Cricket 1904

A ug . 4, 1904. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 315 HAMPSHIRE y. DERBYSHIRE. H AM PSH IRE’ S FIR ST VICTORY. Played at Derby on August 1, 2 and 3. Hampshire won by nine wickets. On the first day of this match the visitors had the unusual and pleasant experience of having much the best of the game, and against the Derbyshire total of 120 they put up 234 for the loss of nine wickets. Hesketh-Prichard and Baldwin bowled unchanged in the first innings of Derbyshire, and both made the very best use of a somewhat difficult wicket. Olli­ vierre was the only man who ever seemed likely to make a good score against them. For Hampshire, Sprot played a brilliant inniD gs, his 84 runs being compiled in an hour and ten minutes only ; his hits included 14 fours. Another fine innings was played by Hayter, who made some very effective hit* in his 82. Major Poore, who helped Sprot to put up 91 for the third wicket, was getting exceedingly dangerous when he was run out. Hampshire increased their overnight score by 28 on Tuesday, and Derbyshire were thus 172 rims behind. In the second innings nearly all the Derbyshire men made useful scores, but L. G. Wright’s 44 was the only outstanding inningB, and Hampshire were left with only 50 runs to make. Baldwin again bowled exceedingly well. Thus Hampshire, for the first time this season, seemed to have a certain victory before them. They went in about twenty minutes to six, and so finely did Sprot and Bowell bat that by a quarter past six the runs were knocked off. D e r b y sh ir e . First innings. Second innings. L.G.Wright,lbw, b Baldwin 12 lbw, b Baldwin... 44 C. A. Ollivierre, c Stone, b c Bowell, b Prich- Baldwin ........................46 ard ....................27 Storer, b Prichard ..........22 E. M. Ashcroft, b Prichard o G. Curgenven, b Prichard... 2 Needham, c Llewellyn, b Baldwin ........................14 Morton, lbw, b Prichard ... 0 Cadman, b Prichard ..........19 Warren, b Baldwin .......... 0 Humphries, not out .......... 0 Bestwick, lbw, b Prichard... 0 Lb 4, nb 1 ................. 6 c Sprot,bPrichard 19 b Baldwin..........2-5 o Llewellyn, b Baldwin..........12 Total .................120 H am psh i & e . Bowell, b Warren ... 12 Webb, o Wright, b Warren ................. 7 E.M.Sprot,bBestwick 84 Majorit.M. Poore, run out ........................ 27 Llewellyn, c sub., b Morton ................. 1 Hayter, c Warren, b Bestwick.................82 lbw, b Llewellyn 25 ht wkt,b Baldwin 9 c Hayter, b Lle­ wellyn ..........15 c8prot,bLlewellyn 12 notout.................18 b Baldwin.......... 3 B 4, lb 7 ...11 Total ...221 Stone, c Cadman, b Storer .................23 D. A. Steele, c Storer,b Warren ................. 8 Langford, b Wairen 19 Hesketh Prichard, c Curgenven, b Storer 18 Baldwin, not out ... 0 B 9, lb 2 ..........11 Total ..........292 Second innings Bowell, not out, 23; Webb, c Humphries, b Warren, 5; E. M. Sprot, not out, 23; wide 1.—Total (1 wicket), 52. D e r b y sh ir e . Second innings. O. M .R .W . O. M. R. W. H.-Prichard ... 19-5 3 68 6 ... ... 31 7 81 2 Baldwin... ... 19 3 47 4 ... ... 30*3 9 53 5 Steele ... ... 12 2 37 0 Sprot ... ... 6 3 4 0 Langford ... 2 1 1 0 Llewellyn ... 10 1 84 3 Hesketh-Prichard bowled one no-ball. H am psh ir e . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. It. W. Warren ... .... 23 9 40 4 ... ... 6 0 37 1 Bestwiok ..29 5 88 2 ... ... 5*3 1 14 0 Curgenven ... 11 3 50 0 ... Cadman... ... 12 3 31 0 ... Ashcroft... .. . 7 0 24 0 ... Morton ... ... 8 3 23 1 ... Storer ... ... 7 3 0 25 2 ... Bestwick bowled one wide. MIDDLESEX v. SOMERSET. Played at Taunton on August 1, ‘2 and 3. Middlesex won by an innings and 15 runs. So completely did the Middlesex baiting outclass the Somerset bowling on Bank Holiday that 443 runs were scored by the visitors at tbe rate of more than a hundred per hour. The chief feature of the day’s cricket was the partnership for the second wiciiet between G. W . Beldam and J. Douglas, who took the score from 10 to 201 before being separated. Douglas was batting for two hours, and played well all round the wicket, some of his hits beiDg particularly good. His brother, who played first-rate cricket, helped Beldam to put on 111 for the third wicket in less than an hour. Beldam played a splendid innings, which included twenty 4’s ; he was batting for two hours and three - quarters, and made his highest score of the season by beautiful cricket. Hunt played a fine and determiaed game, and, with Hearne