Cricket 1902

284 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J uly 17, 1902. sinhji began to score faster and faster, and when lunch time came fie had beaten his previous highest score of the season, and had put on nearly two hund»ed runs since half past eleven. His innings was certainly one of ihe finest he has everplaved. Meanwhile Tate had made excellent use of his opportunities, and had scored 61 not out, his partnership with Ranjiteinhj i having produced 160 runs in v#ry quick time. The entire innings of 7C5 was put together in seven hours and forty minutes. Surrey had now the unpleasant task of playing for a draw, while the Sussex men stood a very good chance of having to field for the rest of the day and ali Wednesday. By sending in .Abel and Hayward first Jephson jiskedputting most of his eggs in one basket, but both men were in capital form, and declined to be parted. They wore down the bowling, and seemed capable of going on for the rest of the match. In an hour and twenty minutes they put up a hundred runs, and were not parted until they had scored 2J6, thus beating the partner­ ship between Fry and Vine for Sussex by two runs. This performance was done in two hours and forty minutes. Only one wicket had fallen by the time that stumps were drawn with the score at 275, the whole day’s play having produced 561 runs for the lots of three wickets. Yesterday Abel, who was not out 107, was again in splendid form, and he and Captain Bush soon gained a complete mastery over the bowling. Long before they were parted it was almost an absolute certainty that Surrey would easily make a draw, despite the enormous odds against them. The rest of the team did not do as much as might have been expected, tu t not only was a drawn game secured but the follow-on was paved. Sussex comfortably enough played out time, Relf and Brann being in fine form. S ussex . First innin?s. C. B. Fry, c Brockwell, b Dowson ...........................159 Vine, c Dowson, b Bichard- eon ... ......................... 92 Killick, lbw, b C lode...........41 Relf, c and b Dowson......... 20 G. Brann, lbw, h Dowson... 0 W.Newham,cand b Dowson 2 K . S. Ranjittinbji not out.234 Cox, c Hayes, b U.ode ... 51 Butt, c Hayward, b Dowson 6 Tate, not out...........................61 Bland did not bat ........... 0 B 25, lb 9, nb 5... 39 Second innings. b Jeph son........... 7 not out...................16 c and b Dowson.. 77 b Hayes ...........48 st Stedman, b Hayes ...........15 B5, lb l, n b l 7 Total (8 wkts) *705 Total (4 wkts) 170 * Innings declared closed. S urrey . Abel, c Cox, b Bland 179 Hayward, c Bland, b T a te ................... 144 Capt. H. Bush.c Ranji, b Tate ................. 122 Hayes, lbw, b Cox ... 42 Brockwell, c Butt, b T a t e ........................... 5 E. M. Dowson, b Cox 0 D. L. A. Jepbson, not out ... ...........43 Clode, c Killick, b T a t e ...........................11 Stedman, b Bland .. 2 Richardson, b Bland 0 Lockwood, absent ... 0 Extras................... 4 Total ...562 S ussex ; First innings. O. M . R. W . Second innings. O. M. R. W . Lockwood .. 24 4 98 0 ... Richardson ... 30 1 143 1 ... Clode ... ... 35 3 129 2 ... Brockwell ... 21 1 99 0 ... ... 11 2 40 0 Dowson ... ... 28 4 1.-7 5 ... ... 7 1 44 1 Jephson ... ... 16 1 36 0 ... ... 14 6 59 1 Hayes ... ... 8 1 24 0 ... ... 5*1 1 11 2 Busfi .. 1 0 9 0 Lockwood bowled three no-balls, Richardson one, and Dowson two no-balls. S urrey . O. M .R. W . Vine ... 27 7 77 8 I Relf Bland ... 29*3 4 98 3 Tate C ox............ 40 14 149 2 O. M. R. W . ... 11 0 69 0 ... 