on its best behaviour; and I was upset at only scoring 16 first innings; in fact, neither side did much the first day: the first innings closing thus North, 102; South, 155. The third day was the exciting one. Splendid batting on the part of Messrs. A. N. Hornby, R. P. Smith, Lockwood, and Daft himself, made the North score 242 in the second innings, and left the South 190 to win, and 3f hours to do it. "Rather a heavy task," was the general opinion. Mr. A. J. Webbe and myself hit 100 runs in 66 minutes; then he left at 101, for 41 a real good bit of batting. Mr. I. D. Walker 20, and my brother Fred 10 not out, enabled us to score the necessary runs. They were made in 2 hours and 25 minutes; and I had the satisfaction of scoring 114 not out for one of the most popular and scientific cricketers of his or any age.
The Gentlemen v. Players' matches were decidedly in favour of the Gentlemen that year. Two were won by them, the other drawn. The North v. South matches were played as usual; the South winning 1, and 2 were drawn; and the All-England, United South of England, and United North were busy all the season.
Individual innings of 300 runs and over in an innings were scored 3 times; of 200, 14 times; of 100 runs, more than 400 times.
I had the pleasure of seeing Gloucestershire at the head of the counties again. My batting and bowling performances during the season showed that I had played:
| Completed innings. |
Runs. | Average. | |
| For M.C.C ... | 7 | 494 | 70.4 |
| For Gentlemen v. Players ... | 5 | 309 | 61.4 |
| For South v. North ... | 7 | 474 | 67.5 |
| For Gloucestershire County ... | 11 | 890 | 80.10 |
| In first-class matches ... | 42 | 2622 | 62.18 |
Bowling in first-class matches:
| Overs. | Maidens. | Runs. | Wides. | Wickets. | Average. |
| 1550.1 ... | 638 ... | 2388 ... | 0 ... | 124 ... | 19.32 |
