Cricket 1907

258 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J uly 11, 1907. was wen by the Gentlemen of England. There is no record of the game being played at Harrow at eo remote a period, for, as Mr. Haygarth states, of the Harrow Elevens prior to 1805 all that is known is that Richardson, afterwards Mr. Justice Richardson, was Captain in 1782. The match of 1805 is interesting apart from the fact that it is the first between the two schools of which any record exists, for Lord Byron, the poet, played for Harrow, and Stratford Canning, after­ wards Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, K.G., one of the greatest English diplo­ matists of the last century, for Eton. The latter was born on November 4th, 1786, and lived until August, 14th, 1880, being the last survivor of the match. Eton won by an innings and two runs, and after the match the victorious eleven addressed the following epigram to their vanquished opponents :— Adventurous hoys of Harrow school, Of cricket you’ve no knowledge ; You play not cricket, but the fool, W ith men of Eton College. Lord Byron, on behalf of Harrow, sent the following reply :— Ye Eton wags, to play the fool Is not the boast of Harrow School; What wonder then at our defeat, Folly like yours could ne'er be beat. In 1898, John Murray (London) pub­ lished Byron’s Letters, edited by R. E. Prothero. In one of the letters, Lard Byron remarked: “ We have played the Eton, and were most confoundedly beat; however, it was some comfort to me that I got eleven notches in the first innings and seven the second, which was more than any of our side, except Brockman and Ipswich, could contrive to hit. After the match we dined together, and were extremely friendly; not a single discord­ ant word was uttered by either party. To be sure we were most of us rather drunk, and went together to the Hay- market, where we kicked up a row. . . . How I got home after the play God knows.” Prom the above it will be seen that Byron states his scores to have been II and 7, but according to the score of the match he made only 7 and 2. Lord Ipswich, who made 10 and 21 for Harrow, was, according to Lord Fred­ erick Beauclerck, the best man on either side, and he turned out to be a good player afterwards. H. Lloyd, who was the Harrow captain that year, made the remark to Dean Merivale, who has repeated it in his Recollections, that “ Byron played in the Eleven, and very badly, too. He should never,” he added, “ have been in the Eleven had my counsel been taken.” In later years Lord Strat­ ford de Redcliffe recalled seeing Byron, who had a club foot, playing in the match with another boy to run for him. The second recorded match between the sides took place in 1818, but Mr. Haygarth states that “ several” are known to have been played between that year and 1805. The scores, if ever pre­ served, probably perished in the fir* which razed Lord’s pavilion on the second night of the Harrow and Winchester match of 1825. Mr. Haygarth doubtless had good authority for stating that matches were played between 1805 and 1818, but the evidence on the point is very conflicting. Lord Rowcliffe affirmed distinctly that such had taken place, and Lord Palmerston, in speaking of the fixture of 1805, said, “ But we beat them afterwards.” On the other hand, old Harrovians who ought to have known, among them Mr. Lloyd, have said that they had no recollection of such matches. It is probable that there were contests of some kind, but in all likelihood they were pick-up matches, and probably not con­ fined to those at the schools at the time. Apart from a break between 1818 and 1822, and another from 1828 to 1832, the fixture has been arranged practically every year since 1818, whilst in 1825 the match between Harrow and Winchester was inaugurated, and in 1826 that between the latter and Eton. The results of past Eton and Harrow matches are appended:— 1805. Eton won by an innings and 2 runs. 1818. Harrow won by 13 runs. 1822. Harrow won by 87 runs. 1823. Eton won by an innings and 32 runs. 1824. Eton won by nine wickets. 1825. Eton won by seven wickets. 1827. Eton won by six wickets. 1828. Eton won by three wickets. 1832. Eton won by an innings and 156 runs. 1833. Harrow won by eight wickets. 1834. Harrow won by 13 runs. 1835. Eton won by 165 runs. 1836. Harrow won by nine wickets. 1837. Eton won by eight wickets. 1838. Eton won by an innings and 30 runs. 1839. Eton won by eight wickets. 1840. Eton won by 31 runs. 1841. Eton won by an innings and 175 runs. 1842. Harrow won by 65 runs. 1843. Harrow won by 20 runs. 1844. Eton won by an innings and 69 runs. 1845. Eton won by an innings and 194 runs. 1846. Eton won by an innings and 135 runs. 1847. Eton won by nine wickets. 