James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1895

3 6 LILLYWHITE'S CRICKETERS' ANNUAL. of English players . The opening fixture against an eleven of N e wYork, was utterly ruined by the weather . The rain only admitted of cricket on the first day, and as the English team occupied the wickets the whole of the time, the N e wYorkers had no chance of showing of what they were capable with the bat. F. F. Kelly , a well known Metropolitan cricketer some few years ago , did the best bowling for N e wYork. Still , it was their misfortune rather than their fault that their captain preferred to take the field when he won the toss . Hill and Bathurst were the most successful run-getters for the English team. Hill , whowent in first , stayed till the total had reached 170. H e got his runs without a mistake, and it washard luck that heshould havebeenbowled whenonly one run short of the hundred. Both of the matches against Philadel- phia, as luck would have it, were to some extent spoiled by the rain . Someof the principal Philadelphian batsmen had been scoring very heavily just before and it was generally expected the Eleven would make a good show. Owing to the day's rain the wicket was rather slow in the first match, and the scoring in consequence did not reach a very high pitch . Mistakes in the field cost the Philadelphians dearly , and Lord Hawke,who made78 of the English first total of 187, hadno small amount of luck . The slow bowling of H. P. Bailey was the best feature of the Philadelphian's out cricket . F. H. Bohlen, who was over in England last summer, and played several times for M. C. C., upheld his reputation as one of the soundest batsmen in America. Heshowed great confidence as well as judgment, and during the two hours and a quarter he was at the wickets , he gave only one chance , and that a difficult one. G. J. Mordaunt's batting was the best feature of the latter part of the match. Lord Hawkeshowed sounder cricket , too, than in the first innings , and, generally , the batting was of a better class . ThePhiladelphians had a difficult task before themwhenthey entered on their second innings , and it was no discredit to them that they failed . The wickets helped the bowlers , and though Patterson and Brown, the former in particular , played well, the result was never in doubt. Supported by excellent fielding , Bathurst's bowling proved too muchfor the wickets costing five and a half runs apiece . phians had certainly the worst of the luck . of the wicket in going in first . In addition , their opponents were unfortunate enough to lose the services of their best all round cricketer , Patterson , who injured one of his fingers in stopping a hit from Bathurst , and had to give up further part in the game. Still , the Philadelphians batting , making every allowance , was very disappointing . The wicket had cut up a good deal by their second innings , and Whitwell and Bathurst made such good use of it, that the Americans were all dismissed for 64. TheEnglish team wonas it was by an innings and forty runs , a decisive success , to which Whitwell's bowling con- . tributed very largely . Thecommencementof the match with the Gentlemen of Canada, at Toronto , was delayed some hours by rain . The Canadian bowling was not supported by as good a field as might have been expected , or the English total would not have been so large . Though the Canadians , too, found the wicket very difficult whenthey went in, and Horstead , Laing, and Boyd, in the second innings , all played so well that the gamewas saved . Bathurst's all round cricket , was one of the very best features of the match, as , indeed it was throughout the tour . Of the fifth , and last match, little need be said . It was against Fifteen of Massachusett , and the chief result was to improve the averages of the English bowlers . Hillyard madethe best use of the occasion , andhe took nine wickets in the first innings, at a cost of only fifteen runs. finish of this match onOct. 5th, brought the trip to a close , and within eight days those of the team who were returning home direct , arrived in Southampton. Theresult of the tour was most satisfactory from every point of view. All round, the team showed themselves to be a decidedly strong side , as they undoubtedly were. Mr. Bathurst was equally successful both in batting and bowling, andhis all roundcricket wasthe moststriking feature of the tour. T h e doings of the twelve , however, will be gathered from the following tables . majority of the batsmen, his eight In the return match, the Philadel- TheEnglishmen had all the best T h e