Cricket 1904

J une 9, 1904. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 181 MIDDLESEX v. YORKSHIRE. Played at Lord’s on June 2, 3 aud 4. Middlesex won by 77 runs. It was only natural that this match should have attracted a vast amount of attention, for Middlesex, the champions, are this ye*r, as w*»Uas la-t ye^r, the favourites of fortune, while the Yorkshiremen still create a certain amount of awe whtrever th^y go, although their bowleis seemed to have all bee • turued into oatsmen. Middlesex had the good fortune t •win the toss and began to bat at about twenty minutes past two on a wicket which, while it was by no means iu favour of the batsmen, was far easier than it became on the next morning. Their display was decidedly good onthe whole, foralthough four wickets were down with the total at 24, Warner, E. A. Beldam, MacGregor and Foley all p ayed such plucky cricket that when stumps were drawn the total had been raised to 183 for the loss of three more wickets. Wan er’s innings wasworthy of the highest praise, for he mide his runs at a time when Birst was bowling superbly and when other men were quite at sea. E. A. Beldam only made eight, but thtre have been innings of 80 of le s value to a side, for he stayed in for an hour at a most criiical time. It must have been an unpleasant surprise for the Yorkshiremenwhen Foley and MacGregor, who came toge her with the total at 76 for seven wicnets, begin to take charge of the bowling, and eventually to master it. The light was bad andit was byno m»ans easy to make runs, but for about a couple of hours they remained at the wickets, without making miny mistakes. Altogether their display was one of the best of the season. Their untinished partnership produced 107 runs. But on Friday morning they were soon out, Foley leaving at 197 and MacGregor at iO . It was seen from the way in which thje bowlers obtained the upper hand as soon as play began on Fridaymorn ngthat every run made duriDg the day would have to ie fought for, and no one could have been greatly surprised when tbe Yom- shiremen failed t * distinguish themselves against Trott aud J T. Hearne, who were both admirably suited by the wicket. None of them, except periiaps Ernest (Smith, ever locked like making mils, and the follow-on was only just sived. Nor did Middlesex fare much better when, with a lead of 142, they went in a second time. But Warner again played admit- able ciicket. ihe lata eight wickets fell lor i.nly 25 runs. Hirstand Bhodes wereunsuccessful, although on a similar wicket they would have been deadly Jast year. Jackson a» dHaigh however bowledwith great effect. Yorkshire had to make 23-1 to win, and although the wicket was still veiy difficult they made a fight which was quite worthy ot their reputation as plajeis of an uphi l game. With the total at euht Tunuicliffe was bowled by Haigh, and spectators prepared themselves to see a procession But there is no man ia the world who can pl.y a game against enormous odds tetter thin F. S. Jackson, a. d with Denton as a partner he was now se n at his be t. Be and Denton proceeded to knock off Tro t, making 26 off five overs, and by so doing tbey did a very great service to their side. They both played a g eat game, and put on t .0 runs for thesecond wicket. The fourth wicket fell at 93, and th-n Rhodes and Wilkinson doggedly kept up their wickets rillstumps were drawn witti the to.al at 109 for four. Thus 129 runs were still required. Rhodrs was not out 11 and Wilkinson not out 22. Ia the Yorkshiie second in' ings on Friday it was noticeable that although the batsmen were getting t e test of the situation, Bosanquet and G. W. Beldam were not called on to bowl. It was pretty certain that if the sun came out on Saturday morning Yorkshire would not be able to make the runs, as the wicket would te exceedingly difficult. The sun appeared at full strength, and everythin? turned out just as had been anticipated. Wilkinson and Smith were very soon dismissed, and although Rhodes played steadily and did his best to save the side, wickets continued to fall, and at the end of an hour Middlesex had wou easily. Lora Hawke, who carr ed his bat, played a plucay game, and possibly might hive Baved the situation if any­ body could have stayed with him. M id d le sb x . First innings. 