James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1888

1 0 0 LILLYWHITE'SCRICKETERS' A N N U A L. county only did moderately well in batting first . Quaife , with 34 runs , was the highest scorer in a total of 172 runs . Their opponents headed this by 46, thanks to Hall (82), who again showed his appreciation of the Sussex bowling by carry- ing his bat through the innings for the fifth time in a county match against them. Thesecond innings of Sussex amounted to 252 runs an amountshort of whatappeared at one time likely , owing to a heavy thunderstorm on the second night . Quaife again proved his value by contributing 46. Mr. Newhamhit well for 58, but the best display of batting was that of Walter Humphreys (37) . Peel got seven of the last wickets at a cost of 72 runs. Yorkshire had 207 runs to getin two hours and three -quarters on a dead wicket . Theynaturally played for adraw, but, as it turned out , would have lost the match had it not been for Louis Hall, whomade 31 out of the 82 runs scored . In getting this number they lost seven wickets . Sussex , 172 and 252 ; total , 424. Yorkshire , 218 and 82 (seven wickets ) ; total , 300 . (3) Sussex υ. H a m p s h i r e. Southampton , June 6, 7, and 8. Onlyweak elevens represented the respective counties in this match, and in addition recent rains had madethe ground heavy and against high scoring . Bean's 52 for Sussex was the highest innings of the match, while A. Hide, bowling for the same side , was the most noteworthy performer , his ten wickets only costing 67 runs. A nuneventful match terminated in an easy victory for Sussex bynine wickets . Sussex , 153 and 67 (one wicket ) ; total , 220. Hamp- shire , 57 and 162 ; total , 219. A. Hide(1st inns. Hampshire) . Overs. 2 4 . 8 Maidens, 1 3 R u n s, 2 4 W i c k e t s. 7 (4) Sussexv. C a m b r i d g eUniversity. Brighton , June 16, 17, and 18. Aremarkable run-getting match, 1,197 runs being scored in the three days for only 25 wickets . Sussex , winning the toss , ran up the huge total of 451 runs , Quaife (60), J. Hide (115 ), W. Humphreys (117 ) accounting for the majority of the number. The University , nothing daunted by this heavy scoring , surpassed it with a total of 534. Their sixth wicket fell for 147, but the tail added 387 runs , Messrs . W. C. Bridgemanand L. Martineau adding 193 while together . The former, who played fine cricket for 162, carried out his bat, while Mr. L. Martineau (109) just managedto secure his hundred. Mr. Orford hit very hard for his 76. Sussex played out time on the last day, losing five wickets in obtaining 212, with Quaife (52) and Tester (70) the chief scorers . In the end Sussex were 129 runs on with five wickets to fall . Sussex , 451 and 212 (five wickets ) ; total , 663. Cambridge University , 534 . (5) Sussexv. H a m p s h i r e. Brighton , July 14, 15, and 16. Hampshiremadea good fight in this return match. The wicket was per- fect , and the scoring correspondingly large , all of which told in favour of the stronger side . Sussex opened proceedings , and lost half their wickets for 94 runs, though a well-hit 60 from Beanenabled them ultimately to show the respectable total of 244 as their first attempt . Their opponents had a very narrowescape of having to follow on. For this they had to thank Mr. C. E. Currie and Roberts , though as it was there was only a margin of six runs in their favour. In the second innings of Sussex ten of the team got into double figures . Quaife (52) and W. Humphreys (55 not out) both batted well , and in