THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESENTED BY PROF. CHARLES A. KOFOID AND MRS. PRUDENCE W. KOFOID // ' p /ic'c^CL^rC ^ CL^/rC /VL.a^^z>-^^-^ ^^^A,0^' .e-.^ ^^ 2^/rt. o/ ' A Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/annalsoffreeforeOObedfrich FREE FORESTERS REV. W. K. R. BEDFORD. ANNALS OF THE FREE FORESTERS FROM i8s6 TO THE PRESENT DAY BY W. K. R. BEDFORD W. E. W. COLLINS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTORS WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCXCV All Rights reserved r^ D^ TO THE VICEROY OF INDIA, THE MOST DISTINGUISHED MEMBER OF OUR CLUB, HIS BROTHER FORESTERS WISH HEALTH AND WEALTH. . PREFACE, When the idea of a record of the doings of the old Club with which he had been originally so intimately connected was first suggested to the editor of the present volume, he was under the impression that the materials available were more complete than upon minute investigation proved to be the case. For ten or twelve years after its formation the first Secretary had kept a record of its matches, but this miscellaneous chronicle then came to an end ; and although in most years a list of fixtures was pub- lished at the commencement of each season, it proved impossible to trace the whole of the matches thus advertised, some of which were never played, while others, not on the advertised list, were substi- tuted for them. A careful search has, however, been made of the whole of the cricket-reporting press up to 1883, when the second part of the chronicle is resumed by a writer more competent to deal with modern cricket ; and it is to be hoped iwn09184 VIU PREFACE. that the joint labours of the two annalists, combined with the Illustrative chapters and passages obtained from other sources, will give at least a readable and Intelligible summary of a series of campaigns on the mimic battle - field, creditable to an association, united in aim though untied by rule, whose boast it is that if their early success sent them up like a rocket, they have not yet come down like the stick. To many Free Foresters who have assisted with reminiscences, and to the members and friends of the Club, who have encouraged the book by their subscriptions, the editor says one word — G RATI AS. CONTENTS. CHAP. I. PERSONAL . II. founder's kin III. 1858 IV. 1859 V. i860 VI. 1861 VII. 1862 VIII. 1863 IX. 1864 X. 1865 XI. 1866 XII. 1867 XIII. 1868 XIV. 1869 XV. 1870 XVI. 1 87 1 XVII. 1872 XVIII. 1873 XIX. 1874 - XX. 1875 XXI. 1876 IV. K. R. Bedford PAGE I 9 16 26 33 39 49 65 n 82 89 94 lOI 106 no 115 122 130 136 145 156 CONTENTS. XXII. THE SCOTTISH TOURS { D. Buchanan and \ W. K. R. Bedford ] 165 XXIII. FREE FORESTER MUSIC Edward Lyttelton 185 XXIV. THE FORESTER BALL Edward Rutter 208 XXV. 1877 W. K. R. Bedford 213 XXVI. 1878 It II 222 XXVII. 1879 M It 228 XXVIII. 1880 It II 232 XXIX. 1881 II It 237 XXX. 1882 It II 242 XXXI. 1883 II II 247 XXXII. R.E. MATCHES W. E. IV. Collins 252 XXXIII. OTHER MATCHES IN KEN T II ,1 266 XXXIV. MATCHES IN THE MIDLAl ^DS II II 289 XXXV. CHANNEL ISLANDS II II ^ 318 XXXVI. YACHT RONA AND IRELA ND 11 II 327 XXXVII. WILLES'S TOURS . G. E. Willes 347 STATISTICS OF MATCHES, 1 884 TC > 1892 . 365 INDEX 385 ILLUSTRATIONS. FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. PORTRAITS- REV. W. K. R. BEDFORD . . . . . S. R. HOLE, F. C. DE CRESPIGNY, F. P. ONSLOW, F. BRANDT ...... MATTHEW KEMPSON, HON. W. M. JERVIS, SCHOLES BIRCH, GEORGE HOMFRAY . . . . W. WINGFIELD, E. K. HORNBY, R. A. BENSON, C. T. ROYDS ....... HON. C. LYTTELTON, H. H. GILLETT, B. B. COOPER, F. R. EVANS ...... T. O. REAY, J. M. MORDAUNT, F. R. PRICE, E. WALLER H. E. BULL, F. W. WRIGHT, D. BUCHANAN, M. T. MARTIN J. M. YATES, A. HILLYARD, F. LEE, C. F. REID W. F. HIGGINS, F. G. WILLIAMSON, A. H. SMITH BARRY, A. E. SEYMOUR ..... W. M. COYNEY, G. H. ALLSOPP, W. W. BAGOT, A. L. VERNON ..... S. P. B. BUCKNILL, H. FOSTER, E. RAMSAY, T. RATLIFF H. G. S. HUGHES, G. H. GOLDNEY, C. W. L. BULPETT, A. W. DANIEL ..... H. M. MARSHALL ..... E. RUTTER ...... R. D. WALKER, I. D. WALKER, V. E. WALKER, C. E, GREEN ...... E. M. KENNY HERBERT, W. D. BOVILL, A. J. WEBBE, H. R. WEBBE ..... Frontispiece To face p. 6 M 12 '• 35 47 .. 68 •' 95 . It 115 F II 126 r, . 11 137 . II i8s • II 213 II 215 224 Xll ILLUSTRATIONS. GROUPS- ELEVEN OF THE FOUNDERS SUTTON, 1859 ..... OXFORD HARLEQUINS, 1862 UPPINGHAM, 1868 ..... FREE FORESTERS V, I ZINGARI, AT WALTON, WARWICK SHIRE, 1876 ..... THE GARNETTS, 1 876 .... STIRLING, 1865 ..... DRUMPELLIER, 1 866 .... FREE FORESTERS V, OATLANDS PARK, 189O FREE FORESTERS V. ALDERSHOT, 1887 FREE FORESTERS V. ROYAL ENGINEERS, CHATHAM, 1 887 FREE FORESTERS V. LINTON PARK, 1 888 . FREE FORESTERS V. MOTE, 189I . FREE FORESTERS V. SCHOOL OF GUNNERY, SHOEBURY NESS, 1893 ..... FREE FORESTERS V. ALDERSHOT DIVISION, 1 892 . FREE FORESTERS V. H. E. CRAWLEY'S XI, AT AYOT ST LAWRENCE, 1 89 1 FREE FORESTERS V. CHRISTCHURCH, OXFORD, 189O FREE FORESTERS V. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, 1893 • FREE FORESTERS V, ETON RAMBLERS, AT NEWBOLD REVEL, 1894 ..... FREE FORESTERS V. SHROPSHIRE, AT NEWBOLD REVEL 1893 FREE FORESTERS V. GREEN -JACKETS, AT WINCHESTER, 1889 FREE FORESTERS IN CHANNEL ISLANDS, 189I FREE FORESTERS V. JERSEY, 189O . PASSENGERS ON BOARD THE RON A, 1 894 FREE FORESTERS IN IRELAND, 1 894 FREE FORESTERS V. MR BURRELL's XT, AT LITTLEBURY, 1887 FREE FORESTERS V. RUGBY SCHOOL, 1 888 FREE FORESTERS V, SHROPSHIRE, 189O . FREE FORESTERS V. SANDHURST STAFF, 189I To face p. 31 43 57 It 105 . Drawing by H. M. Marshall ROCKINGHAM CASTLE . WORCESTER ... 11 11 . THORNBY ....... CANDELABRUM PRESENTED TO MR WOOD ON HIS MARRIAGE NEWBOLD REVEL — PAVILION, NEWBOLD 190 199 301 313 317 ILL USTRA TIONS. ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT. FREE FORESTER ARMS . SUTTON RECTORY CRICKET-GROUND WESTERN PAVILION, 1 857 CENTREPIECE PRESENTED TO THE I DR morgan's ring **l ENJOY A GALLOP STILL" . BULLINGDON IN 1847 . GROUP AT SUTTON, 1 873 BLACK-COUNTRY CRICKET TYPES MILITAIRES — OXFORD UNIVERSITY BEECHAM'S HIGHLAND PILLS . THE SWORD-DANCE NEWARK GROUP AT ROCKINGHAM, 1 873 FORESTER BALL CARD, 1873 . II II II 1876 . SOUTHGATE CRICKET-GROUND . GROUP, 1882 LINTON PARK . GROUP AT SHOEBURYNESS, 1 893 UPTON HOUSE . GROUP AT BICESTER, 189O YACHT RONA GROUP AT LUDLOW, 1 885 GROUP AT SANDHURST, 1 894 . W. K. R. BEDFORD . Drawing by Halifax Wyatt Drawing by G. R. Winter Drawing by H. Wyatt V VOLUNTEERS Drawing by F. Richardson Drawing by W. D. Scull Drawing by H. M. Marshall PAGE viii 9 15 64 81 88 93 135 144 155 165 184 185 207 208 212 221 246 266 288 289 317 327 347 401 ERRATA. 260, 261, 273. .. 274, " 27s, •I 304. " 307. •' 336, .1 340, " 35^. Page 259, line 18 (ist co].), for " H. U. Dumbleton " read " H. N. Dumbleton." 10 from foot (2d col.),^ 4 „ (ist col.), y/or "J. D. Walker " read " I. D. Walker." 3(istcol.), J 9 (ist col.), /or " Rev. V. Boyle " read " Rev. V. Royle." 24 (2d coh), for " M 'Alpine " read " K. M 'Alpine." 34 (ist coh), for " Hickmott " read " E. Hickmott." 4 from foot (ist col.), /or " H. M 'Alpine " read " K. M'Alpine." 13 (ist col.), /or " G. M. Styles " read " G. M. Style." 23 (2d col.), a/ier " c Smith " insert " b Cobden." 10 from foot (ist col.), /or " Rev. J. E. Willes " read " Rev. G. E. Willes." 5 (ist col.), ^ 17 It \for " Captain Macjier " read "Captain MacTier." 20 II J 2 from foot,/>r " fame " read "tame." 10 (ist col.),/?r "Captain W. Roberts " read "Captain B. Roberts." 8 (2d col.), /or "Willis " read " Willes." CHRONICLES OF THE FREE FORESTERS. CHAPTER I. PERSONAL. Horace in his * Art of Poetry ' blames the versifier who, having to write an epic on the Trojan War, began with the legend of Leda and the egg. But in spite of this warn- ing, now that the history of the rise and progress of my old club are to be recorded in print, I believe the reader will adopt the words of the Giant Moulineau in the French fairy-tale to his friend the story-telling ram, " Belier, mon ami, si tu voulois commencer par le commencement, tu me ferois grand plaisir," and wish for the narrative of the incubation of an idea which has turned out such a success. To the inspiration of my dear and honoured friend the Dean of Rochester the original conception of Free Foresters is due. Not only because my regard for him induced me to seek the curacy of Southwell, where the cricket aestrum bit more strongly than in any "central A 2 PERSONAL. cricket mead " of those days, but because his own genuine and hearty love for all that is manly and becoming in- fected me with a desire for the promotion of that which may justly be termed the " noble science," the game of games. May I quote from my scrap-book one personal item ? — " A Charade elicited by the ' rimy ' state of the Weather. Nov. 28, 1849. Caimton Manor. " Within my first grow flow'rets gay, And oysters, so great Pym doth say ; There a chief part of life is past, Of each it sees the first and last. My second was when long ago Oxen by Isis used to low, Cross and recross where now is seen Fair Magdalen in reflected sheen. My whole's a town and title great, And, upon this I most dilate, A friend, for whom my love's a strong un, And will be while I am The Long Un. In Harry V., Act iv. scene i, line 3, Who cannot guess, may there the answer see." A finale which brings back my recollection to the days when the "Long Un's " nephew — now a distinguished divine, then a chubby jolly schoolboy of some seven summers — used, when asked for a Shakespeare recitation, to select Henry of Monmouth's speech before Agincourt, " because my friend Paul is in that." It is said that a great lady of fashion obtained an un- questioned supremacy in the beau monde of half a century ago, because she not only gave the best dinners, but sent the best written reports of them to the 'Morning Post' afterwards. By that criterion the N. C. C. — the Notting- hamshire County (gentlemen) Club — would have httn facile JV.C.C. 3 princeps^ with the Vicar of Caunton as their historiographer. For instance — Field Day of the Nottingham Club at Southwell, Aug. 12, 185 1. Old v. Young. Though many a grouse and many a gunner lies among the moors to-day, want of time or tin keeps most men from wander- ing " with Scotia's sons 'mong heather hills," and hence a goodly muster of the N. C. C. for a battue of a less murderous description. A challenge having been sent from the nursery, and accepted by the potent, grave, and reverend seniors to test the truth of the Horatian adage — " Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum ; Multa recedentes adimunt ; " behold eleven gentlemen, " i' th' sere and yellow leaf of age," and in raiment of flannel, arrange themselves "with measured step and slow " in the field, while two beings in the hues of youth, " scarcely touching the ground, they're so proud and elate," ad- vance, bat in hand (sweet babes of the wood /), to the wicket. The faces of the aged men, just before " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought," now smile " as they were wont to smile " ; for they recall once more "the merry days when they were young " — days of tame rabbits and unripe gooseberries, departed never to return. The heart yearns for auld lang syne, as traces of recent jam-and-bread appear on the cricket-jackets of the boys, and as the eye of each centenarian chief descries the string of a peg- top hanging from the pocket of Master Tinley, " tears, idle tears " (no reflection on the French politician), course down their wrinkled cheeks. Sweet odours of buttered Scotch and peppermint per- vade the ambient air, the music of the Hebrew lyre is accom- panied by castanets of slate — the paper-covered comb is there. Time would fail to tell how the aged Warwick (for an account of his single wicket match with Widdicombe 600 B.C. vide Thucy- dides) bowled "cunningly and closely." May he live "longer than I have time to tell his years," and make during that in- definite period continual leg-hits for four. And thou, Goodrich ! Over the early grave of many a young cricketer shall it be written, " Frightened to death by the slow bowling of Goodrich." Praise, high praise, be awarded to the fine batting of old Mr Northcote, who still shoulders his bat, and shows how fields are done ; to the bowling of the grey-haired Woolley and the infantine Falkner ; to the really excellent wicket-keeping of Master R. Wilkins j to 4 PERSONAL. the catch made " 'twixt heaven and earth " by a very High Church- man from the bat of Tinley {Fra?ik playing rather too free), &c. Suffice it to subjoin the score, with the hope (to quote from the poet of the N. C. C.) that— ' ' Long, long in park of noble, And in the cottage field, This game of games to English hearts Its manly joys may yield ! And oft at eve, when stumps are drawn, The fragrant weed may glow ; As we tell how they fell Where Falkner's swift uns go, Or Goodrich, with his artful twist. Sends in the teasers slow." The actual score would be but " leather and prunella " in the present day, but it is worth noting that Frank Tinley, so humorously described as a boy, was the eldest of the trio of Nottinghamshire cricketers of that name, and nearly forty years of age ; while old Mr Northcote was just twenty- four. It is also worth noting that the last wicket of the " young " stands in the score as " J. Crow, Esq." ; by which was signified a long gipsy-looking, barefooted youth, who ran with the hounds in the winter in an old stained "pink," and in the summer haunted the cricket-ground, where he was always addressed as Jim Crow, and was ready to field or bowl to you for sixpence an hour. In a very few years I met my old acquaintance again, as the chief bowler of the England eleven, J. Jackson ! With most of the amateurs mentioned in the above lively narrative I was personally acquainted, and with one of them, Mr Goodrich, I formed a friendship which endured for many years, cemented not more by his admirable cricket than by his excellent qualities both of head and heart : he was a true friend and a pleasant companion. When he died in 1885, aged sixty-two, some of his old comrades in the cricket-field, mostly Free Foresters, erected a tablet to his memory in the church at Stamford, where for the latter part of his life he constantly went, with an inscription GOODRICH. 5 devised by another of our best and oldest members, Rev. W. G. Armitstead :— 5n Affectionate IHcmorg of THOMAS COOPER GOODRICH, A RARE CRICKETER AND A GOOD MAN, WHO DIED MARCH lOTH 1 885, AGED 62. THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY SOME LOVING FRIENDS. GIVING ALL DILIGENCE HE ADDED TO FAITH, VIRTUE ; AND TO VIRTUE, KNOWLEDGE ; AND TO KNOWLEDGE, PATIENCE ; AND TO PATIENCE, GODLINESS ; AND TO GODLINESS BROTHERLY KINDNESS. That very admirable old cricketer, lately lost to us, the Rev. Edward Elmhirst, wrote of Goodrich : — He was a most useful man in a county eleven, a difificult customer at the wicket, an admirable slow bowler with a twist in Clarke's style, and a first-rate field. He was also as true in his character and friendship as in his metal as a player. Mr Pycroft, too, in the * Cricket Field/ though he spells the name wrong, noticed how Mr Goodrich (Goodridge he calls him) coincided with the old school of slow bowlers in his delivery of the ball from the height of the hip ; and another peculiarity is noted by the Rev. F. Marshall in his excellent volume on Rugby football (1892), in a passage worth quoting verbatim : — J. A. Boyle, an old Malburian, was one of the surest of place- kicks, and also an admirable drop. Curiously enough, when about to drop he did not hold the ball in the usual way, but allowed it to rest on the extended palm of one hand in precisely the same manner as the late Mr T. C. Goodrich, the famous Free Foresters' slow underhand bowler, treated a cricket - ball before delivering it. In a cutting which Goodrich preserved among his scores I find the following : — Here we must needs record a curious accident which befell the well-known player Goodrich. He handled the ball : no, he did not, but a running substitute did it for him. How civil some 6 PERSONAL. people are ! They say civility costs nothing. Here at all events it cost Mi: Cioodrich his innings. The match was at Stamford, v, N. Northants, Aug. 3 and 4, 18 — . Goodrich got 15 and 23. The first object I had in view in the foundation of Free Foresters was the hope of keeping alive such intimacies as these, by means of the game which is the most sparkling channel of the stream of friendship ; but as the necessity- presented itself for considering our future plans, what matches we should play, where, and with whom, there arose the dim dawning of another purpose which, quixotic as it looked then, was ultimately fulfilled, of measuring ourselves against the acknowledged champions of the cricket-field, without that hired assistance which even the strongest cricket centres seemed to consider indispensable when they were about to meet Clarke's or Wisden's " Eng- land " elevens, and were hardly able to do without in their contests with rival counties or town clubs. I have delivered my soul elsewhere upon the subject of the hydra-headed E.'s, as the author of * Jerks in from Short -leg' called them, and indeed may recommend the chapter on that subject in the wise and witty volume thus named, as expressing my sentiments on this head; but the type of local celebrity who was prominent in fostering these con- tests was so amusingly sketched in a letter which my friend Hole wrote me one day about this time, that I obtained his permission to print it in a little Oxford mis- cellany of sport and rhyme which appeared in 1856, and it may be worth reproduction now. It is entitled " * Un- fulfilled Renown,'^ afifectingly exemplified in the History of Sam Hopkins," and I may add, in many of its details was founded on an episode very well known to Midland cricketers at that date : — 1 " The inheritors of unfulfilled renown."— Browning. S. R. Hole. F. C. de Crespigny. F. P. Onslow. F. Brandt. SAM HOPKINS. 7 I never could understand, and Sam could never explain to me, how it came to pass, one fine summer's afternoon, that he went to his wicket, at a country cricket match, and got a tremendous innings. I am aware, of course, that the players were amateurs ; that Sam achieved his greatness after so much champagne had been consumed at luncheon, that the bowler was transcendentally, and the field materially, intoxicated. I know, too, that the umpire was his particular friend, and was very severely criticised (and indeed challenged to fight by some vulgar people who had lost their money) for his devotion to Sam's interests ; but after all, I could never understand it; and he, as I have said, was equally astonished. But be this as it may, the next morning Sam "awoke and found himself famous." ' Bell's Life ' pronounced him famous in an article supplied by the faithful umpire, and which Sam was never tired of reading. They said he took it to bed with him ; and they said also, which I decline to believe, that he was seen, on the first day of its appearance, to peep at it during the sermon. All I know for certain is this, that when he had read it, he bought six new cricket-bats and a box of weeds for the umpire. Well, the next time Sam played at cricket, the world and his wife they came to see. The world and his wife took no interest in the game whatever until Sam came forth in his glory (he was a fat man was Sam, and looked, when attired in flannel, so like a bed as to make one feel quite sleepy), and then the world put on his spectacles, and his wife laid aside her knitting. The reporters pointed their pencils, and took special note of the time of day. The gentleman in command of the opposition altered the field some fourteen times, and sent out the man who could catch about half a mile into the country. Sam went slowly forth, drawing on a pair of gloves which I feel convinced would have supplied with India-rubber all the ladies' schools in Brighton ; and as he went there passed a murmur through the multitude, " That's the celebrated Mr 'Opkins ! " '^ Mr O " employed himself for some minutes, and with great dignity, in obtaining a satisfactory ^^ guard"; and then having superciliously surveyed the field (bestowing a look of especial scorn upon the man who was posted in the adjoining parish to catch him, as though that gentleman was not half far enough for the hits which Sam had designed), he went behind the wicket and superciliously surveyed the bowler. 