Cricket 1905

JtTLY 27. 1905 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 293 HAMPSHIRE v. WORCESTERSHIRE. AN -EXCITING .FINISH. Played at Bournemouth on July 20, 21 & 22. Worcestershire won by five wickets in the last over of the game. JEOn the first day of this match Hampshire made 430 lor seven wickets, and at one time the hoard showed 305 for two wickets. The great innings of the day was the 187 of Captain Greig, who, when he was within easy reach of his second hundred, was hit on the foot by a fast ball, with the result that he could take no further part in the match. He was batting for four hours and a half, and hit twenty- one 4’s. The Hampshire innings closed for 449 on Friday, but Worcestershire replied with 434, Arnold making 115 not out in two hours ,and a half, and Cuffe 145 in three hours and a quarter. On Satur­ day, Hampshire declared when six wickets were down, leaving their opponents to make 277 in about two hours and a half, whidi would mean that more than a hundred runs an hour must be made if victory was to be gained. Bowley and Pearson put up the first hundred in less than an hour, and Cuffe and Simpson-Hayward all made runs quickly. But despite their efforts, Hampshire seemed quite safe when 67 runs were still required with only half an hour to go. Foster and Hutchings then hit with such determination, that when the former was bowled five minutes before time only 12 runs had to be made. Hutchings made a 4 and Arnold a 3, and when the last over was begun 5 runs were still wanted, and it was odds that Hampshire could not save the game unless, indeed, they took a wicket. But Hutchings hit the second ball to the boundary, and with thegame a tie made another 4. ItTwas an intensely exciting finish. Hampshire might easily have saved the game if they had taken things leisurely in the field.towards the end of the day, but the fieldsmen hurried totheir placesat the end of an over in order to give their opponents a sporting chance of winning. H ampshire . First innings. Second innings. Oapt. E. G. Wynyard, c c Ainley, b Bur- Ainley,b Guffe......................44 rows..................55 Capt. Greig, retired hurt ...187 E. M. Sprot, c Cuffe, b Bur- c Wilson, b Bur­ rows ............................... 79 rows................. 56 W. H. B. Evansrc Ainley, b Pearson ................. ...51 cCuffe,bBurrows 48 Bowell, c Ainley, b Wilson 31 st Ainley, b Cuffe 55 D. M. Evans, b Wilson ... 0 notout................. 9 H. W. Persse, b Wilson ...4 .c Pearson,b Bur­ rows ................. 0 H. Hesketh-Prichard, b st Ainley, b S.- Arnold...............................10 Hayward..........29 Hone, lbw, b &-Hayward... 24 Longford, c WTheldon, b Arnold....................... ... 2 Baldwin, not out................. 6 ‘B-7,lb2, w l, n b l ... 11 Byes.................. 9 Total .................449 Total (6wkts)*261 ♦‘Innings declared closed. W orcestersh ire. First innings. Bowley, b W. E vans......... 43 Pearson, c Sprot, b Persse.. 15 Cuffe, run out .................145 W. E. C. Hutchings, lbw, b Baldwin ........................50 Arnold, not out .................115 G.N.Foster.c sub.bPrichard 5 Wheldon, b Prichard.......... 0 G. Simpson - Hayward, c Stone, b Prichard ..........25 Burrows, c Prichard, b W. Evans............................... 6 Wilson,cPrichard,bBaldwin 3 Ainley, b Baldwin ......... 0 B 8, lb 7, w 5, nb 7 ... 27 Second innings, c Sprot,bBaldwin 64 c Spro^bBaldwin 93 st Bowell,b Wyn­ yard .................32 notout.................40 not out................. 3 c Sprot,bBaldwin 34 c W. Evans, b Baldwin..........10 Total ..........434 Hampshire. First innings. Arnold ... Wilson ... Ouffe......... Burrows ... fc.-Hayward 0. ... 28 ... 15 ... 22 ... 17 ... 12.1 19 M. R. W. 4 88 2 0 70 3 1 82 1 0 82 1 1 44 4 72 B 1, lb 1, nb 2... 4 Total (5 wkts) 280 Second innings. O. M. R. W. 12 2 34 0 2 37 0 3 74 1 1 107 4 1 0 1 10 . 20 . 26 1 ..........if ■* l u x Arnold bowled one wide and Burrows one no-ball. W orcestersh ire. Jrichard... Persse ... Baldwin ... Evans Wynyard gprot ... P* Evans... £angf0rd "nchar< O. M. R. W. O. 31 4 116 3 ... ... 7 28 1 105 1 ... ... 4 17.3 4 50 3 ... ... 18.2 18 2 66 2 ... ... 14 4 1 1 0 ... ... 6 2 0 13 0 3 0 30 0 7 0 23 0 ... ... 