James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1878

71 from insignificance, but all round the exhibition of the Sussex eleven was I n from creditable. Kent won by an innings and 40 runs. Kent, 190. Sussex, 39 and i n ; total, 150. Overs. Maidens. Runs. W icke ts , Hearne (K e n t ) ...................... 63.2 38 55 12 (5) Kent Surrey. Maidstone, July 23 and 24. Surrey had not by any means its strongest eleven, but it had an easy victory, and Kent the worst defeat it experienced during the season. Surrey had the best of a bad wicket, and Kent began unfortunately, as Hearne failed to hold one returned easily to him by Mr. Lucas when lie had only got two singles, a let off of some consequence, as the amateur afterwards succeeded in making 108 runs. Jupp, whose 93 was a very fine innings, even for him, and Mr. Lucas earned distinction by making 189 runs for the first Surrey wicket, a feat only once surpassed during the season by Mr. Read and Jupp at the Oval, in the match between Surrey and Yorkshire. The ground suited the slow bowling c f Surrey, and none of the Kentish batsmen but-Lord Harris (62 and o) and Mr. Foord-Kelcey (26 and 36) offered any serious resistance. Mr. Lucas was almost as successful for Surrey with the ball as lie had been with the bat. Surrey won by an innings and 99 runs. Surrey, 361. Kent, 148 and 114; total, 262. Overs. Maidens, Runs. Wickets, Mr. A . P. Lucas ..................... 20 10 24 5 (6) Kent v. Surrey. Oval, Aug. 16, 17, and 18. A splendid wicket gave every promise of some very heavy scoring. Surrey had neither Messrs. Lucas, Game, nor Akroyd, and in batting had not its strength. A very fine innings of 148 not out, the highest score in a county match during the season, by Mr. Penn, and a useful one of 64 by Lord Harris, gave Kent a good start, with a large total of 317. It looked well for Kent then, but Jupp, who went in first and carried out his bat for 91, and Mr. L. A . Shuter (88), upset the Kentish calculations, and Surrey were only 53 runs behind at the end of an innings. A freely hit 76 by Mr. Yardley was the only feature of the second venture of Kent, and at the finish the game had to be drawn, Surrey having made 105, out of 222 runs wanted to win, for the loss of four good wickets. Kent, 317 and 168; total, 485. Surrey, 264 and 105 (four wickets); total, 369. | '1 > (7) Kent v. Lancashire. Maidstone, Aug. 23 and 24. A bowler’s match throughout, and productive of one of the best finishes of the year. Kent headed their opponents by 26 runs on the first innings, and Lancashire going in for their second in a wretched light, were got rid of for 143, to which Watson— a novel position for him—was the chief contributor with a very well hit 40. Kent had only 118 runs to win, and six of the best wickets were down for 96. When only 5 were wanted, a happy thought suggested to the Lancashire captain to put on Mr. Appleby again, and he quickly got three wickets. The fielding of the Lancastrians had been, with the exception of one miss, brilliant, and when the last batsman, Mr. G. Marsham, came in with three runs still to win, there was just a chance. Lord Hands, however, was equal to the occasion, and Kent won an exciting match by a wicket, a result altogether due to the resolute and judicious batting of Lord Harris, who took out his bat for 33.