Cricket 1905

J unk 29, 1905. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 237 THE AUSTRALIANS. THE. WARWICKSHIRE MATCH. SIXTEENTH OP THE TOUR. Played at Edgbaston on June 26, 27 and 28. Australians won by an innings and 51 runs. So far this season Warwickshire has not won a single match in the County Championship, and although the team can generally make runs it has the greatest difficulty in disposing of opponents— consequently there’was very little chance that they could beat the Australians, although there was a possibility that their batsmen might enable them to make a draw. The Australians, mindful of their defeat against Essex, put their very strongest team in the field. Warwickshire played a new bowler, Hall, but he was not tried until late on the first day, when two men were well set. Warwickshire won the toss but they were unfortunate enough to meet Cotter on one of his best days. For once the Australian fast bowler had a day of triumph, and although there seemed nothing the matter with the wicket he found no one except Kinneir who could play him comfortably, and when he was opposed by the tail he created quite a sensation by taking his last five wickets in three overs and three balls for fifteen runs. The Australians must have been delighted to have to face so small a total as 161, but although before the end of the day they exceeded this by three runs with six wickets in hand their batting was a little disappointing. Duff played on at 14, but Trumper and Hill brought the score to 50 when the innings had been in progress for half-an- hour, and thus all seemed well. But four wickets were down for 126, and the bowlers seemed to be gaining the upper hand until Noble and Darling come together and played out time, the former being not out 38, and the latter not out 22. The two men remained together on Tuesday until their partner­ ship had produced 146 in two hours and twenty minutes. Darling was then caught at the wicket for a splendid innings of 71 which included ten 4’s. Noble, who in the course of his innings reached his thousand runs for the season, made his first hundred in three hours and a half, and his entire innings of 125 was put together in three hours and three quarters; he hit fourteen 4’s, and was in his very best form. Cotter made things lively while he was at the wickets for twenty minutes, scoring 37 out of 49. Warwickshire required 219 to save the innings defeat, but before they could go in again rain came down heavily and play was abandoned for the day. Thus the fates seemed determined to light against the weaker team. Yesterday Warwick­ shire straggled gamely on a damaged pitch, and prolonged the matchuntil towards the end of the day. W arwickshire . First innings. T.S.Fishwick, c Armstrong, b Cotter ........................12 J.F. Byrne, c Kelly, b Cotter 8 Kinneir, c Kelly, b Howell 42 Quaife (W. G.), b Noble ... 21 Baker(C.S.),c Noble,bCotter 33 Lilley, run out .................13 F. R. Loveitt, b Cotter ... 3 Santall, b Cotter................. 4 Moorhouse, not out .......... 3 Hall, b Cotter ................. 8 Hargreave, b Cotter .......... 0 B 9, lb 2, nb 3 ......... 14 Total................161 Second innings, c Trumper, b Noble ..........32 c Laver, b Cotter 6 c & b Laver ...20 b Annstrong ... 13 c Darling,b Noble 38 c Hill, b Laver ... 15 b Noble ..........12 b Noble .......... 2 cand bArmstrong 0 c and bAnnstrong 2 not out.................13 Extras..........15 Total ..........168 A ustralians . V.T.Trumper, c Lilley, b Hargreave ..........31 R.A.Dun, b Hargreave 8 C.Hill,cLilley,bQuaife 58 M. A. Noble, c Moor­ house, b Hargreave 125 W. W. Armstrong, c Byrne, b Quaife ... 3 J. Darling, st Lilley, b Hargreave .............71 W arwickshire , A. J. Hopkins, c Har­ greave, b Quaife ... 23 A. Cotter, st Lilley, b Quaife .................37 F. Laver, b Hargreave 3 J. J. Kelly, not o u t... 4 W.P.Howell, b Quaife 4 B 11, lb 2 ..........13 Total ..........380 Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Cotter ... .... 20*3 2 76 7 ... ... 12 3 31 1 Laver ... ... 11 4 26 0 ... ... 17 2 38 2 Annstrong .... 4 3 3 0 ... ... 16 6 23 3 Noble ... ... 12 3 25 1 ... .... 14 2 32 4 Howell ... ... 