Cricket 1902

J u l y 10, 1902. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 269 G E N T L E M E N v . P L A Y E R S . THE MATCH AT LORD’S. Played at Lord’s on July 7, 8 and 9. Players won by an innings and 68 runs. Although it must have been a little difficult to get up much enthusiasm over what our own men might do among themselves so soon after their recent defeat by Australia, there was the usual large crowd which attends matches at Lord’s between Gentlemen and Players. Both teams were strong oa paper, but the Players had by far the better bowlers. The wicket turned out to be fiery at first, and very fast indeed, so fast that most of the (ientlemen, not yet accustomed to anything except slow wickets, were deceived by the pace of the ball. The bad luck which has for so long attended C. B. Fry still relentlessly refused to leave him, and he was bowled by Lock­ wood with the total at 6. Maclaren followed him at 21, but there was no further breakdown for the time being, for Jackson and Taylor, by very good cricket against bowling which received encouragement from the state of thewicket, brought thetotal to 74 before the latter was disposed of. This was the only big stand of the innings, for although Mason made a i?ood score, none of the others ever got going. One and all found Braund very awkward to deal with, and he ended up with a fine analysis. Tate bowled very well indeed throughout, and was quite the master of Ranjitsinbji. who can seldom, if ever, have played against him in a match. It was not a large total that the Players had to face, but the wicket was still lively, and Jessop, howling v*-ry fast and short, soon dismissed Tunniciiff-, Tyldesley, and Abel. Nor d d Iremonger stay for long, and it teemed likely that the score would be no larger than that of the (ientle­ men. But Hirst made some runs off Dowson, and finally Denton and Braund settled themselves down for the rest of the time before stumps were drawn, and added 47 runs in thirty-four minutes by the brightest cricket of the day. Denton was not out 51 and Braund not out 31, with the total at 156 for five wickets. The bowling of the Gentlemen was severely tested on the next day, and It was found wanting in strength. Denton made some beautiful hits and was within easy reach of his hundred when he was neatly caught in the s ips ; his fine inuings included fourteen 4’s. While Lockwood was in with Braund the rate of scoring fell off considerably for a time, Braund taking nearly an hour to make ten runs. But after he had made his first fifty in an hour and three-quarters the game became much brighter. Lockwood now made twenty off a couple of overs, and the Gentlemen’s bowling was completely mastered. It was not until the partnership had produced 159 that Lockwood, who had made two- thirds of the runs in a very attractive manner, was out for exactly a hundred. Braund was the eighth man out, his 141 having taken four hours-and-a-half to put together. The Gentlemen went in again a little before five o’clock with a balance of 257 to wipe out, and lost three good men for 84, viz., Jackson, Taylor and Jephson; Lockwood was responsible for the three wickets. But Fry at last broke through his spell of bad luck, and was not out 39 at the close of the day. Mason was not out 24. There was not very much chance that there would be a full day’s cricket yesterday, notwithstanding that the Gentlemen had some great baismen still left. The cricket was lively while Fry and Mason still remained together, but after their entire partnership had produced 90 runs in an hour and twenty minutes, Mason was c iught in the slips. Fry was the next to go. Everyone was glad to see him once more in form, although he was naturally slower in scoring than usu *1, being at the wickets for a couple of hours. Half the side was now out for 139. and the end soon came. Jessop made things lively, but could not find a partner to help him. The chief feature of the innings was Lock­ wood’s fine bowling. G e n t l e m e n . First innings. A . C. Maclaren, c Hirst, b lo ck w o o d .......................... 13 C. B. Fry, b Lockwood ... 5 F. 8. Jackson, c Abel,bTate 33 T. L. Taylor, c Abel, b Tate 26 J. R. Mason, b Braund ... 37 K . S. Ranjitsinhji, lbw, b Braund ..........................14 G. L . Jessop, b Braund ... 16 E. M. Dowson, b Braund ... 17 D. L. A. Jephson, c Rhodes, b Braund .................. ... 13 A. E. Newton, c Lockwood, b T a te.................................. 1 T, C. Ross, not out ............ 