Cricket 1907

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THURSDAY, JUNE 13 th , 1907. $a\nlton The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet H e a r t y congratulations are due to Hampshire, who made cricket history at Southampton on Saturday at the expense of the Champions. If anybody, at the commencement of the season, had hinted at the possibility of Kent experiencing defeat at their hands, he would have been ridiculed. Although Kent were not, in the absence of Mason, Dillon, and Blythe, at full strength, Hampshire’s success must rank as one of the best per­ formances of the season. The two sides, I find, first met as far back as 1789, and have now done so thirty-five times, Kent winning twenty-five of the matches, Hampshire nine, and one remaining un­ finished. Hampshire’s previous successes were obtained in 1789, 1790, 1792 (two), 1876 (two), 1884, and 1901. S carcely less remarkable was the tenr wickets triumph of Worcestershire ove- Lancashire at Stourbridge on the same day. At the present time, with Spooner, Brearley, MacLaren, Findlay, and Cuttell not playing, Lancashire are far from being so powerful a side as they were a year or two ago, but they are still stroDg enough to give the majority of the coun­ ties a good game. Worcestershire’s success, however, was extraordinary from the fact that, after being 51 in arrears on the first innings, they won by ten wickets, in a game which had been marked by small scoring, after being set 170 to win. It so seldom happens that a fresh record has to be chronicled in connection with first-class inter-county cricket, that a few words dealing with the present instance may not be considered in­ appropriate. O n a wicket npon which three innings had been completed for 138, 87, and 118, Worcestershire were set 170 to win against the bowling of Kermode, Cook, Harry, Dean, and Huddleston. An easy victory for Lancashire appeared a certainty, but so well did Mr. H. K. Foster and Bow ley,settle down to the task that by- the end of the day they had scored 119 and were still together. On the following morning they continued their fine display, and succeeded in obtaining the whole of the runs in a couple of hours without being separated. Other instances of a side winning by ten wickets after being set over a hundred and forty to win are the follow ing:— Runs. Year. 172, W. G. Grace (101) and A. Sellers (70): Gentlemen of England v. I. Zingari, at Lord’s ..................................................... 1895 168, Hayward (82) and Hobbs (75): Surrey v. Middlesex;-at the Oval............................... 1905 148, A. N. Hornby (78) and Barlow (50): Lan­ cashire v. Yorkshire, at Manchester ... 1875 146, Brown (81) and Tunnicliffe (63): Yorkshire v. Middlesex, at Lord’s ........................ 1896 144, A. O. Jones (99) and Iremonger (34): Notts v. Surrey, at the O val............................... 1901 142, Ulyett (111) and Hall (31): Yorkshire v. Sussex, at Bradford ............................... 1887 When Surrey were set 316 to win against Kent at the Oval in 1900 they scored 270 without loss, Brock- well making 132 and Abel 120. Leicestershire, after being set 223 to win against Derbyshire at Leicester in 1899, obtained 194 without loss before time was called, O. E. de Trafford scoring 117 and Knight 71. There was, by-the-wuy, a striking similarity between the Surrey-Middlesex match mentioned above and that at Stourbridge last week:— At the Oval, 1905 :— 1st inns. 2nd inns’ Middlesex...................................... 146 .......... 137 Surrey............................................. 116 ... 168* At Stourbridge , 1907 :— Lancashire...................................... 138 .......... 118 Worcestershire............................... 87 .......... 170* * Signifies winning by 10 wickets. In each match the last innings was the greatest of the four, at the Oval being 22 runs larger than the next highest, and at Stourbridge 32, Furthermore there THE “ PATTISSON’’ LAWN BOOTS. ARTILLERYPLACE. WOOLWICH. Cricket: