AN N A L S OF R KE T

A R E COR D OF T HE GA ME CO MPI L E D FR O M
A UT H E N T IC S OUR C E S ,

A N D

Mw
y o n E mm cns D UR IN G m L AS T M un -
m u n Yu m
.

W . W . R E A D
F or my y ear: a Member of tke S y
u rre Cou nty

WIT H A N IN T R ODUCT ION

J O H N S H UT E R ,

Captain Surrey Caun t] E lev ers .

SA MPS ON L ow, MA R S T ON CO M PA N Y
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L i ited

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FE T T E R L A N E , FL E E T ST RE E T . E C
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N OTE .

I HA VE endeavoured in this little book to say m ore about

the earl y days of th e gam e particularly as practised in or ,

near L ondon, than is to be fou nd in existing work s on

the subj ec t

e m ost im
.

A further and possibly th portant object I

had in view was to give to the m any thousand l overs of

cricket— wh o in their regular attendance at th

,
e O val ,

have foll owed the fortunes of the S urrey Cl ub som — e

pe rman en t r ecord of m y ow n d oings d uring th e last

For mh uc of the anti u e q history of cric e k t, which

appears for th e first tim e in this vol um e in book form I -

amindebted to th
,

e researches of friends .

My thanks are due to the Marquis de S anta S usana

for the exh austive records of m J M
M
y ow n d oings, r ohn .

S hu ter ch iefly for th

M
e I ntroduction and r Donald , .

cD onal d of L ee, K ent

, I also desire to tender .

my obligations to the following books and j ournal s for

much val uable information
W L amb t C i k t
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o e e ce r o s rs
M nti n f th W d— Bat and Ball in th 3 th 1 4th
e o o e or e 1 , ,

1 5 th a d 1 6th C nt i
,
n e ur es Pag es 1 1— 17

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s o u e e o o rc e ,

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a
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extends to S ussex and ot er h ounties

C HA PT E R II I .
— ry5 o T O 1 799 .

Crick et B
all— D u es and D uch k esses at Play—
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g g a te i n 1 79 7— G e n tl e e n 0 l ayer m
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C A PT E R I V H 1 S oo no 1 84 3 .
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and wli g ag
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C HA PT E R VI .
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Y earl y R ecords with Bat and Ball - L arg e S cores

P m
ro inent P
layers , A necdo tes, &c .
, & c. 1 54— 1 93

C HA PT E R VI I — M O WN Do m e s.

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at R e a te—
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t atch— H ow I eca e M b m
with t e S urrey C ounty Clu — F ull L is t of b
m y S co res in F irst Class C ric et at o e and in th e k Hm
m
-

C ol o nies— C en tur ies — o wlin A nalyses— A B Co pl ete

L ist of C ric eters I h k ave p yed with or ag ainst, and
th e C ounties th ey represen ted 240

C HA PT E R VIE — E vo w rxo u o r Bu , BA L L Wrcm , ,

A N D D nnss .

The S seraC urved B at— T h

r— T
M
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Bat— y B at L as t Y e a r— T h e ill o w T ree
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-

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p H a t
B
and W
races in 1 82 7 T he hite T o p H at in 1 840
.

C urls and Collars in 1 86 5 — A F air R epresentation in

1 89s— N otch in g and S coring

C HA PT E R I! — Cs l c m GR O UN DS .

Manag mnt in E gland I n th T pi

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C m mns Villag G n I nn Padd
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o o e ree s ock s Pu lic b

Pa k — L d T h O al &
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 I NT R O D UCT I O N .

Hae c been intim ately associated with r Walter M

Wil liamR ead in S urrey cricket for m
.

any years pas t it ,

has been suggested that I shoul d add a few words as

piled by thony Benitez de L ugo Marquis de S anta

A n ,

S usana a good portion of wh

, ich it is proposed to lay
before the pu blic I need hardly say that I undertake
.

the pu blic for so m any years it m ay surprise som e of

his m any adm

,

irers to learn that even now h e is only in

his forty first year, having been born at R eigate in S urrey

-

on N ovem
, ,

ber 3 3rd, 1 8 5 5 .

I n very early life h e evinced not onl y a great fondness

e K ing of Gam
,

but also a natural aptitude, for th es as ,

is shown by th e fact that at th e age of thirteen when ,

playing for the R eigate Priory Cricket Cl ub, of which

be was a m em ber against T onbridge, he went in first
e great Bob I ipscom
, ,

and th ough opposed to th be the ,

well known K ent bowler, he m

-
ade th e large score of

seventy eight not out

- T h is was onl y a foretaste of what
.

was to com e, and for several years he continued to

represent h is cl ub with invariable success
mittee of the S urrey County Cricket Club
.

T h e Com ,

not slo M
.
’
w to rec ognise r R eed s abilities and in 1 8 7 3 , ,

when only seventeen years of age, he was asked to

represent h is native county S ince that time r R eed M .

has not m
.

issed a seas on though it was not u ntil 1 88 1

,
 8 I N T R OD UC T I ON .

that he was a ble to devote his wh ole time to county

c ric e k t .

T he t t tics referred to are so thorough that it is

s a i
s

hardly necessary to m
M
ention any figures h ere but when

I recall the fact that up to the present tim

,

e r R eed .

has com p i
l ed th e im m e ns e agg g re a te o f ru n s ,

with an average of for 7 4 7 innings, it w ill readily

be understood h ow invaluable h is services h ave been and ,

what a large share h e can claim of th e success which

has attended his county and first class cricket generally

M
-
.

It was undoubtedly R eed s phenom enal scoring

’
r

which first attracted to the O val those im mense crowds

.

to which we are accustom ed at th e present tim e and ,

without which u nfortunately it is difficul t to carry on

, ,

M
successfu ll y a large cou nty crick et cl ub .

It is not m y inte nt ion to rec ap i tu la t e r R ea d s .

’

g rea t d oi ng s a s ev ery in te res t in g fa c t co nn ec te d w ith

emis given in th
,

th e accom p an y i n g p g a es : suffi ce it to

say that at o ne tim e or anoth er h e h as figured in all

th e c lassic m atches A m ongst th
. e m ore im portant of
these he has represented E ngland v A ustralia on twelve .

occasions at h om e with an average of and on

twenty two occasions he has played for the Gentlem
,

-
en

o f E ngland 0 Players o f E ngland with an average of

.

M
2 8. 4 0 .

Probably r. R ea ds
’
m t imp
when
os ortan t feat was
playing for E ngland v A ustral ia at the O val on A ugus t
.
,

1 1 th , n th and 1 3 th 1 88 4 H e went in tenth and scored

eu ach ievem
, , .
,

1 1 7 — en t which probably no one wh o was

fortu nate enoug h to witness wil l ever forget Grand .

innings though it undou btedly was it wil l of course not

c om
, , ,

pare in point of runs to his wonderful scoring in

1 8 8 7 , when i n successive m atches for S urrey 0 L anca

shire and Cam bridge University respectivel y he m

.

ade
 I N T R OD UC T I ON .
9

24 7 and 2 44 not y 0 O xford

out, and 33 8 for S urre .

University, in 1 888 the latter score with the exception , ,

of D r W G Grace s 3 44 at Canterbury being th e highest

’
. . .
,

M M
individual innings in a first c lass fixture until 1 8 9 5 when -
,

it was eclipsed by r A C ac L aren wh o scored 4 2 4 . .

for I a ncas hire 19 S om

.
,

erset at T au nton on J ul y 1 5 th

M
.
.
, ,

T wic e h as r R ead visited A ustral ia firstly, in

Ivo Blighs team when h
.

1 88 2 3 , with th e H on e h ad
’
- .

in all m
,

atch

M
an average of es and secondl y, , ,

with r Vernon s team in 1 8 8

’
7 8 wh en he a ve ra g e d -

for all m
.
, ,

atches and for eleven aside

matches the latter average being the record for E nglish
,

team
,

M
s in A ustralia

R ead does not h owever excel as a batsm

.

r an

A s a fieldsm
.
, ,

onl y . an though not brilliant he is very , ,

and h as greatly d istingu ish ed him

”
safe , self at p o in t ,

which is his favourite position when playing for his

county I n th
. e cou nt ry he is a sure catch A s a .

lob bowler too h e h

”
-
as o ften proved of c onsiderable

A t S carborough on S eptem
, ,

service to h is side . ber .

3 rd 4
, th an d 5 th ,1 8 9 1 in th e m a tch for G en tl em e n v .

S h erwin s N ottinghamE leven h

, ,
’
e did th e hat trick ”

is victim
, ,

and here are h s w ith their scores, and h ow be

disposed of them: D r D ixon b R ead 0 ; W B arnes .

, , .
,

c S toddart b R ead 1 7 ; W Gunn b R ead 4 0

, , .
, , .

I cannot conclude this brief sketch without a short

reference to r M
R ead s personal character both on
.
’
,

and 0 6 th e crick et field I n spite of his wonderful

-

as ever m e sam
.

successes h e h aintained th e m odest and

u nassum ing m anner wh ich h as m ade h im a h ost of

friends A lways ch eerful and ready to m
. ake th e best O f

a bad position, with a tem p e r t ha t n oth ing ca n ru ffle ,

he is a m odel of what a cricketer on th e field sh oul d

be O fl th e cricket fiel d only th ose wh

'

. o have been
-
,
 10 I N T R OD UC T I ON .

inti mat lye q

ac uain ed t with him can Appre ciate his

genu ine u prig htness and unselfishness , and h is charac

mp
M
teristic good te er and genial i
ty .

I wil l add, in conclusion, a hope that r. R ea d

may b pa e S re d to the l overs of icket for
cr many years
t
o m bco e, when the tim
ut e does arrive for h imto
pu bl ic career I am safely assert that the
m
,

gam e wil l l ose a sterl ing an and o ne o f the fi nes t

exponents of ou r national pastim
,

e that E ngland h as ever

produced .

J O H N S H UT E R .
 A N N A L S OF C R IC K E T .

CH A PT E R I .

A N c rr
tN T T I M E S T o A D . 1 705 .

A Grecian and R ma
o n Ga m e— T he A ncient B it n r o s— First M ention

of the W ord— C rickt e in the 1 3th, 1 4th, 1 5 th, and h

1 6t

T mN: t
a ional Ga m e of E present form
nglan d in its
is undeniably th e ou tgrowth of an ath l etic sport of
very ancient tim es A l though th
. e cl osest researc h

has been m ade th e exact per iod of its rise is a qu estion

involved in m
,

uch uncertainty and has occasioned a

,

g r ea t d ea l o f di sp u t at io n T h e e.arlies t r e c o rd s w e ha ve

Of th e gam es indulged in by th e people of th e m ost

p ri m itiv e ag es a r e sil en t w ith reg ar d to th e ga m e o f

cricket in any formapproach ing that which it assu m ed

a few centuries later ; ye t wh il e ce rta, in w r iter s ag ree

that it has spu ing from the early B ritons there is no

m m
,

g a in sa yin g th e a r g u e n t th a t so m e of th e O l y p i c an d
I sthm ian gam es of th e Greeks inclu ded striking a bal l

with a stick or club and that the Persians of old

m
,

p la ye d a v er y si ila r ga m e
!
B ey on d a r e as o n ab l e su r

mise however, there certainly is nothing authentic to

.

A e i al of the O ly m pian games i n templated for the matt has been

m m
r v v s co , er
t dhcu ssed, and the idea is the ontco e of a ce h el d iu Paris.
8 0 th at we m
ay yet feast our eyes on th e repetition of a h ighfes tival th at was
In days of old counted as the greatest of the year. and recorved th
m m
e petronage
of E perors and the agnates of bothG reece and Ital . e fear the s lendou r W p
of th m
e entertain en ts wil l never be sh o wn in its 0 glories. but there is no
reason wh y the gath erln of th e best a ateur ath m
l etes and ex onents of various p
spa ts sh
-
ould not p interesting and s uccessful. A s cricket is down
m
rove
to tak e a leading part we sh all hap e to witness th e perfor anee a credit to
the British nation, and th e heroes h onoured as wou ld be in our uational
grou nde at m
A ll this see s very curious au quaint still , we wish th
m
e
new O l y piad th e success it deserves.
 12 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

h
s ow that these sports d irectly influenced the initiation
o f th e pastim e with wh ich we are concerned Physical
.

recreations w ith t h ese great nations were ever m atters

of weigh ty consideratio n and no doubt when the

, , ,

natives of B ritain subm itted to th e R om an yoke it is ,

natu ral to suppose th at th e m anners and diversions of

th e conqu erors woul d be introd u ced .

We can im ag ine that with th e young B riton whilst

,

tending the cattle stone throwing would com

-
e in for a

m
,

g ood d ea l o f at te n t io n ; an d to pe r fec t h i se lf in

wou ld throw at a tree or som

,

aim ing straight h e , e

obj ec t set u p for th e purpose ; and wh en such recrea

it would assum
,

tion took plac e am ongst com rades , e

by em ulation and rival ry th e prin ciples and character

of a devel oping sport or gam e .

From th is beginning som eone m ore enterprising than

his fellows would undertake to defend the obj ect

attack ed by m eans of a stick extem d f
'

p o n s e o ut o a
branch tom 06 a tree ; and throwing a hard stone
wou ld be m odified into pitching or bowl ing ; and it
may be that, as a regulation of the contest the striker, ,

wh en fortunate enough to get away the stone would ,

have to run a certain distance and som , e rec ord would

be kept of th e Victor s d oings

’
. We have endeavoured
to ill ustrate such a scene in our picture facing page
it . T h e cl ub was an early weapon of defence ; any

well grown bough would forma cl ub and experience

-

would soon have taught the user to gras p the sm

,

aller
e nd to increase th e force of th e blow .

S om ething introd uced to take the place of a stone

as a ball wou ld in all probability be m ade of wood,

and th is sim pl e im p ro v e m en t w o ul d l ead to th e su bs eq u e nt

invention of so m ething m ore co m plex as the B rito n
advanced in all th e arts of increasing civil i zation .
 A NCIE NT T I MS E T O A D . . 1 7 5
0 . 1 3

Club hall was, indubitably, pract ised by the S axons,

-

and afterwards by the N or ans, and fro the carried m m m

tho ugh th
r e various h k d dynasties unc ec e

In m
.

any obscu re villages cou ntry people u ntil quite

recently have am used th em

,

selves with rou gh an d ready

took which served th e purpose of both wicket and

bet
ma ly m
.

T his then, m
n ay j ustly be considered as
ga e,

of long stand ing and wide difiusion ; and th e wh

'

o le

subject is so interesting that I hope to trace with

tolerable accu racy th e progress of th e gam e, which no

ad its beginning fro msom e su ch m

,

doubt h , ethod as

that I h ave described resem bling single wicket .

Under date S ept 2 9 1 85 0 a letter from A l exis

.
“
, ,

appears in B ell : L ife on th e su bj ect When was

’
,

Cricket I nvented H e says : T h e earlies t m ention

of crick et playing in E ngland is in th

-
e poetic writings

of J oseph of E xeter r1 80 wh o sings, in th e old , ,

T he you th at cricks did pl ay

T hroughou t the m erry day .
’

H e then proceeds describe the gam eto which is ,

evidentl y the sam e as our cricket H e talks of th e .

two sticks with a third across th e top ; of one kn i g h t

throwing th e ball at these stick s and of anoth er trying

all hitting them while a third player a

,

to prevent th e h , ,

serf stops th
, e ball when it passes th e sticks We have .
,

however an earlier record than this of its being played

in Ital y by E ustatius Cartonius a m
,

onk of th e ei ghth ,

H e says it was m
,

century . u ch play ed a t Fl oren ce ,

the eardinals even being present to witness th e sport .

It is described by himm u ch in the sam e m anner as by

Joseph of E xeter Chaucer m

. entions cricket in

his Canterbury T ales .

 1 4 AN N ALS OF CR I CK E T .

his is reprinted for what m

T y rea d ers m ay co n sid e r it
worth I have m ade every endeavour to discover th e

es are m
.

writings of th e individual s whose nam entioned ,

but have failed .

O ur illu stration at page 1 4 , representing a gam e of

bat and ball in th e thirteenth century is taken from ,

a drawing in a geneal ogical roll of th e kings of E ngland

in th e tim e of H enry III in th e R oyal L ibrary .

,
.

T h e origin of th e wor cricket has been variously

explained by difierent au thors and it is noteworthy
'

, ,

after th e foregoing statem en t that one of the first

dictionaries to m
,

ak e use of th e word s cricket or

wicket, in the sense now u nderstood appears to be

”
,
’
Giovanni Florio s published in 1 5 9 5 in Italy ( with
, ,

anoth
“
er edition printed in L o ndo n in 1 5 9 8 entitled A ,

Worlde of Wordes Most Copious and E xact where is

found th e word sgn ttan defined as to m ake a noise
’

as a cricket ; to play crick et a wicket, and be m

M
”
erry - -
.

I n th e rom ance of Merlin the ag ician, wh o

fl ourished in the tim e of E dward I ( 1 2 7 2 t o a .

work in the language of Gaul is found the paragraph ,

which translates as follows : T wo of Vortigern s em is

’

sat ies fel l in with certain children wh o were playing at

mcket T he word is, of course in the French [armsse

’
-

and I amat one with Dunlop in th

.
, , ,

e interpretation

which is taken fromhis History of Fiction

,
”
.

Cricket seem s to have been one of th e gam es played

by young princes even in these early days for in the

Gentlem an s agaz ine
’ ”
volM 5 8 (fo r th e y,e a r .
,

pa rt first p 1 8 9
, u nd e
.r da te M ar
,c h 6 a l ett e r sig n e d ,
“ ”
W and D runs as follows
. .

In the Ho sehol d
u A ccount of the a8th year of K ing E dward
the Fir
st (A d ) . 1 300 ) pu bli hd
s e last year by th e S ociety of A n
tiquaries, a mng o the entries of m oney issued for the use of his son,
 A N CI E N T TI M E S T o 1 705 . 1 5

m J
Do ino h
o anni de L eek , es pell ano do mini E dwa dl fil ad r . crsa
g
et alios l u dos per vi
ces , per man us pr0 r p ia a psd W tm
u 1 0 es . die
”
A pril s 1 00 S
'

p. . 1 57 .

I t is rema k d i r e the preface, p.

n xl i
ii, that there is no word in

the Giossaries th ga e in wh
at co es near th is m
ich creag sense of a m -

coul d h b
bu t, as I appreh end, l ig ht will be th
mMM
ave een used ; rown

upon it by th m
M M
e foll owing extract of a letter fro r aurice, j a , .

to r R og er Gal e, dated
. ay 1 3th, 1 74 3 , and printed in Biblioth .

T opog . B itan
rPa t II I N O. II . r .
p .
3 93 : O n discourse of

m
, , ,

la
p y s, th at b ing
th
o serv i
n t n t e s ru e used th ereat g enerall y gives th e

d n minati n t
e o th gam; and
o n o e e o recoll ec ting all of th e all b
m
,

h Balling
M
l
p ya d b y
s use t G k and R a n e ree s o s , and consul ti
ng er Dc
r:
“

Vet , R ouse, Godwyn, and K ennet, find no t hing of k

cric et

there, a very favourite g a e with our youn g gentl e en, I conceive m m

it a S axon ga e called m
ccc, a crook ed cl u , as the bat is m ’

b
wh ere with they strike th e ball ; as bi
lliards , l take to be a N 0r an m
pasti e mfro the bill a m
rt, a stick so cal l ed, with which they do the

li k h
e t ereat.
”

T h iation
e var of creag fio '
mmk ce is certainl y not very great,
and considering the l ong lapse of m
ti e, cricket cannot be m
dee ed
an extraordinary corruption of eit er o f h those words . I s it not,
there fore , a pro a b bl e concl usion , fro m th ab e ove cited article in
the wardro e account, b that cric ket was an ol d E nglish g a m e

that al mt
os 5 00 years ago it was really so deno inated—m and
that then it was a favourite pas ti e with the rince m P of Wal es.

N or is it unli ely, bu t th at ohn k

de L eek , h is J Highn ess s
’

MBr. t has suggested that in a proclam

arring on ation
of E dward III 1 3 6 3, cricket is alluded to under .
,

two L atin words denoting the ball and h at sport , .

Junius thinks it owes it origin to the A nglo S axon

word mm which m
’

eans a crook ed stick or

handy ; or from Grim cs rim a stafl with which

,
'

balls were struck

e nam
.

T h e given to a wooden stool in m any country

districts to th is day is a cricket, and the following
“ ”

curious old lines serve to illustrate the word in this sense .

 1 6 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

T hey mt us have been written over two hundred years

A C UR E FO R L O VE .

T he one end of a rope fasten over a heam

mak m;
,

A nd e a sl ip noose at the hot er extre e

T hen jus t underneath let a set cricket he

e l over m ost m
,

O n wh ich l et th anfully get .

T hen over h is head let th e snicket h e g ot ,

A nd under one car be well settl ed th e kno t ;

T he mcka kick d down, l et h imtake a fair swing

‘
‘ ’
,

A nd leave all th e rest of the work to th e string .

A s to wicket gam
a single- e in th e fourteenth centu ry

whatever nam e m tim

,

ay have been given it at th e e ,

there is satisfying pro of in th e fol lowi ng fact

In th e U niversity L ibrary at O xford says J oseph

”

S ports and Pastim

, ,

S trutt, in h is ”
es, publi shed in 1 80 1 ,

is a m anuscript dated 1 3 4 4, and num bered 2 64,

which represents the figure of a m
,

onk (an u p to date - -

definition of the person pictu red) in the act of howling

a bal l to anoth er wh o el evates a straight h
, at to strike
it ; behind th e bo wler are several figures, waiting to
stop or catch th e h all their attitudes grotesquely eager
e gam
,

T h clu b h
’
for a chance . e is called all but ‘
-
’

e score is m
,

th
”
ade by hitting and running as in cricket , .

A t page 1 4 th ere is given an ill ustration of th is

p ic tu re fro m S tr utt e ho ok o m itt i
’
n g th e su rro un d in g
figures as they have been dam
,

M
aged A nother repre .

scu tation on th e sam e a

p g e is fro m a S book o f
Prayers beautifully written and illum
.

inated abou t the

sam e t im
, ,

e .

S oon after th is period th e wh ole country was th rown

into a disturbed state of internal strife civil war raging

alm ost fromend to end and m
,

any books and records

,

of earlier doings were ordered to be destroyed on

account of witchcraft with wh ich th ey were th , ought to
 A N CI E N T T I M E S T 0 A D . 1 70 5 .

be affecte dthat we have little record of sports

, so

during these dark tim es .

T h e next reference that h as com e under notice is

that again by Barrington in his R em arks on th e
”
M ore A ncient S tatutes N o 1 7 of E dward IV in
O n accou nt of som
. .
, ,

1 477 th us e sold iers being

e gam
,

found pilfering and gam ing th e of H andy» and

H andou tc a k ind of cricket was no l onger all owed , ,

oever perm it ted it was l iabl e to im

,

and wh priso nm en t
for two years and th e players were to be fi ned £ 1 0

M
Grace refers to the m
, .

A gain r . ention of crick et

during Queen s E lizabeth s reign as being played near

’ ’

Guildford by scholars of the Free S chool in that town ,

a sem inary founded and endowed in 1 5 0 9 ; and th en

nearl y a century interven es before we can discover
anoth er re ference to th e gam nam el y in C otgrave s
’
e , ,

French and E ngl ish D ictionary pu blished in 1 6 1 1 where , ,

th e w ord trarre is translated cricket staf e .

O ur next concern is with th e doi ngs of a you ng

scholar at Winchester College in 1 6 5 0 nam ed , K en ,

( aft erwards a b ish o p) w ho ,

is fo u n d a tt em p ting to

wiel d a cricket bat an d th irty five years later we read -

in a work by E dward Ph illips (a neph ew of th e great

poet M ilton) cal led T h e Mysteries of L ove and

in respec t of som
,

E legance ”
,
e difficu lty which he
had experienced with a lady Woul d m y ey es ha d
been beat ou t of m
,

h ea d w ith a cr ick et ball th e da y

y
before I saw thee ! A ltogether a very rem arkable

I n S trype s edition of S tow s S urvey of L o ndon, a

’ ’

gen eral view o f the pasti es of its i

n habim
tants is given,

amng t
o s which Cricket i m s en tioned .

W
 CHA PT E R II .

1 700 to i 749

E arly R eference in a N ewspaper— A Mh atc in K ent in 1 705

T h old P Walworth C mmn in
oets C ricket—
m
e on o o 1 705

C icket in S H — T h P W
1 7s3 — M
r y and a urre e rin e f a l l
p ya in s c o es s

ul y H t — Many L ords pat ni

0 se th Gamurs ro ze e e

R yalty play
o n K nnington Com
s mn 1 737 K nt Beats
o e o ,
— e

L ondon and S urrey in 1 —

7 37 R oyal ty la
p ys at K ew in 1 737

T he Folly of C ric k
743 K ent h eats A ll E
et, 1 — ng land, 744
1

A gain in k
1 746 — C ric et E xtends to S ussex and ot erh Counties .

A r the c ommencement of the ei

hteenth
g cen ury t we
co m e to a period in which the foundations of many of

i mmn h took place in the custom

e se c anges s of everyday

life ; and th e industrial and com mercial expansions of

E ngland are so prom inent a fact A gr e a t l ite ra tu re ,

moreover had been evolved, and from amongst the

.

dictionaries of the tim

,

e I cull th e following references

tending to el ucidate th e ori gin of the w o rd C r ic k et :

Cmrw m m who p y C k t
’

r g po, s— o n e la s r ic e , a
Cricketer ( R ichelet, A kind of play with a ball
( I . R , . A gam e with b ats an d b a lls ( P hill i ps ,

A sort of play ( K ersey A g a m e lik e

all (J am A gam
,

clu b h -
ieson e played w ith bats

e nam
,

and balls ( Bayley T h e of

, an exercise
with bats and balls ( Dyeke, A play ( Dr L ittle .

ton 1 , A sport at which contenders drive a h all with

sticks or bats in Opposition to each other Dr J ohnson
( ) .

C lu b h all was th
-
e ancestor of Cricket ( Fosh roke
)
It is evident that the gam
.

e was played by boys or

 1 700 T O 1 7 49 . 19

others at this tim e round L ondon, for th e fol lowing

notice appears in T ile Postman for A pril 3 rd, 1 7 0 5 .

T his is to give uotice to any persons whatsoever that they do

answer
the sa m wh
e cn they are sued at law for so doing .

m tim th i g tti g away f mthe

A t the sa e e ere s no e n ro

fa t that g ntl mn f
c me d g
e aeth pat o i d
e o so e ree or no er r n se

th gam f e w tak th f ll wi g a n n mnt

e, or e e e o o n n ou ce e

f omT il P tm
r a d aily b ad h
e t f th tim It
os an— ro s ee o e e.

is dated J uly 24 t h, 1 7 5,
0 and t e h paragraph d
rea s :

T lns is to give notioe th

’

at a atch at Cricket will h m

e plaid

( )
s rc
’

betw een eieven gen tie en of th e W est parm

t of K ent a nd
th ose of Ch atha m
for 1 1 g nineas a an , th e ga e to tske place m m
at M
aulden, in K ent, on A u gust 7 th next .

I aminclined to think that this word Maulden is

intended for the village now known as Malling ; for it
was h ere that one of th e first of the recognised grounds

was form ed and for m any years it was used for the coun ty

matches N o record of this match appears to have

,

been m
.

ade in any of th e prints of th e day, so far as

my investigations assist me .

N o au thenticated paper h as been d iscovered relative

to any h ero in th e gam e previous to th e year 1 7 1 9,

when Jenkin, in T hom

M
’
as D Urfey s
’
Pills to Purge
elanch ol y, appears to h
”
ave been fairly bowled out by
l ove H ere is the stanza referred to
.

S ince cruel L ove pursued him ,

A nd 1i b reast all uri

ng

H er wounded past all curing .

 20 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

Beyond such scraps as this it seem s rem arkable that

th e ol d tim e poets sh ou ld have alm
-
ost entirely i g no red
th e gam e ; and indeed crick et does not appear to have

attracted m uch not ice in com parison with other sports ,

of a really tr ivial ch arac ter nearly all of wh ich h ad ,

th eir historians O ur great S hakespeare, above all

.

oth ers as his writ ings abound with sim il es drawn from
so m
,

any d irect ions one wou ld have expected to h ,

ave

a d eal to say bu t all th e passages th

,
at I h ave been

abl e to gath er are fi rstl y the lines attributed to S oam e

m
, ,

J y
e n ns w ho s eem ed in his i itation s o f H o race t o

have considered c ricket a very sporting am usem

, , ,

en t,

for h e writes :

E ngl an d, when once at peace and weal th possest,

B eg an to thin k frug al ity a j est,

S o gre w polite, hence all her well -

bred heirs ,

secon dly , b
a ou t the sa me tim e A lexander P0pe s face
’

tious l ines
T he j udge to dance his brother sergeants cal l ,

T he senators at cric ket urg e the ball ;

and, thirdly the words of Duncom be who m ust have ,

wooing his m
,

been u se near Canterbu ry wh en he wrote

A n md
ill ti
- e cricket- mat h th c ere did
A t Bi h p b
s o s ourne b fall ;
e

(S ir H ati Mann
or o , a g eat
r icketer
cr of his m
ti e, resided at

Bourne Pla n a h ce , e r ere .

)
and in anot er h pl ace we find
We have not any cricketer

Of suc h account as be .

In anpoem on cricket by Jam

ol d es L ove a poet ,

and com an of L ondon, written in 1 7 7 0, occu r th

edi e

First of all sports , be first k

ali e in fa m e.
 1 7 00 T O 1 7 49. 21

These lines are so often quoted nowadays that it will

interest m any to know th e source of their ori in
g . L ove
used to write pieces for th e great actor, Garrick .

S tay, here K fertile in h ch hops

’
s ent, p ea sa t
ns erries,

mn m C ol em
, ,

yeo e codlings, an d cu —
. an th e Younger : T he

ma
,

Poor Gentle n,
”
c h IV . .

Chaucer I have already rem ark ed h as som eth ing to

e gam
, ,

say on th e in h
”
is Canterbury T ales, and so
does L ord Byron as will be seen later on , .

A noth er poser for th ose writers wh o woul d have us

believe that cricket in these olden days was nothing

more or less than an orgie participated in by local
rusties in th e tea gardens and fields attached to publ ic
-

hou ses is supplied by the stirring lines of poetry

,

which were considered sufi ciently attractive to form

th e subj ect for an exercise at th e M erch ant T aylors
’

S chool som etim

M
e previous to O ctober 1 7 5 6, in wh ich ,

year it was published in the Gentlem an? agazine .

I t is a safe illustration of th e fact that the gam e

was a legitim ate sport, recognised in th e h ighest grades
of society or it woul d never have been perm
, itted
in association with th e teachings of th e scholars of a

g re at institutio n .

CR I C K E T

M
.

Pa e ce, and her arts, we sing— her genial r

C an give the breast to pant th e th

’ ’
o t to por
u ,

T ho gui l tless, ingl orious fouls inspires,

’
not
b
A nd oasts less savage, not less no le sires b .

S uch is her sway, wh en Crick et calls h er trai

n,
T he sons of la bo ur, to the accusto md plain
’
,

W thall
i th
hero s passion and desire,
e
’

T hey swelhthey gl ow th ey envy and admire ,

D espair and resolution re ign by turns ,

S uspense m
tcr ents, and e m ul ation urns, b
 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

S ee l in due rsnk disposed, they intent stand,

In act to start— th e foot, th

e eye , th e hand,

T ho list
’
al l m ing and whil p
ov e esent
r gone

mbat f mth Pa ti i
, , ,

In ancien t co ro e r t on steed

m
,

N ot ore u ne ing fl w th ba b d
rr e e r e reed

han rolls the bal ith vary d vigour l d

‘ ’
T a
p y ,

N ow toss d to rise
’
m ore fro mth e ground,

E xact and faithful to th

’
appointed bo und,

Yet vain its speed, yet vain its certain ai m;

he wary batsm watch h g m
’
T an es o er t e a e:

N ow wh eels obliq ue, now m ting th at oun re s t e h

l vain th wa y bat m bl w ’
N O1 yet ess e ran s s o ,

E mbl m f ma y
e o n colour d
-
’
life -
the S tate

By cricket rules discri inates the great

-
m
27“ outward ride, wh o pl ace and profit want,

Wat h to c se and
surpri la bo ur to supplant.

While those who taste the sweets o f present winnings,

L abour heartil y to keep their inn ings
as

m
.

On eith er side th e wh ole great ga e is played ,

Untry d no sh ’
ift is left unfough
, t no aid ,

S kill vies with skill, and paw t contends withpow r,

’ ’

A nd squ int ey d prej udice com h m

’
pu tes t e r

I n private life, li k e J ing le bande d play

’
rr

We get less h
notc es , but we mt l ee ess cares,

F ull many a l usty efiort,

'

at court

Wid e of its ma k r , or m
i potent to rise,

Y et all in public, and in private, strive

T o keep th e ball of action still alive,

A nd,
j to a li w h
us t
en each his ground hss run
m
,

m
,

D eathnpr tbe cbd , and the ga e is done.

‘
 1 7 00 T O 1 7 49 . 33

Notwithstanding what has been said it seem s clear

these tim
,

that on th e whol e cricket was in es rather

the sport of th e at tirah and local rustics, on vil lage

gre en s an d on O pen c omm ons as a refresher to th eir

em
,

spirits after working hours ; and that th

-
e only m bers
of th e aristocracy who gave countenance to th e gam e

were those gentlem en wh o found am usem ent in it from

a purely sporting standpoint .

It also seem s rem arkable that th e best known of

these village clubs shou ld have first established them

to Farnhamand S utton in S urrey Maidstone and

wit,
S om
, ,

S evenoalts, in K ent e writers have gone so far as

e aroma fromth
.

to assu m e this to be on account of th e

the strength of the hom

d ale wh ich required a
eb -
rewe

m
,

g a e in wh ich th ere was a su pe ra bu nd an ce of ex erc ise ,

to work 03 th e eflects of th In th
“ '

e alcoh olic spirit e

Badm inton volum

.

e on cricket it is stated that K ent

beat A l l E ngland in n u and that it was afterwards ,

th e su bj ect of a law suit but th -

e earl iest record I have

been able to discover of a m

,

atch being played that

was considered sufi ciently im po rta n t to p u t into p rin t

is th at in 1 7 0 5 given o n pag e 1 9 a nd a no th er ea rly
e m e Gentl em
, ,

notice is th atch between th

M
en of L ondon

and those of S u rrey at oulsey H urst reported in th e

e sum mer of 1 7 23 the sides

, ,

D aily Cou rant during th

, ,

being afterwards entertained by Frederick, Prince of

Wales at Ham pt on C our t .

It is also evident that in these early days the gam

,

had found its way into som e of our great coll eges for ,

it h as been left on record by Horace Walpole who ,

was sent to E ton in 1 7 2 6 th at

“
playing at cricket
was com mon at that time A gain some years later he
,
”
.
, ,
 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

writes at his L etters : I never

page 4 in vol . I . of
“ ” “

a m atch at m cket m
,

was quite a sch oolboy :

ay be a
‘

very pretty thing to recollec t but I can rem em ber ,

th ings that are very near as pretty ; and in 1 7 4 9 h

”
e

speaks of L ord M ountford m aking cricket m atch es and

fetch ing up persons to play on R ichm

,

ond Green L ord .

S towell was fond of cricket and h ad th e grou nd m ade at ,

H olt L ord Ch esterfield and L ord J ohn S ackville were

.

also patrons of th e gam e T h e fourth E arl of Carlisl e .

learnt cricket at th e sam e tim e at E ton and h e speaks

e m
,

of being u p very early in th orning playing A nother .

celebrity of th e tim e in S ir R ich ard S teele declares

that as m uch as h e delighted in th e cou ntry folk,

they do now and then throw a pot of ale at m

,

y
head, and som etim es an u nl ucky player will drive h is
cricket bal l full in m
”
-
y fa ce .

I cull the following item s frompu blished records of

matches made about this time

Fromthe Country j ournal J une a6th 1 7 3 6
.

, ,

mmn b tw n th
Co o e ee e Gentle mn e of L ondon and those of

M ham in S y wa
ec , ur
re , s won by the for m er by a considera bl e

mb f t h
mT M
nu er o no c es .

Here is a curious mat h c taken fro 014 V/l rjg

P
for Jul y rst, 1 73 6
On T hursday last two fam ous R ichmond men, who have beat
they h being esteemed the best two in
M
all ave pl ayed ag ainst ,

mmn
M
ngland, p ay d K ennington ag ainst
‘
E l at C rick et at Co o r.

Wak land e , the D istiller, and r. George O ldner (who m thy e

b at b f
e e ore at S ing le W
icket) , when a ball co ming abou t b ea t
r s

hig h to one of th e R ich ond m

en, m h e struc k at it, and it hit
up ag ainst the side of his nose, b k hi ro e s nose, hurt his eye, and

b ruised his face in a mt os ad m

s ann er, and l ost a great quantity
of bl ood ; yet h
notwit standin g this accident so mH m e u an Bru te:
who laid against t e h R ich md mon en, insisted that he shoul d play
on (the L ondoners being then ahead) or l ose the m atch; upon
 1 7 00 T O 1 7 49
. 3 5
which the R ich m d man
was set, and bia is es
on , afler his nose
dress d, and one side tied up, atte pted to play again ; wh
’
en h is m
nose fell a leeding afresh b
in a violent
-
anner that he was m
m
,

forced to th row up his bat : and the atch is to be played again

in a fortnigh t .

T he L ondon E vening Post for S aturday, J une I 1 th,

1 7 37, con ains t the fol lowing anno unce mnt e

On W dn e esday the 1 sth ins t will be played

. on K enni
ng ton
Co mmn o the greatest mat h c at C ricket that has ever b een con

tes t d b
e , etween the C ity of L ondon and the C ount
y of S urrey on

one side, and the C ounty o f K ent on the other T . he wickets to

be fixed exactl y at eleven and a large ring to be roped round.

T he mat
h duly took place and c is re ported in the

s am
,

e paper for J u ne 1 6 thas follows

Y esterday the great C ric et atch etween H is R oyal k m -

b H igh
ness

the P
rince of W
ales for S urrey and L ondon, and the L ord S ac k
vill e, son of his Grace the Du ke of Dorset, for K ent, was played
on K enningt on Co mmon . K ent side went in first and got 99
no tc es, h then the S urrey side wen t in and g ot 3 1 ; then K ent

went in again and got upwards of 7 0, and then knocked up their

kt
wic e s ; then the S urrey went in again and wiped qo ofi the
'

n mbu er got by the K ent side.

Highness, who was acco mpani d by e several persons of distinction .

The press was so great on the occasion , that a poor wo man by ,

the crowd beating her had her l eg broke

u on
p , , whi h b ing
c e

related to His R oyal Highness he was pl eased to , order her 10

A gain, in the L ondon Port of J uly 7 th,

1 7 3 7, we

Y esterday was played on B ml y Commn th s ond g at

ro e o e ec re

C ric et k
atch etween th m
e K b mn and th f L nd n and
nti h e s e ose o o o

S urrey, when the for m maintain d thi hn and beat their

er e e r o our,

adversaries at one hands .

H ere it may be observed that hands is an expres

sion that h as quite died ou t and th at notching and

are alm ost obsolete term

,

notches s .
 26 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

T he sa mp p
e a er for July 1 6th,
1 7 37, sa sy
On T h ursday orni m
n g , Jul y 1 3 th, Hi
s R ap ] ig h
ness the rince H P
W m
atch at Cric et at K ew m k
M
al es and ten gentl e en play d a
'
of

for a considerable sn , agains t His Grace th m

e D uke of are ough
-

K t S urrey and Ham

en , pshire up to this tim
, e h ad the

credit of being the best cricketing counties ; but it is evident

that S u ssex h ad acquired notice and celebrity for its

proficiency in the gam e and th ere mu st also have been
, ,

as well other cricket grou nds nearer L ondon for we

, ,

of ondon and S urrey playing against the Gentlem

L en of

T h s time seemto have

M
K ent e ch ief grounds at th i

been the Hol t, at Farnham and

.

ou lsey H u rst ( now,

held by the H urst Park R acing Club) the Green at

M itchamand the A rch ery Ground afterwards called the
,

, ,

A rtillery Ground near Finsbury S qu are wh ich was th e

scene of m portant m
, ,

any an im atc h .

T h e grou nd i s described m any years later as fol lows

T h e Hon A rtillery Cricket Grou nd near Finsbury

.
,

S quare is one of th e ol dest in L ondon It was originally

nd then becam
.

a rdens a e the resort of archers a kind

g , ,

of bodyguard organised first by Qu een E li zabeth after

th e defeat of th e S panish A rm ada and afterwards by ,

Charles II under the style of the R oyal Com pany

e grou nd is now alm
.

of A rchers of Finsbury T h . ost

com p l etel y surro u nd ed by ho u ses and w alls an d w ears ,

a cold, h eavy and cheerless aspect T h e Clu b how

most of its members being
.
, ,

ever is a spirited one ,

m
,

en tl e en o f fortune and indep endence

g
Cricket was al so played up to r7 3 9 in L am
.

b s Conduit ’

Fiel ds, at that tim e a pleasant open space, now covered

by the Foundling Hospital Brunswick and Mecklenburg ,

 28 AN N ALS OF CR I CK E T :

I have b een led into these reflections , wh

ich are certainl y ust j in
the ml se ves, by som e odd stories. I have heard of cricket mat h c es ,

whichI o wn, however , to be so strange and incredi le th b

at, if I had

to thm ny b li f I
e a e e . s it not a very wil d t hing to be as serious in
maki g h mt h
n suc a ac as in the m t mat
os erial occurrences in life ?
W oul d it not be extre mly e odd to see l ords and g en tle m en, cl ergy mn e

and l awyers associating the ml

se ves with b h
utc ers and c o bbl ers in
pursuit o f these diversions ? or can there be anyth ing ore a surd m b
than mka ing such atches for th m
e sa e of pro t, wh ich is to be k fi
h
s are d am g t on s p p
e o l e so remt o e in their quality and ci
rcu m
k
C ric et is certainly a very innocent, and whol eso m e exerci
se, yet
it may be b
a used, if h
eit er g reat or little peo e pl mak e it their

business. I t is gro ssl y a used when b it is ade them su bj ect of

pu b
li m
c]: advertise ents , to draw tog eth er great crowds of people,
wh o ough t, all of the , to be so ewh m
ere else N o le m b mn e g en tle
m
.

m
,

en, and cl ergy have certainl y a right to diver

en e se ves in t th m l
wh at m anner th ey th ink fit ; nor do I dis pute th ei r pr ivil ege or
making butchers cobblers or tinkers their companions provided
, ,

emcom
,

th ese are qualified to keep th an

p y Bu t I v e ry m uc h d .ou bt
wh eth er th ey h ave any righ t to invite th ousands of peo pl e to be

spectators of th ei r agil ity at th e ex en se o f th

p eir d ty an d ho n es t
u y .

T h e tim e of peopl e of fash ion m ay be indeed o f very littl e val ue

but in a trading country the tim

,

e o f th e m eanes t m an ough t to be
of som e worth to h im sel f an d to th e com munity .

T h e diversion o f cr icket m ay be proper in h oliday tim e and in -

,

th e country ; bu t u pon days wh en m en ough t to be busy and in

bourhood of a great city it is not onl y improper bu t mis
,

th e neigh

I t draws num
,

ch ievous in a h igh degree . bers of peopl e fromtheir

em l
p yo m ent s to th e rui n o f t h e i
r fa m ilies I t b i
r n g s t o ge th er. cr o w ds

o f appren tices and servants wh ose tim e is not th eir own I t pro
m
.
,

p ag at es a sp i
r it o f idl en e ss a t a j un ct ure w h en w ith t he u t os t ,

industry, our b
de ts , taxes, and decay of trade will scarce al l ow us
to get b read. I t is a mtn t
os o orious b a h f th law a it gi
re c o e s, s ves

the mt os o
pen encour ag mnt t
e e o g aming ; th ad ti mnt m t
e ver se e s os

m
i pu dently reciting that great su s re so m a laid that m pe pl so e o e

m
,

are so little ash a ed of rea ing the laws th ey b k had a hand in

making that they give pu lic]: notice b of it .
 1 7 00 T O 1 7 49 29

M
.

My next record is tak en fromthe L ondon ag azine

e su m mer of 1 7 4 4 cricket
,

and sh ows clearly that during th

was advancing to a l eading position ; for it is noted

that K ent b eat A ll E ngland at the A rtillery Ground ,

in th e presen ce of H is R oyal H igh ness th e Prince of

Wales the Du k e of Cu m berland the Du ke of R ich

mond A dmiral Vernon and many other persons of dis
, ,

, ,

tinct ion .

O ther counties were by t h is tim e raising im por tan t

team s and K ent su bsequ entl y claim
, ed th e
“
top of th e

ladder du ring a l ong period ; M iddlesex S ussex and , ,

N orfolk then foll owed and took h onou rs in th e sport

which was now fi nding a local habitation and nam

,

in all im portan t c entres throug h o u t E ngl and .

I now reprodu ce full particulars of another great

match between K ent and A ll E ngland played at the ,

A rtillery G rou nd L ondon in the su m mer of 1 7 4 6 It

' '

is tak en fromPycroft s
.
, ,
”
Cricket Field ’
pu b l ish ed in ,

1 85 4»

FIR S T IN N IN G S . S E C O N D IN N IN G S .

4 b M ill s

Derig ate 3 b H d w ll o s e 1 1 b H d w llo s e

o b Mill s 3 b H d w llo s e

o b H d w ll o s e a b D an es

o b Mill s 5 b Mill s

7 b Mill s 9 b H d w llo s e

12 s K ips 7 c K ips
1 8 not out 1 5 c L ord J S . k
ac ville

M
o b Hodswell I b H odswell
m
M
o c Bartru 8 b ill s
o b ills s not out

o By es o
 30 A N N ALS OF CR I CK E T .

1 1 1 81 ? W IN GS . S E CO N D 1 10 41 1 3 6 3 .

L ord J h
o n 5 c Waymak r 3 b Ha rri
s

o b Ha rris

0 b Ha rris 5 not ou t

3 c Green 7 not out

a b N wla d
e n o b N ewland

6 b N wland
e o c S mith
0 W yma k
c a r 5 b N wland
e

1 a b Ha i rr s 10 b Ha i rr s

7 not ou t

1 1 b Ha i rr s

0 By es
 CHA PT E R III .

1 75 T o
0 1 799 .

b twe een L adies in 1 7 75 A ylward s Great S core in

and 1 7 79 — ’

1 7 77 — W tmin t
es s er B oys play at T oth ill Fiel ds — a bl edon Hm
b ate s A ll E ng lan d— A D escription of L eading C ric ete r; in k

E stablish mnt e of M . CC .
—
. E t0n in 1 79 1 — A Match at B ight
r on

in 793
1 — In 1 794— k to S pp
ulan t C ric et— ore atch k
es, M M
1 795 , for £500, £ 1 000, and £ aooo — R o al t
y y p y la s for

£4 oo o — E t0n la
p y s es t i
n steW m
r in 1 79 6 for £ 1 oo — T he on t M
p el i
e r Cl u in 1 b
79 6 — 0ne L e
g ga ain st O ne A r for £ 1 000 m
C ric et at k M
argate for £ 1 000 in 1 7 96 — a pstead and igh Hm H
g at e in 1 7 97 — Gentl e en 0 m
layers in 1 798 . P .

It is o to note that at th
curi us e tim e of th e form a ,

tion of what is supposed to be the first regularly con

stituted cl u b, at Ham bledon in Hants in 1 7 5 0 , raised
into em inence by S qu ire Paulet and other local m
, ,

agnates,

an old writer, th en at th e age of seventy five oh ,

serves ,
“
When I was a boy every cottage in the
cricket playing districts in K ent h
-
ad a wel l greas ed bat -

either k ept in th e bacon rack or h u ng up beh ind th e -

kitchen door and he adds that his grandfath er was a

”

fam
,

ous local player in h is day and within these last

is nam
,

ten years I could have shown you h e as one

am ong a fam ous teampreserved on a tablet over th e

ch im ney piece of th
”
-
e inn at S evenoaks

is A l ton in Hants al so fam

.

A dd to th ous for its ale,

and we com e Ham

, ,

e into cl ose touch with th bledon

3 2 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

Club A le and cricket too are suggested by m

. em
, ories ,

of B urton on T rent ; for who has not h eard that the

- -

fi rst taste of thorough cricket in the M idlands was

fostered by r A braham M
Bass m any years ago a partner in
.
,

th e great b rewery firmthat bears h is nam e S uch an eu .

th usiast was h e in his day that h e trained up a creditable

cl ub in h is o wn establishm ent so that th e nam e m ight

becom e as fam ous for cricket as it is for bitter ale .

A well k nown anecdote connected with cricket in 1 7 5 3

-

is th e following : L ord March laid a considerable

su mwith anoth er noblem an o f th e T u rf th at h e wou l d

cause a l etter to be conveyed 1 0 0 m iles in an hou r .

H is l ordsh ip engaged twenty crick eters wh o were expert

in catching ; th e letter was en cl osed in a cr icket ball ,

and at th e appointed tim e th ey stood in a circu lar direc

tion th, rew th e ball fromone to anoth er for th e spec ified

tim e afte r wh ich th

, e grou nd was m eas ured which proved ,

to be 1 20 mil es .

Of a l ittle earl ier date is the incident, not u ncon

nec ted with d d in Wroxall s Mem

crick e t ,
o irs to
recor e
’

th e effec t that Frederick Prince of Wales son of , ,

George II su ddenly expired

.
, at L eicester Hou se in ,

1 751 wh en dancing
, S ome months previou sl y h
. e h ad

been struck in the side with a cricket ball while engaged -

in a m atch at C leifden H ou se B u cks one o f H is , ,

R oyal H igh ness s country seats T he blow cau sed an

’
.

abscess wh ich b urst and sufiocated h im

'

, , .

T here is a pictu re by Haym an R A illu strating th e , . .

,

R oyal A cadem y Club in Marylebone Fields abou t 1 7 5 5 , ,

and now th e property of th e wh ich gives a good

idea of a m atch at th is date and bu t for th e cu rious

dress the construction of the gam e m

, ,

, ight wel l have

appl ied to half a centu ry later .

A s regards th e social standing of th e gam e in H a ,

 1 750 T O 1 7 99 .
33

m
M
C onnoi ur, dated 1 7 5 6, we are introdu ced to
N o. 1 3 ,
2

one r T oby Bu m per, whose vulgarities are drinking

m
.

p u rl in th e orni ng ea ti ng bla c k pu
, dd ings at Ba rtho lo

mew Fair boxing with Backhouse and also that he

,
”
,

is frequ ently engaged at th e A rtil l ery Grou nd with

Faulkner and Derigate at d ie/bet and is esteem ed as ,

o d b i h f h B t d I w l d h
“

g o a at as e t er o t e en n e s ; an ou e re

observe that at th e very date when a cricket ground was -

th ought as low as a m odern skittle alley we read that -

,

even

S omD k e u es at M ary bone

’
bowl ed ti m aw y e a ,

and that also a duchess actuall y watched the play of

her gu ests in the skittle alley till late in the evening -
.

A s for th e prom inence achieved by th e Ham bledon

Cl ub th ere is no doubt that a th orough system of
e fam
,

regular practice brought th e cl ub th e that it

enj oyed until th e end of th e century insom uch that ,

it is referred to in a play by Morton called S peed

We Ham
,

th e Plough
”
in th e words
, pshire lads can
bowl a bit or thereabou ts ; and from1 7 7 2 to 1 7 80 the
”

clu b regu larl y played an annual m atch against A ll

E ngland and was successful in nearly every attem p t .

bledon T eam have been im

,

T he Ham mortalised by
J ohn N yren in his Crieketer : Guide one of the daintiest
’
,

e fol lowing nam

,

books on the gam e and th , es are given

as representative p layers wh en the c l u b was a t th e

zenith of its fam e

WilliamBeldham .
J . S mall .

N oa h Mann . T orn T aylor .

David Harris . H Wal ker . .

W Purchase
. . T Walker . .

J Wells . .

S . S cott .
 34 A NNA L S OF CR I CK E T .

t t that he counts this eleven capable

H e furth er s a es

of beating any twenty two Beldh am H a rris, and S

-
m a l l.

were the great guns of the team

,

N yren does not confine h im self to th e doings of th e

clu b in which h e took su ch g rea t int eres t bu t al so ,

giv es the neighbo uring cou nties 3 fair show o f h is .

T his d J ohn N yren was son of the cel ebrated Old

sai

N yren, wh o was a farm er and also k ept th e Bat and

Ham
,

Broadh
”
Ball on al fpenny Down near bledon.
wh ere he sold punch that would m
, ,

ake hair curl and

at would tim
,

ale at twopence a pint th e l ike turpentine ;

and h ad th e repu tation of brightening th e sight to suc h

an extent that a player could see stars in th e daytim e

N o wonder th ese brawny arm

.

ed boys could wiel d th e -

willow when ful ly charged with such stim u lants after

eir fam
,

a fash ion that caused th e to extend in all

”
directions (S ee I llustrat ion of Bat and Ball facing
.
,

page 3 3
T h e H am bledon C lu b first of al l played on B road
h alfpenny Down bu t at the suggestion of the D uke of
Dorset who com
,

plained of the bleak ness of the spot

nd m
, ,

th e pitch was rem oved to Wi ill Hill .

T h e Publ ic A dverts? ” for a6 th S ept 1 77 1 reports ,

e fol lowing m
,

th atch :
On M onday and T uesday, S ept 1 6 th . an d 7 th, 1was played
in L eeds Pa k r K ent, a m atch of C ric et, k b etween th e Gentl e en m
mn
,

of Bethesden and the Gentl e e of L eeds for hal f s guinea

o -
a

Bethes den : First I nnings , 5 9 runs .

S econd I nnings , 1 1 8 runs .

T otal , 1 77 .

L eeds : Firs t Inning s , 83 runs.

S econd I nnings , 6 1 .

T otal, 1 44 .

D ifiereuce : 33 of Beth
'

runs in favour esden .

 1 7 50 T O 1 7 99 .
35

T he Weekly Caramel: for June 3 t

0 h, 1 6
7 4, o t
c n ains

T ues day l ast was l

p ya ed at E d mt on on a g rand mat h c at

Going further north the two following scores have to be

m
noted as de onstrating that N otts and Yorksh ire h ad
becom e initiated into th e m ysteries of the art T he

e nam e N ottingham m
.

foll owing list gives th es of th en

wh o played against S h efiiel d — th e nam es of th e York

sh ire lads do not seemto have b een preserved

Played at N ottingham A ug a6 th 1 7 7 1 : Col em
.

an

Collishaw H uthwayte, L oughm

, .
, ,

M
, an T urner R oe S purr , , , ,

ew R awso n, T roop and S tock s

, , .

S heffiel d h ad three innings an d scored 2 4 8 runs , ,

and when they were 6 0 in front of N otts in th e third

innings th e Yorksh ire lads retired fromth e fi el d N otts

made 1 88 in two innings T hey started play at 9 a m
.

. .

in those days
Played at S hefi eld, Ju ne rst 1 7 7 2 : Colem
.

M
an Colli

Bam
, ,

shaw ford Gladwin L oughm an ew R oe T u rner

N ottingham first innings, 7 0 ;

, , , , , , ,

T roop S purr S tocks

N ottinghamgave in
.
, , ,

S heffield 7 0 , . .

On J uly 2 4th , a5 th an d 2 6 th 1 7 7 3, S u rrey b eat K ent , ,

at B ishopsbourne by 1 5 3 ru ns
Here is the record of a rem arkable m
.

atch played on

July 1 3 th, 1 4 th and 1 5 th 1 7 7 5 and it is believed that ,

e first centu ry ever m

, ,

th ade in first c lass cricket, or -

indeed any other class was that com

,

,
piled by the great
,

Sm all on this occasion .

T h e ” W ien er j ournal for Jul y 2 6th , 1 775 reports it ,

in q u it e an u p— to d a te m ann er -
.

T he foll owing are the particulars of the state of the ge m ate

36 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

ht o clock when the batting side had 7 wickets to go down T he

eig
’

matchwas for 1 000 guineas between the D uke of Dorset with the
, .

Hampshire men ag ainst all E ngland

, ,

mm
, .

ur ur
s A u. E N GL A N D .

Pal m“ , no t ou t

Whit e

L umpy S t evens

Ch
iddington

1 68 35 7 1 42 57
T he A ll E ngland side gave u p
u pward s of 300 runs to g o in for I t was all o wed by all present
m m
.

that it was th e greatest m

atch ever played, and S all ust stand

h
t e b
est cric eter thk
e worl d ever produced .

S ome of th were described in these days

e players

in singularly plain language : B ryan th e bricklayer ;

R um
,

ney gard e ne r to the D uk e of Do r set ; H od swe ll

e bowl ing tanner of Dartford ; S m e grou ndm
, ,

th ith th an

l ey bootm
,

at A rtillery Field s ; Mills th e B rom aker ;

e farm
,

R obin known as L ong R obin ; N ewland, th er ;

Waym
,

ark th e m ,il ler ; K ips, th e wicket keeper ; D erigate -

,

th e barber of R eigate ; and C u ddy, th

, e tailor .

T h Weekly R eg ister for A ugust 3 rd 1 7 7 5 reports

M
e

an extraordinary crick et m
, ,

atch played on oulsey H urst,

between six unm arried wom en against th e sam e nu m ber

of m arried wom en and was won by th
, e form er, though

o ne of th e latt er ran 1 7 notch es Many of the L ondon .

 1 750 T O 1 7 99. 37

Gentlemen players were present , and th ere were great

m f om i f m h
M
It would see r ati oll
n ort d by
on t e c ec e

at m f th mn
,

R ev . r Pycro
. ft th
,
s o o t e e wh o brought

K ent to th e front h ad been taken out of Hants for ,

M
we read of one instance in which C rawte a great player
was tak en away from the parish of A lresford by
, ,

Am herst, a gentlem
.

an who m ade th e K ent m atch es and ,

that it was S ir Horace Man n that took Jam es A ylward

away with h im ou t of Ham pshire after he had m ade

, ,

in 1 7 7 7 , the sensational sc ore of 1 6 7 runs out of a

total of over 4 00 (see full score given below) bu t

made but a poor
,

we heard h e said th e

ch ronicler, and h e adds that th e finest lobbing sl ow

bowler he ever saw was T omWalker and although he

fel t qu ite asham
,

e m
,

ed at su ch baby bowling in th atch

between K ent and A ll E ngland in 1 7 9 2 he was ,

s ed to find it did m
,

surpri ore execu tion than th e great

David Harris T wo years after at Dartford Brent

.
, ,

Wal k er with his slows again easil y beat Harris

e m
.

T he foll ow ing record of th atch played by th e

Ham bledon Cl ub against A ll E ngland, at S evenoaks, on

June 1 8thto 2 0th 1 7 7 7 brings out A ylward as having per
,

form
,

ed what was probably th e greatest feat on record ,

and this, too, against th e finest bowling of th e day

that of L um py S teven s H am b l edon . it will b e notic ed , ,

won by an innings and 1 6 8 runs .

FIR S T IN N IN GS . S E CO N D IN N IN GS .

Du k f Do t b B tt
e o rse , re c L ord T ankerville

not ou t
 3 s AN N ALS OF CR I CK E T .

8 bB rett

38 c S aeter

1 66

1 1 4 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 011 .
rras r
'
mma a s.

3
1 67

L ear, b ditto 7
16

S mll
a , senr., 0 Whit b e, S tevens 33
F rancis, c Wood 26

N yren, b St evens 37
S aeter, bW ood 46
3 3

23

9
S

40 3

T het y goes that A ylward went in at five o cl ock

s or
’

on Wednesday and was not out u ntil three on Friday

It is also w orthy of note that in this m

.
,

atch three
stum ps w ere u sed for the fi rst tim e

John S m all was ball m

.

aker to th e Ham
-
bledon Clu b
H e lived at Peters field and over his prem
.

, ises was a
weath erstained board, bearing th e following inscription

Here lives John S m all ,

S ells bats and ball ,

H ere is an account of an early m atch between th e

Westm inster S chool and th e T own B oys of Westm inster

It is taken fromthe
,

played T uesday J uly asth 1 7 89

M e sam
.
, ,

orning H erald of J u l y 3 oth of th e year

 40 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

A n excell ent g a m
was played in T oth
e of C ric kt
ill F iel ds one

b
T uesday etween th e K ing s
’
S cholars and the T own oys of B
W mest inster S chool , which ended in favour of th ng s S ch
e K i
’
olars,

wh o h ad th

M MB
ree wick ets to g o down .

r. Forester, r. ri
ce, and the elder T ufton distinguished

was opposed to th q
e uall y b wling f MD O yl y
good
’

M
e o o r. e .

T he orning H erald for Ju ne 2 9th 1 7 8 9 contains the

m
, ,

following frag en t of an fi h d mu n ni
atch
s e and it is ,

curious to note th e obj ect that caused its postpone

mten
Han w nort CL UB.

FI R S T IN N IN G S .

T ayl or, b ditto

S mall , sen. , b ditto

S mall , j un. , c C L . ouc h, E sq .

A n . E N GL A N D .

Pil h n t t c er, o ou 3
ab mat h wa p tp n d on a
ove c s os o e ccount of a gran d one

at Co hath b tween S i H Mann and S

x e e r . . A mh erst, E sq., th
is
day.

he m
T atches th en w ere trul y cou nty m atch es, and

presented a good deal of the spirit of rival clans

am
.

“
T h ere was no m istak ing th says Beldh

M
”
e K ent boys, ,

when they cam e staring into th

M
e Green an

th Oxford S treet a favourite

’
e Green an and S till

e best players at th is tim

, ,

rendezvous of all th e] A .
 r7 5o T O 1 7 99 .
41

few of us had grown used to L ondon but the K ent

and R ants m ad but to speak or show them
,

en h sel ves ,

and you need not ask themwhich side th ey were on

Why, I rem em ber in one m

.

atch in K ent S ir Horace

Mann, who was ch eering every run with so m

,

uch gusto

that you would have thought his whole fortune was staked
on th e gam e, as a new m an was going in h e went aeross

to R ing, the great hitter, and said, R ing, carry your

h at through and m ake up th and I ll give you
’
e runs ,

£ 1 0 a
-
year for l ife I W ell R in g was ou t for six ty and
with only th ree to tie and four to beat, the last m
, ,

an

m ade them
”
.

T here is a story told that th is professional was in

th e habit o f placing h is legs before th e wicket and th e ,

fact led to th e rule lbw to be added to th e laws .

John S m all, already referred to seem s to have been

,

th e W G of the age for, in addition to our notice

.
”
.
, ,

he is reported to have kept up his wicket for three

days in a m atch of Ham bledon 0 A l l E ngland, and .

was not out after all.

Probably the high est stake in connection with cricket

th
M
at h as been pu bl icl y announced is that referred to in

the following match and printed in th

, e E uro
p ean ag azine

for Decem ber 1 7 86 ,

m atch was played at m

MB
On 3 rst S ept , 1 786 , a fa ous cricket
.

on rilliant b
etween H is R oyal ighness th H
e D u e of Yor k k
and a nu mb m
er of gentl e en, for 4000 guineas in the ain m .

Match es against twenty two were not unoom -

mon in
these days I n 1 7 88 th
. e Ham bledon Club played this
nu m ber at Cold A sh Hill L ittle is h eard of this im
.

portant club after 1 7 9 1 when it was just beaten at L ord s ’

by twenty two of Middlesex and m

,

-
any of its best play ers

seem to have found pastu res

,

anew u pon wh ich to

exercise their talent, in other counties T he date .
 42 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

of t eh las t mat
h played was the 7 th of Ju ne 1 7 9 1 A
c

screen covered with m

.
,

any of th e original score sh eets

of th is cl ub is still in th e possession of Captain Dacres

B utler of B ury L odge Ham

, bledon A nd it is through
, .

th e kind ness of General B utler S hawe and th is gentlem an

-

that I amenabl ed to give a photographic reproduction of

this unique record of som e of th e actu al scores m ad e by
this fam ou s c ricket club ( see I llustration facing page

Furtherm ore it seem s a rem

, arkable coincidence th at th e

very day th is photograph was taken poor old Greest ,

ote school of H am
,

th e last of th e rem bledon cricketers ,

was being carried to h is fi nal resting place ; and I was -

tol d it was only six years ago that old T om Beagley

died H e played for E ngland in the series of m
. atch es

against S u ssex in 1 8 2 7 to d ecide th e introd uction or

rej ec tion of rou nd armbowling ( see page

,

A l th ough th e greatness of th e Ham bledon Clu b had

departed for the tim e being we read of th e players

that rem ained arranging a m atch against a team pro

vided by T A ssheto n S m
. ith E sq at A n dover; and it, ,

is said that the surnam es of m ost of th e el even are

record ed o n th e tom bstones in the ch urchyard but why

and wherefore is left for conj ecture, u nless they becam
,

so reconciled to th e l ocality that th ey spent th e rem ainder

o f their days th ere T h e m ost distinguished noblem

. en

and gentlem en cricketers du ring th is period were :

Duke of D orset E arl of Winch il sea

D uke of Ham ilton E arl D arnley
Duke of Bedford L ord S trathavon
H on C ol L ennox ( after L ord Yar ou th m
wards Duke of R ichm
. .

ond) H on H Fitzroy
. .

L ord F B eauclerk
. H on A Upton. .

H on E H Bl igh
. . . R Wh itehead, E sq
. .

H on H . I T ufton
. .
J E. ast,
E sq .

S ir Peter B urrell S qu ire Pau let

 44 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

Whilst amng th l adi g play (a o di g

o e e n ers cc r n to J ob n

Hyt en) may b m ti d th foll wi g e en one e o n

J oan S u n the el der, was descri ed b as a star of the firs t

magnit bat m
,

u de, a splendid an s and the be t s h

s ort runner of the

mbl a
,

day, for he was as ni e s a bare T he D uke of Dorset presented

imwith a h
.

h andso m i li
e v o n, as he was a good fiddl er.

T on S u m s, th f m
e a ous wicket keeper — A -
. handsome m an, oi

GE O R GE L m L ittle Ge orge the noted l ong -

stop.— His
activity was so g reat that he could fi lde at l ong -stop and slip

together . T he ball see md e to go mt

‘

o him as , if he had bcen

a sand ag . b
m
a n with an honest l ook b a ou t him .

Pu n S rnwam B ck
'
u — A hard cu tter to point .

W . L ann ar -
T he L ittle Far m er — A ht hand bowler.
no ted rig -

with a l ow delivery and a teasing twist, which uscd to puzzle th e

bowling at hurdles when tending his father 3 sheep ’

.

dener in the service of L ord T ankervill e. He had no tricks a b t him

ou ,

and was as plain as a pi k e- stafl

'

in all his dealings . He b l ng d

eo e

to S
M
urrey.

m a LL — Gardener to the D uk e of D orset, a fine bat .

Ma n x — A nother g ood bat, who was garnekeeper to the sam e

N OA H Mm u — A S ussex man who kept an inn near P etwort h .

Hambl
,

Whn e he joined the edon Cl u b he had to ride over twenty

R I C HA R D F ar m ers — A S urrey bat man s , by profession a g a m

e

M ann into K ent, who mad e himhis bailifl

'

. He was a fine batter,

 46 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

heath although u ndoubtedly a cricket grou nd is not

,

mentioned at th is date .

O ther grounds established at this tim e were at B oum e

Paddocks K ent (wh ich ground was situate upon S ir

H orace Mann s E state) Burghley near S tam
,

ford (on th
’
e

il sea s E state) Perriam Downs

, ,

E arl of Winch Wilts

’
, , ,

Uxbridge th e headquarters of th
, e M iddl esex m en and ,

H om ch urch in E ssex where in 1 7 9 1 L ord F B eau clerk

m
.
, , , ,

p la ye d on e o f h is earli
e st a t ch e s sco r ing fe w ru n s and , ,

bowling four wickets for Marylebone— E ssex proving the

victors .

T h ere was also th e Bowl ing Green, at Harrow where ,

th e S chool played and S parks Ground, E dinburgh and

’
, ,

foll owing th e defunct pitch on th e A rtillery Grou nd at

Finsbu ry we find the White Conduit Fields ( form

,

, ed

about 1 th e fash ionable resort where bothth eir R oyal

Highnesses the Prince R egent and the Du ke of York

were wont to hunt the leather A ll that rem
, ,

ains o f
.

this grou nd at th e present day is th e public house known -

as th e Wh ite Conduit in th e Barnsbury R oad

, .

I n the course of th e year 1 7 89 som e of th e m em bers

any o f those nam
,

incl uding m ed on page 4 2 plant ed th e

e far fam
,

seed from wh ich th ed Marylebo ne Cl ub was

-

form ed and th is new undertak ing soon becam e recognised

as of im
,

po rta n ce in th e c rick e t ing w o rl d I ts o rig i

n w as .

brought abou t by a party of gentlem en wh o h ad faul t

to find with th e arrangem ent of th e m atch es at th e Wh ite

Conduit Fields in Barnsbury ; and the first attem pt at

a new pitch was th e site upo n wh ich Dorset S quare is

now bu il t and wh ere th eir ground m
, an T hom as L o rd -
, ,

was fortunate enough to secure a twenty one years lease

’
-

fro m th e duk e whose nam

, e th e present square bears

self at that tim

,

him e an enth u si as tic crick eter

It was here that m
.

ost of th e great sporting m atch es

 1 7 50 T O 1 7 99 47

were played during the nex t few years som etim es for ,

as m u ch as T h
M
two th ousand guineas a side-
e first

record ed m
.

atch dates fro m ay 1 6th 1 7 9 1 ; played ,

between five of the old White Conduit Cl ub and six

pick ed m en against an el even of A ll E ngland for 1 00 0

s tim
,

g u i
n ea s E a
.c h ma tch h a d a t th i e to be supported

and paid for by th e aris tocratic players and not as i s

e customnow ou t of th
,

th e clu b fu nds When the lease .

expired at Dorset Fields L ord its nom

,

inal holder h ad
, , ,

to seek fresh quarters and for a couple of years th , e

cl ub play ed on one side of R egent s Park near N orth

’
,

Bank until driven ou t by the cu tting of the canal and

e fam
, ,

ul tim atel y L o rd established th ous ground in S t .

John s Wood R oad (see m

’
ap) wh ich was just abou t to
e gentlem
,

be bu il t u pon h ad not one of th

M
, en players ,

in th e person of W Ward E sq P tak en up th

. e , .
, . .
,

l ease him self an act of generosity in wh ich h

, e to som e

extent im itated th e good old D uk e of D orset wh o as , ,

history relates ga ve th e g
, ro u n d ca l le d the Vine , at
S evenoaks by a deed of trust for th
, e use of cricketers ,

for ever ”
H is grace I m ay state resided at K nole

Park S evenoaks at the tim

.
, ,

e .

is im
, ,

T h e fol lowing description of th portant club now ,

th e source of direction and th e fount of law is tak en

from
,

th
”
e Cricketer s Manual published about 1 8 5 0
’
,

L ord s
’
Gro und, at S t John s Wood ’
is b
a ou t 7} acres in extent.

mb
.
,

D uring the season ten b owl ers are eng aged. T he mmb e ers nu er

sixhundred with Prince A lbert as patron T he ground has recently

, .

undergone the very necessary process of drai

ning , and l ater still its

T homas L ord , the originator of the cl u b was a man in humble

mta
,

circu s nces. but by a spi

rit of enterprise he su cceeded in
t bli h
es a ings the cl u b and raising it to its present position .

By the cu ltivation of cric e k t in the pu blic sc hools ,

 4 13 A N N A L S or CR I CK E T .

the ga m made e ex ensive

progress and its introduction
t
al so into all the sem inaries of note tended to swell th e

cricketing ranks in every d irec tion

T hat E ton was forem

.

ost in th e crick et fiel d in th ese

days is certain ; for we find the following interesting

M
matchrecorded in the orning Citronide July 2 and 1 7 9 1 , ,

C R I CK E T
mat hat
.

On T uesdayl ast a grand c k

cric et was la
p y ed at E ton b tween
e

the young gentle mn e of that school and the Maidenh ead C l u b which
,

is an exact account of eac hinnings

rrxs r
‘
m use s. sw or
n) m m u s.
bC ooper .

nipped himsel f ou t

bC ooper

c E ast

Way , min.
, not out

Bye -
ball
s

82
MA I D E N HE A D .

FI R S T IN N IN GS S E CO N D IN N I N GS
d Ba ym
. .

L or rr n t ore, o out

L eycester, bK eats
 so A N N A L S or CR ICK E T

M
.

taken fro m th e orn ing Cbronicle, of A ugus t a9t h ,

1 79 1 .

A ic et
cr k mat hb c etween the B ight n
r o Cl ub and MB an Cl b r. e
’
s u

has taken up the atten tion of many th two ese day pa tsT h b t a s e e s re

m
.

in favour of the for er. B th ha e been kept

oo s v u
p on the L evel, and

his gives me an O pportunity to run in ano th er quaint

M
T
anecdote fromth e S porting agazine of 1 7 9 2

A ver
y c i
ur ous mat h
was played by eleven girls o f
c o f cricket

R oth b
er y, L eicesters h
ire , ag ainst an equal nu er of o y, on mb Hb
T hursday, on th eir feas t wee T he inh a itants of all th e villages k . b
adj acent were eag er spec tators of th is no vel and intere sting contest ;
when, site a “ b y of astonis hing feats of skill and activity, t e h pal m
b
a ou t ten mm i
I a n R h
o t erby, and near sixt
y in H by ; o so great a

disproportion affords matt er of exul tation to the hones t l ll S

'
tiCS of the

first- mnti n d
e o e vill age. T he b
owl ers of th q
e con uering party were
mmdiat ly pl a
i e e ced in a sort of triu mphl a car, preceded by mi us c

and flying strea m ers, and t us conducted h home by the you ths of

S pectators.

Here is a full acc un o t of the lead ing Crick et Matches

played in 1 7 9 3 and it will be noticed they i n volved

many thousands of pounds being

,

won and lost .

A pril 3 t
o h S .
-
even g entle mn e of E ton against seven gentl e m en of

the with four mn e to fiel d on eac h side, at L ord s,

’
for

M ay th
7 , 8 th and gth N ine gentle en of th
.
-
e CC m M . . . with B ld e

hamand mh
,

W iddlesex with S A M
M
T . alk er, ag ainst . ers t, E s
q,
.

M M
L ord s. C C won
’
at

m
. . . .

ay 1 5 th t 6rh and r7 t h
N ine gentle en of th
.
-
e C C with
. . .

ma d
, ,

Beldha n T . W alk er, against iddl esex, at L M ord s, for 500

’

M ay 2 rat and u ni — T wo sel ect el evens , captained by L ord Win

c hilsea and the H on . E . Bligh , at L
’
ord s, for 1 000 guineas.

Winchil sea won

M
L ord .

ay 28t h 29th and 3oth

, , .
-
Betwe n e the Pri
nce of Wal es s Brighton ’
 1 7 50 T O 1 7 99 .
5 1

Cl u b and t e h County c t Middl esex, at L ord s,

’
for 1 000 gnineas .

M M
E sq.

ay y et an d J une t a t — E leven of the . C C . . against B erks , for

5 00 g uine as aside , at L or d
’
s . Ma yl b
r e one won .

guineas . M . C C won
. . .

C ol onel Church m
M
deuell , E sq. , ag ainst ill and F ree antl e, E sq

L ord
’
at L ords , tor 1 00 g uineas ssel tc n s side won
m
. .