0 B 10, w 2 .................12 Total ................187 Second innings. absent ................... 0 b Lockwood ... 59 b Lockwood ... 6 lbw, b Lockwood 4 c Braund, bLock­ wood...................38 stHuish,b Braund 25 n o to u t.................37 c and b Braund .. 0 c Huish, b Lock­ wood................... 7 b Lockwood ... 2 b Lockwood ... l Extras ... 10 Total ...189 Abel, b Jessop ...........17 Tunnicliffe, c Mason, b Jessop ............10 Tyldesley, c Maclaren, b Jessop ............ 7 Iremonger. b Ross ... 12 Denton,c Ranjitsinhji, b Mason ... ............93 Hirst, c Newton, b Jackson .................. P layebs . 24 Braund, c Jackson, b" Mason .................. 141 Lockwood, b Jackson 100 Rhodes, c Dowson, b R o ss.......................... 19 Tat*1, c Newton, b Mason ... .. ... 0 Huish, not out ........... 1 B 13, lb 4, nb 3 20 Total . ...444 G entlemen . M.R. W . O. 0 21 0 ............ 8 1 43 2 ............ 21 3 150 ... . 3 7 67 3 .......... 8 4 29 5 ............ V Rhodes bowled two wides and Lockwood six no-balls. P layers . M. R. W . O.M. R. W . 5 85 3 I Jackson ...37 9 106 2 7 79 3 R o ss .........28-5 5 76 2 4 44 0 I Jephson . 8 0 34 0 Hirst Lockwood Rhodes ... T a te......... Braund O. 10 . 9 . 10 , 20 3 11 M. R. W. 0 20 0 4 63 7 1 6 0 2 28 0 62 2 Jessop Mason ... 31 Dowson... 13 Dowson delivered two no-balls and Mason one. SUSSEX v. HAMPSHIRE. Played at Brighton on July 7, 8, and 9. Drawn. In the absence of Fry and Ranjitsinhji, who were playing for the Gentlemen at Lords, the two veterans, Newham and Brann, again appeared for the Sussex team, and met with rrilliant success. Tate was also at Lord 8, so that, on paper, the Sussex team was decidedly weak. But the batting of Newham, Brann and Vine was so fine that when the innings ended there was not much danger of a defeat. New­ ham and Vine put on 132 runs for the second wicket in an hour and forty minutes, while Brann and Collins scored 103 in seventy minutes for the sixth wicket. Alt gether the batting of the Sussex men was not only satisfactory, but most attractive. Hampshire at the end of the day had lost a wicket for nine runs. All through the second day Sussex had a little the best of the game and when stumps were drawn they were leading hy 281 runs with four wickets still in hand. Several of the Hampshire men batted well, but the only outstanding innings was that of A. J. L. Hill, who played steadily and well for three hours. W hen Sussex went in again Vine and Ralph put to­ gether 91 for the first wicket in fifty minutes, and Killick did well. Yesterday Brann, who was notout overnight, was joined by Butt, and the two put on 104 in an hour and ten minutes, thus giving Sussex an ample lead. Hampshire had to make 410 runs, with four hours and ten minutes before them. For a time there did not seem any chince that they could either play out time or win, for half their wickets were down for 105. But the tail worked in the most determined manner, while Sprot played a great innings, and things looked a little better. But despite the most plucky efforts of the batsmen, Sussex gradually seemed to have the mttch in hand, and eventually it came to the last two men, Steele and Hesketh-Pritchard, who managed to hold their own long enough to bring about a drawn gam e; their effort was one of the events of the se »son. Bodington and Robson also did splendidly for their side. S ussex . First innings. Relt. b Heskrth-Britchard 13 Vine, b Evans .................72 KillicK,bHesketh-Pritchard 3 W. Newham, c Llewellyn, b Barton .........................85 Marlow, c 8tone, b Evans... 10 G. Brann, c Evans, b Sprot .. 83 A. Collins, nat out .......... 49 Butt, lbw, b Bodington ... 11 Cox, c W ebb, b Sprot........... 1 Bean, c Evans, b Sprot ... 0 Second innings. b Hill ... ...........61 c Steele, b Hill... 61 c Webb, b Evans 33 Bland, b Sprot B 8, lb 1, w 1 Total ... 0 ... 10 .. 337 H ampshibe . W ebb, b Relf.......................... 6 Stone, c Cox, b Bland ... 7 E. M. Sprot, c Cox, b Bland 30 W.H.B.Evans,c Butt,b Relf 20 A. J. L. Hill, b B ean ......... 78 Llewellyn, b Bland ...........11 Barton, c Bland, b Cox . 24 C.H.Bodingt n,cCox,bRelf 13 C. Robson, b uland .......... 24 D. A . Steele, run o u t ......... 3 H. Hesketh-Pritchard, not out .................................. 7 B 6, lb 3, nb 2 ... 11 b H ill................... ht wkt, b Hill .., b Barton ........... run out .......... c R o b s o n , t Bodington n o to u t................. stStone ,bBoding* t»n ... .......... 7 c d.-Pr'tchard, b Bodington ... 