James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1887

7 8 LILLYWHITE'SCRICKETERS' ANNUAL. (2) Gloucestershirev . Sussex. Brighton , June 7, 8, and 9. Abenefit matchfor Henry Phillips , whohas kept wicket for Sussex for the last eighteen years . Gloucestershire was only poorly represented , with Messrs . Townsend, E. M. Grace, Page, Brain, and Moberly all away, and the result washardly ever in doubt . Gloucestershire , who went in first , were all dismissed for 147, a sumwhich Bean (108) and Humphreys(50) beat off their ownbats . Thotwo professionals put on 116 runs for the seventh wicket ; and Bean's bat- ting, though not free from chances , was particularly vigorous . Mr. W. G. Grace (51and57) played well each time ; but with the exception of Messrs . G. Francis (52), Radcliffe (37), and Hale (29), all of whomplayed pluckily in the second innings , there was nothing else noteworthy in the Gloucestershire batting . Mr. W .G. Grace scored 108 in his two innings , and took five of the ten Sussex wickets . Beanalso made108, but in one innings , besides getting seven Gloucestershire wickets . Sussex wonby ten wickets . Sussex , 349 and 19 (no wicket) ; total , 368. Gloucestershire , 147 and 219; total , 366 . Humphreys(2nd innings Gloucestershire ) O v e r s. 1 0 (3) Gloucestershire υ. Maidens. R u n s. Wickets. 4 4 N o t t s. Moreton - in -Marsh, June 28, 29, and 30 . 1 2 Gloucestershire , though only poorly represented , hadall the best of the first hands, Mr. W . G. Grace, who got his 92 not out without a chance , scoring within twelve of the runs madeby the opposite eleven from the bat. His per- formance was the more noteworthy as his last 76 were madeunder the disadvan- tage of a very bad finger . WhenNotts went in a second time, though, the Gloucestershire bowling was severely punished by Shrewsbury and Gunn, who were responsible for 309 of the total of 430. Shrewsbury's achievement was the best feat of the year with the bat. He wentin first , andwas not out at the close of the innings for 227, the highest score of the season in a county match. H e was batting altogether for seven hours and three -quarters . He only gave two chances , whenhe had got 20 and 64, the first a difficult one. A tthe close Notts were312 runs on. Notts , 124 and430; total , 554. Gloucestershire , 242, (4) Gloucestershirev. Sussex. Gloucester , July 1, 2, and 3. Though neither county was represented at its best, some good cricket was shown. Gloucestershire beganbadly, but thanks chiefly to Messrs . Francis (89) andTownsend(75 not out), were able to reach a total of 293. Messrs . Townsend and Turner added 68 for the last wicket . Sussex just managed to save a follow on-a result due mainly to the good play of Humphreys(68 not out) and Tester (42). Atthe end of the second day, though, Gloucestershire were 194 on with eight wickets still to fall , and the chances of Sussex were very small . W h e n they went in a second time they wanted 267 to win , and as J. Hide (43) , Hum- phreys (31 ), and Quaife (32 ) alone got over 20 runs , there was a good margin in favour of Gloucestershire . Sussex were beaten by 116 runs. Gloucestershire , 293 and 197 ; total , 490. Sussex , 224 and 160 ; total , 384 . A.Hide(1st inningsGloucestershire) ...... O v e r s. 41.3 M a i d e n s. 2 4 R u n s. Wickets, 4 7 5