ember 18, 1901.1
* HONGKONG.
First Innings
RAHadoook, b Sharp
Second Innings.
19
o Sharp, b Maotag
-gart
94
Clifton Browne, R.N.
o Barkshire, b Whit-
27
EoWright, b Sharp
CSP Franklin, B..
ley...
o Whitley, b Mac-
taggart
21
}
9
6 o Kerr, b Mackenzie 18
*20
Major Dyson, A.P.D., o
Billing, b Sharp Gunner Gratrix, o Youles,
b Mackenzie T. Sercombe Smith, o
Voules, b Mackenzie... 29 H. Arthur, Mactaggart 10 Major Dorehill, R.A., b
Mactaggart
P. A. Cox, b Whitley 8
Lt. Bird, 2nd Rajputs,
A. B. Vonles, c Dawson,
b Franklin
o Kerr, b Maotag-
gart
3
16
9
296
b Sharp
run out
72
o Barkshire, b Mac-
0
kenzie
42
Private Preedy, b Sharp
0
1.b.w., b Sharp
not out
not out
27
b Sharp
Extras
6
Extras
13
Total
192
Total
STRAITS,
First Innings.
Second Innings.
71
b Bird
16
W. Langholm Carter, o
Franklin, b Preedy..
123
o Clifton Browne, b
Gratrix.
c and b Bird
28. 1
e Hancoca, b Bird
2
8
run out
5 16
20
1 10
c Dorehill, b Bird.
1
I
not out ...
11
Extras
H. W. Sharp, b Franklin 71 R. M. Mackenzie, b Bird 11 C. F. Green, st Arthur,
b Franklin J. Q. alactaggart, b Bird 39 M. H. Whitley, b wird.. 1 A. G. Wright, b Bird
b Franklin
o Dorchill, b Bird 4eArthur, b Franklin c'Arthur, b Bird
. A. Bartshiro, b Bird 24 G. M. Billings, b Franklin. 0 D. Kerr, not out
Extras
Total
253 Total
DOWLING ANALYSIS,
HONGKONG,
First Innings.
LEMBRAR
W.
Second Innings.
0.
Mackenzie
11. R. W. 25 9 51 2
Billings
16
8 26
0. M. 26 10 81
5
Mactaggart
13
2 40
2
17
3
harp
18
444 +
20.2 5
Whitley
8
1 25
1
6 1
Carter
5 1 26
'STRAITS.
First Innings.
0. M. R. W.
Precuy
9 1 37
1
Bird
18.4 0 70 5
19
8 1 32
8
1 22
9
9.1
Second Inuinga.
5
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bowler made a plucky effort to hold a hard straight ball off Stanion's bat, and obviously In the got his fingers hurt in the attempt. same over Stanion had a drive to leg for 4. Price continued to make a magnificent stand. Twice he drove Sharp to the boun- dary- -once to long-on and in the other case to leg.
the next ball he was clean bowled. Score, 27-1-8. | had a snick for 1 of the fourth ball of The game was now half-an-hour old. Rose who over. Potter blocked the fifth Sharp followed McEnen at the wicket had a short leg over the bowling at the other end. He sent hit for a stolen single and on facing Whitley down 5 well-pitched balls against Price and drove that bowler to the boundary at point, conceded only one point, a stolen run off a sh Barkshire making a good but nosuccessful at leg hit. This brought Price again to the bat- tempt to save. Lanning followed with a power- ting end. Billings's second ball he slashed ful straight drive off Sharp for 3 all run. Under round to square leg for 4 the remainder of this bowler's attack Rose was obviously not at the over was unproductive of runs. When the his ease.
