Cricket 1903

J u n e 4, 1903. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 181 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY y. YORKSHIRE. Played at Cambridge on May 28, 29 and 30. Yorkshire won by 5 wickets. The cricket before lunch on Monday at Cambridge was of the slowest description, and old players, accustomed to see ’Varsiiy cricketers play a brilliant game, could hardly believe their eyes. In the course of an hour and three-quarters only 60 runs w*re made, and Ebden took eighty minutes to score his first four runs. After lunch, when Dowson came in, things were much more lively. He played a splen­ did innings. F. B. Wilson backed him up well, and in partnership the two men put on 63 runs in fifty- five minutes. Keigwin also played a cricketer’s innings, and when stumps were drawn the total was 2f0 for 9 wickets. On the next morning the Yorkshiremen gave a fine display. Denton was iu great foim, and made the prettiest strokes all round the wicket for a couple of hours, his fine innings including nineteen fonts. The other outstanding innings was the £2 not out by Lord Hawke, who is f oing very strong indeed this year. Yorkshire only ad a small lead, but before stumps were drawn Cambridge had lost half their wickets in their second innings for 140, and were only 111 runs on. Dowson again played good cricket, but by far the best innings was the 62 not out by E. W . Mann. On Saturday the end of the innings w hs soon brought about by Haigh and Rhodes, and Yorkshire only had to m*<ke 166 to win. A shower gave the bowlers an opportunity, and the first four wickets fell for £6, but Anodes and Wainwright added 68 for the fifth wicket, and Lord Hawke and Wainwright did the rest. Cambbidge Uhiv First innings. G. H. M. Ebden, c acd b Bhodes.................................. 18 B. T. Godsell, c Denton, b Whitehead..........................44 E. W. Mann, c Wilkinson, b Rhodes ........................ 4 E. M. Dowson, lbw, b Wainwright .......... ... 66 K. R. B. Fry, b Bedford ... 12 F. B. Wilson, run out ... 42 R. P. Keigwin, c Bedford, b Whitehead .................36 J. G. Hirsch, b Haigh ... 7 J. W. Marsh, b Bedford ... 16 F. B. Roberts, b Whitehead 2 G. Howard-Smith, not out 0 EB8IT Y. Second innings. lbw, b Haigh ... 13 cDenton,bRhodes 1 lbw, b Rhodes ... 64 c Denton,b Wain- wright ..........89 b Whitehead ... 1 cDenton,bRhodes 18 c Myers, b Rhodes 10 ' 6 12 13 B 11, lb 1, w 4 Total ... 16 b Bfaigh b Haigh ... . notout.. ... . c Whitehead, Rhodes ... . Byes... . Total , ...184 Y o besh ir *. First innings. Brown, sen., b Howard - Sm ith..............................31 Denton, run o u t .............. 101 Wilkinson, c Marsh, b Dow­ eon ................................ 0 Rhodes, lbw, b Dowson ... 6 Haigh, b Dowson...............20 Wainwright, b Howard- Second innings. b D ow son..........26 o Roberts, b Dowson ..........18 b R oberts.......... 6 b Dowson ..........31 c and b Roberts... 4 notout................ 60 not out.................22 Smith ...................................28 Lord Hawke, not out.............62 Myers, b Roberts....................12 Whitehead, c Hirsch, b Keigwin ........................... 13 B<dford, run out.................. 8 Hunter, absent h u rt........... 0 B 8, nb 1 3 ....................21 B1, nb 8 ... 4 Total ...........291 Total (6 wkts) 159 C am bridg e U n iv e r sity . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. B. W. Rhodes ........ Whitehead .. .. 27 16 26 2 ... ... 261 7 . 29 3 14 47 3 ... ... 6 1 Wainwright .,.. 31 10 $1 1 ... ... 6 0 Bedford........ ,. 24 11 38 2 ... ... 6 2 Brown .........,. 7 0 34 0 ... Haigh .........,. 16 3 42 1 ... !'.! 21 8 Denton ......... . 1 0 8 0 ... 22 1 6 0 43 3 Second innings. Wainwright bowled four wides. Y ore 8 h ir e . First innings. Roberts ... Howard-Si Keigwin... Mann .......... „ Dowson..........26 Hirsch .......... 6 Howard-Smith delivered eleven no-balls, Roberts two, Dowson two, and Hirsch one no-ball. 0 . M. B. W. O. M. R. W. 21 8 49 1 ... ... 16 3 64 2 224 1 80 2 ... ... 1 0 14 0 9 2 39 1 ... 3 0 18 0 ... 26 7 60 3 ... Z 17 2 77 3 1 14 0 ... SURREY v. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Played at the Oval, May 28 and 29. Surrey won by four wickets. As was the case at Lord’s, rain considerably inter­ fered with play on the opening day, the first ball not being delivered until just before three o’clock. Three important alterations were made in the Surrey team. Abel, Capt. Bush, and Clode appearing instead of Holland, Baker, and Jackson. This was the first appeararce of Abel this season in the county team. rl he innings of Gloucestershire was noticeable only for a bright display Iy Jessop, who hit capitally on the slow pitch. He reached 60 out of 65 in 26 minutes, scoring in all 69 out of 81 in 42 minutes. Richardson bowled extremely well during the innings, obtaining four wickets at a cost of seven and a half runs each. In response to the Gloucestershire total of 166, Surrey had made 92 for four wickets (Abel not out 28) when stumps were drawn. On the second day Huggins and Roberts proved so difficult to nego­ tiate that Surrey could claim a lead of but five runs on the first innings. Abel, with 34, proving the highest scorer on the side. That theground favoured the towltrs was very apparent when the west-coun- trymen went in a second time, for by lunch time they had lost as many as eight wickets for 62 runs. Jessop was stumped very smartly indeed by Strud­ wick from the first bail he received, his early down­ fall being obviously largely responsible for the collapse of the side. With nine out for 63, Bpry *nd Roberts became associated, and by plucky cricket added 31 for the last ptrtnersbip. Lockwood and Clode bowled unchanged throughout the innings, the former obtaining six wickets for 86. Left but 90 runs to win, a vict ry by a large margin for Surrey appeared assured. Hayward, however, wss out at one to a marvellous catch by Kitcat in the slips and, owing chiefly to the agility of the fieldsman named, five men were out at 49, and six at 69. But for an effective display by Walker, Surrey would probably have lost. The captain added 20 runs in partnership with Lockwood, and three more whilst in with Wiltshire. Boberts and Huggins again groved very difficult to score from, the whole team trying very hard to pull the game out of the fire. An interesting feature of the match was the excellentwicket-keeping of 8trudwick, who disposed of four men in the second innings of Gloucestershire, and did not allow a single extra in the first. G lou cestersh ire . First innings. S.A. P. Kitcat, c Strudwick, b Clode ........................ Wrathall, run out .......... G. L. Jessop, c Brockwell, b Clode ...............................69 Hale, c Hayes, b Richard­ son .................................. 17 Board, b Richardson............ 21 Langdon, b Richardson ... 12 T. H. Fowler, lbw, b Clode 2 Huggins, c Abel, b Clode ... 10 Spry,c Hayward, b Richard­ son ............................... 0 Dennett, run out.................. 4 Roberts: not o u t ................. 0 Extras......................... 0 19 b .. 13 Total ..........166 S u rrey . Firot innings. Hayward, b Roberts .......... 3 Abel, b Roberts ................ 84 Hayee, c Jessop, b Roberts 24 Capt. H. S. Bush, c Jessop, b Roberts ........................16 Brockwell, c and b Jessop 0 Lockwood, b Jessop ..........16 L.Walker,c Hale,b Huggins 22 E. Wiltshire, c Kitcat, b Huggins ........................ Clode, c Hale, b Huggins ... 6 Strudwick, not out ..........13 Richardson, b Roberts ... 6 B 14, lb 1, w 1 ..........16 8econd innings. b Clode .......... c Strudwick, b Lockwood st Htrudwick, Clode c Strudwick, Lockwood c Strudwick, Clode c Hayes, b Clode 19 c Hayes, b Lock­ wood................. l b Lockwood ... 0 notout.................22 b Lockwood ... 0 c and b Lockwood 8 B l, w 1, nb 1 3 Total ... 94 Second innings. cKitcat,bHuggins 1 c Board,bRoberts 16 c Kitcat,bRoberts 26 b Roberts .......... 0 cKitcat,bHuggins 3 c Hale.b Huggins 8 notout.................16 6 notout.. B 4, lb 3 16 Total .................160 Total (6 wkts) 92 G lou cestersh ire . Lockwood Clode Brockwell Haves Richardson First innings. O. M. R. W. 2 0 7 0 . 20 8 6 66 4 . 6 0 31 0 3 0 22 0 11 2 80 4 Second innings. O. M. K. W. , 16*3 4 36 6 . 