11 5 17 1 ... ... 17 5 27 0 Duff ... , 2 2 0 0 Hopkins ... 2 1 2 0 Cotter delivered two no-balls and Noble one. Ilargreave 36 Moorhouse 10 Santall ... 20 A ustralians . M. R. W 10 147 5 2 35 0 Hall... Byme Quaife ... 18.5 2 58 0 |Baker " 5 O. 11 4 1 M. R.W. 2 44 0 1 14 0 0 3 0 SURREY v. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. Played at the Oval on June 26, 27 and 28. Surrey won by 230 runs. For this match Surrey gave a rest to Hayes, Hobbs, Holland and Strudwick, but the Oxonians were at full strength, with the exception of W. B. Burns. Lord Dalmeny won the toss for Surrey, who, on an excellent wicket, hardly made as many runs as had been anticipated. But Hayward was in great form, making his runs so much more quickly than usual that in less than an hour he scored his first fifty. His brilliant innings of 70 included seven 4’s. Baker distinguished himself, and made 72by fine cricket in an hour and three-quarters, but during the greater part of the Surrey innings the bowlers held their own, although several men made useful scores. The Oxford batting was disappointing, and when stumps were drawn two wickets were down for 43. Nor did the batting improve much on the next morning, although Evans, Foster and Udal tried their best to put a good appearance on the game. Lees, as usual, bowled with great accuracy, and the wearisome bad luck which used to dog his footsteps seems to be gradually leaving him, so that he gets a fair reward for his labours. Some of the batting of the Oxford team was despiriting, and it may be noted that three men were out l.b.w. Surrey went in again with a lead of 105, and before stumps were drawn they in­ creased this by 290 for the loss of seven wickets. Lord Dalmeny went, in first with Hayward, and at lunch time the score was 20 for no wicket. Afterwards Goatly was playing well when he was mn out by Hayward, who was in excellent form, and made 55 out of 98. Baker and Nice added 88, the latterhitting with great vigour, and at the end of the day Davis and Stedman knocked the bowling all over the field. When stumps were drawn, Surrey were leading by 296 runs, and had three wickets in hand. These three wickets fell yesterday for 16 runs and the University had to make 413 to win. Two wickets fell for 8 and four for 81, and there was never any hope that a good fight would be made, although the tail showed great pluck. Knox bowled with great effect. First innings. Hayward, b Branston S ukrey . 70 Davis, b Branston ..........31 Goatly c Martin, b Udal ... 11 Baker, b Evans .................72 Nice, b Evans .................12 Lord Dalmeny, b Henley ... 14 Lees, b Henley .................15 Gooder, b Udal .................25 Stedman, c Henley, b Evans 1 N. A. Knox, b Udal .......... 0 Jackson, not ou t................. 0 B 15, lb 6, w 1, nb 3 ...25 Total .................276 Second innings, c Branston, b Evans ..........55 run out ..........33 run out .......... 8 cUdal, b Martin 54 cUdal,bBranston 45 c and b Udal b Henley .......... c Martin, b Evans b Udal................. st Bird, b Henley not out B 10, lb 9, nb 4 23 Total..........306 First innings. K.M. Carlisle, c Stedman, b Lees ...............................20 W. S. Bird, c Nice, b Lees 0 O. T. Norris, lbw, b Lees ... 10 W. H. B. Evans, c Gooder, b Knox ...............................45 J. E. Raphael, lbw, b Lees 1 G. N. Foster, c Stedman, b Lees 23 E. L. Wright, lbw, b Knox 5 G.T.Branston,cNice,b Knox 12 N. R. Udal, b Jackson ... 39 F. A. Henley, c Jackson, b Nice ............................... 6 E. G. Martin, not out.......... 4 B 4, nb 1 ................. 5 Total .................170 S urrey . First innings. O. M. R. W. 164 3 48 3 .. O xford U niversity . Second innings. b Knox .......... 5 cStedman.bKnox 9 c Goatly, b Nice 12 b Knox ..........20 lbw, b Jackson... 26 b Knox b N ice.......... b N ice.......... c and b Knox runout not out.......... B 5, nb 6 Evans ... Udal.......... Henley Martin ... Branston.. Total ..........182 Second innings. O. M. R. W. . 24 . 12 12 . 10 5 91 3 1 46 2 ... 2 40 0 ... 2 26 2 ... Carlisle . 11 . 20 . 