8 PERSONAL. A silence, which might be felt, was broken by the voice of the umpire — '''' Play^ Whizz went the ball, and " Oh Lor'' I'^ roared Sam Hopkins, nobbled in some unguarded part. The bowler was a professional this time, quite sober, and had a " ripping " pace. A spectator was heard to say, " Poor ole bloater " ; but the crowd still knew that he was famous. The bowler moistened his digits, as though preparing stamps for adhesion, and proceeded to deliver ball No. 2. Away it went, swift and straight from his hand ; and away went also (alas, alas !) the bat from the hand of Hopkins ! The multitude awoke, at once, as a man from dreams — awoke, and laughed at Sam ! Again the professional assails the wicket; the maddened Hopkins lashes out for four, and away (with his middle stump) go his fame and glory as "a first-rate Bat." So went he up, like the rocket, and so came he down, like the stick. It must be clear to every one who laughs at this smart and lifelike character sketch, that the Sam Hopkins ele- ment never could, with any amount of cultivation, have developed into the style of cricketer of which I was in search ; in fact, it was his material which I wished to exclude: but at that time public-school cricket-training was becoming more systematic, and a rising generation was springing up, not merely from Winchester, Eton, and Harrow, but from new schools like Cheltenham, and old ones like Westminster and Rugby. With all these three, and especially the last-named, our prosperity was in a measure to be identified, though from the three who in that day were the only contestants at Lords, and from Charterhouse and other school elevens, we drew some of our earliest and best recruits. The Kempsons, Matthew and George, of Cheltenham, and the Garnetts, mostly then at the same school, were neighbours of mine, and I set to work to prepare a ground at my own house where I hoped good cricket might be played. Sutton Rectory Cricket-Ground, CHAPTER II. FOUNDERS KIN. If chess its bishops — billiards canons claims, — Why should not cricket have some cleric names?" — Mortimer Collins. Yet my "castles in the air," like those of the Scottish ballad, would have been " swallowed up by night," had not I, in 1856, renewed my acquaintance with a trio of brothers well known in Oxford at that day, and well known since in Cheshire as orthodox efficient clerics and thorough sports- men, — a combination which at times has made them the target of much vulgar abuse from a certain class of would- be critics. Knowing the why and the wherefore of this scurrile mire-flinging, I feel inclined to add that I should lo FOUNDER'S KIN. have been proud of being similarly assailed ; but I re- member an incident of my Oxford days which points a moral, so I v/ill relate it instead. The cox of a certain college boat had a soul much too large for his eight-stone-six. He was, to use Dean Hole's name for a certain pugnacious politician of small stature, a " belligerent bantam " ; and one day he was observed pacing the quad with such evident discomposure that a friend felt constrained to inquire what was wrong. " My usual luck, old fellow," replied B. B., with tears in his eyes ; " here's Moore " (the stroke of the boat, as " strong and mighty" as his namesake who slew the dragon of Wantley) " been called a foul name by a bargee, and he's licked the cad ! No bargee ever calls me a foul name." The second of the brothers, W. G. Armitstead, who played in the Oxford eleven for four years at that time, was an admirable hard-hitting batsman, and a very fine field. He will be found hereafter in this chronicle as "middle Jack" ; for the eldest brother's name being John, he had transmitted the familiar appellation to the junior members of the family, with the difference, as heralds say, of "middle" and "little." John, who had been a boating man at Westminster, did not play very much with us, but William and Henry were of our most constant cham- pions. They promised to bring an eleven to inaugurate my new ground, and it was on this occasion, in 1856, that the title Free Foresters was invented, from the circum- stance that all my eleven were from the precincts of the Forest of Arden in Warwickshire, or Needwood in Stafford- shire. The score would hardly be worth giving in extenso^ save for the fact of its containing the names of those who have a right to style themselves the first Free Forester eleven. The small totals speak volumes as to the con- dition of ground which forty years ago was to be met with THE FIRST MATCH. II in country cricket. My friend Mr Reay reminds me : " Scores were generally smaller in those days, when there were no boundaries, no cane-handled bats, and the wicket was mown with a scythe at 3 A.M. on the morning of the match, and the rest of the ground only fed by sheep." Jitly 20, 1856. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. J. W. Bott, b Randolph . W L. Gresley, run out M. Kempson, run out E. Thornewell, b Davies . C. H. Inge, c Hilton, b Gem . W. B. Harrison, c Gem, b Davies H. S. Chinn, 1 b w, b Davies A. P. Garnett, b Davies S. W. Williams, b Davies- R. J. Garnett, b Davies C. J. R. Bedford, not out byes 4, leg-byes 3 . Total SCORE. IS 19 19 o 5 o o o o o o 7 65 2D INNINGS. SCORE. b Gem , . . . o c Law, b Gem . . . o c Earle, b Davies . . 5 b Gem .... 4 c H. Armitstead, b Davies 3 b Davies .... 2 b Earle .... 6 b Earle .... 16 st Earle, b Davies . . o not out .... 8 b Earle . . . . i byes 7, leg-byes 2, wides 3 12 Total 57 PILGRIMS OF THE DEE. T. J. R. Hilton, b Kempson W. G. Armitstead, c Chinn, b Williams B. M. Randolph, 1 b w, b Williams . R. B. Earle, c A. Garnett, b Kempson W. H. Davies, b Kempson C. T. Royds, c Gresley, b Williams . E. C. Law, b Williams . H. S. Armitstead, c Chinn, b Williams J. R. Armitstead, b Williams . D. S. Perkins, st Kempson, b Williams C. H. Gem, not out .... byes 7, leg-byes i . Total 9 c A. Garnett, b Kempson 4 b Kempson 4 3 b Kempson I 4 run out . 18 b Kempson 2 6 b Williams 7 b Thornewell I c Kempson, b " rhornewell 9 3 run out . 3 not out 8 I b Thornewell . 8 byes • 13 • 38 Total . 66 1857. In 1857 the pleasant contest was renewed, and some new blood introduced which strengthened the combination 12 FOUNDER'S KIN. considerably; so that it was deemed expedient to unite for the purpose of seeking cricket elsewhere, and to incor- porate Staffordshire Rangers, Pilgrims of the Dee, and the Midland contingent of that club who played under the title of All Muggleton, into one general association, to be known henceforth as Free Foresters only. PILGRIMS OF THE DEE. 1ST INNINGS, W. G. Armitstead, b Fen ton G. S. Homfray, b Thoinewell . H. S. Armitstead, b J'enton C. T. Royds, b Thornewell Capt. J. Broughton, run out G. Gilbanks, c Story, b C. A. Garnett R. Garnett, c Story, b C. A. Garnett C. H. Gem, run out .... G. D. Perkins, c and b Fenton . J. R. Armitstead, not out . Capt. J. Mytton, b C. A. Garnett byes 2, leg-bye i, wides 3 Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 24 b Thornewell . . . i 7 b Onslow .... 15 1 st Ridding, b Thornewell 6 3 c Inge, b Onslow . . 7 8 run out . . . . i 7 not out .... 16 2 b Webb .... 3 5 b Story . . . . o 2 b Story . . . . i 3 b Webb . . . . o 4 bWebb .... 6 6 byes 6, leg-byes 2, wides 7 15 72 Total . 71 FREE FORESTERS. J. B. Story, jun., b Broughton . W. Ridding, c Royds, b R. Garnett . E. Thornewell, hit wicket, b Broughton C. J. Webb, b Broughton . F. H. Garnett, c Homfray, b Gem . F. P. Onslow, b H. Armitstead . J. K. Fenton, c Royds, b Broughton C. A. Garnett, c Gilbanks, b W. G. Armit stead H. S. Chinn, not out . . . C. H. Inge, b H. Armitstead . C. J. R. Bedford, b H. Armitstead byes 5, leg-byes 3, wides 10 . Tota o not out .... I o o not out .... 22 o 2 9 27 c and b W. G. Armitstead 22 o 2 18 byes 2, wides 6 . . 8 9T Total 53 It will be noticed that the Garnetts were to the fore in both matches. Of these there were two families, Charles Garnett and his brother Robert both residing then in the neighbourhood of Tamworth, the house of the first- Matthew Kempson. Hon. W. M. Jervis. Scholes Birch. George Homfray. THE GARNETTS. 13 named, Bonehill, being in Staffordshire, while Moor Hall, where Robert lived, was over the Warwickshire border. They were veterans by this time, but had large families of sons, all pretty good with bat and ball. (The eldest of the Bonehill family, C. A. Garnett, played for Oxford University in i860 and 1862.) A third brother of Charles and Robert Garnett resided at Wyreside in Lancashire, and a little later on played for us, as did several of his sons in after-years. Of those now mentioned,. A. P. was subsequently Colonel of the nth Hussars, while R. J. and F. H. also went into the army. And it was part of our plan that the three names of Armitstead, Bedford^ and Garnett should rank as founder's kin, and give a title to membership to those cricketers whom they furnished for us. The composition of the Club was intended to have a Midland county character — not to be a provincial I Zingari, because we did not propose to exact that unlimited fealty to our colours which the queen-mother of amateur wandering elevens so rigidly requires, but to imitate that unrivalled Club in dispensing altogether with the hired assistance without which some of the strongest local clubs of gentlemen then imagined themselves unable to play matches. This was the meaning of the motto we adopted, " United though untied," which I borrowed from an epigram I met with in some book of the period, the words of which I cannot now recall, and adapted it to a heraldic design called the Hastings knot, a cord loosely entwined connecting a sickle and a wheat-sheaf, for which we substituted two capital F's, as in the title-page. Neither this badge nor our colours were, however, at that time definitely adopted ; and indeed our success in our first out- matches was not such as to encourage us, for two defeats were at once experienced, viz. \— 14 FOUNDER'S KIN. July 24 and 25, Rugby. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. W. G. Armitstead, b Fenton . I b Buchanan ... 5 F. Garnett, 1 b w, b Fenton 5 not out . 10 F. P. Onslow, run out 16 b Fenton . 6 H. S. Armitstead, c Pilkington, b Fenton 1 b w, b Buchanan . 8 C. T. Royds, c Rokeby, b Buchanan 19 c Campbell, b Buchanan TO G. Homfray, not out .... 16 c Rokeby, b Buchanan 15 H. S. Chinn, b Fenton b Kenney . 23 C. A. Garnett, h w, b Fenton . c Wood, b Buchanan 12 F. H. Garnett, c Campbell, b Buchanan 8 b W. Benn •C. J. R. Bedford, run out . c Rokeby, b W. Benn S. Smith, absent .... c W. Benn, b Fenton byes 9, leg- bye i, wide-ball i . II byes 5, leg-bye i, wide-balls 8 Total 76 Total . 97 RUGBY CLUB . G. Benn, b W. G. Armitstead . 26 not out . . . .28 C Pilkington, b Onslow . F. Garnett, b Onslow . 3 F. Wood, b Onslow . 9 b Onslow .... 3 J. F. Eraser, b Onslow 7 D. Buchanan, b C. A. Garnett . 18 Capt. Hogge, b C. A. Garnett 7 H. K. Rokeby, not out . 20 not out . . . .10 W. Benn, b C. A. Garnett I A. Kenney, c Homfray, b C. A Garnett 5 J. Fenton, c Chinn, b Onslow , D. Campbell, c Chinn, b Onslow I c F. Garnett, b Oi^slow . 14 byes 7, wide-balls 9 . 16 byes 3, leg-bye i, wide - and Total August if, at Leamington. Total Free Foresters Leamington Club ist Innings. 2d Innings. Total. 41 57 98 99 - 99 64 For F. F. E. Hill scored 2 (not out) and 21, F. H. Garnett 10 and 4. Another match was totally stopped by bad weather ; but at length, at the then new ground of the Western Club, Manchester, Free Foresters were successful in their first contest of any note, on a wicket where in future years some of their most interesting matches were destined to take MANCHESTER. 15 place. Here, for the first time, they enjoyed the valuable aid of Mr Goodrich's bowling, which took 13 of their opponents' wickets. Mr T. L. Inge, a member of one of the best of our cricketing families, carried out his bat for 39 runs. August 27 and 28, Eccles, Manchester. ist Innings. 2d Innings. Tota Western Club 66 43 109 Free Foresters 121 121 Later in the year we beat the Manchester Club (play- ing Hunt, their groundman), Goodrich taking 12 wickets. Septemler 30 and October i, Old Trafford. Manchester Club . Free Foresters ist Innings. 2d Innings. Total. 33 40 73 150 ... 150 Joseph Makinson scored 56 and W. G. Armitstead 50 for F. F. Western Pavilion, 1857. i6 CHAPTER III. 1858. The Rubicon then was crossed, but what next and next ? Were we to join the " swarm of butterflies, grasshoppers, chrysalis, wasps, drones, and other ephemeral bodies that quicken in the summer-time under the genial influence of cricket," ^ consider the lawn match our metier^ and a pretty- ribbon and a pleasant autumn the objects of our ambition ; or fling down the gauntlet to clubs of higher pretensions in the recognised centres of cricket ? In either event we required some kind of organisation ; so when we met at Oxford on the ist of June 1858, we at once proceeded to appoint a secretary and a committee, the first office falling to my share, and four cricketers being selected from our ranks as committee men representing the various interests bound up in our welfare. One of the most prominent of these was a man hardly less instrumental in raising our Club to the proud position which it eventually attained than were Armitstead or Goodrich — Arthur Faber, Fellow of New College, who a few years later became headmaster of the newly founded school at Malvern, — a preferment which caused us to lose the services of a player who ought to be remembered as having held the premier place in the batting averages of amateur cricket in the year immediately ^ 'Jerks in from Short-leg.' A. H. FABER. 17 preceding the rise of Mr W. G. Grace. Faber was not only a fine cricketer, but a fine scholar, a sayer of good things, and a singer of good songs. One not to be forgotten, "King Richard of England/' pronounced by men well versed in the lighter minstrelsy the best in that particular line of parody ever heard, obtained a great popularity ; but I preferred another spirited lilt, which recounted the adventures of certain Oxford oarsmen upon the Rhine, starting thus : — " 'Twas on a summer's evening, when July was close at hand, And half the men in London dined at Simpson's in the Strand ; But the ones who called the waiters there in far the loudest tones Were Messrs Brown and Robinson and John James Jones." The expedition is matured over their wine, and they proceed to put their design into execution, and after a humorous description of a Channel passage, are launched upon the stream. Of course there has to be a love story, which comes out thus : — " Innumerable conquests, too, they made among the ladies gay, Who flocked upon the towing-path to cheer them on their way ; And in spite of being rather plain, a truth one rarely owns. Brown backed his luck at six to four 'gainst John James Jones. Jones took the bet, as on ladies a bet one always takes ; The money was deposited, and Robin held the stakes. To a blue-eyed girl they told their tale in most affecting tones, While Robin clinked the cash of Brown and John James Jones." By-and-by comes the decision of the bet. " To her home on wings of love they flew, but found her also flown, And what was worse, bold Robin, taking both their bets as loafis, Had eloped with the girl of the heart of Brown and John James Jones ! " Perhaps this is a little caviare to a cricket chronicle, but the fact remains that the tone of good-fellowship generated by such enlivening pastime helped us materially B l8 THE RIBBON. in our enterprises in the more legitimate game. We had very httle formahty as a club. By way of proof, I may mention that our rules were never printed until 1867, and one of the most important in its ultimate results upon the prosperity of the Club never appears to have been printed at all, although acted upon as an understanding from the commencement — namely, that while we desired to restrict the numbers and the local qualification of our ordinary members, these limitations were not to apply to officers in her Majesty's service. The ribbon, as at present arranged, was adopted at this meeting, though not with unanimity — an arrangement of darker shades of red, green, and black being the competing design. I fancy that part of the objection to the " red and green and white " arose from some of our older members, who dubbed it a "Radical." ribbon, the Chartists of 1848 having sported a tricolour of the same tints ; and that it had a political significance, in Italy at least, was evidenced by the rather vexatious incident which occurred to a lady, whose brothers and husband are among our founder's kin, upon the occasion of a visit to Rome in Carnival time, while the temporal power' of the Pope still existed, and Garibaldi was still ** hushed in grim repose." She has narrated it herself. What came of wearing a Forester Ribbon. The following morning we were at Civita Vecchia. I was now informed that upon landing we entered the States of the Church, and all our luggage would have to pass through the Custom- house. As we had no servant with us, our English friends kindly suggested that our boxes should go with theirs under the charge of their Italian servant, who would look after them at the Custom- house and meet us at the station. Poor Rozelli, he little knew what he was undertaking. You must remember it was just after the time when Garibaldi had been fighting so hard for Italy, and the Pope had found his temporal dominions considerably reduced. There was consequently a very bitter feeling throughout the States of the Church against all Italians who were not the subjects of his A POLITICAL OFFENCE. 