Cricket 1907

A u g . 29, 1907. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 371 m m Y’s CHICKETgf IMFROVEDMAKE-KEEPTHEIRSHAPE LAS■' q d j : A T T H E S IG N O F T H E W IC K E T . By F. S. A shlby -C oopbr . It seems that, for some years past, followers of the game have been in error as to the identity of the oldest living cricketer, for on Monday last Mr. A. Burrows, of the Winchester Eleven of 1829, entered upon his ninety-sixth year. Mr Burrows, in the match with Eton in the year mentioned, scored 0 not out in his first innings, and in his second made 17, which was exceeded only by 0 . Wetherall’s 19. Eton won by four Liverpool), and E. J. P. Broughton, who still survives. Mr. Burrows, who was called to the Bar in 1837, still follows the game with much interest, and is very active for his advanced age. W . Bacon, of Oxford, if living, is now in his ninety-third year, having been bom on July 28th, 1815 ; he played with success against some of the great touring elevens in the early Victorian days, and is known to have been alive a season or two ago. Mr. Broughton, who played for Harrow at Lord’s for four seasons, commencing in 1832, was bom on July 11th, 1816, and this year had the pleasure of seeing I s i w a a i s a r e i DEMON D R I V E R S I f V - J ARE OUT AND OUT THE BEST. I v y O ^ OTHER GRADES 7 - 6 -5 '3 -A '6 -A -'-3 'e -3 '-2 '6 -2 .[[CATALOGUE ON APPLICATION GEO, G. BUSSEY& CO,, LTD., 36 & 38, Queen Victoria St., LONDON. Manufactory: Timber Mills: PEOKHAM, S.E. ELMSWELL, SUFFOLK. C R I C K E T . T H U R S D A Y , the 20th o f J U L Y , 1820, AND FOLLOWING DAY, W ILL BE P L A YE D ON EPSOM DOWNS, A Grand Match of Cricket, BETWEEN Ten Gentlemen of the County of Kent, with Lord F. Beauclerk, AND Ten Gentlemen of the County of Surrey, with E. H . Budd, Esq. FOR Five Hundred & Fifty Guineas. P L A Y E R S . U cnt. LORD F. BEAUOLEROK, HON. J. BLIGH, W . DEEDES, E sq . P. DYKE, E sq . J. DENNE, E sq . H. T. LANE, E sq . R. BERENS, E sq . G. CLAR1DGE, Es ?. R. NORMAN, E sq . F. DAWKINS, E sq . T. O. BAOHE, Esq. fiSr"' Wickets to be > SurrcD . j E. H. BUDD, E sq . J F. LADBROKE, E sq . ) T. VIGNE, E sq . > B. AISLABIE, E sq . > J. WELLER LADBROKE, E sq . < S. R. LUSH1NGTON, E sq . F. SULLIVAN, E sq . ) O. OORKRAN, E sq . ) G. F. PARRY, E sq . \ J. TANNER, Esq < E. WOODBRIDGE, Esq. pitched at Ten o'Clock. Printed by J ames D elahoy , Deptford Bridge. wickets, E. Gurdon (49) and J. H . Parnell (33) scoring well in the final stage of the game. So far as is known, the two colleges had met only once before—at least, the score of only one earlier match, in 1826, has been preserved— so it is probable that Mr. Burrows’ experience of the Eton v. Winchester match is unique. He was in the Eleven five seasons before the Rev. A. J. Lowth, who died this 3 ’ear, achieved that distinction, and had left Winchester before he had a chance of playing in the Public School matches against such giants of the far-distant past as J. H. Kirwan, J. C. Ryle (afterwards Bishop of his grandson, R. G. Cowley, score 50 and 75 in the match against Eton, on the ground where he himself had played three-quarters of a century earlier. Mr. Broughton was one of the fieldsmen in the single-wicket matches between Mynn and Felix in 1846, and it is an interesting fact that Mr. Edward Banks, another “ watcher-out ” on the same occasion, is also living, at the age of eighty-seven. Colonel Augustus Frederick Jenner, who played for Kent in 1835, was born on August 12th, 1816, and is now living in retirement in Devonshire; he is a younger brother of the famous Herbert Jenner, who afterwards