Cricket 1901

M ay 30, 1901. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 165 M.C.C. AND GROUND v. DERBYSHIRE. Played at Lord’s on May 23 and 24. M.C.C. won by nine wickets. At Ihe present moment thaDerbyshire men are un­ fortunate inevery way. Even when they 'win the toss their batting is so weak that they gain no advantage. Against a not very strong team of the M.C.C., Storer, Mr. Wright and Mr. Lawton were the only men who played up to their reputation, and the rtsuit was a severe defeat. D e r b y sh ir e . First innings. Second innings. L. G. Wright, c Trott, b Hearne.............................42 c Hearne, b Trott 10 Bagshaw, b Hearne ......... 1 c Greig, b Trott... 7 Storer, b Hearne..............32 lbw, b Hearne .. 78 Chatterton, b Trott ......... 4c Bearne, bTrott 2 A. E. Lawton, b Hearne ... 17b Rawlin .......37 A. P. Boissier, c Trott, b Hearne............................. 6 b Rawlin ........ 0 Cadman, cRawlin, b Hearne 4 c Carlin, b Rawlin 17 Hulme, c Geeson, b Trott... 9 b Rawlin ........ 4 Young, b Hearne............... 0 b Rawlin .. 1 Burton, not out ............... 9not out............ 9 Bestwick, b Tro't............... 1b Hearne ...... 1 B 1,1b 4 ................ 5 B 9,1b 2 ...11 Total H.B.Hayman,c Storer, b Bestwick ...... 89 W.L.Murdocb,runout 0 Capt. J. G. Greig, b Burton ... . . 32 Thompson, c Burton, b Hulme .. ...... 54 Capt H. C.Moorhouse, c Lawton, b Boissier 44 Rawlin, c Storcr, b Burton .............47 .. 130 M.C.C. Total .. 177 Trott (A.E ),bHulme 5 A.ConanDoyle.cChat- terton, b Hulme .. 28 Geeson, c Storer, b Boissier ... ... 8 Carlin, c Cadman, b Hulme ............... 21 Hearne (J.T.), not out 1 Byes ................ 8 Total ..287 Second inningsThompson, not out, 7 ; Geeson, not out, 4 ; Carlin, b Cadman, 10 ; lb 2, w 1.—Total (1 wicket), 24, D e r b y sh ir e . First innings. O. M. R. W. Hearne ......... 2 1 6 67 7 ... . Rawlin ........ 10 3 17 0 ... . ... 11*3 2 41 3 ... , Thompson M.C.C. Trott Second innings. O. M. R. W. . . 21 1 5 66 2 4 5 0 12 , 15 6 28 5 49 3 33 0 First innings. O. M. R. W. Second innings. O. M. R. W. 11 0 Hulme ..., ... 24*2 4 85 4 .. Bestwick..,. ... 24 9 f9 1 .. Burton ... ... 11 1 44 2 ..! 4 o Boissier ... ... 6 0 32 2 .. Cadman ... ... 6 1 20 0 .. 44 1 Young . ... 8 0 21 0 .. Lawton ... ... 4 1 18 0 .. Cadman delivered a no-ball. THE SOUTH AFRICAN TEAM. THE KENT MATCH. TH IRD OF THE TOUR. Played at Beckenham on May 23 and 24. Kent won by seven wickets. For the third time in succession the South Africans have shewn that tbev have plenty of grit, and that the tail is not in the least discouraged by the failure of tbe best bats. As yet they have not become thoroughly accustomed to turf wickets, and it would have been astonishiog if they had done so, for to men who during the whole of their career have been used to matting turf wickets must for some time seem peculiar. It is not by any means every Englishman or Australian who can mabe anything of them at the beginning of a season, and there are dozens of fine cricketers who do not get going until about the middle of June. At present the South Africans do not strike one as playing cricket of quite the same style either in batting or bowling as that which is shewn by English or Australian flrst-class cricketers ; and one would be half inclined to fear that their style is not quite first-class, if it were not for the remembrance of the curious style of the early Aus­ tralian cricketers, who had no style of tatting at all. Hut these Australians managed in some marvellous way t° make runs, and eventuallythe beautiful style or Mr. Murdoch was evolved, and there ser-ms no reason why the South Africans should not he able to shew the same progress. Their fowling badly wants accuracy, and as most of the members of the team nave had few chances of playing during the last couple of years, it is not likely that they wnl get into tneir true form for a few we ks. But despite these arawba ks they have not done badly. At Beckenham tney were severely beaten, but a little good fortune at critical moments might easily have turned the Viifi ln their favour. Their first