19 Holiness, and no sooner did any one set their foot in his domin- ions than they became Hable to the closest watching, and impris- onment for the slightest offence of a political nature. We were at the station, and had taken our tickets for Rome, when the elder of our two English friends came to me in a state of great agitation, and asked me almost fiercely what I was doing with the Italian tricolour in my box ? I was utterly at a loss to comprehend his meaning, and said I knew nothing about any Italian tricolour, and was quite sure I had no such thing. "Yes," he said, "you have some kind of a loose white dress in your box, such as is worn at the Carnival, and it has Garibaldi's ribbon all over it." I thought for a moment. " Can it be my dressing-gown ? " I said, a light beginning to dawn upon me ; " that is trimmed with a red, white, and green ribbon, but that has nothing to do with Garibaldi ; it is nothing in the world but the ribbon of the Free Foresters' Cricket Club : I had it made to wear at a cricket match, and thinking it a pity to throw it away had it transferred to my white dressing-gown. You surely cannot mean to say that this has given offence ? " " Given offence ! " he replied ; " we may think ourselves very lucky we are not now all under arrest : my man Rozelli has been nearly frantic, for he of course knew nothing about it, and the very first thing that came to view when your box was opened was this ' rebel ' ribbon. Of course the authorities inquired what was the meaning of it, and all poor Rozelli could do was to shake his head and say, 'I am innocent.' He has been .taken to the Consul about it now, and I have no idea how it will all end." At this moment Rozelli appeared, and looking reproachfully at me, began a long story in which he told us how we had narrowly escaped imprisonment, but that being English had saved us. The ribbon had been torn off the dressing-gown by the Custom-house officials and kept there ; and a little jacket which they could not strip, the ribbon being rather tightly sewn on, they had also kept. The man Rozelli, it seemed, was a Roman by birth, and had years ago been in the service of the celebrated Lola Montez. He was well known to the police, and was closely watched the whole time his master remained in Rome. For ourselves, as soon as we got over the annoyance, we thought it a great joke, but I do not think Rozelli ever understood it. I believe we were all more or less watched by the police during our stay in Rome. It was the Carnival week, and I had an opportunity of seeing the long white wrappers that were worn to keep off the confetti, and for one of which my poor innocent dressing-gown had been taken, it being supposed by the Custom-house officers that I was taking it to 20 OXFORD. Rome to wear at the Carnival to create a demonstration in favour of Garibaldi. Little did the Free Foresters dream when they fixed upon their colours what a foolish adventure they would cause ! I was told I could have my ribbon given back to me at Civita Vecchia on leaving, but when after a week of sight- seeing and gaiety we retraced our steps, I said to James, " No, we will not ask for it : let us give them the trouble of taking care oi\X.for ever.^^ And so I suppose the Free Foresters' ribbon still remains in the Custom-house. The season of 1858 was decisive also of our pretensions to superiority, although at first no results of moment fol- lov^ed our contests. On June i Free Foresters beat Bullingdon at Oxford, making 185 to their hosts' 135 and 22 for 3 wickets. For BuUingdon J. Gundry scored 29 and 3, J. Carpenter 27 and I, G. W. Barker 15 and 13 (not out), Burrin (pro.) 14. For F. F. H. Latham scored 58, G. S. Homfray 37, H. S. Chinn 22, W. M. Jervis 16. On June 2 and 3 Ch. Ch. beat them by 228 to 165. For Ch. Ch. C. G. Lane scored 28 and 41, J. G. Edwards 26 and 8^ A. Thesiger 13 and 18, W. Fellowes o (absent) and 26, T, Houghton o and 20, W. B. Beaumont o and 16 (run out). For F. F. H. S. Armitstead scored i and 47, J. Fenton o (not out) and 24 (not out), J. E. Codrington 5 and 19, W. M. Jervis 1 1 and o. On June 4 they beat B. N. C. by 99 to 51. For B. N. C, D. G. Thomas scored 15, J. Morley 12. For F. F. W. B. Beaumont scored 15 and 24 (not out), S. Birch 11, G. S. Homfray 17 and o. It was in this match that Homfray hit Brandt, bowling for his College, four times running out of the ground. One F. F. wicket was dow^n in the second innings for 36. On June 23 Maidenhead beat Free Foresters by 289 to 138, Onslow and Thesiger being the F. F. bowlers ; and as Parsons, who played his qualifying match, well remembers, a hot afternoon's leather-hunting was particularly trying.. LORD STAMFORD. 21 The Maidenhead score included 62 extras, and 75 runs from G. R. Dupuis, 54 from S. Leigh, 29 from C. Leigh, 26 from A. Leigh. For F. F. O. F. Wakeman scored 55 (not out), W. M. Jervis 21, J. Parsons 20, C. Everett 17. On the 29th and 30th Rugby Club beat Free Foresters at Sutton by 153 to 129. Buchanan for Rugby took 12 wickets. On July 3 King Edward's School, Birmingham, lost to F. F. by 9 wickets; and on July 21 the Forest of Arden, at Meriden, scored 93 and 79 with 7 wickets to fall, against F. F.'s first innings of 124, — Homfray 42. Two days later Trentham, at Sandbach, made 64 and 51 with 5 wickets to fall, against Foresters' 255, including 86 from W. G. Armitstead. On the 26th and 27th July at Rugby the home Club were beaten by Foresters by 3 wickets, Goodrich disposing of fourteen Rugbeians ; and on the 31st Birmingham, though playing their professional, could only total 128 in both innings, against F. F. 129 in the first. But now came the crisis of the fate of our brotherhood. We were honoured by an invitation to play against Lord Stamford's team on the famous ground of Enville, — a ground the like of which for perfection in a cricket point of view I never saw until I visited Newbold Revel a year or two ago. Lord Stamford himself was a fine batsman who often made runs for I Zingari. He had always some of the very best professional talent of the day engaged as groundmen, and the pick of the M. C. C. invariably ready to play for him, so that we were quite satisfied that we should have to accept a certain defeat as a price which we should have been wrong to grudge paying for a recognition of our status in so eminent a quarter. So we set ourselves to work to find what, next to a good cook, seems the hardest person in the world to lay hold of — a really depend- able bowler, who could do for us at one end what Goodrich 22 • F. BRANDT. we knew was capable of doing at the other. Just then a Manchester cricketer of very high repute, who frequently played in England matches, George Cooke, wrote warmly recommending a Cheltenham College bowler recently entered at Oxford, Frank Brandt (" the devastating Brandt," as Faber, quoting from Campbell's poem, dubbed him), who was in his judgment just what we required, with the support of a good field like that which we could assure him of. So we enlisted him. We were certainly favoured by fortune at the outset, for our opponents, who won the toss, kindly put us in, some of our men having been delayed at the junction of a cross-country railway. Faber and Homfray started the batting, and although the bowlers to whom they were opposed were C. D. Marsham, A. Payne, and Drake, lOO runs appeared on the board before the first wicket fell. Homfray played cricket for so short a time, owing to his change of residence and premature failure of health, that few even of our own members ever saw him, or remember the cleanest and finest hitter almost ever seen (he hits harder than George Parr, said a famous judge of the game), as quick on his legs too as he was strong in punishment. His score of 83 virtually won us the match; and considering that the best gentlemen bowlers of the day were his assailants, it is worthy to rank even with some of the phenomenal innings of modern times. Faber supported him well with a hard hit 26. Scholes Birch, a cricketer of Manchester fame, and a slow bowler whom we used to alternate advantageously with Good- rich, made 29, and the Armitsteads both achieved double figures, our total being 203, then considered a long innings. Enville began with A. F. Payne and the Hon. G. Milles, now Earl Sondes (who had played against players the year before), and Brandt secured both wickets for no runs ; Capt. F. Marshall and Drake put a different complexion on the score, making 51 apiece, but when Goodrich had ENVILLE MATCH. 23 disposed of them both, no great stand ensued, though all made runs down to the two servants, not professional cricketers, but active fellows in good practice, who com- pleted the house eleven. The total was 188, only 15 behind ours ; and when we all got out for 63 it seemed a certain win for his Lordship, and had not our men been quicker and steadier in the field than most elevens were then, or indeed are nowadays, we could not have hoped to get them out, as we did, for 58 runs, their only double figures being obtained by Capt. Marshall, A. Payne, and Wingfield Fiennes, all three being caught at point by Faber, two off Brandt and one off Goodrich. Brandt accounted for two more, and Goodrich for five. I regret that I never obtained the analysis of bowling. It was certainly a great feat, and was handsomely acknowledged as such by our opponents. Goodrich, not much of a ladies' man, was put into a state of considerable embar- rassment by the desire of Lady Stamford that he should be presented to her, whereupon with a pretty speech she decorated him with a flower for his button-hole. But nobody could help seeing that this victory over a side of such high cricket celebrity placed us in a very different position to that which we had held before — in the premier rank at any rate of the Midland clubs. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. A. H. Faber, c A. Payne, b Drake . 26 c A. F. Payne, b Marsham 2 G. S. Homfray, b C. D. Marsham . . 83 b C. D. Marsham 13 W. G. Armitstead, b Drake 10 c H. Payne, b Marsham 7 H. R. Armitstead, b Drake 13 b C. D. Marsham . S. Birch, b A. Payne 29 c Drake, b A. Payne I 0. F. Wakeman, cC. D. Marsham, b Pay le 3 1 b w, b A. Payne . 10 H. S. Chinn, b A. Payne . 7 bA. Payne F. P. Onslow, b A. Payne c Drake, b Marsham 10 T. C. Goodrich, b A. Payne . 8 b A. Payne I F. Brandt, b C. D. Marsham . I b A. Payne 3 J. K. Feriton, not out not out . 6 byes 16, leg-bye i, wides 5, no ball i 23 byes 5, leg-byes 3, wides 2 10 Total 203 Total 6S 24 A VICTORY. EARL OF STAMFORD'S ELEVEN. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. A. F. Payne, b Brandt o b Brandt . 5 Hon. G. Milles, c and b Brandt o St H. Armitstead, b Goodrich 9 B. Richards, b Brandt 8 b Goodrich Capt. F. Marshall, b Goodrich . 51 c Faber, b Goodrich 15 E. Drake, hit wicket, b Goodrich 51 c and b Brandt C. D. Marsham, c and b Goodrich . 15 c and b Goodrich I Earl of Stamford, hit wicket, b Brandt I b Goodrich A. Payne, c and b Goodrich 15 c Faber, b Brandt . 14 Hon. W. Fiennes, not out 17 c Faber, b Brandt . II G. Hancock, b Goodrich . 9 b Goodrich A. Gould, c Fenton, b Brandt . 7 not out . I byes 6, leg-byes 6, no-ball 2 . 14 leg-bye i, wide i . 2 Total 188 Total 58 We won another match at Trentham on the 12th and 13th Aug. against an eleven of Capt. J. Broughton's, with 4 wickets to fall, Goodrich again taking 13 wickets. And we then played a couple of matches in Manchester from the 1 8th to the 21st, one of which, with the Manchester Club, who played their "pro.," Hunt, we won by 3 wickets, though after the winning run had been obtained Henry Garnett tried a second, and paid the penalty. The other match on the Western ground terminated in a tie in rather a curious manner. The. Western were not in those days at all a strong club, but they had playing for them an officer from the cavalry barracks near, Kington by name, a fine hitter, and had also strengthened their side by two professionals, Wright and Nixon. Foresters made a poor show with the bat, only 6y and 85 — J. S. Dugdale and Goodrich being the double-figure men in both innings. Against this, with the assistance of 50 from Kington, the Western made 115, so that in their second innings they had only 38 to get to win, and thought that the state of the score quite 'justified them in letting Nixon go away to fulfil some other engage- ment. So it did ; for at the fall of the sixth wicket their score was 36, and their victory appeared a moral certainty. A TIE MATCH. 25 Two more wickets fell, however, for but one run, and the last man went in with an infallible plan of campaign. He was a character. Even in those days he insisted on a mili- tary title, which he derived from a volunteer regiment ; and when I last saw him, twenty years ago, he informed me that he had cut commerce and was generalissimo to some sable potentate in Africa. He had noticed that our long- stop stood rather deep, and concluded that a stolen bye would finish the match. It was "over" and the bowling from his end. William Armitstead, long-stop, crept in four or five yards nearer the wicket unnoticed by the " Major," and the instant the ball had passed the batsman, away, as he expected, started the man at the other end ; the ball was thrown direct over to the bowler, H. S. Armitstead, who was also on the look-out, and the unlucky batsman was scarcely half across before his wicket was down. Not long agt) V. K. Armitage, a pretty good bat, men- tioned to Armitstead that he was the victim of the " Major," so had the latter only played the game the Western must have won. The ground, adds Armitstead, was soft, and difficult to get runs on. We had a very poor team for our last match this year, on Sept. 20 and 21, at Rugby, against the School, and only scored 39 and 31 to the boys' 164. It was here that T. Ratlifif (who had played against us more than once) first figured in our eleven ; and from this match too began that connection with Rugby School which produced us so many excellent recruits. 26 CHAPTER IV. 1859. Out of fifteen matches played in 1858 we had won ten, lost four, and made a tie. This encouraged us to make a similar programme for 1859, and we were fortunate in being able to add to it a match against I Zingari, to be played on a ground now forgotten, " Parr and Wisden's," at Leamington. We began badly. June 3 and 4, Rtigby. ^ ist Innings. 2d Innings. Total. Rugby Club 218 ... 218 Free Foresters .... 45 55 100 But Brandt and Ratliff (the first taking lo wickets, the latter 7) gave a better account of the School. June 13 and 14, Rugby. ist Innings. 2d Innings. Total. Free Foresters . . . . 100 149 249 Rugby School .... 81 74 155 H. S. Armitstead, 5 and 39; T. Ratliff, 22 and 19 ; G. A. E. Kempson, 2 and 29, were prominent for F. F. F. Lee, 17 and 15 ; A. Rutter, 5 and 19; M. T. Martin, 18 and o, for the School. At Oxford two elevens of Foresters engaged in a week's cricket, the results being evenly divided. Bullingdon did but little against us (79 and 53 for 2 wickets), though J. A. Pepys made 26 and 23 (not out), J. Gundry 16 and 14, &c. F. F. scored 203 — W. G. Armitstead making 6^^ OXFORD. 27 H. S. Armitstead 26, F. P. Onslow 24, W. L. Gresley 16, Lord A. Paget 14, &c. Christ Church, on June 30, scored 215, including 66 from J. Llewelyn, 49 from E. G. Sandford, 24 from A. Waller, 30 from Herbert G. Norman. Foresters only put up 120 — W. G. Armitstead 28, F. Brandt and W. M. Jervis 16 each, H. S. Armitstead 15, H. S. Chinn ii, T. Ratliff 10. And on the same day B. N. C. lost to F. F. by 169 to 197, our leading scores being E. Hill 44, F. P. Onslow and F. H. Gregory each 33, R. B. R. Bedford 23. On July I Harlequins made 179 — G. L. Hodgkinson 30, C. D. Marsham 27, R. Parker and B. Wand each 25, &c., against a poor score of 74 from. Foresters. T. Ratliff 25, being best ; E. G. Sandford, A. H. Faber, and H. S. Armit- stead the only other double figures ; while the other eleven beat Magdalen, who declined to give up Charles Ridding (F. F.), and offered A. B. Trollope as a substitute. The latter, playing for Foresters, got 95 (not out) in a total of 173, against which the College scored 151, Ridding only making 13. In the last match. University College beat Foresters by 17 runs, 105 to 88 — J. S. Dugdale 29, C. H. Gem 18 (not out), and H. S. Chinn 13, helped the modest score of F. F. A match at Trentham with the Staffordshire Rifles on July 13 was won by Foresters, though two men short of their complement. C. A. Garnett made 49, H. S. Chinn 31 (not out), A. R. Kenney 14, J. S. Dugdale 12, the total being 151. Garnett and Kenney took the Staffordshire wickets for 98 — Capt. Broughton 16, the highest score. On the 1 6th July, at Coventry, the 4th Light Dragoons made 73 and 60 against 164 for Free Foresters. The gallant 4th, says the chronicler of the day, " exhibited in Lieut, de Capel Broke (29 and not out 24) a hero superior to misfortune. On the part of the Foresters Gregory took care not to forget that "swashing blow'* 28 LEAMINGTON. immortalised by the Bard of Avon (" Romeo and Juliet," Act I.) ; while T. Ratliff, " his foot upon his native turf," contented himself with 64 runs and 14 wickets as his contribution to the game. At Sutton Coldfield, on Aug. 2, a local twenty-two of a very mixed composition could only realise 64 and '/6 to 188 from Foresters — C. A. Garnett (not out) 36, being ledger-man ; and on Aug. 4 Birmingham, though assisted by two professional players, only scored 58 and 52 against the bowling of Brandt and Goodrich, Foresters exceed- ing their total by 2 runs in the first innings. W. G. Armitstead made 33, A. H. Faber 24, and T. C. Good- rich II. On the 8th of Aug. Free Foresters met I Zingari on the Leamington cricket-ground mentioned before. The wicket was good, but the weather left much to be desired. Six of our eleven, starting from Sutton Coldfield, found Birming- ham enveloped in mist and rain, and telegraphed to know if it were any use to come on. A reassuring reply being received, they joined the rest of the players, and no posi- tive hindrance from wet took place. But the light soon became darkness visible, and thence no doubt the small scoring of the first innings of our opponents. Foresters did not show in very formidable colours, but that such an eleven as I Z. put into the field should be all out for 30 is only to be accounted for by atmospheric influence, though the F. F. fielding was quite faultless. Brandt and Goodrich bowled without change on both days. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. A. H. Faber, b Fellows . . . . 8 c Aylesford, b Fellows . 3 H. S. Armitstead, st Ponsonby, b Fellows 33 c Fellows, b W, Fiennes . o G. S. Homfray, b Fellows ....5b Marsham ... 26 W. G. Armitstead, st Ponsonby, b Fellows 14 st Ponsonby, b W. Fiennes 22 T. Ratliff, b Fellows o st Ponsonby, b W. Fiennes 4 F. Brandt, c Fitzgerald, b Fellows . . 17 b Marsham . . . o MANCHESTER. 29 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. J, Parsons, b Fellows . not out . 7 C. A. Garnett, b Fellows . . 5 St Ponsonby, b W. Fiennes I H. S. Chinn, c Fitzgerald, b W Fiennes 7 b Marsham 2 R. B. R. Bedford, b W. Fiennes c Marshall, b Marsham . 4 T. C. Goodrich, not out . . 3 b W. Fiennes . I leg-byes 3, wide-balls 9 . • 12 byes 4, leg-bye i, wide- balls 3 8 Total . 104 Total 78 I ZINGARL Hon. S. Ponsonby, run out 10 c Faber, b Brandt . 7 Captain Marshall, run out . . b Brandt .... I R. Marsham, b Brandt 7 c Homfray, b Goodrich . 13 Hon. E. C. Leigh, b Brandt . c H. Armitstead, b Brandt 19 Sir F. de Bracy, b Brandt . . 2 c Homfray, b Brandt H. W. Fellows, c and b Brandt . c Chinn, b Brandt . 17 Earl of Aylesford, c Ratliff, b G( Dodrich . 2 c Homfray, b Goodrich . I R. Fitzgerald, b Brandt . . 2 b Brandt .... 40 Hon. W. Fiennes, b Goodrich 4 1 b w, b Goodrich . Hon. C. Fiennes, b Brandt I not out .... 5 Lord Skelmersdale, not out . I c Faber, b Goodrich wide-ball .... I byes 2, leg-byes 3 . 5 Total 30 Total 108 ANAL^ fSIS. If JNINGS. B. R. W. M.O. WIDE. Brandt .... 