Cricket 1901

396 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. S ept , 5, 1901. the season there would probably have bee a a firm of MacLaren and Tylde-dey which would have rivalled that of Fry and Ranjitsiahji, and Abel and Hayward, and Lancashire would have made a close fight with Yorkshire. But MacLaren did not get into his stride until the county had been placed out of the run­ ning. Mr. Garnett’s batting was one of the most notable points in the season, and Tyldesley was even better than ever; while Ward was of the greatest service when once he had got well started. In bowling Mold was not quite what he was in former days, and Sharp badly wanted another great bowler in the team. One feels that although a record ,of eleven matchej won and five lost is satisfactory, a powerful team like that of Lancashire ought not to have come out with twelve drawn games. The vast success of the Yorkshiremen was chiefly due to their famous pair of bowlers, Rhodes and Hirst, to their fine fielding, and to the ability of the tail to make runs on most ocoasions when runs were wanted. Hirst’s famous swerve has become a household word in the land, and he often won a match for his side by dis­ posing of soma of the very bast of his opponents in the first few overs, before they had had time to recover from their astonishment; indeed, he was every bit as dangerous as Jones, the Australian, used to be in his first half-dozen tremendous overs. Yorkshire cannot be said to have had a great batting team as far as individuals are concerned, but it was a team in which every single man was as likely to make 50 as not under any imaginable circumstances, and, therefore, the batting was exceedingly strong on the whole. When the side f ailed it failed with a completeness which was quite remarkable, but this occurred so seldom as to be hardly worth mentioning. With only two matches lost Middlesex had a satisfactory season. Mr. Warner was the only really great batsman in the team, and some of the men were most disappointing. Mr. G. W. Beldam was over and over again of immense service, and it was most unfortunate that he should have hurt his hand when he was going strongest. Middlesex is in muoh the same position as Surrey in having a vast number of good men to draw upon, and the team is always uadergoiug changes. The bowling depended chiefly on Trott, who was hardly as consistent as usual, although on his day he was almost irresistible. Hearne is no longer the bowler that he was. Warwickshire was a very hard nut to crack this year. With better bowling than most of the counties, and a lot of batsmen who never let the state of the game worry them, the county was not easily beaten. Against Yorkshire it particularly distinguished itself. W. G. Quaife and Kinneir were a pair who were almost as formidable as the two or three other famous pairs of batsmen. One of the most notable points about the team was its ability to play an uphill game. There was nothing very remarkable about the performances of Kent, except the all-round play of Mr. Mason. The team was an average county team, and as likely to beat the most powerful opponents as to lose against the weakest. It could play an uphill game, and once or twice pulled a match out of the fire under the most discouraging circum­ stances. The prospects for the future of Leices­ tershire are decidedly promising. In Mr. C . J. B. Wood and King they had a pair of very fine batsmen, while Mr. de Trafford was always likely to make a big score at a vary inconvenient moment for the other side. Later in the season the batting of Mr. Macdonald was of the utmost value. The bowling was not at all bad, and on the whole the county has every reason to congratulate itself. Last year Worcestershire could only win three matches, but this year placed seven to their credit. The two Fosters were in great form, and in Bowley and Mr. W. W. Lowe the county had two very fine batsmen. The bowling was not at all strong, or the team would have won several more matches. If Somerset had failed in all their matches except those against Yorkshire they would have done enough for glory this season. It was a great feat to run the Champions to a wicket in the first match, and to beat them handsomely in the second, after being apparently hope­ lessly out of it. Mr. Palairet and Braund were one of the famous pairs of the season. EASTBOURNE v. INCOGNITI.—Playetl at East­ bourne on August 28 and 29. E astboubne . First innings. Second innings. L. A. 8huter. b Tindall ... 8 b Smith ...............4i F. B. May,c Talbot, b Abney 20 notout......... . ...63 G. S. Harris, st Murray, b Tindall................ .......... 0 b Abney ............. 1 F. W. Bush, b Smith........ 24 P. W . Hale, b Holt ....... 125 F. H. Latham, b Tindall ... 14 not ou t....................10 R . E. L y o n , b T in d a ll . ... 1 W, Williams, b Tindall ...33 c Lee, b Dunman 9 G. B. Green, b Abney.......... 0 H. Addison, not out .......... 0 b Tindall ............ 8 Nixon, c Lee, b Abney ... 9 Byes 3, lb 4, w l ... ... 