LAND AND WATER.

Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 21

LAND AND WATER.

CRICKET.

Land and Water states that on their return from the Derby some of the Austra han Eleven came to grief from too freely indulging in the use of pea-shooters; the affair, however was settled by a small fine being imposed. The Notts County Committee have issued the following statement with reference to some to gWe the following facts: By an unintentional oversight seats were not reserved for the Australians at luncheon, and owing to the great number of people in the pavilion^accommodation could not be found for them at once, but they were informed that room would be made in a few minutes. -This they declined. Soon afterwards Capt. Holden, who had been absent, went to apologise for the omission to Mr Murdoch, who declined to acknowledge his presence, and several insulting remarks were then made to him by members of the Australian Eleven. , Subsequently Oapt. Holden, in the discharge of his duty as hop. sec, went on the ground for the purpose of seeing the wicket properly rolled, and was then ordered by the Australians to leave the ground, and told he had no business there. When the Btumps were, drawn at night, Mr Wright (one of the committee) went to Mr Murdoch and expressed* his regret that there had been any accidental omission with reference to the luncheon, and requested the Australian Meyen to lunch in the pavilion as his guests on the following day. Mr Murdoch, however, abruptly declined to accept any hospitality from .Nottinghamshire, saying that he would not look upon it any other light than a premeditated insult. Here the matter naturally ended, and Ihe committee much regret to record these Veto.'— Signed, ,W. H. C.Oates, Chairman of the Committee. On August 17th, 18th, and 19th, the Australians will play at Portsmouth, an eleven composed of past and present University students. , „ r Yorkshire has, at last, won a match, though only against the weak county of Derbyshire. The former scored 207 and 16 (for two wickets), thus winning by eight wickets. Derbyshire made only 158 and 64. The match Marylebone v. Leicester, to which we referred last week, as noticeable for thebig scoring of Barnes and Midwinter, ended in a draw-though it was virtually a great victory f,r the former. They, scored 546 m their only innings, of which Barnes scored 266, and Midwinter iB7. While they were in together 454 runs were put on, being the largest number ever made by two men without the loss of a wicket. They went in almost simultaneously, a id after Barnes got out Midwinter only stayed 1 11 3'runs were' added. Leicester scored 15^ a. d 164 (for eight wickets). Under Thirty beat Over Thirty at Lord's by 10 vicketsj making 359 and 33 (without a wicket do vn) 'against 267 and 122. For the losers Ul/ett played splendidly for 138 (the only big 8 ore he has made this season), and Mr Hornby 9l • while'forthe winners Bateß scored 144 (not O it), Midwinter 62, and Mr W. Patterson 57. Mr E, Tylecote made 39, and 110 for B. B. ag linst' the Royal A'rtMery. • In a match played by Horsham against the S .orrington Club, F. M. Lucas played a firsto ass iniings of 302, the highest individual score th's season, his off-drives being especially g °Anexcitingmatch betweenSussexand Derbyshire, was won by the former by only 3 runs tieir scores being 182 and 222, against 283 and 118. For the winners, Mr A. Trevor scored 61 and 63. For Derbyshire, Mr L. Docker made 60 and 39 ; Mr A. Shuker 86 and 10. Gloucester seems weak this season, for Middlesex beat her by 10 wickets, scoring 213 and 10 (with no wickets down), against Gloucester s 83 and 135. For the winners Mr G. B. Studd made 84; while for the losera Mr Vizard was highest scorer with 33 and 21. Surrey beat Middlesex by 25 runs, totaling 226 and 202, against 147 and 256. For Surrey Mr W. Read made 7 and 74 ; Mr S. Colman, 63 and 8; Mr A. P. Lucas, 53 and 1. The highest Middlesex scorers were Mr S. Scott with<3s and 126; Mr A. J. Webbe, with 31 * For I Zingari against Bullingdon Lord Eskdaile scored 108 (nqt out) ; while for Bulling, don Mr F. Evelyn ran up 105 and 45 (not out). Mr Renny-Tailyour scored 126 for the Royal Engineers against Aldershot. „..,,,. Middlesex beat Yorkshire by 3 wickets, totaling 187 and 43 (for 7 wickets) against 151 and 72? There were no large scores ; Ullyett being "best with 22 and 25. Surrey v. Gloucester was drawn when the former had made 186 against 255 and 45 for 7 wickets. For Surrey Morris Read scored 73, and Mr A. P. Lucas 52 ; for their opponents Midwinter made 77 and 3 (not out), Mr W. G. Grace' ss, Mr Gilbert 30 and 21. In Lancashire v. Somersetshire the former made' 237 in their only innings and won by one innings and 157 runs, the losers only securing 29 and 51. ' For the winners Pilling came out of hia shell with 78, and Barlow made 70. The ' Revellers beat the Orleans Club in a one-innings match by only 3 runs, scoring 206 to 203 'For the Revellers Mr A. J. Stanley went in first and carried out his bat for 119 ; for the losers Mr H: Rhodes made 63 and Mr C.I. Hunter so. Notts defeated Middlesex on June 13th by an innings and 1 run, running up 210 against 32 and 177. For the former Flowers scored 52; Barnes 49, and Scotton 45 ; for the losers Mr T. Pearson made 7 and 47, Mr A. Ford 10 and Yorkshire beat Kent by an innings and^O runs, the scores being 172 against 113 and 39. For Yorkshire Ullyett made 63, while for Kent the only man to score much was Lord Harris, with 62 and 7. . Lancashire v. Cambridge University was drawn through bad weather after some sensational play. Lancashire went in first and scored only 90, Mr O. T. Studd taking 8 wickets for 40 runs. Cambridge then went to the wickets, but were all disposed of for 31 runs, their best seven men ftoing down for !) runs; Barlow and Watson did all tho bowling. The Lancashire team in their secondinningslost 4 wickets for 61 runs when the game was drawn.