as a partner, put up 55 for the last wicket. Somerset had to go in for twenty minutes, and lost a wicket for 13. Ou Tuesday Somerset fared rather badly, but the tail to some extent redeemed the failure of the first five men, who could only account for 60 between them, friartyn was at the wickets for nearly an hour for his 43, and Daniell played exceedingly good cricket, putting on 60 runs for the last wicket in partnersnip with Cranfield. Somerset had to follow on, and lost their first five wickets for 103 runs. Johnson played a fine game, but could get no one to stop with him. The tail did very little, and at a quarter past six Middlesex were victorious. Johnson was batting for an hour and a half for his excellent innings of 74. In the Somerset second innings Napier and Wells both bowled very well indeed. M id d l e s e x . 1 Trott, b Cranfield ... R. W. Nicholls, st Martin, b (Jranfleld 10 G. G. Napier, c and b .Braund.............. 0 Hearne, c Robson, b Cranfield.................20 B 2, lb 2, w 1 ... 5 P.F.Warner,b Braund 4 J. Douglas, c Palairet b Cranfleld .........114 G. W. Beldam, c Martyn, b Cranfield 141 R. N. Douglas, c John­ son, b uraund..........5) M.W.Payne,b Braund 5 C. M. Wells, c Hobson b Cranfield .......... 17 Total .........443 J. H. Hunt, not out ... 76 S om erset . First innings. Second innings. Lewis, c Wells, b Beldam... 8 b Napier ..... 1 Major W.C.nedley,b Wells 13 b Trotc............19 P. R. Johnson, b Wells ... 3 c Napier, bWells 74 L. C. H. Palairet, b Hunt 19 b Napier ..........25 Braund, b W ells.................10 c Trott, b Napier 1 Robson, b T r o tt.................37 c and b Wells ... 1 S. M. J. Woods, b Trott ... 22 c Napier, b Wells 15 H. Martyn, c R. Douglas, b W ells............................... 45 b Wells.............. F. M. Lee, b Trott ........ 16 b Napier ..... J. Daniell, c Trott, b Napier 43 not o u t............. Cranfield, not out ..........17 c R. Douglas, b Trott .......... 10 B 14, lb 1 .................15 B 6, lb 1, nb 1 8 Total........................248 Total.... ...180 M id d le se x , O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Cranfleld 87‘2 6 146 6 |Robeon .. 16 1 66 0 Braund ... 37 3 164 4 Lewis .. . 8 2 44 0 Hedley ... 6 2 16 0 Palairet 2 0 13 0 Braund bowled one wide. S o m erset . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. H earne.......... 16 3 44 0 ........ . 5 1 18 0 Trott .......... 20 3 63 3 ... .,.. 1**2 2 46 2 Beldam .......... 2 1 2 1 ... .,. . 6 1 15 0 Wells .......... 27 4 87 4 ........ .. 12 0 40 4 Hunt ..........12 1 37 1 ... . Napier .......... 04 0 0 1 ........ 16 e 53 4 Napier delivered a no-ball. SURREY v. NOTTS. (COLLECTION FO R ROBERT A B E L.) AN EXCITING FIN ISH . Played at the Oval on August 1, 2 and 3. Notts won by two wickets. Although this match was not played for the benefit of any player, the Surrey committee gave permission that a collection should be made on the ground on behalf of Robert Abel, whose benefit match, some years ago, was more or less of a failure. A very large crowd assembled, and as it happened they saw some of the most interesting cricket of the season. Surrey went in first, and on a not very easy wicket began very badly indeed—so badly that when Abel, Baker, Hayes, and Holland were all out the total was only 25, and as Hayward was not playing on account of a strain, things began to look exceed­ ingly bad for the home team. But at this critical period Raphael and McDonell played so plucky a game that they put on 69 runs for the fifth wicket Raphael’s inningB was perhaps the best of the day. Things looked better, but Surrey men were again disappointed, for the seventh wicket fell at 105, and the eighth at 133. But then there came the surprise of the innings, and Nice and Leveson- Gower put on 94 runs for the ninth wicket by the most attractive batting of the day. They occasionally made a risky hit, but on the whole they batted in a masterly manner, and Leveson-Gower at times delighted everybody by his clever placing of the ball. ThaLks to these two men the Surrey total was much larger than had been anticipated. Notts had to bat for an hour and ten minutes. Unfortunately neither Iremonger nor A. O. Jones was able to appear in the Notts team, and in their absence the tatting seemed very feebie. J. Gunn played a fiue innings of 35 not out, but Lees bowled with great judgment, and when stumps were drawn four wickets were down for 65. Oa 'luesday morningHardstaff and J. Gunn, realising that their side was in a bal