Cricket 1904

260 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, J u ly 14, 1904. GENTLEMEN v. PLAYERS. ( t h e o v a l m a t c h .) I'layed at the Oval on July 7, 8 and 9. The Gentlemen won by an innings and 39 runs. So many counties had arranged matches for the last three days of last week, that from the elevens which appeared at the Oval the names of several famous players were missing, although the teams were both very strong. On paper the Players had by far the better bowlers, but as the match was played on a perfect wicket this did not seem to make much difference, for nowadays one good bowler seems very much like another unless there is something wrong with the pitch. At the last moment Holland and R. A. Sheppard were chosen to play, and on Friday P. F. Warner and G. W . Beldam were unwell and unable to appear, and their names on the card were replaced by those of L. V. Harper and W . L. Murdoch. Beldam had bowled fourteen overs on the previous day, but Warner had only fielded. On the first day the light in the morning was almost like that of a foggy November day, and it was found impossible to begin the match until half-past two, when the Players began the batting with Hayward and Bowley. There was nothing remarkable about the day’s cricket except the batting of Hayward and Quaife. The former went in first, and was bowled with the last ball of the day. He was at the wickets for three hours and three-quarters, and among many brilliant hits which he made were twenty-three 4’s. His innings was from first to last most attractive to watch. The light was always bad until he had made about a hundred, and up to that time he played with his usual caution and steadiness, but after­ wards he hit fearlessly and made his second hundred in an hour and ten minutes. Quaife, who helped Hayward to put on 119 runs in an hour and a half played an excellent innings. When stumps were drawn the total was 353 for five wickets. On Friday morning the innings was finished in a most abrupt manner for an addition of only nine runs. This Result was brought about by some good bowling by Hunt and Napier and some brilliant fielding which included three fine one-handed catches in the slips; in fact, every­ thing came off for the Gentlemen. The Gentlemen began badly enough by losing Kingston and Ranjitsinhji for nine runs between them, but E. A. Beldam played a useful innings, and then Bosanquet and Steel mastered the bowling after the latter had got over the first few uncomfortable minutes. For a time during this partnership, which produced 141 runs in an hour and thirty-five minutes, the scoring was slow, but Bosanquet soon began to make some fine drives, and altogether his innings was delightful to watch, although he might have been caught two or three times ; his innings lasted for three hours and a half, and included two fives and fifteen 4’s. Later in the day Murdoch and Hunt took charge of the bowling, and when stumps were drawn with the total at 357 for six wickets, the former was not out 58, and the latter not out 41, On the next morning these two men successfully defied the bowling until the total was 519 ; their partnership produced 249 runs. Each man was at the wickets for about four hours, and their batting was most attractive from first to last. When the innings came to an end the Gentlemen had a lead of 216, but as only three hours remained for play, and as the bowling of the amateurs was, at any rate on paper, almost ridiculously weak, there seemed not the least prospect that the match would be finished. But it was one of Bosanquet’s days, and after Napier had disposed of Hayward and Hayes, the two most dangerous batsmen on the side of the Players, he bowled with so much success that his opponents seemed to become quite demora­ lised. Lees and Trott were the only two men who made any serious resistance to him. Trott hit with great power, but it was then too late to save the game. P layebs . First innings. Hayward (Surrey), b Hunt .203 Bowley (Worcestershire) b Bosanquet........................ 