innings seemed i , a failure, for eight wickets weredown for runs, but it is not very often that big scores are made in the first-class matches at Beckenham, poss-ibly because many batsmen cannot accustom themselves to the beautiful trees with which the ground is surrounded. An extremely plucky stand by Mr. Reid, who put on 77 in an hour and ten minutes and treated the bowlers as if they were of the common Saturday afternoon variety, and Mr. Rowe and Mr. Kotze brought the total to over 200. Such a fine beginningwas made for Kent by Mr. Burnup and Humphreys, who put up 108 for the firstwicket in an hour, that when stumps were drawn Kent had an immense advantage, being only 69 runs behind with seven wickets in hand. Nothing daunted the South Africans played up keenly on Friday morning, and the innings was brought to a very abrupt conclusion, Kent teing only two runs to the good. The South African captain changed his order in the second innings and sent in Mr. Tancred and Mr. Shalders, who put on 81 runs. The latter was out just before lunch, and afterwards there was such a collapse that Keut oniy had to make 138 to win. For the second time in the match Mr. Bumup and Humphreys brought up the hundred before they were separated, the former doing nearly all the scoring. The dura­ tion of the partnership wasfifty-five minutes. S outh A fricans . First innings. Second innings. J. H. Sinclair, b Blythe ... 0 b Bradley .......... 4 L. J. Tancred, c and b Hearne............................28 b Blythe ..........42 W. Shalders, c Murrell, b Mason............................ 31 c Huish,bBumup 41 A. Bisset, b Blythe ........ 26 b Blythe .......... 7 M. Hathorn,b Mason......... 6 cHuish,bBradley 0 E. A. Halliwell, c Heame, b Mason ...................... 0 b Blythe ..........15 M. Bisset, b Blythe .........17 cMurrell,bBlythe 15 A. Reid, not o u t............... 77 b Bradley........... 0 R. Graham, b Bradley ... 3 b Blythe .......... 0 G. A. Rowe, b Hearne ... 8 b Blythe .......... 0 J. J. Kotze, c Hearne, b Buruup ......................24 not out................ 1 B 1,1b 4 .......... 5 b 9, lb 2 ... 11 Total............... 525 Total ........... 139 K ent . First innings. Second innings. C. J. Burnup, c M. Bissett, b Sinclair ... .........50 cShalders,b Rowe 70 Humphreys, c Tancred, b Sinclair ......................60run out .............. 28 P. C. Baker, c M. Bisset, b c Halliwell, b Rowe .............................22 Rowe ............... 6 H^arne (A.), c Halliwell, b K otze.............................16 notout............... 12 J. R. Mason, b Kotze......... 8 notout............... 18 F. D. Browne, not out ... 31 F. V. Hutchings., st Halli- b Kotze ...................... 1 Murrell, st Halliwell, b K otze............................. 0 Huish, b Rowe ............... 4 Blythe, c M. Bisset, b Sin­ clair ............................. 20 W. M. Bradley, c M. Bisset, b Sinclair ...................... 1 B 11, lb 3............ 14 B 3, lb 2 ... Total................ 227 Total (3wkts) 139 South A fr ic a n s . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Bradley ... ... 20 3 64 1 ... ... 16 5 43 3 Blythe ... 20 6 48 3 ... ... 18 3 53 6 Hearne ... 15 4 45 2 ... ... 1 1 0 0 Mason ... 12 1 45 3 ... ... 6 0 25 0 Burnup ... ... 2-5 0 18 1 .. . . . 2 1 7 1 K e n t . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Rowe......... ... 3* 5 79 2 ... ... 122 2 50 2 Kotze......... ... 17 5 46 4 ... ... 12 3 40 0 Sinclair ... ... 17-1 3 58 4 ... ... 10 1 30 0 Graham ... ... 3 0 £0 0 ... ... 2 0 14 0 LONDON SCOTTISH v. WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.- -Played at Brondesbury on May 25. L ondon S c o t t is h . C. Koe Child, not out 6 B 22, lb 1 .........23 Total ... *180 Innings declared closed. T. S. Taylor, run out 51 A.A.Barron,c Nimmo, b Farrant ......... 7 J. Lamont, b Austin . 20 J. D Laing, not out .. 68 P. Child, c Austin, b Nimmo ............... 5 T. A. Dalgleisli, J. R. Connell, R. A. Bennett, H Marcus, and D. Drummond, did not bat. W e st m in s t e r H o s p it a l . H. Bunting, not out 92 J. Haynes, b Marcus I J. Nimmo, c Bennett, E. Pearn, b Connell B 2, w 1 Total ...139 b P. Child............. . 