8econd innings. P. F. Warner, b Haigh ...45 c Hirst, b Baigh.. 39 L.J. Moon, c Hunter,bHirst 0 c Jackson Rhodes .. G. W . Beldam, c Rhodes, b Hirst ... ... ................. J.H.Hunt,cHunter,b Hirst B. J. T. Bosanquet, b Hirst E. A. Beldam, cTunnidiffe, b Jackson........................ Trott, A. E., cHirst,bHaigh 14 G.MacGregor, cTunnic'.iffe, i bHirst................. . 61 C. P. Foley, c Tunnicliffe, b Rhodes...............................61 Rawlin, b Hirst .................. 7 Hearne (J. T.), not out ... 6 B 1,1b 5 .................. 6 6 b Haigh .......... 0 b Hai-h ......... 0 lbw, b Haigh .. 8 b Haigh ......... lbw, b Jackson.. c Tunuieliffe, b Jackson ......... Y o rk sh ire . First innings. Hon. F. 8. Jakson, lbw, b Hearne.............................. 3 Tunnicliffe.oMion,b Rawlin lti Deaton, b He.*rne .......... 7 H. Wilkinsou, b Hearne ... 8 Hirst, c and b Hearne ... 11 Rhodes, b Trott................. 5 E. Smith, b Trott.................11 Haigh, b Trotc ................. 0 Lord Hawke, run out ... 0 ** hit*he«d (Lees), b Trott 0 Hunter, not out ................. l Second innings, c MacUreg >r, b R aw lin ............; b Hearne lbw. b Hearne ... ' b Trott........ c and b Trott c hosiu quet, ^earne ... b Hearne ... b ’1 rott......... not out........ b Heaine c an 1b Hearne .. 24 .. 8 b .. 24 B 7,, lb 3 ... ..........10 B 10, lb 4 14 Total ... ..........72 Total .. .160 O. M id d le se x . M . R. O. M. R. W. Hirst ... ... 32 3 10 65 6 ... ... 4 1 14 0 Rholes... ... 30 11 51 i .. ... 7 0 83 1 Haigh ... ... 22 3 69 2 ... .. 11-1 3 25 6 Jackson ... 9 4 12 1 ... ... 8 3 13 3 Smith ... . . 3 0 20 0 ... Y o rk sh ire . First inniDg*. Second innings. O. M . r . w . O. M . R. W . Rawlin ... ... 7 1 18 1 ... .. 10 2 21 1 Hearne ... ... 12 2 37 4 ... ... 31 12 48 6 Trott ..., ... 6-2 2 7 4 ... ... 21 2 77 3 HAMPSHIRE v. KENT. Played at Southampton on June 2 and 3. Kent won by 283 runs. A fine ianii gs of 73 by Seymour, put together in two hours, wa- the chief featureof tin ratting on the fir-tt day of this match, * ut Laiigford, Heskeih Prichard and Blythe all bowled exceedingly we'1. The last six K>nt wickets fell for three runs. Whea stumps were drawn each side had played an innings, and Kent with no wickets down in their second innings were 98 runs on. On the next day mo.-t of the team good scores. Baker was the last man out; he had scored82in twohoursand three-quarters. Humpshire, with 373 to make ’o win, failed badly against Fielder, Blythe, and Fairservice. K e n t . First innings. Second innings. Hearne (A.), c btone, b Prichard ... .......... 0 cStone.bPrichard 33 Humphreys, c Jephaon, b Lai gford .. .......... 33 run out ...........43 Seymour, c Prichard, b Langford ... ... 78 b Prichard.......... 1 O.H B. Marsham.b Prichard 4 b Langford.......... 0 Huinh. b Pricha.d ..........2) b ( hixnell H. Z. Baker, run out... . st Slone, b Llew­ ellyn ..........82 b I angford.........50 cStone,b Prichard 4 Murrell, b Langford.......... Hardinge, not out .......... Fairservtce, c Cbignell, b Langford ................. O b Sprot..............29 Blythe,cLaneford.bPrichaid 1 st8tone,bChignell .V4 Fielder, b P ichard .......... 0 notout.................3i B 2, lb 2 ........................ 4 16 Total ...................142 H am psh ire . First innings. D. A. Steele, c Fi Ider, b Blythe...................... 10 Llewellyn, c Hardinge, b Blythe ............... 1 E. M. Sprot, c Seymour, b Blythe.......... ......... 5 A. J. L. Hill, b Fie’der ... 11 Webb, cHuish, b Bljthe ... 25 Rev. W. V. Jephson,c Fair­ service, b Hearne ......... 14 Bowell, b Hearne................. 7 T* A. Chignell, b Blythe ... 2 Langford, not out .......... 4 S^one, c Marsham, b Blythe 2 Hesketh Prichard, c Hum­ phreys, b Blythe ..........10 B 5, lb 1 ....................... 6 B 11,lb 4 Total... .. 3i7 Second innings. b B'ythe .......... 7 b Fielder .......... 4 cMurrell.bFielder 6 c Seymour, b Biythe .. 24 c Murrell,bFair- ► ervice ......... 22 c Fielder,bBlythe 7 cMurrell,bBlythe 6 c Murrell, b Fair­ service .......... 2 c Seymour, b Blythe .......... c Baker, b Bl>the Total cSmith,b Jackson 0 stHunter,bHaigh 3 not out................ 3 B 9, lb 1 ... 10 Total . 214 Total... 