Cricket 1903

S ept . 10, 1903. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 405 The B O U R N E M O U T H F E S T IV A L . ( third match .) GENTLEMEN OF THE SOUTH v. PLAYERS OF THE SOUTH. Played at Bournemouth on September 4, 5, and 6. Drawn. As Surrey and Sussex were playing a county match, while many well-known players were also otherwise engaged or unavailable, the teams at Bournemouth were by no means representative, although they were both fairly strong. At the end of the first day the Players had much the best of the situation, for against a total of 155 they had put up 95 for the loss of two wickets only. For the Gentlemen Captain Wynyard and C. M’Gahey put up 51 for the first wicket, but when only 25 more runs had been added half the side were out. At lunch time the total was 83 for five wickets. Afterwards C. Robson and D. A. Steele hit hard and well. Arnold met with very great success with the ball. For the Players Wrathall made a useful 26, and at the end of the day Knight was not out 29 and Sewell not out 33. Neither of them, however, stayed long on Friday, but Arnold and Braund made a fine stand, raising the score from 110 to 258 before they were parted. After making his first fifty Braund scored rapidly, and when rain stopped play after three hours’ cricket he had j ust reached his hundred after batting for two hours and twenty minutes. Owing to heavy rain in the night there was no play on Saturday until half-past one o’clock. Braund only increased his total by a single run, although he was at the wickets for a quarter of an hour. Llewellyn was out soon after him, but in the same time he increased his total by 23. The Gentlemen were 214 behind and lost Dr. Grace from the second ball of the innings, while Beldam was caught at the wicket at 10, and Odell bowled at 18, of which he had made all but three. A stand was then made by Burnup and M’ Gahey, producing 68 runs. Afterwards Burnup and Sprot played exceedingly well and increased the total by 75. Finally, Capt. Wynyard and Sprot did so well that the arrears were wiped out and a draw became certain. G entlem en of ih b S ou th . Capt. E. G. W yD yard, c and b Arnold .................24 C. M’Gahey, b Arnold ... 30 E. M. Sprot, b Hargreave .. 0 P layers . G. W. Beldam, b Arnold ... A. J. L. Hill, b Arnold ... : C. J.. Burnup, lbw, b Arnold............................... W . G. Grace, c Robson, b Llewellyn........................ C. Robson, b Arnold......... ! D. A. Steele, not out..........! W.W.Odell,cStone,bArnold W . M. Bradley, b Arnold... B 6, lb 3 ................. c Arnold.bKnight 5 i b Arnold .. 25 c Bowley, b Har­ greave ..........66 c btone, b Robson 3 not out................. 8 c Hargreave, b "Wilson ..........56 b Robson .......... 0 b Llewellyn ... 15 B 4, lb 1 .......... 5 Total ..........155 Total (7 wkts) 23) P la ye r s of th e S o u th . Wrathall, c Robson, b Odell........................26 Bowley, c Bradley, b Beldam ................. 6 Knight, c Hill, b Odell 36 Sewell, c Sprot, b Hill 35 Arnold, c Robson, b Bradley .................73 Braund, c Wynyard, b Sprot .................101 Robson, c Robson, b Bradley .................14 Llewellyn, o Sprot, b Odell........................31 Stone, not out .......... 8 Wilson, not ou t.........21 B 8, w 5, nb 2 ... 15 Total (8 wkts) *369 G entlem en of th e S ou th . Wilson ... Hargreave Arnold .. Llewellyn O. 9 25 . 21*5 5 . 5 0 M. R.W . 2 17 0 .......... 14 11 46 1 ...........10 58 8 ........... 11 25 1 ........... 7 Robson 11 Braund 7 Knight 1' M. R. W. 3 34 1 38 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 29 2 31 0 3 1 O d ell......... Bradley ... Beldam Wynyard ... Hill ......... O. M. R. W . 47 14112 3 I 24 3104 2 1 17 5 44 1 j 4 116 0 8 322 1 ! M’Gahey. Burnup Sprot Grace... . O. M. R. W. Bradley bowled a no-ball, Beldam three wides, Hill one wide, and Burnup one no-ball and one wide. Th e S C A R B O R O U G H F E S T IV A L . (th ird m atch.) YORKSHIRE v. MR. C. I. THORNTONS XI. Played at Scarborough on September 3, 4 &5. Abandoned. The first day’s play in this match was interrupted by rain and bad light, so that only four hours were available. During this time Yorkshire made 183 against a not very strong team, and dismissed two of their opponents for 62, so that when stumps were drawn the game was in a very even position. The Yorkshiremen did well enough until at half-past one a heavy shower came down: they had then made 101 for three wickets. When the game was resumed Tarrant, the young Australian bowler, met with great success, and the last seven wickets only added 82 runs. The best innings was played by Hirst, who, after seeming very uncomfortable for a time, played in excellent form. Ernest Smith, Tunnicliffe, and Denton also played well. When Mr. Thornton’s team went to the wickets W. L. Foster was in fine form, and at close of play was not out 37. On Friday the game was fairly even until towaids the end of the day, when Yorkshire improved their position considerably. W. L. Foster continued to play good but very cautious cricket, and when he was out he