June a1 st, an d, and a3rd - Between nine gentl e en of K ent, with

magai
.

Ha rri
s and Beldha ns t E l even of A ll E ngl and, for 1 000

i L ord s. A ll E ng land won

’
gu neas , at .

S mith E , sq. , with four of S urrey for L ord Winchilsea and four
mith
,

f Hant B hl ey
Mm
o s for A . S , E sq , for . 1 000 g uineas , at urg

ithwon
M
Park , R u tl and. r. S .

July sth an th etween the C C B

M
d 6 — . . . . and twenty-two of N otts ,

for 1 000 guineas, at urgh

l ey ar B P k . C C won.
. . .

July 6th, 7 th, an d 8th .

-
B etween the Du ke of Dorset and th
e

Gentle en m
H ants with A yl ward and R ing, against A ll E ng
of

land, for 1 000 gu ineas an ts won . H .

July 1 3th, l ath, and 1 sth— etween ants with A ylward and R ing, B H
mm
.

E leven of A ll E ngland, for 1 000 guinea , on W d ill

agains t

D owns A ll E n lan d won

. .

Jul y 1 6th, l yth, an 1 8th— etween el even B

W m
.

of S urrey b r 1 000 g uineas , on ind ill D owns an ts won . H .

July 3 4th, asth, soth, and n th— etween L ord Winchilsea and B
A ssheton S m
ith, E sq , eleven aside, on Perria Downs, L ugger
. m
h
s al l , Wil t s, for 1 000 g uineas . L ord Winchilsea won .

A u gus t and, 3rd, and th

4 . v. B k er s, el even of a side, at
the O l d Field, Maid nhad B k w n e e . er s o .

A ug ust 7 th and 8th —B igh

. t n R ants at B igh
r t n o 7 .
, r o . B ight n
r o

A ugust 1 5 th, l 6th, and 1 7 th.

— B etween L ord D arnley and L o rd

A ugust aoth, 3 1 st, s and, and ” rd -

B etween nine M . C C . . with
D 2
 5: A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

Coll ins and Purchase, and t e h Brighton Club with Bcaall , for
1 000 gainB ight n B ighton won
ers , at r o . r .

A ugust a3 d a4th and u th— B tw n i

r , , fi e of Hants e e
e sx v

0 f . fS
our o
ey n f K nt ix f B igh
urr t n f
o e o 1 000 guinea e s o r o or s,

m
, , ,

at B ighton T h S K d B i h w
m
r y . nt an g ten n urren e r o e o

m
, , .

A ug u t 29th 3oth and y a

s — B tw n nine ntl n f K n t e ee e e e
, , ge o

S cott, B ighton K nt w n
for 500 guineas, at r . e o

S ept m
.

be er B tw n Middle with T Walk and

s th and 6 th— e ee sex . er,

the B ight n Cl b with P

r o ha f 500 g in a at P ince f
u urc se, or u e s, r o

Wale G o nd B ighton B ight n w n

s
’
r u r r o o

S eptem b ryth isth and rods — B tw n K nt with tw m

, . .

er , , en e ee e o

S epte mb er sot h, arst, s and, and a3rd — . Betw en Middle e sex with

got 8o in first inning s, and Brigh

-
ton 64. l he
‘ '

mat h wa
c s

given, for 1 000 g uineas, at H ornc urc h h . K ent won by r58

notches.

T wo years later S t an eleven urre y and S ussex sen

against E ngland to L ord s where th

’
ey scored 4 5 3 runs ,

in one innings, th e largest old score on record unti l

that of E psomin 1 8 1 5 which was 4 7 6 for one innings , .

I hoped to give particulars of these m atches .

O ther counties now began to try their l u ck against

th e fam ous Maryl ebone C lub and in 1 7 9 3 we find an ,

E leven of O ldfiel d B ray, in Berks, lowering th e c olours

o f the L ondon Boys

e custom of staking large sum

.

T h s upon th e gam e

was now raging fast and fu rious and I take particulars

of th e following im portant m atch fromth e orning Post
,

M
for A ugust 1 4 th
, 1 7 93 .

C R I CK E T .
 1 7 50 T O 1 7 99 S3

R . L eigh, E sq

E M T W IN G S .

G L . h E sq run out
oue .,

ant, E sq , b Ham
,

G D eh
.
pton .

M orant, E sq , . not out b Ha rris

E arn Wmcrms aa
mp d M
. .

3 I stu e orant, E sq .
3
J . Walk er, c L ouc h
, E sq . 0

7 not out

4
Hon I I H .
-
. . T ufton, bB ozal l 3 c S mll
a
Brudenell, E sq., c Small 3
8
Ha rris, not ou t 0

J ones, E sq , . b T Walk . er 0 out

69
T otal for E arl Winchilsea,

In 1 7 93 the O ld E tonians only just ma naged to beat

the Old West m insters
he following reports are m ostly taken from the
.

M
T
”
S porting It was a curious old
'

agan ne 1 7 9 3, ,

pu b lication and afte r re p o rting a few of the l ead ing

m atches each season, gave out an announcem
,

ent that
 54 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

it was found the colu m

d be printed m
n ore advan
s coul

tageously w ith other sporting m atter so that its pages

becam
,

e fill ed with reports of cock fig h ting, card play ing - -

ting, as probably representing, to a m

,

and prize figh -

ore
pal atable extent, the taste of the tim e .

aotoriety in the hw m h md m h
as a e a atc ol
'

a singular nature

m m l d A mmb f th J
,

th one o f th h
‘

e ou - s e ers o e oc ey Cl ub for a ccnai

derahio su m f mn y t b play d by G
o o e , o e e reenwid r Pensioners cn

and bo th their legs, and the h

ot ers are to have both their ar m and
s

whether he man e s to bs ck the l egs or the wings, but the cdds are

hursday
On T ay 3 0 th,,a n M
d fo ll ow i ng da y a m atch ,

was played at Hornchurch between th e M C C and

Hornchurch for soc guineas H ornchu rch m
. .

.ade 6 3 and

5 6 T
. he foll ow ing are th e full pa r ticu la rs of the

lebone side

H H. . Fitzroy, c MW
r. yatt

T . Walk er, run out

n asr mama s . S E CO N D mm u us.

88 60
96 53
 56 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

54 33

84 47

3
M
1 3 70 35
r. heir to the estates of the E arl of Cardigan T he
Brudenell is
m ich is call ed sl aw and sl aw and fiomits
.

atchwas in th e way wh

lm m m
,

gthappe ars to have h ad a co forta bl e cl ai to the title .

$1 2 8 1 ? W IN GS . S E CON D m os .

5 6 68
H ornehurch 54 7 1

Wednesday June 1 3t h, and two foll owing days, at L ord s, seven

’

m
,

l t S d S with four gentle en played seven o

’

p ya ers o urrey an nsaeu

A ll E ngland and four gentle m

en, for 1 000 guinea

66

T he E ngland tea min l c uded : Captain Cu mb erland, S cott, Pur

T . Walk mad er e 1 38, and Bel dha m7 7 .

E ssex 1 18

S am l B it h
ue r c er scorer.

July 1 st, at L ord s,

'
two select elevens, captained by E arl of
Winehil sea and G . L ouc h E sq
, .
, for 1 000 guineas resul ted as follows

the Gentle m en ofWald n and th se f R e o o oyston ; at Witn y O e zon,

and on He nfi l d Com
e mon Ho ham v. rs .
 1 7 50 70 1 79 9. 57
July 1 2thand 1 3th a , hrdm m
fll Dow betweeu Hants and S urrey.

for rooo guineas .

A mat h b tw
c e een the E ton S chol an and t e h O ld Fiel d Club

1 1 7
75

J uly 8t h 9tb
, , and 1 0t h, a grand mat hw
c as l
p ya ed cu S tok e D own,

S u rey, and K ent, for 1 000 guineas .

47
R ants, 80: 11 5
D uring J ul y and A nguat se m l im
-
a p ortant m
at h c es were played at

d agth on k ich mmd fi re e mm hw a atc as l

p ya ed between three

Brentford won . T his mat hwa c s repeated on A ug ust aand and ay d

Friday, Octo be r 1 3t h, 1 7 93, a grand single mat hc of cric etk was

p yed a
la c rd s
- ’
Ground, l l arylebone
-
. Five gentle mn e of the

1 00 guineas.

ma W
MJ B o
-
sr IN GS .

b
MB
r. . en t n, L ord

r.b a ton, L ord

M h r. Boot , c rd
 58 AN N ALS OF CR I CK E T .

MW
M
r. all , run ou t

r. L ord. c J Beeston
.

3
S uc ha mt h a c as the above was never l
p ya ed on the ground

A ugust a6 th, at L o rd s, twenty

-
two o f
’
Middl esex ag ainst eleven
of E ngland for 1 000 guineas
m m
.

rn s r 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 03 . 3 110011 1)
'
u s.

4 8
46
he return m
T atchwas la
p y ed on m
S epte ber 9th, rot h, 1 1t h, and
xath at L ord s
’

m
.
,

u IN N I N GS S E CO N D 1 3 11 1 1 1 03 .

. 1 1 7 1 35

63 4 1

th mat h was play d His R oyal High

m
A ugust 1 1 , a grand c e on ness
the ince of Wale s s
’
g nd
rouat B ight n r o between two regi ents m

The familiar cry was raised even at this earl y date, ,

that cricket was played out bu t I doubt whether the

ned th reat will ever be fulfilled

su bj oi

Fiel d-tennis threatens

’
e er l ong to b owl out crick et ; the for er m
gami w pte s no a ronised
by S ir eter P B urrell , the latter has for
som tim b k b
e e ac een given up by S i r H orace Manny — S porting
1 793 , vol I I , page 3 7 1
. . .

I will next give a mu m ! of the principal m atch es

l d d i
M
p y a e u r n g 7 94
1 .

O n T uesday th e 1 3 th of ay, 1 7 94 and th

, e following

day a grand gam

,

e of cricket was played in L ord s

’

Ground Marylebone between eight gentlem

,

en of th e

Marylebone Club and fou r m

, ,

en gi ven against eleven

m
,

g e n tl e en o f L o nd on ,
for 5 00 guin e as a side -
.
 1 7 5° T O 1 7 99 59

3 1 1 81
“
W IN GS .

H on . M r. T ufton, sen., b L ord

m
m
h l md
m
In
.

D
N ichol], E sq .
, c J Beeston
.
. E sq b

m
b

Mh
b
efli
s , E sq b L ord . . c Gol dha mE, sq

B andl ing
r , Beeston, E sq.

W B . eeston, E sq , . c Clerk, 4 I

8 6
s I

5 c R . Wal p
ole, E sq a
0 a

3 b Bethter u

0 0

Wall , E sq b S ylvester 1

as b Bedster
Goldha mE , sq. , bN ichol], 9
o c Beds ter
4 Bye

64 35

Wednesday
On ay a1 st, and th e following day a M
m
, ,

d t h i k t pl y d i L d G d ’
gran a c at cr c e w as a e n or s rou n

Marylebone between nine gentlem

,

en of th
, e Marylebone

for 5 00 guineas .
 60 A N N A LS OF CR I CK E T .

c m“ , ooooooo a

Cler k ,

st J . s t0n, E sq
Bea
N ichol ls, E sq b L ord

R Brandl ing , E sq
. .
, b L ord run ou t

l in er, not
b R ay
Donithorn, E sq . b L ord

mE
,

c Goldha , sq.

Byes

T otal

1 1 011 001 1 .

M
s taat 1 1 1 11 1 11 03 .
'

Bridon, E sq .
, c r. T ufton, j un.

3°

98

On May 2 6th
7 94 1 day,
s and the th ree following

m
, ,

M
cricket was pla ed i
’
a gran d atch at y n L ords Ground.

arylebone between eight gentlem

, en of th e Marylebone
 62 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

OnMonday and of June a grand m atch of cricket

m m
, ,

was played on High ga te Co o n between el even gen tl e

men of H ighgate and eleven gentlemen of K entish T own

and Ham ps tead for 4 00 guineas .

Hu mmers .

rrxs r 1 11 11 1 11 0 3 . S E CO N D n1 11 1 11 0s.
N h
otc es .

1 1

1 6
1 7

R edwood, c Ha k c

Cato, c K entis h
hit wicket

K a m sn T o wn A N D Hu rsr m .

rxnsr I N N I N G S . S E CO N D 1 11 11 1 1 1 0s.

b S harp

st S harp

T otal
 1 7 50 T O 1 7 99
. 63

76 First inning s so

59

T otal 79
L t m
as onth (J une 1 7 94 ) a grand m atch of cricket was

played at Old Field near Maidenhead Berks between two

, , ,

selec t elevens o f E ngl and for 1 00 0 guineas T his m atch

was m
.

ade between R L eigh and E Morant E sqrs

. .
, .

R . E SQ .

rn sr 1 11 11 1 1 1 0 3 . ss coxn 1 11 3 1 1 1 0 5 .

S E CO N D m N I N GS .

N otc es. h
w
a

m
‘

S
S mall , j un. , run out

w
o
fl
s

b T . Walk er n
a
n
“

T otal
 64 A N N A L S OF 0111 0105 1 1

R L a . ma ’
s S ma . E . Mam a s ‘
S mn .

First innings 97 First innings

Here is the firs t match between E nglan d and S urre y .

Played at L ord s, June 9th roth ’

, , and 1 1 th, 1 7 94 .

FI R S T IN N IN GS . S E CO N D IN N IN GS .

E arl of Winchilsea b Bozali ,

E N O L A 1 1D.
11 1 1 3 1 1 r1 11 n1 0 8 . S E C O N D 1 N N 1 1 1 08 .

A . S mith E , sq. , b Hampt n o

C A mh t E q B ldham
. ers s . c e

m
, ,

J S .all j n b T W
,al k u .
, . er

T . S cott, c R o bin son

J Ham
.mnd o , c T . Walk er

88
S urrey won by 5 wic kets and 1 97 runs.
 1 7 50 T O 1 7 99 . 65

Monday June s oth, 1 7 94 an

On d th
, e two following days ,

a grand m
,

atch of cricket was played in L ord s Ground,

’

between two select el evens of E ngland for 1 00 0 guineas

T his match was m
, .

ade between R L eigh E sq and G .

, .
, .

R . L aw n , E so. s
’
S m s.
FI R S T I N N I N GS S E C O N D I N N I N GS
m
.

Free antl e, c J W ll
. e s

H Walk
. er, not out 70
12

4
1

M
0

H on . r. T ufton, j un., b J W ll. e s 12

37 b ai rr s

o b H Walk . er

54
4
4
Pu h
rc ase, b Ha rris 5
G L
. ouc h, E sq. c Walk
T . er 0

Hammnd
.

C Clar
. k , E sq . c o 1 7

Mw
4 c S cott

10 0 H on . r. T isleton
0

1 38 T otal

R . E 3 03 3 , S ma . G . E S Q. s,
’
S ma .

T otal
 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T

M
.

I n S epte mbe r, 1 7 94 , the S porting agazine issued the

fo llowing no ice t
It having b een sug gested to us that in conse uence of q the great space

ad mittan ce many a ti l
of r c es fro m our fiiendl y correspondents are

delayed a cons id abl tim er e l ling as

e, and unwi we are, necessity co mp l e s

us to con t a t thm W h
r c a
e . e hope that the m
ve onl y to anner in wh ich
it bas been done will not give ofience to the admirers of that nobl e and
'

of S afiron
'

Wald n e , whichwas won by the l atter with ease in one

8 11 11 1 1 1 0 11 WA L D E N first innings 1 5 6
m mm fi
,

S ro aD A N D c nn rr , rst inni
ng s 38
second innings 3 6

b aten have
e refused to play th e return atch al th m
oug h S afi on '

m
,

m m m
,

Wal d n gae ve the th e l iberty to ake the atch ore equal by

tak ing any man ou t of Bocking C l ub, or any ad oining j pa1 is

-
h
.

I t is to he wish ed that Great S am p ford and F inchi

n g fiel d will
for the fixtm e be eautious who they ch alleng e to pl ay with .

A short tim e since a match of cricke t was pl ayed at Ch el sford m

L ately 1 7 95
( ) a grand mat h f i k t wa play d in L
c o cr c e s e ord s Ground,
’

Ma yl b n b tw
r e o e, e ee n th Ma yl b n Cl b and th O ld
e r e o e u e Field Cl ub,
B k f 1 000 guinea
er s, or s.

W d hnhg’ s s s a o o s o o s o s

nnings
second i .
 68 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

second innings

mmdiat ly aft th b mat h mat ht

M M M M
I e e er e a ove c a grand singl e c ook place

b etween r. R ay and r. T urner, and r. Bolling and r. Bedster

for 2 5 guineas a side.

T otal

R A Y and R u n , fi rs t i
nnings

On A ugust 1 sth, a grand singl e mat h f i k t

c o cr c e was played in
L ord s
’
Ground, Ma yl b
r e one, b etwee n R H Ba k . . r er, E sq , and J . .

K eppel , E sq. , for a5 guineas a side .

R . H Bm aa
.
, E S Q . 16

second innings 16

T o tal 3 2

J . K R PPE L , E SQ bR . H . Barker E sq .
, firs t innings 1 8
second inni
ngs . 16

T o m . 0 0 0 0 0 0

E
0 0 .

I n favour of J K . eppel, sq

Sm day at the above pla e a g and ingle m

a e , at h of c icket was c , r s c r

l
p ya ed R W hit
. h ad ag ains
.t W l ch E q and B
e e w n E sq f e , s .
, ro , .
,
or

a5 g uineas a side.

W l ch E q had
e , s 3 innings .

B wn
it h
ro ,

R Wh
. ad e e 3
 1 7 50 T O 1 799 . 69

Brown , E sq .
, and Ware z , E S Q first innings .
5
second innings so

On June 6 th 1 played on
79 6 a mat
c h of cric et k was
B ury Com mon S uflolk by fem e m arried wom
, ,

al es (th
'

en

e m
, ,

of that parish against th aidens) whic h was won by

e gam
,

th e form er whose notches at th e conclusion of th e

outnum bered those which the m

,

aids got by 8 0 So .

fam ous were th e B ury wom en at a crick et m atch th at ,

they oflered to play with any eleven in any village in

'

th eir own cou n ty for any sum .

O n M onday se nnight and th e two foll owing days a

’

m
, ,

d h i k t w y d o d G o d ’
gra n atc at cr c e as pla e in L r s r un ,

Marylebone, between five gentlem en of th e Marylebone

C lub and six players of Hants against four gentlem en

of th e Marylebone Cl ub and seven players of K ent ,

for 1 00 0 g uineas.

FI R S T W IN GS .

Pil h
c er, c T . Walk er

Ha mm
ond, T b . Walk er

H on Col .ligh, B run out

mall
.

R ay, c J. S , j un.

E arl D arnley, c T . Walk er c G L . o uc h, E s q .

b L ord F . Ba e ucler k
 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

T Walk
. er, b Boxall
J S m
.all j un., c Pil h c er

mall
,

J . S , sen ., c Pil h c er

G L ouch
.
, E sq os ali bB
m b
M
E S all ,
. Bos all
ellish, E sq , E arl D arnl ey
. b
H on A . . P Upt n
. o , not ou t

T otal T otal

he above m
T atch was m ade between th e E arl of

Winchilsea and E arl Darnley .

July 5 th: A m atch at cricket was played on Gu il dford

Gentlem en of Godalm ing, &c , which was decided in .

favour of th e form er by 1 0 1 runs .

July 7 th: A m atch was played on L inton Green

S uflolk between eleven gentlem

,

en of E ye and eleven
'

m m
,

g en tle en of S to wm ark et wh en after the os t capital

handl ing the gam e was term
, ,

inated in th e favour of

e Gentlem en of S towm arket w ith onl y two m

,

th en out .

July 1 2 th: A m atch was played for 2 0 guineas on

Uxbridge Moor between eleven players of Uxbridge

against el even of Hillingdon:
Uxbridge : First innings 6 7 runs , .

T otal 1 56.

S econd innings, 6 5 runs.

 1 7 50 T O 1 7 99 .
7 1

A mat h c played near Hol t between the gentle

was
mn m
,

th d flh
'

e of e B ri
g ht on an S wa a Cl u bs and won by
m
,

the for er.

On Monday, July th
4 , 1 6
79 , and the foll owing day
a gran d mat c h of k t cric e was played on B ull ingdon
Com mon near Oxford between eleven gentlem en of

Club against eleven gentlem

, ,

the Marylebone en of the

Bullingdon Cl u b for 1 00 0 guineas.

Mu rm ur
s C ans .

rrasr 1 11 1 1 11 1 08 .

Bou k
b M
H on .
J . T ufton, c r e, E sq. 35 42
N icol , E sq , c Douglas , E sq . . 14 an tey es , E sq. 18

H on C ol. ligh, run out. B 7 b B ght n

rou o , E sq. 34
L ord F eaucl er ,
. c C B k . W nt e

56
c Hen ley, E sq 5
Hon . A . P Upt n
. o , c W ntworthe , b Douglas , E sq 4

Melli h E s , sq b W ntw e ort h , b D ouglas , E sq

b D ouglas , E sq
Vaughan B hton
M
, E sq., c roug

b anestey, E sq .

CL UB.

FI R S T IN N IN G S . S E CO N D IN N IN GS .

W ntwo th E
e r sq., b L ord F . Bean 0 H on A
. . P Upt n
. o 4

S alvadore, E sq .
, c H H . . M on

S mith E , sq. , run out T ufi on

b
M
D ouglas , E sq H on .
J . T nfton
anestey, E sq , 0 H on T ufton H
m
. . .

H on . W . C apel . stu ped H on . H .

0 not out
 7: A N N A L S or CR ICK E T .

5 h L ord F . Bean
3
Johnson
M
E sq. , not out 1

m5
,

ay, E sq. , c H on .
J . T ufton c H on . H . T uft

By es By es 2

R esul t of mat hc

B ullingdon C lu b : T otal 2 Innings

Mj a ority for Ma yl b r e one Cl u b

A lthough it was the fashion of t e mak i k t
h day to e cr c e

mt ha c es p o rtin g S
e vents by s n c er su s u on taki g tain m p
th e gam e it will sh ock th e susce es o o p t ib iliti f many t
e system extend ed to th
,

learn th at th e scholars at our

p u blic sc h oo l s and in t hi
s , connec tion I cu l l th e

following parag raph fromth e S t j am Ch cle Jul y

”
s: roni .
,

2 6, 1 79 6

the W tmin t
es s er Shol ars and those
c of E ton for 1 00 guineas a side ,

whichwas won by the Wes tm inster S c holars .

It would be interesting to know if such custom s were

sanctioned by th e sch ool m anagers ; if not, from what

sou rce was th e m oney obtained and wh o acted as stak e ,

holder A teamconsisting of school boys even with the

most penetrating sporting instinct could hardly find the
needful nowadays for such pu rposes indeed conditions
of such a nature attach ing to a gam
,

e wou ld not be per

mitted in our present prurient times and it leads us to ,

th e conclu sio n are ou r l ads better or worse now than

,

then
”
S hall I be called a sneak or sent to Coventry,

e nam e players on th is m em
,

if I d ivulge th es of th orable
occasion Here goes !
 1 7 50 T O 1 7 99 .
73

Wan man a
-
t .

FI R S T IN N I N G S . S E C O N D I N N IN G S .

c N ld
ei

c S nowden

K ell y, c Don

FIR S T I N N IN 0 8 . S E C O N D I N N IN GS .

b S tevens

b S tevens

b Ca l fi ld
u e

b Ca lfi l d
u e

T otal W tmin t b
es s er, ot h innings

On Monday Jul y , 2 st h, 1 6
79 , a mat c h was played at

eleven gen l t
e m en of t e h Montpelier Cl ub against eleven
 74 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

gen let men of the T hursday Cl u b, fro mMa yl r bone,

e for
5 00 guineas a-si e d
Momm a CL UB
.

" HS T I N N IN GS S E C O N D HIK IN G-
S .
mb W B
.

Goldha , . rown 4 run out

12 run out

G. B oul t, E sq. , not ou t t5 c L ong

3 c Boyl e

o b W Brown .

3 b J . Brown
5
T otal 46

Mm aa so mT mt u ou r CL UB.

L ong , run out

Whit e, run out

J B . rown, c Wal t

Mow u tu CL UB .

A ugust ro h was played by eleven

th , r7 96 , a mat c

Greenwich Pensioners with one leg against eleven with

one armfor roo o gu ineas at the new c ricket ground at ,
 76 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

A ugus t
h, rot ou Monday last a m
r7 96 . — atch was
l l
’
p la ye d in L o rd s G ro u nd Mar y ebo ne b etw ee
,n e ev en ,

g e nt l emen o f th e K en n ing t on C lu b ag ainst el eve n ge n tl e

men of Middlesex, for 3 00 guineas .

K au n m o rort
'
CL UB .

mm mm n s s. S E CO N D mm s s.

bW B . rown

b S mith
Watt b W B
s, . rown

c J
. B rown

C lar k bJ B
, . ro wn

a ma s a.
FI R S T mnmo s . S E C O N D IN N IN GS .

run ou t

B utler b J Mill
. er

not ou t

K ennington Cl ubb , hinnings

ot .
 1 7 50 T O 1 7 99 77

Md y
.

On on a A ugus t 2 2 nd, 1 7 9 6, and the following

mat
,

day, was played a grand Dandelion Fields

c h on ,

Margate, between E leven of E ngland and E leven of

S urre y , with gen l e t m en on each side for rooo guineas , .

E
m nmm
N GL A N D .
tr c s.
r

c Beldha m 1 8
3

st H on . H . T ufi on 3
20

S mall , j un. , c L ord F . B eauclerk IS

st H on . H . T ufton o

P urchase, b L ord F . Ba e ucl er k a

t

R eynol ds , E sq., b Beldha m u

Bree Q

7 6
S m
m
u s .

sr I N N IN G S .

L ord F . B eaucl erk , c Bozal l

R ay, c G R ing .

H on . H T ufton,
. c S mall , j un.

T b
urn ul l , E sq. , not out

Bye!

E l even of E ngland (two i

n ning )
s

On Monday and T d y O ctober 3 rd and 4 th,

ues a

a m m
,

6 atch was lay d po n H e pton G reen for

1 79 , p e u
 78 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

hme
tya
ns l x n mee n thm ( S em m
udennenl ( n? th
e: lidh numn
m
44
. . l :

uh
( 3h » anal flh e: ( l en l enaenl of flh e Eh watflhasni ( 3huh

M (i
"
> n : ,

clu ding r N ewm an, of th e Marylebone C lub) which

was won by the form

.
,

er with 5 wickets to go down .

O n Monday, th e 2 6 th and T hursday th e 2 9th of

S eptem
,

ber 1 7 96, a m
,

atch was played at N ecton,

am and th
,

between the Gentlem en of S waflh e Gentle

'

men of S hipdam which was won by the former, with

,

one wicket to go down .

On S aturday, S eptem ber 1 7 th and postponed to

S eptem ber a4 th, was played a grand single m
,

atch in
L ord s Ground, Marylebone between Fennex and R ay
’
,

against R Whitehead and W Barton, E squires, with

m
. .

I i YVHHkxn, fior fi
'

xxx: g nuzua

Bowl s. Hit s R uns.

23 hit wicket
r b W Ba t on
. r

R uns.
2 b W Ba t on
. r

46 e W Barton
.

3 53 3 43 43
R . a m , E sq — mm mm rr os.
R uns.
R . Whitehead , E sq. 1 6 9
T . Walk er 1 66 1 5 2 40 b F ennex
5 ! 29 4 c F ennee

3 33 I 9O

sxcor mma trice s.

R Whitehead , E sq 2

W Ba t n. r o 3
T Walk er 5

to 4 r
Majority for Fenn x e and R ay, 21 runs.
 80 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

Walworth and held their m eeti ngs at th e Horns,

It was an im
,

K ennington portant club and believed

oot from L ord s and was soon
.
,

to have been an oflsh

'
’
,

sufiieientl y stron
g e n o ug h t o p la y th e M ar y le bo ne C C . .

A bou t half a centu ry later I shal l show that th ey

blossom ed into th e S urrey C rick et C l ub after taking

p osses sio n of th e O va l wh ic h w a s th en a m ark et garden

N orfolk next appears and it is said of themth

, .

at

is single teamagainst
,

L ord F Beau clerk ofiered to play h

'

atch cam
.

any three th ey coul d place in th e fiel d T h e m . e

05 at S waflh am on J uly 1 6 th 1 7 9 7 and h is l ordship

'

, ,

won in a single innings with 1 3 runs to spare T h e .

e first innings T om
,

contest las ted th ree days I n th .

Walker got five runs m ore off his own bat than the whole
of N orfolk and it is stated that a print was struck oi
, l to
com memorate the occurrence
e year a single wicket m
.

In th is sam atch was played

-

between two picked fives fromthe cou nties of S ussex and

K ent .N either got a run in th e fi rst innings, K ent scoring

6 in th e second and S ussex 5 .

Ham
,

p st ead a n d H i h
g g ate a re sa i d to ha v e po s s es se d
go od cl u b s w or thy o f th e n o tice of th e g rea t M ary l eb on e

C C in r7 9 7
. .
 CHA PT E R IV .

800 1 84 3 .
‘
1 10

More S porting C ric etk

— E ton v. Ha rrow— L ord By ron Play s

mn Play in 1 806— R nd a mB wling in 1 807 F male

e 0. ers ou - r o — e s

Mat hd f {500— L d i 81 s M M t h — G dalming

c e or or
’
s n 1 — ore a c es o

b at E gl d B mi g f Pa ili at L d i 1 825 O f d
e s n an — u n o v on or
’
s n — x or

7 Cam
. b idg in 82 7 T t Mat h t Int d
r e R j ct
1 — es c es o ro u ce or e e

R d a m B wling— C i k t in S
oun -
r tl an d
o 1 83 R p t f rc e co , 1— e or s o

Pil chfrom1 83 5 to 1 84 3 .

T i mfi t mt h rs between the Gentlem

ac en and Players was

made in 1 7 98 though it can hardly be said to have been

drawn up on equ itable lines for the gentlem
,

en h ad three

players given themin the persons of BeldhamT Walker

,

.
,

and Ham
,

mond However the Players won

.
, .

I n 1 7 98 K ent were beaten by E ngland ; but th eir

courage was in no way cooled , for we read of th eir oflering
'

to play any twenty two outside of th eir own cou nty, and
-

this too in face of th e popularity of th e L ond on cl ubs,

e encouragem
, ,

and th ent oflered to th e country players to find

'

more lively engagements there S urrey in particular seems .

in 1 800 to have m onopolised nearly all th e best m en, and

the gam e was fast becom ing a profession of science to

the gentlem en and of art to th e players .

O n J une 1 1 th h d h o d S y b t ’
,
1 2 t an 1 3 t a t L r s u rre e
,
a , ,

A ll E ngland by fou r wickets .

In 1 80 2 an eleven fromN ottinghamand L eicester was

brought up to L ord s, but were readily disposed of by ’

L ord F Beauclerk s side

.
’
.
 82 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T !

A ccor ding to 271 : S un, a L ondon publication for

June 1 7 th, 1 80 3 a m atch was played between team
,

, s

represent ing gentlem en of N orth C ray and gen tlem e n of

Bexley for 5 00 guineas T h e foll owing is a copy of .

th e report : T uesday and Wed nesday was played a grand

match of cricket in the Hon T W Coventry s new ground . . .

’

at N orth Cray K ent between el even gentlem en of N orth

Cray against eleven gentlem

, ,

en of Bexley for 5 oo guineas

T h is m atch was m
.

ade between th e H on T W Coventry . . .

and R
”
L eigh, E sq
. T wo innings were played on each
e gam
.

side and at th e end of th e th

M
, e scores were

H on Coventry s ! I 1 3 5 and 99 total 2 3 4 ;

.
’
r, R , . .

L eigh s ! I 2 2 and 3 0 total 5 2 H on T W Coventry

’
. . . .
, ,

won by 1 8 2 runs T hree to one in favour of N orth Cray

.

”
at starting .

e sam e paper is an account of a m

M
I n th atch between
arylebone and Hom t on at L ord s for soo guineas
’
er , , .

T h e scores were z— Marylebone 1 8 9 and 1 8 2 total 3 7 1 ;

Hom Hom
,

erto n 5 0 and 6 0 , total 1 1 0 erton h ad two .

wickets to go down when play ended with 2 6 1 to get

to win S ix to four on Marylebone at starting
. T his .

match is given up
I n 1 80 5 , a curious m
.

atch was played at L ord s be

’

tween the twelve best against the twenty three next best -
.

L ord Frederick Beaucl erk was th e only am ateur am ongst

th e best, al l of whomfared very badly, whilst Boston,

”

one of th

M
e twenty three next best, sc ored 8 7-
not out , .

T h e S porting ag azine for O ctober 1 8 0 5 says

T he following grand m
, ,

atch of cricket was played on

Friday, the 3 0 th ult , at Bowm an s L odge D ord

.
’
,

Heath, K ent between eight of Bexley and th ree of

,

E ngland and eleven of th e County K ent for 5 cc

g ui n eas B exley .wo n by an inn i
n gs and 1 8 runs S i x .

to four on Bexl ey at starting

 84 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

Harrow v. E ton in 1 8 0 5 , and here is an acc un o t of h

is

E ro s v. Han ow.

Played A ugust 2nd, 1 805 , at Old L ord s

’
Ground, now Dorset S quare .

FIR S T IN N I N GS .

0 B adley
r

A . S hakespeare , st Hes ton

L ord By ron, c Ba rrard b C arter
Hon T . . E rs kin b
e, C arter

c C anning

FI R S T I N N IN GS .

Bar md I b .
, S hakespeare

ton and Winchester also crossed bats together for

E
the fi rst time on A ugust 4 th 1 80 5
Hom
.
,

erton at th is time had a good clu b wh ich included

Ham mond, the best wicket keeper of the day

,

-
.
 86 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

FIR S T IN N IN GS .

Walk er, c Upton

John Bennett , c Beldha m

A . m
Free antle, not ou t

T otal 69

I n the t
re u rn mat h
which took place at L ord s Jul y
c ,
’

e Gentl em
,

2 1 st to 2 5 th th en won by 8 2 runs
, .

O n J une s 7 th of this year a notable single wicket -

match took place at L ord s between Beldham. R obinson ’

,

and L am bert and B ennett Fenu sa and L ord F Beauclerk .

H is lordship was winning the gam

.
, , ,

e and with no chance ,

of getting h imou t Beldh amtook up a lu m , p of we t d irt

and sawdust a nd st uck it on th e ball which pitching ,

favou rably m ade an extraordinary t wist and took th e

wicket Beldhamused to relate the story to his m

. any

friends at the great m th

M
eeting hou se for cricketers e ,
”
Green an and S till Oxford S treet
e particulars of a m
, .

Here are som atc h which took place

in 1 80 7 in wh ic h th
,
e new style of bowling did not m eet

th e approval of th e crowd

M
.

O n Monday Jul y soth says the orn in

g H erald th e re turn g rand
m b
, , ,

a ch
t etween a thirteen of all E ng land an d twenty
-
three of K ent,

for one thousand g uineas , on Bennenden H ath t minat d in fa

e , er e vour

of K by 1 6 2 runs
ent T his was rec o e
. k n d th g at t mat h play d
e re es c e

in K ent for upwards of twenty e rs y a Bet

. t a la g am nt
s o r e ou
 1 800 T O 1 84 3 . 87

depended on oth sides b

T he straigh t-ar owling , introduced by
. mb
J ohn W ll
i es E sq was generall yprac ti
.se d i
n the ga e and pro ved m
m
, , ,

b
a great o s tacl e agains t getting runs in co parison to wh at igh t m

in maki g n a mat h and c ,p yla ed so eti es a he

ids t uc h uproar mm m m
S till he woul d persevere, till th
“ ”
and confusion . e ring cl osed on

the players, the m

stu ps were lawl essly pulled up, and all ca e to m
a stands till .

S ingle wicket m atch es for large sum s were th e order

of th e day th

M
e chief opposing parties general ly being
,

L ord F Beauclerk and r O sbal deston each w ith a

player L ord Frederick seem

. .
,

. s to have been frequentl y

in trouble over th e resul ts ; but that h is lordship s inten ’

tions were always strictly honourable was an absolute

fact .I n one instance h is lordship broke h is finger
stopping an angry throw of th e ball fromsom e player

wh o was not pleased with th e state of aflairs but th ere

'

was no denying h is popularity wherever h e p layed .

I n 1 80 8 S urrey beat E ngland on three occasions ; and

on October 2 nd 1 8 1 1 , el even fem ales of S urrey were

backed against eleven of Ham

,

pshire by two noblem en for

5 00 gu in eas aside H a n ts w on . .

Ju ne 2 2nd 1 8 1 4 is the date of what is supposed to be

, ,

th e firs t county m atch played at th e S t John s Wood ’

.

M
”
L ord s It was between M C C and Herts
’
. . .

ent from th
.

H ere is an advertisem
.

e orning H erald

of a great m atch 1 8 1 5 , between S urrey and E ng

Q
land

CR I CK E T .

A mat hwill b play d in L d N w C i k t G nd

grand c e e or
’
s e rc e rou ,

St J h
. W d Ma yl b n
o n s
’
W dn d y J ly ath and th
oo , r e o e, on e es a , u 1 , e

f ll wing day b tw n th C nty f S

o o s, ey g ain t A ll E
eengland f e ou o urre a s , or

T h e wick t t b pit hd at 1 cl k
’
1000 g in a a id
u e s s e. e o e c e 1 o oc .
 88 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

S o n ar .

G Osbaldeston, E
. sq

T Melli h E
. s , sq. E . H B . udd, E sq.

W Wa d E . r , sq. H on D K innaird. . .

R . A islabie, E sq . F L . b
ad rok e, E sq.

J P . aul ett, E sq .

J W ll s e .

m
.

Denha .

G . W ll e s. B nne ett .

m
A d ission 6d . Good sta ling b on the ground .