'ist 1 2d 56 14 6 4 I 176 52 6 23 Goodrich .... (ist I 2d 56 15 2 4 176 57 4 9 The remainder of the week we utilised at Manchester (our diligence being much applauded by one of our late adversaries, who joined us forthwith) by winning two matches, — the first against the Western, assisted by R. C. Tinley, who with Brandt bowled and took all our wickets for 155. The Western made 72 and 123, and we won by 9 wickets — Faber scoring 19 and 27 (not out). Birch 14 and 20 (not out), Goodrich 25, and Homfray 21. Birch, in the second innings of the Western, took 8 wickets. The Manchester Club, with H. H. Stephenson, made 91 and 146, on the two following days Mr Perera 44 and 59, F. F. again scoring 155 in their first innings, and securing their victory by 8 wickets. The first day was partially 30 CHANGE OF SLOWS. wet, so the Foresters had to play against time as well as to win, and hard hitting was in the ascendant the second day; A. H. Faber made 6i and 14, H. S. Armitstead o and 41 (not out), T. C. Goodrich 26 ; and he also took 10 wickets. We used to change slow bowlers a good deal in those days. Birch writes apropos of this : — Dear old Goodrich, of course, always started ; when he got in a tangle he used to chuck the ball to me and say, " Now, Birch, you have a try ; " and it was curious how invariably the change acted after an over : then I ^ used to throw the ball back to Goodrich. We often used to wonder how it was : he thought I might be a little slower ; my impression was I delivered higher from the hip, and the ball rose sharper. Another Goodrich as a ■county man would, I feel pretty sure, reduce the big averages. There is only one good underhand bowler, Humphreys, who did •capitally last year. Lobs, as they call them, are often tried, but they are mere rubbish. It is generally thought easy to bowl them, whereas it takes a deal more to make a Clarke or Goodrich than a good Catherine-wheeler. I wish I could get a youngster and coach him, but he might lack the necessary brains. As a beginner, he should not practise against batmen unless they play a defensive game. It is easy to run out and hit when chances ■don't count. I am convinced that the higher above the hip the ball can be delivered from the better ; but it is much more •difficult to preserve the pitch. On August 18 and 19 F. F. turned up two short for a match at Southwell against Nottinghamshire County Club, who were also short-handed, so nine a-side went in. A good game was won by the Shire, who scored in their two innings 164 to the Foresters' 162. R. B. Earle, 37 and 29, was the premier ^or N. C. C. Goodrich 9 and 43, Royds 32 and ■ 2, C. A. Garnett 29 and 5 for F. F. One quaint circumstance distinguished this match. A certain Free Forester fielding long-leg, ran for a ball which lodged in a tuft of nettles. " Mayn't I call lost ball ? " he implored. •" Certainly not, Frank, throw it in," was the stern reply ; and regardless of stings he did retrieve it, but meanwhile two ^xtra runs had been made, and this margin won the match. W Q o W H O > w SOA^G OF THE SEASON. 31 We had almost as close a finish in a second match with Rugby School, who headed our score of 86 by 20 runs in the first innings; but as we made 161 in the second and got them out for 1 19, we rather more than turned the tables, and won by 22. For the School — C. Booth 29 and 22, Bowden Smith 15 and 28, A. Rutter 24 and 10, M. T. Martin, 6 and 16, were conspicuous. The brothers Ratliff and E. Waller made runs for Foresters ; whose bowlers were W. K. Mott, T. RatHff, Cecil Plennes, and E. G. Sandford. Faber's muse thus celebrated the heroes of the season : — Air — " When the Green Leaves come again,'' "When summer's sun adorns the sky, And April yields the place to May and June, The birds' sweet notes are heard on high, And half a hundred pulses beat in tune ; • Forth from out their cases bats and balls appear, Cricket-shoes are worn instead of spurs ; But of all the clubs in this our hemisphere. Which can vie with the Free Foresters ? Fifty colours may face the light of day, Si7igle^ double^ or in triple rows; But the red and gree?i and white ^ when did hues unite Half so free and fair and fresh as those? The central counties of this isle Can boast attractions plentiful as flowers ; But when were ladies found to smile On fairer claims for notice than on ours ? In our colours decked, in a jovial band. Seldom found to weary or to yield, With the agile foot, with the nimble hand. Full of fun and chaff we take the field. Fifty colours may, &=€. Not far from where just now we stand, This Club of free companions took its rise ; A master mind its being planned. And ladies' taste devised the triple dyes. 32 FABER'S SONG. Long it were to name those its ranks that fill, But one, at least, shall echo in the strain, Noted far and wide — long may he preside ! Long the brethren live to entertain ! Fifty colours may, Qr^c. With what impatience do they arm, And at the Rector's kindly summons come, And some put up are at 'The Farm,' And at the firm ' Rectorial Mansion ' some. But where'er they go, or where'er they stay, Bodies in condition — spirits light — To the best of games they devote the day, And to fun and laughter half the night. Fifty colours may, &^c. And thence to all the country round. To find and win their matches they proceed. And whether on their native ground Or any other central cricket-mead, Still Frank the great, compelling clouds, is seen, Still Codrington aquatic muscle shows, Still Homfray with his bat mischief loves to mean. And Jack to win, or lose, the match with slows. Fifty colours may, &^c. Not less with skill and science fraught. Old Goodrich multiplies the mounting score. Adroitly gets the batsmen caught. Or bowls him clean, or plants him leg before. Lichfield Chinn is there to intercept the ball. And Edward Hill amusement to maintain : A free and jovial lot, take them for all in all. We shan't soon look upon their likes again. Fifty colours may, &^c. Cricketeering, laughter-loving elves, A health I'll give you, three times three, With all the honours drank, Our noble selves. Still when warm July bakes us like a nut. And half the turf is brown for want of rain, May we all our other engagements cut. And like the green leaves come again. Fifty colours may, dr'c" 33 CHAPTER V. i860. We had now arrived at the position of being able to essay the high emprises which my sanguine hopes had long foreshadowed, but it was perhaps as well that we deferred the realisation of our more ambitious programme until 1 861 ; for the summer of i860 was a damp imposture, and our book for that year is one melancholy record of rain. It might be said of the clerk of the weather as of the tyrant of old— " As long as he could reign he reigned, And then — he mizzled ! " Rugby School on May 14 and 15, having got F. F. out for 157, secured a lead of 80 runs, and got 4 wickets down for 82, when wet stopped the game. A. E. Tennant 83, S. Linton 47, E. Rutter 29, F. R. Evans 14, M. T. Martin II, were the double figures for the School. For F. F. E. G. Sandford 4 (not out) and 52, and T. Ratlifif 33 and 8, are worth a note. On June 4 and 5 University Coll. beat F. F. terribly at Oxford, making no and 133 to 48 and 93 for F. F., Hilton, Hinchliffe, H. S. Armitstead, T. Ratliff, and G. Phillips being the best scorers. Harlequins again made 106 to 27 only from F. F., who in their second innings had scored 135 for 6 wickets when wet caused the game to be C 34 SHROPSHIRE. drawn. F. G. Inge made o and 39 (not out), A. H. Faber 5 and 40, H. S. Armitstead 8 and 28, &c. On June 6 and 7 (the Same days) another Forester eleven drew their match with B. N. C, who made 131 and 129, to F. F. 113, Hinchliffe scoring 28, Mott 24, Codrington 1 1 (not out). On June 9 Foresters did manage a win against Bul- lingdon, getting lOO to 68 and 78. BuUingdon had their professional, Slinn, to bowl for them. For Foresters Chinn took 9 wickets, C. A. Garnett 8 ; the latter scored 21 runs, G. H. Philips 18, T. Hilton 14, H. S. Armitstead and C. Horwood 13 each. A h'Ural colncidGnce occurs in the score of this match — viz., Slinn c and b Chinn ; Chinn c and b Slinn. A win over the nth Hussars at Sutton Coldfield on July 4 was almost snatched from our grasp by bad weather. The regiment scored 50, F. F. yy ; G. A. E. Kempson 23, H. S. Chinn 12, and T. O. Reay 10, the double figures. July 10 to 13 were devoted to a campaign in Shrop- shire, productive at the moment of signal discomfiture, but as its result bringing into our ranks more than one of our very best recruits. Shrewsbury, who won with 8 wickets to fall, got 235, and made Free Foresters follow their innings. Shropshire had playing for them W. Wing- field, a pocket-Hercules, who had steered the Cambridge boat in the races against Oxford of 1855 ^.nd 1856, who in this match made 84 and 15, both times not out. Free Foresters, who made 95 and 178, were indebted to G. S. Homfray 25 and 55, G. Arkwright 23 and 11, E. K. Hornby 10 and 25, H. S. Armitstead 2 ^^^ 25, for most of their runs. Probably bowling was here our weak point ; one incident at any rate may be cited as a proof. When Wingfield had been in for a considerable space of time, and treated each change of bowling with increasing dis- W. Wingfleld. E. K. Hornby. R. A. Benson. C. T. Royds. BENSON'S LINES. 35 respect, one of our team suggested that when he had been in the Rugby eleven he bowled slows, and accord- ingly he was tried for an over. The moment he began the field were in convulsions of suppressed laughter, for he simply chucked up a ball to hit, without length, twist, pace, or anything likely to take a wicket about it. The batsman, however (not Wingfield), evidently detected some deep design in this simplicity, and played all the four balls of that over with the utmost caution, and v/ithout a run ; our new bowler was cock-a-hoop, and insisted on another trial. Unluckily for him he had Wingfield to bowl at this time, who promptly deposited the first ball in the Severn, which flowed by the cricket- field. The ball was not lost, for a man with a punt was on the look-out for such contingencies, but we did not indulge Royds with a third over. At Ludlow again we were beaten by 52 runs — W. Wingfield not out twice more, with 66 and 42 ; and a Mr Taylor bowling most of our wickets for small scores, — H. S. Armitstead 28 and I, and E. K. Hornby 17 and 18, the best. This eleven, however, had the honour of being handed down to immortality in the verses of a witty opponent, Benson, whose initials, R. A. B., are appended to some of the best society rhymes in the early numbers of 'Once a- Week,' and who was as good at a hustings speech as he was at a cricket rhyme. " How shall I sing these Foresters so free, Too bad for Salop, p'raps too good for we,^ Led by three Jacks, ' United though Untied,' Loose in their hitting, in their bowling wide. Spoilt child of fame, on conquest's glowing track, A middling player comes, the ' middle Jack.' Two loving brothers in his wake pursue, Their fielding famous, and their runs not few ; ^ Ludlow. 36 . LUDLOW. The * old ' to take the lead upon the score, The ' young ' to chatter when the game is o'er. Next to my vision Jerry comes 'on slow' (The tucked-up trouser now seems all the go) ; A ' quidnunc ' champion too before me steps, "With small ambition, but with large biceps ; A dread form now disturbs my fevered brain The mighty Homfray slogging o'er the plain, Performing feats that strike the foe with dread, And putting bowlers over their own head, A point — not Euclid's point — I next must sing, For parts and magnitude their point can bring ; His hitting brilliant, though his life not long, Like David, ruddy, and, like Samson, strong. A late Harrovian at short-leg I spy. His batting steady, his delivery high ; And Hill (I might go farther and fare worse) Winds up the tale of wickets and of verse. P.S. — Must I, to make my epic true, Too kind emergencies, descant on you. That Stone on which, to condescend to tropes. At long field-on they founded all their hopes. And Morris, by whose too tenacious grip, Poor Mr Taylor perished in the slip, Ah, yes ! their names upon my song I'd see — They let me off, and that's enough for me." The three Armitsteads are of course Jack. Francis Onslow's sobriquet was Jerry. The "quidnunc" is Royds, the " point " Codrington, and the " Harrovian " Hornby, an excellent bat, who played a great deal for Foresters in future, as did Wingfield also. July 19 and 20 saw two Free Forester engagements fulfilled : one in Notts, where the gentlemen of the county scored 181 and 149, R. B. Earle 72 and 37, against Fores- ters' 132, and 92 for 2 wickets ; F. G. Inge scoring 43 and 24, T, Rathfif 13 and 44, G. S. Homfray 28 and 18 (not out), F. Brandt 19 and 2 (not out). The last-mentioned took 10 wickets. C. A. Garnett and Ratliff also bowled. The other match, in Cheshire, against the 84th Regi- IV. G. a:s slows. 37 ment, was won by F. F., who made 159, E. K. Hornby claiming 66, H. S. Armitstead 18. The officers only scored 50 and 15, W. G. Armitstead with lobs taking 12 wickets. His bowling must have been just at this time somewhat deadly, for in our next match at Leamington, July 28, he took all the wickets of Deddington, including W. and C Fiennes, for 49, and as we had made 144, and Deddington had to follow their innings, the not-out man fell to him also without another run being obtained. T. Ratliff was our best scorer, making 61. Against a twenty-two of Sutton Coldfield, including W. K. Mott and H. S. Chinn, Foresters only scored y6, of which W. G. Armitstead claimed 43 (not out); but as Good- rich and Brandt disposed of the twenty-two for 32 and 65 runs. Foresters won by 10 wickets. Goodrich annexed no less than 24 wickets, of which 11 were ciphers. Brandt disposed of 1 1. The two next days, Aug. 6 and 7, we should have beaten Lord Lichfield's team at Shugborough Park, but for rain, having got 174 to the home side's 64, and 32 for 5 wickets. Goodrich took 6 wickets, and made 30 runs, H. S. Armit- stead 45. Our Manchester matches, Aug. 13 to 15, were not quite so interesting as usual,— the original programme having fallen through. The Western, with two professionals, Wright and Rowland, were beaten rather easily in one innings by 17 runs, Foresters making 123, and getting their antagonists out for 74 and 32 ; Brandt, Goodrich, and Arkwright bowling. Homfray scored 33, Hornby and Goodrich each 24, Arkwright 14. On the other side played a Rossal schoolboy, F. W. Wright, soon to be one of our best recruits ; he was run out twice for small scores. The 84th Regiment tfcen had another essay, but only made 53 and 41, Goodrich's slows taking 8 of their wickets and W. Armitstead's 6; while Foresters claimed 117 and 38 AN ETON BOWLER. 199— W. Wingfield 55 and 13, T. Ratliff i and 51, W. G. Armitstead 4 and 30, A. F. Payne o and 35, T. C. Good- rich 15 and 14. H. Arkwright obtained 13 Forester wickets. On Aug. 20 and 21, at Warrington, a match v. Gentle- men of Cheshire was momentous, as introducing to our ranks another young player of consummate value in our after - engagements. I had observed that in a match, " Twenty - two of Walsall against the United England Eleven," an Eton boy, the Hon. C. G. Lyttelton, had kept one end up during the whole game, bowling 8 wickets, in which were included those of Griffith, Caffyn, Lockyer, Wisden, and Carpenter, and getting runs as well. I was fortunate enough to induce him to go down and qualify for our Club, in which I need hardly say his family name has become " a household word." Otherwise the match was not interesting, the Cheshire side only making 74 and 40, and Foresters 119; of which W. G. Armitstead and Hornby, playing for their club against their county, made 25 and 52 respectively. Goodrich took 11 wickets. A ludicrously ea§y victory over a Birmingham eleven on Sept. 24 concluded the season, the opponents only scoring 25 runs, which Kempson doubled off his own bat, the total of Free Foresters being 204. 39 CHAPTER VI. 1861. We had not enlarged our programme very much during the last two seasons, but we had felt our way. I began to see the dawn of my ambitious schemes on the horizon of practicability, and for the season of 1 861 was able to obtain a fixture at Lord's v. M. C. C, and against the United Eng- land eleven with sixteen at Manchester. We also found that the best Midland bowler, David Buchanan, was pre- pared to enter into friendly relations with our confederacy with a view of joining it — a matter most important to our future prospects. For a wonder Free Foresters lost their first match, May 28, to Bullingdon, who played two bowlers, Shaw and Hinckley, rather too good for the F. F. batsmen ; in the first innings W. K. Mott 12, being the only double figure, and the total 37. Against this, with the aid of a good 59 from J. A. Pepys, Bullingdon got 147, and F. F., with 5 wickets down, responded with 82, Reay scoring 26 and Faber 19. They won their other game against B. N. C, making 98 and 149 to 123 and 96 from the College. C. A. Garnett took 11 wickets, W. K. Mott 7. A. H. Faber 31 and 14, G. H. Phillips o and 46, H. E. Hulton 10 and 20, R. Brodie 11 and 18, C. A. Garnett 17 and 12, were the principal contributors to the Foresters' score. At Rugby, on June 3 and 4, "a rainy influence gave a 40 M. c. a predominance each day to batting over fielding and bowl- ing." The School got 132 and 134, with 5 wickets down. Her champions were C. Booth 63 and 19, E. Rutter 20 and 24, C. Marshall 6 and 54 (not out), F. R. Evans 7 and 26 (not out) ; Reay, Mott, and T. Ratliff took the wickets. For F. F. the last-named scored 34 and 26, W. G. Armit- stead 8 and 57, W. Ratliff 20 (not out) and 21, C. Inge 15 and 14 (retired), T. O. Reay 9 and 31, W. K. Mott 25 and 5. The totals were 148 and 193, against the bowling of Rutter, Hood, Evans, and Robertson. The match at Lord's was played on Thursday in Ascot week, with a gallery of perhaps fifty spectators, but the cricket was good, and the ' Field ' was kind enough to say, "on the part of the Foresters especially so." In this match the original constitution of the Society as a Mid- land Club suffered its first innovation, for F. G. Inge having met with an accident on the eve of the match, E. Hume, a Sussex man, played for him, and was there- upon elected a member. M. C. C. AND GEOUND. 1ST INNINGS. Hon. C. Carnegie, run out Brampton, c Brodie, b Goodrich Wells, c W. Armitstead, b Goodrich Hearne, b Goodrich .... E. H. Ellis, c Wingfield, b Goodrich S. Taylor, c W. Armitstead, b Goodrich R. Forster, c Armitstead, b Brandt . Capt, Meux Smith, b Goodrich R. Monypenny, not out Capt. Moore, h w, b Goodrich . Rogers, b Goodrich .... byes 2 Total SCORE. 5 3 26 17 6 o 3 6 5 o 5 2 78 2D INNINGS. SCORE. b Brandt .... 8 St H. Armitstead, b Goodrich 22 b Garnett .... 31 c Wingfield, b Goodrich . o not out .... 25 St H. Armitstead, b Goodrich o b Garnett .... 3 st H. Armitstead, b Goodrich 10 b Goodrich . . . o run out .... 7 c Brodie, b Goodrich . 8 byes 3, wide i, no-ball 2 6 Total 120 FREE P^ORESTERS. E. K. Hornby, b Brampton 11 A. H. Faber, b Rogers . 23 b Rogers . . 23 W. G. Armitstead, b Rogers 7 b Brampton 8 W. Wingfield, c Taylor, b Rogers . . 40 not out . 8 T. Ratliif, b Brampton . • IS LORD'S. 41 1ST INNINGS. E. Hume, c Wells, b Hearne C. A. Garnett, c and b Rogers H. S. Armitstead, b Brampton F. Brandt, b Brampton R. Brodie, not out T. C. Goodrich, b Rogers byes 5, leg-byes 4, wide i Total SCORE. 5 23 2 O 8 o 10 144 2D INNINGS. not out bye I, leg-bye i . Total SCORE. IS 56 ANALYSIS OF BOWLING M. C. C. First Innings. Goodrich . Brandt Goodrich Brandt Garnett Brampton Wells Rogers Hearne Brampton Rogers B. R. M. w. 112 50 6 8 112 26 15 I Second Innitigs. 152 61 10 6 78 24 9 I 2 no-balls 69 29 7 2 I wide Free Foresters. First Innings. 172 46 23 4 32 23 ... 141 60 13 5 I wide . . 28 5 2 I Second Innitigs. 