13.3 20 Evans delivered two no-balls, Henley three no-balls, and Martin two ko-balls and a wide. O xford U niversity . First innings. O. M. R. W. Lees................. 24 9 58 5 .. Knox ..........20 1 71 3 .. Jackson.......... 9 3 24 1 Nice... ... ... 31 0 12 1 Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 13 4 41 0 ... 22.1 4 76 5 ... 5 1 25 1 . 15 7 29 3 Knox bowled four and Nice three no-balls. KENT y. HAMPSHIRE. Played at Blackheath on June 26, 27 and 28. Kent won by eight wickets. On the first day of this match there was nothing to choose between the sides, for against a total of 267 by Hampshire, Kent scored 86 for two wickets. Of Tuesday’s play there is a different tale to tell; Kent headed their opponents total by two runs, but Hamp­ shire could only raise 169 in their second innings, so that Kent were left with the easy task of scoring 168 to win. Of these they made 139 for two wickets before stumps were drawn, and the remaining mns were hit off in a quarter of an hour yesterday. H ampshire . First innings. Capt. Greig, c Huish, b Blythe............................ 69 Stone, b F ielder................ 0 E. M. Sprot, c Harrison, b Fairservice..................... 29 Bowell, b Fielder..............11 Llewellyn, b Fielder.......11 Capt. Byng, c Huish, Fielder ................. Rev. W. V. Jeplison, Huish, b Hearne .......58 F. H. Bacon, b Fielder ... 7 Langford, b Humphreys ... 20 H. W. Persse, not out.......39 Baldwin, c Huish, b Hearne 5 B4, nb 7..............11 Total.................267 K ent . First innings. C. H. B. Marsham, c Stone, b Persse ........................67 Humphreys, c Stone, b Persse............................... 8 Seymour (Jas.), c Sprot, b Baldwin ........................ 4 A. P. Day, c and b Greig ... 76 Hearne (A.), lbw, b Greig... 48 R. N. R. Blaker, c Sprot, b Baldwin ........................26 W. P. Harrison, not out ... 11 Huish, c Bowell, b Baldwin 6 Fairservice, b Persse.......... 6 Blythe, c Sprot, b Baldwin 3 Fielder, b Persse................. 5 B 8, lb 1 ................. 9 Second innings. cHearne,bFielder 13 not out................. 4 st Huish,b Blythe 31 b Fielder ..........17 b Fielder .......... 1 7 c Huish, b Blythe 21 b Fairservice c Marsham, Blythe ... c Seymour, Blythe ... b Fairservice b Fairservice 23 7 0 6 B 9, lb 5, nb 7 21 ..169 Second innings. c and b Greig .. not out................ not out................ c Greig, b Llew ellyn................ 53 16 52 33 Total ..269 Extras... Total... ...169 H ampshire . First innings. O. M. R. W. 25 0 101 5 ... .22 4 51 1 ... .20 3 GO 1 ... . 19.2 10 19 2 ... . 9 3 25 1 .;. Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 12 1 64 3 ... 17 2 65 4 ... 5.2 1 19 3 Fielder ... Blythe ... Fairservice Hearne ... Humphreys Fielder delivered thirteen no-balls and Hearne one. K ent . First innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Persse ... 24.1 4 82 4 ... ... 7 1 25 0 Baldwin... ... 26 8 51 4 ... ... 6 1 10 0 Langford... ... 10 4 28 0 ... ... 3 0 12 0 Greig ... 16 2 50 2 ... ... 9 1 38 1 Llewellyn ... 10 1 32 0 ... ... 8 1 31 1 Sprot ... 4 1 17 0 ... ... 7.2 0 31 0 Byng ... ... 3 1 7 0 SUSSEX v. YORKSHIRE. Played at Leeds on July 26, 27, and 28. Drawn. Sussex did very well indeed on the first day of tlio match to dismiss Yorkshire on a good wicket for 295, but Cox and Relf are beginning to make cricketers think they are pretty good bowlers. All the Yorkshiremen, except two, made double figures, but throughout the day runs had to be fought for, and never at any time did a batsman really get tho upper hand of the bowling, and this despite the fact that Cox and Relf were not changed until the total was 151, and that the former continued to bowl until nearly another hundred runs had been made. Towards the end of the innings"Lord Hawke made 31 in 40minutes, and Rothery was batting for two hours for his 54 not out. At the close of play Sussex had made 11 runs without less (Vine 10 and Smith 1), Fry reserving himself for the morrow. When the innings was resumed Smith was soon bowled by Hirst, and then Fry began a splendid innings. Vine remained with him until the total was 82, and Killick helped him to put up 46 in forty minutes. Goldie was twice injured on the hand by Hirst and then retired. Relf helped Fry to put up 51, and the