James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1889

7 6 LILLYWRITE'SCRICKETERS' A N N U A L. awell -hit 79 , which , with seven other double -figure scores , brought the total to 328. Against this Sussex only totalled 130 , and losing three of their best bats for 42 in their second innings , their chances of saving the match seemed very small . J. Hide (68), however, again came to the rescue , assisted this time by Mr. New- h a m, andthese two added 139 while they were together , which, with a good contribution of 73 from Mr. Brann and Mr. Newham'ssuperb innings of 118 , enabled Sussex finally to run up a respectable total of 344. This left Glou- cestershire with 149 to get, and these they obtained for the loss of three bats- men, winning the matchby seven wickets . Gloucestershire , 328 and 149 (three wickets ) ; total , 477. Sussex , 130 and 344; total , 474. (11) Gloucestershirev. Yorkshire. Clifton , August 16, 17, and 18. Amemorablematch in cricket history . For the third time in his long career the " Champion" performed the feat of scoring over a hundred twice in a first- class match. L. Hall also repeated one of his manyfeats of marvellous patience bybatting part of all three days , and carrying his bat throughout the Yorkshire innings . Winning the toss , Gloucestershire compiled a total of 248 runs , of which Dr. W. G. was responsible for 148. W h e nhe left the total was at 218, and as he was only three and a half hours at the wickets , he got his runs at a great pace . H e received valuable aid from Mr. Brain (47) and Mr. Radcliffe (31), the only membersof the team, indeed, to render much assistance . York- shire had lost two wickets for 35 runs on the first night , but on the second day they got the measure of the homebowling , and, only losing six more wickets , added392 runs to their score . Thethird dayrealized an addition of 34 more, and this brought their grand total up to the large score of 461 , and this for the loss of only nine wickets , as Peel was unfortunately called away early in the match, owing to a family bereavement . Of this large score L. Hall contributed 129 (not out), Moorhouse 86, Wormald 80, and Wade 68. Gloucestershire entered on their second innings 213 runs to the bad; but, thanks to the wonderful form shown by Dr. W. G. , they were able to wipe these off, and in the end to give their opponents 104 to win. Mr. Grace wasbatting this time only three hours andten minutes in scoring 153 runs , or an average of a little under 49 runs per hour . The Yorkshire bowling was of course weakened by the absence of Peel, but as the batsman gave no chance , it is doubtful if that bowler would have done more than check the rate of scoring . Yorkshire had only time to get 28 runs , without the loss of a wicket , before time was called . Gloucestershire , 248 and 316 ; total , 564 ; Yorkshire , 461 and 28 (no wicket) ; total , 489 . (12), Gloucestershirev. Middlesex. Cheltenham , August 23, 24, and 25. A decisive victory for the Metropolitan team, whohad the best of it at every point of the game. Winning the toss , the Gloucestershire batsmendid not show to advantage , and their first innings only realized the small score of 115, to which Mr. F. Townsend was highest contributor with 34. Messrs . O'Brien andThesigerhad m a d e65 for one wicket for Middlesex at the end of the first day, andthough on the next dayrain only permitted an hour and fifty minutes ' cricket , the in side made good use of the short time they had, adding 121 runs for the loss of four more wickets . Onthe third morning , too , the tail of the team played so well that the total only fell five short of the third hundred, Mr. F. G. Ford contributing 68, Mr. O'Brien 59, Mr. Paravicini 42, and Mr. Bryant 38. Mr. Hadowhaving hurt himself in catching Dr. W . G. on the first daywasunable to bat, so that Middlesex had only nine wickets to fall . Going in a second time in a minority of 179 runs, Gloucestershire's one chance wasa