Cricket 1903

J uly 23, 1903. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 293 T H E G E N T L EM E N OF PH ILADELPH IA . THE HAMPSHIRE MATCH. ( eleven th of t iie tou r .) Played at Southampton on July 16, 17 and 18. Abandoned. It was a dismal diy when the Americans began their match m ith Hampshire, and the heavy rain which fell in the early morning kept spectators away. Dr. Lester was able to take his place in the team again, but both King and Scattergoodwere still absent on account of injuries. When the vieitors won the toss they batted on a very slow wicket, and owicg to frequent showers there was so little play that when stumps were drawn at half-past three only 130 runs had been made for the loss of six wickets. The com­ mencement of the innings was dispiriting, for befoie lunch six wickets were down for 60, and no one seemed able to play Llewellyn and Hesketh-Prichard. But when Cregar jo?red Lester heat once begin to hit out, and chiefly by means of powerful drives he scored 50 in 25 minute*, and when play ended for the day he was not out 65, with Lester not out 19. On the next morning Cr<gar was out before he had time to increase his total, but Letter played a beautiful game, and as he received excellent support the total was much better than was anticipated. Lester was batting for an hour and a half for a faultless innings of 67. For the ra t of the day the Hampshire men made hay of the bowlirg of the visitors, and when Hill and Llewellyn got together they put on 1<5 runs in an hour. Hill’s 121 w*s made in two hours and Llewellyn reached his hundred in two hours, Ieing still at the wickets with 136 to his credit when stumps were drawn. The total was 372 for seven wickets. At a quarter past three on Saturday it was decided to abandon the game as there Wts no prospect of any play. G entlemen of P h iladelphia . N. Z. Graves, lbw, b Llewellyn.................12 A.M.Wood.bL’ewellyn 5 H. A. Haines, c Webb, b Prichard ... .. 13 F.H.Bohlen,bPrichard 8 C. C. Morris, c Hill, b Prichard .................12 P.H.Clark,b Llew ellj n 4 J. A. Lester, c Stone,b Black........................67 E.M.Cregar, c Sprot, b Llewellyn................ 65 P.N. Le Boy, c Black, b Llewellyn ..........18 T. C. Jordan, not out 14 F.C.Sharpless, c and b Llewellyn ..........£0 Leg-byes .......... 2 Total ...230 D. A. Steele, c Jordan, b Lester ... ..........35 Webb, b Clark .......... 9 E.M. Sprot, c Wood, b Clark .. ................. 8 A. J. L. Hill, b Clark 121 W. N.White, b Lester 0 H ampshire . L'ewellyn, not out .. 136 Bowell, b Clark..........16 E.M. C.Ede, c Jordan, b Clark .................30 Stone, not out .......... 4 B 7, lb 3, w 3 ... 13 Total (7 wkts) 372 Prichard did not bat. Black and llesketh- G entlemen of P hiladelphia . O. M. It. W. O. M. R. W. Llewellyn 233 2 109 6 Black ... 7 2 27 1 Prichard.. 26 5 88 3 Webb ... 1 0 1 0 H ill......... 3 1 3 0| H ampshire . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Clarke .. 37 9 112 5 Haines... 1 0 9 0 Cregar .. 18 1 67 0 Sharpless 8 0 11 0 Lester 21 3 £8 2 Graves ... 3 0 14 0 Le Roy .. 10 2 48 0 Cregar, Clark and Sharpless bowled one wide each. SCRATCH MATCH v. HAMPSHIRE. Played on July 18th after the other match had been abandoned. G entlemen of P hiladelphia . P. N. Le Roy, c Hill, b Ede ................. 0 H. A. Ilaines, c Llew­ ellyn, b Ede .......... 7 C. C. Morris, not out 23 L. M. Wood.st Stone, b Ede ................. 0 F.C.Sharpless,bWebb 10 Extras................. 7 J. B. King, run out ... 83 C. M. Cregar, c Llew­ ellyn. b Ede .......... 5 P. H. Clark, cH ill, b Ede ........................ 2 F. H. Bohlen, run out 5 J. A. Lester,c Webb, b Ede ........................ 41 P. D. Brown, cBowell, b Ede........................ 3 H am pshire. Lieut. W . N. White, notout .................38 Bowell, c Bohlen, b Sharpless................. 0 Black, c Haines, b Sharpless................. 8 Webb, run out ..........23 Total . 186 Hesketh-Prichard, st Morris, b Lester 2 Stone, not out .......... 5 Extras................. 