48 11 155 4 M.C.C. AND GROUND v. LONDON COUNTY. Played at the Crystal Palace on July 14, 15 and 16. London County won by an innings and 43 runs. Although Braund was unable at the last moment to p’ay for London County, the team, on paper, was decidedly stronger than that of the M.C.' . which contained the names o f very few well-known cricketers. The M.C.C. has often put a stronger team in the field against a school. Nevertheless, against the weakened bowling of the London County team the Club gave a reasonably good account of itself; indeed a better account than could have been expected from the quality of the batsmen. King and Rawlin put on 60 in an hour for the second wicket, and Sir A . Conan Doyle and Geeson 82 in 80 minutes for the fifth, lu t all the batting of the M.C.C. was dwarfed by that shown by C. J. B. W ood for the London County; he put on 73 out of 111 in an hour and a quarter by almost a different class of cricket. Beldam also played a very fine game. Whe >stumps were drawn the County had ► cored 111 for the loss of two wickets, W . G. and Murdoch not having gore in. On Tuesday morning Wood and Poidevin took the bowling in charge and treited it without mercy, their partnership pro­ ducing 179runs in an hour and three quarters. Wood’s splendid innings of 176 was put together in three hours and included twenty-six 4’s. Poidevin was then joined by W . G. and once more the bowling was hit all over the field. 'I his partnership accounted for 184 runs. Poidcvin made his first hundred of the season in a big match, and showed what a fine bat he really is ; he was run out after batting for three hours and three quarters. W . G. still went gaily on, and had the pleasure of making the two hundredth innings of a hundred of his career. He was only batting f r two hours and a half for his splendid innings of 131. The M.C.C were 333 runs behind, and by the end of the day had scored 68 for three wickets. Yesterday they made a fine effort to save the game, Rawliu, King and Geeson all being in great form, but they could only hold out until half-past three. M.C.C. AND First innings. Rawlin, c Murdoch, b May Doll, lbw, b Grace ........... King, lbw, b May ........... Trott, c Beldam, b May ... Geeson, b Grace ................... Doyle, st French, b Grace .. Abbott, c Walker, b May ... Whiteside, b May ........... Watson, not o u t ................... Perks, b Grace ................... Ives, b May ........................... E xtras........................... G round . Second irnings. 36 not out ...........122 7 st French, b May 0 87 cM ay, b Odell .. 53 23 b M a y .............. 2 44 c Wood,b Odell 63 43 b Odell.............. 0 1 cPoidevin,bOdell 19 2 b Grace ........ 0 20 c French,b May 24 11 b Odell.............. 5 7 b Odell ........ 2 4 Extras .. 0 Total .. L ondon G. W . Beldam, c Perks, b G eeson................. 26 C.J.B.W ood,st White­ side, b Rawlin ...176 W . Smith, b Geeson .. 5 L. O. S. Poidevin, run out .......................... 161 W . G. Grace, b Trott 131 W. L. Murdoch, c Doll, b Trott ........... 3 L. Walker, st Perks, b T ro tt...........................37 ...235 Total 290 C ounty . J. Gilman, b Trott .. 17 E. L. French, st Perks, b Trott ................... 0 W . w . Odell, st Perks, b G eeson .................. 2 P. R. May, not out ... 0 B 2, lb 7, w 1 ...1 0 Total ...568 M.C.C, and G round . First innings O. M R. W . Second innings. O. M. R. W . Grace 40 9 89 4 ........... 29 4 94 1 Odell 21 5 56 0 ........... 364 11 114 6 Beldam 6 1 14 0 ........... 8 1 33 0 May 25 8 72 6 ........... L ondon C ounty . 13 0 48 3 O. M. K. W. O. M. R. w . Trott . 37*2 2 173 5 1Geeson... 27 3 109 3 King .. 22 4 86 0 | C. -Doyle 12 0 46 0 Rawlin .. 32 5 113 1 |Perks ... 4 0 31 0 Geeson bowled a wide. T H E A U S T R A L I A N S . THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE MATCH. ( t w e n t y - fir st of th e to u r .) Played at Bristol on July 14, 15 and 16. Australians won by an innings and 222 runs. So very decidedly has Gloucestershire fallen cff of late that there was very little probability that they would make much of a fight against the conquering Australians, who would take a good deal of beating just now. As far as the first day’s play went Gloucestershire were completely out of the running, for after taking a long time to score 155 they allowed the visitors to run up 111 without losing a wicket. There seemed no particular reason why more runs should not have been made, for Australian bowling is not so very terrible on a good wicket when there in some pluck about the batsmen, but after the first few men had been dismissed there was hardly any life at all in the batting, and several men were bowled before they went in. All this sort of thing was changed when Trumper and