Cricket 1904

J une 30, 1904. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 229 THE SOUTH AFRICAN TEAM. THE LONDON COUNTY MATCH. (EIGHTH OF THE TOU R). Played at the Crystal Palace»on June 23 and 24. South Africans won by ten wickets. On the first day of this match the Pouth Africans, or rather three of the team, greatly distinguished themselves. Sinclair and Hathorn put on 174 runs for the fourth wicket in an hour and a quarter. The former was in brilliant form, his drives being exceedingly powerful; he was only at the wickets for an hour and a quarter for his 103, which included twenty 4’s. Fathom’s fine innirgs of 130, which by contrast with that of Sinclairseemedalmostslow, was nevertheless put together in the short time of two hours anda quarter, andwasanexcellentperformance in every way. Halliwell alsoplayed goodcricket, but on the whole Ihe batting of the team was not remarkable. When London County went in Kotze met with such success withtheballthat when stumps were drawn six wickets were down for 130. The only stand of importance made was 79 by Walker and Nicholson who were together for fifty minutes, the latter being not out 48. On Saturday the remaining four wickets only produced 38 runs, and London County had to follow onwith 164 runs to make before they were level. As in the first innings Dr. Grace and W, L. Murdoch both failed, and with the excep­ tion of S. 8. Harris, the Cambridge University cricketer, who played a splendid game, the batsman distinguished themselves so little that the South Africans had the easiest of victories. S outh A frican s . L. J. Tancred, lbw, b Douglas .................. 4 W . A. Shalders, lbw, b Grace ....................21 M. Hathorn, run out 130 R.O.Schwarz, cBale, b Grace........................ 0 J. H. Sinclair, cMead, b Grace ..................103 E. A. Halliwell, cBale, Total ...............332 b Douglas....................37 Second innings.—Snooke, not out, 1; Horwood, not out, 5. Total (no wicket), 6. L ondon C o u n ty . First innings. Second innings. W . G. Grace, c Hathom, b Kotze............................... 0 cShalders,bKotze 1 W . L. Murdoch, b Schwarz 8 cSchwarz,bKotze 5 S. 8. Harris, c Halliwell, b Kotze............................... 1 runout ..........76 B. Jaya Ram, b Kotze ... 14 cHalliwell.bKotze 4 T.B.Nicholson, bMiddleton 68 c Tancred, b G. C. White, b Mead 21 8. J. Snooke, lbw, b Mead........................ 1 S. C Horwood, b Douglas................. 0 J. J. Kotze, b Mead .. 7 Middleton, not out ... 0 B 7, lb 1 .......... 8 J.W.H. T. Douglas, cHalli­ well, b Kotze ................. L. Walker, c and b Kotze... Murch, run out ................. Bale, b Middleton .......... Richardson, c Middleton, b Kotze............................... Mead, not out ................. B 3, lb 1, w 1 Schwarz..........11 c Tancred, b Mid- 0 dleton ...........20 45 b Middleton ... 22 13 c Kotze, b White 2 1 c & b Middleton 6 12 notout........ ... 0 1 c Snooke, b Mid­ dleton .......... 7 5 B 5, lb 4, w 1, nb 3 13 Total .......... ...168 S outh A frican s . Total ...167 First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Murdoch.. . . 3 1 5 0 Mead .. 125 1 57 3 ... ... 1 0 2 0 Grace .. 20 1 123 3 Douglas ... .. 15 2 73 3 .. ... 1*2 1 4 0 Richardson .. 12 1 53 0 Harris ... . . 1 0 13 0 L ondon C o u n ty . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. Kotze .......... 18*3 1 67 6 ........... 19 4 46 3 Schwarz.......... 8 0 39 1 ........... 9 1 32 1 White .......... 4 0 26 0 ........... 5 0 17 1 Middleton ... 9 1 31 2 .........15'4 4 59 4 Kotze bowled a wide and three no-balls, and Middleton a wide. put up 237 runs for the first wicket in two hours and twenty minutes. Both men showed a complete mastery over the bowling. Ranjitsinhji’s innings of 166 not out was put together in three hours, and was almost faultless. There was very little that was remarkable about the batting of the rest of the M .C .C . team, while that of the Cambridge men was on the whole very disappointing. But the innings of 102 not out by M . W. Payne was excellent in every way. It was playedata time when things were going very badly indeed for his side, and it was a brilliant performance. Payne’s first fifty runs were made in forty minutes, and the next fifty in half an hour. C am bridge U n iv e r sit y . First innings. Second innings. C. H. Eyre,b Hearne.........14 cOverton,bTarr­ ant .................25 J.F.Marsh,lbw,b Bosanquet 2 b Tarrant..........14 E.W.Mann,lbw,bBosanquet 7 c and bTarrant .. 