3 Total (4 wkts) 79 THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS WEEK. KENT v. MIDDLESEX. Played on July 16, 17 and 18. Abandoned. In fine lut unsettle-d weather the second match of the Tunbridge Wells Week began with a long partLership for the first Kent wicket, Alec Hearne an 1 E. W . Dillon, neither of whom had been in his best form this Eeason, putting on 139 runs in partner­ ship in about two hours and ten minutes. It was the beginning of a good day for Kent, for although after the first wicket fell there was no other big score, there were five totals of over 20, and every­ body made double figures except Fairservice and Blythe. The two first wicket men were together at lunch time, but wi.hout any addition to the score Mearne played on, and very shortly afterwards Dillon did exactly the same thirg. Before stumps were drawn Middlesex had to go in for an hour aLd a quarter, and during th*t time lost Beldam and Moon for 67 ; Warner was not out 27 and Rotertson not out 10. There was a full day’s cricket on Friday, and as Kent had much tee best of the play the spectators greatly enjoyed themselves. The Middle­ sex batting broke down agaii st the bowling of Blythe and Fielder, and with ihe exception of tun- liffe and Bosanquet no one could do anything in the way of keeping up his wicket for long. Bosatquet was at the wickets for ninety minu'ej for his 7i, a splendid innings; he was beautifully caught by Dillon in the long field very close to the bound .ry. Quite unexpectedly Kent hid the very useful lead of 165, and this they increased td 328 before their s- cond innings c*me to an end, although at cne time it seemed likely that the lead would le very much less than this. For owing to some excellent bowling by Beldam and Bosanquet there was such a collapse that eight men were out for 94 in the course of ihe hour’s play which followed lunch. But after this there were two gocd partner* hips, each lasting for half-an- hour, Blythe and Fairservice putting up 36, and Fielder and Fairservice 49. Middlesex had about an hour’s batting before stumps were drawn and lost two wickets for 65, so that they still required 274 to win, and as things had gone during the mitch their chancesof pulling off a victory were not very great. On Saturday rain interfered greatly with the play. The game was continued at half-past one, and by lunch time the score had been taken to 65. The cricket was very slow, for Middlesex seemed to have made up their minds that their best course was to try to bring about a draw, and as rain interrupted play two or three times and handicapped the bowlers with a wet ball, their position was more than safe when at half-past five a final thunderstorm put an end to the match. K ent . First innings. E. W. Dillon, b Cunliffe ... 90 Hearne (A.), b J. T. Hearne 47 Seymour, b Trott.................26 C.J. Burnup, st MacGregor, b Bosanquet .................11 K. L. Hutchings, b Bosan­ quet ............................... 14 Humphreys, b Bosanquet... 22 R. N. R. Blaker, c Trott, b Bosanquet........................27 Huish, lbw, b Boganquet... 29 Fairservice, st Macgregor, b Bosatquet ................. 0 Blythe, b Trott ................. 0 Fielder, not ont .................29 B 10, lb 16, w 1, nb 1 ... i8 Total ... ... Second innings, b Bosanquet ... 28 b Beldam .......... 4 c MacGregor, b Beldam .......... 6 lbw, b Bocanquet 0 c MacGregor, b Beldam ..........26 lfcw, b Beldam ... 6 b Bosanquet ... 7 c Warner, b Bosanquet ... 4 c Bosanquet, b B earne ..........40 c and b Beldam.. 19 not out................. 11 B 8,1b 12,w 1 , nb 1 22 Total ...173 ...............323 M iddlesex . First innitgL Second innings. P. F. Warner, b Fielder ... 27 notout..................70 L. J. Moon, c Huish, b Fielder............................... 6 b Fielder ........... 0 G. W . Eeldam, st Huish, b Blythe........................ ...14 b Blythe ...........14 W. P. Robertson, c Sey­ mour, b Blythe ............. 10 cBlaker,b Blythe 16 B. J. T. Bosanquet, c Dil­ lon, b Blythe ................71 not out..................41 R.W.Nicholls, c Hutchings, b Fielder ......................... 0 F. H. E. Cunliffe, lbw, b Fairservice.......................28 Trott, c Hutchings, b Blythe 2 G. MacGregor, st Huish, b Blythe................................ 5 Rawlin, c Blaker, b Fielder 1 Hearne (J. T.), not out ... 2 W 1, nb 1 ................. 2 Total... . 