Cricket 1905

A ug . 24 1905 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 357 for his 133, and his runs were made out of 234. So quickly did the Kent men score that their total of 539 was put together in five hours and a quarter, that is to say at about a hundred per hour. With a balance against them of 328, Somerset made 78 for two wickets before stumps were drawn, P. R. Johnson being not out 37, and L. C. H. Palairet not out 20. On Saturday Palairet was out directly after the game had been resumed, but Johnson played a splendid game, and when he was dismissed for 86, he had kept up an end for two hours and a quarter. Robson hit brilliantly, and Braund was undefeated after playing a very steady innings. He and Harcombe put on 51 for the last wicket. S omerset . First innings. Second innings. P. R. Johnson, run out ... 6 cDillon,b Blythe 86 Braund, c Blythe, b Mason 0 notout.................61 Lewis, b Blythe .................37 b Fairservice ...29 Robson, b Mason.................10 b Mason ............58 L. 0. H. Palairet, st Huish, c S e y m o u r, b b Blythe ........................91 Mason ............20 H. Martyn, lbw, b Dillon ... 29 run out .......... 8 F M. Lee, c Seymour, b Mason............................... 9 run out .......... 4 S. M. J. Woods, b Blythe... 21 c Blaker,b Mason 2 Hardy, c Huish, b Mason... 0 b Mason ..........12 G. O. Vassall, c Seymour, b Mason............................... 1 J. D. Harcombe, not out ... 2 B 3, nb 2 Total ........ 211 K ent . c Dillon, b Blythe 4 c S e y m o u r, b Mason ..........29 B 6, lb 1, n b l 8 Total ...321 E. W. Dillon, c John­ son, b Vassall......... 124 Humphreys, b Robson 2 Seymour (J.), c Hardy b Braund.................131 S. H. Day, b Braund... 15 J. R. Mason, c Robson b Lee.........................133 A. P. Day, c Hardy, b Robson ................. 3 S omerset . First innings. O. M. R. W. ... 27 5 102 5 R. N. R. Blaker, Braund, b Lewis . C. H. B. Marsham, Martin, b Lee... . Huish, b Hardy... . Fairservice, b Lee . Blythe, not ou t... B 25, lb 8, nb 2, w 1 36 Total ..539 Second innings. Mason Blythe ... Fairservice Humphreys Dillon , 24.4 9 59 3 . 4 0 28 0 . 5 0 11 0 3 1 6 1. Masonidelivered three no-balls. K e n t. O. , 39.1 . 35 . 12 . 4 . 7 M. R. W. 8 120 6 O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Robson . . 30 4 115 2 Harcombe 10 0 53 0 Palairet. . 3 1 10 0 Vassall ... 15 4 56 1 Lewis . 17 4 70 1 Woods ... 1 0 5 0 Braund . . 31 1 142 2 Lee.......... 3 0 17 3 Hardy . . 11.2 4 35 1 Lewis delivered two no-balls and Hardy a wide. SUSSEX v. HAMPSHIRE. Played at Hastings on August 17, 18 and 19. Sussex won by an in n iD g s and 87 runs. Sussex won the toss in this match and batted on the first day on a perfect wicket, scoring 411 for the loss of three men, so that when heavy rain fell in the night they seemed to have a great advantage. Fry was in splendid form, as also was Vine, and the two men wore out the bowling before they were parted. Before lunch they scored 139, and they continued to make hay of the bowling until the total was 182, when, after batting for two hours and arhalf for his steady 69, Vine was well thrown out by Bowell from cover-point. Fry only survived him for a quarter of an hour, and was then dismissed for 127, an almost perfect innings which included seventeen 4’s, most of them being made in front of the wicket. The dismissal of Fry and Vine gave no relief to the Hampshire bowlers, for Killick took Vine’s place as steady player and Young adopted Fry’s methods as fast scorer, with the result that in an hour and ten minutes the total was increased by 104 for the third wicket. For the restof the day Young was partnered by Vine, and in the next fifty minutes 91 runs were added to the total, Young being not out 89 when stumps were drawn and Relf not out 41. Owing to the heavy rain in the night the wicket was soft on Friday, and the remaining seven Sussex wickets fell for 87. The downfall of the wickets was somewhat sudden, for before the fourth wicket fell the total was taken by Young and Relf to 456. Young was able to bring his score to 120, his innings, which was marked by brilliant driving, lasting almost exactly the same time as Fry’s. His partnership with Relf produced 143 runs in an