Cricket 1902

2 1 2 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J une 19, 1902. was between Lowerhouse and East Lanca­ shire, at Lowerhouse, on the 14th inst., and J. H. Taylor, playing for the latter, obtained 48 runs off two overs. In the first over he made four successive boundary strokes, and in the second scored a couple off the first ball and hit each of the next five deliveries—from a bowler named VV. Whittaker—out of the ground for six apiece ! Altogether he made 59 runs in twenty minutes. His feat of scoring five sixes from consecutive balls is second only to the performance of W. II. Caldecourt in making six hits for six from an over of six balls for Watford against Hert­ fordshire at Watford. ARTISTS v. MUSICIANS.—Played at Bickley Park ou June 2. A rtists . L. D. Luard, c sub, b Leggatt ................... G. Gascoyne, b L fg - gatt .............................. G. Hillyard Swinstead, c and b Leggatt ... A.Batchelor, bLeggatt GeraTd Chowne, b Leg­ gatt .......................... L. C. Nightingale, not out ........................... 65 A . Chevallier Tayler, c Cuming, b Leggatt 1 P.M.Hughes,bLeggatt 10 G. Spencer Watson, c and b B oosey...........12 F. M. Taubman, c and b Lee gatt...................17 A.Nartist,lbw,bBoosey 6 B 17, lb 2 ...........19 Total ..147 Second innings L. D. Luard, b Leggatt, 17 ; G. Gascoyne, b Boosey. 12; G. Hillyard fciwinstead, c Ramsden, b Leggatt, 35; A . Chevallier Tayler, b Leggatt, 5.—Total (4 wickets), (9. M usicians . C. H. S. Leggatt, c Taubman, [b Night­ ingale.......................... 1 Gregory Hast, b S ain­ stead ...........................14 G. Boosey,b Swinstead 30 F. D. Williamson, b Swinstead . ......... 0 F.Cuming,b Swinstead 0 R. Leigh-Ibbs, notout 31 R. Kenntrley Rum- foid, run o u t ........... 9 A. Boosey, c Tayler, b Hughes ................... 0 S. M ’ivrogani,bSwin- st^ad ........................... 0 C. Whitemore,b Swin­ stead ........................... 0 A. Ramsden. c Batch­ elor. b Hughes ... 12 Byes ................... 4 Total ...101 LONDON & COUNTY BANK (2) v. N ATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK (2 ).-Played at Beckenham on June 10 and 11. L. C. B ank (2). H. A. Francis, b Aylin 33 G. Spalding. cW illiim s G. Broad, b Aylin J. Boorne, b Aylin ... lt. S. Robeits, b Bur­ gess .......................... J. T. W . Hunt, c Tap- ley, b Burgess........... R. J. Cramphorn, c 1 Williams ... ........... 3 R. Mist, c and b Aylin 6 Sutt3n, b Bnrgess ... 15 E. A. Boaden,b Aylin 1 E. I. Stiff, notout ... 4 Extras ...........1 Total Garwood, b Francis Goodwin, lbw, b Fran­ cis ........................... Aylin. b Francis......... Hoard, b Fpalding ... Skelton, not out........... Purgfss, b Spalding .. White, cCram plnm , b Spalding ................... N. P. B ank ( 4). Tapley, b Francis ... Williams, b Spalding Capes, b Francis W alters, c and b Fran­ cis ........................... Extras ........... Total ........... THE WANDERERS v. GUILDFORD.—Played at Guildfurd on Saturday, June 14. GlJILDFOaD. S. H. Northcott, Barker ........... F. L. Nightic gale, Earker .................. 2 W . Teague, lbw, b Barker ...................15 F. Martin, b Barker ... 1 W . T. Turner, not out 13 G. A. Franks,b Barker 3 26 H. C. Holme, c Col­ man, b Barker C. D. Harris, c A. E. Waller, b Collier ... Tritchell, c sub, b Collier ................... E. Lloyd, b Barker ... Extras ........... A . N. Other absent. W akdkbbbs . S. Colman, cNorthcott, b Martin ...................29 A. E. Waller, b Martin 83 L. 8. Wells, b Tritchell 0 H. Colegrave,c Martin, b Nortbcott .......... 12 K E. M. Barker, b Turner ...................28 A M. Latham, c Mar­ tin, b Northcott ... 8 J. Gillespie, absent. Total ... C- Armytage-Moore, c Nightingale,bFranks 35 J. E. G. Hadath, c Harris, b Franks ... 17 W .H .Waller, b H arris 12 F. S. Collitr, not out 0 Extras ...........15 Total ...189 ENGLAND v. AUSTRALIA. SECOND MATCH. TWELFTH OP THE AT'STKALIAN TOUR. Played at Lord’s on June 12, 13 and 14. Abandoned. Under ordinary circumstances, this match would have been anticipated with the very greatest interest, hut the weather had been so bad, and continued to he so unpromising, that by the middle of the week the interest had to a great extent evaporated. It was recognized as almost certain that, even if the weather cleared up, which seemed most un­ likely, the match would take place on a soft wicket, and that luck must play a principal part in it. Moreover, several of the Austra­ lians were Buffering from colds, more or less severe, and there was a general feeling that they would not, as a team, be seen at their best. On the first morning of the match the weather, which had been bad enough in all conscience, threatened to be even worse, yet despite this a crowd of some four thousand invaded Lord’s at their own risk—“ no money returned” —and afterlunch when play seemed out of the question, the number was raised to over six thousand. It was a pitiful business until the last hour of the day. The rain stopped by mid-day, and at intervals various people inspected the wicket, but it was soon decided to postpone the commence­ ment of the game until after lunch. At a quarler to three, the Australians, having lost the toss, turned out into the field, looking more or less miserable and cold. Trumble, Howell and Carter were left out, the latter by choice, the two former by necessity. The crowd settled themselves down to make the best of what promised to be a very short spell of cricket, for the clouds were gathering, and if was pretty evident that there wasmore rain to come. A more dramatic opening of the match could hardly be imagined. Jones began the bowling, and sent down a maiden ever. Then came the turn of Hopkins, who had done such great things on the previous Tuesday at Cambridge. Off his second ball C. B. Fry was caught at short square leg by Clement Hill, and with the last ball of his second over, Kanjitsinhji was bowled neck and crop. The crowd were dumbfounded, and no doubt some of them at once began to compose in their minds letters to the papers, pointing out that Fry and Ranjitsinhji ought not to play in the next test match. Two wickets for 0. F. S. Jackson arrived, but before there was any more play rain fell heavily. So far four maiden overs had been bowled. After an interval of twenty minutes the game was resumed, and Jackson put up a ball within very dangerous distance of Arm­ strong’s outstretched arm. Then he began to play a splendid game. Meanwhile Mac­ laren had been keeping up his end easily enough without making a single run, and the game was decidedly slow. At the end of half-an-hour’splaythetotal Ladreached19and then the players were obliged lo take shelter. A tedious wait of about an hour and three quarters followed, after which those who had been plucky enough to wait in the hopes of seeing more play were rewarded by some brilliant cricket by Jackson and Maclaren, who treated all the bowling alike, and played the most attractive cricket imaginable. When h-ilf-past six came, the total for two wickets was 102 runs, all of which had been made in the course of an hour and a half by the two batsmen. So far so good. This was a very satisfactory score with which to begin the morrow’s cricket, for it was any odds that runs would be more and more difficult to obtain—that is to say, if there were any more play. But on Friday the rain was so persis­ tent, that at a quarter-past two it was decided to wait until the morrow. Of course there would have been verylittle chanceof bringing the match to a conclusion if there had been any play on Saturday, but as it happened, it was from the very first obvious that cricket was quite out of the question. Thus the second test match was an entire failure, only an hour and forty minutes being available for play during the entire game. E ngland . F. S. Jackson, not out 55 Total (2 wkts) 102 A. C. Maclaren, not out 47 C. B. Fry, c Hill, b Hopkins ................... 0 K. S. Ranjitsinhji, b Hopkins ................... 0 Tyldesley, Lilley, Birst, G. L. Jessop, Braund, Lockwood and Rhodes did not bat. Australia: V. Trumper, B. A. Duff, A. J. Hopkins, C. Hill, 8. E. Gregory, J. D arli'g, M. A. Noble, W . W . Armstrong, J. J. Kelly, E. Jones, and J. V. Saunders. E ngland , O. M. E. W . O. M. E. W . 11 4 31 0 1Trumper... 8 1 83 0 9 3 18 2 Armstrong 5 0 5 0 3 0 15 0 1Noble ... 2 2 0 0 Jones .. Hopkins Saunders DERBYSHIRE v. WORCESTERSHIRE. Played at Glossop on June 12, 13 and 14. Drawn. In the course of rather les? than an hour’s batting on the first day of this match, Worcestershire only made 21 runs for the losi of two wickets. They did not fare at all well on the next morning againht the bowling of Bestwick, who had them all in difficulties, with the exception of Francis. The latter v as at the wiukets for an hour and ten minutes for his not out innir ga of 14. 1 hanks to an innings of 50 by Storer, who in the course of nearly two hours* batting showed some very tine cricket, and useful cricket by W iight, Lawton, Chatterton and Ashcroft, Derby­ shire had a lead of 78 on the first innings. Worces­ tershire had thirty-five minutos before them before stumps were drawn, and during that time Bowley and Pearson kept up th*ir wickets with a steadiness which was interesting; they scored four runs. The game was resumed at half-past four on Saturday, by which time it was practically certain that the match would not be brought to a conclusion. V OBCE8TKBSI1IRE. First inniegs. Second innings. Pearson, b Bestwick ......... 8 b Forrester..... 31 Bowley, b Bestwick ......... 2 c Wright, b Best­ wick 11 Arnold, b Forrester .......10 cBestwick, bSugg 3 P. T. Francis, not out ... 14 c Forrester, u Bt stw ick.12 H. K . Foster, c Chatterton, c Bestwick, b b Hulme ........................12 Forrester....... 0 CorJen, b Bestwick ......... 1 not out.........16 G. Simpson-Haywar *, c Needham, b Bestwick ... 3 Wheldon, b Bestwick . ... l n otou t.........13 Gaukrodger, c Ash-roft, b B jstwick ................... 0 W ilson, c Sugg, b Bestwick 3 Bi:d, run o u t........................ 3 Leg-byea......................... 4 B 4, lb 3 ,n b l... 8 Total L. G. Wright, b W il­ son ...........................17 Needham, c Arnold, b W ils m ................. 0 Humphries, b Arnold 4 A E Lawtjn, b Araold 25 Storer, lbw, b Arnold 50 Hulme, b Wilson ... 6 W . bugg, c Arnold, b YVL’sjn ................... 8 . 61 D erbyshire . Total (5 wkts) 94 E. M. Ashcroft, b B ir d ...........................14 Chatterton, c and b Wilson ................... 9 T. Forrester, b Wilson 0 Bestwick, not out B 2, lb 2, nb 1 T o ta l........... First inningd WORCESTKBSUIBE. Second innings. O. M . R. W . O. M. R. W Hulme ........... 22 11 27 1 ............. 17 8 28 0 Bestwick ........... 22*8 14 23 7 ........... 19 10 29 2 F orrester........... 1 0 2 1 ............ 9 49 9. 3 19 10 S9 2 1 . 9 4 9 2 Lawt>n ... 7 5 11 0 S u g g ............ 3 1 7 1 Chatter.on.. 2 1 2 0 Beitwick delivered a no-ball. D erbyshire . O. M. R. W. Wilson ... 23*4 2 52 6 1Bird ... Arnold ... 21 3 58 3 O. M. R. W . ... 10 2 24 1 Arnold delivered a no-ball.