168 B 2, lb 6, nb 2 10 Total (3 wkts) 151 K ent . First innings. O. M. R. W . Trott ................. 28 3 98 2 ... Hearne (J. T.) ..18 6 38 1 ... Beldam ........... 8 6 9 0 ... Bosanquet........ J5’3 3 109 6 ... Pawlin .......... 3 0 11 0 ... Cunliffe ................9 1 £0 1 ... Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 9 1 24 0 .. 65 3 10 1 ... 20 3 49 5 ... 18 0 61 4 2 0 7 0 Cunliffe delivered a wide and a no-ball, Beldam a no-ball, and Bosanquet a wide. M id d lesex. First inni gs. O. M. R. W. 26 10 66 4 ... 26-3 10 49 5 ... 9 0 61 1 ... 2 2 0 0 ... Hearne Burnup Fielder delivered three no-balls and Fairservice a wide. Fielder ... Blythe ... . Fairservice Humphreys Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... SO 7 35 1 ... 35*3 16 67 2 ... 10 4 19 0 ... 3 1 7 0 18 12 13 0 1 1 0 0 SURREY v. LANCASHIRE. Played at the Oval on July 16, 17 and 18. Abandoned. Owing to rain there was no play on the first day of this match until after luuch, when Lancashire, on a fairly easy wicket, gave a satisfactory account of themselves, (-coring 193 runs before cloee of p’ay for the loss of four wickets. For this position they weie chiefly indebted to the good play of R H. Spooner and H. G. Garnett, who, m the course of an hour and twenty-five minutes, put up 1(9 for the first wicket. Garnttt was the first to go. After his dismissal Tyl­ desley aad Spooner played a cautious game for about an hour before the laitt rwas bowled by Richardson for an excellent 77, which had taken him two hours and a quarter to compile. When stumps were drawn Tyldesley was not out 41. So fir, Lancashire seemed in luck, for they certainly had the best of the game at this peiiod. The remaining six wickets added 140 runs the next morning. Tyldesley still played a cautious game, and when he was at last out for t59,he had been at the wi:kets for two hours and fifty minutes. Hornby, Sharp and Cuttell all ma^e useful scores, but the bitting was disappoint­ ing on the whole. Richardeon had an excel­ lent analysis. Surrey had ten minutes batting before lunch, and for the rest of the day they delighted the spectators by some of the most attractive cricket imaginable. Hayward only made a stay of half an hour, but after his dismissal Holland and Hayes gained such a complete mastery over the bowling that in a little over an hour and a half they put on 156 runs for the second wicket. Both men played well all round the wicket, never making a mistake, and always being thoroughly at home. On the departure of Holland, E. M. Dowson came in, and almost looked on while Hayes made some brilliant hits, until after being ia for ha f an hour for 3 he startled the Lancashire teun by making three 4’s in the course of an over from Brearley. Hayes was at last finely caught in the slips for a splendid innings of 145, which had ouly taken him two hours and a quarter to put together; the chief hits included a five and twenty-three fours. His partnersh p with Djwson had produced 68 runs in three-quarters of an hour. The total when he was out was 2c9 for three wici ets. A little later things did not look as well for Surrey, since Brearley dismissed Dowson and Miller before stumps were drawn with the total at 297. But for all that Surrey had now very much the best of the gam®. On Saturday a maiden over was bowled by Cuttell. and then the rain came down so heavily that the game had to be abandoned. L ancashire . H,G. Garnett, b C!ode 50 R. H. Spooner, b Rich­ ardson .................77 Tyldesley, c Hayes, b Lockwood ..........69 A.Eccles, c Strudwick, b Lees ................. 0 A.C.Maclaren, b Rich­ ardson ................. 6 A. H. Hornby, b Lees 23 Sharp, c Lees, b Rich­ ardson .................40 Cuttell, c Strudwick, b Richardson ..........32 Barnes, c Hayes, b Richardson .......... 0 W. Brearley, c Hay­ ward, b Lees Worsley, not out B 10, lb 6, nb 1 Total 7 12 17 ...333 SUBBEY. Holland, c Maclaren, b N. Miller, not out ... 7 Cuttell .......... i.. 77 Lees, b Brearley..........12 Hayward, c Cuttell, b L. Walker, not out ... 0 Brearley.................18 W ides.................. 2 Hayes, c Garnett, b — B rearley.................145 Total (5 wkta) 297 E. M. Dowson. c Gar­ nett, b Brearley ... 36 Lockwood, Clode, Strudwick and Richardson did not bat.