Cricket 1908

340 CR ICK ET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A u g u s t 13, 1908. minutes. Middlesex sadly lacked Mignon, whose fast bowling would have been well suited by the wicket. On the second morning the wicket had thoroughly recovered from the rain of Wednesday, but Hobbs was nevertheless caught at point without any addition to the score. With Hayes in, Hayward reached 50 in one hundred and ten minutes and in sixty-five minutes 74 were added l>efore Hayes was out in an unusual manner: he returned a ball at a great pace to the bowler, Hearne, who stopped it and dropped it, but before it could reach the ground Henley dashed in from mid-off and brought off a clever catch. At this point, 122 for two wickets, Marshal went in and commenced his innings. He took a little time to settle down, and then played a very free game. The Middlesex total was passed with only two wickets down, but at 184 Hayward, who had made 01 out of 184 in one hundred and seventy minutes and hit eight 4's, was dismissed by a good catch at the w icket: he gave a faultless dis­ play and rendered his side good service by wearing down the bowling. Marshal and Ducat then came together, and, just before lunch, Marshal hit into the pavilion, on to the balcony, and on to the pavilion roof. When 31 he offered a very hard catch to Douglas at slip, and after the interval hit so freely that 36 runs were made in the first dozen minutes. He made his 108 out of 185 in two hours and hit sixteen 4’s, his only real chance being when, at 105, he was missed in the long-field by Bosanquet. A t the same total, 307, Holland was lbw, after which Platt stayed with Ducat whilst 57 were put on in forty-five minute?. The last-named made his 76 in two hours and a quarter, and the only mistake he made was just before he was out, Douglas missing him at long-off when 73. Leveson-Gower and Lees added 22, but the end of the innings was not taken seriously, the last few men hitting out so that Middlesex might go in that evening. In this they were as successful as they could have wished, for Warner was caught at slip at 15 and Hearne bowled at 17, when stumps were drawn. In the first over on Saturday Hayes, at slip, let off Douglas off Hitch, and the mistake proved an expensive one, seeing that his partnership for the third wicket with Tarrant realised 102 and that his own score reached 63. Tarrant played a most serviceable innings, but of tho others only Harrison, who carried out his bat for 24, did much. Douglas, who was fifth out at 154, caught whilst trying to pull a long hop, batted 210 minutes, and only offered the one chance mentioned. Page obtained a pair of spectacles, and after Wells and Harrison had put on 23 for the eighth wicket, the end soon came. Score and analysis :— M id d le se x . First innings. Second innings. P. F. Warner, c Strud­ wick, b Hitch ...........78 c Marshal, b Lees../ 8 J . Douglas, run out ... 6 c Holland, b Lees... 63 Tarrant, c Hayward, b Hitch ........................... 3 lbw, b Lees ...........52 B. J. T. Bosanquet, c Hayes, b Hitch ...........38 c Marshal, b Hitch 14 L. J . Moon, c Platt, b c Strudwick, b Lees....................................... 7 H itc h ..................... 6 W. P. Harrison, not out 24 not out ...................24 C. C. Page, b L ees........... 0 c Hayward, b Hitch 0 C. M. Wells, c Hitch, b Lees................................... 6 c Strudwick, b Lees 10 Trott, b H itch................... 0 c Strudwick, b B itc h ...................10 F. A. H. Henley, b Hitch 0 st Strudwick,bLees 6 Heame (J. T.), b Hitch... 4 b Lees ................... 2 B 5, lb 3, nb 1 ... 9B 9, lb 2, w 4... 16 Total ... Total ..210 Hayward, c Moon, b Henley ...................91 Hobbs, c Harrison, b Henley ...................24 Hayes, c Henley, b Hearne ...................38 Marshal, st Moon, b Wells.......................... 108 Ducat, st Moon, b Wells.......................... 76 Holland, lbw, b Wells 0 ...181 S u r r e y . Platt, c Tarrant, b Wells ...................26 H. D. G. Leveson- Gower, not out ... 21 Hitch, b W ells........... 0 Lees, b Wells ...........16 Strudwick, b Tarrant B 6, lb 7, nb 4 ... 17 Total ..420 M id d l e se x . First innings. Second innings. O. M . R. W. O. M . R. W. Lees ......... 42 17 66 3 ... ... 86 13 98 6 M arshal ......... 8 3 16 0 ... ... 5 2 4 0 Hitch ......... 29*3 4 69 6 ... ... 34 14 69 4 Platt ......... 4 1 19 0 ... ... 5 2 7 0 Hayes ......... 2 1 2 0 ... ... 5 2 13 0 Hobbs ... ... 3 2 4 0 Hitch bowled one no-ball and two wides, and Marshal and Hobbs one wide each. S u r r e y . O. M. R. W. O. M R. w. Tarrant ... 