56 32 4 I 55 22 3 I From July \y to 20 Foresters visited Manchester and Liverpool. The Western, at the former city, scored 253 and no, Mr Chinn's slows — which one of the critics asserted he fielded himself at cover-point — being the feature of the game. He also made 49 (not out) out of the 199 total of Free Foresters — Capt. Blane 33, H. E. Hulton 35, and W. K. Mott 22, assisting. At Liverpool Mr Horner led off with 75 (not out) out of an innings of 144, to which Foresters responded with 186 — Hornby 52, Price 38, Mott 19. Against this Liverpool only put on 89, Brandt bowling 89 balls for 49 runs and 6 wickets, while 42 A CHANCE. Mott bowled ^S balls for 36 runs and 3 wickets ; so Foresters won with the loss of only two batsmen, W. J. Lyon being, not out, 20. I was scoring, as I often found myself doing, during the match at Liverpool, when I observed my colleague making mysterious dots and scratches over some of his figures. " What does that mean ? " I asked at length, my curiosity being thoroughly awakened. " A chance, sir," was the polite reply. I held my peace until a flukey hit some twenty yards beyond long-off was " starred " as before. "How could that be a chance?" said I, "when there was no man there." "Ah, but there might have been," was the rejoinder. At Leamington, July 30, Deddington scored 95 to 103 from Free Foresters, who had made 81 for 4 wickets in their second innings — W. K. Mott 23 and 16, H. C. Willes 20 and 24 (not out), C. G. Lyttelton 21 and 17, and M. T. Martin 13 and 14 (not out), distinguishing themselves against the bowling of E. Ramsay and T. E. Cobb. Two days later, at Southwell, the F. F. Administration, said ' Bell's Life,' met with a fierce Opposition on the part of the country gentlemen of Notts. The struggle was a severe one, the debate lasting till the evening of the second day ; but in spite of the exertions of the Opposition whipper-in the country gentlemen were beaten by the Ministry by a majority of 77. The ability of Mr Goodrich and Mr Brandt was very conspicuous during the debate, and though Mr Boden spoke with much emphasis for the country party, his voice carried little or no weight with it. It is hoped that the motion will be an annual one, and the Secretary for the Home Department has promised to grant a day for the purpose in the ensuing session of 18.62, when he hopes that Mr Faber will again catch the Speaker's eye and occupy the House for a couple of hours. Aug. z and 2, Southwell, ist Innings. 2d Innings. Total. Free Foresters .... 112 120 232 N. C. C. . . . . . 60 95 15s Noticeable scores — Faber 9 and 64, Chinn 37 and 4, O o u m r m . . c fe 2 to -Ho .o U 4 ^ SALOPIAN STANZAS. 43 Brandt 29 and 3, W. G. Armitstead 4 and 15, R. T. Whit- tington 4 and 13. Goodrich took 7 wickets, Brandt 8. At Sutton Coldfield, on Aug. 6, a local twenty, including a famous old University cricketer, Herbert Peel, were dis- posed of by Goodrich (12 wickets) and Brandt (5) for 38 runs ; but Foresters, who had only eight men to go in, found Peel's bowling unexpectedly puzzling, and but for a good innings of 80 (not out) from C. A. Garnett, who gave a splendid object lesson on the art of leg-hitting, would scarcely have won. Fourteen Sutton wickets had fallen in the second innings for 64^9 to Goodrich and 4 to Brandt, G. D. Perkins 14, the only double figure. An easy victory was obtained on Aug. 10 at Leam- ington, F. F. scoring 217, of which T. Ratliff put on 62, R. Brodie 29, A. H. Faber and Reginald Garnett 26 each, against 6j from Leamington. On the 1 2th and 13th Aug., " With stern resolve, furled flag, and muffled drum, To Severn's shores the ' nomad Woodmen ' come, And by that stream where erst their colours dipped, Their quondam conquerors they soundly whipped." This was the Forester retort to a local poet who had cele- brated, their defeat at Shrewsbury the year before : — " Fling the green flag upon the breeze, and blazon far and wide The legend of the Foresters — ' United though Untied.' Ah me ! the banner's silken fold is drooping on the plain, In the glory of its coming it returneth not again." In fact, Free Foresters having made a good beginning with 181 — 45 from Faber, 24 apiece from C. G. Lyttelton and H. S. Armitstead, and 21 apiece from Brodie and Fiennes — by the aid of Brandt,- Fiennes, and Lyttelton, prevented the two essays of Salop from equalling their single total, getting them out for 96 and 64. At Ludlow, on the two days following, the game was 44 HONORARY MEMBERS. drawn in favour of the local eleven, who had lost only 4 wickets, and were 31 runs behind — H. S. Armitstead and W. Fiennes were playing for Ludlow, who scored 224. Foresters 255. The interest in such contests as the last mentioned is ephemeral ; but the Club was now to test by experience the practicability of an attempt not at that time supposed to be within the powers of any amateur clubs except the Universities — to meet without paid bowlers one of the England elevens. By the kind offices of our old friends, the Western Club, Manchester, whose secretary, Mr Hampson, became one of our first honorary associates, we were enabled to make satisfactory arrangements for bringing our experiment to a decision at Eccles on the ground of the Club, of which for the nonce we were installed as honorary members, enabling us to order such refreshments as we required, and to use the pavilion ; but as such an arrangement was not possible with the players' eleven, a room was assigned to them, and their refresh- ments were franked. I could not help being diverted, when on the first morning Cafifyn came up to the bar for a glass of beer, and asked, " What's to pay ? " *' Nothing, sir," replied the barmaid. " Thank ye, miss," was the prompt reply ; " then I'll take another ! " The United played strong, as Hayward, the great A. E. E. batsman, was included in their eleven, as was an excellent Man- chester amateur, Mr Bousfield. Some members of the Free Forester team being com- pelled at the last moment to absent themselves, in the place of two of them we obtained the services of a brace of clever substitutes, Messrs E. Rowley and V. K. Armitage. Beginning rather late the first day, Good- rich obtained 3 wickets and Buchanan i for 23 runs, Hayward and Wisden took up the score to 85 for the fifth wicket, and the former player was in with Mortlock U. E. E. 45 at the call of time — 123 runs being registered for 7 wickets. The amusing incident of the day was that Bell, a Cambridge pro., invented what the Manchester cricket reporter called a " fancy stroke " to Goodrich, running out and trying to lift his ball over the wicket. He missed it, however, and it took his bails. On the second day, Goodrich caught and bowled Hayward for 65, and the innings totalled 163. Atkinson, a Yorkshire bowler, was particularly deadly, and but for a timely stand of W. G. Armitstead, who got 30 by some hard drives and really fine cuts, Foresters would have figured badly; as it was, they just failed to score 100. It is worth a mention that Armitstead complained that he could not see Atkinson's hand against the body of the umpire ; and that functionary was in consequence in- vested with a white garment, — a thing which I at least for one had never seen before. In the second inningrs of the United, Buchanan's luck was crushing, as he did not get a single wicket, though bowling admirably. The eleven were not out until the third morning, and the question was whether time would allow them to win. In fact, at luncheon-time, with 4 Forester wickets down for 40 runs, it looked very like a draw ; but the United eleven thought that they might make a win of it, and when Atkinson changed ends more life was infused into the game. Faber and Inge, H. S. Armitstead and Colley, all scored freely, and finally, at little more than five minutes to time, Harry Willes and V. K. Armitage ran the winning run. UNITED. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. Caffyn, b Goodrich lo b Goodrich ... 12 Griffith, c and b Goodrich . ..3c Wingfield, b Goodrich . o E. Stephenson, st Armitstead, b Buchanan 5 b Goodrich ... 13 Hayward, c and b Goodrich . . . 65 c Wingfield, b Fiennes . 33 Carpenter, b Goodrich . . . . i b Goodrich ... 18 Wisden, c Griffith, b Goodrich . . . 23 c Brandt, b Fiennes . 13 46 MANCHESTER. 1ST INNINGS. Bell, b Goodrich .... E. J. Bousfield, c Colley, b Buchanan Mortlock, c Fiennes, b Buchanan Lillywhite, not out . * . . Atkinson, hit wicket, b Goodrich byes 6, wides 3, leg-byes 2 Total >RE. 2D INNINGS. S( 3 St Armitstead, b Goodrich 17 not out 23 run out . 2 c Rowley, b Goodrich o c and b Goodrich II leg- byes 163 Total FORESTERS. J. R. Colley, b Atkinson . F. Price, c Bousfield, b Atkinson F. G. Inge, c Hayward, b Caffyn A. H. Faber, b Atkinson . W. G. Armitstead, c Atkinson, b Wisden W. Wingfield, c and b Atkinson H. S. Armitstead, c Carpenter, b Atkinson E. Rowley, c Bousfield, b Wisden D. Buchanan, b Atkinspn . Hon. W. Fiennes, c Wisden, b Atkinson H. C. Willes, b Wisden . F. Brandt, b Atkinson H. S. Chinn, c Wisden, b Atkinson . T. C. Goodrich, b Wisden A. H. Smith Barry, not out V. K. Armitage, c Stephenson, b Wisden leg-byes Total 6 4 30 9 2 II I 4 2 4 o o 2 7 2 99 b Atkinson b Griffith . run out . c Stephenson, b Caffyn b Atkinson b Atkinson b Atkinson c Carpenter, b Wisden c Carpenter, b Wisden not out . b Atkinson b Atkinson not out .... byes 6, leg-byes 4, wides 4 23 o 46 39 o 14 23 3 o 4 Total o 9 14 177 ANALYSIS OF BOWLING. United. First Innings. B. R. M. w. WIDES Buchanan . . Goodrich . Inge Brandt . 240 59 244 82 . . 28 4 32 7 Second Innings. 31 24 3 4 3 7 2 I Buchanan Goodrich . Fiennes . . . 140 36 172 62 28 12 Foresters. First Innings. 16 18 4 7 2 Atkinson . Caffyn . Wisden . 168 49 68 22 100 26 20 8 16 9 I 4 - X Hon. C. Lyttelton. H. H. Gillett. n If arf«S --q II 4| feLL^- ^ : ^^IhH r— ■ ^'*^|4 m^ Pv\ w n ^,,-_^^ 1 B. B. Cooper. F. R. Evans. BROUGHTON. Second Inm ngs. B. R. M. w. WIDES 244 5X 36 6 28 16 I I ... . 148 45 IS 2 ... 108 22 13 I 4 40 17 3 20 II I ... 47 Atkinson . Caffyn . Wisden . Griffiths . Hayward Carpenter Close and interesting as this match was, it was followed by a finish more sensational, and a match more fluctuating in its progress. We played on the 29th and 30th the Broughton Club, the only Manchester eleven we had not beaten, reputed to be the strongest of the three Man- chester teams. It was a bowler's wicket, and they got F. F. out for 89, leading by 20 runs when their turn came. Our second innings produced 127 (the fifth wicket having fallen for 103) ; thus Broughton went in for 107 to win. Buchanan began splendidly ; 5 wickets fell to him and i to Goodrich for 44 runs, and then E. Rowley (who scored 48 and 60 not out) broke the bowling, and Brandt having been disabled the day before, we had no change to fall back upon but H. S. Armitstead, who did us yeoman's service, sending up 24 balls for 4 runs, and enabling the original bowlers to come on again. At 97 Goodrich took the seventh wicket, the next fell for the same score, and then the ninth man went in determined to do or die. I cannot recall his name, but I see him yet, a huge slogger, tucking up his sleeves as he went to the wicket. Goodrich gave him a ball to hit, up it went straight into Wing- field's hands — who dropped it. The thunder of suppressed enthusiasm burst forth from every quarter of the ground, and the few backers of the Foresters changed colour and drew a long breath. Goodrich never moved a muscle. He gave him the same ball, and it went to the same place, but with a different result, for Wingfield held it this time. The last man was a slow bowler, and had rather ill - treated Buchanan, who had his revenge by bowling him neck and 48 SEVENTIETH MATCH. heels. So Foresters won by 6. A. H. Faber 34 and 28, F. G. Inge 7 and 30, W. Wingfield 17 and 10, T. C. Good- rich 4 and 18, made most runs. And in their last match with Rugby School they won again with small margin of time. It was played on Sept. 9 and 10, F. F. getting 160 runs in the first innings, of which T. Ratliff contributed 70. The School got 86, and disposed of F. F. for 59 runs only, and then succumbed for 6Z, — Goodrich (who took 9 wickets), Buchanan, and Mott being the F. F. bowlers. B. B. Cooper with 42 and 10 (not out) championed the School. I shall never forget the not- out innings, played for time with a patience and dexterity which would have been remarkable in a veteran. He went in second or third wicket down, and was in while Martin made 35 and Davenport ii. He soon became one of our most reliable batsmen. This was the seventieth match played by Free Fores- ters, who felt themselves not unworthy to be classed with the "wandering tribes represented by I Zingari, whose amateur performances in the evening are equal to their prowess in the morning ; the Perambulators, whose motto is * Floreant Vehicula ' ; the Ramblers, who are never with- out * Spectators ' ; the Toxophilites, who are as expert at the wicket as they are at the bull's-eye, and who quiver not before their opponents ; the Free Foresters, who, like Robin Hood and his merry men of old, bear off the palm for skill, pluck, and determination ; the Suffolk Borderers," &c.^ ^ Recreations of a Sportsman, Lord Wm. Lennox, ii. 39. 49 CHAPTER VII. 1862. Free Foresters began their season as usual at Oxford, on May 27, getting Bullingdon out for 52, — Mott, Reay^ and W. G. Armitstead bowling ; and the last-named with 37 aiding H. Boden 39, and J. B. Story 27, in the compilation of a score of 132, with 6 wickets to fall. Brasenose on the two next days made a draw. F. F. scored 168 and 179 — W. G. Armitstead 62 and 42, C. A. Garnett 55 and 3, A. H. Faber i and 46, &c. — to 133 from the College. A third match at a village called Buckland, on a ground full of molehills, and in rain which, as Hood once said, " came from watering-pots with the rose off," was attempted on May 30, and part of an innings was got through, For- esters' score being 78, of which 39 were extras, 24 being wides from Colonel Goodlake, fast underhand. W. G. Armitstead scored 16. Four wickets of the Kingston eleven scored 27, Lord Turnour 12 (not out). There was yet more rain at Rugby, June 3 and 4, where the boys made a fine innings of 248 — Robertson 70, Case 53, Cooper 35, Vandermeulen 27 ; and 6 Forester wickets were down for 88, T. Ratlifif 38. And although a month had elapsed before their next engagement, the vengeful clerk of the weather still dogged their steps. It was at Southgate — the first time F. F. had the pleasure of visiting a ground sacred to Middlesex cricket, where they have D 50 APPRECIATION. played many a good match since ; and with Hearne IJ, E. Vyse 31, and C. Waller 28, the home team compiled 152 against 35, which time and weather only allowed F. F. to score for the loss of 4 wickets. Mott's performance with the ball was unusually good — 114 balls for 30 runs and 5 wickets ; Goodrich bowled '^'^ balls for 50 runs and 2 wickets, and Buchanan 80 for 42 runs and i wicket, Brandt also securing one. Mott always was a valuable bowler, though in general we used to utilise his services as a change for a few overs only. He took a remarkably long run, and we used to think soon tired. He rather resented this estimate of his powers, and I well remember, when he went to a curacy in Devonshire, asking him how he was getting on. " Splendidly," was his reply ; " I am appreci- ated at last. They flock to hear me preach, and put me on first to bowl for the county." A weak team of Free Foresters had to succumb in one innings on July 8 to the School at Weybridge, to which Goodrich had transferred his services. The School got 128 — W. C. Tabor 60; and Goodrich took 15 wickets of Foresters, who only made 59 and 43. The following days saw Free Foresters at the Oval to play a team of Gentlemen of Surrey, supplemented by two ground men, Humphrey and Heartfield. The feature of the match was W. G. Armitstead's admirably got score of 116; but our new recruit, B. B. Cooper, took 6 wickets with his slows, and C. G. Lyttelton, though failing to add to the score, disposed of as many at wicket. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. A. H. Faber, c Little, b Humphrey 2 W. G. Armitstead, b Waller 116 C. G. Lyttelton, b Humphrey o B. B. Cooper, b Heartfield 64 F. Watson, c Vyse, b Heartfield 48 T. Ratliff, c Dawson, b Waller 14 THE OVAL, 51 1ST INNINGS. T. O. Reay, c Burnett, b Heartfield . S. Linton, c Hemming, b Heartfield . H. H. Gillett, not out ... W. K. Mott, c Humphrey, b Heartfield D. Buchanan, run out byes 3, leg-byes 6, wides 5 Total SCORE, 9 I 12 13 2 14 295 GENTLEMEN OF SURREY CLUB. 1ST INNINGS. T. Humphrey, c Cooper, b Buchanan C. C. Dawson, c Mott, b Buchanan J. D. Burnett, c Buchanan, b Reay E. Vyse, st Lyttelton, b Reay W. Little, c Faber, b Reay C. Waller, b Buchanan G. M. Kennedy, b Buchanan E. Smith, c and b Buchanan P. Beaver, not out A. Hemming, c and b Cooper J. Heartfield, 1 b w, b Buchanan wides Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS, 2 St Lyttelton, b Cooper c and b Cooper 2 b Buchanan 19 St Lyttelton, b Cooper 15 b Buchanan 1 not out 7 c Lyttelton, b Reay II St Lyttelton, b Cooper 22 b Buchanan 5 c Lyttelton, b Cooper 4 c Lyttelton, b Buchanan 3 byes 2, leg-byes 2 . 91 Total 7 5 8 I I 55 20 8 3 8 5 4 125 ANALYSIS OF BOWLING. Free Foresters. First Inning. r. B. r. M. w. wides Humphrey . . . 84 55 4 2 ... Heartfield 240 136 12 5 I Little 80 29 8 Waller . 72 26 3 2 3 Kennedy . 20 18 ... ... ... Hemming 32 Surrey. First Inning. 17 r. 2 I Buchanan 113 SO 10 5 I Reay . . . 84 34 4 4 2 Cooper . 16 4 I •" Second Innings. Buchanan 92 55 6 4 Reay 20 12 I Cooper . 80 40 I 5 Mott 28 10 3 ... Gillett . 20 4 3 ... ... 52 A TIE. In the same week, July 12, the Club made their second tie match, Wimbledon being the locality. It was essen- tially a bowlers' day. B. B. Cooper took 16 Wimbledon wickets and won his hat, the home side only reaching the totals of 41 and 91. But Foresters did no better ; they got 54 in the first innings, and Walter Coyney was run out by a substitute when attempting the winning-notch. Oliver captured 12 Forester wickets, those who got into double figures being Faber, Wingfield, W. G. Armitstead, and Pocklington (twice). A fortnight later our most important engagement came off at Leamington, where we met the old All England eleven with sixteen ; the ground being the one owned by Parr and Wisden. Imagine the consternation of the writer when at his breakfast-table that morning he received a missive from Buchanan announcing that, in consequence of what was once called in the letter of a waiting-gentle- woman a dishion to his family, he could not come to play. Fortunately Wingfield Fiennes was accessible, and sup- plied the vacancy. The score will give a good idea of the game, which nevertheless abounded in incident from com- mencement to close. The eleven included Capt. F. Mar- shall, and was as formidable a batting team as could be found : 95 for 2 wickets was the score at dinner-time, and the England eleven were out for 227, and had got 2 Forester wickets for 13 at the end of the day. Faber, however, was treated very leniently at wicket by H. H. Stephenson, and Wingfield played excellent cricket, carry- ing out his bat for 20, having W. Fiennes in with him for a rattling 31, while he simply defended his stumps. This innings produced 218, and the Free Foresters had got five of the A. E. E. out for 92 at the conclusion of the second day's play. On Saturday George Parr had to acknowledge that T. O. Reay was his master, as the second ball that A. E. E. 53 bowler gave him took his wicket, as the first ball from the same quarter had done in the first innings. When the eleven were out, at 12.45, for 134, matters began to get interesting, and the A. E. E. looked like winning, as at luncheon-time 5 wickets had gone for 31 runs; nor did 7 for 60 look much better. Hornby and Mordaunt, Evans and Reay, however, played steadily, and byes, the ground not being quite perfect, helped the score. It was just when Evans went in that a ball, hit to leg, was fielded by a large dog, who calmly lay down with the ball between his paws, and growled at George Parr, who was in pursuit of it. Parr halted and expostulated, but the dog growled ominously, and the owner had to be found to call him off before the hit could be fielded. When Reay was out, 6 runs were required to win, and Mott went in. " I think we shall win now," observed Jackson, "for Mr Goodrich is tired out, and Mr Mott 'ad 'is 'it first innings." However, Mott sent a ball from Tarrant about two feet out of Capt. Marshall's reach, Evans made a single, Jackson bowled a wide, a tie, and Mott triumphantly finished the match with a stroke for 2. ALL ENGLAND. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. Tarrant, run out 17 1 b w, b Goodrich . Caesar, c W. Armitstead, b Goodrich . 10 c Evans, b Goodrich . 23 Anderson, run out 51 c Wingfield, b Goodrich . 21 Hayward, c H. Armitstead, b Goodrich . 26 b Goodrich ... 2 Parr, b Reay 33 b Reay .... 12 H. H. Stephenson, c W. Armitstead, b Inge 24 c and b Goodrich . . 18 Clarke, c Mordaunt, b Goodrich . . o c Ratliff, b Goodrich . o Capt. Marshall, b Reay . . . . 23 c H. Armitstead, b Good rich Jackson, 1 b w, b Evans . . . . 22 c Reay, b Fiennes . R. C. Tinley, c Evans, b Goodrich . . i not out ... Wootton, not out 13 st H. Armitstead, b Reay byes 5, leg-bye i, wide i . . . 7 leg-bye i, wides 3 Total . 227 Total 9 18 I 18 4 134 54 MOTT NOT OUT. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. W. G. Armitstead, b Jackson . B. B. Cooper, b Jackson . E, K. Hornby, b Jackson . F. R. Price, b Jackson A. H. Faber, b Jackson F. G. Inge, b Jackson J. M. Mordaunt, b Wootton W. J. Lyon, b Tarrant H. S. Armitstead, st Stephenson, b Tinley W. Wingfield, not out T. Reay, c Stephenson, b Hay ward T. Rathff, b Hayward F. Evans, 1 b w, b Hayward W. K. Mott, b Hayward . Hon. W. Fiennes, b Wootton . . T. C. Goodrich, c Stephenson, b Wootton byes 19, leg-byes 6 . Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 9 c Wootton, b Jackson 10 2 b Jackson I b Tinley . 17 2 b Wootton 5 • 79 c Wootton, b Jackson 6 3 c Wootton, b Jackson 10 c and b Tinley . 16 2 c Wootton, b Tinley 16 y 9 b Tinley . 3 20 b Wootton I 5 c Tarrant, b Jackson 14 12 b Tinley . 3 not out . 15 6 not out . 5 . 31 c Marshall, b Wootton 12 • 25 byes 19, leg-byes 4, wide I 24 . 218 Total . 145 ANALYSIS OF BOWLING. All England. First Innings. B. R. Goodrich 240 99 Mott . . . . . .68 35 Evans ..... 100 36 Inge 16 3 Fiennes 44 25 Reay 52 17 Second Innings. Goodrich 193 51 Mott 40 13 Evans ..... 36 7 Inge . . . . . . 4 Fiennes ..... 12 9 Reay ...... 104 49 H. S. Armitstead ... 4 i M. w. IVIDI 19 4 4 I I 7 1 I 2 ... 3 2 14 7 6 6 ... I ... ... Free Foresters. First Innings. Wootton 116 Jackson 220 Tinley 72 Tarrant 52 Hayward 88 31 12 3 68 25 6 26 8 I 23 4 I 45 6 4 / Z. 55 Second Innings. B. R. M. W. WIDES. Wootton 208 34 35 3 Jackson 141 48 15 5 Tinley 88 33 7 5 i Tarrant 28 6 4 On Monday, Aug. 4 — Sunday fortunately being a day of rest after the excitement of the great win of Saturday — the annual match with twenty-two of Sutton took place. The local men were supplemented by several good cricketers, as the names of Chinn, Mott, Inge, and Coyney prove; but Goodrich took 15 of their wickets, and they were all out for 70; against which F. F. made 149 — F. G. Inge 50, B. B. Cooper 27 (not out), W. J. Lyon 23. In the second innings, Goodrich not bowling, the twenty-two made 104. The next day, by invitation of Lord Aylesford, Free Foresters met I Zingari again on his Lordship's ground at Packington. " Sore and hard I Z. struggled for victory, but fortune went for their opponents ; in their three- coloured robe of virtue they were fain to enwrap them- selves, to look pleasant, and to pay up," said * Bell's Life.* "Mr W. G. Armitstead's performance in the second innings was artistic, and displayed an accurate knowledge of the regulation height as at present insisted on at the Horse Guards : the fielding of the Forest brethren was superb ; and to their excellence in that department, com- bined with Goodrich's mathematical precision of delivery, must the large margin of their victory be ascribed." I ZINGARI. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. R. Marsham, c W. G. Armitstead, b Goodrich o 1 b w, b Reay . . . ii C. D. Marsham, c W. G. Armitstead, b Reay o c Price, b Reay . . 6 G. R. Johnson, c Price, b Reay . . 3 c Ratliff, b Goodrich . 29 56 PACKINGTON. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. R, A. Mitchell, c Mott, b Reay R. Fitzgerald, b Reay .... E. Drake, c Cooper, b Reay Hon. S. Ponsonby, c Wingfield, b Goodrich Capt. F. Marshall, c Faber, b Goodrich . H. Fellows, c Inge, b Goodrich E. Tredcroft, not out .... Hon. W. Harbord, c Reay, b Goodrich . byes I, wides 2 2D INNINGS. Total 43 st H. S. Armitstead, b Goodrich 12 c Inge, b Mott . II b Goodrich 3 St H. S. Armitstead, Goodrich 5 run out . 3 run out . I c Ratliff, b Goodrich o not out 3 leg-bye i 84 Total 83 FREE FORESTERS. W. G. Armitstead, c Mitchell, b C. D. Marsham 18 not out F. R. Price, st Mitchell, b Drake . . o H. S. Armitstead, c Fellows, b C. D. Marsham 5 A. H, Faber, b C. D. [Marsham . . 16 st Mitchell, b Drake F. G. Inge, b Drake 17 not out . W. Wingfield, c Mitchell, b C. D. Marsham 3 st Mitchell, b Drake B. B. Cooper, not out . . . . 9 b C. D. Marsham . T. O. Reay, c Tredcroft, b Drake . . 2 T. Ratliff, st Fellows, b Drake . . . o W. K. Mott, b C. D. Marsham . . o T. C. Goodrich, c. Fellows, b C. D. Marsham o bye I, leg-bye i, wides 2 ... 4 byes 2, leg-bye i, wide Total . 74 Total 50 95 ANALYSIS OF BOWLING. I ZiNGARI. First Innings. B. R. Goodrich 77 42 Reay 76 39 Second Innings. Goodrich 115 39 Reay 68 38 Mott 44 6 W. WIDES. 5 5 2 i ^ ^B^^BBHBp|H^^^^^^^^^^ IiJmI^Pk '^^^■Ijl^llf^.^ ^g ?i€M-^iJ ^&' -^ 2 MJ '.1. cSJ i' Jl ■i Li|^||IM[|^^ 1 ^.s . ; ,r - ^l^^^bL ^ ^^*T,*. ^Mkj^ I^^^H^^^i«rl^ 1 ^ '^iaSjif ^^^^B^ 'e^6ix€yoi oira Anpidearaav UTa'i. ARMITSTEAUS NARRATIVE. yi had an undaunted heart, but rather a warm temper, hft up his bat and threaten point therewith, as if he would thoroughly enjoy knocking off his head on the spot ; and then to see them play out at the next ball perhaps, a bit shorter than they thought it, and gently poke it into the ready hands of point, who had crept even nearer to wait for it ! Oh, it was a thing to see ! All this, and much more, was over and over again exemplified in this very match. And this, I hope, will be held to be some excuse for my long digression. R. Daft, I may say, played Goodrich very well indeed, and with boundless patience^ but could scarcely get a run off him, and the others were mostly — noivhere I Well, there being only one run between the two rather small scores of the first innings, no bones were as yet broken, and in- terest was still alive for the second. But how different in char- acter was the batting in the second venture ! The two first men at once collared ^^Smacktntyrej'^ as his friends called him, in graceful allusion to the violence of his attack, and he was, besides, so bad to stop behind the wicket, that he had to be taken off as being too expensive. One cannot help wonder- ing what present-day wicket-keepers would do with such a bowler without a long-stop. I may say, without tedious particulars, that Bull and Mitchell much surprised the Notts spectators by the fineness and dash of their play ; and when F. W. Wright came in he electrified them with his hitting : he hit all the bowlers alike, clean and hard, along the ground; and when Tinley, the slow bowler, was put on, it was only to experience still more drastic treatment. Wright was so quick on his legs, and so determined, that he got to every ball, and made it visit each corner of the ground in turn. Finally, he hit Jackson — a rare feat with so fast and fine a bowler — over his head, far out of the ground, and over the road beyond into a garden. The ball was in truth a lost one, for it never was found. A new one was produced from the paviHon, and, strange to say, Jackson bowled him with a shooting Yorker the very next ball. When I mention that out of a total of 64, obtained in about half-an-hour, Wright hit ten fours, a five, and a six against the then best bowlers in England, I need not say that the spectators had a treat foreshadowing Mr Stoddart or Mr O'Brien at their best. In fine, F. F. put together 2 1 2 in the second innings — a score, in those days, more than respectable. Notts went in the third morning and played, most of them, with great determination ; but again none of them but R. Daft could do much with Goodrich, backed up by fourteen fieldsmen of more than average quickness. Daft played a fine game, but 72 ARMITSTEAD'S NARRATIVE. I feel sure his memory would bear me out in saying that he could get no runs from Goodrich, — he could but stay there, with all his skill and impregnable defence. When 9 wickets of Notts were down, they still needed 67, runs to reach the F. F. total, and the case of the county seemed hopeless — but with the occasion (as sometimes happens) came the men, for here came in the great surprise of the match : Wootton and Biddulph became partners, one of whom was played entirely for his bowling, and the other as a wicket-keeper, neither having a very high reputation as a batsman ; yet, somehow, they seemed to stick, and each began, now and then, to get runs, chiefly at the fast bowler's end. Buchanan was then a fast and difficult left-handed bowler, and a bit dangerous to legs and fingers, not the slow dodger, with an off-break, like that of Briggs and Peel now, which he afterwards developed into : in fact, his only variation to his usual fast and kicking ball was a slow half-volley chucked up, as if for the very purpose of being hit for four. These balls, I am bound to say, Biddulph made free use of till, in fine, instead of being ^2) ^u'^s ^"^ arrear, the scorers had actually stood up for the tie, while the winning run should be made. Here, at last, from over eagerness, or a nervous wish to get home, the steadiness of Biddulph gave way, and he ran in to one of Goodrich straight on the middle stump, played in with his leg instead of his bat — and paid forfeit. Hurrah ! a tie after all ! Surprise upon surprise ! So, while Notts headed the score by one run in the first innings, F. F. did the very same thing in the second, making a sort of double tie, — thus altering for the nonce the well-known though enigmatic motto of F. F. — " United but not Untied." The scene, as reporters say, " beggared description." The Trent Bridge ground was then a far more free-and-easy sort of place than, I feel sure, it is in these more highly organ- ised days : the old paviHon combined a bar with its dressing- rooms, &c., and both sexes were admitted in it; and dressing seemed to go on in public, varied and enlivened by liquid refreshment. My last recollection of the match is of several smart young ladies patting or sttiacking the plump shoulders of Buchanan, while they, in this hearty fashion, congratulated him on his personal prowess. Now, ye Moderns ! if you can promise to show me a better and more exciting match than that which I have tried to describe, I, on my part, will go a good way to look at it. — Yours sincerely, W. G. A. A TIE AT LAST 73 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. W. G. Armitstead, b Jackson . C. L. Hornby, c Bignall, b Wootton H. G. Bull, c Tinley, b M'Intyre E. K. Hornby, b Wootton R. A. H. Mitchell, b M'Intyre . T. Ratliff, b M'Intyre F. R. Evans, c Jackson, b Wootton F. W. Wright, b M'Intyre W.J. Lyon, b M'Intyre . H. S. Armitstead, b M'Intyre . T. O. Reay, b M'Intyre . W. K. Mott, c Clarke, b M'Intyre D. Buchanan, not out T. C. Goodrich, b M'Intyre byes 7, leg-byes 6, wide i Total SCORE. IS 9 17 7 o I IS lO 4 i8 o 3 I o .14 114 2D INNINGS. SCORE, b Wootton ... 12 St Biddulph, b Wootton . 7 b Jackson ... 41 b Wootton ... 7 b Tinley .... 34 b Jackson ... 8 run out .... I b Jackson ... 64 run out .... 2 1 b w, b Tinley . . 5 c Tinley, b Jackson . . 7 b Jackson . . . o not out .... 3 St Biddulph, b Tinley . i byes 14, leg-byes 6 . 20 Total . 212 NOTTS. b Evans . C. Daft, run out C. Brampton, b Goodrich . T. Bignall, c W. G. Armitstead, R. Daft, not out J. Grundy, b Evans . A. Clarke, st Mitchell, b Goodrich . J. Jackson, st Mitchell, b Goodrich . R. C. Tinley, c Ratliff, b Goodrich . M. M'Intyre, c E. K. Hornby, b Buchanan S. Biddulph, b Goodrich . G. Wootton, b Goodrich .... byes 8, wide i 16 c H. Armitstead, b Reay 23 26 b Buchanan ... 20 3 st Mitchell, b Goodrich . 4 26 c Bull, b Goodrich . . 56 6 c W. Armitstead, b Goodrich o 9 c W. Armitstead, b Goodrich o o st Mitchell, b Goodrich . i 7 b Buchanan ... 25 9 b Goodrich . . . o 2 1 b w, b Goodrich . . 33 2 not out .... 30 9 " ' leg-byes 9, wides 3, byes 7 19 Total . 115 Umpires — G. Butler and V. Tinley. Total ANALYSIS OF BOWLING. Free Foresters. First Innings. B. R. M. w. wides Wootton . 132 59 II 3 Jackson . 48 23 3 I M'Intyre. 8i 18 7 9 I Second Innings. Wootton . 128 48 12 3 Jackson . 72 38 4 5 M'Intyre . 72 33 10 ... Grundy . 60 24 7 Tinley . 74 49 4 3 74 KNOWING ONES DONE. First Inning s. B. R. M. w. WIDES Buchanan 72 41 6 I Goodrich 160 40 16 6 Evans 90 25 10 2 I Second Innings, Buchanan 216 69 28 2 ... Goodrich . . 238 79 24 7 ... Evans . . 67 15 6 ... 3 Reay 28 14 I I ... Ratliff . 12 II ... ... ... Mott 8 4 ... ... ... I must supplement this admirable and spirited narra- tive by one or two other recollections. One of the keenest of the critics not only volunteered a very disparaging comment upon Bull's play, but wound up by offering a bet that he did not make 17 runs again in the second innings. Armitstead promptly took him up, and handed him 17s., to receive in return is. a-run, to the noble captain's great contentment. By -and -by, however, his face began to lengthen, and he was barely perceptible far away in the distance, evidently dreading chaff. Noth- ing would satisfy Mitchell but to go and talk to him, but as Mitchell approached he edged away, and finally, having made the circuit of the ground, was run to earth just in his old position, in time to look pleasant and pay up a couple of sovereigns and a shilling to boot. But his. discomfiture was nothing to that of a deaf gentleman residing in Nottingham, no cricketer, but a great sportsman, and one who liked to have a little money on an event. He began by backing the County at odds, but when Foresters' second innings was in pro- gress he became alarmed and backed them, at odds also. When the tie was declared, his face, which had been a study for the last half-hour, cleared, and he cried, " Thank goodness, my bets are off! " When he found that the rule H. E. Bull. F. W. Wright. D. Buchanan. M. T. Martin. / Z. 75 in such a case was to put the money together and divide it, his disgust was pitiable, and he probably to this day considers cricket a swindle. Mr Reay recalls the scene on the third day. It was market-day in Nottingham, and when word went up to the farmers' ordinaries that the County were going to win after all, the taverns were deserted, and the gate during the last hour was the best in the match. The Nottingham lambs looked more than playful when the telegraph showed a tie, but when their own umpire had to give Biddulph out 1 b w, they cheered both sides. As the earlier match at Manchester had come to such an untimely end, the Western Club invited Foresters to pay them a second visit on Sept. lo and ii, when the latter won by 9 wickets — Mitchell 98 and Ratliff 53, helping a score of 200, and getting out the Westerners for 50 and 140 — Mitchell accounting for 7 wickets, Ratliff for 6, Lyon for 5. On the 17th and i8th of the same month F. F. met I Z. again at Packington. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. W. G. Armitstead, b Arkwright . . 4 c Fitzgerald, b Arkwriglit 2 H. E, Bull, run out 43 run out .... 3 E. K. Hornby, c Ponsonby, bC. D. Marsham 16 not out .... 68 F. R. Evans, c Lyttelton, b Arkwright . 21 c Drake, b Arkwright . 36 T. Ratliff, c Lane, b Marsham . M. T. Martin, c Drake, b Marsham C. Booth, c Mordaunt, b Arkwright W. J. Lyon, c Drake, b Arkwright T. O. Reay, c Drake, b Arkwright D. Buchanan, not out H. C. Willes, c Ponsonby, b Arkwright . 2 bye I, leg-byes 6, wide-balls 4 . .11 leg-byes 4, wides 5 . 9 Total . 147 Total . 185 o 4 b Marsham ... 40 34 b Mitchell ... 7 2 not out .... 12 2 8 b Drake .... 8 76 A SUCCESSFUL SEASON. I ZINGARI. C. D. Marsham, b Buchanan E. T. Drake, c Reay, b Buchanan R. Marsham, c Willes, b Evans C. G. Lane, b Ratlifif . Hon. C G. Lyttelton, b Evans R. A. H. Mitchell, b Evans R. A. Fitzgerald, c Bull, b Ratliff Hon. S. Ponsonby, not out O. Mordaunt, b Buchanan . H. Arkvvright, c and b Buchanan Lord Aylesford, b Buchanan byes 4, leg-byes 2, wides 3 Total SCORE. 4 12 10 52 o II 35 24 10 20 S 9 192 The laurels of the game thus went to Hornby, of whom an opponent, qualified to judge, wrote, " Were he as strong on the off-side as to leg, he would be fit to play in the first rank." At Rugby, on Sept. 21 and 22, Foresters got 189, and then the boys just saved the follow on by making no, Case 26 ; and in the second innings of Foresters only 3 wickets were down for 131. Linton scored 31 and 70, Bull yj, Caldecott 6 and 42 (not out twice), Mordaunt 22 and 13, &c. A new match with Uppingham School the two next days finished this successful season, the boys only getting 55 and 53 to Buchanan and Ratlifif's bowling, and F. F. scoring 144 — Colley 38, Martin 22, Caldecott 16, &c. -Jl CHAPTER IX. 1864. This year Mr Faber had arranged to hand over the secretaryship to Mr Mitchell, when the latter found him- self compelled to resign most of his cricket engagements, owing to circumstances over which he had no control ; consequently the programme was very imperfectly com- pleted, although new ground was taken up by the com- mencement of the tours in Scotland, which for some years were so prominent a feature of our season. Foresters, however, played strong in Oxford, where they commenced on May 10 (the 9th being wet) against Ch. Ch., by making 212 — Mitchell 53, Linton 35, Gillet 26, CoUey and Bull each 23, &c., Ch. Ch. losing 9 wickets, 6 to Buch- anan and 3 run out, for 102. Bullingdon, on the nth, had to field all day to ten F. F. Stanhope not going in, E. K. Hornby made 123, Mitchell 82 (not out), F. W. Wright and R. H. Colley 29 each, W. G. Armitstead 25. F. F. beat B. N. C. on the 12th and 13th by 7 wickets, the College scoring 127 and 100. F. F. got in and 119, of which E. K. Hornby claimed 17 and 38, C. L. Hornby 12 and 23, Linton 8 and 22, Fetherston 2 and 22 (not out). Buchanan took 14 wickets. On the i6th and 17th they made another successful departure by encountering Cambridge University. 78 CAMBRIDGE. FREE FORESTERS. SCORE. R. H. CoUey, b Pelham 8 E. Davenport, c De Grey, b Pelham 30 Hon. C. G. Lyttelton, b Pelham 65 A. Walker, b Booth o H. E. Bull, c Tuck, b Pelham 14 M. T. Martin, c De Grey, b Curteis 46 O. Mordaunt, c Hyndman, b Pelham .... 8 D. Buchanan, c Balfour, b De Grey i W. J. Lyon, st Balfour, b De Grey 31 G. E. Willes, not out 27 B. T. Fetherston, c Harvey, b De Grey .... 13 byes 3, leg-byes 5, wide-balls 5 13 Total . . 256 CAMBRIDGE. Hon. T. D. Grey, c Colley, b Buchanan .... 27 T. F. Fowler, c Davenport, b Buchanan . . . . o R. D. Balfour, b Lyttelton 23 A. W. T. Daniel, c and b Mordaunt 126 G. H. Tuck, c Walker, b Buchanan 31 C. Booth, b Lyttelton 2 W. R. CoUyer, b Mordaunt 11 H. M. Hyndman, c Colley, b Mordaunt .... 