Cricket 1901

A u g . 22, 1901. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 365 TH E DUTCH TEAM . T H E M A T C H A G A I N S T G E N T L E M E N O F W O R C E S T E R S H IR E . F IF T H A N D L A S T O F T H E TO U R . Played at W orcester on A u gu st 15 and 16. D raw n. Owing to heavy rain it was only possible to play for a sh rt time on the first day, during which the Worcestershire Gentlemen scored 156 for 5 wickets. On the following morning a new pitch had to be chosen, as the one which had been used on the pre­ vious day was unfit for cricket. The Dutchmen came out of the match with great credit. Mr. Coops and Mr. Posthuma bowling well, while Mr. Feith, Mr. Schroder and Mr. Posthuma distinguished themselves with the bat. Mr. Posthuma scored his 68 in about forty minutes, his first 32 being made in twelve minutes. W orcestersh ire G en tlem en . H. K. Foster, b Feith. 87 A. W. Isaac, c Broese van Groenou,bCoops 41 E. G. Bromley-Martin, c Schroder, b Post­ huma ....................... 0 R.C. B. Cave, c Schro­ der, b Feith .......... 8 R. S. Brinton, lbw, b Posthuma.................20 W.S.Caldwell,c Broese van Groenou, b Pos­ thuma .......... 0 Rev. H. F. Bennett, lbw, b Posthuma . F. W. Romney, c and b Coops ................. W . K. Harrison, b Coops....................... Rev. E. E. Lee, not out ........................ P. H. Foley, c Van Booven, b Coops ... Byes ................. Total . 57 ...276 Second innings : W. S. Caldwell, not out, 38; E. G. Bromley-Martin, st Groenou, b Coops, 25; H. K. Foster, c Beukema, b Coops, 13; extras, 3.—Total (2 wkts), 79. G entlem en op H ollan d . J.C.Schroder, b Brom- ley-Martin ..........39 E. Bourlier, c Caldwell, b Foley ................. 0 C. Feith, c Bennett, b Bromley-Martin ... 47 J. Rincker, c and b Bromley-Martin . 13 K. Beukema, c Cald­ well, b Bromley- Martin ................. 17 C.J.Posthuma,run out 58 A.Broese van Groenou, c Bennett, b Foley 5 H. van Booven, b Fos­ ter ........................20 A. Kool, not out ... 15 H. Dubois, b Foster... 5 W . Coops, run out ... 3 Byes ................. 3 Total ... G e n tle m e n o f W o r c e s t e r s h ir e . ...225 Rincker... Posthuma Coops ... Feith ... First innings. O. M. R. W. 8 , 25 , 7 , 11 1 36 0 ... 3 129 4 ... 0 61 4 ... 1 42 2 ... Second Innings. O. M. R W. 5 0 4-3 0 31 45 G e n tle m e n o f H o lla n d . O. M. R. W . O. Bennett ...18 4 59 Cl Foster ... 7 Foley.......... 8 0 49 2 Harrison 4 B.-Martin 15 0 59 4 | M. R. W. 0 28 2 0 27 0 D E R B Y S H IR E v. W O R C E S T E R S H IR E . P layed at D erby on A u gu st 19 and 20. W orcestershire won b y an innings & 120 runs. The unfortunate Derbyshire men, who have not won a match this season, were placed hopelessly out of the running by the time that stumps were drawn on the first day, for against their total of 165, Worcestershire, with all their wickets in hand, were 61 runs on. Mr. H. K. Foster was not out 111 and Bowley not out 101, the total, with 14 extras, amounting to 226. The innings had, so far, lasted for about two hours. On Tuesday morning the total was carried to 809—a Worcestershire record for the first wicket—before the first wicket partnership came to an end. The runs were made in three hours and ten minutes. Then Mr. R. E. Foster played aremark* able innings, scoring 111 in seventy minntes out of a total of 157, and when 483 runs were on the board for the loss of only three wickets the innings was declared closed. Against such tremendous odds the Derby­ shire men could, of course, do very little. D e rbysh ire . First innings. Second innings. L. C. Wright, lbw, b Pearson 40 b Burrows.........46 Locker, b Wilson.................31 b Wilson .........11 Storer, c Pearson, b Evans 20 b Pearson .........12 Chatterton, b Wilson..........10 st8traw,bPearson 17 A. E. Lawton, b Pearson... 6 b Wilson .........28 Needham, b Pearson.......... 0 b Wilson .........49 G. Curgenven, not out ... 27 b Pearson ......... 1 Warren, b Wilson ..........10 b Burrows........ 4 Hulme, b Wilson.................12 c sub, b Pearson 24 Birkett, b Wilson.......... ... 0 b Pearson .......... 0 Bestwick, b Wilson .......... 5 not ou t.............. 0 B 1,1b 3 ................. 4 B 1,1b 5 ... 6 W orcestersh ire . H. K. Foster, c Lawton, b Storer ........... 152 Bowley, lbw, b Storer .................................140 Arnold, not out ..........................................41 R. E. Forster, c Bestwick, b Hulme........... Ill W. H. B. Evans, not out ......................... 