hour and a-quarter. Hampshire went in to bat about half-an- hour before luncheon, and scored 27 without loss. The first wicket fell at 44, and 119 went up before the Sussex bowlers met with further success. But when stumps were drawn four men were out for 191. E. M. Sprot played a very fine game for 71 not out. The Hampshire innings was twice interrupted owing to bad light, and on the second occasion stumps were drawn at twenty minutes to six. On Saturday the wicket became more and more difficult, and Hampshire never seemed likely to be able to save the game. Sprot was out for 101, a very fine innings which lasted for two hours and a-quarter, but the side was out for 297 runs, and being 201runs behind had to follow-on. The results were disastrous, for no one except Bacon could withstand the bowling of Relf and Killick. S ussex . C. B. Fry, c Stone, b Langford................. 127 Vine, run out ......... 69 Killick, b Norbury ... 63 R.A. Young, c Stone, b Langford................. 120 Relf, run out ......... 58 P.B.Chapman.b Steele 0 Leach,cStone, b Lang­ ford ........................ 14 H ampshire . First innings. Bowell, lbw, b Leach............. 46 F.H. Bacon, c Relf, b Killick 29 E. M. Sprot, b Relf ........... 110 Llewellyn, b Leach .......... 8 Stone, c Relf, b Cox .......... 16 G. N. Bignell, c Butt, b Cox 23 D. A. Steele, b Cox .......... 3 Norbury, lbw, b Killick ... 10 Langford, c Butt, b Relf ... 2 E. M. C. Ede, c and Killick 28 Baldwin, not ou t.................... 17 B 2, lb 1, nb 2 .......... 5 Total ................. 297 S ussex . Seymour, b Steele ... W. Newham, b Lang­ ford ........................ Cox, b Baldwin.......... Butt, not out .......... B 20,lb 2,w 5, Db 1 Total ...498 Second innings, lbw, b Leach ... 9 b Killick ..........39 c and b Killick... 18 c Relf, b Killick.. 4 run out .......... 1 b R elf................. 0 b Killick .......... 3 notout.................17 b R elf................. 1 b R elf................. 0 b R elf................. 8 B 9, lb 3, nb 2 14 Total ..114 O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. O. M. Langford. 39.1 11 108 4 Ede . 18 0 72 0 Buckenham 19 2 Llewellyn. 30 2 143 0 Steele . . 9 2 32 2 Tremlin ... 19 1 Norbury .. 10 1 30 1 Sprot . . 7 1 30 0 Connor 21 0 Baldwin... 19 5 37 1 Bacon . . 2 0 18 0 Douglas ... 11 0 Ede bowled two wides and one no-ball, and Lang­ ford, Steele and Sprot each one wide. H am pshire . First innings. Second innings. E ssex . First innings. J.W.H. T. Douglas, c Haigh, b Ringrose........................ 0 Carpenter,cHirst,bRingrose 18 P. A. Perrin, b Ringrose ... 10 O. H. McGahey, c Rhodes b Ringrose........................40 Reeves, b H aigh.................36 R. P. Keigwin, c Rhodes, b Hirst ............................... 7 Connor, b Haigh.................26 Benham, b Haigh ..........22 Russell,c Smith, b Ringrose 3 Buckenham, c Rhodes, b Ringrose ........................ 0 Tremlin, not o u t ................. 6 Lb 3, w l ................. 4 Second innings. b Hirst .......... 8 c Tunnicliffe, b Hirst................. 4 cDenton.bRhodes 29 c Tunnicliffe, b Hirst.................13 ht wkt, b Rhodes 0 c Hirst, b Rhodes 0 b Rhodes .......... 0 b Rhodes .......... 1 lbw, b Rhodes ... 0 b Hirst... not out Bye Total .................172 Y o rksh ire . Total..........58 E. Smith, b Tremlin... 4 Rothery, c & b Reeves 53 Denton, c Reeves, b Buckenham ..........134 Tunnicliffe, b Benham 10 Hirst,c Reeves,b Buck­ enham Rhodes,c Buckenham, b McGahey .......... Haigh, not o u t .......... Myers, not out .......... B 5, lb 2 ................. Total (6 wkts)* 423 *Innings declared closed. Lord Hawke, Hunter and Ringrose did not bat. E ssex. First innings. Ringrose.. Hirst........ Haigh Rhodes .. Myers O. , 24 . 19 . 9.3 . 3 2 M. R. W. 6 79 6 .. 0 58 1 .. 3 22 3 1 6 0 .. 0 3 0 Second innings. O. M R. W. 4 3 4 0 13 8.2 4 9 6 Ringrose bowled a wide. Y o r k s h ire . R. W. 84 2 j Reeves Benham McGahey ... O. . 12 M. R.W. 2 43 1 0 37 1 0 26 1 O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. C o x .......... ... 27 6 92 3 ... ... 3 3 0 0 R e lf.......... ... 17 2 (>L 2 ... ... 20.5 8 2!) 4 Killick ... ... 20 3 72 3 ... ... 19 5 49 4 Vine.......... ... 9 1 33 0 ... ... 3 1 7 0 Leach ... 9 1 34 2 ... ... 