Cricket 1909

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Kent, still without Dillon and A. P. Day, substituted Prest for Jennings. After the rain on Wednesday the ground was slow, and Kent gained little by winning the toss. The bowling at the start was entrusted to Hopkins and Cotter, and only 18 had been made when the former bowled Seymour in playing forward. Humphreys stayed with Day whilst 49 were added for the second wicket in 50 minutes, but Hutchings failed to reach double figures. Woolley, however, was in his best form and kept Day company whilst 81 were put on in 55 minutes. So free was the batting that at one period of the partnership 50 were added off seven overs. Day batted just over two hours for his faultless 74, in which were nine 4’s, chiefly cuts and off-drives. Woolley also was very attractive: he made his 68 in 85 minutes, and three times —off Cotter, Hopkins and Armstrong—scored a dozen from a single over: he obtained the runs off the last-named by means of a couple of on-drives for 6 eaoh. Mason, missed when 26, helped Prest to put on 63 in 40 m inutes; the latter played a free game and made a hit off Armstrong over the ring. The innings lasted 250 minutes and realised 319— a very satisfactory total as the wicket was. In the last 10 minutes of the day the Australians lost Whitty for 5 runs. Friday’s play was interrupted on five occasions by rain,but during the three hours and three-quarters the game was in progress the Australians took their total to 332 for three wickets. The feature of the play was the batting of Ransford, who made his fifth century and highest score of the tour. Cutting well and making good strokes to leg, he reached 50 out of 71 in 40 minutes, 100 out of 151 in 105, and 150 out of 244 in 160: in all, he made 175 out of 291 in three hours and a-quarter and carried out his bat. Though scoring so quickly he made only one mistake, putting up a ball from Blythe when 153 which Prest, running from mid-on, nearly secured. Hartigan, after batting 45 minutes, was bowled at 41, and Ransford partnered Bardsley. The latter was handicapped by a damaged finger on his left hand, and claimed only 48 of the 157 runs added whilst he was in. He hit but three 4’s, but helped to put on 121 for the third wicket in an hour and a-quarter. He was bowled off his body by a ball from Fielder, who thereby obtained his 100th wicket of the season. During the remaining two hours of the day Armstrong kept Ransford company, the pair adding 170 without being part. Armstrong started unsteadily, and when 29 was missed off Mason by Woolley in the slips, but afterwards played well. At the end of the day he was 74 not out. On Saturday the game could not be proceeded with until twenty past three, and even then play was continued only so that those present should not be disappointed. When the fourth wicket had put on 192 in 140 minutes, Ransford was caught at slip. He made his 189 out of 313 in 215 minutes, giving only the one hard chance mentioned and hitting twenty-four 4’s : it was a brilliant innings, com­ posed of a very pleasing variety of strokes. Trumper made only 20 and Noble took 50 minutes to obtain 13 singles, but Hopkins hit a 6 and five 4 s in making 27. The ninth wicket fell at 450, after which McAlister and Carter put on 72 without being separated in 40 minutes against the bowling of Seymour and Day. In view of the match with Yorkshire at Dover, and, taking the state of the game into consideration, regular bowlers were rested. The total of 522 for nine wickets was made in 385 minutes. Score and analysis :— K ent . Humphreys, c Rans ford, b Whitty...........22 Seymour, bHopkins 14 S. H. Day, c Carter, b Cotter .................. 74 K. L. Hutchings, b Whitty ................... 9 Woolley, c Whitty, b H o p k in s.................. 6S J. R. Mason, c Arm­ strong, b Noble ... 39 A u stralian s . H. E. W. Prest, c Bardsley, b Whitty 43 Huish, b Whitty 4 D. W. Carr, c Whitty, b Hopkins .......... 9 Fielder, not out ... 10 Blythe, b Whitty .. 16 B 3, lb 3, w 1, nb 4 11 Total ...319 R. J. Hartigan, Fielder ..................... 25 W. J. Whitty, c Huish, b F ielder................... 3 W. Bardsley, b Fielder 48 V.S.Ransford,c Mason, b Humphreys............189 W. W. Armstrong, c and b Woolley............107 V. T. Trumper, c Hum­ phreys, b Woolley ...20 M. A. Noble, c Blythe, b M ason.................. 13 A.J.Hopkins,b Mason 27 P. A. McAlister, not out .......................... 