35 Hon. F. Pelham, b Mordaunt 3 F. C. Harvey, not out 2 T. Curteis, b Mordaunt 4 , byes 3, leg-byes 3, wide-balls 2 8 Total , . 272 The Rugby match was won on May 23 and 24, with 10 wickets to fall. Bull distinguished himself by a hit for 7 over the bowler's head. He scored 13 and 49 (not out), Robertson 5 and 20 (not out), Colley 73, Buchanan 38. Totals 209 and 79. For the School, who made 95 and 192, Ellis 4 and 57, Bowey 25 (not out) and 20, Kenney 7 and 28, did best. Buchanan took 10 wickets. Weybridge School on June 18 only got 96, to 154 and 73 for 6 wickets of F. F. — Stanhope 50 (not out), Cecil Reid 23 and 28 (not out), Finch 20 and 21, O. Mordaunt 31, being chief scorers. Mr Reid writes : — As a member of the F. F. since the early or middle " sixties," and having always been very partial to cricket, though but an indiiferent performer at the noble game, I naturally came into SFVEJ^S'S. 79 contact with many cricketers, and visited many pleasant places, during my somewhat lengthened F. F. career, which I always shall look back upon with great pleasure now that the " ground is too far off," and that the " chest has sunk."^ My first match — I think in 1864 — for the Club was v. Spyers's School at Weybridge, and one or two of the masters were playing. In the days I am speak- ing of, the masters, as a rule, were not so taken from the ranks of really good cricketers as they are now at Elstree school and other schools, and I always thought that I had got a " soft thing on " when they went on to bowl : a friend of mine, now the Rev. C. Spencer Stanhope, of Merton, was playing, and we were in together, and we smacked a master all over the ground. He was bowling underhand lobs. We each got a good score ; and it was not for some hours afterwards that I learnt that I had actually been "tonking" no less a personage than T. C. Goodrich — probably the best underhand bowler of this or any other day. Just fancy my impertinence / Why, if I had known beforehand who it was, I should of course have been bowled out first ball! Shakespeare's remark of "What's in a name?" was the worst thing the immortal William ever wrote. Another school eleven succumbed at Haileybury on the i8th, who got 140 to 172 from F. F. M. T. Martin scored 39 and 20, C. H. Bill 31 and 10, A. Lee 30 and 3 (not out), S. Linton 31 and I. F. G. Inge arrived too late for his first innings, but took 4 wickets and got 41 runs. Mr Bill was credited in the report of the match with 85 ; and this error remaining undetected, figured as one of the scores of the season in those days, when centuries were less com- mon than they are now. Nothing was done by the Club till the autumn, when the old secretary essayed to get together a team for a northern tour beginning on Aug. 23 and 24 at Chelford, where the Armitsteads and Hornbys played for their county against their Club. Out of 335 runs made in the two innings of Cheshire, H. S. Armitstead made 64, W. G. A. 48, E. K. Hornby 40, C. L. H. 21. F. W. Wright 7 and 53, F. G. Inge 28 and 25 (not out), and S. Lyttelton 31 and 10, did best for Foresters, whose totals were 121 and 120. So A SERIOUS ACCIDENT, At the Western ground, Eccles, on the two next days they left a most interesting game unfinished. The Western Club, for whom F. W. Wright was now playing, with the assistance of 89 runs from him and 47 from Bousfield, made 234. Free Foresters started well, and F. G. Inge seemed on the point of obtaining his century, when a ball got up sharply and struck him on the breast-bone. He rubbed the place with his hand for a second or two, and was just taking guard to receive the next ball, when he suddenly fell on his face, to all appearance lifeless. Fortunately the late Dr Morgan (whose book on University oarsmen is so well known) was playing on the side of the Western, and by his efficient aid consciousness was soon restored, and no subsequent evil effect experienced. With Inge's 98, Foresters achieved a total of 232, W. W. C. Lane 45, W. G. Armitstead 23, &c., and having got out the Club for 201, of which M'Donald made 95, had scored at the end of the day 71 for 2 wickets, W. G. Armitstead 25, and H. E. Bull 31. The Free Foresters naturally wished to show in some suitable way their feeling of gratitude for the services ren- dered to one of their eleven by Dr Morgan. The artistic taste of a member (Halifax Wyatt) settled that the pre- sentation should take the shape of a plain gold ring, bear- ing our motto, " United though Untied," and within, the legend in old English characters — "^a frmti gn neUe p a frmli 2« ftrte." Thus handsomely acknowledged by the recipient : — Eccles, Oct. 3, My dear Sir, — I trust you will convey to the Free Foresters who played against the Western Club, my deep sense of their great kindness in sending me so generous and beautiful a token of their regard for the slight assistance which it was my happy privilege to render to one of their members. I would desire likewise to thank them for the honour they THE RING. 8i have done me, in electing me a member of their Club, and to assure them of the gratification and pride I shall, feel in wearing their colours. To yourself, as their representative, for the kind manner in which you have given expression to their wishes, I shall ever feel that my gratitude is due. — Believe me, my dear Sir, yours very truly, John Ed. Morgan. The tour in Scotland will be found in its place in the chapter dealing with this portion of our history. We drew three matches in terrible weather. On the same days as our last match in Scotland, Sept. 14 and 15, another F. F. team made 210 against Upping- ham — M. T. Martin 114 (not out), Boyle 47, &c., while the Boys made 132 and 35. Buchanan took 11 wickets. Dr Morgan's ring^ from a pen-and-ink drawing by Halifax Wyatt. 82 CHAPTER X. 1865, The appearance of Osbert Mordaunt as Secretary in- fused new life into F. F., and a very good programme was arranged, which began on May 24 and 25 at Cambridge against the University. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Hon. C. G. Lyttelton, b Green ... 17 E. K. Hornby, c Foster, b Pelham . . 12 F. R. Evans, 1 b w, b Green ... 6 C. Booth, c A. H. Winter, b Green . . 15 G. E. Willes, run out 2 J. S. E. Hood, not out .... 71 M. T. Martin, c Winter, b Pelham . . i W. J. Lyon, st Winter, b Pelham . . 15 W. W. C. Lane, c Winter, b Pelham . 55 Hon. A. V. Lyttelton, b Curteis . . o L. W. Dent, c Tuck, b Pelham . . o byes 2, leg-byes 4, wides 5, wide-byes 3 . 14 Total . 208 2D INNINGS. c Tuck, b Pelham b Curteis . b Curteis . b Green . St Winter, b Pelham 1 b w, b Roupell c Pelham, b Curteis c Tuck, b Pelham c Winter, b Pelham not out c Roupell, b Curteis byes 7, leg-byes 2, wides 5, wide-ball i Total SCORE. 71 4 6 14 27 36 I 15 3 3 15 213 CAMBRIDGE. A. Walker, c Martin, b C. Lyttelton A. H. Winter, c C. Lyttelton, b Evans G. H. Tuck, c C. Lyttelton, b Evans E. P. Ash, c Booth, b C. Lyttelton E. W. M. Lloyd, run out . C. G. Green, not out H. Foster, b C. Lyttelton . J. W. Taylor, b C. Lyttelton . 99 14 o 5 23 28 6 o absent b Evans . c C. Lyttelton, b Lyon c Lyon, b Evans st Lyon, b C. Lyttelton c Lane, b Lyon 1 b w, b Lyon . b Lyon UNIVERSITIES. Z-^ 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. Hon. F. Pelhairi, st Hood, b C. Lyttelton o st Lyon, b C. Lyttelton . 2 J. H. Roupell, b C. Lyttelton . . . o not out .... 9 T. S. Curreis, st Hood, b C. Lyttelton . i b C. Lyttelton ... 9 bye I, leg-bye i, vvides 11 . . -13 byes 2, leg-bye i, vvides 3 6 Total . 189 Total . 81 On June 5 F. F. played BuUingdon, and F. Inge making 52, R. Whittington 44, and T. Gamier 40, their total was 169 against 118 made by BuUingdon, who then lost 3 wickets for 48, their groundsman twice not out. A two days' match with Ch. Ch. only gave time for an innings each — F. F. making 293, Ch. Ch. 299. For F. F. F. G. Inge scored 84, Davenport, Lyon, and L. Garnett 35 each, CoUey 30, Moseley 19, Reay 18. For Ch. Ch. Maitland made 80, O. Mordaunt 58, Boyle 40, &c. But on June 8, B. N. C. having got F. F. out for 97, Davenport 26 being the best scorer, made 136 themselves for 9 wickets. On June 23 Upper Tooting was the scene of some good cricket and mirthful minstrelsy. F. F. made 172 to 114 from the home side — E. Rutter scoring 59, T. Ratlifif 35 (not out), T. O. Reay 24 ; but on their second essay they only attained the figure of 52, and Tooting made 23 for 2 wickets. Haileybury got out for 25 and Z6, so as F. F. had scored iii in the first innings, a wide in the second settled the matter. F. Lee 30, R. Brodie 26, E. Hume 24, were the chief performers. Ratliff's slows took 12 wickets, and Brodie 6. At Lord's, on July 4 and 5, F. F. met I Z. and a licking, for which they are indebted to a splendid innings on Mr Buller's part, and some bad management on their own. 84 LORD'S. I ZINGARI. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. R. Balfour, c Hornby, b Buchanan . . i C. D. Marsham, st Cooper, b Buchanan . i R. Marsham, c Daniel, b Buchanan . . 9 C. F. Buller, not out 95 R. A. H. Mitchell, st Cooper, b Buchanan i C. G. Boyle, b Buchanan .... 24 R. A. Fitzgerald, c Tuck, b Buchanan . 9 G. R. Johnson, b Buchanan ... 5 W. F. Maitland, c and b Hood . .20 W. F. Traill, c Cooper, b Buchanan . i Hon. F. G. Pelham, b Ramsay . . 17 wide I I Total 2D INNINGS. not out not out c Buchanan, b Ramsay SCORE. 4 bye I 184 Total 17 FREE FORESTERS. D. Buchanan, 1 b w, b Maitland E. K. Hornby, b R. Marsham . G. H. Tuck, b C. D. Marsham B. B. Cooper, c and b C. D. Marsham A. W. Daniel, c and b R. Marsham . F. W. Wright, b C. D. Marsham . J. S. E. Hood, b C. D. Marsham . E. Davenport, c Buller, b Traill T. Ratliff, c Boyle, b Traill E. Ramsay, b C. D. Marsham . A. L. Vernon, not out wide I Total not out . 9 17 c Fitzgerald, b Pelham 12 8 c R. Marsham, b Traill 2 27 b Traill . 12 4 c Traill, b Pelham . 24 2 c Traill, b C. D. Marshan 1 6 S c Boyle, b Pelham . 4 I c Mitchell, b Pelham 11 4 c and b Pelham 21 Maitland, b Trail . 23 I b C. D. Marsham . I byes 4, leg-bye i, wide I 6 70 Total 130 And on the 20th a team, described in the book as a "scratch lot," made 71 against the Civil Service — M. T. Martin getting 28. For the Opposition A. Rawlins made 112, C. Rawlins 62, and C. Morgan 50 (out), of the respect- able total of 268. The star of the Foresters was certainly not at this period in the ascendant, for a match against Gentlemen of the South at the Oval produced another discomfiture, in spite of a patient innings by Buchanan, who went in first. Had they scored, as they easily might, another 25 runs the first day, the match would have been drawn. Buchanan, Taylor, and Ramsay, were the chief bowlers for F. F. THE OVAL. 85 GENTLEMEN OF THE SOUTH. 1ST INNINGS. T. Case, c Balfour, b Ramsay . E. M. Grace, st Balfour, b Buchanan E. Rowley, c Ratliff, b Buchanan R. D. Walker, c Hume, b Buchanan G. M. Kelson, c Round, b Buchanan T. D. Walker, not out . . . C. Calvert, c Round, b Buchanan R. Bissett, c Tennent, b Taylor E. W. Burnett, st Balfour, b Buchanan C. Morgan, run out .... J. Smith, c and b Round . bye I, leg-bye i, wides 8 Total CORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 9 not out . . . 6 . 32 . 16 . 16 . 46 . 16 II run out • 13 10 not out I • IS b Ramsay 10 . 181 Total 20 FREE FORESTERS. D. Buchanan, b I. D. Walker . E. Hume, b I. D. W^alker R. D. Balfour, run out .... J. Round, c Bissett, b I. D. Walker . F. F. Taylor, c Kelson, b Grace H. N. Tennent, b Morgan G. P. Robertson, c Grace, b R. D. Walker P. Norman, c and b I. D. Walker . A. W. Daniel, c R. D. Walker, b Morgan E. Ramsay, not out T. Ratliff, st Bissett, b I. D. Walker bye 1, leg-byes 2 Total 28 b I. D. Walker 12 4 not out . 13 3 c Calvert, b Morgan 9 5 c Morgan, b Grace . I c Grace, b I. D. Walker I 23 b Grace . 13 6 c I. D. Walker, b Grace 5 12 b Grace . 9 I c Rowley, b Morgan 22 4 b Morgan 14 b Grace . 9 3 bye I, leg-byes 2 . 3 QO Total no ANALYSIS OF F. F. ] BOWLING. First Innings. B. R. M. w. WIDES D. Buchanan . 180 81 II 6 ... E. Ramsay , 72 25 6 I 7 F. Taylor . . 1x6 30 10 I I J. Round . . 50 25 .,. I ... Second Innings. D. Buchanan . . 28 4 4 ... ... E. Ramsay . . 26 16 I I ... At Manchester again, on July 27 and 28, they lost their match with the Western Club, being short of men. W. G. Armitstead 26 and 76 (not out) was the best performer 86 ABSENTEES. for F. F., who scored 93 and 178. The Western made 172 and loi for 3 wickets, J. F. Leese being 54 (not out) at the close. In their Scottish tour they won three matches, lost one, and drew one. The inconvenience of the managers being both absent on tour was exemplified by the imminent collapse of their great contest against the County of Nottingham, when only ten Foresters out of fourteen appeared on the ground — one of these, Lyon, with his arm in a sling, and Colley also disabled. Mr Williams, however, represented him in the match, and D. Pocklington came to fill the place of one of the other absentees. Communications from Ashley Walker and Ratliff arrived, after delays in trans- mission, when the game was over. Fortunately the bowlers were there, and this was sufficient in the dull sticky weather which ensued to give the Club a victory. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. F. G. Inge, run out .... H. S. Armitstead, c Tinley, b Grundy A. W. Daniel, c Tinley, b Shaw C. Booth, c Shaw, b Grundy . Hon. S. G. Lyttelton, c Jackson, b Grundy R. T. Whittington, b Grundy . D. Buchanan, not out W. W^illiams, c Biddulph, b Shaw T. C. Goodrich, c and b Shaw . E. Davenport, b Shaw D. Pocklington, absent Three absentees bye I, leg-byes 2 . SCORE. 18 20 I 6 o o 5 6 o o o Total 2D INNINGS. b Wootton b Wootton c Brampton, b Tinley b Grundy . b Tinley . c Wootton, b Tinley c Tinley, b Wootton c Biddulph, b Tinley b Tinley . c Parr, b Wootton . not out 3 bye I, wide-bye i . 59 Total SCORE. 23 13 21 2 6 2 IS 29 4 II 13 141 NOTTS. W. Oscroft, c Davenport, b Buchanan C. Brampton, c and b Buchanan G. Wootton, c and b Buchanan J. Jackson, c Davenport, b Buchanan G. Parr, c Whittington, b Buchanan 7 c Inge, b Buchanan . . i 10 c Whittington, b Lyttelton 13 23 c Davenport, b Buchanan 32 o c Substitute, b Buchanan 3 o c Inge, b Goodrich , . 12 A BOWLERS' DAY. ^7 1ST INNINGS. J. Grundy, c Whittington, b Buchanan T. Bignall, run out . S. Biddulph, b Goodrich C. F. Daft, b Buchanan R. C. Tinley, run out J. C. Shaw, not out . Total iE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 3 b Buchanan ... 4 13 1 b w, b Buchanan . . o 12 Goodrich, b Buchanan . i 2 c Inge, b Buchanan . . i 2 b Buchanan ... 9 4 not out . . . . o bye .... I 76 Total 77 ANALYSIS OF BOWLING. Free Foresters. First Innings. B. R. Shaw ...... 114 22 Tinley 40 10 Grundy 72 24 Second Innings. Shaw 124 23 Tinley 176 43 Grundy 116 23 Jackson 56 19 Wootton 176 31 Notts. First Innings, Buchanan 104 37 Goodrich . . . . . 103 39 Second Innings. Buchanan 137 31 Goodrich ..... 80 22 Lyttelton 56 14 M. w. 17 4 4 2 4 19 I no-ball 17 5 18 I 4 ... 25 4 20 8 6 I 7 I The Foresters now went on to Southwell, and beat Notts Gentlemen by 55 runs — S. G. Lyttelton taking 10 wickets and T. C. Goodrich 9 for 70 and 114. F. F. got 93 and 146, Booth's 73 being their best score. The following match on i8th and 19th, against Rugby, they lost in rather curious fashion. The School fell to Ratliff and Buchanan for 65 runs — F. F. totalling 116, Martin (not out) 31, Fetherston 26, Boyle 23. The School then got 125, of which Pauncefote made 70. This left the 88 A COLLAPSE. Foresters 75 to get to win, but 9 wickets fell for 33, and the eleventh man was non est, probably thinking he would not be wanted. The last match at Uppingham, Sept. 20 and 21, they won by 36 runs — M. T. Martin scoring 43 (not out) and 38, R. H. Colley 3 and 41, C. Marshall 6 and 29, &c. ; totals 102 and 158, against which the School made 117 and 107 — J. Fitzgerald 22 and 21, C. E. Green 10 and 25, being their best scorers. Buchanan took 10 wickets, Ratliff 6. ' ' / enjoy a gallop still, though I am an honorary Canon. 89 CHAPTER XI 1866. The season began at Cambridge with good scoring. FREE FORESTERS. SCORE. Hon. C. G. Lyttelton, b S. G. Lyttelton 26 W. G. Armitstead, 1 b w, b Pelham 28 G. H. Tuck, b S. G. Lyttelton . o C. Booth, c Hood, b Pelham . . 43 G. E. Willes, b Weighell . . 60 H. S. Armitstead, c Lloyd, b Pelham 5 W. W. C. Lane, b Weighell W. J. Lyon, b Weighell . J. M. Yates, b Hood . R. H. Colley, b S. G. Lyttelton D. Buchanan, c and b Pelham B. M. Fetherston, not out . byes 16, leg-byes 2, wides 5 Total I 10 38 13 o 33 23 280 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. 1ST INNINGS. Hon. F. Pelham, c Buchanan, b Lyon A. H. Winter, c Yates, b Buchanan C. Warren, c Lyon, b Buchanan J. S. Hood, c Booth, b Lyon . Hon. S. G. Lyttelton, b Lane . J, S. Roupell, b Buchanan E. W. M. Lloyd, c Armitstead, b Buchanan Lord Hyde, b Buchanan . J. M. Richardson, not out W. B. Weighell, c Yates, b Buchanan H. A. Richardson, c Tuck, b Yates . C. E. Green, c Willes, b Yates . byes 3, leg- byes 4, wides 6 SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SC( )RE. 9 c Booth, b Buchanan . I . 64 b Lyon . . 36 I c Lane, b Buchanan , 2 b Buchanan . 3 • 13 c Tuck, b Buchanan . St C. G. Lyttelton, b Buchanan II an 17 c Willes, b Buchanan . 7 . 34 c Booth, c Buchanan 5 • 23 c W. Armitstead, b Lyon 19 run out . . • 34 not out . . 13 3 St C. G. Lyttelton, b Buchanan 36 • 13 leg-bye i, wides 3. bye I S Total 213 Total 136 90 UPS AND DOWNS. At Oxford also, on June 5, the Club got rather too many runs against B. N. C. — C. G. Lyttelton 56, C. W. S. Stanhope 55, J. S. Holden 35, &c., making 225. The College had 6 wickets down for 132. Bullingdon, the next day, after the third wicket had fallen for 36, collapsed for 51, Buchanan taking 5 wickets and Reay 4; then Foresters scored 136 for 6 wickets, Reay claiming 36, G. Willes 30. On the 7th and 8th Ch. Ch. scored 178 and 190, in which are included 55 and 5 from A. H. Smith Barry, and 10 and 37 from O. Mordaunt, against 144 from F. F., of which D. Pocklington made 5 1, G. H. Tuck 28, T. O. Reay 26. At Eton, on a bowler's wicket, the boys on the 9th of June won by 14 runs on the first innings, ^y to 73, Colley and Tuck being the only double figures against Ferguson's bowling; thus encouraged, Eton scored 124 for 3 wickets, Barrington making 79. Buchanan, Mordaunt, Hood, and Mitchell bowled for F. F. The Weybridge match on the i6th they won, Brodie scoring 30, Fetherston 33, Colley 35, T. Ratliff 19 (not out) ; total 158. The School made 82 and 68 for 4 wickets. The Civil Service match on the 28th was won also by 139 to 6^, Osbert Mordaunt making 58. Civil Service got 46 runs for i wicket in the second innings. Haileybury, too, on the 29th and 30th, proved a win — 140 and 133 to 100 and 74. E. Rutter 26 and 40, R. Brodie 20 and 36, were the ledger-men. Upper Tooting, however, inflicted a defeat upon July 5, Raynes making 53 out of 149; while A. Hillyard 23 (not out) and 17, T. O. Reay i and 36, were the best of a team who made but 6S and 84 for 6 wickets. On July 9 and 10 Rugby School made 262 (W. G. Goschen 75, B. Pauncefote 51) and 75 for 3 wickets, against F. F., whose single innings produced 221 — G. L. Marten 6^, PARODY. 