He had one pretty cut into the slips, bowling changed ends, Potter drew Sharp's nicely stopped by Green and contrived also to first ball to square leg for 4, but off the fourth send away a good leg hit which brought in he was neatly caught by the wicket-keeper, a brace of runs. Lanning was cutting beauti- Voules, and retired with 16 to his credit. Score, fully but still experiencing difficulty in finding 154 for 4 wickets. Mann took bis place, and an opening through the slips: Green's fielding with the last ball of the over stole a plucky 0 proved more than once an effective barrier. run off a short on hit, accurately placed.
he Mactaggart also put in some smart work in the In the following over drove Billings slipa; he missed Rose softly, however, when the splendidly to leg for 4. Mann experienced score stood at 35. This batsman was showing greater difficulty, however, in getting away off himself more at home under Sharp's bowling as Sharp when he came to face that bowler. Price the game proceeded. Twice he drove him to kept up his record for long scoring by cutting leg-once for 2 and once for a boundary-and Billings to point for a boundary but it was not in the same orer cut him into the long slips for long before he lost his partner, who was caught a single. When he came to face Whitley how-
off the same bowler by Kerr at square leg, the ever he was clean bowled off his first ball, and latter having permanently taken the place of retired after having registered 13. The score
Dr. Dane owing to the accident which oc- was now 50 for 2 wickets. Price who went in curred to that gentleman in the forenoon. Score, next negotiated Whitley's first over carefully 166:5-5. V. H. Lanning, A. E.'s younger and with safety. Lanning scored a single off brother, was next man in. His stay at wicket Sharp's fourth and allowed the last ball was short; he was clean bowled by Billings to be taken by Price, who drove it strongly before scoring a single run, with a swift ball to the off for 4. With exactly an hour gone,
which beat him completely. Stanion filled the the score stood at 55, of which Lanning vacancy. Some uninteresting cricket followed, had contributed a well-taken 22. Dull cricket brightened up with an ou drive for 4 by Price obtained for several succeeding overs, the only and a square-leg hit to the boundary off .106 relief being a prettily-placed leg hit off Lan- Stanion's bat. The latter had also a pretty ning's bat resulting in a well-run 2. Carter cut into the slips off Billings, which was took Sharp's place at the upper end. His first missed by Whitley and resulted in 2. Bill- ball was a leg bye; Price drove his second to ings sent down a very good over against Price off for 2, and snicked his third to leg for the off which the batsman secured not a single same number of runs. In this bowler's succeed-point. In the ensuing essay by Sharp, that ing over Price had two off-drives, one for a single, the other for a double. He hit out pretty freely at Whitley and cut him into the slips for 4, hit which was missed just on the boundary by Sharp. Off Carter. Price had also a well-run 3 from a cut into the slips. The bowling at the lower end was taken over by Billings at this stage. Price hit his first ball to off for a single. Play was deadly dull for a time. When 9 minutes of the game had elapsed the score was exactly 00, Sharp took Carter's place at the upper end and opened against Price, his first over resulting in a single. After au uneventful over from SHANGHAI V. STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
Billings's end, Sharp sent down a maiden to Price. "In Play in the Interport Cricket Matches was resumed on the 14th inst., when the game Straits the course of Billings's next over a most unfor- tunate accident occurred. Dr. Dane who was v. Shanghai was begun. Captain Wright was unlucky in again losing the toss. The field fielding at square leg was hit full on the face by was taken at twenty minutes past ten o'clock,
a swift ball off Lanning's bat and had to retire A. E. Lanning and McEuen being sent in to
for a time to the Pavilion, bleeding. This caused face the bowling of Mackenzie ani Sharp. a temporary stoppage of the ganie, until it was There was one change in the Straits team, Dr. announced that no serious consequences were Dane taking the place of D. Kerr. The umpires feared. On resuming, several singles were hit, were Messrs. R. 1. Lammert and W. F. Inglis, and Price brought the score up to the century the scorers Mr. D. Kerr for the Straits and Mr. by a straight drive off Sharp for 2. W. H. Lewis for Shanghai. R. C. Farbridge had now been in progress for two hours less ten captained the Shanghai team. Mackenzie opened minutes. Lanning had scored 30. He aug. the bowling from the lower end against McEnen,mented this by 4 with a beautiful snick in the who drove the third tail of the over to square leg for 2, the remainder of this end being an- eventful. Sharp's first ball was driven to leg by Lanning for 2. In the course of Mackenzie's next essay this bowler had a pretty snick to log for 3. Sharp sent down a stiff over to Lanning, .but got his last driven to leg nicely for 2.