position, p ayed a must cautious game, and the former was at tne wickets for an hour and ten minutes for his 11ruua. Uuun at oDe time took about au hour to make nine iut s. Anthony remained witn him for about an hour and a liaJf, during which 89 runs were put on, and at lunch time the total waa 190 for bix, Gunn btiig not ou.. 9i. Eventually Gunn’a long and valuable innings lame to a close after he had been balling for four houra. Thanas largely to him Surrey omy bad a lead of 19 runs, and on going in a second time, lost Baker with the total at 19. Raphael then joined At el, who played really brilliant cricket, and scored 30 out of the first 36 runs, and when he was bowled for 3* the total was only 40. Afterwards Raphael played another lim innings, and McDonell seemed weil bet when he was thrown out, but on the whole the batting was disappointing. At the end if the day Leveson-Gower made a very plucky effort to put t% better appearance on the game, ana when btumps were drawn he was not out 25, with the total at ioi for 8 wickets, so that Suriey were 18j ruua ou. Leveaon-Uower could not get anyone to stay wrtu him yesterday, or the total might have iecu muon larger, for he was a^ain showing excellent form. Notts had to make lb7 to win. For tom-i time it seemed that this task would offer no difficulty, for after W. Gunn was out at 34, John Gunn aud ueorge Gunn increased the score to 100 oy lunch time without being separated. 1bus everything pointed to quite au easy victory. After lunch the two uunna weut bteadily on, and 157 went up after the innings had lasted for two hours aud-a*haif. With only 40 more ruus to make, &nd niue wickets in hand, no one dreamed that there would be a desperate fight before the match was won. But a change occurred in the fortunes of the game. With the total unaltered John uunn was caught at point, having helped ueorge to put on 128 for the second wicket iu a little more than two hours. With thetotal at 167 two more men were out, including George Uunn who had played an iuvaluable iuuinga of 86, which had lasted for two hours and three-quarters. Then Dixon and Hardataff remained together until, with six wickets in hand, only a boundary hit waa required to give Notta the victory. At this period of the game Hayes bowled Dixon and Anthony, but there were still four wickets to fall, and it seemed impoasibie that the result could be iu doubt much longer. With a single added Oatea waa bowled lj Nice, and when Hallam waa l.b.w. after another run had oeen made, the crowa was in the highest state of excitement, for although it was very lotg odds that with two wickets still in hand Notts would make tho two runa required, there was just the bare chance that they might fail. Wass came in and acored a single, thus making the totala equal, and at last Haidt>laff, who had been playing a very safe game, made the wiuning hit, and Motts were victorious by two wickets. Hayes took the last three wickets for bevcn ruus in two overs and four balls. S u r r e y . First innings. Abel, b J. G unn................. 1 Baker, c Hallam, b Wa&s ... 1 J, i&. Raphael, lbw, b Anthony ............................40 Hayes, b J. Gunn.................17 Holland, c Hallam, b Wass 0 H. C. McDonell, c W.Gunn, b Wass ........................ 26 H. Budgen, run out ........... 2 Lees, b J. Gunn ....................30 Nice, b Wass........................6l H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, c Hallam, b Day ... ..........50 Strudwick, not out .......... 0 B 8, lb 3 .........................11 Total. ..239 Second innings. b J. Uunn ..........32 c Day, b Wass .. 0 b J. G u nn ..........41 c Oates,b J. uunn 7 c Day, b Wasa ... 15 run out ..........23 c Hallam, b Wass l c J.Gunn, b Wass 11 b WaBS .......... 5 not o u t................34 c Day, b Wass ... 7 B y e .......... ... 1 Total ....7 7 N o tts . First innings. Gunn (W .), c Btruuwick, b Lees ................................14 Gunn (G.), b Lees ... ... 0 Gunn (J.), lbw, b Hayes ...100 Day, b Lees ........................ 4 J. A. Dixon,c Hayes,b Lees 0 Hardstaff, c Hayea, b Nice.. 11 Anthony,c McDouell,b Nice 49 Oates, not out ttallam, lbw, b Lees ... Wass, lbw, b Hayea ... Pennington, b Hayes... B 10,lb 6................. Second innings. c Hayes, b Nice ..2 i b N ice.................86 c Buugen,b Nice. 44 . 4 7 20 . 0 1 1 . 1 b Nice . b Hayes not out.......... b Hayes b N ice.......... lbw, b Hayts not out.......... 3 B 4,lb5,w l,nbl 11 Total .................220 Total (8 wkts) 197