85*4 6 88 1 Wells ... 32 3 120 6 Henley ... 18 1 93 2 Trott ... 10 2 47 0 Hearne ... 20 6 55 1 Henley bowled four no-balls. E S S E X V. SU SSEX . Played at Leyton on August 6, 7 , and 8. Drawn. Although not at full strength, Sussex played an excellent game, and quite shared the honours of the match. (>n the first day twelve wickets went down in five hours and a-quarter for 312 runs, Essex making 111 for two wickets in reply to a total of 201. A. E. Keif and Vine made 30 in twenty-five minutes for the first wicket of the visitors, and the latter and Killick 51 for the second in fifty-five. R. A. Young did little, and Killick, .T. V. Young, and Cox all left at 137 ; Killick, slower than usual, was in twro hours for 49. Dwyer, making some big hits, put on 54 in forty minutes with Vincett, and the innings, after lasting 200 minutes, closed for 201. Essex lost Fane and Reeves for 21, but in the last hour and a-quarter Perrin and Douglas put on 90 without being separated, quite changing the aspect of the match. In all, their stand for the third wicket lasted one hundred and ten minutes, and realised 135. Of that number Douglas, who hit nine 4’s, claimed 62. Perrin was fourth out, at 168, after batting two hours and a-half for 66; he hit a 5 and six 4’s and mad^ some capital drives. Vine and A. E. Relf were bowling very accurately, and runs never came very freely. Gillingham, in fact, was in an hour for 14, but afterwards Benham hit whilst Russell defended, the result being that the eighth wicket put on 45 in forty minutes. The last seven wickets went down for 81, and Butt, in catching Mead, obtained his 1,000th wicket in first-class cricket. Sussex made light of their arrears of 38, for Vine and R. A. Young, who opened the innings together, were quite at home and played bright cricket from the start. A t the end of an hour the total was 67, and, despite many bowling changes, Young reached 50 in eighty minutes and Vine a quarter of an hour later. When the stand had realised 160 in one hundred and twenty-five minutes, they fell to consecutive balls, Vine, who hit a five and ten 4’s, being caught at long on, and Young, who hit fourteen 4’s and offered a hard chance to Freeman at square-leg off Read when 74, bowled. Killlick and Relf put on 33, and the former and J . V. Young, who was missed before he had made a run, 19 without being separated by the end of the day, when three wickets were down for 21 \ In all, the stand for the fourth wicket put on 152 runs in a hundred minutes, Killick then being stumped for 74, made out of 185 in one hundred and forty m inutes; he hit four 4’s. J. V. Young, who drove well and hit fourteen 4’s, was fifth out, at 352 , he made his 84 out of 159 in an hour and three- quarters. The innings closed for 396 and Essex, set 359 to win, lost Fane at 11 and Perrin at 74. Any possibility of a collapse was put out of the question by Douglas and Freeman, who remained together until stumps were drawn, putting on 96 without being separated. Douglas played a great game for his side, and hit a dozen 4’s during the three hours and ten minutes he was in. During the long partnership Butt was injured by a fast ball from Vine and R. A. Young kept wicket in his stead. Score and analysis:— S ussex . First innings. Second innings. Vine, lbw, b Reeves ...........42 c Fane, b Read ... 73 Relf (A. E.), b Buckenham 13 lbw, b Mead ... 21 Killick, st Russell, b Read 49 st Russell, b Reeves ...........74 R. A. Young, b Read........... 8 b Read...................80 Capt. H. E. Trevor, lbw, b Buckenham ................... 7 not out ............22 J . V. Young, b Buckenham 9 c Read, b Reeves 84 Vincett, not o u t...................29 bMead.................... 2 Cox, c Russell, b Bucken­ ham .................................. 0 c Russell, b Mead 9 Leach, c Buckenham, b Read .................................. 8 b Mead....................13 Dwyer, b Mead ...................31 b Mead.................... 1 Butt, run out ................... 0 b Mead.................... 3 B 4, lb 6 ...................10 B, 9, lb 5 ... 14 Total ...................201 E sse x . F. L. Fane, run out ... 6 Reeves, c Butt, b Vin­ cett ..........................14 P. A. Perrin, c Vincett, b Vine .................. 66 J. W. H. T. Douglas, c Butt, b Relf ...........62 Rev. F. H. Gillingham, c Cox, b V ine...........14 Freeman.(J.), b Relf.. 0 Total...........396 Buckenham, st Butt, b Vine ...................13 Benham, b Killick ... 33 Russell (E.), lbw, b Leach ...................10 A. H. Read, not out... 1 Mead,c Butt, b Leach 0 B 6, lb 7, w 7 ... 