6 1 15 1 Killick delivered one and Relf three no-balls. YORKSHIRE v. ESSEX. Played at Huddersfield on August 17, 18 and 19. Yorkshire won by an innings and 193 runs. To some extent Essex has taken the place of Somerset as a team which is likely to create a sur­ prise, and it was by no means a certainty that the county would have to succumb to Yorkshire. But on the first day of the match Essex practically lost their chance of making a fight by getting out for 172 on a perfect wicket. Ringrose was the bowler who gave them the most trouble, and he came out with the excellent record of six wickets for 79. Essex lost their first three wickets for 35, and never recovered from this poor commencement of their innings, although McGahey and Reeves put on 45 for the fourth wicket in half an hour, while Connor and Benham, the two new men, accounted for 48 of the last 63 runs made by the last five men. York­ shire soon lost Ernest Smith, who cannot get going this season, but Denton and Rothery put on 117runs for the second wicket in an hour and ten minutes. When stumps were drawn the total was 158 for two wickets, Denton being not out 87. Owing to heavy rain the game was not resumed on Friday until a S uarter past three, when, on a soft and easy wicket, le Yorkshiremen knocked the bowling all over the field. Denton and Hirst made 112 for the fourth wicket in a little over an hour, Hirst being in such brilliant form that he scored his first 50 runs out of 78. Denton’s fine innings of 134 lasted for three hours; he hit eighteen 4’s, and gave but one chance. Towards the end of the day Rhodes and Haigh were together for fifty minutes, during which they in­ creased the score by 111. When stumps were drawn Yorkshire, with 423 for six wickets, were in an un­ assailable position. There was heavy rain in the morning, and for some time it looked as if Yorkshire would not have an opportunity of trying to get Essex out again. But at a quarter to four it was possible to resume the game, and Essex began their second innings, Yorkshire naturally having declared. The wicket was exactly suited to Rhodes, who bowled admirably, with the result that Essex were all out for 58. GLOUCESTERSHIRE v. WORCESTER­ SHIRE. Played at Worcester on August 17, 18 and 19. Worcestershire won by eight wickets. Considerable progress was made on the first day in this match, Gloucestershire scoring 160, and Worcestershire 215 for seven wickets. The Glou­ cestershire batting was not very good, but Jessop made 45 in an hour, showing much less daring than usual. For Worcestershire R. E. Foster made 71 in brilliant style. On Friday there was no play owing to rain. Gloucestershire did badly on Saturday, and Worcestershire won with ease. G loucestershire . First innings. E. Barnett, b Arnold ... Wrathall, b Solly.......... C O.H. Sewell, b Solly 5 33 Board, b Solly ................. G. L. Jessop, c R. E. Foster b Cuffe............................... W. S. A. Brown, lbw, b Arnold............................... T. H. Fowler, run out.......... Spry, b Burrows................. L. D. Brownlee, c Bums, b Burrows ........................ Dennett, b Cuffe................. Huggins, not out................. B 14,1b 1, w 1, nb 1... Second innings. b Arnold ..........3 b Cuffe.................1 c R. E. Foster, b Cuffe................. c B u rrow s, b Arnold .......... 45 b Arnold c Arnold, b Cuffe 16 run out ..........13 b Arnold .......... 4 notout.................14 b Wilson ..........13 b Wilson .......... 0 B5, lb 3, n b l 9 Total ...160 Total..........126 W ORCESTERSHIRE. First innings. Second innings. Bowley. c Barnett, b Hug­ gins ............................13 lbw, b Sewell ...22 H. K. Foster, c Fowler, b Huggins .....................17 Arnold, c Brownlee, b Den­ nett ............................26 R. E. Foster, b Dennett ... 71 notout... Pearson, c Jessop, b Hug­ gins .............................. 0 notout... W. B. Burns, c Fowler, b Jessop............................39 b Sewell Cuffe, b Huggins..............30 Solly, b Jessop ................ 2 Wilson,c Barnett, b Dennett 7 Burrows, c Barnett, b Hug­ gins .............................. 0 Ainley, not out ............... 1 B 6, lb 2, w 5, nb 1... 14 7 34 Total ...220 B 4, w 1 ... 5 Total (2 wkts) 68