18 Hayes'Surrey) ,cRinjitsinhji b Bosanquet . ..........11 Quaife (W . G.) (Warwick­ shire) c Payne, b Sheppard 48 Holland (Surrey), c Steel, b Napier.............................. 24 Lilley(Warwickshire)bHunt 27 Lees (Surrey), c Bosanquet, b Hunt............................... 0 Trott (Middlesex), c Shep­ pard, b Napier................. 5 Heame (J. T.) (Middlesex), c Steel, b Napier .......... Hargreave (Warwickshire), c Sheppard, b Napier ... Wass (Notts), not out B 21, lb 4, nb 1.......... ' Total ... ...362 Second innings, cBeldam,bNapier 13 cMurdoch,bHunt 19 c Payne, b Napier 19 lbw, b Bosanquet 11 c Hunt, b Steel... 13 b Bosanquet ... 8 c & b Bosanquet.. 21 c Sheppard, b Bosanquet ... 44 0 b Bosanquet ... 12 0 not out .......... 0 c Beldam, b Bo- 0 sanquet......... 6 !6 B 6, lb 4, nb 1 .. 11 Total......177 G entlemen . E. A. Beldam(Middle­ sex) c Hargreave, b U/c>aa QA W. H.Kingston(North- amptonsh’re),bBar- greaves .................. 5 K. S. Ranjitsinhji (Sussex), c Hayes, b Wass......................... 4 B. J. T. Bosanquet (Middlesex), c Hay­ ward, b L e e s ...........145 E.E.Steel(Lancashire) c Hayes, b Wass ... 62 W. L. Murdoch (Sus­ sex) c and b Trott . 140 P layebs . First innings. O. M. R. W . Bosanquet ... 20 1 97 2 . Hunt .......... 14 2 52 3 . Napier .......... 27*4 5 88 4 . Steel .......... 10 1 39 0 . G.W.Beldam ..144 37 Sheppard ... 40 23 R.A.Sheppard (Surrey) b Lees .................. 1 J. H.Hunt(Middlesex) st Hayes, b Har­ greave ..................128 L. V. Harper (Camb. University), b Har­ greave .................. 0 M. W . Payne (Camb. University), not out. 24 G. G. Napier (Camb. University)cHearne, b Trott .................... 13 B 19,1b 4,w 1, nb 2 26 Total .........578 Second innings. O. M.R. W . ... 15.3 1 60 6 ... 10 2 27 1 ... 13 5 36 2 ... 12 1 43 1 Napier and Steel each delivered one no-ball. G entlem en. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Wass......... 48 6 164 3 Hearne... 24 0 81 0 Hargreave. 38 9 116 3 Hayes ... 7 0 25 0 Lees.......... 32 7 75 2 Quaife ... 8 0 34 0 T rott.........18 6 1 58 2 Wasg and Lees each delivered one no-ball, and Hargreave bowled one wide. SUSSEX v. ESSEX. Played at Brighton on July 7, 8 and 9. Drawn. Sussex again had to take the field without Ranjit­ sinhji, who was playing at the Oval for the Gentlemen. The bad luck which has attended Fry in tossing induced him to entrust this delicate business to George Brann, who did all that was required of him, and Sussex batted first on a beautiful wicket. Fry did not come off, although when he was out he was just settling down to work, after seme hesitating play; he was at the wicket for an hour and ten minutes for his 27, and was obviously not in his usual form. Nearly all the rest of the Sussex team played well, but it can hardly be said that the bowling was ever really mastered until quite towards the end of the day, when Cox and C. L. A. Smith hit finely. When stumps were drawn the total was 370for seven uickets. On Friday morning the partnership between Cox and Smith was not broken until it had produced 143 in an hour and three-quarters. Smith had batted uncommonly well. It was a large to'al that Essex had to face, and at the end of the day, with only three wickets in hand, they were 167 runs behind. Perrin and McGahey played delightful cri'ket, and increased the score by 109 in an hour and ten minutes. Gillingham, Sewell, and Tosetti till played good cricket. The total when stumps were drawn was 293. The remaining Essex wickets only accounted for 14 runs, but