohey, not out ... 12 Rev. M. A. Bere, c C. Peachey, b Bowler 5 A. M. Black, b J. Peachey ............... 0 L. R. Lewis, b J. Peachey ............... 2 B 11,1b 1 .........12 Total ..158