5 Extras........... 7 Total ...306 b V in e...................32 b B ean.................15 c Relf, b Bland... 74 b Bland b B ean................ c Bland, b Vine cBean,b Bland c Bean, b Cox lbw, b Vine notout... ., 0 15 0 19 35 22 ... 31 not out...................13 B 26, lb 1, nb 4 31 S ussex . First innings. O. M. R. W . Second innings. O. M. R. W. H.-Pritchard .. 23 2 75 2 .. . ... 9 1 45 0 Llewellyn .. 29 7 76 0 .. . ... 12 2 53 0 Boddirgton ... 13 2 43 1 ... . .. 4*5 0 19 3 Evans ........... 13 2 46 2 ..., ... 11 2 64 1 Steele ... .,.. 8 1 22 0 .., , ... 2 0 13 0 H ill................... 2 0 9 0 ... ... 19 1 61 4 Barton . .. . 20 11 28 1 ... , ... 8 0 *7 1 Sprot ... .,.. 6*4 0 28 4 ... 5 0 27 0 Steele bowled a wide, and Evans bowled two no-balls. H a m p s h ir e . First innings. O. M. R. W. O. Bland ... 31 2 99 4 ... ... 27 R elf........... .. 27 7 67 3 ... .. 21 C o x ........... ... 12 4 22 1 ... ... 11 V in e .......... ... 15 3 28 0 ... ... 24 Bean ... 25 1 7 1 ... ... 10 Second innings. 9 70 10 36 Killick 8 Bland delivered six no-balls. 3 24 1 6 61 1 3 ?8 2 1 25 0 T H E A U S T R THE WARWICKSHIRE MATCH. ( nineteenth of the toub ). Played at Edgbaston on July 7, 8 and 9. Abandoned. The batting of the Warwickshire men in the first innings was curiously uneven Devey and Kinneir opened the innings well, and seemed to find no particular difficulty in the bowling. Nor was Quaife at all uncomfortable. But when 79 runs were up for the loss of two wickets, there was a sudden change, two men falling just before lunch with hardly any addition to the score, and the rest failing rap dly one after the other before Armstrong, who met with great success with the ball. The Australians must have been surprised to dismiss their opponents for 124, and before the end of the day, they had placed themselves in a most satisfactory position by scor ng 182 for the loss of three wickets. Trump r again played a goud innings. Darlii g broke through the run of ill-luck which his attended him lately, and ecored 87 nv.t out, while Gregory played a great game for 60 not out. On the next morning Darling was promptly dis­ missed, and the innings came to an end soon-r than was anticipated. (Gregory’s 83 was his highest innings of the tour. The Australians had a lead of 192, and before Warwickshire had drawn level they had lost five wickets ; they were ten ruus on at the end of the day with half their wickets in hand. T. S. Fishwick played a fine innings of 68 after batting for eighty-five minutes ; it was the test display in the match as far as it had gone. Yesterday morning Charlesworth, who was not out 14 overnight, was bowled in the second over with the total of 202 unaltered, and at 222 Santall was out, so that things were about as bad as could be. But Warwickshire were then saved by the rain, which came on at a quarter to one, and preventel any further play. Ihe county was only 33 runs on with seven wickets down. If it had not been for the obstinate batting of H. ^ . Bainbridge, who had reen in for an hour, the Australians would probably have had time to win before the rain came. W abwickshibe . Total ...234 Total (9 wkts) 18/ First innings. Devey, c Duff, b Saunders.. 21 Kinneir, c Saunders, b Arm­ strong ...........................38 T.S.fc’ishwick.cHill, b Jones 10 Quaife, c Carter, b Jones ... 21 Lilley, c Trumper, b Arm ­ strong .................................. 7 Charlesworth, b Armstrong 9 H. W . Bainbridge, b Arm­ strong .................................. 2 Santall, b Jones ................... 2 Moorhouse, not out .......... 6 Hargreave, b Armstrong ... 6 Field, b Armstrong ........... 0 B 1,1b 2 ................... 8 Second innings, c and b Noble ... 34 b Jones ........... 9 cl rumper,bJones 68 c Carter, b Hop­ kins ...................39 c9aunders,bArm- strong ...........22 b Jones ...........14 notout................. 15 c Darling, b Jones 11 n o to u t................. 2 E xtras...........11 Total V. Trumper, b Field... 45 B.A.Duff.cHargreave, b Moorhouse ... 16 C. Hill, c Fishwick, b F ie ld ......................1 8 J. Darling, b Santall.. 37 S. E. Gregory, b Har­ greave ................. 83 M. A . Noble, lbw, b Hargreave ........23 A. J. Hopkins, c Field, b Hargreave ........33 ..124 Total (7 wkts) 285 A ustbalians . W . W . Armstrng, not out ...........................14 H. Carter, b Charles­ worth ..................... si E. Jones, run out ... i J. V. Saunders, b Har­ greave ................... 0 B 12, lb 2, w l ... 15 Total ...316