this just saved the follow- on. Fry did not make a large score in the Sussex second innings, but Killick, Newham, Brann and C. L. A. Smith did well enough to enable the captain to declare the innings closed, leaving Essex to make 288 in two hours and three-quarters. In the course of half-an-hour Fane, Carpenter t»nd McGahey were all dismissed, but Perrin played a fine innings, and when four wickets were down Gillingham and Sewell, by steady batting, did all that was necessary to secure an honourable draw. S ussex . First innings. C.B.Fry, c Russell,b Reeves 27 Vine, c Reeves, b Douglas... 44 Killick, b Reeves. 60 Relf, cBuckenham.b Peeves 66 W. Newham, b Sewell ... 87 G. Brann, b Sewell ......... C. L. A. Smith, c Gilling­ ham, b Douglas ..........89 notout.. Leach, b Buckenham..........23 Cox, c Douglas, b McGahey 76 Butt, b Buckenbam ..........10 Tate, not out....................... 0 B 9, lb 2, w 2 ..........13 Second innings, b Buckenham ... 15 c Douglas, b McGahey... ... 11 c Russell, b Buck­ enham ..........39 b D ouglas..........13 c McGahey, b Buckenham ... 28 not out.................18 ... 15 28 B 4, lb 1 .......... 5 Total........................450 Total (6 wkts)#144 * Innings declared closed. E ssex . First innings. F. L. Fane, b Relf ... Carpenter, b C ox.......... P. Perrin, c Butt, b Cox C. McGahey, b Killick Rev. F. H. Gillingham, Fry, b Killick .......... Sewell, c Butt, b Leach G. Tosetti, c Butt, b Cox Reeves, b Cox .......... Russell (E.).c Brann, b Relf 3 J.W. H. T. Douglas, not out 0 Buckenham, b Cox .......... 0 B 9, lb 6, nb 4 ..........19 Second innings, c Relf,b Cox ... 17 1 b C o x .................. 4 61 b Leach .......... 42 b R e lf................. 3 ... 51 c ... 31 notout .. ...48 not out... , 37 28 Total... B7, lb.l,nb 1 9 ...807 Total (4 wkts) 150 First innings. S ussex . Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Buckenham ... 27 4 103 2 .. ... 20 1 53 3 McGahey ... ... 24.1 5 64 1 ... ... 16 1 35 1 Douglas ... 32 9 77 2 ... ... 5 1 19 1 Reeves........ ... 45 18 93 8 ... ... 6 2 32 0 Carpenter .. ... 5 1 18 0 ... Tosetti .. 4 2 4 0 ... 8ewell.......... ... 23 8 79 2 ... ... Perrin.......... ... 2 1 9 0 ... Buckenham and Sewell each bowled one wide. First innings. E ssex . Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Relf .......... ... 29 9 60 2 ... ... 13 6 25 1 Cox .......... ... 36-1 8 94 6 ... ... 19 4 69 2 Vine .......... ... 11 8 33 0 ... ... 3 0 6 0 Tate .......... ... 11 2 82 0 ... ... 3 0 10 0 Killick ... 13 1 62 2 ... ... 9 1 22 0 Leach.......... ... 8 2 17 1 ... ... 4 2 11 1 Brann ... 2 0 8 0 Killick delivered three and Tate two no-balls. SOUTHGATE v. KENSINGTON PARK.—Played at Southgate on July 9. K ensington P abk . W. L. Donaldson, b Lawes .................13 C. A. E. Green, c Church, b Heygate 10 M. Stratton, c Vint, b Ricketts .................45 J. G. Donaldson, c Church, b Heygate 0 Capt. A. H. Musson, c Ford, b Heygate .. 13 H. W. Woodward, c Church, b Ricketts 22 S o u th g a te . R. B. Heygate, c W. Donaldson,b Wood­ ward ........................34 H. V. Bevington, c Nicholas, b Wood­ ward ........................32 S. W. Scott, c Musson, b Nicholas ..........12 F. S. Lewis, c W. Donaldson, b Nicholas.................12 E. T. Vint, c Radcliff, b Woodward ... ... 4 H. Church, b Eddy ... 86 A. Eddy, b Ricketts .. 16 H. W . Nicholas, not out W. M. Ratcliff, Heygate .......... W. «. Wynne, E.LBW18Moatiflore, Lewis................ B 3, lb 7 ... Total ... .. 25 b .. 17 b .. 0 b .. 0 .. 10 ..171 R. S. Dickson, c Nicholas, b Radcliff 73 W. T. Ricketts, c Nicholas, b J. G. Donaldson ..........30 J. C. Ford, lbw, b J. G. Donaldson ... 0 H. J. Ricketts, c sub, b J. G. Donaldson... 9 J. C. Bevington, not out ......................... 3 Extras................ 7 Total ...252