Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-24
CANADA FIELDS TOO WELL
International Cricket Match Won by th,
Manitoba Players.
BATTING ON BOTH SIDES IS WEAK
Bowiers Have the Better OF the Ar
gument and Sharp support
Holds the United states
Runners Fast.

Uncle Sans representatives yesterday
varied the usual program OF the continu-
Gus performance in the fighting line which
they have been giving OF late months by
getting skinned. The United States was de-
feated by Canada in the final match in the
tournament of the Northwestern Cricket
association. The score was 1886 to 12l at the
end Of one innings play.
The winning Canada team was the Mani
toba aggregation. They came to the tour
nament touted to win the championship
and that this opinion of them was not much
overdrawn was shown in the ease with
which they polished theii opponents. The
latter were made UP Of the cracks Of all
the other teams. The best bowlers, bats
and fields were picked out, Jumped together
and put UP against the Canadians. To be
sure, they were handicapped by a want Of
team play, but for all that the Manitobans
can 60 back home with a chesty feeling,
even II they did not win the championship.
The match wound UP the tournament and
was witnessed by a nice concourse of the
lovers of the game. II was close enough
to be interesting toward the windup and 1t
brought the lungs of the home rooters into
play. Yet the finish with which the Mani
toba lads brought the match to an end did
not go unrewarded, for they were greeted
with a great cheer when they came off the
field. Canada gave a yell for the United
States and another for the Omaha Cricket
club and there were more yells. All this
put everybody full Of good feeling toward
everybody else and the big tournament
wound up in a blaze Of good fellowship.
Lack of team work had a deal to do with
the result Of the match. The United States
contingent as a consequence felded some
what loosely. The thirteen extras that in
creased the Manitoba score tells something
OF this. They did not run very we'll, either.
In fact, they depended altogether on indi-
vidual work. But for all that Manitoba had
to play like champions to beat the cracks
and they did 1t. They felded finely and the
bowling was excellent. Goodwin and Davis
carried off big honors in the latter and
Pole cut out a nice bit Of glory for him
self with his pretty stops and catches.
Batters showed Well.
Manitoba made a big score in its innings.
Holmes did the best work with the bat,
making a total Of forty-eight before he
was caught out by Goodwin. Four of the
others got into the double figures and one
topped the twenty mark, Pole. They made
nice steady gains all the while and when
the eleventh wicket fell, for twelve men
played to a team, they had run UP q score
OF 1856.
The United States started in as If ii
meant to annihilate the Canadians. When
the second wicket fell they had Al runs
They kept piling them up all along until
with the fall of the seventh wicket lis runs
had been scored, more than Canada got al
the same stage in the game, but happily thf
supply Of heavy bats petered out then and
the final four wickets fell for only three
runs, giving the game to Canada by fifteen
runs.
The Chicago men had a good share in
boosting up the score. Beddow, one OF
them, went in at the start and stayed there
until the sixth wicket fell. He battcd very
carefully and scored 23 runs. Bradley Of
Chicago ably assisted with %. At the fall
Of the fifth wicket Joe Davis, another Chi
cagoan, came in. Davis would be a cracl
batsman even in Merrie England, and hi
and Beddow form a strong batting team
The critic %prophesied that they would make
enough runs to win, but the fates were
against the Stars and Stripes. The couple
ran very nicely, but Beddow was finally
caught out by a phenomenal play by Poil'
after the pair had added sixteen runs
Davis kept right on scoring until he hat
run up a total Of Al before being caugh'
out. He made quite a bunch of four-hits
twisted the leather Off safely in all sorts o.
caroms and ran excellently. The score wa!
11S when he left and 1t did not advance fal
afterward. The retirement of Davis seemed
to put life into the Canadians and the!
felded and bowled like professionals. Thu
consequence was that the next four wfc!.etI
fell for only three runs. The score:
CANADA