1 M. R. W. 0 81 1 36 35 0 24 0 4 0 1 0 13 0 d delivered six no-balls, Persse four wides, aad W. H. B. Evans one wide and three no-balls. NOTTS v. KENT. ( a close g a m e ). Played at Trent Bridge on July 20, 21 and 22. Kent won ten minutes before time. On the first day of this match Notts scored 303, while Kent lost a wicket for 23. Jones and .Ire­ monger put up 80 for the first Notts wicket in three-quarters of an hour, and thanks to fine play by G. Gunn and Iremonger the total was 254 when five wickets were down at the tea interval. The remaining five wickets fell for 49. On Friday C. H B. Marsham played a steady game, taking two hours and five minutes to score his 59. Humphreys and Blaker put on 110 runs in partnership in an hour and twenty minutes, the former playing very fine cricket for his 91. In the end Kent had a lead of 3 runs, and before stumps were drawn Notts lost five wickets for 124. On Saturday Hardstaff was in great form, making 121 in about three hours, and hitting eighteen 4’s, but he received very little assistance from his companions. Kent had to make 258 runs, but as they only had two hours and three- quarters before them it seemed probable that they would not have time to win. Two wickets fell for 33, and then Day and Seymour set about the work of making the runs Their cricket showed great determination, and they were not afraid to take risks. But although by fine cricket they scored rapidly, a hundred runs were still required when an hour was left for play with six wickets in hand. When fifty minutes remained 84 runs were wanted, and Day was then bowled for an invaluable innings of 71. Marsham and Blaker now took up the run­ ning, and the latter hit so brilliantly that he made 51 in thirty-five minutes, and when he was out the match was practically over, for only seven were required. These were obtained by Marsham and Huish ten minutes before time. Marsham carried his bat after being at the wickets for an hour and ithree-quarters. N otts . First innings. Second innings. A. O. Jones, lbw, b Hearne 35 b Blythe ..........12 Iremonger, c Huish, b Har- c Seymour, b dinge ...............................66 Blythe ............21 Gunn (GO, c Day, b Blythe 126 c and b Fielder... 41 Gunn (J.), st Huish, b c Blythe, b Fair- Blytlie...............................25 service ............17 Hardstaff, c Huish, b Fair­ service ...............................13 cBlaker,bFielder 121 Day, c Huish, b Fairservice 1 c Huish,bFielder 0 iR. E. Hemingway, b Har d in g e ...............................16 c Huish,bFielder 2 Payton,c Hardinge,b Blythe 5 st Huish, b Hum­ phreys ..........26 Oates, c Blaker, b Blythe... 0 c Hardinge, b Hearne ..........10 riallam, c Hardinge, b Blythe............................... 0 not out................. 1 Pennington, not o u t ......... 5 c sub., b Blythe... 0 B 6, nb 5.................11 B 2, lb 3, nb 4 9 Total............ 303 K ent . First innings. Hearne (A), c Jones, b Pen­ nington .....................19 Hardinge, b J. Gunn........ 1 C. H. B. Marsham, b Jones 59 Seymour, c and b J. Gunn 24 A. P. Daj% b Jones ......13 Humphreys, c Hardstaff, b Iremonger.................... 91 R. N. R. Blaker, c Day, b Pennington ....................51 Fairservice, b J on es........ 8 Blythe, c Pennington, b Iremonger.....................18 Fielder, c and b Jones ... 4 Huish, not out ............... 1 B 10, lb 6, w 1 .. .17 Total ..........2 Second innings. c J. Gunn,bJones 6 c and b Jones ... 10 not out .......... 55 cand b Jones ... 46 b Hallam ..........71 b Pennington ... 7 c Pennington, b Hallam ..........51 not out................. 4 B 5, lb 2, w 1 8 Total.................306 Total (6 wkts) 258 N otts . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Fielder .......... 18 3 75 0 ........... 24 4 88 4 Blythe ....... 30.3 11 57 5 ........... 39.3 10 94 3 Fairservice ... 17 5 59 2 ........... 16 9 20 1 Hearne .......... 17 0 57 1 ........... 3 1 2 1 Humphreys ... 4 31 0 .............. 6 1 23 1 Hardinge ... 17 1 432 ... ... 6 1 21 0 Fielder delivered eight no-balls and Hearne one. K ent. First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Pennington ... 38 11 68 2 ........... 26 7 54 1 Gunn (J.) ... 28 ? 86 2 ........... 10 2 26 0 Jones ....... 15.5 1 59 4 ........... 33.3 3 85 3 Hallam ......... 18 6 39 0 ........... 14 1 57 2 D a y ................. 3 2 5 0 ........... 3 0 18 0 Gunn (G.) ... 2 0 13 0 ............ Iremonger ... 