8 0 (l; Notts v. Yorkshire. Nottingham, June 26, 27, and 28. A moral victory for Notts, though the result was a draw. Daft and Arthur Shrewsbury made the match noteworthy at the outset, by some of the finest batting of the year, and their feat of scoring 188 for the first wicket was equal to any of the season. Daft was in three hours and ten minutes for 81 , and Shrewsbury three hours and forty minutes for 118, neither batsman having given a chance. After all, the innings only reached 298, but Yorkshire failed to approach this total, and had to follow, East- wood (56) and Greenwood (JO) contributing mostly to the aggregate of 208. Half the wickets in the second innings of Yorkshire were down for 58, and but for Eastwood (43) and Clayton (41), the innings would not have been an important affair. In the end Notts had an hour and forty minutes left in which to obtain 86 runs. There was ample time one would have thought, but the wicket cut up, and Hill was on the spot, so that when play ceased, Notts had yet 26 runs to make, with six wickets to fall. Notts, 298 and 60 (four wickets) ; total, 858 . Yorkshire, 208 and 175 ; total, 883. Ovcvs. Maidens. Runs. Wickets. Oscroft (let innings of Yorkshire) . . 27 15 30 o A. Shaw (2nd innings of Yorkshire).. 71 47 51 7 (2) Notts r. Surrey: Oval, July 31, Aug. 1 and 2. Rain interfered with the success of this match at the outset, though the wicket was playing very well at the finish. The scoring was small on both sides in the first iunings, as Mr. Read, with a well-played 21, and Jones with an aerial score of the same amount, were credited with 42 out of 83 runs for Surrey, and Selby (29), Mr. Tolley (25), and Daft (24) with 79 out of 153 for Notts. In the second innings of Surrey, Jupp and Mr. Luca* were fortunately in form, or the score would have been small. Jupp was in first and ninth out, after three hours and thirty-five minutes at the wicket, and his 50 included as many as twenty-live singles. Mr. Lucas played in a different style, as out of the first 42 runs he scored 31. Southerton made the finish a little exciting by hitting his rival, Alfred Shaw, for 10 runs in an over. Surrey could hardly have had a chance wTion Notts went in to get 73 runs, but with less slovenly fielding and surer catching they would have made a good show. As it was, Arthur Shrewsbury and Oscroft got the runs without difficulty, and Notts won l»y ten wickets. Notts, 153 and 75 (no wickets); total, 228. Surrey, 83 and 142; total, 225. Over*. Maidens. Huns. Wickctd. A. Shaw .............. 100 72 68 11 (3) Notts r. Yorkshire. Aug. 28, 29, and 30. One of the most extraordinary contests of the season, and a bowier’s match from first to last. Who could have foreseen that three innings with two such elevens would be completed for such an insignificant aggregate as 165, or on average of runs for each of 30 wickets? Yet such was the case, as Ulyett, with 34 and 11 , alone scored double figures on either venture of Yorkshire, and Daft’s 16 was the only one in the first score of Notts. The weather was boisterous and the ground very treacherous, but the spectacle of Yorkshire out twice for such totals as 87 and 32, and Notts