Cricket 1883

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OVAL, AUGUST 2 n d - SURR EY v. SOM ER SE T SH IR E - Cvtcftet t A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1883. ^lcP7IYm i0NvGf)^IP^- The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. How many matches have been played between Eton and Harrow, that is the question ? Are the two Schools equal on the ntimber of records, or is Eton one to the good ? I do not know that the subject troubles anyone besides the sapient analysts of cricket very much, but it is evident that it does cause them great concern, and for their sake it would be best to have the matter set at rest and forever. T h e vexed question seems to be whether the match of 1857 should be included in the series of contests. A certain section of the press argues that as it was nominally between two elevens of players under twenty years of age it was not a bona fide fixture. Partizans of Eton have objected to the retention of this particular match, which was won by Harrow by ten wickets, and on this ground alone it is pleaded that Eton are one win ahead, having won, according to this computation, twenty- five of the fifty-seven matches played to twenty-four of Harrow. But on the other hand the Harrovians can claim,with even greater reason, that the matcli of 1805, which is the first contest recorded under the title of Eton and Harrow, was in no way between elevens representative of the Schools. As a matter of fact it was merely a pick-up game by Lord Byron for Harrow and Kaye on the Eton side rather than a regular match,and it is said that Stanley,whose name appeared in the Harrow eleven, was only thirteen years old. If the match of 1857 was not valid that of 1805 was equally void of legal claims, and both are either to be included or excluded. A ccording to this argument each School has won an equal number, either twenty-five or twenty-four, and it is best that the dispute, which only exists in the journalistic mind, should be settled so. But really all calculations with regard to the earlier matches between the Schools are unreliable, as the fire in the Pavilion at Lord’s during the course of the match between Harrow and Winchester in 1825 caused the destruction of all the Maryle­ bone records, and the existing match book is merely a transcript of Bent­ ley’s printed scores. There were several matches played between 1805 and 1818, in one of which (about the year 1808) won by Harrow, the Duke of Dorset and one of the Claridges were the chief bowlers for the winners. Lord Palmer­ ston, himself a Harrow boy, probably re­ ferred to the match of 1805 when he said, “ But we beat them afterwards.” That there were sundry other contests between the two Schools is quite evident from the testimony of the late Lord Ran- clifi'e and others. While on the subject of the first match, there is reason to believe that the Canning who played for Eton was afterwards Lord Stratford de Red- cliffe, the celebrated British Ambassador at Constantinople. A p e w details with reference to the matches already played may possibly be of interest. The easiest victory is that oiEton in 1841, when they were successful by an innings and 175 runs, Harrow’s best win, an innings and 136 runs in 1866, E ton’s highest innings is 308, oddly enough, scored by them in 1841, 1871, and 1876. Harrow’s 302, in 1866. E ton ’s lowest score is thirty-five, in 1855; Harrow’s smallest twenty - four in 1823. The largest aggregate in this match is 737 runs for thirty wickets in 1863. The Eton and Winchester match of 1845 ended in a tie, but the nearest finish between Eton and Harrow is thirteen runs, by which small majority Harrow won both in 1818 and 1834. Only five innings of three figures have been made in this match, and of these, four are credited to Etonians. In 1860 A. W . Daniel, for Harrow, carried out his bat for 112. The other scores are E . Bayley 152 in 1841; C. J. Ottaway 108, 1869 ; A. W. Bidley 117, 1871; W. J. Forbes 113, 1876. For these figures I may add I am indebted to the special supplement of Harrow Notes referred to last week. T he match just over was a big dis­ appointment, it must be admitted, and great difference of opinion will exist as to the probabilities of the game, under favourable auspices, on the form shown. |Despite the extraordinary success of