17 R. P. Keigwin, run out ... 40 lbw, b Tarrant... 2 E. 8. Phillips, lbw, bBosan­ quet ...............................16 b Tarrant ............10 K.R.B.Fry,lbw,bBosanquet 0 c Tarrant, b Heame .......... 5 F. B. Wilson, retired ill ...21 absent, i l l ......... 0 H. C. McDonnell, b Hearne 37 lbw, b Hearne . 34 M. W . Payne, not out ...102 c Bosanquet, b Hearne ......... 23 P. R. May, b Tarrant........ 16 c Hearne, b Tarrant .......... 0 G. G, Napier, b Tarrant ... 9 not out............. 8 B 7, lb 1, w 1 ............. 9 B 9, lb 5 ... 14 Total .........273 M.C.C. a n d G round . Total.........152 J. Gilman, lbw, b McDonnell ............ 11 Tarrant, not out ... 10 Humphries, lbw, b McDonnell .......... 4 Hearne (J. T.), c sub, b May ................. 8 Overton, b May.......... 1 B 7, w 2, nb 1 ... 10 Total ...149 Capt. E. G. Wynyard, b May ........ . ... 11 K. S. Kanjitsinbji, c Mann, bKeigwin ... 59 B. J. T. Bosanquet, b Keigwin ................. 8 W.S. Medlicott, lbw, b McDonnell .......... 9 H. H. Marriott, b McDonnell ..........16 G.J.V.Weigall,cMann, b Napier ................. 2 Second innings :—Capt. E. G. Wynyard, c Marsh, b Napier, 98; K. 8. Ranjitsinhji, not out, 166; Tarrant, not out, 10; B 2, w 1, nb 1 .—Total (1 wkt), 278. C ambridge U niversity . First innings. Secondinnings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. Hearne.......... 30 10 91 2 ........... 19 5 48 3 Bosanquet ... 30 3 124 4 ........... 4 0 27 0 Overton.......... 4 0 19 0 ........... Tarrant.......... 9 3 3 302 ... ... 20 2 5 63 6 Tarrant bowled a wide. M.C.C. and G round . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. K. W. May.................17 1 4 43 3 .......... 12 2 54 0 Napier .......... 12 4 41 1 .......... 16 1 72 1 Keigwin... ... 8 2 31 2 .......... 7 2 33 0 McDonell ... 11 4 17 4 .......... 20 2 84 0 Mann ........... 4 1 7 0 ........... 7 0 31 0 Napier delivered two Do-bal s and two wides, and May one wide. M.C.C. AND GROUND v. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. Played at Lord’s on June 23 and 24. M.C.C. won by nine wickets. The M.C.C put a fairlystrong team in the field for this match. It included Ranjitsinhji, who preferred to play against his old Universityrather thanagainst Oxford University at Brighton. He was in great form in both innings, scoring altogether 225 runs and only being once out. In the second innings, when the M.C.C. required 277 to win, he and CaptainWynyard when stumpswere drawn just before the end of the day’s play, the innings was over, and Lancashire had a us'ful lead of 34. On the next morning it was found that Lees, who had injured a finger on the previous day when batting, was so badly handicapped that after bowling seven overs he had to retire. This mishap was absolutely disastrous to Surrey. Lanca­ shirewerehandicappedinmuchthesameway.forBrear­ ley alsoinj ureda finger onthe firstdaywhenmaking a catch, and could not bat, although he pluckily went onto bowl withtwo fingers strapped together. In the absence of Lees, the Lancashire men found the bowling pretty easy, and they did far better than in their first innings, although neither Maclaren nor Spooner succeeded in making a good score, the latter having his wicket thrown down by Harper just when he was getting very dangerous. Tyldesley, after being missed when he had scored 15, played a beautiful game while Garnett made some powerful hits in his 59, which was put together in an hour and ten minutes. At lunch time the score was 192 for three wickets, but three more fell afterwards for an additional 16 runs. Meanwhile Poidcvin, who has been so exceedingly useful to Lancashire, had been playing a preat game, and then Hallows played the most attractive innings of the day, scoring 53 not out in an hour. Brearley did not bat, and when the innings came to an end Surrey had to go in to make 337 to win. In the course of the two hours which remained for play theymade 103 forthe loss of Baker, who was out just before stumps were drawn, after playing an excellent inniD gs. Hayward was not out 50. Ihus Surrey, with nine wickets in hand, required 234 runs to win, and there was a prospect of a $ood finish. But rain fell duricg the night, and this without doubt made all the