20 Total Second innings : F. L. Fane, b Relf, 6; P. A. Perrin, b Vine, 27 ; J . W. H. T. Douglas, not out, 102 ; Free­ man (J.), not out, 31 ; leg-byes, 4. Total (2 wkts) 170. S u ssex . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W Buckenham . . 17 1 59 4 ... ... 20 0 87 0 Douglas... . . 9 2 37 0 ... ... 17 0 63 0 Mead ... . . 11 3 19 1 ... ... 27*5 7 85 6 Benham... . . 3 0 6 0 ... ... 5 1 24 0 Reeves ... . . 9-4 1 24 1 ... ... 14 3 48 2 Read ......... 13 2 46 3 ... ... 16 0 75 2 E sse x . First innings. Second innings. O. M It. W. O. M. R. W. Relf... ...........35 13 63 2 .. ... 33 12 65 1 Cox... ......... 3 1 6 0 .. Vincett ...........10 2 26 1 .. 3 0 10 0 Killick ..........1 L 5 23 1 .. ... 11 5 14 0 Leach .......... 15*2 3 47 2 . ... 1L 2 34 0 Vine ......... 27 9 54 3 .. ... 21 4 43 1 Leach bowled five wides and Vine two. L E IC E ST E R SH IR E v. D E R B Y SH IR E . Played at Leicester on August 6, 7 , and 8. Draw n. Woodcock, after an absence of five years, again played for Leicestershire and in the first innings of Derbyshire took five wickets. On the first day only 261 runs were scored for ten wickets, play being very slow. After three wickets had fallen for 55, King and Coe added 103 for the fourth wicket in an hour and a-half ; the former hit a 6 and eleven 4 s and the latter ten 4's. The last five wickets went down against Warren for 41, the innings, after last­ ing four hours and a-half, closing for 249. Needham and Morton made 46 for the visitors’ first wicket and the latter and Cadman 81 for the third in an hour and a-quarter. Morton, fifth out at 193, made 87 in three hours and a-quarter by sound cricket, and hit nine 4’s ; a feature of his display was his off-driving. Lawton’s hard-hit 37 was made up of two 6’s, six 4’s and a single, whilst Sale made a a stylish 32 and with Humphries added 59 in sixty- five minutes. Leicestershire, 12 behind on the innings, lost Wood and Whitehead for 7, but Knight and King then put on a valuable 61. Still, the score was only 104 when the sixth wicket fell, and, had it not been for a stand of 95 for the seventh wicket by Thompson and Odell, the side would probably have suffered defeat. Thompson hit a 5 and nine 4’s and Odell carried out his bat for 60. Derbyshire were left one hundred and fifty minutes in which to get 211 to win. They started with the intention of trying for the runs, but, four wickets going down for 89, changed their tactics. Needham and Cadman put on 91 for the fifth wicket, and upoi\ the latter’s dismissal the stumps were drawn. Score and analysis:— L eic este r sh ir e . First innings. C. J . B. Wood, c Hum­ phries, b Warren ...........25 Knight, c Wright, b Mor­ ton ..................................18 Whitehead, lbw, b Warren 9 King, lbw, b Morton..............72 Coe, c Lawton, b Warren... 73 H. Thompson, b Warren ... 15 V. F. S. Crawford, c Need­ ham, b Morton.................. W. W. Odell, run out........... J. Shields, not out ........... Astill, c Humphries, b Warren ........................... Woodcock, b Warren........... B 2, lb 2, w 4, nb 1... 17 Second innings, c Humphries, b C adm an ........... 3 b Warren ........... c Wright, b War­ ren ................... st. Humphries, b Cadm an........... b Warren ........... b Warren ........... c Needham, b Warren ........... not out................... cWarren,bBracey Total ...249 run out ........... 0 b Warren ........... 0 B 6, lb 1, w5, nb 3 15 Total ...222 D erbyshire . First innings. Second innings. Needham, c King, b Astill 17 not out ........... Morton, b Woodcock.......... 87 run out ............. L. Oliver, lbw, b King ... 8 Cadman, lbw, b Woodcock 40 runout ........... L. G. Wright, c Shields, b c Crawford, b Odell .................................. 3 Astill .......11 A. E. Lawton, cWhitehead, b Odell ...........................37 b Odell ........ 7 R. Sale, c and b Woodcock 32 st Shields,bAstill 8 Warren, c Whitehead, b Woodcock........................... 4 R. C. Rickman, lbw, b Woodcock........................... 0 Humphries, c Shields, b King ... ...........................24 Bracey, not o u t ................... 0 B 7, lb 1, w 1 ........... 9 B 4, lb 1, w 1 6 Total ...................261Total (5 wkts) 180 L eicestershire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Warren........... 34*3 8 97 6 ........... 41*5 10 109 6 Cadman.......... 18 5 46 0 ........... 25 9 35 2 M orton.......... 27 10 53 3 ........... 9 1 32 0 Law ton........... 9 1 37 0 ........... 2 0 5 0 Bracey ........... 2 0 7 0 ........... 9 3 15 1 R ickm an ........... 3 0 11 0 Warren bowled four wides and four no-balls, Lawton three wides and Bracey and Cadman one each,