43 A. Cotter, st Huish, b Seymour ... ... 1 H. Carter, not out ... 35 B 5, lb 1, w 3, nb 2 11 Total (9 wkts) ...522 K ent . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Cotter ... 18 1 69 II W hitty... 19'3 4 55 5 Hopkins ..1 8 4 66 3 Noble ... 10 1 37 1 Armstrong 20 1 81 0 | Cotter bowled four no-balls and Nobleone wide. A ustralian s . Fielder . Carr... . Blythe . Mason Woolley . 20 12 17 22 1 93 3 0 62 0 1 56 0 5 75 2 80 Humphreys 16 Seymour... 9 D a y ........... 5 Hutchings. 1 70 1 45 1 30 0 0 0 Fielder bowled two no-balls and one wide. Blythe and Humphreys each bowled one wide. S U S S E X y. ESSEX. Played at Brighton on August 19, 20 and 21. Sussex won by nine wickets. That run-getting was not an easy matter on Thursday is obvious from the fact that only 244 runs were made during the day for thirteen wickets. Essex took nearly three hours and a-half to score 169, the only bright period of the innings being the 25 minutes during which Fane and Douglas made 33 for the first wicket. McGahey and Gillingham added 53 for the fourth wicket in 65 minutes, but the batting of the others was disappointing. Vincett, in the course of 41 overs, took seven wickets for 94 runs. Everything on the Sussex side was dwarfed by the batting of Robert Relf, who made 52 of the first 64 runs (58 from the bat) in 70 minutes : he made a 6 on-drive off Reeves out of the ground and six 4’s. Young, steadiness itself, was in 55 minutes for 5 runs. Rain limited play to 130 minutes on Friday, during which Sussex took their total to 194 for five wickets. The feature of the play was the batting of Cartwright, who made some splendid drives and square-leg hits in scoring 66 not out. In all, he batted 150 minutes and hit nine 4’s in his 83, and in partnership with Cox put on 90 in 80 minutes. After lunch on Saturday the five last wickets fell in 35 minutes for 33, restricting their lead to 91. Essex, going in again, made a fair start, their two first wickets realising 53. The majority of the players, however, were almost help­ less against Albert Relf, who took eight wickcts for 22 and brought the innings to a close for 111. Sussex won by nine wickets. Score and analysis: — E s s e x . First innings. Second innings. F. L. Fane, b Vincett ... 20c Cox, b Vincett 12 J. W. H. T. Douglas, c and b Vincett .........................16 b Vincett ....26 Carpenter, c Butt, b Relf c Cartwright, b (A. E.) .........................12 Relf (A. E.) ... 19 C. P. McGahey, c Butt, b Vincett .........................32 b Relf (A. E.) ... 12 Rev. F. II. Gillingham, c cSmith, b Relf Cartwright, b Vincett ... 36 (A. E.) ........ 0 T. G. Grinter, c Butt, b c Butt, b Relf Rclf (A. E.) ........... ... 3 (A. E.) ........ 0 Kenneth Gibson, c Smith, c and b Relf b Relf (A. E . ) ................... 0 (A. E.) ........ 6 Freeman, not out .........21 c & b Relf (A. E.) 17 Reeves, c Young, b Vincett 8 b Relf (A. E.) ... 4 Buckenham, c Young, b c Butt, b Relf Vincett ........................... 6 (A. E.) ........ 0 Mead, b V in cett................... 6 not out ...... 9 B 8, lb 1 ................... 9 B 3, lb 3 ... 6 Total ..111 ...........169 Total S u ss e x . Vine, b Mead ................. 1not out ............. 8 Relf (R. R.), c Fane, b c Buckenham, b Reeves .......................5 2 Mead .................12 R. A. Young, b Reeves ... 5notout ............. 0 Killick, b Mead ... ........37 Relf (A. E.), c Carpenter, b Mead ................................. 4 P. Cartwright, c Fane, b M ea d ............................... 83 Cox, b Reeves ................42 Leach, c Gillingham, b Reeves ....................... 12 C. L. A. Smith, b Mead ... 0 Vincett, run o u t ................. 6 Butt, not out ................. 0 B 9, lb 9 ...................18 Byes ............. 1 Total ..........260 Total (1 wkts) 21 E ssex . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Vincett ... . . 41 14 94 7 ... ... 19 3 51 2 Relf (A. 15.) .. 39 18 54 3 ... ... 16*1 9 22 8 Killick ... .. 3 1 3 0 ... ... 8 3 20 0 C ox................ . 2 1 5 0 ... ... 5 1 12 0 Leach ... .. 2 0 4 0 ... S u ssex . Buckenham .. 17 3 37 0 ... Mead ... .. 36-4 13 82 5 ... 3 1 7 1 Douglas... . . 12 2 32 0 ... Reeves ... .. 33 7 76 4 ... 22 0 13 0 McGahey .. 4 0 12 0 ... Carpenter . . 1 0 3 0 ...