Cricket 1901

S ept . 5, 1901. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 397 Y obkshibe . First innings. Second innings. O. *i. K. W. O. M. R. W. Heseltine ... ... 16 1 44 1 ... ... 14 4 44 5 Gunn................. 17 7 49 0 ... . . . 7 8 12 1 Thompson .. 27-3 10 64 3 ... ... 12 3 25 1 Braund ... ... 19 4 68 2 ... ... 21 1 1C6 0 Jones................. . 8 2 30 1 .......... 4 1 17 0 Woods ... ... 14 3 47 3 ... ... 8 3 20 1 Gunn, Thompson and Woods each delivered a no-ball. M ID D L E S E X v. E S S E X . P layed at L ord ’ s on Septem ber 2, 3, and 4. M iddlesex won by an innings and 72 runs. T h e w icket at L ord’s was slow on M onday after the rain, but not as difficult as it m ight have been, and the M iddlesex m en on ly lost eigh t w ickets during the day for 391 runs. T h eir b attin g as a w hole was good, and three m en grea tly distinguish . d them selves, viz., M r. W arner, M r. Bosanquet, and A lbert T ro tt. T h e partnership betw een M r. W arn er and M r. Bosanquet for the second w icket produced 111 runs. M r. W a rn er played an excellent and very steady gam e, and M r. Bosanquet to some extent follow ed his exam ple, although he scored m uch the faster. B u t when he had m ade his hundred he h it out w ith great d eterm ination; altogether he was battin g for tw o hours and a half, and his innings w as very attractive to w atch. Tow ards the end of the day T ro tt and R aw lin made th in gs very liv e ly for the bowlers, putting on 60 in a little over h alf an hour. T ro tt was in great form , and the only bowler who could keep him quiet was M ead, who, although he was on a long tim e, was never at all easy to p lay. T ro tt and R aw lin were not separated on Tuesday u n til th ey had put on 105 runs d urin g their partnership of sixty- five m inutes. T ro tt’s d elightfu l innings included "tw elve fours. A sudden change came over the gam e when E ssex w ent in, and T ro tt carried everyth in g before him . Before lunch he had taken five w ickets, and another w icket had fallen to H earne, w hile the total was on ly 63. A good stand was made b y Russell and M r. Ow en but a follow -on was necessary. In their second innings Essex did better, but despite good p lay b y M r. Fan e, M r. P errin and M r. Turn er, six w ickets w ere down for 97 when Reeves join ed M r. Ow en and helped him to p lay out time, the tw o men increasing the score by 78 in an hour. M r. Ow en was not out 24 and R eeves not out 45. Y esterd ay Reeves was soon out. but M r. Ow en continued to p lay fine cricket u n til he was w ith in a run of his fifty ; he had been battin g fo r a little over tw o hours. H earne bowled v e ry w ell indeed. M iddlesex . Trott (A. E.), st Rus- P. F. Warner, b Mead 63 J. Douglas, b Mead ... 24 B. J. T. Bosat.quet, c Russell, b Youog ...127 R.N.Douglas,b Reeves 11 G.F.S.Griliin,c Young, b Mead ............... 36 W . P. Robertson, b Mead........................ 4 R.W.Nicholls, b Mead 3 E ssex . First Innings. F. L. Fane, b Trott ........ 1 Carpenter, lbw, b Trott ... 17 P. Perrin, c Robertson, b Trott ........ ................ 9 0. McGahey, b T rott........ 9 A. J. Turner, c Bosanquet, b Heame ........ ... 5 Russell (E.), lbw, b Bosan­ quet ............................35 G. Tosetti, b Trott ........ 8 H. G. Owen, b Trott ...... 35 Young, 0 Hearne, b Trott... 4 Reeves, not out ...| ........ 4 Mead, c J. Douglas, b Trott 4 Extras .....................12 sell, b Reeves E. A. Halliwell, Rawlin, not out... Hearne, b Reeves Extr.s ......... Total .......... Second Innings. b Trott............... c R. Douglas, b Trott... c Halliwell, b Hearne .......... b Hearne ........ c Halliwell, b Hearne ... ... Total... ...143 c and b Hearne .. 23 st Halliwell, b Hearne ........ 2 b Hearne ...... 49 not out............... 0 c Griffin, b Trott46 b Hearne ........ 0 Extras...... 24 Total ...231 M id d l e s e x . O. M. r . w . o . m. r . w Mead......... 51 12 118 6 IReeves ... 18 3 2 81 3 Young ... 34 3 123 1 Tosetti ... 132 32 0 McGahey ... 23 5 71 0 |Carpenter. 1 0 2 0 Reeves bowled two wides. E s s e x . First innirga. Second in n iD gs. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Rawlin .......... 10 2 22 0 .......... Trott................. 27 5 6 54 8 ........... 32 8 84 3 HearDe ........ 1° 6 19 1 ........... 26 7 55 7 Bosanquet ... 8 0 S6 1 .......... 17 2 68 0 Posanquet bowled four wides. 'S U R R E Y v. L E IC E S T E R S H IR E . P layed at the O val on Septem ber 2, 3 and 4. D raw n. T here was a very strong probability that, when S u rrey won the toss on M onday, A bel would in a short time beat the total of 3,159 made by R an jitsin h ji in 1899 in first-class m atches, for he only required tw elve runs to do so. B u t the tim e for accom plishing the feat had not come, and he was dism issed for a couple of runs. T h en follow ed a splendid stand by M r. Jephson and H ayes, producing 168 runs in an hour and fifty m inutes. T h e am ateur played a rem arkably steady game, takin g no risks w hatever ; he was n early tw o hours in m aking his first fifty . O n the other hand H ayes took the bow lin g in charge, scoring his first fifty out of a total of 69 in three-quarters of an hour, and g iv in g the bowlers no rest. M r. Longm an played a very careful and useful innings, but after H ayes left there was no one w ho m ade a lon g stand w ith M r. Jephson, who continued to p lay the safest of gam es, and w as still undefeated when ,stumps w ere draw n w ith the total at 393 for eigh t w ickets ; he w as then not out 174, and had been b a ttin g for five hours. On the follow in g m orning he was bow led b y the first ball he received. His innings was of the utm ost value to his side. T h e Leices­ tershire men found th at the w icket w as not quite as easy as it had been on the previous day, and one after the other th ey fell before the bow ling of Richardson and Mr. Jephson, K in g alone offering an y decided resistance. S ix w ickets w ere down for 64 and an innings defeat seemed imm inent, when W hitehead and K in g made a fine stand w hich, although it did n ot b y an y means take th eir county out of the wood, put a very m uch better appearance on the gam e, and at lunch tim e the score was 145 for seven w ickets. Geeson and M r Odell also m ade use­ fu l scores, w hile K in g kep t on his w a y un­ disturbed and was still unbeaten when the innings closed. H e had played a very fine innings indeed, which lasted a little less than three hours, and practically saved his side from defeat. In the follow on M r. de Trafford, aided b y m uch more than a fair share of good fortune in the w ay of missed catches, helped M r. W ood to put on 120 for the first w icket in a hour and a quarter, M r. W ood m aking his tw o thousandth run of the season during the partnership. W h en stumps were draw n the total was 167 for tw o w ickets, so th at Leicestershire w ere on ly 32 runs behind, w ith eight w ickets in hand. M r. W ood was not out 76. O n F rid ay he was soon dism issed, h avin g played a splendid innings. Y esterd ay five w ickets w ere down when seventeen runs were required to save the innings defeat, and everyth in g pointed to an easy victory for Su rrey. T w o more w ickets fell soDn after the balance had been h it off, and then Geeson and W hitehead pro­ ceeded to knock the bow ling all over the field, and eventually Surrey had to m ake 187 in tw o hours ana tw en ty m inutes. F o r a tim e their position was desperate, for th ey lost three wickets for nine runs, but Mr. L on g ­ man, H olland, and M r. Jephson saved the situation, and when stumps were drawn Surrey had tw o men well in and going very strong indeed. S urrey . First innings. 