1848. Harrow won by 41 runs. 1849. Harrow won by 77 runs. 1850. Eton won by seven wickets. 1851. Harrow won by eight wickets. 1852. Harrow won by 71 runs 1853. Harrow won by three wickets. 1854. Harrow won by 98 runs. 1855. Harrow won by an innings and 66 runs. 1858. Harrow won by an innings and 7 runs. 1859. Harrow won by an innings and 48 runs. 1860. Unfinished. 1861. Unfinished. 1862. Eton won by 64 runs. 1863. Unfinished. 1864. Harrow won by an innings and 67 runs. 1865. Harrow won by an innings and 51 runs. 1866. Harrow won by an innings and 136 runs. 1867. Unfinished. 1868. Harrow won by seven wickets. 1869. Eton won by an innings and 19 runs. 1870. Eton won by 21 runs. 1871. Eton won by an innings and 77 runs. 1872. Eton won by six wickets. 1873. Harrow won by five wickets. 1874. Eton won by five wickets. 1875. Unfinished. 1876. Eton won by an innings and 24 runs. 1877. Unfinished. 1878. Harrow won by 23 runs. 1879. Unfinished. 1880. Harrow won by 95 runs. 1881. Harrow won by 112 runs. 1882. Unfinished. 1883. Unfinished. 1884. Unfinished. 1885. Harrow won by three wickets. 1886. Eton won by six wickets. 1887. Eton won by five wickets. 1888. Harrow won by 156 runs. 1889. Harrow won by nine wickets. 1890. Unfinished. 1891. Harrow won by seven wickets. 1892. Harrow won by 64 runs. 1893. Eton won by nine wickets. 1894. Unfinished. 1895. Unfinished. 1896. Unfinished. 1897. Unfinished. 1898. Harrow won by nine wickets. 1899. Unfinished. 1900. Harrow won by one wicket. 1901. Harrow won by ten wickets. 1902. Harrow won by eight wickets. 1903. Eton won by an innings and 154 runs. 1904. Eton won by an innings and 12 runs. 1905. Unfinished. 1906. Eton won by four wickets. The match of 1827 had a very curious ending. Owing to an error of the scorers, it was not properly finished, Eton still requiring four runs to win. The Com­ mittee of the M.C.O., however, decided in favour of Eton. The following 15 three-figure scores have been made in tbe match :— 1904. 1841. 1896. 1871. 1886. 1876. 1869. 1896. 1903. (a) For E ton. 1). C. Boles .......... E. Bayley...................... B. J. T. Bosanquet A. W. R id le y ............. C. P. Foley ............... W. F. Forbes............... C. J. Ottaway............... H. C. Pilkington ... . E. N. S. Cranksliaw 183 152 120 117 114 113 108 101 100 (/<) For H a rrow . T. G. O. C o le ...................... A. K. Watson...................... J. H. Stogdon..................... A. W. T. Daniel .............. R. B. Hoare ..................... E. Crawley ..................... * Signifies not out. Mr. Eustace Crawley is the only b a r ­ man who has made a hundred in both Eton v. Harrow and Oxford v. Cambridge marches. 1897. 1885. 1895. 18t>0. 1888. 1885. 142 135 124 112s 108 100 SOUTHGATE v. OLD FORESTERS.—Played at Walthamstow on July 2. F. S. Lewis, c and b Bonsey ................. 9 R. B. Heygate, b Con­ quest ........................28 Rev. A. M. Bashford, st Mclver, b Cockell 161 C. Browning, lbw, b Conquest.................11 H.M.Milton,cSworder, b Conquest ..........37 R.S. Dickson, b Little- hales........................19 G. W. Cranfield, c Hornsby-Wright, b Conquest.................34 H. D. Nicholas, not out ........................25 B 27, lb 5, wb 1... 33 Total (7 wkts)*357 G. L. Vivian, E. P. Birch, H. R. Ford did not bat. * Innings declared closed. O ld F oresters . J. Conquest, b Birch 14 Rev. F. R. Bonsey, b Birch ................. 0 H.J.B.Sworder,notout 3 B 11, lb 2 ..........13 C. D. Mclver, c Hey­ gate, b B irch..........68 Rev. R. C. Guy, run out ........................81 Rev. C. G. Littlehales, not out .................27 Total (4 wkts) 20 L. B. Hornsby-Wright, F. H. Cockell, H. B. Ram­ sey, S. C. Pocle, and S. H. Killick did not bat. SOUTHGATE v. HAMPSTEAD NOMADS.—Played at Southgate on July 6. F. S. Lewis, b Boulby 17 T.W.C.Levick,bBoulby 27 H. Church, lbw, b Stallon .................72 G. H. Muriel, b Montague ......... 21 J. C. Ford, o Stallon 34 W. H. Myers, F. M.Staunton, and W. A. N. Otter did not bat. * Innings declared closed. H ampstead N omads . H. G. Rowley, not out 17 R. E. Paige, c Jones, b Boulby.................12 H. C. Isner, not out 5 B 12, lb 1 ..........13 Total (6 wkts) *21g J. S. Caulfield, c Lewis, b Ford ................. 0 E. H. Grives, b Paige 20 F. J. Minnery, b Lewis 0 F. C. Boulby, c Ford, b Lewis ................. 8 H. Browning, b Lewis 0 J.L. Jones, lbw,b Ford 3 P. W. Stallon, b Lewis 9 H. Montague, b Paige S. B. Caulfield, c Isner, b Lewis ................. H. E. Grives,c Rowley, b Lewis ................. G. Howard, not ou t... B 2, lb 3 .......... Total .........