Cricket 1901

J u ly 4, 1901. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 251 M .C .C . A N D G R O U N D v . O X F O R D U N I V E R S I T Y . P layed at Lords on J u ly 1 and 2. Abandoned. There was only a short period of play on Monday in this m itch, which as usual was limited to a couple o f days. The M.C.C. had a weak batting team, but the bowling was pretty strong. A t the close of the first day they had much the best o f the game, for against their total of 178 Oxford had only been able to put up 51 for the loss of six wickets. But on Tuesday morning Mr. J. W . F. Crawfurd, who was not out 7 over night, and Mr. Kelly (not out 4) made such a very fine stand that in the end their side was only 46 runs behind. Mr. Crawfurd played in last year’s University match, but has hitherto not been able to play this year. Mr. K nox was very successful in the M.C.C. second innings; nevertheless, the M.C.C. despite a comparatively small score were able to declare, leaving Oxford to make 204 in two hours. They had just bgun their innings when the rain came down and prevented any further play. M.C.C. a n d G ro u n d . First innings. Second innings. F. L. Fane, c More, b Knox 27 b Knox ...........27 Thompson, lbw, b Knox ... 7 lbw, b K nox ... 3 B. N. Bosworth-8mith, c Bomford, b More ...........44 st Bomford, b K nox ... ... 23 H. J. Hill, b W illiams ... 5 cBomford,b More 2 E.C.Lee,c Munn, b Williams 10 b Knox ...........28 SirT. C. O’ Brien, c Munn, b Bonham-Carter ...........30 b W illiams............. 8 A. E. Trott, c Crawfurd, b M u n n ...................................11 b W illiams............. 22 T.B.Henderson, c Crawfurd, b Munn ........................... 6 st Bomford, b Knox ........... 0 A . G. Archer, not out...........23 b W illiams.............14 J.T.Hearne, c Kelly,b Knox 3 not out...................21 Mead,cBomford ,b Bonham- Carter .......... ................... 0 B 4, w 2, nb 6 ............12 B 8, lb 1 ... 9 Total ...................178 Total (9 wkts) *167 *Inning8 declared closed. O xford U n iv e r sit y . C. H. B. Marsham, c Trott, b H eam e 0 E. W . Dillon, c Fane, b Mead ................... 0 F. P. K nox, c Hender­ son, b H eam e...........17 R.E.M ore,lbw, b Mead 13 H. J. Wild, b Heame 3 R.A .Williams, c and b Heame ................... 0 J. W . F.Crawfurd, not out ...........................60 G .W .F. Kelly, b Mead 20 M. Bonham-Carter, c and b Mead ........... 8 J. S. Munn, b Mead... 8 H. Bomford, b Trott 3 B 7, lb 8 ...........10 Total .132 Second in n in g s C . H . B. Marsham, not out, 0; E. W . Dillon, not out, 2 ; byes, 3.—Total (no wkt), 5. M.C.C. a n d G rou n d . First innings. Second innings. O. M . R. W . O. M. R. W . Munn ........... 12 2 37 2 ............ 1 0 .« 0 Williams ... 23 7 60 2 ........... 64 0 29 8 Knox ........... 16 0 62 3 ............ 19 2 73 6 More ........... 10 3 22 1 ............. 14 3 37 1 Bonham-Carter 8*2 1 6 2 ............ Munn delivered four and W illiams two no-balls, and Munn and K nox each bowled a wide. O xford U n iv e r sity , First innings. Second innings. O. M . R. W . O. M. R . W . Heame (J.T.) 22 4 67 4 ............ Mead ........... 23 9 63 6 ............ 1 0 1 0 Trott ........... 3*3 1 12 1 ............ Thompson... 1 0 1 0 S U R R E Y v. K E N T . P layed at the O val on J u ly 1, 2, and 3. K e n t w on b y 110 runs. The heavy rain on Sunday night had made the wicket very soft, and when Kent began batting at half-past twelve on Monday, the late start being necessitated by the state of the wicket, it was soon found that the batsmen would have much the best of matters for a time, while it was guessed that those who were unfortunate enough to have to go in duriog the latter part of the afternoon would find it next to impossible to make runs. Mr. Burnup and Alec Heame, who went in first for Kent, made the very best of their opportunity, and were still together at lunch time, when the score was 81. Thirty runs v ere added afterwards in twenty minutes before the first wicket fell, Mr. Buraup being then out, after an hour and fifty minutes batting. This excellent beginning meant a great deal to Kent. The rest of the batsmen could do nothing with Hayward and Smith, and the whole side was out for 189, of which 16 were 'extras. As Hearne and Mr. Bumup were responsible for 111 between them it will be seen that nine of the Kent team could only increase the total by 62. By this time tbe wicket had become very greatly in favour o f the bowlers. The