batsman tried hard to get through the slips and was only prevented by sharp fielding on the part of Green. Barkshire at point was also picking up and returning well. Mac- kenzie's ensuing over against McEuen was a maiden. Off Sharp's end, Lanning got away a short hit to square leg. McEuen was finding difficulty in negotiating Mackenzie's bowling This bowler, gent down a second maiden to him in succession. Sharp's, next five were also tless and the game was dragging, McEuen liet by cutting Mackenzie to point Lanning following this up by ked 2-to leg--- Maidens were following ith wearisone frequency, Sharp wn another to McEuen. When of the game had gone the Whitley relieved Mackenzie.
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Gratrix
Franklin
15 2 81 1
0. ΔΙ R. W.
Bird and Gratrix, 1 wide each.
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+37 6
13 1 32 3
The
nd and was drawn round to leg nie. When ends were reversed. the first boundary hit of the driving Sharp to square leg, but with
The game
slips off Billings. Captain Wright now sent Mactaggart to take over the bowling at Sharp's end. This bowler's first over was taken by Lenning, who had a leg boundary off the fourth off the fifth ball. and a cut into the slips for When ends were again changed after a dull over from Billings's end, Lanning was easily caught off the new bowler by Green, third man in the slips, and retired for 10 after an innings of two hours and five minutes' duration. The telegraph board indicated 117 runs for 3. Potter joined Price at the wicket. The latter had a splendid drive to on for 4 off Mactaggart and a few balls later with a single brought his score up to 50. He was hitting out very strongly, not long afterwards he cut the same Green was bowler into the slips for 3, all run. proving himself to be the smartest man in the field; Voules at wicket, Barkshire at point, and Carter and Whitley were also putting in some good practice. Whitley took over the bowling from Mactaggart and had his first ball hit by Potter for 1, his third cut to point for 4, and his fourth drawn round to square leg, also for a boundary. When the tiffin-bell rang at 12:45, the score was 144 for 3 wickets, Price 59, Potter 12.
On the resumption of the game after the interval, Billings- opened against Price who
His score was rapidly approaching the century. He was playing with a dash and resource which promised to bring him that coveted honour when the hopes of the spectators were lashed by his being bowled by a swift low ball from Billings which failed to rise. Score, 193-7-93. As he retired to the Pavilion, Price was heartily applauded. He was decidedly unfortunate in being dismissed before complet- ing the century. W. H. Weippert, who followed him at the wicket, was clean bowled by Billings before breaking his Score, 196-8-0. Farbridge joined Stanion. against whom Mactaggart sent down the next over. It was badly punished. Stanion had off it a splendid 6 hit to leg and a boundary
duck.
ou drive. In all 14 runs were secured off this over. Whitley who took over the bowling at Mactaggart's end was hit twice to the boundary by Farbridge, viz., to square leg and to off, and lost 10 runs off his first essay. When ends were changed Stanion was cleverly caught by Barkshire at point: Score 223-9-22, Turnbull came last to the wicket. Against him Billings sent down a maiden. When a change of ends again occurred Farbridge had a well-driven 4 to off for 4. For the next ball, however, he was too late and his stumps fell for 17. Score 227 all out, the indings having lasted 3 hours and 45 minutes.
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After an interval of a few minutes Potter and : Mann opened the bowling against Vonles and Carter. Voules took the first ball from Potter, Carter facing Mann. After several short hits the first 10 was reached by Carter, sending Potter to the screen. The start proved to be most inauspicious for the Straits, for wher Mann sent down the first ball of his over, Carter played it hard" on wicket and retired with the score 10-1-1. Sharp joined Voules at but made a short stay - When scored only 1 he too fell and Mann's deadly bowling, which was almost every time. Score, 1221", up till now bowled four overs, not a single run stood who took Sharp's place micking him to leg off boundary, and stealing
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