Duff went in for the Australians. Confidence was not by any means wanting on their part, and their batting quite out­ classed anything which had been seen in the Gloucestershire innings. Trumper’s batting was delightful to watch, for he made strokes all round the wicket and was never at a loss to know what to do with a ball. He was not out 83 when stumps were drawn, and Duff not out 21. Trumper on the next morning was within a few runs of making his sixth bundled durirg the tour, but failed by 8 runs; he was only batting about an hour altogether. Duff kept steadily on for another hour, and then Hill and Noble gained a complete command over the bowling, scoring pretty quickly. Before they were separated they had increased the score by 205, in two hours and twenty minutes. When stumps were drawn the total was 545 for five wickets. Of course Darling declared yesterday morning, and Gloucestershire never looked like playing out time. G loucestershire . First innings. W . Troup, b Hopkins ... 23 Wrathall, c Noble, b Howell 24 L. D. Brownlee, c Jones, b Second innings, c Kelly, b Jones.. 0 b Howell ........... 5 Arm strong..........................21 Langdon, b Jones ...........14 G. L. Jessop, st Kelly, b A rm strong.........................13 C. O. H. Sewell, b Jones ... 6 Eoard, c Howell, b Jones .. 0 W . S. A. Brown, lbw, b Arm strong.......................... 6 Huggins, c Noble, b Arm­ strong .................................. 6 Paish, not out .................18 Roberts, c Kelly, b Howell.. 17 B 1, lb 5, w 1 ............ 7 Total .................155 b Jones b Howell ... 1 ... 23 b Jones ...........21 cHill,bArmstrong 35 cHopkins, b Armstrong .. 36 c Trumper, b Armstrong ... 6 c Noble, b Duff. . 17 notout...................10 c Duff, b Hill ... 3 Extras........... 11 Total ...168 A ustralians . V. Trumper, c Jessop, b Roberts..................... 92 R.A. Duff, b Brownlee 62 C. Hill, c Board, b W rathall....................123 M.A.Noble,b WrathalllOO A.J. Hopkins, not out 105 W . W. Armstrong, b Brown ...................35 J. Darling, not out ...13 B 2, lb 7, w 3, nb 3 15 Total (5 wkts) *545 S. E. Gregory, J. J. Kelly, E. Jones and W . P. Howell did not bat. * Innings declared closed. G loucestershire . First innings. Second innings. Jones Armstrong Howell ... Hopkins... Roberts .. Paish Huggins Brown O. M. R. W . O M. R. W . 32 12 56 3 ........... 13 2 67 3 33 11 51 4 ........... 10 4 13 3 12 5 28 2 ........... 14 2 42 2 10 5 13 1 ........... 6 1 22 0 Duff ... 5 0 9 1 Hill ... 2*5 1 4 1 led one, Howell one, and Duff three wides. A ustralians , M. R. W . O. M. R. W . 7 78 1 Brownlee 4 0 21 0 100 44 0 Langdon 5 0 33 2 3 137 0 Wrathall 9 2 49 1 3 f8 1 Huggins delivered two no-balls and one wide, and Roberts one ro-ball and two wides. DERBYSHIRE v. NOTTS. Played at Derby on July 14, 15 and 16. Notts won by nine wickets. W ith a recently acquired reputation to keep up, Derbyshire gave a somewhat disappointing display on the first day of this match, for although the com­ mencement of the innings showed promise of a big score, the tail did very little, and the result, a total of 234, could not be considered very satisfactory, as the wicket was in first-cla«s order. The best stand of the innings was by E. M. Ashcroft and Needham, who put on 85 runs in an hour and ten minutes. Notts lost A. O. Jones for two runs, but Iremonger and W . Gunn then played out time, the former with 35 and the latter with 30. Total 71 for 1 wicket. 8teadily the score mounted on Tuesdiy morning until the partm rship had produced 190 runs in three hours, when Gunn was caught in the long field for an innings worthy of his best days. Shrewsbury and J. Gunn failed, but W . B. Goodacre and W . Gunn made a long stand. Iremonger was at length dis­ posed of for 145, which had taken him five hours and ten minutes to put together. Later in the innings Anthony hit very hard and scored 89. Derbyshire were 233 behind, ar.d of these 19 were bit off without loss before stumps were drawn. Yesterday, Ashcroft played another very fine innings, making 92 in two hours and a half, and he was well backed up by several others of the team. But the balance against