8 B 1, lb 3, w 3 .. 7 Total .......................242 Total ........... 142 I ncogniti . D. C. Lee, e Addison, b Williams ........22 O. Marks, lbw, b Wil­ liams ................... 38 E. C. tsmith, c Lyon, b Nixon.......... ... 7 Q-. K. Murray, b Nixon 31 Major Orman, c Hale, b Williams ........82 Rev. H. C. L. Tindall, c May, b Williams .. 23 A. E. Ridsdale, b Nixon ... 81 Capt. Talbot, b Nixon 40 W. Dunman, hit wkt, b Williams A. E- Holt, not ou t. L. E. G. Abney, Lyon, b Nixon B 9, lb 4, nb 2 . Total ... . KRNSINGTON PARK v. E iLING,-Played at St- Quintius Park on August 31. A. E. Baker, c and b Comyns .. ..........73 C. J. T. Barnes, b P. Reyno’d * ................. 3 E. M. Martin, c Cum- mingham, b P. Rey­ nolds ........................ 3 A.T.Coode, b Thomp­ son ........................55 W. E. Peal, b Thomp­ son ..................... 5 E. Dunster, b Thomp­ son ........................11 W. 8. Mitchell b P. Reynolds ................ 0 A. Kenny-Herbert, b P. Reynolds .......... 2 C. P. Coode, c Nicho­ las, b Thompson ... 11 R. S. Latham, b Thompson .......... 1 O. M. Barnes, not out 3 B 11, lb 3, w 2 ..16 Total ...183 TH E SCARBOROUGH FEST IVA L . Y O R K S H IR E v . M R . C. I . T H O R N ­ T O N ’ S X I . Played at Scarborough on Septem ber 2, 3 & 4. D raw n. T h e comm encem ent of this m atch was some­ w h at startlin g, for in his first over H irst bow led Braund and T yld esley. M r. Foster and M r. Jones then made a stand, but w ith the total at 44 the form er was dism issed, and as M r. Jessop did very little, and G unn and M r. W oods not m uch, the scratch eleven w ould have fared badly if it had not been for the brilliant battin g of M r. Jones, who was in his very best and most attractive form . In his rem arkable innings of 146, w hich lasted tw o hours and fifty m inutes, there were tw en ty fours. Tow ards the end of the in n in gs, M r. Leveson G ow er played a great gam e, and w ith Oates as a partner, put on 62 for the last w icket. A t the end of the day the scratch eleven stood in an excellent position, for th ey had got rid of tw o Y orkshirem en for 67 against th eir own score of 321. D enton was not out 37, and H unter not out 14. I t was some tim e on Tuesday before this partnership was broken, H unter apparently revellin g in the opportunity of h avin g a real chance to m ake runs. A fterw ards, M r. T a y lo r and M r. Sm ith did w ell, w hile D enton p layed a m ost valuable but exceedin gly lu c k y innings, w hich lasted for tw o hours and a h alf ; he was missed about half-a-dozen tim es. W ith a lead of 19 runs, the E leven p u t up 100 for the loss of tw o w ickets before stumps were drawn. Y esterd ay, M r. R . E . F oster was in splendid form , and M r. Jessop broke his run of bad luck. T h e innings was closed ju st before one o’clock, Y orksh re h av in g to m ake 323 to w in. M ost of the team did very badly against M r. H eseltine, but good cricket by B row n, M r. T a ylo r and H irst saved the situ a­ tion, and Y orksh ire m anaged to m ake a draw. M r . G. I . T h o r n to h ’s X I. A.O. Jones, c Whiteh*ad, b c Tunnic'iffe, b Brown . Braund. b Hirst Tyldesley, b Hirst . 146 0 0 Rhodes . ... 31 stHunter.b Rhodes 36 c Whitehead, b Bhodes ........ 31 notout. ..........104 c and b 8mith ... 44 b bmith ............22 K ensington . Did not bat.—Rain stopped play. R. E. Foster, b Hirst........ 13 G. L Jessop, b Hirst....... 10 Gunn(J.),c Hunter,b Brown 22 S. M. J. Woods, c iiunter, b Sm ith............................17 not out................22 H.D.J. Leveson-Gower, not out ............................79 Thompson, c Wainwright, b Rhodes .......................... 2 C. Heseltine, c Taylor, b Rhodes................................ 2 Oates, b Hirst .................24 Lb 5 nb 1 ................. 6 Extras ......................... 13 Total ..................321 Total(5 wkt3)*303 • Innings declared closed. Y orksh ire . First innings. Second innings. Brown, b Heseltine .. ...' 0 c Foster, b Gunn 46 Tunnicliffe, c Heseltine, b Braund ......................... 5 b Heseltine......... 5 Denton, c Tyldesley, b Thompson.........................132 b Woods .......... 7 Hunter, c Gunn bJones ... 29 T. L. Taylor, c & b Woods.. 37 lbw, b Heseltine. 77 Hirst, b Woods ................. 8 b Heseltine.........67 Wainwright, lbw, bWoods 6 b Heseltine......... 0 E. Smith, not ou t..................46 c Oatts,b Thomp­ son ................. 1 Lord Ha'ake, c Jessop, b Thompson ....................... 6b Heseltine ... 6 Rhodes, c and b Braund ... 17 notout .......... 23 Whitehead, b Thompson ... 7 not o u t.............. 2 B 5, lb 2, nb 3 ........10 Extras............... 6 Total............... 332 Total ,240 M r . C. I. T hornton ’ s X I. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Hirst ... .......... 19 5 2 68 5 ... ... 16 2 61 0 Rhodes .......... 25 6 100 2 ... ... 20 6 66 3 Smith ..........19 1 62 1 ... ... 16 1 66 2 Wainwright ... 5 1 20 0 ... ... 7 0 33 0 Brown .......... 21 3 76 2 ... ... 14 3 64 0 Hirst delivered a no-ball.