7 B 22, lb 7, w 2, nb 1 ...........................32 •Total (3 wkts.)........................483 * Innings declared closed. W . W . Lowe, Bird, Straw, Pearson, Wilson, and Burrows did not bat. D e rbysh ire . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Wilson .......... 20 4 6 57 6 ... ... 183 2 63 3 Burrows... . . 10 1 21 0 ... ... 8 1 23 2 R. E. Foster . . 1 0 5 0 .., ... 1 0 4 0 Pearson ... . . 25 5 57 3 ... ... 22 2 48 5 Evans ... . . 9 2 21 1 ... Hulme Bestwick Warren Storer Lowe Bird ........ W o r c e s te r s h ir e . M. R. W. 60 19 0 102 35 0 O. .. 23 2 77 1 .. 24 9 51 0 .. 9 0 33 0 27 0 145 2 O. M. R. W. Birkett ... 7 1 47 0 Lawton ... 7 0 41 0 Chatterton 4 0 18 0 Curgenven 6 0 39 0 Storer delivered a no-ball and Chatterton two wides. THE SOUTH A F R IC AN TEAM . Total...............165 Total.........198 T H E G L A M O R G A N S H IR E M A T C H . TWENTY-FIFTH AMD LAST OF THE TOUR. Played at Cardiff on A ugust 19 and 20. South Africans w on b y 132 runs. Against the bowling of S. Lowe the South Africans made a fair score, Mr. Tancred playing remarkably good ciicket. The Glamorganshise men opened their innings somewhat disastrously, and although Ban­ croft, who has played cricket and football for very many years with success, played a fine and attractive innings, thetotal at the end of the day was only 163 for 9 wickets, which was after all only 65 runs behind. Mr. Murray Bisset played a great game in the second innings of the South Africans, who were able to declare with nine wickets down. Mr. J. H. Brain batted well for Glamorganshire, but Mr. Rowe was in fine form with the ball, and the result was an easy victory for his side. S outh A fricans . First innings. Second innings. L. J. Tancred, b Lowe ... 91 b Russel ..... 6 W. Shalders, b 8. Lowe ... 9 b Lowe ..... 0 A. Reid, b S. Lowe ...... 2 b Russel .... 12 M. Hathorn, c W. H. Brain, b S. L ow e........................24 b Russel ... ... 0 J. H. Sinclair, b Russel ...36 st W. H. Brain, b Creber.......39 M. Bissett, b Lowe ........26 not out .....67 E. A. Halliwell, b Lowe ... 7 c Nash, b Russe 21 A. Bisset, lbw, b Lowe ... 14 c W. H. Brain, b Russel .......11 R. Graham, run out ........ 5 b Russel ..... 9 G. Rowe, not out............... 2 st W. H. Brain, b Russel.......32 J. J. Kotze, c and b Russel 4 Extras ........................ 8 Extras.......... 5 Total........................ 228 Total (9 wkts) *202 •Innings declared closed. G lamorganshire . First innings. Second innings. H. E. Morgan, b Sinclair ... 15 b Eotze ........ 3 A. Osborne, c Shalders, b Rowe ............................... 5 c Tancred,b Rowe 10 W. R. Hoare, b Rowe......... 14 b Rowe ......... 0 J. H. Brain, st Hailiwell, b Rowe ...............................24 b Kotze ....... 45 Bancroft, b Kotze ..........60 run out ........14 w. H. Brain, b Kotze..........12 lbw, b Rowe ... 19 Russel, b Graham .......... 0 b Graham........26 Lowe (R.), run out .......... 7 b Rowe ......... 0 N ash,notout...................... 15 cShalders,bRowe 0 Creber, run out ................. 8 c M. Bisset, b Rowe ......... 6 Lowe (S.), b Rowe ... ... 4 not out ... ... 3 Extras .......................... 14 Extras ........... 4 Total................. ..168 Total ..........130 S outh A fricans . O. M. R.W. O. M. R. W . Lowe, S........... 26 5 77 7 ........... 16 3 65 1 Russel .......... 16 4 36 2 ........... 21*5 8 77 7 Creber ..........15 1 81 o ........... 9 4 24 1 Nash .......... 9 3 26 0 ........... 3 0 22 0 A . Osborne 2 0 9 0 Creber bowled two wides. G la m o rg a n sh ire . O. M. R.W. O. M. R. W . Rowe ........... 24 9 54 4 ........... 19*1 7 42 6 Kotze ... ... 10 3 22 2 ........... 13 1 45 2 Graham........... 4 0 22 1 ........... 15 4 39 1 Sinclair.......... 18 4 56 1 S U S S E X V. Y O R K S H IR E . TATE’s B E N E F IT M A TC H , A N D THE M OST R E ­ M A R K A B L E M A TC H O F T H E SEASON . Played at B righton on A u gu st 19, 20 and 21. D raw n . With their County Championship honours fresh upon them, the Yorfashiremen met with the great surprise of their season, when encountered Sussex at Brighton. Their bowlers already knew what it was to be mastered with completeness, when they were so helpless against Mr. Palairet and Braund, but they had a far more trying experience before them when they lost the toss on Monday. On a perfect wicket Sussex began in the usual way with Mr. Fry and Vine, both playing with very great caution, until with the total at 66, after an hour and