Surrey men came out one after another with a most disconcerting rapidity, Abel and Hayes being out in the first over, and seven wickets were down for 54. Holland, who played a'purely defensive game, was the only man who could withstand the Kent bowlers; he kept up his end for fifty minutes. Fortunately for Surrey the tail played up with great pluck, Lees making himself useful by scoring 22 runs in eight hits. As extras were even more plenti­ ful than in the Kent innings things were not.hope- lessly bad for Surrey when stumps were drawn, the total being 93 for 8 wickets. On Tuesday morning Mr Leveson-Gower and Stedman added twelve valu­ able runs to the total and then the former and Smith in partnership for the last wicket played so well that in the end Surrey were only 68 runs behind. This was quite enough for a dead wicket, but not nearly as bad as it promised to be. Kent had a few minutes batting when heavy rain came down. It was only possible to play for about three-quarters of an hour, during which Mr. Burnup and Hearne slowly put on 20 runs. Thus yesterday morning the position was that Kent had a lead of 88 with all their wickets in hand, a winning position under the circumstances. Kent began very cadly, losing Mr. Bumup and Mr. Mar­ chant for an addition of five runs. Alec Hearne and Humphreys made a useful stand; and Mr. Mason played well, but there seemed very little chance that Kent would be able to make enough runs to be able to declare, until Mr. Singh and Murrell came together. The former kept up his wicket steadily; the latter hit tremendous y hard, and ia twenty minutes he had scored 60 runs. This sort of thing completely altered the appearance of the game. Meanwhile, Mr. Singh had not been idle, but had scored whenever an opportunity presented itself. When his exceedingly useful innings came to an end just before lunch the innings was closed, and Surrey were left to make 276 to win. The Btart was mosc disastrous. Five men, including Abel, were out for 36, and the game seemed nearly over when Mr. Crawford joined Hayward. There was a chance that these two men might do something, but Hayward was bowled at57 foran excellent 20. Then began apartner­ ship between Mr. Leveson-Gower and Mr. Crawford, which at one time offered a bare possibility that Surrey might actually win. Mr. Gower’s defence was sound, while Mr. Crawford hit magnificently, once or twice making very dangerous hits. But you must take risks if your hitting is going to do any good at a time like this. A description of Mr. Crawford’s treatment of an over of Blythe’s will be found ia “ Gossip.” The Kent bowling began.to get less accurate in pitch, and things were going well for Surrey when Mr. Crawford ran himself out. It was “ the saddest thing as ever was.” Leveson-Gower played a ball hard to third man—to Mr. Burnup There would have been no time for a run if a duffer had been there, but with Mr. Burnup it was fatal. The ball was gathered and returned without any flurry or waste of a fraction of a second, and the partnership was broken. One cannot speak too highly of the play of both men in their different ways. After this mishap Kent had no further trouble. K en t . C. J. Buraup, c Hayward, b Lees .................................. 52 Hearne (A.), c Hayes, b Hayward .......................... 59 F. Marchant, c Crawford, b S m ith .................................. 5 14 Humphreys, b Sm ith........... J. R. Mason, c Stedman, b ayward .......................... G.J. V . Weigall, c and b Hayward ........................... K . S. Singh, c Stedman, b Sm ith .................................. Murrell, c Holland, b Hay­ ward .................................. Huish, c Holland, b Hay­ ward .................................. 4 Blythe, b idayward ........... 8 W . M. Bradley, not out ... 11 B 12, lb 3, w 1 ... 16 Total.................. 189 * Innings declared S u r r e y . First innings. Abel,cHumphreys, o Blythe 2 Holland ,cWeigall, b Hearne 16 cStedman,b Hay­ ward...................12 cLees, b Hayward 17 c Crawford, Smith c and b Lees 5 lbw, b Smith 3 b Smith ... 6 b Hayward... 6 not out........... 39 Hayes, at Huish, b Blythe... Lockwood, lbw, b Blythe ... Hayward, b Blythe ........... L. Walker, b H earne........... V. F., S. Crawford, b Blythe H. D ) G. Leveson-Gower, b Blythe.................................. Lees, c Mason, b Hearne ... Stedman,eBurnup, b Blythe Smith, not out ................... B 15, lb 3........... B 12, lb 1, nb 3 16 Total (7 wkts) **17 closed. Second innings. b Hearne ...........16 cMurre.l,bBlythe 0 b Blythe ........... 