Portsmouth and Dorset Regiment

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

Portsmouth and Dorset Regiment is a cricket result published in the Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle on 8 september 1888.

Arthur Conan Doyle's team (Portsmouth) lost.


Portsmouth and Dorset Regiment

Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle (8 september 1888, p. 2)

Played on the U.S. (Men's) Ground, Portsmouth, on Saturday, and won on the first innings by the Dorset Regiment by 59 runs. A note-worthy feature of the match was the bowling of Sergeant Jacobs who captured the whole of the Portsmouth team's wickets. Score:—

DORSET REGT.

  • Corporal Woods, b Jones ... 13
  • Private Judd, st Smith ... 26
  • Private Woods, run out ... 4
  • Sergt. Jacobs, c Jones, b Smith ... 7
  • Segt. Steer, not out ... 32
  • Private Galton, c Pratt, b Smith ... 0
  • Srgt. Gilman, c Hartfell, b Smith ... 4
  • Private Vernon, run out ... 0
  • Sergt. Guppy, c and b Smith ... 6
  • Private Stanford, b Smith ...1
  • Private Dunn, b Smith ... 3
  • Extras ... 18
  • Total ... 114

PORTSMOUTH.

  • Smith, c and b Jacobs ... 0
  • Dr. Doyle, b Jacobs ... 20
  • Grant, b Jacobs ... 0
  • Wall, b Jacobs ... 0
  • Key, b Jacobs ... 23
  • Allen, b Jacobs ... 23
  • Pratt, b Jacobs ... 0
  • Williams, b Jacobs ... 2
  • Holloway, b Jacobs ... 0
  • Brunker, not out ... 3
  • Hartfell, b Jacobs ... 0
  • Extras ... 7
  • Total ... 50

In their second innings Portsmouth scored 42 for the loss of four wickets — Smith, c Jacobs, b Guppy, 5; Allan, c and b Jacobs, 6; Pratt, b Guppy, 5; Williams, b Jacobs, 12.