In th my a h mt
M
e sa e e r t e following advertise en ppears
a

in the orning H erald for A ugu s t zad

A grand mat h will b c e pl ayed i

n L ord s
’
N ew Gro und, S t . John s
'

between eig ht E tonians, with L ord F Bea l

. uc erk , E E sq ,
. H B . udd, .

and J .S lin g y
s , E sq ag ains t b . t n g ntl mn
e e e e of A ll E ngl and, with

H oward, for 1 000 g uineas aside . Wi k t t b

c e s o e pitched at 1 1 o cl oc
’
k .

Whilst the sam e journal for S eptem ber 8th 1 8 1 5 reports

e following m
, ,

th atc h u po n the Prince s Grou nd at B righton :

’
,

A mt h f a c o crick et was played on the P inc

r e R egen t s
’
Ground here
aday or two ag o etween th b
e g en tl e en of S eaford and this place, but m
whichwas won easil y, withseven wick ets to spare, by th e latter .

Ham psh ire l ik e K ent ha d b een o n the w

,
an e i ts b est , ,

men having gone Citywards ; but its light was again to

shine for in 1 8 1 5 we find th
, e following array o f tal ent

throwing their energ ies into the play of the County

Holloway C al decourt Beagl ey T hu rwood S hearm
, an , , , ,

Howard W Ward E sq and H K night E sq

,
.
, .
, .
, .

S urrey as a cou nty was fast on a downward track,

and this once im portant cricketing centre does not seem
, ,
 1 800 T O 1 84 3 . 89

to have found its way to the front during the nex t thirty
years
ma kable mat
.

A re r h was played at L ord s on A ugust

c
’

2 4 th 1 8 1 5 b e tw ee n th e E p so m C l u b a n d th e G e nt le m e n

E psomscoring 4 7 3 and 1 0 8 ; Middl esex

, ,

of M d i d l es e x —

9 2 a n d 7 2 S u sse
. x, too w a s w ak in g p u , fo r s oo n after ,

wards appeared the great L illywh ite and B roadbridge

whilst S uflolk was becom
,

ing a recognised county with

'

Full er Pil ch the Messrs Blake, and others belonging

, .

to th e B ury Clu b .

I n a fam ou s N otts m atc h in th is year B entley on , , ,

th e A l l E ngland side whilst playing well was given

-
, ru n ,

ou t ,
”
having run round his wick et ”
Why said B el d .
,

ham he has been hom

, e long enou gh to take a pinch

of T hey changed th e um p ire b u t t h e b l un d er ,

lost th e m atch

A t a scratch m
.

atch in 1 8 1 8 of Wok ing v S h eere 7 1 .

,

runs were scored in al l fou r innings and during th e

ade a m
,

sam e year th e Gentlem en 0 Players m atch, which

.

resul ted in a win for th e professional s

A very curious m
.

atch was arr anged to be played in

S eptem ber 1 8 1 8 at N ottingham between the Marylebone

, , ,

Cl ub and twenty two of the L ace T own for £ 1 5 0

-
It
seem
.

s however when the day arrived the chief pro

, ,

moters L ord Frederick B eauclerk S quire O sbaldeston

H Budd E sq , could not arrive in tim
, , ,

and E . . . e to play

being at the m S om
, ,

om

M
ent grou se shooting in S cotland -
e

m m
.

e
p p o l e h a d ass e b le d fro a ll pa rts o f th e id
lands, and terrible was th e d isgust wh en it was found that

th e leading players were absent H owever a scratch m atc h

.
,

was arranged, and a difi cul ty cropped up afterwards as

to th e fees to be paid to th e L ondoners T h e N ottingham .

managers declared the original agreement pertaining to

th e stakes — th at their expenses shoul d be paid — had been
 90 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

broken th ey should pay nothing and it is said that

and

e m siting teamwere so hard up th

,

th aj ority of th e vi at
m any of them h ad to find their way back to L ondon

on foot O n th is accou nt it is worthy of record that

his m
.

atch was o ne of th e rare occasions in these days

MM M
Cir / a n t A f 2 03 0 3 IN 1 3 3 2.
m old pn u t
‘

.
W
R w d by o
f fi c L aIk m
Pr .

hen the game was pl ayed for ho nour .

”
A lengthy
rrespondence ensued in th e local press

mat
.

A was played ou t by candlel ight in L ondon, in

c h
1 8 1 6 , and two years later a cricket club was establ i
shed
'

n Bath
mat
.

A ch was played at L ord s on s oth J uly 1 8 20

’
, ,

between the Marylebo ne C C and N orfol k

. in which ,
 9a A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

MWa d got
r. r MB
1 20, h fi and r. udd 6 7 in t e rst innings — Beagley
We m
MW B
1 8
. understand a gentle an g ave60 g uineas to receive a g uinea
h run got by B q he
MB
for eac r. ard, udd, and eagley, cons e u entl y

bat in th
MW
was winner of 1 i udd did not secon d
a 45 gu neas . r. e

innings . T he m h atc was won by r. ard and H oward, h

neit er

M r. B udd was a celebrated gentlem

E . H . an player

of this period He once hit a ball ou t of L ord s .

’

Ground a great achievem

, ent in th ose days ; whils t at

Woolwich he hit a half volley to lo ng field for nine .

H e also eaught nine when play ing ag ainst twenty two -

M
of N otts in 1 8 1 7 , .

M
A story in regard to r Bu dd abou t th is date relates .

how he was asked by r Ward during their anniversary .

,

dinner a th ree guinea afiair wh ich took place at the

’
-
,

Clarendon if he was still will ing to play any m

, an in

E ngland at single wicket with out fielders repl ied yes

and a m
, ,

atch was soon arranged for fi fty gu ineas On .

th e day appointed h e went in fir s t and scored 7 0 runs

with som e severe blows on th e legs nank een k nees —

,

silk stockings and no pads in th ose days H e consu l ted

im to knock down h
.
,

a friend wh o advised h
, is own
wicket lest the m atch shoul d las t till th e m

M
, orrow H is .

opponent w ent in and failed to score He r B udd

went in again and m

. .
, ,

ade h is total up to 1 0 0 and again

knocked him self ou t T h is was co nsidered th e m ost .

hollow victory on record .

It would seem that notching the gam e was stil l in

vogu e in som e di stricts even as late as 1 8 2 4 for it is

n B al l for S eptem
,

reported in j oh ber 5 th that ,

he conquerm
T m k M
'

g ga e of cric et was l
p ya ed on onday at
High Wycombe between the Wycombe , b
C lu and th at of E ton

ma t ly tyl in
in inni g
s er s e one n s with33 note/r
e: to spare . T here was
m h b tting mmn ing at
uc e , co e c seven to fo ur on Wind o s r, bu t the
 1 800 T O 1 84 3 . 93

Wyc mb o e gentl e mn e soon b roug ht it to seven to four in thei

r

favour .

The firs t recorded m atch between K ent and S ussex

( at B righto n) wa s play ed on J une 1 3 th 1 8 2 5

S om
.
,

e particu lars of th e bu rning of th e pavilion at

L ord s on J uly 2 9th 1 8 2 5 will, perhaps be read with

’
, , , ,

interest My report is taken from j ohn B all for

e sam
.

S unday J uly 3 1 st of th
,
e year ,

A bo ut one o cl ock on
’
F riday m ni g
or n a fire b roke ou t in the

pavilion in L ord s
’
C ric k et Groun d, and fro m it b ing b s e uil t of

wood it b nt with hf
ur su c ury that the whol e was reduced to a heap
of ruins b f it wa p
e ore s ossibl e for the fire-engines to render any

assistance. T he pavil ion was , at a great expense , l ately enl arged

and decorated for the acco mmdati no o of the various cl u b s who

frequent this ground ; and, with the exception of the foundation,

M
ing apparatus , now no l onger exists .

r. N eal e, the l andlord of the tavern ad oining

j the g round,

cannot account for the accident, for there never was any fire in
the p ilion
av during the season , eyon d b lighted candl e to
a

ena bl
gentle en to s oke th
e m
eir cig ars m .
, h
S uch owever, was the

strength and power o f th e fire at its h eight, that so m e of the

trees in the adjoining g ardens have een da aged b m

M
.

was probably on accou nt o f th

It e fire that r Ward .

bought the lease of the ground fro L ord,

”
and in m
th mak
m MWa d
1 830 Dark , e celebrated bat er, is t
s ate d to have
bough t it fro r. r . T he cl u b itself purchased
the freehold in 1 866 , at a cos t of gu i
n eas, and,

as will be seen in our representation of the pavilion at

the present day it is th e finest buil ding used for th e

m
,

p p
u r oses of the ga e extan t ( S ee pa ge

T he first recorded m atch between O xford and Cam

.
,

bridge was played at L ord s abou t June 4 th 1 8 2 7 It ’

.

does not seemto have been com

,

plete d .
 94 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

H E . . K nate hbull, E sq .
, c R omilly

C m am o x.

H W bb
. e , E sq. , bW ordswort h

E . 11 . Pi kc eri
ng , E sq b Wo d w r s orth

In this sa m e team sufficiently

year S had
ussex a

strong to arrange a match against

A ll E ngland wh ich ,

took place on the sam e day as m entioned for the

Oxford and Cam bridge m

,

atch at S h efi eld and S ussex

e round armbowling of L illywhite

, ,

won easil y owing to th

,
-

and B roadbridge which fairly stagg ered the N orth ern

e return m
,

players. S ussex also won th atch which took ,

place at L ord s and several players declined to bat

’

throwing was perm

,

again if this itted .

 96 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

S
FI R S T mu mc s m m
ussu .

. S E CO N D u s.
S later, c Pil h c

W B oadb idg. r r e, c Pil c h

J B .adb idg t S a
ro nd r e, s u ers

T Pi p int Ma d n
. er o
-
, c rs e

Dale, not out

C . Pi erpoi
nt, b Flavol

9I 0

S us sex won by 7 wic k

ets .

I n the sa me mnth o the next test mat h amc c e of at

L ord s with the ’
, resu l t that S ussex won by 3 wickets .

FI R S T IN N I N GS . S E C O N D IN N I N GS
Matthw B wn e s, 0 ro 0 B b
road ridge

S a l b B adb idg
u , ro r e

W Wa d E q b D
. r , s uff

Ma d n b L illywhit
s
r e , e

Pil c h , b M
H K ingscote, E sq , c
. rown . B c W B . roadbridge

G K night, E sq ,
. Duff . b
c Brown

FI R S T I N N IN GS . S E CO N D IN N IN GS .

Chesslyn, E s q . b , K nig t h
S later,Ma d n c rs e

Mo l y b K night
re ,

W B oadb idg b
. r r e, K night c Beagl y e
 1 800 T O 1 84 3 .
97

J.B oadb i
d
r g e r , not out 8 run ou t

o b Ma d n rs e

o b Howa d r

96 1 1 7

hese two m
T atches do not seem to have assisted
towards the reconciliation anticipated between the two
styles of bowling, for we find th e following declaration

signed by the m ajority of the A ll E ngland team ,

annou nced
“
We the undersig ned do agree that we will not pl ay the third
mat h b tw
, ,

c e een
‘
A ll E ngland and S ussex,
’
which is intended to be
at B ight n in J ly o A
r o u r ugust, unless t e h S ussex la
p y s
er bowl fair ;
that i ab tain f mth
”
ro rowin
t s g .

T . C . H
oward,

W . Caldecorn t, -

W Matthws
. e , F . Pil h,
c

J . S aunders ,

It happened however, that this declaration was

withdrawn and the th ird m
,

, atch was played on Jul y

s and 2 3 rd, and a4 th at B righton, and was pronounced

,

to have produced as fine a piece of cricket as h ad

ever been witnessed ; it broug ht a large concourse of

e
p p0 1e an d as ,m uch as £ 52 0 was tak en in sixpences

at th e gate T he issue was happily in favour of

.

E ngland by 24 runs, and h ere is th e score

1 11 3 ? m os. S E CO N D 1 8 1 1 1 11 03 .

3 b B own r

W Ward
.
, E sq .
, b B oadbridger a b L ill ywhite
 98 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

E . H B . udd, E sq b L illywh
ite ” 8
0 st S l ater

H . K ingscote, E sq b Broadbridge . . o

o c W B . b
road ridge

z By es

FI R S T I N N I N GS .

c O sbal deston
L ill ywhite, bB udd

J B .adb idg b ro r e, K h
nig t

B own Pilch
r , c

R . Chessl yn , E sq. , run ou t

hit wicket

Bak er, st S aunders

S later, not ou t

95

om e fu rther m
S atches were played in A ug u st and

S eptem ber at S evenoaks and Brighton between K ent

aving for th eir aim th
, ,

and S ussex all h , e death blow -

of th
”
e new bowling T hey were however o f no .

is coadjutator Jem B road

, ,

avail for L illywh ite and h

bridge were both playing a waiting gam
, ,

, e which m ust , ,

as soon as recognised result in victory and t h ese two ,

heroes were not long before they becam

,

e th e obj ects

of copy for every m an or lad wh o had any pretension

to becom e a bowl er and at length th e finding
that all the chief supporters of the gam
, , ,

e were going

a gainst what w as d en o mi
'

nate d the ol d sc hool bow ling

” -
.
 1 800 T O 1 84 3 . 99

sanc ione t d the free ad mi i ss on of the delivery of the

ball up to the level of the shoul der .

T he Wa y] D ivaft fi of A ugu s t 2 9t h 1 83 0, p t
re or s

mat
,

the following h
c es

E ast S l Hornchurch
d L Quite P k
m
urrey 0. p ya e at angsto n ar

m
, .

acco le were preseu t ; and darkness co ing on prevented th e

ga m e being played out T he odds were .

g eatl y iu favour of
r

S urrey.

hat the I slington A lbions were giants in these days

T
goes w ith ou t any chall en in
g g fo r we read that the ,

M C C acknowledged their inability to play them

. . .

without the help of two or three professional s H ere

then, is another paragraph for th ose whom it will
.
,

T he cri
c et k mat h b c etween the Is l i
ng ton A lbion and Ca bridge m
Fro mth highopinion entertained of the m
e erits of th e contending

p a rtie s th i
,s ma tch excited considerable interest an d m uch b e ttin g ,

took place on th e event ; the C antabs being favourites at th e rate

of six and seven to four However the Union had not the
.

m
,

sl i
g h tes t ch ance of succ ess throughou t the atch; th eir total for
th e two innings was 1 3 5 3 T h e A l bions fetch ed 1 1 9 runs in th eir

first innings and they won the match without losing a wicket in
,

which will take place on M nday S pt mb 6th at th A lbi n

mat h mwhi h th fi t l en f th
o , e e er , e o

Ground T h n is the onl y

'

. c c e rs e ev o e

h
c all enged the gentlem en of the who have k
ac nowledg ed
their inability to play themwith out the assistance of two or three

of the professional players .

A nd here are full particulars of the t

re urn mat c h

the A l lnon
’

and m
Ca bridge Union Cl ubs ca me ofi
'

at the A lbion
 1 00 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T !

su mw s ere b etted on the resul t, at the rate of six to four on the

Isling tcnians . A fter a fine mat h in th c , e course of which every

point of the ga e m wa x s e hibit d in a ma t
e s erl y mann er, th
e score

was as foll ows — A l bi n o fi t inning 54 ;

rs s 1 second ditto 1 43 ; total
,

296 . Union first

innings 49 ; second ditto 1 06 ; to tal 55 1 ; the

mb
,

A l ion b winning by the l arge nu er of 1 4 1 runs. T he fineness

during th mat h he mt h b tw th b
M
party e c . T retu rn a c e een e A l ion

and t e county of h Herts will com fi e o

'

at Wa re on onday the

s gt h inst . T he betting on this mat h i c s six to four, and in so m e

pl aces two to one on th

e county.

N ow for 1 83 1
m mn Mile have
md a C i k t Cl b at MGa di
Q u ent in— S o e gentle e of E nd and its vicinity

for e rc e N w Gl b T u Mil r. r ner s,

’
e o e avern ,
”
e

E nd R ad T h a m o a yg . d i k t b t th E a t n nd
ere re n oo cr c e ers a ou e s er e s

o f th mt p li and w t
e e ro o s,t th at thi l b will b th man e t rus s c u e e e s o

co nc nt ati g thm Upwa d

e r n f tw nty g ntl mn f
e .
p tab ility r s o e e e e o res ec

ha al ady
ve ll d thi nam ; and a th f nd i p o id d by a h
re enro e er es s e u s r v e e c

g netl man a
p yieg b i
p ti n n b n ming a m mb ( w t
a su scr h t a y o o eco e er i ou n

b q nt
s u se ue t b ti ) th l b m ay b
con ri n id d t h p m
u on a e c u e co s er
e o e er

A n q al mt h with any
,

n atl y
e tabli hd es s e .
p tab l l n e u a c res ec e e eve

Yesterday se nnig t a
’
h grand mat h at c cric et k was played at t e h
S h
c olars Ground, ’
We tminsts er, b tw en l
e e e even gentle en of thm e O ld

W m est inster Cl u b and ele ven of the L ord s

’
M ont el ier C l u , wh
p ich, b

S urrey : S trathavon, N
L Felix, E sq
ord T Gri stes d, E sq , . . m .

W K een, E sq ,
. K ingscote, E sq , T . H
al ey, E sq ,
. otter, . . P . W P .

E sq , R ichards, oods, roadbridge, and il chW E ngland : L ord B P .

m
.

Gri ston, H on Colonel L owth er, S ir F

. athurst, E udd, E sq , . B . H B . .

H E K natch
. bull, E sq , C R o ily, E sq ,
. ard, E sq ,. eagley, . m . W W . . B
 1 02 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

On T uesday, a mat h c too k pl ace on the S chola rs

’
Ground,
W tmin t
es s er, b tw e een eleven m gentl e en of the L ord s
’
M n tp lie
o e r

Cl b and
u eleven of the Ol d W tm in t Cl b es s er u , which was decided

M
in favour of the latter with ight wi k t te c e s o go down . Wa l ly
k » July 3rd
: , 1 83 1 :

Monday at L o d G nd Ma yl b n and r
’
s rou r e o e, the fiel d throug hou t

th m atch wa w ll att nd d by th adm m Th

, ,

e i s e e e e rers of the ga e. e

foll owing were th e players : N orfolk— B C al dwell ,

. E q H J nn
s .
, . e er,

E sq , . C H
artridge, E sq
. . P G C al dwell, E sq ,
. . H W dh . o e ouse,

E sq., J C op for d . E sq , G F. itzro y. E sq . F arquh ar. E sq , F . .

L eath es, E sq , W P
ilch , an d F .u ll er il ch
. a r yl e on e — H o n C ol P . M b . .

L owth er, W W
ard, E sq , . K ingscote, E sq , S ir F . ath H
urst, . . . B
R . K ynaston , E sq , L ord S trath avon, S ir Vincent C otton, T
. .

Brown, E sq , road ridge,

. Ben an, and L illywh b ite W m
T he N orfol k
m
.

g en tl e en w e n t in firs t, a n d sc or ed 60 ary l eb o n e th en w e n t in , . M
b
and o tained 28 a ove th b
eir Opponents first h
’
ands I n th e second .

inning s of th e N orfol Cl u 1 1 3 were scored k T h e b

aryl ebone . M
b
having 86 to win o tained that nu er in their second hands, with mb
only th ree of th e wic ets down r k
ard scored 34, en an . MW . W m
22 , and L il l ywh ite seven onl y o f th e 86 , th

m
e two l atter leaving

th eir wick et standing a y D itpatcls, July 1 0th, 1 83 1

. .

N ew Glo b
e Cl u b
H ornch ureh
and eleven
, was played gentle mn e of

l ast M
onday in th e ark o f J P
S tanl ey, E sq , and excited great . .

interest T he .
you n g squire,
”
wi th h is fiien ds , J Be arbl ock and .

b
N ew ol t, E sqrs , j oining with eigh t of th .e T ownsfol
”
T he k .

uninterrupted g ood feeling ; bot h parties afterwards j oined mt os

cordiall y in crac king j o esk and b ottles at g ood ol d Gafier Goochs,

'
’

who by th
evinced, e excel lent ch eer that he spre ad on the festive

b oard, that his ha nd is always in , al thoughhis eye is ou t .

IBI I N GHK HI J N GA J N BI '

IT E I I T K HUDS HI l l r—4r hfil I nt uit inane cai rn
the b
A l ion Ground on T uesday and W dn e esday last, and was

A L BI O N . Hears .

73
S econ d ditto 5 6 S econd ditto 89

1 61 1 62

T he cor mty wi nning with two wic k ets to go down . T he admi rers
 1 800 T o 1 84 3 . 1 03

of t his mnly gam anti ipat

a e c e a high treat in witnessing the re turn

will e m i nence on the A l ion Ground on b Monday , the 1 5 th inst.

Betting at present, 6 to 4 on t e h Isling tonians .

Pilch mn mat h M with

mH y M t
e ced a at L ord s Ground, arylebone,
’
, ccru c ,

the Ho enr ore on and ten of E ug land. I t will be perceived,

f mth li t f play
ro e s h elevens
o ers, m that b ot incl uded any first

t m whi h d
ra e na es c ren ered the match very interesting , and caused
a good sprinkle of am
,

ateurs to cong regate T he following were .

the pl ayers : Marylebone— L ord S trathavon, S ir F H Bathurst, . .

Bart , B A islabie, E s q , H Jenner E sq H K elshaw E sq

. . . .
, .
, .
,

H E K natchbull, E sq , G T K nig ht E sq R K ynaston, E sq ,

. . . . .
, . .

Mo eton W Pott
r , . er, E sq .
, C . W ordswort h, E sq , . Beagley B oad , r

bridge, C al decourt, Co ett, bb Ma rsden, S aunders, S earle, and Wen~

m an T h
. e arylebone gentle M mn e went in first, but th e whol e of

their first innings, the rain ca m e down and prevenh further

ted t e

p g s
ro res of the mat h f c or that day. On Wednesday the gam e

m
ter inated in favour of th e E ngland side in one innings and 4 7

runs to s are —
p a l ly D i ali A ugus tW7 th 1 83 1 .
w
mat h
, ,

On M onday, the re turn c of cric et k betw een the Ma yl b r e one

T h
e Bury, in th
e first innings, 35 , scored only and the M arylebo m
44 ; the tw o inning ,
s notw ithstanding, occupied nea rly the whol e day .

T he Bury h ad six wickets down for 2 5 runs in th eir second innings

at th e close of the day T h e aryl e one won th e . atch with th e M b m

l oss onl y of L illywhite s wicket ’

mat h
.

A c of cri k
c et was played at Ha rrow on the 1 8th inst .
,

b tw en
e e el even of the Ha rrow Cl u b and el even of th
e Putn y Cl b e u

m
,

which ter inated as foll ows — Ha rrow : First innings, 3 2 ; second

innings, 65 ; to tal , 9 7 utney : P First innings, 1 4 ; second innings,
m
.

6 1 ; total , 7 5. T h e Harrow winning by 22 runs. T he ret n

mat h will
c be played at Putney on T uesday, the 3oth inst
m
.

0n T uesday last, a atch of crick et was played on th e N ew

Cricket Ground, ro ley, K ent, B m

etween el even gen tle en b m of

twenty-two sovereigns, which ter inated in favour m of the D artford

 1 04 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

Cl u b with th
ree wic kt e s and two runs to spare. T he numbers were

M
tot D artford : First innings, 50 ; nnings,
second i 4 1 ; total, 9 1 .

-
W¢¢ y D ra s, A ugust 2 1 st, 1 83 1
w .

S cotland takes to cricket

Cu mam 1 1 1: mat h in whi h th

C aren r C L UB or -
a —
. T his c , c e

Uni ity Cl b w th hall ng

vers u wa play d in th K ing Pa k
ere e c e ers, s e e
’
s r

at S ti ling y te day
r n nigh t
es T h P th Cl b b ing
r mpa ati ely
se
’
e er u e co r v

in it infan y th mm
.

s b w nt f wa d n t with any ang in

c e e ers e or r o s u e

b t nl y witha d t m
, ,

anti ipati nc f o s o inati n t d thi b t

success, u o e er o o o er es .

T h wa till l
ere t i pi
s s nfid n whn n g ing t S ti ling
e
ss o ns re co e ce e , o o o r ,

thy f nd th
e at thy h
ou ad n t nl y t nt nd withthe a k han o o o co e e cr c

o f th Uni e ity Cl b b t al
vers with th l it f th W t n Cl b
u , u so e e e o e es er u .

I t f ll t th l t f th P thCl b t g in fi t
e o e o o Whn th Gla g w
e er u o o rs . e e s o

g netl m n w
e nt in t
eh it m
e nt hig h an d b t n thi h a
e exc d e e rose e s o er e

min t th f thi h t
, ,

we e adil y fi d ; b t i l th an th
‘

r re o ere u n ess ree u es ree o e r es

l
p ya ers were ou t withou t scoring a notch B etting s to . a on the Perth
Clu b and no ta ers I n th k
e second innings fortune was
. against P ert h .

T he Glasgow gentl e mn e , as fields mn e ,

”
far h
outs one their oo m
th hands of the soouts so that the very best hits wh
e ball s and the ich
were m
,

ade by th r opponents were often rendered of littl e eflect A ll

'

ei .

as a b md th l ading ta f th Gla g w pa ty— a

owler, see e e e s rs o e s o r s

S im m d and B nal in th apa iti w th main p p f

on s er , ese c c es, e1e e ro s o

P th P th Cl b Fi t inni g 63 ;
er . er d ditt 4 8—
u 0 : r
s n s, secon o, 1 1 .

Uni ity Cl b F i t i ning 48 ;

vers nd ditt
u 58
: 06 P th rs n s, seco o, — 1 er

T h gam l
.

aini g by 4 n t h
n d at half pa t f
o c es . p m alt e e c ose - s our . . er

m than fi h a d a half in ant ti

,
'
ore ve ours n s cess exer on.

O t b oth 83
c o er , 1 1

With the exception of a few old established cl ubs in

the S outh S cotland never seem s to have taken kindl y

to the gam A m e rustics this m

,

e ongst th ay be on
mons
.

accou nt of th e general absence of greens and com

su ch as one finds attached to every E nglish village ,

and also to th e diflerence in th e course of cul tivating

'

the land, which sel dom rem ains down to grass for any
length of time A gain the cou ntry up north is so hilly
.
 1 800 T O 1 84 3 . 1 05

that unless a gentlem an interested in th e gam e goes to

th e expense of laying out a ground, play is practically

im possible although it was pleasing to observe last

sum mer both cricket golf quoits and putting the
,

, , ,

stone al l being played together u pon the links at

A berdeen which are tolerably level in som e parts

A lfred Myo n m
.
,

T h e celebrated ade h is de bu t as a
ge n tl em an c ric k e ter in 1 8 3 a a fte r d ef ea tin g H ill s t he

am
, ,

ch p io n sin g l e w ick e t p la ye r in th e co un try an d u n d er ,

th e patronage of L ord S ondes wh o was a great enthusi ast

e gam He m is fam
,

of th e ade h e in th e many
matches played at L ees Court during the next few years
.

e nam e of F uller Pilch was also som

.

T h eth i ng to conjure

with in these days for it had been wafted on the wings of

fam e into alm
,

ost every cranny of th e cricketing world ,

m
and in th e year 1 8 33 h e was selec ted to test th e validity

am onsh
,

of Marsden s claimto th e ch ip of E ngland, as

’

a single wicket player Marsden of S heffield was looked

.

upon as a fearfu l adversary H e doubtless h . ad claim

to popularity and fromthe com , bination of his entra
ordinary left hand hitting with his other gifts he had
-
,

kept A ll E ngland for som e t im

,

e in a state of abeyance

Pilch however, m
.

, et th e Yorkshire redoubtable at N orwich ,

on th e i 8th of June T h e contest was lim

. ited to a
few hours but quite su fi cient to convince th
, e S h efi eld

blade that h e m ust surrender h is title to th e unassum ing

hero of H om ingtoft for P ilch m ade 7 1 runs in one

innings against Marsd en s 7 runs in two attem

,
’
pts
memorable match took place in 1 834 between
.

A
Oxford an d Cowley a village which fostered several
—

g o od cric ke te rs wh os e c h i ef occ u pa tio n w a s b ow lin g at

sixpences placed u pon stu m etim
,

ps, som es ei ght h o urs a

day T h
. e Oxoni ans knowing th e grou nd or th e bow lers , ,

scored zoo runs in their first innings T hen Cowley .

 1 06 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

grew wiser and put on one T ailor Hum

, phreys to bowl
underhand twisti ng sneaks at which th e O xoni ans laugh ed, ,

but it actual ly levell ed th

”
and called it no cricket, eir

wick ets, for in their eagerness to score with such sim p l e

bowling they hit across at the bal l and their sticks were
disturbed .

Plod we on to 1 8 3 5 .

Gu m ) C arcr m Maren — O u Monday June 29th 1 835 th e , , ,

Vincent Co tton , M essrs . M eyricke, Wa d r S leet, S trange, Wilkin s,

mad fi st
,

Garnier, Hol den, and S trange, j un. , who e : innings, 44 ;

r

second ditto, 7 6 T he foll owing were the O fi oers of the Gu ards who

mb
.

l
p ya ed z— E arl of S andwich, S ir F . Bath urst, H on R . obert L a ert,

C aptains B ooke
r , Fitzro y, Hou t s on, Vansittart , M essr
s. A l ex
Fairlie, Goring , and N ewton. F irst innings, 13 5 3 thus heating the
Ma yl b
r e one b
Clu by 1 5 , with one innings . I t was re marked that
the Guards played ad ira l y mb .

C ares s a — A mat h t k pla

c oo ce on T hursday l ast at t e h M ont

pel i
e r Grou n d Walw th b tw or e een the M ontpelier and Mile E nd

On m
,

N ew Gl obe Clu b s. ning e s on eac h side oocupied nearly t e h

were score d z— Montp li e er, 1 65 ; Mil e E nd N ew Glo be, rat. T h e

“
kn ll e of parting day cl osed the ga e, m soon after theMont
pelier co mm enced th r second inni
ei ngs with so m e of th fin st
e e

the n orc extraordinary, as two of thei

r b est mn e were absent.

C ancu n — O u T uesday neat a mat h will c be pl ayed at Gigs

Wa l ly D rh
p atch July a8th 835 1

m mm M
.
, ,

S e uu a C c aren — O u Duesday
’
considera ble b ustl e

in consequence of a mat h c icket

of cr being played between eleven

su m of £ 1 0 and a hot supper . A t ten o cl oc

’
k in th
e forenoon a

ten t was erected on th e green, and soon afterwards the wi

c kt e s

were pitched A vast asse lage mb of persons were congregated to

m m
.

witness the sport, a ongst who mw ere a m

nu ber of th e ost
 1 08 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

co u nty for several years afterwards T h ere was no

periodical termof residence in a certain county in force
.

at this tim e .

T he L eicester j ou rnal for A ugust a6 th 1 8 3 6 reports

e great m
, ,

th atch between th e N orth and S outh , for 5 cc

a side, played at L eicester on A ugust aand a3 rd 2 4 th

-
, , ,

and asth T he account is so interesting that I give

.

it verbatim
T his mat h wac s co mmn e ced on Monday th nst., on th
e sand i e

mth
,

cric et k grou nd in the town, and fro e great science and s kill
displayed by the S ou t h the ga m wa
e s protracted to the middl e of

parts of t e h king dom A num erous com

. an
p y of l adies graced the

ground with their presence each day and it was owing to th e ,

A mg on the co mpany p resent were L ord F . Ba e ucler k Hon , .

Captain S pencer, W Wa d r E sq B A islabie, E sq , s 0 and mo t 1

m m mk
. . .
,

the l eadi
ng patrons of the ga e, all of wh o re ar ed that they

M W nm was th mi ati n the wh

MM
of A .
ynn , E sq. , and an
e e ad r o of ole

fi lde and it was unfortunate that r. ynn shoul d have mt with

e

mmn m t mat h whi h

,

an accident prior to the co e ce en of the c c

himto have his leg doctored up for th m

,

co mp ll e ed e c e at h H
e u tm
.

la
p y ed thro ughout in th ost ag ony, and at length he was

unabl e longer to endure it, and begging L o d F. Ba e ucler k to

mm
r

aooo ny himint o one of the ma q h th

r uees, e ere s owed h his l eg
his l ordship k in tantly
MM
to . L ord Frederic s sent for a fly, and assisting
into it, desired th woul d get h he m quickly
MM
r. yna at o e as as

possi bl e. r. yon ul ti ate l y ream

ch ed L ond on , and cou l d not

furth into K ent, wh ere h

MM
proceed er e resided S o serious . and severe
was the inj ury that r. ynn was o blig d
to be pac ed up, as it
e k
the roof of th stage coach fro m
MM
were, and laid on e IA cester to
L ondon. In spite of this accident it will be seen that r. yun
l
p ya ed a re ma kabl
r e ga m e.

FI R S T IN N IN GS .

Vincent, c L illywhite 1 b Co bbett

 1 800 T O 1 843 . 1 09

16 b L illywhit e

b C bb tt
o e

R edgate, b H illiard

Bye 8ms, . By es, m

8 .

S m
mm mm
ou
'
.

n as r snconn
'
u s. x os.

Bye s, wides, a
re

1 68

T he S out hwon by 3 3 1 runs.

On July xx, 1 83 7 , a mat h

d on Waldenc was co mm ence

Com mon, E ssex, between the S afiron Walden and '

Bishop S tortford C lubs T he first innings of th . e

Yellow B oys occupied nine hou rs, from ten in the

morning until seven in the evening T he result was
m
.

4 74 ru ns of wh ich n u be r a pla yer na med A lfred

A dam
,

s m

M
ade a7 9 .

O n A ugust a8th 1 83 8, yn n play,ed D ea rman at T o wn

Malling for 1 oo guineas and won easily

e annual m
.
,

A t th atch between th
M
e Marylebone C C and .

K ent played at
, alling on A ugust roth and roth 1 83 9, ,
 rt o A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

s om e enorm ous bets were won and lost I n K ent 3 .

second innings R edgate put on as chang e bowler floored

three crack wickets withou t a single run being m

, , ,

M
ade o f
him via Dearm
— an Pilch and A
, y nn
, ; s ix o f th e e
,l ev en .

were ou t for one run T he E arl of T hanet h ad backed

K ent for a large am
.

ount whil e L ord Frederick Beauclerk ,

was equall y sweet upo n th

M
e lads representing Marylebone

indeed h
-
e captained
, his team him sel f whilst r , .

A islabie was h is leading opponent S o confident was

his lords hip of success that he m
.

ade a further bet of £ 5 0

that the first five m en on th e Marylebone C C side . .

would get the runs required But som ehow they di d

e m
.

not and K en t eventual ly won th atch by 3 runs

e im portant m
.
,

In th atc h S ussex 0 E nglan d at L o rd s.

’
.
, ,

on J u ne 8 th and 9th 1 8 4 0 L illywhite bowled twelve

, ,

of E ngland s wickets Fuller Pil ch played for S ussex

’
.

o n th i s occasion and th e county won by as runs T h e

team
.
,

s incl uded such giants as th

M
e celebrated A lfred

y nn n ow p op,
u larl y k n ow n a s A l f re d th e G re at ”
ov e r ,

at in height weigh ing rS st and with a hand like a

shou lder of m
, ,

u tton and on a so ft wicket h e fairly dug a

m m
,

g ra ve w ith his l eft foo t ; W il l i

a H i ll ye r J a es Cobb ett
and J am
,

S am uel R edgate J am
,

es B roadbridge , es Dean , ,

to say nothing of Fu ll er Pilch and L illywhite .

Full er Pilch possessed a rare fund of anecdotes which ,

when to ld in his rustic style in the old back parlour of the

“
S aracen s H at Canterbu ry were a real treat to
’
,

enter aining som f hi ppo nt d ing a m

t at h H e o s o ne s ur c e

am mnt
.

lik d gi i g th m go d l g ning
'
e v n e a o on eve s use e , as

he lled it with a m h a th y h
ca t dik s uc s e c ose o rn

py th wh l tim
,

whil t f him lf h w ld
,

s or se e ou occu e o e e over

a couple of glasses of what was su pposed to be gin

 1 12 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

S o mw e d call this taking a m

oul ean advantage but
”

Fu ller knew his m

,

en and what h e h ad to do th e next day .

N 0 book on cricket would be perfect without m

,

ention

of m y resp ec ted friend Fred G al e w ho d elight

, s in the

he knows m
,

sobriquet of th old Bufler

'

e ore of

the h istory of cricket during the 4 o s and so s than ' ’

any m an living H e tells the foll owing fine story anent

e m
.

th atch K ent 0 E ngland, at Canterbury 1 84 2 as t e

imby none other than th
.
, ,

lated to h e veteran Fu ll er Pilch :

T here were four of five good hands md a e in that mat h with
c

and over 7 50 hal ls were bowled in th e first h sn d T o Barker . m

and Joseph Guy ade th m
e long h ands for E ngl and, and our side

bowled al ost as m any h m

al ls K ent got 2 7 8, E ngland 206, and
.

then the ground was so cut up th at L ill ywhite and D ean , without

a chang e, got the l ot of us for 44 in our second hands and K ent ,

l ost by nine wickets . Whn e we got the 3 7 8 one of the K entish

m
far ers ofiered 3o to r in sovereig ns on K ent, and an ofi cer at

C anter b
ury too k himf our ti m es over, and ol d top b oots did
sigh when he went hom e for h is canvas bag to pay up Yet
ese farm m
.

th ers were not oontented unless they had fr

o one to

In A ugus t, 1 84 4, a mat h
between S urreyc was played
and M iddlesex at th e E ast S urrey Grou nd I n th e first .

innings Middlesex scored 1 ro runs N ine of th e S urrey .

wickets fell for 9 ru ns T he tenth h owever was very .

,

obstinate for it m
,

,aintained its erect position u ntil th e score

of S urrey exceeded that of Middlesex by r9 .