4 0 19 2 ........... Pennington and Hallam each bowled one wide. SUSSEX v. ESSEX. AN INNINGS OP 220 BY R . A. YOUNG. Played at Leyton on July 20, 21 and 22. Drawn. $This year Sussex have had to do without C. B. Fry in several matches, and again in the Essex match last week they had to take the field without him. To add to their misfortunes, they lost the toss, after fielding for by far the greater part of the previous three days, when 903 runs were scored off them. It was therefore not to be wondered at that their bowling, which has been so good this year, should be hardly up to its usual standard. Essex made the best use of their opportunities of playing against tired bowlers, and scored 403 runs during the day for the loss of eight wickets. F. L. Fane was the only man on the side who made a hundred, but McGahey did not come far short of it. For the first wicket Essex put up 57, and after Perrin, the unfortunate, had been dismissed for 8, Fane and McGahey increased the score by 116. Fane made his first hundred of the season, after batting for two hours and ten minutes, and hitting eleven 4’s; it was a most attractive innings. McGahey, as usual, played a careful game, and made his 87 runs in a little over two hours. Later in the day Douglas, Reeves, and Tosetti all made hay of the worn out bowling. Despite the intense heat and the amount of fielding which they had done in the Lancashire match, the Sussex men were brisk in their work, and Vine distinguished himself as usual. When the game was resumed on Friday Essex increased their score by 50 runs, and at half-past twelve Sussex at last had a rest from fielding. It would not have been surprising if, after all their hard work during the first four days of the week, their batting had broken down badly, especially as Fry was not playing. Possibly if Essex had taken two chances given in the slips by Young—the first before he had scored, and the second when he had made 13—they might have been within sight of victory by the time that stumps were drawn. As it was they had to see their bowling mastered, and a score of 413 made against them for the loss of five wickets. After his two mistakes Young batted admirably, with the ease and confidence of a veteran. All through his innings he scored at the rate of about fifty runs an hour, and his batting was always pleasing to watcli. He generally came down hard on the ball, and until towards the end of his innings he made most of his runs on the off side, very seldom attempting the pull. Occasionally the ball went off the edge of his bat dangerously near a fieldsman, and when he was nearing his second hundred he might have thanked his stars that L. G. Wright was not fielding at point, but on the whole his play was irreproachable. He and Vine put up 146 for the first wicket in two hours, and he had long partnerships with Killick (50), Relf (99), and Smith (61). He was batting for four hours and a half, and his hits included two 5’s and thirty-two 4’s. Towards the end of the day Bucken- ham and Reeves made the ball rise, and at no time during the innings was the bowling loose. Bucken- ham bowled very well indeed, with terribly bad luck, Young being missed off him four times. In the absence of Russell, Gillingham kept wicket until tea time, when his place was taken by McGahey. The Essex fielding was not at all bad- some of it was brilliant, and Keigwin at cover point distin­ guished himself. Perrin and McGahey were the only two bowlerswho kept the batsmen quiet. Perrin bovvled really well. When the game was resumed on Saturday, Sussex, with five wickets in hand, were only 40 runs behind. These runs were soon knocked off, and Newham and I.each rapidly placed Sussex ahead, their partnership producing 136 runs in eighty-five minutes. Leach, who made his first hundred for the county, was batting for two hours and a-quarter, and hit seventeen 4’s. The innings came to an end just before luncheon, and as the wicket was still good there seemed practically no chance that the match could be finished, for Sussex only had a lead of 158. When it became evident that the game must end in a draw, Newham used his change bowlers, and Cox was not put on at all, while Relf only bowled a few overs. Perrin at last found himself, and he and Carpenter played out time, putting up 208 in two hours and a quarter. Carpenter hit eighteen 4’s and Perrin thirteen. E ssex . F. L. Fane, c Goldie, b Reeves, c Newham, b Cox ........................100 Cox ........................ 48 Carpenter,cButt,bCox 34 G. Tosetti, c Butt, b P.Perrin,c Newham, b Goldie .................. 60 Goldie ................. 8 RJP.Keigwin,cYoung, O. McGahey, c and b b Cox......................... 12 Seymour.................87 Buckenham, c .and b J. W . H. T. Douglas, b Helf .........................32 Relf ........................48 Tremlin, not out ... 0 Rev.F. H. Gillingham, B 8, lb 1, w 1............. 10 b Relf .................14 Total ...........453 Second innings: Carpenter, not out, 138; P. Perrin, not out, 74; J. W. H. T. Douglas, run out, 14. B 7, lb 7, w 1, nb 1,16—Total (1 wkt),242.