12 A. Crowther, b Barron 13 R. Farrant, b Marcus 3 W.Skey, lbw,bConnell 6 A. Dusley, H. Hocken, R. Austen, and B. Bailey did not bat. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY v. YORK ­ SHIRE. Played at Cambridge on May 23, 24, and 25. Drawn. As it was arranged to draw stumps at four o’clock on Saturday Cambridge just managed to avoid defeat, Yorkshire at that time requiring 34 runs with eight wickets in hand. Yorkshire, like Surrey in the Oxford match, gave two of their bowlers a rest, Rhodes and Haigh standing down, but despite this Lord Hawke had plenty of bowlers at his dis­ posal. Cambridge did very well indeed on the first day, and when stumps were drawn had scored 393 for the loss of nine wickets, Mr. H. K. Longman playing a beautiful innings of 150, which was put together in four hours and a-half. The only other innings which stood out at all prominently was the 55 of Mr. P. R. Johnson, but nearly every man made a useful score. On Friday Yorkshire were at the wickets all day, finishing their innings 39 runs behind just before stumps were drawn. The three amateurs in the team, Mr. Mitchell, Lord Hawke, and Mr. T. L. Taylor, were all seen to very great advantage. As stumps were to be drawn so much earlier than usual on Saturday it was very long odds against finishing the match, but after a very bad start by Cambridge in their second innings, two wickets falling for six runs, rain twice interrupted the play before lunch, and afterwards gave the bowlers some advantage, the result being that the tail collapsed. Yorkshire only had an hour and forty miuutes in which to obtain 161 runs, but they made a bold effort to win. They lost a couple of wickets in a few minutes, but then Brown and Mr. Taylor got within a short distance of the number required. C am bridge U n iv e r sitt . First innings. L. V. Harper, b Haigh ... 50 H. K. Longman, c Smith, b Wainwright ................150 S. H. Day, cSmith, b Brown 16 E. R. Wilson, c Taylor, b Brown............................ 23 R. N. R. Blaker, c Smith, b Wainwright ................25 W. P. Robertson, run out... 24 P. R. Johnson, c Higgins, b Whitehead......................55 E. M. Dowson, run out ... 29 A. E. Hind, not out ... ... 7 G. Howard-Smith, b Wain­ wright ............................. 9 G. A. Scott, b Wainwright 1 B 27, lb 6 , w 1, nb 2 ... 36 Second innings. cHiggins,b Haigh 3 b Haigh .........16 b Wainwright ... 0 c Wainwright, b Haigh .........42 b Wainwright ... 8 b Haigh ............11 absent hurt.......... 0 b Wainwright ... 1 notout.................. 16 lbw, b Haigh b Haigh B 15, lb 3 ... 0 ... 6 ... 18 ...121 Total............... £95 Total Y o rk sh ire . First innings. Second innings. Brown, b Dowson................27 notout........... 64 Tunnicliffe, c Blaker, b Hind ............................. 8 c Longman, b Howard-Smith. 4 Denton, c Robertson, b Hind 21 c Hind, b Dowson 1 T. L. Taylor, c and b Dow­ son .............................53 not out............51 F. Mitchell, c Day, b Howard-Smith................87 Wainwright, c and b How­ ard-Smith ................ ... 33 Lord Hawke, not out.........69 "Whitehead (Lees), c and b Wilson.............................34 Haigh, c Hind, b Wilson ... 1 Higgins, b Dowson ......... 8 Smith,cRobertson,bWilson 7 B 1, lb 4, w 3 .......... 8 B 5, lb 1, w 1 7 Total............... 356 Total (2 wkts) 127 C am bridg e U n iv e r sity . First innings. Second innings O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Frown ......... 31 4 82 2 ......... 3 2 11 0 Haigh ......... 29 6 69 1 ......... 27 8 48 6 Wainwright... 41*2 15 72 4 ......... 23 9 44 3 Smith ......... 19 4 62 0 .......... Whitehead ... 23 5 56 1 .......... Tunnicliffe ... 3 0 180 .......... Haigh delivered a wide and Smith two no-balls. Y ork sh ire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Hind ......... 25 6 65 2 ......... 4 0 23 0 Howard-Smith 25 5 103 2 .......... 7 1 29 1 Dowson......... 39 11 93 3 .......... 20 7 61 1 Scott.............. 6 0 26 0 ......... Wilson ......... 27 5 61 3 ... 9 2 17 0 Hind bowled one and Dowson three wides.