S ingle wicket m atches were very com mon in these days .

T h e stak e generally played for was a tripe supper or boil ed

leg of m utton with turnips T h e last great m atc h of this

description wh ich really settled the Cham
.

M
pio nsh ip o f
E ngland for th e year was that between r A l fred Myna .

and Felix at L o rd s on J une 1 8th

MM
,
’
1 84
, 6 wh ic h resu l ted i
n ,

an easy win for r yn n . .

 1 1 4 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

I now give the M C C and K ent engagem ents for . . .

the season o f 1 84 5 as it is interesting to com pare them

with those in the present tim e ; and from th em a
,

go od idea may b e gaine d as to what cou nties and

oth er clu bs were considered sufi cientl y im portant for

class m atches in that day

M
.

T HE A R YL E BO N E CL U B .

M
M h
A T C HE S co n s .

M
'
ro

T UE S DA Y A Y 1 3t at Ca mb idg r e — T he . C C agains t the

mb
. .
, ,

Undergraduates
M M h h M
of Ca ridg e.

L ord s.
’
o N DA Y, A Y 1 9t , at T e . C C . . and Ground
h P w h b
M h M
against t e et ort C lu and Ground .

T a us A Y, A Y 3 3 nd, at O xford — T e . C C . . against the

Undergraduates
M h( m M
of O xford .

MO N DA Y , A Y 3 6t E pso wee ) , k at L ord s. —

'
T he . CC
. .

MO N D A Y J UN ] : 3 nd C C and Ground, with

at I .ord s
’
-
T he M . . .

m
.
, ,

Wen an or Pilch, against the County of S ussex

M
.

Y
FR ID A , JUN E 6th , at E ton — T h e C C against the present . . . .

M
E tonians .

M O N DA Y
, J un : 9th (A sco t wee ) , at L ord
’
s T he C C agains t k .
-
. . .

MO N DA Y , J UN : 1 6t h, at L ord s .—
’
T he M . C C . . and Ground agains t
the Western

T H UR S DA Y JUN E he 1 9t h
C C against th e at L ord s .
’
T M
Undergraduates of O xford (re turn m
. . .
, ,

atch)
M
.

MO N D A Y, JUN E a3rd at L ord s — T he C C and Ground, with

M
’
. . . .
,

Pilch against the N orthern C ounties with A

M
, ynn E sq , .
, .

T n u s A Y JUN E a6th at Petworth— T h

e C C and Ground
e Petworth Cl ub and Ground (return m
. . . .
,,

against th atch)
M m
.

at L ord s — I h C C against th e Gentl e en of

’ '

e . . . .

R ug by S chool

MO N DA Y, JUN E 3oth, at L ord s T he Gentlem

.

en of K ent against
’
-
.

the Gentl em en of E ngland

MO N DA Y, JUL Y 7 th at L ord s T he Gentlemen against the

.

’
.
-
,
 1 844 T O 1 87 3 . 1 1 5
S A man
'
A Y, JUL Y 1 9th , at Ha ro w.
r T he M . CC . . agains t the

MON DA Y JUL Y , n et, at L ord s — T

’
. he M . CC . . and Ground aga ns t i

T HUR S DA Y JUL Y
, s4 t h
. at A ndley E nd — T he M . C C . . and Ground
against t e h A udl ey E nd C lu b .

the C ounty of N orfolk , with ilch P

ma m
.

WxDN s A Y, JUL Y 3ot h, T u nA Y , JUL Y

3 1 st, F a A Y , A UG Usr

rst , and S A rua

'
Y, A nousr 3 n d, at L ord s — A nnual
’
. Mat h c es

MON DA Y A UG US T 4 th at C anter b ury. — K ent against E ngland.

m
, ,

T nu asnA A no uar 7 th
Y, at C anter ury
— T b he Gentl e en o f K ent

m
, .

ag ainst th
Bath— T h M
e Gentle en of E ngland .

MON DA Y A th
M
UG US T C C and G 1 1 nd again t
, at e . . . ro u s

with Pil h W nm
,

th W
T h M
te n C o nti
e es r an an d Au ynn E q
es, c , e , .
, s .

T no asnA Y A nouar 1 4th at R db

, n
'
C C and G nd , e our e.— e . . . rou

again t th W t H t Cl b

MO N DA Y A UGUS T 1 8th at B ight n — T h M

s e es er s u .

C C and G o nd r o e r u

with W nm
. .
, , .
,

Pil h again t th C nty f S

M
an e or c s e ou o ussex.

T m
,

l s A Y A U G US T 3 1 t
, t S tham pt n — T h C C an d G sn d , a ou o . e . . . rou

again t th C nty f Hant with th play

MO N DA Y A Uous r asth at N ttingham— T h M
s e ou f E ngland o s, ree ers o .

,
'
C C and G o nd . o e . . . r u ,

withPil h again t th N th n Co nties with A Myna E q

— T h M
c s e or er u s

e rm xn ri th at S waflham
, , . , .

T u os A Y , C C and , . e . . .

G nd again t th Co nty f N
rou f l k with Pil h
s e u o or o ,
c .

K E N T CL UB .

T he following mat h c es are arranged to be played during the

MO N DA Y , M A Y 3 6th, at t e h B ee hive Ground, Wal w ort hL , ondon.

K ent against S ou t hL o ndon.

MO N DA Y JUN E , a3rd, at Can e

t r ury
— K e nb
t . agains t N h
ort ern

MO N DA Y JUN E , 3ot h , at L ord s.

’
-
Gentle m en of K ent agains t

he Tbecquent arrangements to suit the N ottinghamparty

is m atch to be al tered fi omth
,

caused th e day for th e 3 3rd to the

M
'

3 6 th of June — Bell s L i L h 8
’
fe in ondon ay 1 1 t 1 45 , ,
 1 16 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

C ounties (return mat h) c

Wm )
.

MO N DA Y A c o usr 4 th (GR A N D at Can ter by

ur — K ent

mat h)
, ,

against E ngland (
return c

mn
.

T H UltS DA Y, A UG US T 7th, at C anter bury. Gentle

-
e of K ent
against Gen tl e mn e E ng land (return
of atch) m .

MO N DA Y , A UG US T 1 8th, at C anter ur
y
— K ent b . against S out h

Here rs a piece of news that will interest the present

members of a very old established L ondon club -
.

In Ie N o rO N
'
A L BI O N Cu m Th — e fortieth annivers ary dinner
of this b
cele rated cl u place on ed nesday bat C optoo
e nhag enk W
m
,

H ou se, J Goldh
. a , j un , E sq , in the chair, the h on, secre tary,
. .

Ballard, E sq , ofi ciating as deputy

. T he respective ch airs could .

not h ave b
een fill ed by ore estee ed e ers of th m
e clu , and m mmb b
they were surrounded at the festive oard by a out fty of as b b fi
“
g ood enmand true
”
as ever entere d the cricketing field, and

in the various mnt f th gam MGa att th p ct d

depart e s o e e. r. rr , e res e e

host pu t on
, th tabl e a dinn q al t one at the A l bi n and
e er e u o o

f th m t app o d intag
,

his wines were al so o I n fa t h

e os r ve v es . e , e

render al l his patrons happy and co mf ortabl e. T he great press o f

sporting news , this wee w e i
g ev k notwit standing h a suppl e ent, m
m
will not per it ns entering so full y as we coul d h ave wish ed into

all the
“
g ood thing s said an d done
”
and it us t su fi ce there fore, m
m m
, ,

to state th at nu erous spp prlate toasts were drun during th e k

the praiseworth y exertio ns and efi cienc y his deputy and the
of
m
,

great interes t tk
a en in th e pro o tion of obj ects of th
the e clu b by

Gibson E sq treasurer, and “

father o f the club
”
were all uded
to in term usiasm
.
, , ,

s of high eulogy and responded to with enth and

e m appy m
, ,

that the evening was spent in th ost convivial and h anner .

the sh ove clu s la

p y a atch ob
n W dn day n xt 1 4th in t on m e es e s .

b k f th N o thampt n A m
, ,

the ground of th m
e for er, at the ac s o e
“
r o r
”

T h m m h inter t and a
,

L ower R ad I ling t n
o at h x it
s o e c e c es uc es

mpany i pe ted f omthe admi abl pp tunity afi ded

.
, ,
‘

large co s ex c r r e o or or

m
,

for viewing the ga e on th e high bank of the N ew R iva which

m
,

runs through the field, where arquees will be ected

er for the
 1 1 8 AN N ALS OF CR I CK E T .

he Montpelier Cl ub, one of the oldest of the first

T
class clubs in the S ou th of L ondon, was now bec om ing
very unsettled for th e increased presence of bricks an d

mortar drove it to seek quarters elsewhere Its head

,

quarters were at this tim

.

e at the Beehive and

Cricketers in Wal worth, near L orrim ore S quare H ere .

is a m atch played upo n th is ground on June 2 9th 1 8 4 1 , ,

not long before it was required by th e bu ilder taken

from L illywhite s scores
,
’

Moa m
mm
.

rn s r n os .
'

A . R .

30 c H ath b C
e , ox

C . Whyting , E s q., c Gi b son, b

W ood,B q l bw, Cox b

W . F oul ds, B q , lbw, L uckhurs t
. b c Heath b C
, ox

T . C L ewis, E sq
. a lrh urst b
W k .Ba er, E sq , L uckhurs t. b
J P . eto, E sq , c C ox .

Garrett, E sq , . b S and ers on

C L ocher, E sq ,
. . bC ox

E yes 2, wides 26

1 7 0

I su noron A ma a mm mm
r — n os .

S aunders , E sq , run out .

L ongh urst, E sq Col tson b

J . Dewdney, E sq , c F oul ds, Col tson . b
J . H eath, c Garrett, C ol tson b

Gi b s on, E sq lbw, bC ol tson

C ox, E sq , . bC ol tson

J H . . T homp n,
so E sq. , c P t bC
e o, ol tson

Bye! 9. wides 3
 1 844 T O 1 87 2 . 1 19

T HE S UR R E Y C L UB A T T HE O VA L

T he present B ishop of T as mania ( the R ight R ev.

Dr H H M ontgom
. . ery, D D ) wh en Vi
. car of K ennington . .

made an exhaustive research into the subject of the early

days of the Oval and in a l ittle m anual h is L ordsh ip
,

published a few years since, he says

844 th Beehive Grou nd in Wal worth was reg- shed

m; M
In 1 e f or

bu p p and th ont el ier Cl a b obtained th f

e l ease o th
u r oses , e p e

Ouol f m the D u ch
y f
o mmit f
Co or thirty-one year: at 1 20 per

The club did not m eet with m uchsuccess, as th e proprietor

seem ed anxiou s to find roomfor several cl ubs wh ich th e

Montpelier obj ected to and they ul tim

,

atel y l eft, and took ,

a grou nd wh ere C oldh arbour L ane now stands H ere .

they played for a year or two when they broke up and ,

merged into the S u rrey County Club T he celebrated

M
.

r W Ward whose benevolent action at L ord s, and ’

whose ach ievem

. .
,

ents between th e stick s I have al ready

com mented upon was one of the first to start the S urrey
,

Club and he took the chair at the Horns for the

,

initial m eeting T here were present : C H H oare W

. . .
, .

Bak er T L ewis C Col tso n J Burrup jun , N Fel ix W

, .
,
.
,
.
,
. .
, .

Houghton, W Pickering and W Denison A s soon as

things were dressed into shape and a substantial num
.
, . .

ber
em
,

of m bers were enrolled, the H on H Ponsonby (the . .

late L ord Bessborough) was invited to take th e chair at

th e autu m n d inner and from this com mencement the

fam
,

e of S urrey cricket h as spread to all parts of th e world

e first m
.

T h atch played on th e ground was on J uly 1 7 th

i s4 5 In 1 84 7
. r J B u rrup becam M
e secretary and th.
,

e .

e m
,

lease fel l into new h ands whichstrengthened th anage ,

 no A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

mnt all m his brother,

MW B
e rou n d . He resigne d ,
1 85 5, and

r . took office (S ee I llu stration pag e

. urrup, .
,

T he O val is described abou t th is tim e as follows ,

and occu pied a leading position in th e cri cketing worl d,

for the S urrey C lub were again com ing to th e fro nt

quarters of the S urrey Cricket Clu b . T en years since it was a

attained its present strengt his astonis hing . Four cl u b s la

p y on t e h

T he C ounty of S urrey with its 200 mmb e er

s.

S ou t hL ondon 45
n n S6
6x
T h
e la in
p y g portion contains an area of a ou t b nine acres. It

In 1 86 1 there were close upon 1 00 0 m em bers with

m e other cl ubs nam
,

an inco e of about £ 2 ooo and th ed

merged into the parent or sought shelter

,

had ei ther
el sew ere h
popular I Zingari was form
.

T he eve r ed in 1 84 5 and

rem
,

ains to th e present day one of th e m ost select of cricket

clu bs I ts rules and regulations are o f th

. e m ost extrava

g ant ord e r bu t th e wish, o f every l ove r o f go od crick et

is that it m ay long flourish

A piece of fun happened during the m

.

atch Gentlem en

of E ngland v Gentl em en of K ent in th i

. s year A K ent .

player (we will respect his nam e) sat down to get wind

after a ru n (h is bat in h is grou nd bu t h is seat of honour

out) and let go of th e h andle of h is bat when th e

wicket keeper stu m ped him H e was very angry and said
, ,

-
.

he would never play again ; however he did play in the

retu rn m
,

atch at Canterbury where h e was put out in

precisely the sam e m

,

anner It is stated that he was .

never h eard of in th e cricket fiel d again -

.
 1 22 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

S b b
u scri ers
’
m
na es received by E . Ga mba t r and Cc .
, 25, B erners

S treet, O xford S treet, L ondon, or W . H . Ma son, at t eh R epository

of A rts, B ight r on.

T here see m s l ittl e dou bt but th at the mat c h was

actuall y played som e years previously yet it i s a qu estio n

e noblem en and gentlem

,

if all th en figured in th e pict ure

were really present It does not lose a particle of its .

interest and value even if th e art ist did draw a littl e u pon

im aginat ion for it is a m em orial of what can never be

,

seen again .

T he year 1 84 6 saw the first for mati on of t e h A ll

E nglan d der su ch a title m
E leven any
. A lthough un

matches had been previously played they did not repre

m m m
,

sent as re ards
g the e ber s, a ll th a t th e na e

WilliamClarke proprietor of the hostelry which

,

su ggests .
,

incl uded the cel ebrated T rent B ridge Ground, N ottingham ,

and th e celebrated u nderhand bowler of th e day was

instrum
,

ental in its initiation N eedl ess to say one of th e .

most important features of the get u p was the top

,

hat worn by several of the E leven T he first m atch .

was played at S h efi eld against twenty two of that town -

on A ugust 3 1 st and S eptem

,

ber and .

T he E leven consisted of

M
M
G B utler . W artingell . . .

W Clarke . A y n n . . .

J D e an . F P il c h . . .

T S ewell . .

J G rey . V C Sm ith
. . . .

W H illyer . .

his team incl uding each year the m

T ost approved

talent played m
,

atch es innum
, erabl e du ring the next ten

years and it is worthy of record that one of these

annual m
,

atch es was against twenty two of West Glouces -

terabits .
 1 844 T O 1 87 2 . 1 25

m.
Wi den
s 26
s
z
1 63 23 64 7 8 2 26 7 10 7
James L illywh
ite . . 7 35 8 22 3 3 0 71 10 1

Hilly er 37 1 82 3 1 1 26 12 6 1 35 8 9 25
T hackery , E sq. 4 20 5 1 1 1 o o 37 9 1

I n the issue of October

ifi gives ars , t 1 84 9, Bell
’
: L
th e average of no fewer th an 1 6 8 of th e most celebrated
players, as well as the averages of thirty six bowlers, and
” ”
-

th T h
”
they speak of it as e heaviest season on record es e .

lists, like those of th e preceding years, are arranged

al phabetically and I have selected those showing th

, e

h igh est average T here are one or two interesting points

.

whichdo not co m e ou t to view here

e greatest num
.

T h ber of ru n: during the year were

made by G Parr, who scored 9 7 0 the next being Box
.
, ,

with 7 0 5
was m
.

T h e greatest score in are turning: ade by

Blayds, wh o scored 1 1 0, the next being J .

A itken E sq , with 1 0 5
N early two colum Brief rem
. .
,

ns are occu pied with arks

on m ost of the players, of whichI take the following
”

seaso m and is a mt os excellent bat man ;

s his average b at
e s every

Barry, b h rot er to G. Bu y is f omYo k hire

rr r r s .

fi t tim w h
,

H unt— this is the rs a tak n th a erages of th

e e ve is e e v

l
p ya er— is a pl ant f om Ch
r est fiel d but eng aged at Manch
er e t
, s er

hree L
T illywhites now wield the willow given
Jam
,

respectivel y as L illywhite, es L illywh ite, and J oh n

Under the sa m e date appear so me witty verses

 1 26 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

emb dyi g o n the na m f all th es o e t d

no e cricketers of the

day . It is a so mwhat l gthy pi

e en ece, bu t it see m w ll s e

worth recor ding he Cricketer s A lphabet :

. It is called T
’

”
to be said or sung in all cricket clubs .

O n July i sth 1 8 5 0 th e N orth of E ngland played their

annual m
, ,

atch at L ord s I n th e second innings J oh n

’
.

L illywh ite bowled every wicket of th e S outh On .

A ugust 3 oth of th e sam e year a m

, atch was played at th e ,

Oval between eleven right handed and eleven left handed - -

e form
.

T h er won by an innings and 66 runs A t

sam
.

Godal m ing during th e e month, twelve Ca sars

e neighbourhood, and m bers of the sam
,

em
,

resid ents of th e

fam ily played a m atch in Broadwater Park th e seat o f A

Marshall E sq against eleven gentl em

.
, ,

en of S urrey T h e

ention of team
. .
,

latter won by 1 6 runs T h is m s consist i

ng

inds m
.

of players of one nam e rem e of th e Watneys in

S urrey th e C olem
, ans in N orfolk th e Walkers of S outhgate , ,

th e Graces in Gloucester th e L e Mays in K ent and th e

R obinsons in S om
, ,

erset

mL
.

S o e eading Pl ayers

5
i
a
i a
6 8 27 1

3 6 1 85 0 3
g
1 9 0

3
32
1 ‘’ 0 30 2 2
k
S toc dale g 3 0 o 28

. s
BowL axs
?
1
3 2 3m
g z
3° 1 54
 1 28 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

B 5 , l b 6, w- 2, n o
h1

fl ares, Jul y h, 1 85 1
1 4t .

return mat h c of these E levens co mmn e ced yesterday at

L ord s. A t th cl ose of the day th score stood as foll ows
’
e e 1

FI R S T natures .

Clar k e, c K ing , b Bath urst

B 7, l ‘
h 7, W l s a e s e a e a a a s a s a a e

T 11 11 Gru mma n .

M k b
MW
r. R . T . K ing, c Cl ar e,
r. . N icholson, st Box, b Hillye r

T iara , July 22nd , 1 85 1 .

 1 844 T O 1 87 2 . 1 29

S o m e of the Principal

t
ga fi8 t»
z: ?
a a 3
5 202 79
n 1 7 69 ! 1 37 3 40
W S . D eacon,
3 4 1 37 64 66 0 66 o 34 1

H on F Paken
. .

5 9 2 74 73 89 0 30 0 3 0 4

Bom as .

T his year they again feel bound to notice the increasing

“

p po u la rity o f this trul y na tio nal sport

”
and th ey g i
v e a
l ist of 4 2 6 nam
,
“
es of batters and 5 9 of bowlers .

T h e greatest num ber of me: m ade during th e

ye ar

was by
G Parr .

T he h ighest scores in a single innings are

H on . C J T Fiennes
. . .

R ev. Bradshaw

S urrey played their first mat h c with N otts th is year ,

and won by 75 runs.

 1 3 0 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

S m
o e of the

"
8 6

i
i a
M aul s , E sq .
z:
4
at
1 56

8 22 5 60 60 o
6 1 67 70 82 1
W Hounsell E
.
, sq. 6 9 243 1 25 1 25 0

52
‘

a a
s
10 52 6 42 8 3 1 1 10 o

28 1 78 24 60 4 1 9 0 285 10 5
1 21 21 67 4 4 0 21 7 9 10

W . Cl ar k
e 3 1 1 69 8 1 70 43 10 8 308 9 29

his year the al phabetical list com

T prises abou t 3 5 0
gen tl em en an d p lay ers in E n gla n d m ost no te d as ba tte rs
”
and bowlers
m
.

A g a in G P arr m ad e th
. e hig h est nu b er of run s — 1 0 6 0 .

T h e highest scores in one innings are

L ong E sq ( Oxford) . 141

W Hounsell E sq (Pym
,

. ore) 1 25
, .

E B T revil lian E sq
. . 1 26 , .

T the L illywhite is recorded as having played

ve eran

in 1 5 0 m atches for th e M arylebone Cl ub and h ad 2 7 5 ,

innings ; h e sco red 1 5 1 o runs duri ng th e season and

was 1 9 tim a rem

,

arkable perform H is
”
es not out ance , .

introduction of th e round arm bowling thirt y five years - -

ago and h is continuation of it until th e present tim e

has afiorded m
,

any hundreds m
,
'

u ch grati
fication .

S urrey played E ngland at L ord s on Jul y 1 ath 1 3 th

’
, ,

and 1 4 th, an d w on by two wickets .

 1 32 AN N ALS OF CR I CK E T .

near t e h L ord Hill ,

”
and a mng o its forty mmb e ers are so mpl ye a ers

grou nd
m mA
.

B c xauarn
'
Gu c xar
'
Cu — venera bl e locality for cric et,k
and the nursery b
o f so pl y m e of o ur mt os cel e rated a ers.

Bu cxN ocx A nu s GR O UN D (C amd n T wn) F l b e o .

— our c u s

l
p ya h g l
ere re a l y P pu i t Mr B and Gib o
rn r e ors , essrs . ruce so

( 3m m C R I CK E T C L UB
. .

mp d p i ipally f l al g ntl co ose r nc o oc e e

mmn
,

mn withplay
e ,
l t d f m l b wh p at
ers se ec e n th ro c u s o o er e o e co o .

C L A PT O N C R I CK E T C L U B — On f n id able tanding both . e o co s er s

in play and station in society.

I S L I N GT O N A L BIO N C arc m CL UB.— A flourishing cl u b that

l
p ya s in C openhag en F iel ds , a piece o f a ou t b seven acres . I t was
b
es ta l ish b m
M
ed a ou t 1 80 5 , and we h ave noticed so e of its doings
h P Garrett, wh
MP
on anot er a
p g .
e ietor of
ropr gro und, r. o sub

lets to r. aul .

WOO L WI C H — T h . e R oyal S tandard is the b est cl u b in thi s district,

and whenever it hk out its lion bann er to th
s a es e sun it is sur

ro unded by a g athering o f pl ayers who re uire an im

q m ense am o un t
of b ating
e . It h ol ds its m ngs in th
ee ti e Ch arl ton R oad Black ,

heath .

S T R R A T HA H .— T bis cl u b is one of the sel ect cl ass, and nu mb er

am g t it mmb
on s s e ers several of the gen tl e m en la
p y ers

m
.

a a .
—T h
is cl u b at one ti e m wa s the m ost efi cient of any

near M t p li and it g nd n Mit ham G n wa th

the e ro o s, s rou o c ree s e

n
sce e o f m any a gl i t t in th day f ld and i till th
or ous con es e s o o s s e

m
,

p
s o t wonh i h th b tc at h a la
p y d e es c es re e .

R lc O N D —T h hif l b h. i T h C nfid n
e c wh ih e c u ere s e o e ce,
”
c

l
p ya i
st m a t
s h n th g n
c es o e ree .

F I N CH E S GR O UN D i b a tif ll y it at d j t ab
’
P tn y s e u u s u e us ove u e

B idg and ha b
r e, a mb f l b amng whi h th P tney
r ours nu er o c u s, o c e u

T HE C IT Y C L UB is an m
i portant clu , with respect to talentb
and nu mi er cal stre ngt h . T h r ground is situated in th
ei e L ower R oad,

I slington, near t e h C attle Ma k r et. T hey are well na edm T he

K E N S IN G T O N C L UB . L ord H oll and, with his h istic

c aracter

generosity, had a portion of K ensington Pa k r fenced of for the

use of this cl u b , and al so a

g e
v the m as a present a mq ar uee,
val ued at fifty g uineas .

Wm s m x S CHOO L — I n Vincent S quare is a pl ot of g und

ro
 1 34 AN N ALS OF CR I CK E T

l eft by Q ueen E liza b et h for the p p

ur oses of recreation, where

situated cl ose to the Vauxhall B idgr e R oad, is b

a out ten acres in
extent.

E AS T S HE E N Ca l l — T his clu b btain

o b
ed cele rity on account of

of Her R oyal Highn ess the Duchess of Gloucester, when several

of the gentl e mn f th
e o e locality disported the selves m b etween the

stic s, k being afterwards fed at th e R oyal expense .

amng t it mmb
o s s e ers mny g ntl mn
highstanding a e e e of .

L O R D N E L S O N C L UB with head quarters at the tavern - of this

nam have played m
,

e , any a well contested fig ht on th e -

ground

W en ma n — A very sel ect clu b , that can turn out a nice

In June 1 85 4 , th
bta bl e eW G G ra c e wa now re ou
s d
is m
, . .

a spectator of tender years in charge of h other, and

he tells m
,

e to day that W Clarke s great bowling feat ’

-
.

of capturing thirteen wickets in two innings stands out

in h is m em ory yet It seem s rem arkable in referring

to m
.

y estee me d friend th at h e has n o w b een co n stan tl y,

before the public for over thirty years and although

he was fam ou s in m
,

y ve ry y oung d a ys he is stil l to b e

found defying O ld Fath er T im e to sully that fam

,

e, as

witness his extraordinary play during the past season .

T he L eading C rick eters of 1 85 4.

N u mb er N u mb er N un ber
r
E n su e.
r of of 0t
Match
M
es . Innings. R uns. Innings .

G C r. . . Wynch . .
3 5 33
1 26
w e
C aryn 8 15 3 88 zs
G P . 8 15 3 92 26

L Cz ssr 8 15 3 4
2 21
 1 844 T O 1 87 2 .

S o m S tati ti
e s cs for the Year 1 85 6 .

For the first class

-
el even-a-si e d mat hc es there can

be no two opinions that Joh n L illywhite carries 06 the

pal mof victory playing in , 2 6 innings for an average of

T h e H on S pencer Ponsonb y appears lug/l est on th

M
24 . . e

list bu t h
, e perform ed only in ei ght inn ing s r F . . .

B urbidge, of the S urrey E leven stands also [rig/ref than ,

L illywh ite but playing only in seven innings (owing to

,

a bad hand) cannot be term ed better H unt in 7 innings .

shows an average of 2 4 and h e certainly played very

masterly innings for the runs A mongst other first rate

,

e firs t c lass el even a side m es m

.

averages in th -
atch ay be - -

mentioned Drake Julius Ce sar C afiyn

’

S teph
M M
N orton Payne enson

r. A l fred ynn in 1 4 innings arrives at an average of

1 2. I n the ( thatE ngland

i
s th ose mat h c es ,

y d by h w ) fi h h
’

p la e t e t o E le vens C a yn sta nd s t e ig hes t ,

Ce sar and th en G Parr follow T his is the first

tim
. .

e since Parr h as been a cricketer that I have so

little to say of h im .

In eleven a side m
- -
atches Wisden bowled 2 1 9 3
balls, or 5 4 8 overs 1 ball, and his bowling, with that of
Willsher and som e oth ers is sh own to be th e b est in
,
”
E ngland
U nder date N ovem
.

ber 9th 1 8 5 6 appears an articl e ,

William Clarke the late celebrated sl ow bowl er

,
”
on , .

Having already announced the death of Wm Clarke, .

th e distinguished bowl er and m anager of th e A ll E ngland

E leven, a few rem arks m ay be expected on h is su ccess

in h is vocation and th , e true secret of that success for ,

none can dou bt that h e ac h ieved a repu tation as widely

spread as is the national gam e itself N 0 one ever

exercised a m
.

ore decided infl u ence over a m atch .

How did C larke difler fromth e underhand sl ow bowlers

'
 1 3 8 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

who had been b efore him We answer, in three points

More head work m ore break or twist, and his bowling
-

possessed greater variety How often have we heard him

,

rem ark It is all in the pitch and fl ight that enables

me to deceive the batsman, varying it according to the
h
M M
”
pa ce a nd stren g th I pu t int o t e bal l I n .

Chapter VIII of the R ev Pycroft s Cn eket

'
’
r . .

the points of Clarke s su periority are d istinctl y shown

’

H e was born at N ottingham Decem

.

ber 2 4 th 1 7 98 , , ,

and died at Wandsworth R oad about 8 o cl ock on

’

A ugust 2 5 th last L ike h .is renowned rival , L illy

white, Clarke was also brought up as a brickm aker .

H e played m ore years than any other cricketer com

mencing in 1 8 1 6 H e made and arranged most of the
,

A ll E ngland m
.

atches las t season .

1 85 7 .

he leading m
T an last season was L illywh ite but that ,

honour this year has been earned and gained by George

Parr, who, taking into consideration the num ber of
matc hes and their superior quality may for an average
I am
, ,

of 2 3 be withou t dou bt, considered th

, e best .

here alluding to the first clas s eleven a side m

M
atches al one,
- - -

for which r Makinso n of Cam . bridge University m

, ay ,

be considered th e second, averaging as h e did above 2 2

an innings .

mb mad
MF
T he greatest nu er of runs in one inning: was e

by Wal k r. .in an eleven as ide m

er — atch
1 7o— -
.

Bowu N G (th e season s anal ysis) : A ltogether Jackson

’

h as bowled th e m ost balls throughou t th e season of

1 8 5 7 and th
, e least ru ns h ave been got fromh imper
wicket H e averages very little over one an over and
much more than half of the overs bowled were m
.
, ,

aidens .
 1 40 A N IVA L S OF CR I CK E 7 1

with his excellent slow bowling and at the age of only ,

twenty one are facts that ought not to be all owed to

-
,

C fi
'

pas s u n no ticed a yn s ave ra ge. o f 1 9 too — co u

’
l
p gin ,

his qualities as bowler and a field— are al so here shown

to be highly m eritorious I n th
’
e season s average .

com prising every m

,

atch that the player has played

throughout the season, George Parr stands highest and
M and Caflyn num

M
best r L ane is sec ond
'

, . ber three , .

BO WL 1 N G : T h e anal ysis proved r C D Marsham . . .

to have been th e m ost diffic ul t to play ; there are onl y

seven runs per wicket obtained from h im R eynolds .

did not bowl m uch but h e did well Jackson bowled .

e m
,

th ost balls balls or 2 03 7 overs N ext to

himcom
, .
,

S teph enson th en Cafiyn and Wisden

'

e H H . .
, .

1 85 9 .
M
Hayward and r V E Wal ker each average above . . .

3 0 T
. o the latt er we ga ve las t sea son th e c re dit o f
being the best all round cricketer in the world We -
.

have no reason now to alter our opinion .

T he highest score in one innings was m ad e by

T . Hayward who com pil ed 2 2 0 ru ns

,
th e n ex t b est ,
’
being W Gadyn with 1 5 7 Hayward s average per
'

. .

innings is 3 3 and 1 3 over and Wal ker s is 3 0 and 2 1

’
,

over .

J J a
.ck son bowl ed in 20 innings 8 2 1 overs, of which
28 1 were maid ens. W Gadyn bowled 3 3 innings 7 94
.
'

overs , of which 3 2 8 were maidens and took 96 wickets , .

1 8 6 0.
this year the palmfor the eleven as ide m
In atches -

must undoubtedly be awarded to T hom as Hayward of

Cam bridge I arrive at this conclusion because he m

. et
 1 844 T O 1 87 2 . 1 41

th bowlers and fieldsm

M
e best of en ; still it would be ,

u nj us t to detract fro mth e m erits of r F P Miller . . .

It seem
,

wh o is al m ost o n an equal ity s a pity that so

many of the twenty two matches as now arranged and

.

managed produce such exhibitions of average skill

,

MM
.
,

r iller scored 1 3 3 in one innings, and Hayward

.

1 3 2 .

A l l wagers laid upon th ( wh i h ’

e season s average c

were to include the twenty two atches) were decided in -

m
”
favour of A d
n erson.

1 861 .

We mt w d the chief honour to R obert

M
us a ar

Carpenter notwithstanding that r L yon (Oxford) is

ss m
.
,

big/lea [I n first cla atches onl y

-
Ca rpenter played

in nineteen m atches made 934 runs with an average

, ,

p e r in ning s of o ver 2 9 L yo n p lay ed in .six m a t ch es ,

made 20 4 runs and averaged , Bell appears at 2 8 .

Hayward and Daft are near upon these figura

I cannot pass over the doings of Will sher, taking
into consideration h is bowling ( which, th ough high , wa s

still all owed) and h is batting, which in defence was not

e sam
,

surpassed ; I m ay also say th e of h is fell ow

countym an, Bennett .

BOWL IN G : Willsher s perform ance was pronou nced

’

to be the best H e bowled in 55 innings 66 84 balls,

.
,

1 6 7 1 overs, 90 9 m aidens, and took 2 5 4 wickets

ad go ne out from
.

T h e first teamof cricketers that h

E ngland to A ustralia in th e au tu m n of this year played

their initial m atch at M el bourne against ei g ht ee n o f

Victoria on January rst zu d and 3rd, 1 8 6 2, an d the , ,

result was as follows

rrasr u m urc a. sitco mm
) os .

30 5
 1 42 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

T he E nglish E l even winning by one innings and 96

1 862
M
.

A mng o the d gen lre Faber has

t m en of E nglan

made it somewhat warm for the bowlers and field ;

.

al so r E M M Grace whose perform

. . . ances th is year have

A m
,

been extraordinary ong th e professionals Carpenter ,

has the day H ayward A nderson and H H S tephenson .

whole seas on s averages com

.
, ,

T h prise all the ’

foll ow e

matches including those against twenty two Carpenter

.

M
-
, ,

is at th e top of th e tree followed by r E M Grace , . . .

Mortlock T omHearne R Daft and T Hayward, who

,

. .
, , ,

are all excel lent and it wou l d be difficu l t to find a

,

better selection to stand at the h ead of affairs

M
.

r A . H Faber played in eleven m

. . atch es m ade

m
,

45 2 r u ns [1 00 being ad e in on e i
n ning ]
s an d ha s an ,

average of over 37
mt
.

R Carpenter played in thirty a c es, h mad e 1 1 9 8 runs,

ma imm and m
.

a x u of 1 2 2 in one innings, ad e an average

of over 3 1 .

For the last two seasons severe cri icis t ms w ere pas se d
in many q uarters u pon Willsher s ’
mth d f d li ing
e o o e ver

the ball , and it was the o pinion o f ma y that in ad pting

n o

the overar m tyle

prevalent nowadays he was in
s , so

Matters cam
,

fringing th e law as it then st ood e to a

portant m
.

clim ax in th e im atch S urrey 0 E nglan d at th e .

Oval on A ugust 2 sth s 6 th and 2 7 th in this year when

he was no balled by L illywhite and the tum
, , , ,

-
u lt that ,

followed caused play to cease for th e day L illywhite was .

blam ed but th ere is no d oubt h

, is action brou ght about
th e al teration in the laws which followed soon after .
 1 44 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

M iddlesex) ou t eac h for an innings

twenty runs ; and of

is even m ore m em orabl e in crick et history for the

’
clu b s purchase of L ord s Ground
’
.

I n th e averages for 1 8 6 4
“
in first class m atch es
”
I -
,

can not bu t singl e ou t th e H on C G L yttelton as being. . .

at th e top of th e tree averaging as h

, e d oes

inclu ding th e match in which he obtained 8 1

against th e Players of E ngland at th e O val and 1 2 8
, ,

for th e U niversity of Cam bridge 0 M C C and Ground . . . . .

We m ay also tak e into consideration h is abilit ies as an

all rou nd cricketer and mention that he fully
,

sustained th e repu tat ion of E ton I m ay th en cal l .

attention to G A nderson who, in six first class

matches a erages
.
,

M
v , n o l ess than 4 2 —
3 o ve r a

M
very good second to r L yttelto n . I now pass on to .

r. H H S tephenson (3 8 6 over) whose fine dis

. .
—
,

play of cricket and brilliant hitting the figures well

dem onstrate We m . ay partic ularly notice h is innings
of 1 1 9 in th e m atch of S urrey 0 N o tts and 1 1 7
e Gentlem From th ese facts ,
.
,

against th en of E ngland .

and taking into consideration his usefulness as a

wicket keeper he was qualified to rank am th
M
-
, ong e

best . A nother E tonian r R A

, H Mitchell,
. . . .

proved h im self a capable captain and a first class wielder ,

-

of th e willow and wh o o n th ree occasions

, scored over ,

1 0 0 runs in an innings d uring th is season T h e S urrey

players are pre em

.

inent am -
o ng th e h ighest scorers

M ort ock to it 8 inni gs ith an average of 3 5 8

l w 2 n,
w ,
—

over inclu ding 1 0 5 in the m

, atch of S urrey 0 S ou th of .

E ngland : h is perform ances entitled h imto rank as one

O f th e fi rst crick eters of th e day N ext stands T
Hum
. .

p h rey wh o , s c ored ab ou t 1 000 r u ns in fi rst class -

matches With him I must associate Jupp

. the

two on four separate occasions went first to th , e wickets

 1 84 4 T O 1 87 2. 1 45

and score d before they were parted M iddle

1 00 runs .

sex obtained a position worthy of notice .

A s to bowl ing I have again to give th

M
e place of

honour to a gentlem Young Jam

,

an r Maitland , es . .

L ill ywh ite h T arrant perform

M M
as proved a wonder ; ed

well and r T rai ll als o I m ay m ention also r

A l together it woul d seem that th

. . .
,

I D Wal ker
. e

m
. .

ge n tlem en bow l ers o f E ng la nd were grea tl y i p rove d .

