James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion 1885

n o BRIGHTON COLLEGE u DULWICH COLLEGE. Brighton Duhvich 1st Inns. 2nd Inns. Totai 111 34 , 145* 202 — 202 June 14, i Brighton. Dulwich won by an innings and 57 runs. In direct contrast to the remarkable season of Tonbridge was that of the Brighton eleven, who lost all their engagements with other schools The batting of the home team -toas curiously weak, Mr/G. H. Cotterill’ who went in first and canted out his bat for G5, and Mr. E. H. O’Donoglme ( 11 ), being the only two to score more than 8 runs. Mr. F. H. Johnstone took 12 wickets, and Mr. E. G. Rand 7. The fine bowling of these two was combined with some good batting by the others. Mr. A. P Douglas scored 72, Mr. P. T. P. Knott 51, Mr. J. A. Reed 24, and Mr. G, E Yanderzee 20. * 1 BRIGHTON COLLEGE v. LANCING COLLEGE. ) 1st Inns. *2nd Inns. ». < • ' 465 < ■ — Total. 465 ) j , .1 June 24, Lancing , . , tBrighton. Brighton I . , , , . rDrawn. • . A remarkable piece of scoring by the Lancing hoys, who were at the wickets during the whole of the day, the sensational part of the per­ formance being the play of the Messrs. Hammond, The howling of the Brighton team was very weak and the fielding faulty, but this scarcely detracted from the hatting of Mr. H. Hammond and Mr. A. Hammond, the former of whom made 214, and the latter 120. The only two other noticeable scores wefe Mr. W. H. Locke 31, and Mr. W. H. B. Wix 2t. * - ■ 1st Inns. 2nd Inns. Total. July 12, Brighton .,!• 78 « * — , , . 78 Lancing. Lancing.*.■ : t . . . 87> — b 87 Lancing won by 9 runs and 7 wickets. The play in the return match was of a very different description to that witnessed on the occasion of the first contest. This time Brighton went'in first, but could do little with the bowling of Messrs. H. Hammond and A. M. Payne, the former taking 5 wickets and .the latter 4. Of the Brighton total three members of the eleven scored 50 between them —Mr. G. L. Wilson 27, Mr. F. H. O’Donogliue 10, and Mr. E. H. Cole 13. When Lancing vrent in to bat, Mr. W. H. Brown made 18, Mr. H. Ham­ mond 28, Mr. W. H. B. Wix 18, and Mr. A. Hammond 15 (not out). ROSSALL SCHOOL V. SHREWSBURY SCHOOL. * r 1st Inns. 2nd Inns. July 8, Shrewsbury .* * » ,•> fj 46 > 137 ; Shrewsbury. Rossall. jf) n . 7 >4 146 39 Rops&U won by 1 0 wickets, o 1 ., : • Shrewsbury never recovered from a disastrous start, and metwith 3 rvery severe defeat. In the first innings no one except Mr. G. Kemp (23) could play the slow howling of Mr. F. M. Wheatley, who took 5 wickets for 19 runs. Rossall, too, began badly, losing 5 wickets for 28, but Mr. B. Heaton made 40, Mr. J. T. T. Robinson 35, Mr. B, L. Leesmitk 24, and Mr. G. &• Mellor 13 (not out). In the second innings of Shrewsbury it was agau Mr. Kemp who came to the rescue of his side, his score of 75 (not ou being the highest innings of the match. Total. 183 185