a quarter’s batting, the latter was well caught by Hirst at mid-off. So far, there was nothing unusual in the state of affairs, and on the whole the Yorkshiremen had reason to con- t ratulate themselves that they had got rid of a very aogerous man for only 17 runs. In the ordinary course of things thtir next task would have been to separate Fry and Ranjitsinhji, but on this occasion Killick was the next batsman. But he and Fry took so much separating that there was no opportunity of beginning to experiment on Ranjitsinhji, for the two men were still together when stumps were drawn, with the total at 3o7 for 1 wicket. They had both by their play given a splendid testimonial to the excel­ lence of the Yorshire bowling, for neither of them ever obtained a complete mastery over it, such as they would have done with that of nearly every other county, after being together for hours. On the other hand they never allowed the Yorkshiremen to think that they were at ail likely to make mistakes, or to get tired, or indifferent, and although they could not take the bowling in charge, they were never inconvenienced by it. At the end of the day Fry had been battiog for about five hours for 167, and Killick for three hours and three quarters for 111. On the next morn­ ing runs came more quickly, although never with any great rapidity, but when try stood at 196, he allowed tif.een minutes to pass by before he found the ball for which he had been waiting to enable him to reach the second hundred. Almost immediately after he had selected the right ball, the total reached the fourth hundred. At last when it was 415 the part­ nership was broken, Fry bein£ out lbw for 2t9, wbich was made in six hours and a half, and included nine­ teen fours. He was the first man to play an innings of over iwo hundred against the Yorkshire bowlers this season, and on the whole there is not much room for doubt that his inniD gs was about the best of his career, which is saying a very great deal. The part­ nership between him and Kiiliok realised 339 in five hours and ten minut s. Ihen at last the Yorkshire bowlers had a chince of trying their ski.l on Ranjit­ sinhji, and tired as they must have been they kept him pretty quiet at first. But, unfortunately for them, they could not make any impreseiou on him, aud once he had become settled he mide things lively. At lunch time the score was 457 for two wickets* Killick having scored 196, which was a tiying position for a man to ue in under such circumstances. After lunch he scored the four runs which gave him his two hundred aud then fell. He had been batting for five hours and three-quarters, and had played the highest and best innings of his career, 'ihe object was now to make runs as quickly as possible, for it was not yet expedient to declare the innings. At last with five wickets down the innings was closed, and then the Yorkshiremen began some sensational cricket. Wita the sc jre at six, Brown was run out Tunnicliffe caught, and Denton and Mr. Mitchell bowled. At 16 Hirst was dismissed, Wainwright at 21, and Mr. Tayior at 38, while when stumps were drawn eight wickets were down for 49. There was nothing the matter with the wicket, and nothing but sheer panic can account for the collapse. Of course nobody supposed that this sort of thing would be con­ tinued on the next day. Nor did it continue. But such an exhicition of painstaki g and monotonous cricket has seldom been seen as that which was given by the few Yorkshiremen who batted. They simply would hit at nothing. The first innings came to a conclusion at five minutes to one, and for the rest of the time available for cricket, Brown and Tunnicliffe played a game which baffles description. The first fifty runs (of which 22 were extras), took nearly two hours to make, so that the mean average for each man was seven runs per hour. And so the game fizzled out, Yorkshire having all their wickets in hand when stumps were drawn. One wonders what would have been said if the two batsmen had been W. G. Quaife or Kinneir. S u s s e x . C.B.Fry,lbw,b Brown 209 Vine, c Hirst, b Smith 17 Killick, c Mitchell, b Wainwright ...........200 K. S. Ranjitsinhji, not out ...........................86 G. jbrann, c Taylor, b Total (5 wkts) *560 bm ith......................... 12 F. H Gresson, Relf, Bute, and Tate did not bat. * Tunings declared closed. P.H.Latham,cBrown, b Smith ................ 7 A. M. Sullivan, not out ........................ 2 B 7, lb 14, w 1, nb 5 27