Under date of N ovem ber 1 2 th 1 864 , Bel l s L ife in ,

’
,

T h
M
”
an article on e Cou nty of K ent says :

have long prided them

,

T he en o f K ent selves

on th ei r cricketing fam e and w ith good reason , During .

th e latter hal f of th th
M
e last centu ry e late S ir H orace

uch to prom ote the gam

,

ann did m e in th at cou nty

e K entish cricketers w ere for m
,

and th any y ears without

a r i val — beating al l the united force the K ingdom

could bring against them Bu t of late years
.

K ent s position in th e cricketing worl d h

’
as been sadly

reversed It is true that she st ill possesses, perhaps

Gentlem
.
,

th e strongest en s Club in E nglan d

’

bu t it woul d be m ere foll y to d isguise th e fact th at at

th e present tim e th e K ent Players are able to show
bu t a very sorry front against th e form idabl e antagonists

few whomthe county m

of ay wel l be proud, but looking

back on th
M
e las t ten years of K ent s cricket ing h istory
’

whom h
,

as sh e brought out to succeed the y nns ,

Pilches, Wenm an Felix H illyer Mill s Dorrington

C lifiord &c , of form
,

A dam
, , , ,
'

s er days T hese have all

.

red from th
, ,

now either reti e fiel d or are defunct and

scarcel y one rem

,

ains to represent th at splendid cl ub

which coul d defeat all com ers .

has now borne away the laurels so long worn by K ent .

 1 46 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

M
1 885
y N ottingham and
.

S u rre , iddlesex appear to have

,

taken the lead this season

M
.

I n th e first class m atches r S -

A L eigh (S ussex) . . . .

was th e hi g h es t p la y ing n in e i nn in g s, fo r an a ve ra ge o f
nearly 5 0 T hen follows Young O scrolt th
. is season a ,

N otts colt whose steady and persevering style of play

imto th
,

entitl ed h e honour of so dis tinguished a place

am ong th e highest and best com pa n y in first c la s s -

matches his scores contrasting favourably with those of

M r .
,

L eigh in consequence of h , is having to appear

against first class professional bowlers -
H is innings of
at Brighton was a m
.

1 07 as terpiece of cricket and

highly appreciated by all who had the good fortune to

N ext com M
M
witness it . es r Feath erstone ( Warwickshire) .
,

and then again r E M Grace playing 1 8 innings

. . .
,

for an average of close u pon 4 0 George Parr .

,

in 1 1 innings averages 3 2 — his finely played innings of

e Gentlem
,

6 0 in th
M
en 0 Players at L ord s was greatly
’
.
, ,

M M
appreciated r B ullers figures averaged close on
’
. .

M
33 a n inn ing,
s a n d r R A H itc h e ll s 3
. 6 a n in nin.
gs . .
’
.

T h e two S urrey players J upp and H um phrey and r, ,

.

Buller are the only ones who have scored over 1 000 runs
m H um phrey scoring
M
in e le ve n a s id e fi rs t cla s s -
atc h es— -

1 2 23 ; r C F B ull er 1 1 8 7 ; and H enry J upp 1 1 7 9

. . . .

A s regards bowling, Grundy carried th e day followed

cl osely by J am Jam
,

es L ill ywhite j u n es Grundy bowled ,

.

43 00 ba l ls o nl y o ne r u n an ov e r w a s o b ta in e d
fro mh im considerably m ore than half the overs were
maidens, and each wicket cost him1 2 runs only altogether
,

a wonderful perform
,

ance Jam es L illywhite bowled onl y

6 0 balls less than Grundy and nearly half were m

.

M
aiden ,

overs E ach wicket cost him1 3 runs

. r E T D rake s . . .
’

slows told rem

.

arkably well, averaging 5 runs a wicket .

 1 48 AN N ALS OF CR I C K E T .

y m atch with th e exception of th

M
won ever e return with

S u rey Payn e h
r , as th e h ighest average 3 0 —
4; r C H . . .

Sm
,

ith being second w ith 3 4 3 For N ott ingham sh

—
ire
.
,

Daft is a long way ahead with the h igh average of 64 2 —

mers a recruit standing next with 3 2 For Cambridge

,

S um , , .

sh ire Hayward stood fi rst with 3 7 — 1

, T arrant second with ,

h h
M
1 8 —
4 Fo
. r L a n cas ire R ick etts t o pp ed t e l is
,
t w ith 4 6
B R owley com
,

r E ing next with 4 0 2 — T h e l atter

made an innings of 2 1 9 in L ancashire o Yorkshire

. . . .

( G e ntl em en ) .

T h e su ccess of th e York sh ire E leven during th is season

was in a great m eas ure to be attributed to th e excellence

of their bowl ing Freem an E m mett and Greenwood

, ,

having few if any superiors in that departm

,

ent of th e

m m
, ,

g a e a t th e t i e S u rrey w as no ta
. bly w ea k in bo w li ng
though S o uth erton took 3 4 wickets in 8 innings A m
,

M M
ong .

th e gentlem en in first class m

M M
atches, r A ppl eby
-
r

r A bsal omm
. .

r L ipscom
, ,

W G Grace
. .
, be and .
,ade . .

an excellent sh ow but as a rul e th e gentlem en s bowling

’
,

was not very successful during this season .

T h e l argest scores of th e year w ere th e fol lowi ng

T he thirty third contest between the sister Universities

-

was th e m atch o f the seas on and was witnessed by a ,

brilliant and aristocratic assem blage of spectators .

Cam bridge won by 5 wickets A t the E ton a H arrow .

match played at L ord s on July 1 ath th ere were present

.

’
, ,

upwards of p p
eo le an d resu l ted in a d raw, ,

though considerably in favour of E ton .

 1 844 T O 1 8 7 2. 1 49

1 8 88 .

T he seaso n of 1 868 will long be rem em bered not

e num
,

onl y fo r th ber and extraordinary character of the

m atch es played bu t also for the visit of an eleven
com
,

po se d o f A u str al i
a ns w ho u nd
, er th e cap
, ta im y of
Charles L awrence (an old S urrey m an
) sh o we d fo rm ,

to a m arvellou s extent, two of their team( Mul lagh and

Cuzens) being al m ost as good all rou nd players as any -

in the old country .

N or m u st th e visit of an eleven to our cousins across

the A tlantic be overl ooked where they virtually won ,

every m atch they contested one o nl y being drawn, and

that one perhaps the m

,

ost rem arkable of th e wh ole

series, inasm uch as they disposed of the twenty two -

opposed to th emfor 2 8 runs while the eleven had ,

scored 3 1 o for th e loss of 9 wick ets in thei r fi rst inni ngs

when the m
,

atch was pu t a stop to by th e weath er .

I n cou nty m atch es T Hayward carried 05 the palm

.

with an average o f 5 4 1 in three innings only bu t

—
,

Jam es L illywh ite, w ith 4 0 — 0 in ten i nnings was dou btless ,

the best average of th e season J pp

u an d H u m ph
. re y
were again as usual at the top of the S urrey tree
, ,

th
M
and for M iddlesex e strength of wh ich lay

in its gentl em
,

en su pporters r Daniel stands firs t ; bu t

.

might naturally be expected the Walker family is all

,

M D Walker m
,

there, .r I . . ak ing 2 6 —
5 ( erage) in
a v

twelve innings For S ussex Jam

. es L il lywh ite was a lon
, g
way ahead of anyone else as was D aft for N otts , For .

Yorkshire (the county which of al l others, without

doubt produced m
, ost cricketers at that day) T h ewl iss ,

and I ddison h ad th e best averages

Harrow m
.

In th atch played at L ord s on

’
e E ton v .

July 1 0 th (in which H arrow won by 7 wickets) the ,

 1 50 A N N A L S or CR I CK E T .

E ton ptain (T ho rnton) played a fine innings of 44

ca ,

incl uding a mammoth hit clean over the pavilion

”

for 6 — one of th e finest straight drives ever seen T he .

batting of Fryer in Harrow s second innings was greatly’

1 869
Nottingham sh ire and Yorksh ire stand first in th e

order of winners either county h

, aving lost but a single

match during the season Daft and I ddison stand out

.

most prominently for the two northern counties S u rrey .

make but a poor show although that sterling, steady

,

cricketer J upp surpassed if possible all his previous doings

for h is county T h e less said of S ussex th e better,

whose bad fielding lost nearly every m

.

atch K ent
m
.

showed im p ro ve en t, l os ing on l y a b rac e of ma tc hes

during the season, and both against Notts M iddlesex .

and Cam bridgeshire seem ed alm ost w iped out of th e

list of counties, th e form er su flering from th e want of

'

a ground and lack of capital and th e latter being a

,

house divided against itself .

M
Innings of over 200 were not so plentiful as last
sea son only two being registered ; but r W G Grace
is fam ily nam
. . .
,

ful ly sustained th e reputation of h e by

scoring 1 00 ram : and upward: on no less than nine

occasions d uring the season It was a year of centuries

.
.

for over 1 5 0 players scored a hun dred runs in an

innings Jupp doing so five tim
, es and Daft th ree , .

A m ongst bowl ers, Grundy with an average of 8— 1

Heam
, ,

and T . e 8—
9 w e re the c h ief ex po ne n ts of th e art

e interesting m
, , .

O ne of th atches of th e season was

M C C and Ground 0 O xford University when the Club

. . . .
,

won in one innings by 2 1 runs T h e Clu b played a very

.

strong el even, and th e bowling of Wootton and Grundy

 1 52 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

mt h a c es than any other eleven, but onl y to me t e with

lm t
MW
a os inevitable defeat .

G Grace was again f aa lc pn mpr with the

’ ’

r. . .

bat his achievem

, ents far surpassing all his contem po rar ies

or any of th e great players wh o have hith erto h elped to

make the game famous H e took part in no less than .

twenty five im port

-
an t eve nts ag ainst twen ty o ne of la st ,
-

year when his average was 5 4 and 2 6 over T his

, .

season it is 7 8 and 9 over per innings a truly great —

mng men M
M
N ext a play ers was
o r G F Grace
gen
,
l e t . . .

wh o averaged 3 7 and 1 6 over for 1 4 contests r . .

Yardley, captain of the Ca bridge University E leven, m

averaged 3 2 — 2 for ten atches O n th e part m .

of the Players Daft ,

and Carpenter ran a good race,

averaging 37 37
—
ti e
1 1
v l y and
and Ch a rl — 1 respec ,

wood s was perhaps the next best with 3 0 1 4

’
,
—
, , .

Middlesex v M C C and Grou nd proved one of the

. . . .

most extraordinary matches T he Club who went first .

, ,

made the largest up to d ate total ever recorded at L ord s -

’

and Middlesex, em ulating th is exam ple com pile d ,

th e extraordinary sc ore of 4 85

Freem an was placed fi rst am

.

ongst th

M
e bowlers with ,

an average of 1 1 — 1 2 ; r W N Powys next with . . .

,

1 2 — 27 and W i
l l h
s e r n ex t w ith 1 2 — 62 , .

1 872 .

t of twel ve E nglish am
he ateurs to Canada and
'

T visi

the United S tates was th e m ost interesting feature of

the season and th e trip was in every way a com plete
am
, , ,

success A gain this year N otts is th

. e ch ,pion ,

cou nty Glou cestershire had a su ccessful season with

ire won every m
.

a solitary defeat L ancash atch they

.
 CHA PT E R VI .

1 873 T o 1 895 .

Y early R ecords with Bat and Ball — L arge S cores — M eat

Playe s— A
r necdotes, &c , &c
. .

1 373 .

In placing the present year under the heading of a fresh

c h apter, I h ad in m ind th e fact that it was m y first int ro
du ction to the public in good class cricket and I possess -

e feeling that from now alm

,

th ost all I shall have to

write about is either taken fromactual observation, or a
thorough knowledge of the circum s tances under which

it transpired .

T h e year did not bring out any novel ty or develop

any striking feature in connection with cricket, al th ough

som e enorm ou s scores were chronicled N otts fail ed to

maintain its high position and to Gloucestershire the
.

you ngest of the leading cou nties m

, ,

u st be awarded th e

title of cham pion Yorkshire greatly im

,

.
pro ved u p o n la st
year and L ancashire, on the other hand som
, ewhat ,

declined S u rrey began badly and the end of the season

.

provem
,

show ed but a slight im ent on th e beginning .

T h e following table of th e three l ead ers speaks for

itsel f :

MW r. . G Grace stands
. h h ead of all batsm
at t e en ,

with an average of 79 for seventeen m atches Of the .

 1 87 3 T o 1 89 5 . 1 55

pr ofessional s Oscroft leads the way th ough D aft s 1 6 1 ,

’

for N otts v York shire was a very fine display of batting

. .

T his was th e seaso n of m y in tr od uc tio n i n to th e S u rr ey

County team as re fer re d to m o r e m in u te l y in another

m
,

par t o f th e b ook I p
.la y ed in tw o atc h es a n d in the
four innings I was fortu nate enough to m
,

ak e 5 6 runs, of
which the m ost in one inni ngs was 3 9 When I started .

at th e O val it was in th e m atch S u rrey 0 Yorksh ire on .

,

A ugu st 1 1 th 1 2 th and 1 3 th
, , Being young and green
.

I was very slow and I shall never forget the advice

m m
,

giv en e by tha t v e te ran H en r y J pp

u w h o re a rk ed :

N ow you ng m
, ,

, an look here ! T h , e first thing you

have to do if you want to be a cricketer is to keep your
wicket up and th e runs are sure to com T h
”
e e val ue .

onition fromone of the leading

,

of such spontaneous adm

professionals of the day was present to m y m in d fo r

years afterward s and I com, mend the advice as it stands

to al l young aspirants of th e gam e .

1 875
Gloucestershire bears 06 the honours of cham pion
cou n ty .Yorkshire was very active playing twelve ,

matches and sufiering only three defeats N otts once

'

.
,

invincible, won five and lost three S urrey was not very .

high up the ladder having won three only and lost six
, .

T he Marylebone C lub issued a card of fifty fixtures T he .

Universities m atch was very one sided Cam bridge being -

represented by a weak er team

,

than has been seen at L ord s ’

for m any years Better fielding than that shown by the

.

Oxonian s h as seldom

M
if ever b ee n w itn e ssed at L ord s I n
’

e best batsm
.
, ,

E ton and Harrow th e latter h ad th an in r .

A .
J .Weh be ; bu t a s an e l ev en E t o n w ere far superior

e best m
, ,

and won with ou t m uch difficulty T h atch at .

Prince s was th
’
at between th e N orth and S ou th when .
 r56 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

the for m j ust m

er anaged to obtain th e verdi ct by 3

runs T h e victory of th e Players in their m atch against

e Gentlem
.

th en after a long succession of defeats was

e ut m
,

asm
,

received with th ost enthusi

m
.

A t th e O val th e m ost im p o rtan t atc h o f th e s ea s on

was th e ret urn between S urrey 0 Yorkshire I played . .

in this in partnership with J u pp who showed such

brilliant formthat on his retu rn to the dressing roomthe
, ,

p u bli c g a ve him a dorm e r of o v e r ,5 2 0 .

More first class m atches were played during th

-
e year

of 1 8 7 4 th an at any period of cricket h istory T h e .

chief characteristics of th e season have been th e im prove

ment in professional bowling the indifierent batting and ,
'

fielding the very sm

, all nu m ber of m atch es that lasted

over two days and th e rem

, arkable dryness of th e weath er

A s regards bowling A l lan H ill of Yorksh ire,, ,

stood at th e top of th e tree as th e best fast bowl er of

th e day u ntil h e fel l ill before th e season was m u ch

more than half over Ulyett however admirably filled

,

.
, ,

his place .

T h e visit of th e E ngl ish E leven to A ustrali a did not

seem to have m ade any im p ro v em e n t in t he ir p lay ,

except in th e case of J upp wh o th is seas on excelled

him
,

self . Gloucestershire a cou nty which quite dispenses

with the professional elem
,

ent stand s at th e top of th

, e

tree in county play ; their only defeat was by S urrey

at th e O val a knock out wh ich took every one by
,
-

surprise .

In L f
i e J uly 1 8th 1 8 7 4 an
in L ondon for
O ld Batsm
, ,

an and B owler c ontribu tes an al phabet

in verse m ade u p ou t of th e nam es of wel l known -

l
p ya ers of 1 8 7 4 and alth ough its ,p oetical ability may
not be of an high ord er I reproduce it for wh at it

may be considered worth on this account

, ,

.
,
 1 58 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

being taken suddenly ill T he m atch was perhaps th

. e

worst exh ibition of fielding during the year O ne of the .

featu res of th e second and third days was m y seco n d

innings when I m , ade 4 9 ru ns not out which com ,

prised one 6 one 5 , one 4 two 3 s and nine a s

, ,
’
,
’
.

A few years since th e outcry was that th e bat h ad

ga ined su ch a n asc en da nc y o ver the b all tha t u nles s

som
,

e new bowlers earne to th e front quickly E ngland s

’
,

national gam e would seriously suffer T his season th e .

bowlers had considerably the best of it and som e

surprising feats were perform

,

ed with th e ball T h e best .

cricket of th e season was displayed in county m atc hes

and forem
,

ost on the l ist stood N otts whose only defeat

was in their last m atch with Yorks hire when A rm
,

itage s
’
,

l obs proved so effectual

Of the ten m atches played by S urrey no l ess than
five were recorded against th em T h is want of success .

was ascribed to th e fall ing ofi of J u pp and R ich

’
-
ard

Hum ph reys and the difficul ty the com mittee experienced

in getting a teamtogether espec ially on th eir visits to
, .

other cou nties .

In th e batting averages of th e year 1 8 7 5 in first class -

el even as ide m
-
atch es I amrecorded as having played in

five m atches ten innings and m

,

, ade 2 4 7 ru ns of wh
,
ich 98 ,

was th e h ighest innings, with an average of 3 0 and 7

over
e Marylebone C lub enj oyed a lengthy and m
.

T h ost
successful season thanks to th e energetic ad m

M
,
inistration
of their secretary ( r R A Fitzgerald) whose interesting
program me included one or two novel features T he
. . .
,

three m m
.

ost im po rta n t con tests en tered int o by the m e b ers

at head quarters were with N otts I ancash ire, and York

e scarl et and yellow flag trium

,

shire and th
, phed in each
and all .
 1 87 3 T O 1 89 5 .

1 878 .

A gain Gloucestershire stands forth pre e mi nen t York

m
.

shire clai s second honours, N otts co m es third and

,

L ancashire foll ows

mat
.

S u rrey paid a visit to B righton in A ugust for th eir h

c

with S ussex, bu t were defeated by 1 0 wickets I was .

repor ted in th e Press as having played very correct cricket ,

and as prom ising to be an acqu isition to th e cou nty My .

sc ore was th e h ighest in both innings ( see T ables in

Chapter VII page .

,

In th e batting averages for th is year in first clas s -

matches I came out with the average of 4 2— 2 I played

in nine m atches and seventeen innings and m
.

ade 5 88
runs o f wh ich th
, e high est score for a sing le innings was

1 06 .

In a mat
h against Middlesex on June 1 9th, 2 oth
c

and 2 1 st of this year O xford U niversity m

,

ad e such a

rem
,

arkabl e score that it is wel l worth recording h ere .

M J Wh b
M m
r. A . . e be, c Cottrell , Henderson 98
r. D . Ca pbell , c H nd e erson, b R utter 34

M
7I
b H nd
M B
r. T . S D rury, c Cottrell , e ers on 14

r. R . riggs , c C ottrell, b Green 7!

MW H m
10

r. . . Ga e, c I . D . Walk er, b
MV
33

M P
r. . K . R oyl e, not out " 67

MH
r. C . . L ewis, c T urner, b R utter . 24

r. . G T yl ecote,
. at T urner, 1) I . D . Walk er 26

44

61 2
Middl mad (M Walk M Burgh
MM
esex e 439 r. I . D . er 1 1 0, r. A . e s 1 04 ,

kets down (MC

r. . T urner 82) in first innings .

1 66 in second inning s, 4 wic r. . I T

. hornton 79, out ) .
 1 60 AN N ALS OF CR I CK E T .

1 87 7 .

Glouces tershire is again cham pion I cannot style .

S urrey th e second best county el even th ough in the

matter of matches won in proportion to matches played
,

Ia ncas h ire com

,

th e county claim s second h onours es .

third on the list and then follows K ent D erbyshire has .

steadily progressed whilst N otts seem

,

s to be going do wn

h ill T he Marylebone program me was longer than ever

,

M
.
,

th
M
e ground was in good ord er and r Perkins proved , .

him sel f a worthy successor to r Fitzgerald T wo . .

strong eleve ns com peted in the Club and Ground

match 11 E ngland but wet wickets spoilt the batting
. ,

T he Clu b were victorious T h e Oval rel ied on Gl oucester .

sh ire v E ngland as their leading feature

. T h e cou nty .

won by five wick ets .

Unlike last year the m aj ority of averages in first

class m e com
,

atches were low th e weather at th mence

ment of the summer which was considerably in favour of
,

e bowler accou nting in a great m

,

th , easure for this state o f

T h m
M
things . e h ig es aggr g e
h t e a t 1 4 74
— is clai ed by
r W
. G Grace, and L ockwood stands next with 1 1 0 5
. .

e onl y two who secured m

.

T hese are th
M
ore than 1 0 00
O f the individ ual scores,
M
r W G Grace s 2 6 1 ’
runs

in Gentl em
. . . .

M
en 0 Players, r Penn s 1 4 8 (not out) in .
’

D Q S teel s 1 5 8 for Cam

.

K ent 0 S urrey r . .bridge

.
’

University 0 S urrey m
.
,

M y ow.n 1 4 0 fo r S u rre y
, 0 Y ork s h ir e .

G F Grace s 1 3 4 for Gentlem

,

M
r . . .
’
en 0 Players and .
,

r A
. P L ucas s 1 1 0 for S urrey 0 K ent, will rank as
. .
’

m
.

g o o d p erfo r an ces
”
I w as fo r th e fi rst t m
i e inc l u de d
e t eamof Gentl em
.

in th Players at the Prince s ’

en 71

m
.

g round an d ad e a g ood sco re

e last m
.
,

T h atch of th e season at K ennington O val was

c om menced on A ugust 2 grd between S urrey and York

 1 62 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

c ou n ies, t they had to succum b to the A ustral ians on

their own grou nd .

O ur visitors h ad proved that their knowl edge of th e

national gam e is equ al to our own ; for of th e th irty

nine m atches played eighteen were won by th e A ustl a

e teamplayed th ree figure innings

,

lians and two of th -

.

S om
,

e very large scores were m ad e du ring th

M
e season ,

notably that o f r J M Cotterill 2 7 1 at E dinburgh

. .
,

e lead ing batsm

.
,

T h en for th

M
0 Glasgow
. . e year were S el by

and Ulyett and th e bo wlers r A G S teel and Mycroft . . . .

e im portant m
,

I n th atch E ngland v Gloucestershire, .

played at the O val on A ugust 1 5 th 1 6 th and 1 7 th m

,

y , , ,

doings are report ed in Wisden as follows : But the

“

p ro m ine nt batt ing sta r in th e E ng land t eam was r M .

W W R ead of S urrey whose careful steady and suc

. .
, , , ,

c essfu l play resul ted in two not ou t innings o f 4 3 and 2 0 -

ru ns — a brace of u nconqu ered displays with ! bas ing ,

”
i anytlzzng approx /ting a
'

g ven d ance .

My own average for the seas on was 23 — 1 6 . I played

mat
M
in seven hes for S urrey scored a total of 2 1 5 runs
c , ,

with 80 as the highest innings My friend r J ohn .

, .

S hu ter topped his own county list with an average

,

of 2 5
— 1 0 J pp
u wa.s al so we ll in ev id en ce in th e

S urrey averages th is seas on

e relate another story th at was told m
.

L et m e
‘

It was about a l oeal m atch and in th e su burb where ,

it was played th ere was a brickl ayer wh o was in th e

habit of playing w ith a big bat A swell was playing

e m
.

in th atch and th e owner of th e big h at p res se d it o n

him telling him no one woul d notice it
,

When the
batsm
.
,

an got to th e wicket h e fou nd h is friend th e o wner

o f th e big h at was officiating as u m pire a n d a cc o rd in l

gy ,

he asked himto give him gu ar It covers themall

was the reply ; I t old you it wou ld before you cam
,

e in .
 1 87 3 T O 1 89 5 . 1 63

he winter following this season was very severe and

T
many matches were played on the ice T hey will be
,

found fully recorded in Wisden s A nnual ’

.

1 879 .

d th is to be the
M
E p
x erience d k t
cric e ers pro nou nce

worst seaso n ever known ; and, certainly fromearly ay ,

to late A ugust there were probably not three consecutive

days of real su m mer weather and the consequence was
ber of unfinished m
,

a large nu m T h
M
atch es e presenta

G Grace of a testim
.

tion to r W . . . onial subscribed ,

for by cricketers of all ranks was dec idedly one of th , e

featu res of the season L eading honours in county

.

cricket were equal ly shared by L ancashire and

N otts Yorks hire fared well ; Gloucestershire had a
moderate season and nothing more and for the first
.

tim
, ,

e su fiered a d efeat on its own ground a feath

'

,
— er in

th e cap of th e Notts captain Bowl ers certainly had .

noth ing to grum ble at this year and the averages

l ently tell a tale of sticky wickets al m
,

si ost with ou t a

m
,

p a ral le l M a
.n y o f o u r crick et gr o u nds a t ti es w ere , ,

l ittle better than quagm ires A noticeable contrast

was that presented by th e S urrey Cricket C lu b T rue .

,

th e soil at th e O val is of a l ight character ; but th e fac t

that no single m atc h had to be postponed solely ,

through over night or -

early m orning rain s speaks -

vol um e m anagem
,

es in praise of those wh o h ad th ent

of it
My average th is season in five m
.

atches was 5 0 , , 2 0— .

It was on one of the soaking days du ring this

extr aordinary season that I was tol d th e following two

stories in th e pavil ion of the O val and th e wel l known -

am ateur that im parted themvou ch ed for th eir accuracy

,

and truth fulness .

 1 64 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

A t w k nown professional was touring and

cer ai
n ell -

found him where the u m

,

self in a d istrict p i
r e wh e n

m
,

g iv ing g u ard i ns tea d o f sa y ing A little o re to th e

A little m
,

ore to th was accustom

”
or e leg ed

to say A l ittle m A little m

,
” “ ”
ore east or ore west , A
batsm
.

an cam e in and asked for centre and th e ,

professional who was u m p irin g s aid A li ttl e m o r e

e com
,

th of th
”
east , and not knowing e po ints pa s s ,

continu ed to say A little m ore eas t but fin ding the

batsm
,

was gradual ly getting right ofi th wicket

'

an e

altogeth er h e p a use d a nd s aid I b e g y o u r pa rd o n

my lord but if you don t mind it s a good deal more

, , ,
’ ’
, ,
”
west .

N ow for th e other A since well k nown wicket keeper .

- -

wh o had been used to playing S atu rday afternoon

matches was asked to play in a county match I n the .

second over h e m ade a c onfid ent appeal for a catch at

th e wicket and was m et by th e um

”
, p ire w i th N o t o ut .

A pproaching that official at th e end of th he

M
e over ,

said Pray r Umpire do the laws of cricket for .

atches differ fromth ose of county

, , ,

S atu rday afternoon m

cricket ?
”
No replied the um
”
pire , O h , t h e y do n t ! .
’

T h en th e you ng spark was out .

1 880
M
.

T he visit team captained by

of ther A us trali
an ,
.

M urdoch was undoubtedly the featu re of the season

, ,

and that it was a good al l rou nd eleven and espec ially -

,

in bowling is generall y allowed , C ounty cricket was as .

interesting as ever in 1 8 80 bu t did not prod uce any ,

special feat ures Notts again bore 06 the title of

.

cham pio n,
o w ing her succ ess ma in l y to the u nifo rmly
excellent bowling of M orley and S haw and th e capital ,

batting o f B arnes Gloucestersh ire al so h ad a good .

 1 66 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

maid ens, giving an a v erage of trifle over 8 runs per

a

w k t
ic e — was extraord inary . Morley was al m ost equally

destructive . Peate ca m thi d

e r .

I 88 1 .

I can recal l no sum mer since that of 1 868 during

which the skies have been so propitious T he m
,

arvel .

l ou sly high scoring was perhaps th e m ain feature of a

season not otherwise eventful or rem

, arkabl e for novelty .

T wo recor are worth noting : th e score of 7 4 2

made by the Derbyshire Friars v Gentlemen of N otts .

and th
M
e singl e innings of 4 1 5 not ou t played by
R oe at Cam bridge, in the m atch E m
, ,

r W N
. . .
, anuel
College L V C v Caius Coll ege L V C
. . . . . . .

T hat L ancashire won th e cham pionship on the m erits

of th e eleven cannot be d isputed Undoubtedly a strong

batting team
.
,

, th ey w ere al so a bl e to boast of th e county

bowling and probably as sm

, art and u ntiring a set of

fieldsm en as any of th ei r rival s Yorkshire won ten ou t .

of sixteen m atch es ; th e all round form of th e county -

representatives was far better than th ey have shown for

som e years .

Gloucestersh ire su fiered from a want of first class

'
-

bowling ; the batting was good though hardly so brill ian t ,

as u su al Middlesex had a fair season ; the batting

.

strength of th e county was u ndeni abl e O wing to .

unfortu nate differences between the N otts Com mittee

and th e leading professionals in th eir eleven th e results ,

of th e season were for th at cou nty unsatisfactory in

more senses than one S urrey set to work systematically .

to try th e m erits of th e col ts and m uch good work was

Jones showed great im m

,

done .
p ro ve e n t with the ball ,

and Barratt was also fairl y usefu l but th e great want of

e county still lay in th is departm

,

th ent K ent, owing .

 1 87 3 T O 1 89 5 . 1 67

to the absence of som

.

e of th e leading players, fail ed to

hold her own Derbysh ire did no better in 1 88 1 than

.

in 1 88 0, in spite of the bril liant batting shown by

M r L
. C Docker . S ussex h
. ad a thoroughly bad
.

season th e good play of M essrs Bettesworth and E ll is .

m
,

failing to accom pl i
s h u ch in th e fa ce o f an in diffe re n t
ruck of batsm

M
en and a solitary bowl er .

r A N .H ornby was the cham

. .
p io n b ats m a n o f th e

year his aggregate of 1 5 3 1 runs obtained in 3 7 innings

m
, ,

m
,

h
M
giv ing i a won d e rfu l av erag e o f 4 1 — 1 5 a p er fo r an ce ,

never previousl y equalled by any cricketer save r .

W G Grace Ulyett undoubtedly proved h im

,

. . self th e

best professional batsm

.

an of th e year I n bowling .
,

Peate fairly won the prem ier honours .

It was in this year that I com menced to play in all

matches for the S urrey County Club the Committee
having ofiered m
,

e th e appointm
'

ent of A ssistant S ecretary .

1 8 8 2.
T he mai year centres in the tour of
n interest of the

th
M M
e A ustralian E leven wh ich proved a l ong career of ,

alm ost uninterrupted success r M assie and r W L . . . . .

Murdoch electrified the public by their enorm ous scores

in th e opening m atch es and th e interest th us early ,

engendered increased rapidly as each of th e county

elevens in turn were com p ell ed to strik e th eir co l o urs .

T h e rival claim s of I a ncash ire and N otts to th e

honours of cham pion co u n ty h av e bee n se r iou s l y

debated, but taking all things into consideration I ,

think L ancashire m
,

ay fairly be adj u dged th e winners,

though onl y by a short head Yorkshire had only .

a moderately successful season Peate s bowling and ,

’

Ulyett s batting being the m th

M
’
ainstays of e eleven .

iddlesex again fel t th e want of a first class bowler -

 1 68 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

bu t howed som
s e grand batting ; indeed if M iddlesex ,

could always play th eir fu ll strength their eleven would

e Gentlem
,

very fairly represent th en of E ng lan d in every

h
M
respect but bowlin S y d d b tt l k t an
g u rre es er v e e er uc .

they experienced r J S h u te r ca pta ine d h is ele ven .

with energy and j udgm

. .

ent and h is batting and fielding ,

were consistentl y first rate Gloucestershire had a bad -

.

season T hough not in th eir old form M essrs W G

.
,
. . .

and E M Grace were still the backbone o f the eleven ;

. .

bu t bowlers were wanted K ent l ike S urre y suffered

materially from ill luck which the fine batting of the
.
, ,

-
,

eaptain, L ord Harris whose average was higher than ,

that of any county play er in 1 8 8 2 coul d not counter ,

balance S ussex and Derbysh ire were both at a very

.

low ebb apparently weak ening each year

, D uring th e .

season a h i her aggregate than h ad t th at

g e ve r u p o

date been ch ronicled stood to the cred it of the O rleans

Club, whose 9 2 0 a R ickling Green seem ed certain to h . e

the best on rec ord for so m e tim e to c om e I re produce

this m
.

atch as th e sc ores are extraordinary .

m
M
Cu s Cw s.

hornton b
M
r C . I . T , c B S pencer,
. S worder . .

Vern on b
M
r. G F . .
, S il coek
r. A . H . Ikevor,
’
c R ose, w order

M r. D . b S il k
G . S piro , coc

W H Wa d n t
MJ
Ho n E . . . . r , ru ou

C Pa t idg
M
r. . n t t
. r r e, o ou

F S and m an b R

MP
r. . S S pencer e , . .

r. P .S il k b R S S pence
osno , c coc , . . r

MW r. . S anderson, b F . S il cock
B 20 , l b
-
1 2, w 12

hip,
s and the total of 9 20 was co mpil ed in nine hours h
and t ree
quarters . k
R ic ling Green scored 94 .
 1 70 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

pr ofessionals who had not been on the bes t of term

, s and ,

as th e prevailing id ea on board after th e collision was that

we were g oin g do w n,
”
o n e of th em tho u ght it w ou l d
”
be as well that they shoul d at l east die friends, and , ,

approach ing h is brother professional with a sigh asked : ,

Don t you wish you were back at the old hom

,

ei
’ '

N o I don t any m I m done with

’
ore than you do
’
.
, ,

yo u I
”
was th e u nex p e cte d rej oind er H e e vid en tl y t hin kin g
om
.

their last m ents h ad com e .

Beyond this unfortunate afiair we had a very fine trip,

'

and I h ad a good run of l u ck throug h ou t I n the m atch .

at Maryborough th e local authorities of a neighbouring

townsh ip o fiered a plot o f land to th e m em ber of the

'

teamm aking th e high est score I becam e th e fortu nate .

possess or of this sm al l estate bu t I have not yet decided ,

”
to go squatting u pon it .

I amloth to om it fro mth is record th e dainty descriptions

that were given us in the A ustralian l ocal press, as soo n as

we h ad exh ibited ou rselves at A delaide :

T hey are a genial , who put no

gentl e manly
haw set of mn e ,
“

hs w airs on, and who can pl ay cric et R ich achel ors are ia k b
mM
”
.

cluded in th eing wort h any m b m

M
e tea , r T ylecote, it is ru oured, .

score th B
MW
ousands annuall y r G S tu dd is a fine wris ty bat,
m
. . . .

wh o plays a quietl y rilliant ga e r b R ead (bel oved . . . W .

S tout, h ow art th is a strong, deter ined ats an, wh m b m

M
”
old ou o

pu ts 1 4st. on t e h bal l every m

ti e it reaches his hat . r. C . T .

S tudd bowl s for h

a c ange, the highByers - for wh ich the Gentla nen

somtim b ak
e es re s, is so mtim
e es l ow and fas t, and so mtime es high
”
and slow.

A their blarney went on, but I m

n d so ust pull up .

Here is a curious protest that was m ade in one of our

matches ; I think it was at Melbourne It was alleged that
e plates in B arlow s boots did great dam
.

th ’
age to th e tu rf ,
 1 87 3 T O 1 89 5. 1 71

and th nglis h ptain s attention was drawn Barl ow s

’ ’
e E ca to
”
boots .

T h e H on . Ivo y had the

B ligh with , grea t cou rtes ,

ofiending plates rem oved a proceeding which gave great

'

um
,

brage to the wearer who declared he had played with

e cou nty m
,

th e sam e plates in h is boots in all th atch es in

E ngland and that a suspicion o f unfair play h ad never

been entertained against himduring his cricketing career
,

at hom e A counter charge was now brought against -

e E nglish m
.

S pofiorth by several o f th wh o accused

'

en ,

that bowler of u nlaw fu lly putting spikes into h is boots

to cut u p the turf S poflorth brought evidence to show
'

that he onl y used o e a and o e p ke l ess than

n n il n s i —

any other cricketer uses — ih th e present m atc h It was .

decided to leave the m atter in the hands of th e um pires

and if they saw a player using u nfair m
,

eans to cu t up

th e turf th ose fu nctionaries had it in th eir power to

e m
,

stop th alpractice .

1 883.
T he su mm er was finest w ith which
on the whole the

the cou ntry h ad been favoured for som e years B etween .

N otts and Yorksh ire this year the difierence is very

'

sm al l ; but on th e whol e
, N otts m ay be said to have ,

earned th e h onour of being ch am pion c ou n ty T o Y ork .

sh ire th e sec ond place m ust certainly be adj udged, and

a leading featu re in th e perform ances of th e eleven was

the play o f Hall T h e county that on its perform ances

must be placed third is Middlesex and nothing was

.

more remarkable than r I D Walker s success S urrey M . . .

,
’
.

thoroughly deserved her place as fourth on the list I .

was in good fettle all through that year and played in

every m
,

T h
M
atch e fall of L ancashire was accou nted for

mainly by the falling 06 in r Hornby s play and the

.

M
’
-

alm
.

ost total absence of r A G S teel S ussex played . . . .