95 Prichard Llewellyn Langford Hill Chignell .. Fielder Blythe Hearne .................97 K ent . O. M. K. W. not out............... Lb 2, w I ... Total......... I O. M. R. W. 38 14 83 3 . 7*3 0 62 1 9 85 2 2 30 0 3 46 2 1 14 1 31 , 9 13 . 6 .. 22-4 7 68 6 .. 12 1 i8 0 ... ... 20 6 35 4 ... .. 1 0 4 0 ... .. 1 0 3 0 ... Sprot H ampshikb . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. ..1 0 0 28 1 ........ 13 3 35 2 .. 19 5 6 49 7 ........ 17-5 4 42 6 ... 10 6 14 2 Fairservice.. 5 2 9 2 Fielder bowled one wide. THE SOUTH AFRICAN TEAM. THE WORCESTERSHIRE MATCII. ( se c o n d o f t h e t o u r .) Played at Worcester on June 2, 3 and 4. Worcestershire won by 137 runs. Although the 8outh African cricketers have now been for some time m England they have hard.y become accustomed to turf wioBets, and i r, wasa good peiformaace to run v\orcestershire as c ose as ihey did. especially as ti. K. Fost-r and Arnold were to h in >pl~ndid foiin with the bat, while Arnold also bowled very well iudeed. Fostei’s brilliant innings of 10/ lasted for at^out two hours and thrce-quarteis, H.nd included twelve 4’s. The partnership between Foster and Simpson Layward produced 102 iuns iu an hour and a-ha f, and it was all ihe morenoticeable fecause. when it was commenced, fix wickets had falle ' for 81 runs. Simpson-Bayward was bating for two hours for his tb. When stumps were drawt4 the Vis.tors had made 8J for three wickets On Friday Mitchell played a gieat ^ame, but was so p« orly bac<td up that Worcesiersbire ha 1a lead of *6 on the first iunings. When ihe home Team vent iu a second lime Foster sgaiu p.ayedafine lunii gs, puitin on l 8 runs in part, eiship with Ain-.Jd whose 82 runs were made by beautiful coo e.. The vi itors had to make 3.1 to win, and when ihe da>’s play ended bad scored 5 of them without loss. On Saturday the oouth Africans teg-in no well that at one lime the total was 106 for one wijket Tancred was in great form, aud Mitchell and Shriders ren- de ed their side great s^ivice. Uiifortuuntely there wan an astonishing br^ak down iu the at ir g wh*n Rurrows went on to bowl, atd the last six w.ckets fell for 30 runs. W o rcestersh ire . First innings. Bowley, b Kotze......... 0 c Second innings. Haliiwell, b Kotze .......... 12 c Halliwell, b Middleun ... 63 run ou t .............85 b Kotz ’ .......... 1 b aiuc air ..........16 c$halders,b Mid­ dleton ..........18 b Sinclair .......... 11 c White, b Ko'ze 8 b White .......... 0 not out................. 1 cMitchell,bWhite 59 B 12, lb 10 , w 2 ...24 Total ... 2.7 Total ..........269 S outh A frican s . Second ianings. cBowley.b Arnold 61 H. K. Foster, c Sinclair, b Middleton...................107 Arnold, c Sinclair, b Kotze. 4 Wheldon, b Middleton 1 Cuffe. e and b Kotze.......13 W. B. Burns, stHalliwell, b Sinclair ...................... 4 A. W . Isaac b Whits ... 9 G. ki. fcimpson-Hayward, b Middleton.................... 5S Gaukrodger, b Sinclair ... 1 Bird, not out .......... 4 Burrows, c Sinclair, b Mid­ dleton .....................22 Lfg-byea .......... . 4 First innings. L. J. Tancied, b toimpson- Hayward ............... ... 2 W. a . Shal lers, c Gaukrod­ ger, b Cuffe ..........36 M. Hathorn, b Cuffe .......... 17 F. Muche.l, not out ..........70 J. H. Sinclair, c Wheldon, b burrows ... ... 6 R. O. Schwarz, b Arnold ... 5 b Burrows ... 87 c Isaac, b Bird ... 14 c Burrows, b Arnoll ..........<0 b S.-Hayward ... 5 c Wheldon,bBur- G. C. White, lbw, b Burrows 2 b burrows ... G. H. nhepstone, lbw, b Arnold ......................13 b Burrows ... E. A. Halliwell, b Arno’d .. 9 b Arnold J J. Kotze, b An old ... 0 b Burrows J. Midd eton, b Arnold ... u not out........... Wide ........................ 1 Leg-byes Total .......................161 W o rcestersh ire . Total ...188 O. M R. w . O. Kotze .. 18 0 50 3 ... ... 21 Middleton .. 214 1 73 4 ... ... 27 Sine1air ... .. 17 1 69 2 ... ... 20 White ... .. 13 2 41 1 ... ... 8*1 Tancred Middleton and Sinclair each bowled one wide. S outh A frican s . Arnold ... * .-Hayward Bird v_utfe Burrows ... First innings. O. M. R. W. 34 3 14 59 5 . 6 0 14 1 . 7 5 9 0 , 14 6 35 2 14 3 43 2 . Second innings. O. M. R W. ... 24 10 34 3 0 61 1 2 *7 1 I 18 0 ... 12 ... 12 ... 9 ... 14-1 1 43 Cuffe bowled one wide.