8 econd innings. Abel, c Whitehead, b King 2 c Knight, b Odell 0 D L. A. Jephaon, b Odell..174 notout .........39 Hayes, c Wood, b Geeson .108 b King................ 4 H. K. LoDgman, b Wood .. 33 c Geesm, b King 26 Baker (A.;, c and b Coe ... 4 c De Trafford, b Odell .......... 1 Holland, c De Trafford, b b Geeson .. ...................... 16 notout ............29 L. Walker, b Coe..................... 24 b Odell................ 0 Stedman, c Brown,b Gees)n 3 Nice, st Whiteside, b Geeson 4 Smith, c Brown, b Coe ... 33 Richardson, not out ......... 8 B 8 , lb 4, w 1, nb 1 ... 14 W ides.......... 4 Total ....................... 423 Total (5 wkts) 103 L b ICEI s TELSHIRE. First innings. Second innii gs. C. E. De Trafford, c Nice, b Jephson ....................... 15 0 Walker,b Hayes 66 C. J. B. Wood, bRichardson 0 b Richards >n ...80 Knight, 8 tStedmaD,bJtphson 10 st Stedman, b Hiiyes ......... 17 King, not out .............113 lbw, b Nice ... 51 Brown (L.), b Richardson 5 b Richardson ... 12 J. F. Hudson, b Richardson 0 b Jephson.......... 1 Coe,cWalker,b Richardson 10 cSmith,bRichard - eon ................ 33 Whitehead ,cStedman,bNice 20 b N ice......... ... 74 Geeson, b Nice .................29 b Richardson ... 47 W. W. OdeJ, c Longman, b Jephson........................12 notout ............10 Whiteside, b Jephson.......... 0 b N ice................. 0 B 4 , lb 5, w 1 ..........10 B 19, lb 5 ..! 24 Extras ..........224 Extras ............385 S urrey . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. King.................20 7 43 1 ............. 27 15 26 2 Geeson ... ... 322141 4 ..................30170 Odell .......... 20 2 78 1 .......... 26 8 45 3 Coe ................. 36-4 15 84 3 ........... 4 2 11 0 Hudson .......... 15 5 38 0 ........... Wood ... 11 1 25 1 .......... Getson bowled .two wides and Odell three. King delivered a no-ball. L eicestershire . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Richardson ... 24 1 80 4 ..................324100 4 Jephson.......... 181 0 63 4 ........... 21 6 57 1 Smith .......... 9 0 32 0 .......... 17 3 66 0 N ice................. 14 3 39 2 .......... 21*3 5 77 3 Walker 4 0 17 0 Hayes.. 16 2 44 2 TRU E SPORT. [ “ As county cricket ends, v illa g e cricket seeuas to flourish.” ] T h e y dress the pitch at Lord’s w ith clay, R oll m arl into the O val, T ill now the batsm en bat all day N o r fear their bail’ s rem oval! B u t th is is not the sort of p lay T h a t m erits oar approval. F a r finer is our village field, W ith surface all unlevel, W h ich crops of bum ping balls w ill yield, W h ere m en in shooters revel, A nd stand un girt w ith “ Surrey shield,” T h o ’ every ball “ has devil.” N o gam es are drawn, no men declare T h e innings in those matches, N or w eary bowlers in despair B o w l on the off for catches— A shooter from the blacksm ith there A Palairet dispatches. Such is the real cricket gam e T o test an athlete’s p ow ers; There no one wins an easy fam e, W h ere w ickets fa ll in show ers; F o r w e can finish w ithout shame F o u r innings in four hours. T h e Globe.