ditference between success and failure. Nevertheless for a time Surrey fought splendidly. Hayward played beautiful cricnet, and was so well backed up by Hay?s that at lunch time the total was 206 for two wickets—dis­ tinctly a winning position. Unfortunately for Surrey rainagain fell aud was followed bybrilliantsunshine, with the result that the bowlers soon began to gain the upper hand, and in the course of an hour and a half the remaining eight wickets fell for 60 runs. Hayward’s innings was in every way worthy of Lis great reputation. He was at the wickets for four hours. After lunch Huddlestonmet with remarkable success with the ball. L a n cash ire . First innings. A.C.Maclaren, cHayward,b K n ox............................... 2 R. H. Spooner, b Lees ... 7 Tyldesley,cHayward,b Lees 37 H. G. Garnett, b Lees ... 21 Sharp, c Strudwick, b Lees 5 L.O.S.Poidevin,c Hayward, b Lees............................... 17 b Knox Hallows, c Strudwick, b K n o x ...............................15 not out . A.H.Hornby, st Strudwick, b Lees...............................39 Huddleston, b Lees ..........11 Phillips, b Knox.................10 W. Brearley, not out........... 0 B 4, lb 3, nb 2 .......... 9 Second innings, c Hayward, b Gooder .......... 6 run out ..........li cHayes, b Gooder 64 c Hayward, b Gooder ........ 59 c Strudwick, b Gooder .......... 2 53 c Davis, b Hayes 6 b jtiayes ..........18 b Bayes .......... 5 absent, hurt ... 0 B 2, lb 7, nb 1 10 SURREY v. LANCASHIRE. Played at the Oval on June 23, 24 and 25. Lancashire won by 70 runs. In the first match this season between these two counties Lancashire was victorious by an innings, and >o unfortunate has been the Surrey team this year that their chances of winning the return were remote, more particularly as so many changes have been made in the eleven. As things turned out, Lancashire had to go all the way, and on Saturday it seemed more than likely that they would experience their first defeat of the season. On the first day the batsmen were nearlyall uncomfortable, and Lees and Huddleston both bowled with great effect. Lanca­ shire won the toss, but be*an badly enough by losing Maclaren and Spooner for nine runs between them. Tyldesley was never quite at home, but Garnett, during his short innings, played a commanding game. To the general surprise, half the wickets were down for 82. Poidevin could never get into his stride, and was an hour in making his 17. At lunch­ time the total was 130 for eight wickets, but after­ wards Hornby and Phillips put up 43 in a quarter of an hour, so that when the innings closed the total was not very far short of 200. Lees bowled finely and met with more luck than usually falls to his share. The Surrey batting was as disappointing as that of Lancashire, but Baker played an admirable waiting game ; he was at the wickets for nearly three hours for his 59, an inningswhichunder morefavour­ able conditions might have been ofinestimable value. Towards the end of the innings Davis hit well, but Total,................173 S u rrey . Total ..........302 First innings. Second innings. Hayward, b Brearley..........-2 c Tyldesley, b Hallows ... 122 Baker (A.), b Hallows ... 59 cHornby, bHud­ dleston ..........45 Hayes,cBrearley, b Hallows 11 cHornby, bHud­ dleston .............41 Holland,c and bHuddleston 19 c Sharp, b Hud­ dleston .......... 6 L. Y. Harper, c Poidevin, b c Sharp, b Hud- Huddleston ................. 0 dleston .......... 0 Lees, c Poidevin, b Huddle- c Garnett, b Ral­ ston ............................... 2 lows 3 H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, c c Tyldesley, b Maclaren,b Huddleston .. 5 Huddleston ... 14 Davis, c Hornby, b Hallows 29 cPoidevin,b Hud­ dleston .......... 2 N. A. Knox, run out.......... 4 not out................ 7 Gooder, not out ................. 1 cHallows,b Hud­ dleston .......... Strudwick, b Brearley ... 0 c Garnett, b Hal­ lows ... 2 Byes ........................ 7 B 14, lb 3j nb i 18 Total ... ...139 Total ...266 L an cash ire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . o. M. R. v\r. Lees................. 22*25 69 7 ........... 7 1 25 0 Knox .......... 19 2 85 3 ........... 27 1 107 1 Davis .......... 3 1 10 0 ........... 3 0 18 0 Hayward.......... 3 0 26 0 Hayes................. 11*2 2 37 3 Gooder .......... 28 5 79 4 Hayward delivered one and Knox two no-balls.