James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1875

• • I I t. -.01 1.n�ies ,vere l' 1 pre!e11ted. to wit : ' Yorkshire Notts Surrey, MiddlEia<}�� Lancasbire t De1·byshire, Lincoln, W iltshi re, D�ham �nJ Warwick, but by ,, , hat rule the selectio11 Wt\s made is be.it known to the C-0mmitiee ef the Marylebone Olub. 'rhe gronnd was in e.1 cellent order, bui it was too f-a:st,_ u.ppar�ntly for most of the Sixteen, as Scott011 · of Notts with 19 was the only ,t\ouble ngure in the fit'Si innings, and but for Betts of Yorkshire who made .54 by really good c1"ioket, their second inn · ings would have been of a very �hort duration.. . H1lggard of ,,·uts played steadily and well, and bids !�ir to he a good but . , b,1t the rest made a poor show. The bo,vling of the Colts ,,·as generally belo,v the average, or the C�ub could hardly bav� made 234 ntnB without t\ fi1 · s t -1 · ate batsmai1 011 their side. The Mar.) 1 lebon . e Club ,von in one innings with 20 r11ns to . .apaxe . . �1 · .c . c , . and · . G1·ound, 234. The Su- �en, 59 , and 155 ; total, 214. , - • , . Overs. Maide11s. RunB. -w-kts. A Shaw (1st Inns of Colts) • � 83 15 26 9 (6 bowled} 4 Randon , . , ,, • · • 16 · 12 9 . 8 tall bowled) � . - (2) M.C.C. and Ground v. South of England. Lord's, May 18 & 19. . • • • , • The Australian Twelve bad not then .reached England 1 so that the South missed the wothers (lrace, Jupp, R. Ht1mphrey, Southerton antl Lillyw h ite. Still it ,va� fairly 1·e1)resented under the cireumatances, the principal featiu-e being the re-appea1·auce of the He·rtfordshixe slo,v bowle1·, the veteran John Hughes. �farylebone had on its side seven proiessionn,1s, Hearne, A. Shaw, Rylott, Morley" R.rindon, Clayton and Biddulph; the Io1.t1· amateurs, Messrs. .JarJine, Ri1tter, Brtu1e and Hemmin g , in two inning , s sco1 ..ing together 89 of l 2 from the ba·t .. 1\Ir. I� D. Walker was the highest scoret for the South with 9 and 45, ,and Biddulph 101· the Clt1b with 3 · 6 and 1. Morley a11d Alfred . h·aw each took eight �ckets for the Club, and Hughes had the lion's sl1are on t ' he side of the Sol\th, ta.king ten wickets, three in the first and seTen in the second innings of M.C.C. The South ,vou by 93 1--uns. South, 145 antl - 139 ; total, 284. M.C.C., 131 and 60; total, 191. ,. .. J • • Ove-rs. Maidens. Runs. Wk.ts. Hughes (2ndinnin . gs c.f M.C.C,) 21·1 , 6 : 47 . r 1 - • • • (3) M.c · .c. and Ground"· Oxford University.. ' ·_ ..__..n � Odora, May 28 ,- 29: and so. f ' The Marylebone Clt1b, with the exception · that it bad three of its most able ground bowlers in Alfred , Shaw, Merley and .Randon, and the _g.rea · t batsman, )Ir. W. G : Graee, . was not particularly well rep-resented. Ma:ry } e... .bone made 125, an old Oxonian, W. Townsend earning the honour of highest score, 87 ... Oxford fell short Qf the Marylebone total by . nine run&; ihanks to tb:e e1IeetJve bowling of Morley who took sev�n wickets, In ,the , .. second "fenture of the club the total was itnpr:-0ved to 159, Mr., F. . J. Crooke making 52 of . the�e by s mart , cricket. � , The1�e seemed a chauee . of • close i I