John and James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion 1882

chance of success. For the home County, Mr. Wood made 60 and (not out) i Mr. Hornby 41, Mr. O. P. Lancashire 36, Briggs 31, and Watson 28 out). The Nottingham men had to follow on with 172 runs anainst them and a really admirable innings of 49 was played by Gunn. Wild made and Brown 23, but all efforts to save the game were unavailing. Watson Total. 285 239 took 11 Nottingham wickets for 86 runs—a capital performance. let Inns. 2nd Inns. Juno 9, Lancashire 285 — Manchester. Kent 136 103 Lancashire won by an innings and 46 runs. Another easy victory for Lancashire, success in this instance being dllc to the batting of Mr. Hornby and Robinson, and the bowling of Barlow and Watson. Mr. Hornby made 102 and Robinson 90, the latter’s inning being by far the best he played last season. In the first innings of Kent Barlow took 8 wickets for 29 runs, and in the second Watson had seven for 37 runs. Against this capital bowling Mr. W. H. Patterson (47 and 12) and Mr. R. S. Jones (38 and 18) played good and steady cricket. Kent sadly missed Mr. Frank Penn. * - . * June 13.— Liverpool.—•Lancashire v. Cambridge University.— (See University Matches.) • ** . ♦ * 1st Inns. 2nd Inns. Total. June 16, Lancashire , 324 — 324 Manchester. Surrey * -6 9 130 199 Lancashire won by an innings and 125 runs. Surrey was very poorly represented, and had no possible chance of winning. But for bad fielding, however, the defeat might have been much less severe, Nine Lancashire batsmen reached double figures, Watson taking out his bat for a hard hitting but lucky 60, Mr. Wood and Briggg making 52 each, Mr. Hornby 42, Mr. Leach 83, and Barlow 22 . For Surrey, Mr. S. W. Cattley scored 12 and 30, Jupp 10 and 19, and Pooley 6 and 22 . Watson took 10 Surrey wickets for 64 runs, and Nash 8 for 96 runs. June 27.—Derby.—Lancashire v. Derbyshire.— (See Derbyshire Review.) July 4. — Sheffield.—Lancashire v. Yorkshire.— (See Yorkshire Review.) 1st Inns. 2nd Inns. Total. July 2T, Lancashire 236 — . 236 Manchester. Gloucestershire 42 158 200 Lancashire won by an innings and 36 runs. William M‘Intyre’s benefit, and the sensational match of the Lancashire Reason. Fully 10,000 people were present on the first day. Gloucestershire —playing without Messrs. Gilbert and Moberly—won the toss, and went in on a good hard wicket. To the utter astonishment of the spectators, however, the whole eleven were dismissed by Mr. A. G. Steel and Watson for 42—the smallest total for which the County had ever been got rid of. Mr. Steel took 5 wickets, including Mr. W. G. Grace, Mr. E. M, Grace, and Midwinter, for 34 runs, and Watson 4 wickets for 8 runs. From their disastrous beginning the Gloucestershire men never recovered, but at the second attempt some fair batting was shown, Midwinter, with a chance before he scored, making 56, Mr. Townsend 30, Mr. Cranston 20, and Mr. E. M. Grace 19. Mr. W. G. Grace, who bad scored 14 in the first innings, was clean bowled by Mr. Steel for a single. For Lancashire, Mr. Hornby made Gl, Barlow 45, Robinson a very lucky 3G, Nash 30, and Mr. Steel 23. This was Mr. Steel’s first appearance for his county during the season. lie took in all 12 Gloucestershire wickets at a cost of 123 runs*