 1 72 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

departu re un er d MH r. . Whitfield s ’
cap ain cy ;t their
defeat of Yorkshire in the north wil l not l y be
readi

Gloucestersh ire had a very u nsuccessfu l

M
forgotten .

season ; r W . G Grace seem . ed out of form both

.

k t
cric e er ; and his batting especial ly was of the highest
clas s I n com
.
p aring his perform an ces with m y o w n i
t
must be borne in mind that the former played in all
th e great m atches, whereas I did not tak e part in eith er

of th e m eetings with th e players, devoting m yself alm ost

exc lusively to S urrey coun ty fixtures in which I showed

fair formthroughou t th
,

T he H on A l fred L yttel
M
e season . .

M
t on s su perb batting is worthy o f note, and r R idl ey
’
.

and r A P L ucas were as good as ever O f pro

. . . .

fessionals Ulyett stands ou t conspicu ously ; Barnes was

in grand formlate in th e season and n ev er played better

T hese two with Hall were th

M
crick et . e crack pro fessional

bats m I n am
, ,

en of 1 88 3 ateur bowling r C T S tudd

. .

whilst Watson led am

. .

was f ad ]: pfl naps ong pro ,

fessionals .

T he batting year exceptionally high

averages were th is
and a larger nu m ber of bats m
,

en attained a four figu re -

aggregate than h as ever been record ed before via nine , , .

I had the fortune to head the l ist as the following figures

M ,

M
M
sh ow — r W W R ead 1 666 ; Ulyett 1 5 7 2
. . r .
, , .

W G Grace 1 3 5 2 ; B arnes 1 3 0 8 ; r C T S tudd 1 1 93 ;

. .
, , . . .
,

Hall 1 1 80 ; Flowers, 1 1 44 ; S hrewsbury 1 1 1 7 ; and Bates,

, ,

1 0 24 My average for the year worked out as follows

.

Mat h batt d in
c es e , 25 ; innings co mmn e ced, 43 ; ti m
es not ou t, 6

igh
h est score, 1 68 ; total runs, 1 666 ; average, 45— 02 .
 1 87 3 T O 1 89 5 . 1 73

1 8 8 4.
he cricket season of 1 8 84 was rem
T arkabl e for th e visit

of the fou rth A us tral ian team, and al so for th e extra

l y favou rable charact er of th

ordinari e weather I n this
em
.

year the N otts m en sh owed th selves cl early su perior

to their opponents and were l eft with an absolu te

all

suprem
,

acy Yorksh ire did less su ccess full y th

. an th e

previous year M iddlesex was sadly weakened by the

M
.

absence of r C T S tu dd
. . S urrey kept w el l in th
. e
.

front rank L ancash ire h

. ad only a m od erate seaso n th e ,

best feature being the wonderfully good bowling of

Barlow S u ssex m
. ade a great advance an d not for a very ,

long tim e h ad th e cou nty possessed su ch a capital all

round eleven K ent gained a m

. em orable trium ph over
th e A u stral ians at Canterb u ry Gloucestersh ire had the .

disadvantage of continually playing a weak eleven ; and

Derbyshire had a disastrous season playing ten m atch es

emal l C om
,

and losing th ing now to individual perform

M
.

ances I m
,
u st gi ve th e fi rst place to r A G S teel . . .
,

wh o h as th e best batting average of th e season H is .

1 4 8 was th m
M
g rea t in nin gs o f e ain ca use of E n land s
g
’

triu m p h ove r A u str alia a t L ord s r W G G rac e w as

’
. . . .

singularl y u nfortu nate in m eeting with accidents but three ,

tim es duri ng th e season h e played an innings of over 1 00

against th e A u strali ans I m ad e a goo d sho w for E ngland

.

at th e O val A gainst th
. e fu ll strength of th e A u stral ian

bowling going in tenth I scored 1 1 7 ru ns in les s

. ,

than two hours My partncr S cotton going in firs t

.
, , ,

T he two mst
professional bowlers of the
o successful

A l fred S h aw and E m mett were curiously

M
season

enough m O f am
,

M
en over forty years of age
, ateu rs r

ay be m
.

Horner m
.
,

C hristopherson and r C E entioned

. . .

am ong th e best th e latter being simp

, l y inva luabl e to S u rrey .
 m A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

1 88 5 .

N o fewer than ty seven m tw en atches were played by

-

S u rrey in 1 8 8 5 against twenty four in the two previous

,
-

y ears, resu l tin g in seve n tee n vic to ries a n d fo ur d efe ats

S urrey beat th e record in first c lass c ounty c ricket by playing

-

an innings of 6 3 1 against S ussex at th e O val I was in rare .

form and scored m ore than t wice as m any runs for th e

e season as any oth er S urrey batsm

,

c ou nty during th an ,

and cam e out with th e h igh average of 5 9 1 0 With

bu t one reverse in county cricket N ott s m
.

aintained

m
,

p rem ier p o s i tio n a o ng th e sh ires in 1 8 8 5 A r th ur .

S hrewsbury th e best professional batsm an of th e season .

e forem
,

eas ily occupied th ost position S o far as batting.

was concerned Yorksh ire stood in no way inferior

er perform
,

to h er powerfu l neighbours, bu t h ances all

rou nd pla ce d h er in th e seco n d pla ce U l yet t took

m
.

p re i er p os iti o n am on g th e ba ts m e n a nd E m m ett a,n d

Peate were again credited with the largest nu m ber of
wickets L ancashire had a m
. ore successful season than

th e previous year having l ost only three m

, atches ou t of

e ighteen played Honou rs were fairly divided between

.

Gloucesters hire and their various opponents seven ,

M
d efeats being nearl y balanced by six victories and one
favourable draw T h e batting of
. r W G Grace was . . .

th e featu re of th e Gloucestershire season A s regards .

S ussex th e bo wling was th

, e weakest of th e nine leading

c ounties and only, Derbysh ire and Middlesex had a

worse batting record K ent h ad a spl en didly successful

t m
.

season eigh atch

M
, es being won two d rawn and three
H Patterson never batted in finer form
, ,

l ost . r W . . .

for h is cou nty and with h igh est aggregate largest innings
,

e topm
, ,

and splend id average o f 4 9 gained th ost position

am e batsm
,

ong th en of K ent .
 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

note worthy hievem ent

ac of th e K ent team was their
decisive victory over the A ustralians T he chief batting
honou rs were won by George H eam
.

e, wh o score d an

average of 3 8 M iddlesex showed som

. e fine batting bu t

was notably weak in oth er departm

,

ents Glouw sters hire .

,

once invincible cu t but a poor figure in 1 8 8 6

,
in deed ,

with the single exception of Derbyshire they stood ,

lowes t on the l ist of great co unty team s .

1 88 7
A lter an interval y three years S urrey has
of tw ent -

e firs t position am
,

regained th ong th e counties an d th e e ,

can be no question whatever that th e po sition h as been

fairly earned T he cou nty s rec ord for th e whol e season

’
.

o f 1 88 7 is certainly an extr aordinarily goo d o ne O f th e .

sixteen first c lass cou nty m

-
atches twelve were wo n t wo , ,

lost and two d rawn

, B eyond these S urrey had eleven
.

o ther engagem ents in wh ich th

, ey were equall y su ccessfu l ,

so th at th e fu ll record for th e season s play reads th us

’

nineteen m atch es won th ree ost and five draw n

,
T he
,
.

dou ble defeat of N otts was beyond everyth ing else the
featu re of th T h e h ono urs of th

M
e record . e season were

divided between L o h m ann r K J K ey a n d I al so fared .

ed bes ides being a goo d batsm

. .
,

e first nam
,

very well . T h -
,
an ,

proved him self th e best bowler in E ngland Du ring the .

fi rst hal f of the season I played som e very goo d gam es

and in two successive m

,

atc hes vi z against L ancashire at .

e O val I m
, ,

Manchester and Cam bridge University at th

M
, ade ,

sc ores of 2 4 7 and 2 44 not out r K 1 K e h o wed

y s

im mense improvement upon any formhe had previously

. . . .
,

d isplayed and has the honour of heading the batting

,

averages at 5 6 9 a very fine record indeed for all m atch s

'

e seco nd position am
.
,

L ancash ire takes th ongst th e nine

gr e at co u nt ies T .h ree of th eir b a tsm en R o bi n so n , S ugg , ,

 1 87 3 T O 1 89 5 . 1 77

and M r. E d over 3 0 runs an innings, and

ccl es, average

e ight of th e teamscored o ver 3 0 0 runs each Watson .

heads the list of bowling averages foll owed by B riggs and ,

Barlow Nottingham
. sh ire h ad this year to put up with

th e th ird place T h e feature of th . e seaso n was th e

marvellously consistent batting of S hrewsbury who is ,

certainly th e finest professional bat in E ngland He .

ga ined the h igh est c o u nty a v er age of the yea r 7 7 z for

°

eighteen com
, ,

pleted innings Gu nn ranks second and is

e only N otts batsm
.
,

th an wh o h as ever played an innings of

over zoo for the county other than S hrewsbury I n bowling . ,

A ttewel l tak es the honours, with an average of rs s 1 fol °

l owed by Flowers with x6 x T h e fou rth place is occu pied

°

by M iddlesex and the m ain featu re was th

M
, e superb batting

of r A J W e bb
. e w h o w en t in eight een tim es in th e

ten cou nty m

.
.
,

atch es and obtained an average of 5 2 4 an d —

,

he al so did rem arkably well in bowling thou gh surpas sed

T his year Yorkshire stands fi fth am

,

by B urton . ong

leading cou nt ies Ulyett heads th e list of batsm

. en with

an average of for sixteen m atches followed cl osely

by Hall with 4 7 1 o for the sam e nu m
,

ber of contests
°
.

S ussex did bad ly in 1 88 7 in first class county m atch es -

,

M
and K ent and Derbysh ire follow A s regards G loucester
G Grace had a great personal trium
.

sh ire , r W . . .
p h , b u t
th e county failed .

In th e autu m n o f 1 8 8 7 I went out to A ustral i

M
a with

r Vernon and di
. d fairly well
, Full particulars of m y .

scores d u ring th is trip will be fou nd in th e tables in

Chapter VII I have a story to relate in connection with

.

this trip which is very funny When we were play ing at

, .

L atrobe in N ew S o u th Wales which is quite an up

, ,

coun try district a well known Middlesex professional was

,
-

th and a bal l was h it in his

”
fielding in e country ,

direction H e of course started to field it and whilst

.
, , ,

11
 1 78 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

en eav uring
d o to do k basking
so ca ma e o
cr ss a whip sna e

in th e sunsh ine H e hesitated to go farther after the

.

ball but wal ked very gingerly up to the skipper of the

team and suggested
,

that it was not advisable for

married men to field in a country where venomous
creatu res were al lowed to roamabou t in broad daylight

A very spirited pictu re of a cricket m

.

’
atch at L ord s

was exh ibited at the Gou pil Gallery th is season, the

M
work of r G H Barrable and r S taples in which
. . . M
I am pictured at the wicket seem
.
,

T h e fact s w orth .

record ing A nd so does th e h alf page devoted to

'

Cricket at the Oval in Patrick A ugust 1 3 th, 1 88 7

”
, , .

1 888.

T po she
ition a t th e h ead of the co u n ties wh ich S u rrey

e previou s year was m

,

regained in th ore than sustained

e su prem
,

in 1 888 th acy of th e el even being indeed so

little assailed that at no tim e sum mer did

,

e during th

there seem any probability of the cham pion s hip be ing

taken away from the O val Ou t of twenty s ix engage .
-

ments nineteen were won four lost and three drawn .

In a m
, ,

atch with S ussex at th e O val S urrey scored an

, ,

innings of 6 98 th e highest total ever att ained in

E ngland in a first c las s m
,

atch up to date
-
T h e feature of - -
.

th e seaso n was L o h mann s bowling ; in the fourteen first

’

clas s county m atches h e took 1 4 s wickets at an average

phenom
,

c ost of u nder nine runs each — a truly enal

record I had the distinction of m

. aking against O xford

U niversity the third h ighest individual innings ever

played in a first class m
M
atch in E ngland viz
-
33 8 b eing
W G Grace s m em
.
, , ,

MM
orable
’
only six runs short of r . . .

innings, which stood on th e record until r acL aren .

beat it in 1 89 5 B esides this I had a ru n of good

.
,
 1 80 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

1 888
N tts, L aneashire and S urrey are very properl y
o ,

bracketed together for the county cham p ion sh ip o f t h e

year becau se the com pe tition wa s ca rrie d o n a ll th rou g h

e sum mer on the distinct understanding that a victory
,

th
reck ons as one point and a draw was to count half a
,

point on each side For N otts Gunn takes the leading

.
,

place with an aggregate of 6 7 4 runs and an average of ,

Sh rewsbury standing second O f the bowlers .

,

A ttewell R ichardson and S h

,
acklock did m
, ost of th e

work and did it splendidly L ancashire h ad a m. ost

Briggs again proved him

,

succ essful season . self one of

th e very best all round cricketers in th

-
e coun try Frank .

S ugg did splendid service and stands at th e h ead of

e batsm
,

th en with an average of 3 a s T h e bowling was

'
.

m
practical ly onopolised by three m en — Briggs Mold and
Wat n all of whom cam
, ,

so — e ou t with splendid figu res .

I nstead of standing alone as in 1 88 7 and 1 888 S urrey, ,

divided honours th is season but th eir fi nal position

very m
,

uch higher th an at one tim e seem ed pro bable For

wh ich it seem
.

som e reason , s difi cu lt to account for ,

an extraordinary fall ing 0 6 is noticeable in th -

e averages

of m ost o f th e l eading batsm en L ohm ann was of .

,

course th e bowling m
, ainstay aided by B eau m ont and
,

Bowley T h e only reason for K ent fal ling two places

am
.

ong th e ei ght co u nt ies w as th at th e re w a s l ess e qu ali ty

in th e resu lts of 1 8 8 9 than in those of th

M
e previous

year; the fall was not real but only apparent , r . .

L eslie Wilson played rem com

M
arkably well ing out with
m
,

th e bi g av erage o f 3 6 r F M .a rc h an t a l so. ad e . a

big advance and h is innings of 1 7 6 against S ussex

,

was one of the featu res of the season Wright and Martin .

more than maintained their position as bowlers T he .

 1 87 3 T O 1 89 5. 1 81

M ddlesex season was m

than last year t
ore sa isfac ory t ,

M
bu t th eir great wan t still was a fast bowler S ir goo d
T im
.

othy O Brien headed th e list of bats m

’
en and r , .

A E
. S toddart followed
. Gloucestershire takes only the
.

sixth place ; Yorkshire showed a disastrou s falling OE ;

and S ussex experienced a th oroughly unsat isfact ory and

dispiriting season .

My own average this seas on in first class m atches was -

a5 5

1 8 90
T here possible question as to S urrey having
is no

during the season of 1 890 shown decidedly the best all

rou nd cricket of an y of th e leading team s I n fi rst class .

county m atches th ey won 9 out of 1 4 l ost 3 and left a

while their full list com

, ,

u nfinished ; pr ised twe n ty fiv e -

matches of which they won 1 6 lost only 4 and left 5 ,

mer of 1 890 was one of continuous

, ,

drawn T he su m
.

wet weather and bad wickets and yet in th e first class

,
-

cou nty m atch es seven of th e S urrey m en can show an

average of upwards of 20 runs an innings and al l these

regular m em
,

bers of the el even A bel stands first with .

an average of 3 9 s his position being largely due to

'

two spl endid innings of 1 5 1 not out against M iddlesex

, ,

and 1 4 6 against L ancash ire Maurice R ead again did.

splendid service for th e cou nty and L ock wood quite ,

ful filled th e h opes that h ad been entertained of h im I .

seem ed o fi col our a bit right th rough M ore rem arkabl e

'

than any of th e b at ting for S urrey in 1 8 9 0 was th e

bowling of L ohm ann and S harpe their records being ,

curiously al ik e viz , an average of a little over 1 2

.
,

runs per wick et L ancash

. ire claim s the second place of

th e season in spite of a particu larly heavy m

,
isfortu ne
in the entire l oss th rou gh ill ness of th e services of
 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

of the O f fourteen county

day . atch es played 7 m
were won, 3 lost, and 4 drawn ; and the result in all
matches was 1 1 won ou t of so played, 5 lost, and 4
drawn t cam
. e th ird in rank
K en and the seas on was ,

M
satisfactory, though, in a sense very u nl ucky as two of

their m ost prom

, ,

inent cricketers r C I M Fox and . .

Walter Wright m
. .
,

et with accidents in the course of the

mer Of first class county match es K ent won 6 out

,

sum .

all hmat c es ou t of ni
t played they won 9 lost 4,
ne een

N ext in order cam

,

and 6 were unfinished e Yorkshire,

e doubl e trium
.

wh o scored th ph over the A ustralians,

defeating the C oloni al cricketers at S h efi eld by seven

wickets and at Bradford by eight wickets N otts, the

ier teamo f 1 8 8 9, h
.

prem ad to be content with th e fifth

and S ussex.

he new Pavilion that now decorates the fam

T ous
S t Joh ”
’
n s Wood ground popularly known as L ord s,
’

was opened this spring, with great cerem

.
,

ony by S ir ,

Ponsonby Fane, who laid the fi rst stone expressing the

hope that we m ay have as m uch fim out of th
,

e new

building as we had out of the old

M
”
.

T h an on th e S pot , in th
”
e S parflag [ cf
/Er, weighed
-
e

in with th e foll owing tasty efiusion one bright m orn this

'

season H e declares he is no poet, but h

. e m eans well .

T O M R . WA L T E R R E A D .

He ain t the
’
sort to la
p y for nuts

H k oo s
’
mh
e ere, and carves e
’
there, m
Bang s
’
e m6 0 , and hits ’
e mq as u re ;
A nd when I h m
s ed y littl e bob
him on the j ob
,

I li k e to see “ ”
.
 1 84 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

o 48 O ne of th h
e great features ty season of t e cou n

mm
.

of 1 8 9 1 was the i made by Middlesex

ense advance ,

wh o now occu pied th e third place and th is result was

largely due to J T H eam

,

e a k in d o f bowler th
. .e county ,

has been so long in need of N otts ranks fou rth an .

advance of one place am

,

ong leading cou nties S omarset .

shire com es next with five m atc hes won ou t of twelve

,

matches played in first class engagements six lost and

M
-
, ,

one drawn r S M J Woods was undoubtedly the

. . . .

mainstay of the team K ent takes the next place in the

.

list followed by S ussex York sh ire and G loucesters h

, ire , , .

H ere is a curiou s incident that happened during one

of th e Hastings week s not long ago I knocked a ball .

out of th e ground, u p a waterspout ( for carrying ofi th

'

rain fromth e top of a h ouse) ; th e said ball was after

wards fielded out of the spout by the aid of a ladder ,

by a m
,

an wh o threw it back into th

, e grou nd am idst
tu m u l tuou s applau se .

Punt /1 again drops into tearful poetry when referring

to a well known professional now deceased
-
,

Bl k bl
oc , ock, bl k oc ,

A t the foot of th wick t— ah do

y e ,

But one hour of Grace or Wal ter R ead

W ere worth a week of you .

I n the winter of this year I cap aine

t d a teamou t to

T hey eleven had a m

S urre agnificent season in 1 8 9 2

e cham
,

and richly deserved to retain th p ion ship F ine

e whole teamwas th
.

all rou nd cricket on th

-
e part of th e

main cau se of S urrey s consistent success but two mem

’

bers of the el even L ockwood and L ohm ann had

certainly a far larger share than any of thei r coll eagues
 1 87 3 T O 1 89 5 . 1 85

in winning the m atch es I cam e back to som ething

m
.

very like m y b es t form A fter on e o r tw

. o o d e rat el y
g ood scores I p lay ed a n inn in gs o f 7 5 n o t ou t to w in

e m
, ,

th atch against M iddl esex at th e O val on th e 1 4 th

of J un e and fromthat tim

,

, e u ntil th e end of th e season

I was in good heart scoring no fewer than four innings

,

of over a h undred incl uding 1 9 6 not ou t against

,

S ussex at th e O val and 1 5 6 against S cotland at E din

,

A s the result of these and other fair perform ances I

cam e ou t at th e t0p of th e batting l ist both in first c lass ,

-

county fixtures and all m atch es averaging in th ,e one

over 4 0 ru ns an innings and in th e oth er over 3 5 In

first class cou nty m
.

es A bel com
,

-
atch es second with 25

an innings wh ilst Henderson in all m atch es tak es th e

sam L ockwood was em

,

e place with 2 7 .
p ha t ica l l y th e

bowler of the year ; on an average he had to bowl less

than six overs for each of his 1 6 8 wickets— an astonish
ing pe r fo r m anc e A l t
.h ou g h be h in d L oc kw o o d in

average L ohm ann did work for the S u rrey team

that in the case of anyone other than h im
,

sel f would
have been considered great In first class county
.
-

matches S urrey won thirteen out of sixteen played ,

losing two and one being drawn and th e

m
, ,

resul ts for th e whole season showed twenty ei g ht a t ch es -

p la y ed o n l y th ree l ost a nd tw o u n fi ni sh ed U p to .

e m
, ,

nearly th iddle of A ugust N otts had gone through ,

twelve of their county engagem ents with ou t sufferi ng a

single defeat and the cham p io ns hip see m e d e a s il y

with in their grasp but the rem
,

aining fixtu res brought

m
,

abou t a change in th eir fortunes and com p e ll ed th e

On m
,

to take th e sec ond place ost occasions h

. owever

e N otts team played splendid all rou nd cricket

, ,

th -
O ut .

of their sixteen first class county m atches they won

 1 86 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

ten, lost two, and left four

hed T heir double u nfinis .

victory over S urrey was one of the chief features of the

seaso n T he two great batsm

. en S hrewsbury and Gunn, ,

were far ah ead of all their colleagues, and were the

41 and 3 2 . One of the strong points of the N tts

o

el even that the three bowlers, A ttewell S hacklock

was , ,

and Flowers could get ru ns as well as take wickets

e bowling averages of these three m

.
,

T h en are 1 2 1 5

S om
, ,

and 1 7 s pectively
re ,
erset occupied the third
.

p os itio n h av ing a rec ord i

n fe rio r on l y to S ur rey a n d
Of sixteen county m
,

N otts . atches eight were won and

five lost, whilst th e las t three were l eft u nfinished

owing to bad weath er N 0 teamin the country played .

more attractive cricket and several of their successes

partook of the nature of trium
,

p h s T h e lion s sh a re o f .
’

th e honours u nquestionably with th

M
rested e captain,

Hewett who in 1 89 2 scored 1 04 7

M
r H T . . .
,

runs and averaged 4 0 7

, r L ionel Palairet cam
°
. e .

second, with an average of 3 2 1 9 T h e best average .

in bowling was th at of G B N ich

M
olls foll owed
. .
,

by r W C Hedley and E J T y ler

m
. . .
, . .
,

1 6 3 T h e fourth place us t b e a ss ig n e d to L an ca

matches played
. .

shir e, who, of sixteen co unty

Sm
,

won 7 , lost 5 , wh ith took

M
ilst 4 were drawn A . .

th
M
e lead in batting averaging 2 .followed by r .

A C
. acL aren with
. and Frank S ugg with

Practically the whole of the L ancashire bowling was done

by the three fam ous professionals B riggs Mold and , , ,

Watson M iddlesex occupied the fifth position the feature

M
.
,

of th

M
e season being th e exceptionall y fine batting of r .

S tanley S cott wh o averaged th e next best being r

Yorkshire cam
.
,

A E S toddart with an average of

. . e

sixth on th e list in th e struggle for th e ch am pionship,

 1 88 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

innings ; nex him comt es F

to H S ugg with 3 4 8 for . .

2 7 inni ngs Briggs and Mold take the lead am

. ong

bowlers the form, er with an average of 1 for 8 4 2

overs, 1 0 8 wickets th e l atter with 1 4 1 1 6 for 8 2 0 overs,
,

1 1 7 wickets .

Middlesex stood third am ong th e great coun ties having

won nine ou t of their sixteen m

,

atches lost six, and left

e m
,

T h ain featu re of th

M
only one u nfin ished . e year was

r S toddart s su perb batting

.
’
who obtained the highest ,

county average for 1 1 7 8 ru ns in twenty six innings

,
-
.

A gainst N otts at L o rd s h e scored 1 9 5 (not ou t) and 1 2 4

’
, ,

e form
,

th er figu re being th e high

M
est individual innings of

th e season in first c lass cricket -

r F G J Ford com . es . . . .

next with an average of T h e fo urth place in th e

struggle for th e cham p io ns h ip is a l l o tte d to K en t who in

their sixteen county m

,

atches scored 5 3 0 8 ru ns for 2 6 0

wickets, giving an average of while in the sam e

series o f m atches 5 0 7 2 were m ade against th emfor 2 5 5

wickets , or an average of S u rrey fell fromth e

top of th e l ist to th e fi fth place owing largel y to th e ,

enorm ous l oss involved in George L oh mann s enforced ’

absence throu gh illness T h e m ost gratifying feature of

.

th e seaso n s doings was certainl y th eir d ou bl e victory over

’

th e A u stralians N ottingh am
. sh ire occupies th e sixth place,

as th e resu l t of a far fromsuccessful seas on and th e .

rem
,

aining gre at cou n ties ar e S u sse x S om erse t an d , , ,

lowest of al l Gl oucestershire, wh
, o experien ced a disastrous

seaso n .

T he vi
si hth A ustralian teamresu l ted in a
t of t e eig h
record for th em of ei hteen victor i t n d f at s and
g e s e e e

eight drawn gam

, ,

es a resul t which w oul d not have been

,

regarded as at all u nsatisfactor

y if ex pec tatio n ha d n ot
been raised by m uch prelim inary flourish .
 1 87 3 T O 1 89 5 . 1 89

1 884 .
A ll th rough the sum mer it was a race between S urrey
and Yorkshire for th e firs t place Middlesex alone
threatening danger I n the end S urrey cam e ou t cham
,

pion cou nty of the year and it was ad m , itted that on

all grou nds and u nder all conditions their s was th
’
e

strongest cou nty teamof th

, ,

e year I n th e series of

cham m m
.

pi on sh ip en a
g g e e nt s S u rr ey wo n th irt ee n atch e s ,

lost two and played a tie and th eir record for th e whole

mer showed twenty victories four defeats two drawn

, ,

sum

m
, ,

g a es a n d a tie O f th e th ree b o w l ers w ho did so

much towards recovering the county s lost position

.
,
’
,

R ichardson clearly carried o ff th e ch ief h onours though

im
,

on som e days th ere was noth ing to ch oose between h

and L ockwood . N o oth er county h ad two bowlers

quite so deadly as these to whomthe young left hander

,
-
,

Sm ith proved a m
, ost able assistant B eyond every.

thing else the feature of S urrey s batting was the wonder

’

fu l im p ro v em en t m ad e by B ro ckw ell F o u r tim. es in

S urrey m atches h e m ade scores of over a hu ndred and ,

al t ogeth er h e sco red runs for th e cou nty with an

a fine record indeed for a su m mer of

,

average o f 3 —

such u nsettled weather as th at o f 1 8 94 Very su ccess .

ful too was A bel a good second to B rockwell in the

, ,

nu m
,

aggregate ber of runs Hayward and Maurice

R ead likewise proved th em
.

sel ves first c lass batsm en

-
I .

was by no m eans so successful as last year ; m y inn in g s

of 1 6 1 against Yo rksh ire at th e O val sh owed som e free

Yorkshire has every reason to be proud of the record

obtained by the eleven I n the great gam
. es of th e

season th ey gained twelve vic tories and throug h ou t the

sm
,

artness of their fi eld ing attracted general attention .

 1 90 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T

MF
.

T he presence of r . . S . Jackson in the c uno ty

teamin all th eir cham p io n sh ip en a
g g em e n ts w a s a n 1 m ,

portant factor M iddlesex tak es third place as on

.

many previous occasions the team at th es proving

,

equal to any county t eamin E ngl and

,

and at oth ers

playing in a m
,

ost disappointing fashion A lthough .

K ent occupies th e sam e position as last year their ,

rec ord is certainly not so good and l ik e M iddlesex

their formis strangel y u nequal L ancash ire ranks fifth
, , ,

in the contest for th e county cham p i

o n s h ip S om er se t ,

sixth and then fol low in order N otts

, S ussex and , ,

Gloucesters hire .

T h e official recognition of Warwicksh ire Derbyshire, ,

L eicestershire and E ssex as firs t c lass co unties as well -

m
, ,

as, subseq uentl y, Ham ps h ire in v ests th ei r a tc h es w ith

m m
,

g re ate r i po rtan ce th an fo r e rl y
bridge m
.

T h e Oxford and Cam at ch at L ord s in Jul y

’

was of course one of th

, e events of th
, e seas on it resulted
in victory for O xford A no th er annual event th
. e E ton

Harrow m
,

v atch was w itnessed by som e or

m
.

m
,

person s T h e g a e w.as to a g re a t ex te n t a r re d
by bad weather and was left unfinished though E ton
e better team
, ,

was no doubt th .

1 895 .
he cricketing season of 1 89 5 will long stand out as one
T
of the m ost mem orable on record Favou red fromth e very

com mencement with a long spell of fine weather, the

.

leading ground s were in good trimquite early and as a

c onsequence som e large scores were m
,

ade in all directions .

Unfortunately I did not participate in this run of luck, for

I seem
,

ed ofi col our m ost of th

'

e season ; indeed only one

century fell to m m
,

h h
M
y s are d uring t e y ear My es tee ed .

friend, r W G Grace, carried all before him entirely

. . .
'

,
 1 92 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

wickets at a cost of less than 1 4 runs each whil e A bel ,

scored 1 7 8 7 runs withan average of j ust over 5 1 It was .

th e crowning proof of R ich ardson s exceptional excellence

’

that m any of h is fiDCS t perform ances were accom p lis h e d o n

wickets that aflorded himlittle or no assistance ; indeed

'

one scarcely k new wheth er to m ost adm

,

ire h is skill or h is
rem arkable stam ina A bel played first for S u rrey in th
. e

season of 1 88 1 and it was certainl y a triu m ph fo r h im a fte r

so m
,

any years of service to su rpass all h is previous

records for th e cou nty Five tim es h e played an inn i
. ngs of

over a hu ndred T h e return to th e teamafter two years

’
.

absence o f George L oh m
,

ann afforded , needless to say th e ,

es m
,

l iveliest satisfaction A fter th .e three nam entioned ,

th e ch ief honours of th e cou nty season were taken by

Maurice R ead Hayward H olland and Wood L anca , , .

e cham
,

sh ire ranks second in th p ion ship c o n tes t a n d th e ,

season will be rem em bered for the great fes t acc om

M
p l ish e d
against S om erset at T au nton in J uly

M
when r A C . . .

is fam
,

ac L aren pu t together h ou s innings of 4 2 4 th e high

est score ever m

,

ade in th e h istory of county cricket and ,

th e L ancas hire score reached th e trem

M
endous total of

M
80 1 . A l ways a strong player with an attractive style r , .

acL aren showed h im

,

self abl e to score h eavily on all

sorts of w ickets and in a season in wh ich a very large

,

num
,

ber of batsm en disti ngu ished t h em sel ves h e h ad th e ,

honour of heading the averages with 5 1 5 .

It is pleasing to observe that at the last annual m eeti ng

of h is County C lu b it was dec ided to present h

, imwith a
g o l d w at c h an d c hain in reco g nition of th is g r an d p e r

for man ce.

Of coun ty c a h mpi n hip mat

o s c hes L ancas hire play ed
twenty one won fourteen lost four three were drawn
-
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1 09 6 ru n s and averagi ng 3 2 8 th e two lead ing bowl ers

being Hirst and Peel Gloucestershire has clim

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and Warwicksh ire tie for th e sixth place and E ssex and ,

S om erset tie for the eighth, Ham pshire com es ou t tenth ,

S ussex eleventh L eicester and N otts tie for twelfth

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th e contest resul ted in th bridge

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MY Own Do m es .

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WA R wrcxsna — Messrs H W Bainbridge, F W . . . . .

B reedon R T Byrne L C Docker H G Hill

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,

J. E H .i
ll C G L a wto n H , C M a u l,
. E W h ee l e r
.
,
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,

and J B Wood . . .

A llen W F Collishaw J Cresswell W Devey E J

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Diver J Grundy Harborne A L aw L eak e A L illey

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J. M a j or M or g an H J
, P all e tt W Q ua ife W G ,
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, . .

Quaife W R ichards S antall, J E S h ilton, W A J

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, . . . . .

West and J Whitehead

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YO R S H IR E
K — M essrs B C Bol ton I H Bottom ley, . . .
, . .

C J Gifkins L ord Hawke Messrs H H ill E T

Hirst F S Jackson C W L andon E L am
. . . . . .
, , ,

, . . b, A . . . .

Sm
, ,

S ellars R S idgwick E
, .ith, W F Wh itwell J H , . . .
,
. .

Wood and W H Woodhouse

, . . .

W A s pinall T A rm itage W Bates J T Brown,

W Cartm
. . . . .
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Cham
,

. an A p ion C re ight on R C la yto

. n .
,

m
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m
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J. D e n ton G Dy so n, D E a s
, tw oo d T E . et t A .
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Fletcher Foster, A , Greenwood L Greenwood I .

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, .

Grim sh aw, Haggas L Hal l, G P Harrison, H Hayley , . . . .

,
 MY O WN D OIN GS . 2 37

J. H ic k s A H ill G H H irst D
, H u nt er J H u.nt er , . .
, . , .
,

F L ee E L ockwood H L o ckwood W M iddlebrook

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,

R Moorhouse J M ounsey M Myers, E Peate R

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, .

Peel G P in der J M Preston J R edfearn J R ow

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botham A F S m ith A S owden T aylor J T hewlis

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A T hornton H T insley J T un niclifie C Ul la

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sen .
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th orne G Ulyett S Wade E Wainwright Walker T

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Wardall J West L Whitehead Worrnal d, and Yeadon .

Bas r v WE S T or E ne m a — M essrs J H J H ornsby

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,

R S L ucas J S R obinson A
. . E S toddart G J V , . .
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,
. . .

Weigall and C W Wright . .

A H eam
, .

e J T
. H eam e F Martin and W Wright ,
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,
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GE N T L E M E N v Paw n s — A A ppleby H W Bain . .

,
. .

bridge L C V Bathurst F A B ishop G F H B erkeley

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,

M P B owden J H B rain E H B uckland F M B uck

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,
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land E H Butler C D B uxton S C h

,
. ristoph. erson J M , . .
,
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Cotterill J Cranston S M C rossfiel d H B Daft E J

Diver J A D ixon A W Dorm
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, , , ,

, an R
. N Douglas J
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,
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, .

E ccles J J Ferris F G J Ford, H W Fowler L H

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, . .

Gay W R ,
Gilbert E M Grace G F Grace W G
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Grace L ord Harris L ord Hawke Messrs W C Hedley

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,

H T Hewett A J L H ill T R H ine Haycock A N

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,
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Hornby C E Homer F S Jackso n D L A J ephson . . . .

, . . .
,

ble M C K em
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A T K em
M
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p K J K ey C J K ortrig ht , . .
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,

M M
F E L acey, C F H L eslie A P L ucas G
. . Gregor . . .
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A C L aren F Marchant J R ason F G M onk land

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G J M ordaunt W L M urdoch E A N epean N E

N epean W N ewham A
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, , ,

N ewnham S ir T C O Brien ’
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Messrs H V Page L C H Palairet G K Papillon

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W H Patterson P J de Paravicin i T N Perkins H

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Phil ipson H Pigg W F Pullen O G R adcl ifle J

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erham S
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R obertson W E R oll er H R oth W S cott

ith E S m
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L ord G S cott M es srs J S huter C A S m

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. ith, , . .
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.

F R S poflorth A G S teel A E S toddart G S trachan,

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 2 38 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

E . C . C T S tu dd A M S utthery C T oppin
S treatfield, . .
, . .
,
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,

C E de T rafford J A T urner E F S T ylecote H G

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, . .

T ylecote G G Wal ker C M Wells F T . Welm an .

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H 0 Whitby A P Wickham S M J Woods and

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,

C W Wrigh t
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GE N T L E M E N or E N GL A N D v N oT rs ( S H E R wrN s .
’

M
E L E vE N ) Messrs J J Fen is E M Hadow L ord
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, . .
,

Hawke r W L M urdoch S ir T C O Brien M essrs

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E Sm ith A E S toddart C E de T rafiord G F Vernon

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, , ,

and S M J Woods . . . .

GE N T L E ME N v PL A YE R S o r T H E S c o u r Messrs
— . .

M P B owden E J D iver R T E ll is C E H omer

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,
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,

W R Gilbert K J K ey E 0 P owell 0 G R adcliffe

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,

S W S cott and G N Wyatt

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M
S O UT H v N O R T H M essrs H W Bain bridge J. .
—
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, .

Cranston R T E ll is J J Ferris F Fielding C J

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Fox L ,
H Gay W G Grace E M Hadow H T
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, . .

H ewett C E Hom
M M
er K
, J K ey A . P L uca s R S
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,
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L ucas E J C o
,rm ick G G
. rego r W L. M urd och ‘
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,

W N ewham S ir T C O Brien M essrs H V Page F

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Penn H Pig 0 G R adcl iffe K J R anjitsinhji J

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R obertson W E R oller J S hu ter A E S toddart C T

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S tudd A M S u tthery G F Vernon I D Walker F T

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Welm
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an and S M J Woods . . . .

R A bel G Bean J B eaum

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. ont J H B oard T
,
Bowley
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W Brockwell E J Diver W R Gilbert T Hayward A

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F H earne G G H eame J T H eam

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H eam
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e . e R , . .
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Henderson A H ide J H ide W H um

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M
,ph rey s W L ock
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wood G L oh m
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, ann F artin
. H Phil l ips J Porter , .
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,

W Quaife M R ead T R ichardson J S harpe W T ester

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H Wood W A Woof and W Wright

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S O UT H o r E N G L A N D v YO t srrrR E Messrs J J -

Ferris H T H ewett W L Murdoch W N ewham

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M
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,

S ir T C O Brien and r A E S toddart ’

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,
 2 40 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

P L A YE R S G or T H E
v. S O UT H R A bel
E N T L E ME N —

Bowley F H eam
.

