James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1899

7 8 LILLYWHITE'S CRICKETERS' ANNUAL. (6) Gloucestershire v. Lancashire. Gloucester , June23 and24. Thethird day was a blank owing to rain, and so an interesting gamewas spoiled . As the Gloucestershire bowling was, Lancashire did none too well with atotal of 262. In the second innings they would probably have fared better , as at the end of the second day they had made121 with only three batsmen out. Tyldesley (20 and 56) and F. H. Sugg both scored 76, although the latter was only once in. Gloucestershire's one innings reached 305, and of this C. L. Townsendaccounted for 159, a fine display of cricket . Lancashire , 262 and 121 (3 wickets ) ; total , 383. Gloucestershire , 305. (7) Gloucestershire v. Warwickshire. Birmingham, July 11, 12 and 13. Gloucestershire , with about its strongest side , had also the best of the luck , at least in going in first . Nine of the Eleven got into double figures , with C. L. Townsend's 139 the best of them all . With C.O. H. Sewell (73) he put on 161. Subsequently Wrathall (47) and W. S. A. Brown (106) made another long stand , adding 156 for the ninth wicket . Warwickshire's first innings found the Quaifes and Diver all in form. W. G. Quaife , who went in first wicket down, carried out his bat for 130. W. Quaife scored 53 and Diver 58. T h erest didlittle , so that the follow on was never in doubt. In the second innings W. Quaife (72 ) was again in his best form . Otherwise the play was very disappointing , and Forester proved to be the most successful of the remaining batsmenwith 28. In addition to his score of 139 C. L. Townsend took ten Warwickshire wickets . Gloucestershire won by ten wickets . Gloucestershire , 504 and 9 (no wicket ) ; total , 513. Warwickshire, 331 and 181; total , 512. (8) Gloucestershire v. Somersetshire. Bristol , July 14, 15 and 16. TheGloucestershire Eleven in the middle of July were in rare form all round. The batting was particularly strong , as Somersetshire found to its cost on this occasion . Of Gloucestershire's total of 505 the partnership of W. Troup (176) and C. L. Townsend (122 ) realised 236 for the second wicket in just over three hours. Somersetshire's batting was more uneven, as L. C. H. Palairet , whowent in second wicket down, was responsible for 179 of 319. In the follow -on the Somersetshire Eleven only reached L. C. Palairet's first innings . This time S. M. J. Woods' 49 was the highest contribution . L. C. Palairet made216 for once out . Gloucestershire wonby an innings and seven runs . Gloucestershire , 505. Somersetshire , 319 and 179 ; total , 498. W .G. Grace (Gloucestershire ) . . . Overs. Maidens. R u n s. 5 5 - 2 1 2 1 3 8 (9) Gloucestershire v. Notts. Nottingham , July 21, 22 and 23. W i c k e t s. 1 2 Amatch of slow scoring , with only 654 runs as the aggregate of the three days. Gloucestershire's first total of 307 was solely noteworthy for the long innings of W.G. Grace. H ewas batting five hours and twenty minutes on the first , andan hour and a quarter on the second day-six hours andthirty- five minutes in all for his 168. Only two of the Notts Eleven failed to get double figures -Attewell (0) and Oates (2). Of the others Gunn(74) andJ. A. Dixon (43) were the most successful . Thegamewasdrawnby no meansin an uneven condition . Gloucestershire , 307 and 56 (4 wickets ); total , 363. Notts, 291.