17 3 66 4 Lockwood delivered a no-ball. Roberts ... Huggins... Jessop ... Dennett ... O. 24 6 17 2 B u rbey . M. R. W. O. 6 836 .......... 16 4 0 168 ..........16 4 46 2 2 0 0 M. R. W. 6 49 3 6 36 8 Roberts bowled a wide. OXFORD UNIVERSITY v. SOMERSET (Twelve a side). Played at Oxford on May 28, 29 and 30. Abandoned. Rain almost entirely spoiled this match. The wicket was slow when the game began, after heavy rain in the early morairg, and before lunch a thunderstorm came on which stopped play until five o’clock. When stumps were drawn Somerset had lost ten wickets for 136, the chief feature of the innings being the excellent bowling of Evans, who went on as first change. On the next day the innings was finished without any addition to the total, but as it was not possible to play until past four o'clock very little progress was made with the match. Wyld played a very pretty innings, his 43 being put together in fifty minutes, and when play ended four wickets were down for 116. Again on Saturday there was very little play, and early in the afternoon the match was abandoned. S o m erset . H. Martyn, c Burn, b Ernsthausen..........11 G C.Yassall, c Brown­ lee, b Evans ... 0 A. Phillips, c Ernst­ hausen, b Evans ... 0 Rev. A. P. Wickham, not out ................. 8 Lb 2, w 1 .......... 3 F.M.Lee.stEmsthausen, b Evans .................27 Lewis, c Sampson, b Martin .................24 P. R. Johnson, b Burn 3 H. Montgomery, c and b Evans ................. 0 8.M.J.Woods bEvans 28 Robson,c Peel ,b Ernst­ hausen .................29 Braund, b Evans ... 0 Hon. M. Herbert, c Emsthausen,bEvans 3 Second innings : F. M. Lee, not out, 4 ; P. R. John­ son, c Amory, b Ernsthausen, 6; Braund, not out, 22 ; Bev. A. P. Wickham, c Ernsthausen, b Amory, 7.—Total (2 wickets) 39. O xford U n iv e r sity , Total ..136 O.M.Samson,b Robson 16 R. S. Darling, run out 10 H. J. Wyld. c Martin, b Wood .................43 W. B. B. Evans, b Phillips .................12 K.M. Carlisle, c Mont­ gomery, b Robson .. 32 L.D. Brownlee, c Phil­ lips, b Robson..........11 B.L. Peel, c Herbert, b Lewis........................14 W . Findlay, c Vassall, b Braund................. 0 E.G.Martin,c Braund, b Robson................. L. Heathcot-Amory, b Braund ................. A.C.von Ernsthausen, not out ................. R. C. W . Bum, c Her­ bert. b Braund B 8 ,lb 6 .......... Total ..169 Evans Emsthausen... 6 Martin ..........16 Bum .......... 9 S om e rset. First innings. O /M . R. W . ... 17*4 6 41 7 ... 1 19 2 4 48 1 2 26 1 Am ory.......... Bum bowled a wide. Second O. 8 6 innings. M. r T w . 2 18 0 1 16 1 O x fo r d U n iv e r s ity . Braund ...21 4 61 3 1 Phillips ... 3 Lewis ...16 8 32 1 Woods ... 4 Robson ...18 6 33 4 | 1 4 1 0 14 1 1 16 1 M.C.C. AND GROUND v. KENT. Played at Lord’s on May 28 and 29. Kent won by three wickets. Heavy rain in the St. John’s Wood district delayed the start of this match until twenty minutes past three on Thursday last, and only 186 runs werescored during the day for the loss of eleven wickets. Runs were far from easy to obtain, the M.C.C. losing six wickets for 68 runs. At this point, when it appeared that the team might be out for less than a hundred, Relf and Mr. C. C. T. Doll became associated, and by means of careful cricket, added 83 runs whilst to­ gether in 66 minutes. Both men played a good game, and it was chiefly owin ? to their efforts that the total eventually realised 177. Fairservice, a Kent Colt, bowled well, obtaining four wickets (including that of W . G.) at a cost of ten runs each. As,Messrs. Bevington and Gilman scored seventeen off one over, his bowling was really of a better standard than his analysis o f four for forty would lead one to suppose. With only a few minutes left for play, Kent com­ menced their innings badly, Mr. E. W. Dillon being dismissed by the first ball he received. When stumps were drawn, the county had made nine runs for tne loss of one wicket. On the second, and concluding, day of the match, play commenced at a quarter-past eleven, and, in order that a definite result might be arrived at the same evening, lasted until a quarter- past seven. Mr. Burnup played a very confident game, scoring 72 out of the nrst 182 runs made by the