1 b Blythe ........... 6 b Heame ...........20 lbw, b Hearae ... 4 run out ...........75 c and b Blythe . not o u t............... b Mason ... . b Mason .. . Byes... . K e n t . First innings. O. M. R. W . Second innings. . . . O. M. R. W. Lockwood ... 13 2 36 0 ............ 4 0 22 0 Smith ........... 34 16 49 3 ............ 29 12 76 3 T— * 9 1 34 1 Lees ... 13 4 37 1 Hayward...........18*1 4 51 6 ... 25-3 8 Lees delivered a wide and Hayward three no-balls. S u r r e y . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Blythe ...........19 4 6 64 7 ............ 25 12 67 4 Hearne ........... 12 4 33 3 ............ 20 6 58 3 Mason ........... 3 0 7 0 ............ 7 0 19 2 Humphreys ... 4 1 9 0 ............. 5 0 26 0 Total.................. 131 Total ...........165 N O T T S v. L E IC E S T E R S H IR E . P layed at T ren t B rid ge on J u ly 1, 2, and 3. N otts w on b y 157 runs. So heavy was the rain on 8unday night at Not­ tingham that it was not possible to play on Monday. On Tuesday morning Notts lost Mr. Jones for a duck’s egg, but Iremonger and W . Gunn made a valuable stand and the hundred went up for the loss of three wickets. W illiam Gunn and Shrewsbury played splendid cricket, quite reminding one of their partnerships in former days, and nearly everybody did something towards the total. Mr. W ood and Knight began well enough for Leicestershire, and afterwards Dr. Macdonald, the Queensland cricketer, and Whitehead distinguished themselves so much that despite the failure of most of the team the total was only 67 behind that of Notts. But this balance was soon largely added to by Iremonger, J. Gunn, Mr. Dixon and Carlin, and Notts was able to declare. On [a difficult wicket Hallam and J. Gunn were irresistible. N o t ts . First innings. A. O. Jones, c Crawford, b Geeson ........................... 0 b King... Iremonger, c Whiteside, b Geeson.................................. 21 not out... W . Gunn, b K iog......... J. Gunn, c and b King Shrewsbury, b Geeson J. A. Dixon, c De Trafford, bK ing..-. ...........................10 notout... Carlin, not out ...................39 Dench, c Macdonald, b King 0 Anthony, c W ood, b King... 1 Hallam. c and b K ing...........17 Wass, b K ing...........................28 B 2, w 5, nb 1................... 8 Second innings. ...5 4 cCrawford,bKing 2 ... 31 c W ood, b King.. 44 40 ... 20 c Geeson, b King 22 Extras 3 Total ...................... 249 Total (3 wkts) *159 * Innings declared closed. L eiceste r sh ir e . C. J. B. W o d, c Shrews­ bury, b Hallam ...........25 c and b J. Gunn.. 19 Knight, b J o n e s ................55 bJ .G u n n ..... 8 King, st Carlin, b Hallam .. 0 b J .G u n n ..... 9 Dr.R.Macdonald, b J. Gunn 34 b J. G u n n ..... 0 Coe, c Shrewsbury, b J. Gunn .................................. 9 c Dixon,b Ha1 lam 2 C. de Trafford, c Jones, c Iremonger, b b J. G u n n ......................... 2 Hallam ........ 6 R. T. Crawford, b Wass ... 6 b J .G u n n ...... 6 Whitehead, b J. Gunn ... 36 c Dench,bHallam 0 Geeson, b J. Gunn ......... 0 c Carlin,bHallam 0 Whiteside, not out ......... 0 not out ......16 Marlow, b J. Gunn ......... 0 b Gunn.......... 2 Extras .......................15 E x tr a .......... 1 Total ...........................182 Total ... 69 N otts . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. Geeson ........... 32 4 100 3 ............ 6 1 23 0 Marlow ........... 16 5 44 0 ............ 15 2 68 0 K ing................... 25*1 6 70 7 ............ 19 3 71 4 C o e ........... ... 3 1 7 0 ............ 2 0 4 0 Crawford ... 5 2 10 0 ............ W ood ........... 4 2 10 0 ............ Geeson bowled five wides, Crawford and King each one wide, and Crawford one no-ball. L e ic e ste r sh ir e . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . J. G u n n ........... 16.4 6 32 6 ............ 20 4 10 35 6 Hallam ........... 16 3 53 2 ............ 20 7 34 4 Wass ........... 11 3 40 1 ............ Dixon ........... 7 2 10 0 ............ Jones ............14 7 19 1 ............ Anthony........... 7 3 13 0 ............ H AVE you heard of Lord Marmion ? If not, read the new amusing book, “ The Demon Eleven and Other Cricket Stories,” by Charles Igglesden. To be obtained of all booksellers, or of Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall and Co., London; price, Is, 6d. in cloth, Is. in boards.— [A d v t.]