James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1890

T H EC O U N T I E SIN 1889. 8 1 w o o dput on 21 before the stumps were drawn. The following morning pro- duced some surprising cricket , and all the changes of the Nottingham bowling werepunished so severely by the two not outs that 129 were added before the partnership ended-of the 140 runs the young professional , Lockwood , had scored 88, and without a chance . His leg -hitting , in particular , wasvery clean and hard, buthe scored freely all round, and as an exhibition of well-timed hitting it wasof a very high class . Abel followed at 149, and six more batsmen fell for an addition of 56 runs . A tthis point Mr. Shuter terminated his innings , judg- ing, and with reason, that Notts would, as the ground was, have considerable difficulty to get the 219 required to winin three hours . Lohmannand Bowley beganthe bowling, and the latter soon dismissed Mr. Daft, who opened the batting with Shrewsbury. Gunnwas out 1b w. at 23, but Barnes and Shrews- bury looked like staying , until at 63 both were out. After this Lohmann bowledwith extraordinary effect , and he got such a lot of work on to the ball as to be really unplayable . Shacklock never tried to play the ball that bowled h i m, nor, by the way, did Mr. Dixon that with which Beaumontdismissed him. Thelast seven wickets , indeed , only added 21 runs, and amidst a scene of intense excitement Notts wasbeaten-its first defeat of the season --by 134 runs . Acollection , amountingto £42, hadbeen madeearly on the'third day for Lock- w o o dand Abel, but the victory was mainly due to Lohmann's wonderful bowling at the finish . His figures are given below . Surrey , 172 and 205 ; total , 377. Notts , 159 and 84 ; total , 243 . L o h m a n n(2ndinns. Notts) M a i d e n s. R u n s. O v e r s. 3 5 2 6 2 2 W i c k e t s. 6 O nthe first day 20,863 paid at the gate, on the second day 16,420 and on the third 12,652 , makinga total of 49,935 , some 670 less than the best on record in thes a m em a t c hof 1887. (6) N o t t s v. Y o r k s h i r e. Nottingham, August 19, 20, and 21 . Raininterfered with the game on each of the three days, and only allowed sufficient breaks between the showers to admit of one innings to Yorkshire and the greater part of another to Notts . Under such circumstances there wasno real interest in the match, in the absence of any possibility of a definite result . Yorkshire , taking advantage of a good wicket at the outset , madea fairly good show, andthe tenth wicket did not fall until the second hundredw a salmost attained . Of 193 from the bat, Lord Hawke(69), Hall (47), and Brown(not out 35) were responsible for 151. The two first named added 91 while they were together , and the former's 69, although very fluky at the outset , was altogether a capital display of free cricket . Mr. Dixon (30), Gunn (27), and Shrewsbury (23) made a good start for Notts , but afterwards the batting failed , and as, when rain put an end to the game, the score showed 108 for the loss of eight wickets , the gamehadto be left not half finished . (7) Notts v. Derbyshire. Nottingham , July 1 and 2. Thoughthe Derbyshire menmadea very good fight on the first hands, they failed to maintain their early promise , and Notts wonafter all with plenty to a l 7