James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1878

50 CAM BR IDGE BOW L ING . Patterson (slow round) . . . . 47.1 . . . . . . 25 . . . , . . . 50 . . . . . . 5 Luddington(fast round) 33 • • • 6 . . . . . . 114 . . . * Jarvis (lobs)........................ 4 . . . 1 . . . . . . . 9 ••• Schultz (fast round) ......... 12.2 . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . 53 . . . Lucas (slow round) ............... I I . . . . . . 4 ••• . . . 16 . . . Pigg (fast round) ............... 2 . . . . 4 ? , . , 0 . . . . . . 9 . . . (0) Gentlemen v. Players. July 2, 3, and 4. A very even and exciting match, terminating in as glorious a finish as it is possible to conceive. Both sides were very strongly represented, the Gentle­ men so full of batting that Mr. I. D. Walker had to put himself in last. Daft was captain of the Players, Mr. I. D. Walker of the Gentlemen, and Daft, who had won the toss, set the professionals a good example with a very painstaking innings of 64. Jupp scored 23, but Lockwood, Shrewsbury, Barlow, Ulyett, and Wild, did little, and the two left-handers, Emmett (who took his bat for 47) and Morley (who astonished the spectators a little by scor­ ing 27), chiefly helped to raise the total to 192. Mr. J. M. Cotterill, the first time he was asked to play in the match at Lord’s, was the mainstay of the amateurs, as out of 186 from the bat he contributed 92, as fine and commanding a display of batting as this match has ever produced. An advantage of only six runs on the side of the Gentlemen at the end of an innings, infused addi­ tional interest into the match, but a thunderstorm, which made the ground softer than ever, gave a rather different complexion to the game. The amateur slow bowlers had the best of it in the second innings of the Players, as Jupp’s 41'was the largest figure in their total of 148, and Mr. A . P. Lucas took four wickets at a cost of only twelve runs. The Gentlemen had 143 runs to win, and in the state of the ground it was voted to be odds against them. Watson’s first ball bowled Mr. I. D. Walker, but Mr. W . G. Grace and* the Hon. A . Lyttleton offered a stubborn resistance, and when Mr. Grace 'was caught and bowled after his partner’s retirement, the third wicket was down for 64. Mr. Cotterill was fourth out at 75, but Ulyett and Morley rolled down the next five wickets, and when Mr. W . S. Patterson, the last batsman, joined Mr. G. F. Grace, 46 runs were wanting to win. Ulyett was, we think, unwisely shunted for Mycroft, and Mr. Patterson’s wicket had some miraculous escapes; but, amidst the greatest excitement, the hopes of the Players gradually disappeared, and the Gentlemen won a grand struggle by one wicket, a victory chiefly attributable to the cool play and judicious hitting of Mr. G. F. Grace at the close. Score:— P L A Y E R S . 1st Innings. Daft (Notts), c Walker, b Patterson 64 E. Lockwood (Yorkshire), c W . G. Grace, b Patterson .......................... o Shrewsbuiy (Notts), b Patterson__ 2 Jupp (Surrey), c W . G. Grace, b Lucas 23 Barlow (Lancashire), c Lyttleton, b Patterson......................................... o Ulyett (Yorkshire), b Patterson . . . . 11 Wild (Notts), lun out............... 0 Emmett (Yorkshire), not out 47 2nd Innings. c Webbe, b Ridley . . 18 c Webbe, b Patterson .......... 19 c Hornby, b Patterson . . . . . . 3 run o u t ................ ..................... 41 c Webbe, b Lucas .................. 15 c Webbe, b Lucas .................. 26 c Lyttleton, b Lucas 22 b W . G. Grace 1