H eam H ide W H u m
,

T . e G , e J .
, .
, .
, .

p hre y J
s J o
,n es G L oh
. m ann M R e ad W T
, es t er .
,
.
, .
,

and H Wood . .

N O R T H v S O UT H — Messrs S M C rossfield J A
. . . .
, . .

Dixon L ord Hawke Messrs A

, N Homby F S , . . .
, . .

Jackson A T K em ,ble F Mitchell A S ellars E S m

. . ith ,
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.
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,

F R S pofiorth C E de T raflord G G Walker C W

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Wright and L G Wright , . . .

W A ttewell R Barlow W Barnes W Bates J B riggs

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J T B row n J Ca rlin W Ch atter t o n H B . D aft G . .

mett W Flowers I Grim

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Davidson J D isney T E m
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shaw W Gu nn L H al l D Hu nter E L ock wood E

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M ills A Mold E Peate R Peel R Pil ling A D

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Pough er W S cotton J S el by A
, . S haw M S herwin , .
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A S hrewsbury F S ugg J T unniclifle G Ulyett S Wade

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E Wainwright A Ward T Warren and W Wright

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YO R K S I E
H R v S O UT H or E N G L A N D — L ord Hawke
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,

M essrs F S J ackson E S m
. . ith and A S ellars
.
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J T . B row n G . H H irst D H u n t er R , M o or h ous .e .

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R Peel J T unniclifie and E

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, . Wainwright , . .
 CH A PT E R V III .

E VO L UT I ON or BA T , BA L L Wrc T A N D D n ss
, , .

A Piece of S tic k— T he Club— T h Batte — T h Batt n T h

e s e e — e S ky
scraper— T he C urved Bat— T he S houl dered Bat— T he S pliced

S m all
’
s Ball — O ther Ball s— T he Ball of T o-day— T he T ree S te m
he Wick et of he B it n T h bl
M Hambl d n M
— T T o - day— T E arl y r o — e Y oung N o e

Of 1 7oo -
y L ord in l 7 6o— A an e o — T op H at and

Ba r ces in 1 82 7— T he hite W T op H at in 84o — C urls l and

Coll ar in r86 5— A F air T ype in 1 895— N otches and S cores .

E VO L U T I O N OF T H E BA T .

With respect to the bat, as already suggested this

would first of all tak e the formof a piece O f stick ; then
,

som eth ing stronger in the shape O f a cl u b would be

used ; and as th e bowling im proved som eth ing that

e wicket becam
, ,

afiorded a bett er protection to th

'

e neces

sary and this took th

, e formof th e h at a nam e posd bly ,

derived fromthe fact that fi rs t of all it was shapen out

of a com mon piece of wood known in all times as a ,

BA T T E N the d efi nition wh ereof is a scantling of wood

fromsin to 7 in wide rin to 3 in th ick and th

,

. . e length , . .
,

u nlim ited Does not this description well apply to the

.

O ld tin e bat
-

It m ay not be considered out of place to here refer to

th e fact that according to Wycklifie s translation th

'
’
, e ,

word bat becom ing bath? in th e plu ral is actually

mentioned in B iblical history ; and it has further been
, ,

described in a dictionary publish ed du ring th e earl y part ,

Q
 24 2 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

h
of t e eig teen h th century as a weapon intended to do
execu tion by its wei g h t o r h e a tin g p ow e r
”
.

A writer in th e m iddle of th e last centu ry says that

th e gam e is perform ed by a perso n wh o with a cl u m sy

piece of wood defends a wicket raised of two slender ,

sti cks with another placed crosswise which is attacke d

,

by another person who endeavours to bea t it down with

a hard ball froma certain standpoint T h e farth er th
. e

distance to which the bal l is d riven the oftener is the

defender able to run between the wicket and the stand
point a distance that would com
, plete a run as in singl e
wicket m atches now .

B efore 1 7 4 5 a bat of any size or shape could be u sed ,

and as a consequ ence foll owing upon th is liberty som

, e ,

players increased the height and width to such an exten t

that the wickets were alm ost covered It is said of a
m
.

p ro fe ssi on a l na ed
, S h oc k W h ite o f R ,e i g ate th at h e ,

carried th e absu rdity to such a pitch th at h is h at eflec

'

tually shu t out every part of th e stum ps fromthe bowler s ’

g az e, a n d a
,s a n a tu ra l res u l t it
, b e c am e t h e cu st om to

u se an iron fram e into wh ich th

, e bat was laid for reg u

lating and approving th e size before th e play er was al lowe d

to use it . L ord H arris, owing to sim ilar reasons brought ,

forward th is m atter in recent years and th , e ou tco m e was

that every cou nty grou nd keeps in readiness a regulation

a
g gu e th ro u gh w h i
c h t h e ba ts m an is co m p e l l ed to ru n hi s

hat, if required before com mencing his innings A ccord

,

.
,

ing to J ohn N yren a cel ebrated player of th

, e early day s

of th e present c entu ry th e old weapon of defence was in

,

shape som eth ing like a gardener s budding knife curved

’
,

at th e back, and this curved shape of th e blade m us t

have prevented the h older showing any form and was ”

,

serviceable only for h itting ; but with im proved m ethod s

of bowling wh i ,ch cam e into fashion early in th e present

 244 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

I ndh d A I t gro ws rapidl y, and attai large size

'

es tern n a. ns a .

girth T he. leaves are narro wl y l anceolate , sil y on oth side s k b

wh en youn g T he catkins appear with th
. e leaves , and are sl ender

and lax T h e . b
ark is used for tanning , and it yiel ds th e edicine m
sal icine. T he timbr e is val u a ble for a variety of p p
ur oses , h
suc

l ocalities for the growth of th e wh ite will ow are l ow, sh el ving

bank s m
of strea s and rivers , riverine trac ts su j ect to occasional b
inundation with water hm holding
M
ud ric and sil t in solu tion, and

fresh or p meadow land whose soil mi to s ure is not stag nan t.

I t gro ws also in uplands not subj ect to inundations, and is

occasionall y planted as an orna mntal
e tree in woods . I r is es

tensively grown as a pollard tree, bu t in this case it is no t so

suita ble for bat - making appears to be incre asing , whil e the supply

is falling ofi. ecentl y letter was received T he R oyal

'

R a at

B o tanical Gardens, K ew, S ydney,

fro ma k t bat mak
cric e -
er of

N ew S outh al es W
H e states : “
I have. expa ienced gre a t
difi eul ty in o taining th b
e particular kind of will ow required in

mby us iness viz S ahx al ba I h.ave re eatedl

p y o
'

rdere d w hite .

fim
, ,

will ow fro m various have never yet

r s in E ngland, and
received the right stuff I now feel certain th ey do not know

firmof tim
.

wh ere to obtain it
”
A ber merchants in the City
.

wro te : “ We have m ade several inquiries, bu t find that the

difi cul ty in procuring any, th e large bat- a ers having always mk

m en scouring th e country trying to pic up what they can O ne k .

man however has j ust been to ofier us som e T h e price wo ul d

'

I t seem
.
, ,

be five ahill ings per cubic foot wh ere th e wood lies s a l ong

m
.

price but , ost of our frien ds tol d us w e sh oul d no t be abl e to

ge t any at all .
 E VOL UT I ON OF T HE BA L L . 345

E VO L UT I O N OF T H E BA L L .

T he love of th rowing stones is one of the earlies t

passions of youth , bj ect he aim
and if the s at is
o struck

it gratifies one of h is fi rst if not best instincts

, , .

A s delineated in our illustration at page 2 2 2 th ere

seem at som
,

s littl e doubt but th e rude form of ball ,

probably fashioned out of a stone or as one often sees , ,

a stone itself that h as becom e qu ite as sph erical as if

manufactured through being tossed about on the beach

by the waves of the sea m ay h ave been u sed first of all .

T h is prim itive ball would ul tim

,

atel y give way to som e

thing m ade of softer m ateri al such as a piece of wood

m
,

ade as circular as th e appliances of th e age perm itted .

'

We shoul d next find the wood with a covering of dried

skin wound rou nd and rou nd and from this we get to the
,

solid leath er ball m ade at first with four heavy cross

seam s th en with one dou ble seam and treb le seam , but

so carelessl y m
, ,

anipulated in th e qu il t that it was once

the custom to procu re a fresh bal l after each innings,

and som etim es m ore than one were required ; im pr ov ed

system s in th e m anu factu re followed until we reach our

own day, when we find th e leading m akers pu tting as

m any as si x seam s into th e delicate construc tion of a

first class ball which is m

-
, ade of cork and yarn covered

with thick cowhide leather and weighing according to

, ,

the regulations of th e gam e si oz , .

A curiou s story is relat ed of a silver ball, in th e

possession of som e m em ber of the Vine C lub, at S even

oaks that h, as for generations been used as a snuff box -
.

A nyone dropping it wh ilst it was being pitch ed ro und

was fined several bottles of wine .
 246 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

B OWL I N G .

It was not until towards the end of the last century

that bowling becam e m uch o f an art Hom e tosses and .

half volleys were probably u nknown and the first step

towards im m m
,

pro vement fro the co m on gro u nd er o r ,

sneak was the pitch and l ob : then followed som e sort

of twist and a ru de im itation of throwing or round arm

,

S o m e c roniclers
h give th
dit of introdu cing this
e cre

throwing as it was then term

, ed to T omWal k er abou t
,

1 7 80 and wh ilst there is no dou bt h e did try h is hand at

and novel m
,

som e new k ind of style, eth od in his ,

matches an important writer some few years later who

, ,

had the acquaintance of an old player of these earl y

“
fac ts are worth a thousand argu m
”
days says : ents

H owever that m
.
,

ay be be positively states th at th e

e new discovery of round armbowling in th

,

cred it of th e -

modern style was due to a lady one Miss Willes who , , ,

when practising cricket with her brother used to throw

imthe idea of
,

th e bal l in a fash ion that suggested to h

trying som eth ing sim ilar in a m atch abou t For

several seasons th e novelty provok ed severe criticism ;
but n the course of these disputations it was clearly
proved that the straight arm ed del ivery was invented and
-

introduced by J ohn Will es E sq of S u tton Val ence at

, .
,

that tim e an em
,

inent player for K ent S o su ccess ful .

was he in m aturing it that h is county grew sufficientl y

,

strong u pon th e new principle to attac k all E nglan d ,

and generall y with success and thus th e fetters of ol d

,

custom s tum bled to pieces at the m agic touch of

im m en t an d from such a com m enc m en t nd

pr ove e rou

armbowl ing was k no wn and practised in K ent a lo ng

,

tim e before any im itator elsewhere h ad m astered th e

innovat ion For m any years th

. e laws of cricket upon
 E VOL UT I ON OF T HE WI CK E T . 24 7

the point preven e t d the

d higher than ar mb eing raise

the sh oul der and it was not u ntil abou t 1 86 0

, after a ,

terrible row at the O val, that this rule was altered In .

the old days of cricket an over consisted of twelve

balls and was cal led a m

,
ate
”
.

E VO L U T I O N OF T HE WIC K E T .

Fl ushd with his

’
rays , ben ath th
e e noon tide sun ;
N o rival ba d b tw
r s, e een the wickets run .
— BYR O N .

he wicket in the early days

T B ritain wou ld be of

following this prim

, ,

represented by the trunk of a tree itive

idea wou ld be pieces of stick two u prigh ts with a
pie c e l aid acr o ss a t t he to p, o r a n yt h i ng in t he s ha p e o f
an obstacl e fo r th e bowler to aimat In m y o w n y o u
. n g
days I h ave observed a stool or chair used a single ,

stick with a h at or coat upon it or ch alk ed m ark s on a

,

wall suchas m
,
ay be seen to th is day am ongs t th e boys

at Ch rist s H ospital S ch ool in N ewgate S treet L o nd on

’
.
, ,

I n th e early part of th e eighteenth centu ry ( 1 7 0 5 ) th e

wick ets were pitch ed at th e sam e length as th ey are at

pres e n t . T h e s tu m p s w ere o n l y rf t i n h ei h
g ; t th e in .te rv al
between themhowever (for there were but two) varied
, , ,

between rft and 2 ft with a cross piece

. .
,
B etween -
.

th e stu m p s a h o l e w a s m ad e in t h e g r ou n d la rg e en o u g h
to contain th e bal l and th e bu tt end of th e bat I f in .

cou rs e of th e play th e w icket keeper c ou ld receive th -

e

ball froma fieldsm an and place it in th e h ole before ,

the striker in ru nning h om e co uld place h is bat th ere,

the striker was ou t .

Frequent collision w ith the wicket keeper suggested -

the convenience of a line rath er less th an 4ft frombu t .

,

pa r a l l el to th e s tu
,
m ps, n o w c all e d th e p pp g
o in c r ea s e ;
e turf and not m
,

th is at fi rst was cu t into th arked ou t

 248 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

as in the present day T he height of the stu m . ps

raised and th e width between th em decreased to 6 ih

and shortly afterwards a m

.
,

in 1 7 7 5 ,
iddle one was
added follo wed by th e addition of a cro ss piece ; th is -

tio n was consequ ent u pon a m

,

altera atch in whic h th e

ball passed several tim es between th e two stum p s w h e n

Sm al l a celebrated player, was batting w ith ou t tou ching

is tim
, ,

th e cross piece wh ich up to abou t th

, e, h
,
ad don e

duty for a bail or bails T h is was th ought to be very

.

u nfai r to L um py S tevens the bowler and it was after

m
, ,

wards resolved to add a centre stum p to giv e h i a b ette r

ch an ce T h e wicket keeper instead o f putting th

.
-
e ball ,

into th e hole, h ad now to put down or break th e wicket

with the ball in hand .

A s shown in our ill ustration of th e E volution of th e

Wicket (see facing page 2 the stu m p s as ul tim ate l y

defined in height and width in 1 8 1 7 rem ain to th e

present day with the exception of divid ing the bail m to

E VO L UT I O N OF C R IC K E T I N G DR E S S
‘
.

Cricket has al ways had its regulation costum es in

strict conform ity with oth er pursuits .

T he style h as varied at difierent periods, as will be

'

seen in our i llu stration fromth e staunch garb of th, e

ancient Briton th e hood and cl oak of th

, e m onks of the
Middle A ges the fancy caps and light bu ttoned coats of -

e chevaliers of K ing Jam

,

th es th e hea d h eating wigs o f -

e costum
,

th e squ i
res of last century and th e of L ord

Winchilsea s teamwho always played in silver laced hats

,
’
-
, ,

knee breeches, and silk stockings with bu ckles on their

-

A ll these fas hions m ust have been m ost u ncom

,

shoes

e wearer so indeed m
.

fortable to th ust h ave been th

,
e , ,
 2 50 AN N ALS OF CR ICK E T .

N OT CHI N G A N D S COR IN G .

is the old tim e nam

“ ” ”
A notch -
e for a ru n In .

early illu strations o f th e gam e an ind ivid ual will be seen

,

wh o is h ol di ng a piece of stick into which h e cu ts a

e a ru n is m
,

norch every tim

“ ”
ade and as soon as ten
,

are noted h e cu ts an obl ique notch acros s them wh ic h ,

sim p l ifi e s th e c ou nting of th e to tal a t th e e n d o f th e

innings after th e fash ion frequently em plo y ed n o w a d a y s

for m e gam e o f dom

,

ark ing th inoes in the tap roo mof -

th e sm all er pu bl ic h ou ses
-
T h
. e w ord itself is stil l

applied to cricket in som e parts of th e country I m y

eard it u sed in som
,

sel f having h e parts o f L incol nsh ire

quite recently to signify ru ns but notching the stick

,

is quite a thing of th e pas t

I n first class m e gam

.

-
atc h es th e h as been record ed

upon sh eets of paper since th e latter part o f th e last

e sam
,

century ; th e care o f th e scorer h owever h as no t

e custo mfor h
, ,

always been tak en as is now th e h , ad to

sit out in th e su n with a strip of paper on h is knee

im A
,

and an inkbottl e tied to a stick placed near h .

oo d il l ust ratio n o f th is s tyle is shown in o ur picture o f

g
th e m atch at B righton in th e forties B eyond the
.

scanty Press notices o f th e deeds done by th e fam ous

Ham bledon Clu b from 1 7 5 0 to 1 7 90 m any original

record s of th eir m
,

atches are st ill in th e possession o f

som e of th e H am p shir e C o u nt y fa m il ies ( see I ll u st ra tio n

facing page Com ing to later days m any of th e great

matches played at Brighton from1 83 0 were printed as

,

th ey progressed u pon the grou nd several o f these score ,

cards are, I believe in th e possession of th e R ev R S

es, h im
. . .
,

H olm sel f a c ricketing enthusiast .

 CHA PT E R I! .

C rn e m Gao m
m s.

— Inn Padd ocks— P bli Pa k

u c r s — L ords, T he O val , 8t c .

ON C R IC K E T GR O U N D S .

A first-
class k t grou nd is a pleasure to play upon
cric e -
,

an attraction to visitors and one of th e greatest boons

ere are m
,

that a club of standing can possess T h .any

beautiful grounds in various parts of the country notably

‘

at som e of th e favourite seaside resorts wh ere th e pure ,

ozonic breath of th e atm osphere exercises a health ful

infl uenc e over th e grass causing ,

it to exhibit that
delight fully verdant green so rarely fou nd at inland
p la ces . It is m a rve l l ous h o w e
, ve r to fi n d h ow , m u ch a

scientific course of cu l tivation enables th e grass to retain

that depth o f col ou r in m any of ou r sm oky cities and

towns E ven in L ondon where the conditions prevailing

.
,

are not of th e fi rst ord er th e colour in th

, e grass is

one o f th e l eading featu res at both L ord s and th e O val

’

e geological form
,

two grounds where th ation of th e soil

is u tterly diflerent th e one being al m

'

, ost a bed of d ay ,

th e other co nsisting ch iefly of a th in covering of l ight

loamoverlying a weak subsoil A t L ord s th
. e grasses
’

that are m ost encouraged are banefu l weeds on the

Oval so that the h erbage on the two grounds

is com
,

po s ed o f a l m ost d istin ct sp eci es T h is sam e .

p o in t i
s o n e tha t d oe s n ot n e arl y rec eiv e th e a tt en tion
it deserves fromthose who have th e practical m anage
ment of grounds in the coun try .
 2 53 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

In warmcountries the cl im atic conditions will not

p erm it gr ass a
,s we kn o w it to fl our i
s h , ,

certain seasons and all kinds of artificial plans

to in order that the gam
,

resorted e m ay be played

Hard cem a carpet of cocoanu t m

.

ented pitch es atting

mon appliances in the form
,

are com
,
“ ”
ation of a wick et

in th e T ropics and it is only those wh

, o have played

in these sunbu rnt lands u nder su ch difi cu lties wh o can

appreciate th e m any ad vantages accruing to th e sport

as foll owed u po n th e em erald green turf and cl osely

-

mown grass of our favoured clune .

T he spaces assigned to crick et on R egent s Park

’

Battersea Park and Victoria Park are a boon to m

,

, ,any

L ondon cl u bs and it is astonishing th e nu m ber of

ou l ookers these gam
,

-
es attract .

HI N T S ON MA N A GE ME N T .

A fter selec i
ng t a sui a t ble site, as regar s d l ight and
surr un odings, there are two points of prim e im portance
in preparing a grou nd in ten ded for cricket and th ey ,

are th at th e pitch shall be dry and shall also be law] .

If not natu rall y dry but resting u pon an im

, perv ious

su bstratu m th
, e land to furnish a satisfactory wicket
, ,

must undergo some systemof drainage, so as to render

the conditions m ore favou rable for th ose grasses which

make the most suitable turf not to mention the

com
,

fort of th ose wh o have to traverse it My experience .

in th is respect is that grounds resting u pon a clay su b

soil are sel domefficiently drained S om e claimthat th e.

retention o f certain quan tit ies of water near th e surface

is an advantage ; but though it m ay be so fro m a

 HIN T S ON M A N A GE M E N T . 2 53

bowler s point of view, it cannot be conceded that it acts

’

in any other way th an as a d eterren t to th e well being -

of th e grasses which sick en in th

, e m ire O n the other .

hand where the soil is of a th in light or sandy natu re

, , , ,

equal difi cul ties are m et with in th e attem pt to retain

sufi cient m oisture to keep th e herbage alive ; th e water

p erco late s aw a y so ra pid l y t ha t n o a m o u nt o f rol l ing w i

ll
bind the su rface to m ake eith er a fast or true wicket .

I n a properly constructed grou nd the su rface of the

-

wicket shoul d becom e firmwith in a m od erate tim e after

rain even u pon th e stifles t of clays

'

, .

T h e levell ing of a new grou nd m ust h e carried out

by a m an of som e experience for no am ount of m oney

S om
,

will cure defects in the work afterwards eone .

that m akes th is a special ity will be the best to

consul t

T he seed m
.

ay be sown at any season wh en neither

heat nor m oisture is excessive O f course it woul d be

.
,

no use if pu t over th e grou nd at th e h eight of th e

playing season but if it be introduced after play is over

n great benefit m
,

in th e autum ,
ust resu l t ; and a furth er

sowing sh oul d take place in February, or if th e w eath er ,

is th en u nsu itab le, durin M a rc h T h e a utu m n how ever

g .
, ,

is the best season for preparing a new grou nd ; th e weak

spots can be rem edied in th e spring and given a fair ,

mer Grass that

,

season play will follow during th

, e su m .

is being constantly kept under the m ower naturall y suflers

'

in general character and requ ires an occasional stim ulant .

O n newly prepared ground a dose of som

,

e properly

m
,

p rescr ibe d a n ur e if app l ied a fe w day s b efo re t h e see d

is pu t in, helps th e you ng grass m aterial ly A t th e O val

ey use a m marvellous as it may seem

.

th an ure whic h

e d etrim
, ,

induces th e gro wth of th e grass to th ent of

th e various weeds that appear occasionally and which ,

 2 54 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

are introd uced in the top-dress ing of soi

l that is sprinkled
over at certain periods A bo ut fou r hu ndrd . weigh t 0
man u re to the acre is an average application .

Great care h
s oul wing the seed upon
d be taken in so

new grou nd to ensu re an even dis tr ibu tion and u nless ,

th e sower is a pract ised h and the seed barrow is th e -

most accurate and expeditious implement for covering

,

a large area It is a good plan to go over the ground

.

twice crossing the first sowing with the second T he .

seed and m anure m ay be covered in by m

,

eans of th e

l ight seed harrows or a bush barrow finishing 06 with

-
,
-
,

th e roller ; and beyond keeping the birds away th e work

mpl
,

is co ete.

Mowing will be the next operation ; th is m ay be

com menced as soon as the grass is su fi ciently long for
th e scyth e to cu t it— that im pl em ent be ing p refera b le to

the m owing m achine for th e first two or th ree cu ttings ;

after th is th e use of th e m ower is im pe rati ve I f eve r .

the writer h ad com mand of the preparation of a wicket

no m ich is m
,

achine larger than that wh anaged by a

man and a boy should ever be put upon it ; for there

is no doubt th e ponderous m achines that are incessantl y
at work cl ose up to th
, e h our of a m atch help m aterial l y ,

towards the rot that frequently sets in on what would

be pronounced at fi rst sight a perfect wick et
”
T he .

very life of th e roots of th e grass nam el y th e growth , , ,

is literall y shaven ofl w h ilst th e roots th em selves wh ich

'

, ,

are also vital organs are congested and crippled so

,

that they lose their h old of the so il which u nder the , ,

influence of w ind and sun cracks and c rum bles, and

much of the herbage, under such severe treatment
,

withers away Mod erate m

. owing and rolling m ay of ,

course, be continu ed at interval s as indicated by th , e

length of the grass and th e feel of th e ground u nder

 2 56 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

as possible to give the player every chance of exhibiting

Yarro w, plantain, and daisies are weeds that are the pest

ou t during winter with a tool like a table fork the hole -

,

to be filled in with soil and trodden down when th e ,

surrounding grass will soon cover th e spot .

It is not to be expected that these directions can be

followed to any extent with th e pitches of cl u bs
playing on com mons and vil lage greens, where children
and anim al s are allowed to run at random ; stil l
m man
,

a l ittl e care, a fair wicket is often ad e by a

understan ding his work d

u n er what woul d appear mo t
s

diflicult
 CHA PT E R ! .

O! FO R D A N D CA MB R IDG E .

T h is mpo tant a
i r nnual mat o d d in 1 8 3 7 ,
c h is first rec r e

an d we have reproduced th e full sc ore in our c hronological

history It was not however, until the year 1 8 3 6 that it

.

e a regular institu tion, and from that date [with

,

becam
the exception of 1 8 3 7 ] up to th e present th e resul ts co unt

as follows

E T ON A N D HA R R OW .

Cricket seem s to h ave flourished at E ton in all tim e

and m
,

any curious m atches will be found in ou r h istory ,

in which is also reproduced th e fi rst engagement with

Harrow in 1 80 5 Up to and including 1 8 95 the outcom

. e

of the recorded m atch es between these two great pu bl ic

school s is as follows

Mat h c es l
p ya ed . E ton won.
70 28
 2 58 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

GE N T L E ME N A N D PL A YE R S .

his great annual aflair is al way s looked upon by those

'

T
most in terested in the game as the test for supremacy
between the am ateur and profess ional tal ent and its intro ,

duction dates back to the year 1 806 bu t it was not u ntil

e m
,

abou t 1 84 0 that th atch was play ed u pon fair and square

term s as it frequently happened that th e form er borrowed

men fromthe latter which spoilt the true significance of

,

e gam
,

th e Up to th
. e end of 1 8 9 5 th e results are as

Mat h c es la
p y ed . Gentle mn w n
e o . Play ers won. Drawn: T ied .

1 23 45 63 14 1

In 1 83 7 was played wh at was nown as th e k Ba n Doo Mat h

r r c

or
“
W ard s Folly,
’ ”
when the Gentle en s wic
’
m k
et was z7 in. by S in .

and the Play ers

’
3 6 by 1 2.

E N GL A N D T O A US T R A L IA .

Won .

H H . . S tephenson 6
10

Dr . W . G Grace
. 10

J . L ill ywhite 1 1

5
I3

9
Shaw and S hrewsbury s '
16

Shaw and S hrewsbury s

’
ta

M
1 1

r. C A . . S mith I4

M
rs

r. A . E . S toddart 9

E N GL A N D v. A US T R A L IA , PL A YE D IN A US T R A L IA .

E ngland won, 8 . L ost, 5 . Drawn, r.

 260 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T .

S event h . H ON . I VO B L I GH S ’
M
T E A — 1 883 84 -
.

Bligh MA G S t l M M B
MW W R ad M E F S
H on I vo
M
C .
, r. . . ee , r. . T . S tudd, r. G . .

Ve non MC F H L lie Ba l w Ba n
S tudd, r . . . e , r. . . . T yl ecote, r. G . F .

r , r. . . . es , ro , r es, Bat es, M orley.

E ighth H R E WS BUR Y A N D L I L L Y WIIIT E S

. S HA W , S ,
’
- ’

T E A M— r884 85 -
.

Hig h t c 5 76 es s ore, .

A Sh aw ( apt ) (N
. tt ) W Ba ne (N tt ) J B igg ( I n ac . o s , . r s o s , . r s c

shi ) J H nt (Y k ) R P l ( Y k ) W S tt n (N tt )
re , . u er or s , . ee or s , . co o o s ,

W A tt well (N tt ) W Bat (Y k ) W Fl w (N tt ) J a
. e o s , . es or s , . o ers o s , s.

L illywhit ( S ) J M R ad (S y) A
e S h w b y (N tt ) ussex , . . e urre , . re s ur o s ,

G Uly tt ( Y k )
. e or s .

mm HR E WS BUR Y A N D L IIL YWHIT E S

. S HA W , S ,
’

T E A M 1 88 8 7
6 — - .

High t 35 3 es score, .

A Shaw ( apt ) (N
. tt ) W Ba n (N tt ) J B igg ( L anca
c o s r es o s r s

hi ) W G nn (N tt ) G A L hm
. . .
, ,

s re , ann ( S
.
y) W uS tt n o s , . . o urre . . co o

(N tts ) R G Ba l w (L an a hi e) W Bat (Y k ) W Fl w
o , . . ro c s r , . es or s , . o ers

(N tt ) J a
os L l
il ywhit
se ( S , ) J M R ad ( S
.
y) A S h aw ussex , . . e urre , .

(N tt ) M S he win (N ott )
o s , . r s .

Ta i m . M R . G F VE R N O N
. .
’
S IE A
'

M — r88 -88.
7
High t 6
M
es score, 55 .

Vernon (capt ) (Middles ex) Hawk ks)

MW M M
r. G . F . . L ord e ( Yor
my)
, ,

W (Middl
MM P
r. . . R ead (S u . r. A . E . S toddart esex ) r.

m
,

A . E . N ewton (S o erset ) , r. . . B owden ( S urrey , ) S ir T . C .

O Brien(
’
Mi ddl ) R esex . A bl e ( S urre y , ) W . A ttewell (N otts )
m m
, ,

J B.a n t ( S y)e u R o . . Pe l e Y
( orks), J . T . R awlin (Middle
)
sex W B at , (Y k ) . es or s .

E leventh . S HR E WS BUR YS ’
T E A M — r887 -88.

MW hm(S ussex) Sm ith (capt ) ( S ussex) M

M B M
r. . N ew a r C A , . . . .
,

Gr. rann ( S ussex) r L C D oc ker ( W arwick ) A S hrew s

mann (S urrey) J M R ead (S urrey)

. . . . .
, ,

b ury (N otts ) , G A . L oh . , . .
,
 R E COR D S . 361

J B iggs r (I A ncashire), R . Pilling (L ancash

ire) , J M P
. eston r

Jam
. .

( Yorks) , IG . Ulyett (Y or s ), A k . D . Pougher (L eicestershire) , es

L illywhite ( S ussex ) .

n e w . L OR D S HE FFIE L D S ’
T E A M— 1 89 1 4 .

Dr . W . G . Grace (Gl oucestershire ) M M r. G . cGregor

clifle
'

( Gl oucestershi
r e), M r. A . E . S toddart (M id dl ) A tt ew ll esex e

m
,

(N )
otts , M .
) hR aead
nn ( S urre (S urrey , L o y) B ig,g (L an a
r hi e) s c s r ,

Bean (S ussex), S harpe (S urrey), A bel (S urre y) P , l (Yo k eehi ) r s re .

T as mn M
R A
a . . . a sronnaa r s T E A
.
' '
M— r894-5 .

M M M
M MH
r. A . E . S toddart ( iddl esex ) r. F . G .
J
. Ford
(Middlesex), h m
M M
Gay (S H ulipson (N
‘

) r. L . IL -
o erset r. . ort

um
,

berland), r A C cL aren (L ancash ire) Brockwell ( S urrey)

. . .
, ,

L ockwood (S urreY): R ichardson (S urrey) , A Ward (L ancashire) . ,

Briggs (L ancashire) Peel (Yorkshire) J T Brown (Yorkshire) , . .

Humphreys (S ussex)
, ,

A US T R A L IA T O E N GL A N D .

Captain or T itl e . Matches played. Won .

18

MW M
3I

h
MW M
r. . L . urdoc 33

urdoch

MH J H
L 18
-
r. . .

MP M
r. . . . S cott 9

MW M
r. . S . Donnell
‘
1 9
h
MJ M
r. . L . urdoc 13

r. . C
‘
. 1 8

E N GL A N D v. A US T R A L IA , PL A YE D IN E N GL A N D .

E ngland won, 9 . L ost, a. Drawn, a .

 26 2 A N N A L S OF CR I CK E T

A US T R A L IA N C R IC K E T T E A MS T HA T H A VE
VI S I T E D E N GL A N D .

First . M a . Gas oo av
’
s, r8 7 8 — . M ess rs . D . W . Gregory, F . E .

H Bail Ch Ba n man H W Midwint

M
A ll an, G . . ey, as . n er , T . oran, . er,

W C Blackh S poflorth C Bann m

'

T . . Garrett, J .
‘
arn, F R
. . .
, A . an . er ,

H F B o l
y ,
e W M L urdoc h
MM m MB
. . . . .

S econd . a . o ano crr s rs r,

’ '
a c — M essrs .
J .
‘
C . lackha m
Bann man H F B yl W L M d h
,

S poflorth, A
Pal m P S M
'

F R . . . C . er , . . o e, . . ur oc ,

G J . . E Bon no r, G D ll G A l and . . er, . .

‘
o nue , . ex er,

A H Ja i T U G ba W H M l J S light rv s, rou ou e,

7 7am M a M
. . . . . . . .
,

m 1 882 — M W
Ga tt J M
T H an T
’
uanoc n s ar
-
ess rs . ot

C Bann m
. . . . . .
, ,

C Bla kh am F S p fl th A
‘

rre R ‘
an c o or er

Palm
. . . . , . .
, , ,

H F B yl W L M d h G J B n
P S M
. . o e, G E . . ur oc , . . o nor, . . er,

D nnell G Gifl n S P J n H H Ma i
‘
o
'

e o es, ss e.

th M
. . . . . . .
, ,

a M UR D OC H S 3 m 1 884 M W Midwint J
MC Bla kh m F R S p fl th A C Bann m H F B yl
F
'
ou r . . .
— essrs . . er, .
,

Palm P S M
'
‘
. c a , . . o or , . . er an , . . o e,

W L M d hG J B
. . G E ur oc D ll , . . onnor, . . er, . .
‘
onne ,

G A l and G Gifl n H J H S tt W H C
'

ex er,
p e co oo er.

F ifth M W Ga tt J M
. . . . . . .
, ,

a S cor r s 1 886
. M T . C ' ’
.
— ess rs. . . rre , .
‘
.

Bla kham F R S p fi th G J Bonn G E Palm A H

,
'

c ,
. . o or , . . or, . . er, . .

Ja i G Gifi n S P J H J H S tt W B
M
E E an
'

rv s, . e , . . ones, . . . co . ruce , . v s,

m
,

J l l w a ith J W
‘
T bl r ru e.

S i th M a M M P S MD nn ll G J
. . .
,

D O N N L L S r888
’
x . .
‘
E .
— essrs . . .
‘
o e . .
,

H T tt A C Bann mn S P J
,

B n o n or, . C T B T
ro n , . . er a , . . ones, . . . ur er,

H J W
M
J J y L n J D E dw d A
o s, a i J J F i J al l ar s, rv s , err s , orr

m
. . . . . . . . .
,

J . C B la k ha
‘
H F
. B y l a nd S M cJ W d ( id nt i n , . . o e, . . . oo s res e

S event h M W L M d h
. MM a. v anocn s
’
4 m , won — ess rs . . . ur oc

B P h
P J n J E Ba tt G H S T tt J M
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E N GL A N D T O WE S T I N DI E S .

Captain or T itle. Matches played. Won .

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B y C mmn 69
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A ristocratic Cric k eters, 42 ur o o ,

A rtill ery Cric ket Ground, 26 , 33 By n L d 83

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A ustralian s, 1 49, 1 67, 1 73 , 1 88 ,

l 96 ’ 3 1 8’ 3 29’ 25 8’ 2 59’ 26 !
Ca mb idg r e, 93: ggr 1 96; 3 3 91 3 57

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85 . 87 . 89 C openhagen Fiel ds, 2 7

Coventry, H on T W , 82 . . .

Bessborough, L ord, 1 1 9 Cricket Grounds, 2 5 1

B xl y 82 83
e e , , C ricket in 1 1 80, 1 3
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Bligh H n I 1 69 226
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Bowling 246 , C ik t
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B ight n 50 88 98 1 1 1 1 21
r o , , , , , Cricketers I have played with or
Broadhalfpenny D own, 34, 3 5 against, 228 to 240

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Darnl ey, E arl , 4 2, 85 H i L d 4

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D orset, D uk e of, 2 5 , 36 Highg at 35 6 e, , 2

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E d mnt o on, 35
E l even of one na m e, 1 26
I llus trations, lis t of, 6
E ng land to A ustral ia, 2 5 8
I ndia, 264
E 6 1 98: 3 3°
S S 6 2, 5 1 Innings of three figu res, 2 1 6 , 2 24
E ton. 48. 49. 7 2. 84 . 2 5 7 I sling ton A l ions, 99, b 1 1 6, 1 1 8
E volution of all , 24 5 B m
I sth ian ga es , 1 1 m
E vol ution of Bat, 24 1
I tal y, C ricket in, 13
E volu tion of C ric eting k D ress , 24 8 I Zingari, 1 20
E vol u tion of Wicket , 24 7

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Fitzroy, H on H . .
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Folly of Cricket, 27 K e nning ton Cl u b 76 ,

Frederic k P in
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K ent. 1 359, 6
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Gentl e mn Pl y e v. a ers, 8 1 , 85 , 2 1 9,
1 1 4 , 1 2 1 , 1 45 , 20 2 , 2 1 4 , 24 6

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L ancas hire 203 , 232
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Grace, D r G , 1 34, 1 4 7 , 1 63
L aws of Cricket, ol d,
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L eices ter
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Gu il dford, 1 7 , 7o
L eig hR , .
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L ill ywhite 94 , 1 25
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S towell, L ord, 24 Vincent S quare 1 32 ,

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1 2 8 1 : 0 Walp ole, H 0“ , 23
88 , 1 1 9 , 1 76 , 228
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T asmania Bi hp , s o of, 1 1 9 1 32

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c es er o e e, 1 ,

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42 Winchilsea , E arl o f, 2
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United E ngland E leven , 1 39 Yar m th In

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Upton Hon 5 P» 7 1
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Yearl y s tatistics, 1 844 to 1 895 ,
Uxbridg e 70 , 1 1 3 to 1 93
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s re , , 2 1 2, 2 1 5 , 2 36 , 240

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