had been batting for two hours and a half for his 58. The third wicket fell at 81 and the fourth at 84. The rest of the innings was only noticeable for the attractive cricket played by Bosanquet, who put up 47 in an hour and five minutes. With a balance against them of six runs, Y’orkshire lost Brown and Tunnicliffe for 11, and at this stage of the game had distinctly the worst of matters. But Denton and Rothery then remained together for an hour, increasing the total by 68, and from this time Yorkshire went ahead until the close of play. Denton played beautiful cricket from the moment that he went in ; he made 50 out of 78 in the course of an hour. Hirst and Rhodes came together with the score at 82 for four wickets, and when stumps were drawn they were still at the wickets, and the total was 187. Hirst was not out 61 and Rhodes not out 35. Early on Saturday very heavy rain began to fall and continued for about three hours. It was arranged to wait until after luncheon, but before two o’clock another heavy storm came on, and the match was abandoned. Y o rk sh ire . First innings. Brown, c Spooner, b Tarrant ...................... : 6 Tunnicliffe, c Headlam, b Trott ...............................33 Denton, b T ro tt.................24 E. Smith, b Tarrant ..........21 Hirst, b Thompson ..........47 Rothery, c Evans, bThomp- Bosanquet, Bosanquet, son Rhodes, c Tarrant Haigh, c Tarrant ............... Lord Hawke, not out.. Whitehead, b Tarrant Hunter, run o u t.......... B 8, lb 3 .......... Second innings, c Bosanquet, b Thompson cEvans,bThomp- son ................. 4 c Tarrant,b Gunn 50 not out.................61 c Bosanquet, b Thompson ... 19 13 notout.. i 10 , 13 , 0 0 11 ... 35 B 15, lb 3..........18 Total ..........183 Total (4 wkts) 187 M r . T hornton ’ s XI. W. L. Foster.c Hunter, b Whitehead ............. 58 R. H. Spooner, Hunter, b Hirst J. Douglas, c Birst, b Smith . .......... J. Gunn, b Rhodes P. F. Warner, c Hunter, b Hirst .. B. J. T. Bosanquet, lbw, b H aigh........ .47 Y o rk sh ire . First innings. 10 9 .. 13 1 W . H. B. Evans, lbw, b H a igh................. 8 Thompson, c Hirst, b Rhodes.................17 Trott, c Rothery, b Whitehead .......... 4 Tarrant, not out ... 7 C. Headlam, b Rhodes 0 B 13, lb 2 ..........15 Total ...189 Thompson Tarrant... Trott ... Gunn O. . 30 . 21 . 13 . 3 M. R. W. 7 79 2 ... 4 46 5 ... 4 41 2 ... 0 6 0 ... Evans Second innings. O. M. R. W. 16 10 , 8 Bosanquet 3 M r . T hornton ’ s XI. 50 23 24 80 30 12 O. M.R. W. Hirst ... 26 5 64 2 I Rhodes .. 39 7 63 3 Haigh ... 13 4 21 2 | O. M. R. W . Smith ... 5 0 6 1 Whitehead 9 3 20 2 SURREY v. SUSSEX. the last county match op the season . An innings of 204 by Ranjitsinhji. Played at the Oval on September 3, 4 an 5. Drawn. For the first two days of this match the weather was all that the most enthusiastic cricketer could desire, while the wicket was so good that batsmen had at last a really good chance of showing their best points. Under these circumstances it was a considerable advantage to win the toss, and when Sussex went in first it was generally thought that they would at least keep in for the rest of the day. Nor was expectation disappointed, for not only were the two star batsmen of the team in their best form, but Yine played one of his best innings of the year, and Killick and Brann both played fine cricket. Surrey were trying a new right-hand medium- paced bowler named Rushby, but on such a day no bowler, however good, had much hope of distinguishing himself, and Rushby’s chances of coming to the front could not be estimated with any approach to accuracy. He met with no success, but on the other hand he did no worse than other bowlers. In the hour and a-half before luncheon, which, as in the Leicestershire match, was taken at half-past one, Yine and Fry sampled most of the bowling that Dowson (captain in the absence of Walker) had at his command, and scored 95 runs, Fry’s share of them being 58 and Vine’s 37. Except that the rate of scoring was somewhat quicker tbe same state of affairs continued for some time after lunch, neitherbatsman ever being at a loss, and both making some delightful hits. Another hundred seemed in store for Fry, when he slightly misjudged a ball from Lees, and was caught at slip for 81 out of 153 made in two hours and a half. Some of his drives were very effective, and one of them nearly killed Yine, who could not get out of the way of it. With Killick as a partner, Yine was missed when his score was 86, but it was not until he had made 104 in three hours and five minutes that he was disposed o f; he and Killick had put on 56 for the second wicket at about the rate of a run a minute. Ranjitsinhji arrived at the fall of Killick’s wicket at 209, and at 220 he was joined by Brann, who remained with him until the end of the day, the unfinished partnership adding 112 runs to the total in an hour and forty minutes. Ranjitsinhji was absolutely in his best form, and the eight or nine thousand spectators had a de­ lightful time while he was at the wickets. Brann also played as well as ever. The