91 A. Hillyard 43, &c. E. Ramsay captured 7 wickets, but was absent when called upon to bat. On July 26 and 27 the Foresters were very nearly beaten by the Western Club at Manchester, making 214 to the home side's 251, and then losing 7 wickets for 99 runs. E. K. Hornby for F. F. made 49 and 13, C. L. Hornby 34 and 28, A. H. Smith Barry 30 and 5, W. G. Armitstead 32 and 12. Foresters seem to have been short of men. Their Scottish tour, July 31 to Aug. 9, produced four wins and a draw. On Aug. 22 and 23, the Incogniti beat a scratch team of F. F. at Cannock by 201 to 65 and 125 — A. A. Wilmot, who made 7 and 30, doing best for F. F. ; Bott, Coyney, and C. A. Garnett also making a few runs. If the second day at the Southwell ground had not been too wet to play, another victory would have been probably added to the Forester list, for they got 263 — Tennent 70, Boyle 48, Reay 47, Brodie 34, &c. ; and when the N. C. C. went in they lost 6 wickets, 5 to Goodrich and I run out, for 16 runs. At Thoresby, where an aristocratic patron of cricket, Earl Manvers, gave them a right noble reception, they just drew the match in a critical position. The wicket was all that could be desired. As a parodist observed — " Prince's and Lord's may flourish and may fade ; Yield to the plough, the level, and the spade : But English lawns and parks, their country's pride, Will for the noble game a home provide." Foresters went in first and scored 150, Pocklington and Whittington bowling for Thoresby, the first-named taking 4 wickets, the latter 5. Brodie was best scorer with 51. " The noble host," it is noted, " got rid of Mordaunt by a capital catch off Whittington." Thoresby then took their turn, and only making 63, had to follow, when they mended their hands, and claimed 152. As there was only about 92 RULES, an hour to play, F. F. tried the forcing game, but unsuc- cessfully, for they had 7 wickets down for 40 at the close ; Pocklington again claiming 3, and Whittington 4. In bad weather, at the end of September, they beat Uppingham in one innings, by 141 to 52 and 56, Buchanan taking 12 wickets, and S. G. Lyttelton 6; and the same bowlers the next day disposed of 5 Rugby wickets apiece for 51, while Free Foresters claimed 6Z with 6 wickets down, Ratliff (not out) 28. Rules of the Free Foresters, 1866. The design of the Free Foresters is to play matches with County, University, College, and Regimental Elevens, and with recognised clubs in desirable localities. No entrance or annual subscription shall be required. By-Laws. 1. The affairs of the F. F. are to be regulated by a Committee. 2. The Committee are to consist of the present and former Secretaries, and such F. F. as shall appear likely best to represent the different localities in w^hich the Society's members reside. Such members not to exceed six in number, and to be elected at the annual meeting. 3. The duties of the Committee are to arrange matches (with the sanction of the Secretary), and generally to forward the interests of F. F. in their respective counties. 4. The Secretary is empowered to call a meeting of the Com- mittee at his own discretion; and the presence of any three members of the Committee with the Secretary shall form a quorum. Elections, 1. Elections shall take place twice in the year. Not more than six names shall be selected on each occasion from the names of the candidates proposed, which appear on the circular ; these shall then be submitted to the ballot in the order of their number of votes. One black ball in five shall exclude. 2. The Secretary and the Committee shall arrange the place and time of election, giving not less than fourteen days' notice, and inserting in the circular the names of all candidates, with those of their proposers. RULES. 93 3. The Committee shall be empowered to elect as Honorary Associates, with the privileges of F. F., not more than six gentlemen in each year — to be chosen for past or prospective services to the Society. 4. Ordinary candidates must be members by birth, or one year's bond-fide residence, of a central county — viz., Bedford, Bucks, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Derby, Hereford, Huntingdon, Leicester, Oxford, Northampton, Nottingham, Rutland, Shrop- shire, Stafford, Warwick, Worcester, Yorkshire, and Lancashire, south of a line drawn from Preston to the Humber. 5. No F. F. (except Honorary Associates) shall wear the ribbon until he has played in a match. Bullingdon in 1847, by G. R. Winter. 94 CHAPTER XII. 1867. The season of 1867 does not appear to have furnished very much whereof to boast. Free Foresters existed, and could take a beating. But they had to experience the truth of a stanza once quoted as a motto for the Club in more successful days : — " Your cricketing boy, full of teasers and twisters, Of backing well up, and of saving the run. May talk till his lingual appurtenance blisters Of the scores he has made and the matches he's won. We feel a bit bigger when scoring a figure. And wearing the willow as it should be worn ; But to play in the sun till you're black as a nigger, And get licked after all, is a bit of a thorn." It was a transition period ; the old generation were well- nigh on the shelf, and the new one had hardly arrived at maturity : all the more honour to those who sustained the old " United though Untied " through this critical time. They began on May 23 by getting beaten at Hampton Wick : Free Foresters (with four absentees) scoring 88 — Round 33, Goodrich 23, Entwisle (not out) 28 — and the home side contriving to annex 112 against the bowling of Goodrich and A. R. Kenney; Anderson 27, and Ubsdell 23, being the prominent scorers. J. M. Yates. A. Hiilyard. F, Lee. C. F. Reid. SEATS OF LEARNING. 95 At Cambridge the next week the University won in one innings. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. W. G. Armitstead, b Weighell . D. Buchanan, b Brune C. J. Marshall, c Winter, b Weighell W. F. Higgins, c and b Lyttelton . J. M. Yates, b Green B. Fetherston, c J. M. Richardson, Absolom W. J. Lyon, run out .... Hon. A. V. Lyttelton, b Green C. Horwood, c Weighell, b Absolom W. W. C. Lane, not out . E. Ramsay, c Absolom, b Weighell . wides 2 . Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS. 2 c Brune, b Absolom . 8 b Absolom I b Lyttelton 5 c and b Absolom 13 c and b Absolom 25 1 b w, b Brune . not out 3 c and b Absolom 1 and b Absolom 17 c Lyttelton, b Absolom 28 c Hood, b Brune 2 wides 3, byes 4 105 Total SCORE. 6 6 I 7 I 3 o 6 9 4 7 52 UNIVERSITY. J. M. Richardson, 1 b w, b Buchanan A. W. Winter, 1 b w, b Buchanan Hon. S. G. Lyttelton, b Horwood M. H. Stow, c Yates, b Ramsay C. A. Absolom, c Lyon, b Ramsay J. S. E. Hood, run out . G. Savile, st Lyon, b Buchanan C. E. Green, c Ramsay, b Buchanan W. B. Weighell, 1 b w, b Buchanan H. A. Richardson, b Buchanan C. J. Brune, not out wides 18, byes 22, leg -byes 2 Total S3 I 27 24 2 o o 38 18 40 9 42 254 And at Eton, on the Saturday after, Foresters lost a good match by 5 runs, Eton scoring 113, F. F. 108. For the School, W. F. Tritton scored 36, W. Hay 28, A. W. Fitz- gerald 12, W. C. Higgins 10. For F. F., T. Ratliff scored 30, J. A. Pepys 22, C. C. Cotes 12, O. Mordaunt 11. Mitchell and Rutter were the Forester bowlers. At Oxford three defeats were sustained to one victory. On the loth and nth June, Foresters played Ch. Ch., who beat them by 8 wickets. F. F. made 123 and 108, R. Brodie scoring 42 and 22, A. Hillyard 35 and 9, and 96 OXFORD. E. M. Kenney 12 and 47 ; while Ch. Ch. in their 145 and Z7 had G. Smythe 16, C. C. Cotes 12, W. Kenyon Slaney 17 (not out) and o, E. M. Wakeman 43 and 35 (not out), D. Moffat 20, and J. Frederick 5 and 45 (not out). Foresters, on June 12 and 13, beat Bullingdon, losing 4 wickets, three run out, in their second innings. Bullingdon made 94 and 160 — W. F. Maitland 51 and 61, H. J. Tollemache 2 and 35, J. C. Robartes 19 and 22. For Foresters, 159 and 96, E. M. Kenney scored 61 and 16 (not out), W. Evetts 25 and 16, A. Hillyard 22, G. E. Willes 13, &c. The University, on the 14th and 15th, beat F. F. by 7 wickets. " The bowling of E. S. Carter was most effec- tive, no less than twelve of the Free Foresters being subdued by him." The premier score of the match was made by R. Brodie, who made fifteen singles, one 4, two 3's, and the same number of 2's : — FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. A. H. Smith -Barry, b Carter . D. Buchanan, c Frederick, b Miles J. Round, run out G. Tuck, b Carter . O. Mordaunt, b Carter T. Ratliif, b Miles . W. W. C. Lane, c and b Kenney E. Rutter, b Kenney R. Brodie, not out R. J. Venables, b Carter . A. R. Kenney, c Kenney, b Carter bye I, leg-bye i, wides 4 Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 2 b Carter .... 3 o c Case, b Maitland . . 13 10 c Reid, b Carter . . 7 2 b Carter .... 9 11 c Miles, b Carter . . o o c Miles, b Carter . . o 4 b Carter .... 8 15 St Reid, b Carter . . 4 2 c Reid, b Fellowes . . 29 6 not out .... 6 o c and b Kenney . . 17 6 bye i, leg-bye i, wides 3 5 58 Total . loi OXFORD UNIVERSITY. T. Case, c Round, b Buchanan R. T. Reid, c Mordaunt, b Rutter C. E. Boyle, b Buchanan . R. Digby, b Rutter . A. C. Bartholomew, run out R. Miles, c Round, b Rutter . hit wicket, b Rutter . . 3 St Round, b Buchanan . o not out .... 15 not out . . . . 9 SOUTHGATE. 97 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. J. Frederick, c and b Rutter . . .10 E. M. Kenney, c Kenney, b Rutter . . 21 W. F. Maitland, st Round, b Buchanan . 7 E, L. Fellowes, st Round, b Buchanan . 5 E. S. Carter, not out 2 byes 2, leg-bye i, wides 2 ... 5 Total . 121 2D INNINGS. c Round, b Rutter SCORE. Total 40 And on the 17th and i8th, B. N. C. inflicted a one-innings defeat, scoring 273 — W. Evetts 81, Chute 47, Hall 38, H. F. Johnson 34, and J. H. Gibbon 21, being their prin- cipal performers. F. F. only made 66 and 133 — R. Brodie 10 and 34, C. R. Moore 15 and 30, A. A. Wilmot 6 and 21, W. F. Maitland 14 and 10, &c. Foresters won a match at the Node on the 20th by 5 wickets. They made 173 and 19 — E. Hume scoring 61, F. R Price 20, J. S. E. Hood 24, T. Ratliff 23 (not out), T. O. Reay i8. A. R. Kenney and Ratliff were their bowlers, against whom Warner got 23 (not out) and o, L. Burnand 10 and 21, R. D. Elphinstone o and 19, S. Reid o and 44, C. F. Reid 6 and 16, W. Bayliff 10 and 10, &c. Totals 65 and 126. At Southgate, the absent T. seems to have interfered with the trowlers, as Foresters had no less than eight bowlers on, with poor result. SOUTHGATE. SCORE. E. Dowson, b Mellor 14 V. E. Walker, c Price, b Yates 138 C. Cater, st Lyttelton, b Mellor 75 R. D. Walker, st Lyttelton, b Kenney 16 I. D. Walker, c Price, b Baker 107 G. Hearne, c Price, b Kenney 73 M. Thomson, c Lyttelton, b Mellor 19 H. G. Phipps, b Kenney 3 W. T. Phipps, c Lyttelton, b Mellor 29 F. W. Daniell, st Lyttelton, b Mellor 3 J. F. Horner, not out . . S byes 5, leg-byes 12, wides 9 . 26 Total S08 98 DEFEATS. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. F. R. Price, c Hearne, b Horner 26 b R. D. Walker . . 6 F. Baker, st Hearne, b R. D. Walker 30 not out .... 45 W. W. C. Lane, b I. D. Walker . 50 1 b w, b R. D. Walker . 8 R. Brodie, c V. E. Walker, b Horner run out . . . . 4 T. Ratliif, 1 b w, b I. D. Walker . 18 c Hearne, b Horner . . J. M. Yates, st Hearne, b I. D. Walker 36 b R. D. Walker . .15 J. G. Beevor, b R. D. Walker . I c and b R. D. Walker . 26 A. R. Kenney, b I. D. Walker . 4 c Dowson, b R. D. Walker 8 P. H. Mellor, not out . . . 5 run out .... 5 Hon, C. G. Lyttelton, absent . b R. D. Walker . . 7 A. N. Other, absent absent . . . . byes 9, leg-bye i . . . . 10 leg-bye . . . . i Total 180 Total . 125 Their match at Weybridge on June 29 was drawn, not in their favour ; their first innings of 97 — R. Durnford 20, H. R. Finch 41 — being only followed up by 44 runs in the second. Goodrich and his boys got 62 and 48 for 4 wickets, with the aid of Mr Taylor, who made 37 runs and took 12 wickets. On July 4 the Civil Service inflicted a severe defeat, J. Kirkpatrick accounting for 9 wickets and C. Morgan for 10 ; F. R. Price 14 and i, J. G. Beevor 14 and o (not out), C. C. Cotes 18 and 5, H. Bass o and 22, A. R. Kenney o (absent) and 15, being the chief contributors to the small totals of 69 and 62. The Service made 145 — S. C. Spencer Smith 24, J. Davies 18, E. L. Bateman 24, J. Kirkpatrick 17, J. W. Martin 18 (not out), F. H. Short 14. At Haileybury, on July 6, the School — with the aid of 65 from E. P. Ash, 49 from F. E. L. Schreiber, and 40 from A. W. C. Young — made an innings, of 253, and got out F. F. for 157 ; the most prominent scorers being E. J. Harper 31, J. M. Yates 27, R. Brodie 27, and C. Bill 15. Rugby School also, on July 8 and 9, won by i wicket, though had J. H. Raven (43, retired, and o, absent) been able to stay, the result might have been otherwise. F. F. got 128 and 175 ; O. Mordaunt 6 and 53, W. F. Higgins 21 and 50, Y. Paget 30 and 3, and G. Bennet o and 22 . LORD'S. 99 (not out), doing best. For the School, F. Tobin, ma., 75 and 35, W. Yardley 16 and 53, F. Tobin, mi., 24 and 6, were the chief contributors to a score of 177 and 128. At Tooting, July 10 and 11, F. F. scored 159 and 172 to 154 and 58 ; E. Rutter 33 and 30, W. F. Higgins 6 and 50, R. Brodie 18 (not out) and 27, doing best. For Tooting, Baggallay made 29 and 4, Wix 32 and 10, &c. Foresters had also the best of a match with M. C. C, which was made a drawn one by a wet second day. Foresters won the toss, and sent in Price and Baker. Scothern and Chatterton were the bowlers at starting. Both, however, got so freely hit that Mr Fellows was called on, and then Mr Pickering. When the score had advanced to 120 Mr Sutton relieved Mr Fellows, and at 146 Mr Duntze went to Mr Picker- ing's end. To be brief, all the Foresters hit and scored regard- less of bowlers, or how they changed about. The innings occupied five hours, and averaged nearly 50 runs per hour. At the close of the day Marylebone had lost 6 wickets for 90 runs. FORESTERS. SCORE. F, R. Price, b Pickering 40 F. Baker, c Pickering, b Chatterton .... 18 E. Rutter, b Fellows 27 R. Brodie, c Sutton, b Duntze 19 J. Round, run out . 26 J. G. Beevor, b Sutton 5 F. Lee, not out 39 T. Ratliff, b Sutton 2 A. R. Kenney, b Fellows 37 J. H. Randolph, b Sutton 8 A. Hillyard, c Sutton, b Pickering 3 leg-byes 4, byes 9, wides 5 18 Total . . 242 M. C. C. E. G. Sutton, c Round, b Rutter 6 Chatterton, c Price, b Lee 6 G. A. Duntze, c Price, b Rutter 20 J. A. Pepys, b Lee o H. J. Browne, c Round, b Rutter o H. W. Fellows, b Rutter 2 W. Pickering, not out 31 R. T. Key, not out 21 byes 4 . . .4 Total . . 90 loo THORESBY. A tour in Nottinghamshire produced two draws and a defeat. Gentlemen of Notts at Beeston scored 194 and 150 — J. G. Beevor making 79 in the first innings and 59 (run out) in the second — against Foresters 237. A. W. T. Daniel 65, M. T. Martin 70, E. Rutter 31, G. N. Marten 27, T. Rathff 15. At Thoresby Lord Manvers' eleven defeated them by 4 wickets, Foresters making 121 and 106; M. T. Martin again scoring 37 and ii, H. N. Tennent 33 and 11, A. W. Daniel 18 and 26. For the House, J. J. Sewell scored 20 and 45, D. Pocklington 15 and 29 (not out), R. F. Miles o and 23 (not out); totals 109 and 119. Rutter, Daniel, Whittington, and Ratliff, took the Thoresby wickets ; Pocklington, Miles, and Beevor those of F. F. The third match was against Ratcliffe, who made 185 — G. B. Davy 44, C. Martin 30, and W. Clements 25, being the best. F. F. had obtained 148 for 7 wickets at the call of time— M. T. Martin with 6Z, A. W. Daniel 28, being their leaders. They won a match at the ground of their old friends the Western, Manchester, with 6 wickets to fall, making 216 and 66 ; A. W. T. Daniel jj and (not out) 33, leading, followed hand passibus cequis by R. T. Whittington 38 and 10 (both not out), and W. F. Higgins 34 and 3. The Western made 125 and 155 — V. K. Armitage 24 and 21, J. Galbraith o and 37, A. Proudfoot 3 and 24, A. N. Blair 23 and 10, being their best. Foresters also played a match at Shrewsbury on Aug. 26 against Christ Church Cardinals. Owing to the loss of the Shropshire score-books, I am unable to say more of this match than that it was drawn, and that W. Wingfield scored 30 for F. F. 101 CHAPTER XIII. 1868. It was at the conclusion of the last or the commence- ment of the coming season that a complaint from some country cousin of the advantage which he supposed the metropolitan members to derive from the annual meeting being held in London, induced the acting secretaries to issue a circular asking for nominations in writing for the Committee — a measure which was attended with very satis- factory results, inasmuch as the majority of those who took the trouble to write supported the executive as then constituted. One eminent Forester, however, sent a list which indicated a very radical change. His communica- tion is worth preserving verbatim : — Caunton Manor, March 12. Dear Mr Secretary, — As I shall be unable to attend the meeting on Wednesday, I forward, as you request, six nominations for our future Committee : — Dr Livingstone, Marie Wilton, Beales, M.A., Fortnum & Mason, Sir Watkin Wynne, and the Christy Minstrels, so long as they abide by their present intention never to perform out of London. — Faithfully yours, S. Reynolds Hole. I02 SCHOOLS. Foresters won a good match with Rugby School on June I and 2 by 5 wickets. The School went in first and made 124, which the F. F. topped by 5 runs only, and then got the School out for 106, Buchanan and Millington bowling. H. Verelst 22 and (not out) 37, G. N. Marten 36 and 7, W. Newport 34 and 5, and E. M. Wakeman 3 and 25, were the best scorers for F. F. ; S. K. Gwyer 12 and 33, W. Yardley 38 and o, and S. P. Bucknill 29 and 20, for the School. Westminster would have won had time permitted. F. F. got 187— C. G. Lane 57, G. N. Marten 23, R. Brodie 32, E. Rutter 27, W. F. Higgins 22. The boys made 174 for 5 wickets— F. N. Saunders 71, and R. U. Eddis 48, being both not out. Cheltenham drew with a short team of F. F., getting 1 10 and 257 to 147 and 93 for 4 wickets. C. B. Filgate 3 and y6, and J. J. Reid 25 and 32 for the School, S. G. Lyttelton 15 and 42, and J. M. Yates 32 and (not out) 17, for F. F. were prominent. Buchanan took 14 wickets. Weybridge School won outright, absentees again being the complaint. F. R. Price and E. Rutter made 38 and 42 out of the 98 scored by F. F. ; E. F. Taylor 34, A. Lips- comb 22, and H. A. Sealy 35, of the 132 credited to the School. On July 9, Civil Service inflicted another defeat, making 183 ; J. Kirkpatrick (not out) 43, L. C. Abbot 29, James Davies 25, and E. P. Thesiger 21, being to the fore. F. F. only compiled 80; W. K. Mott 16, T. Rathfif 10, and F. Baker 28, being the only double figures. At Haileybury, on July 14, Foresters beat the School by 6 wickets. F. R. Price 60, E. Rutter 29, C. F. Reid 21, A. Lee (not out) 20, and B. Pauncefote 19 were the chief con- tributors to their score of 189. The boys only got 122 and 109 ; A. E. Burr 45 and o, J. Branton Day 24 and 23, T. Spens 19 and 20, W. P. Brooke o and 39, scored best. SOUTHGATE. Southgate beat Foresters as usual. 103 SOUTHGATE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. Captain Parnell, c Cooper, b Rutter . . 18 c Cooper, b Rutter . II R. D. Walker, b Rutter . 9 c A. Lee, b Rutter . 7 C. C. Dawson, c Ratliff, b Rutter . 4 c and b Rutter . I. D. Walker, b Rutter . 6 b Rutter . 2 V. E. Walker, c Wilmot, b Rutter 8 hit wicket, b Rutter . 32 F. Burbridge, c Paget, b Rutter . 30 c Cooper, b Rutter . 42 E. W. Vyse, c Lee, b Rutter . 3 St Cooper, b Ratliff . 65 J. Laurence, b Riddell 4 not out . II A. H. Walker, not out • 25 c and b Rutter . 9 J. Walker, c Lee, b Rutter 20 c Marshall, b Rutter 9 G. Hearne, c Lee, b Rutter run out 3 byes 3 byes 6, wides 2 8 Tota 1 . 130 Total . 199 FREE FORESTERS. E. M. Riddell, c L D., b R. D. Walker A. A. Wilmot, c J. Walker, b Parnell . B. B. Cooper, 1 b w, b L D. Walker . T. Martin, c Lawrence, b R. D. Walker E. Rutter, c L D., b R. D. Walker H. M. Marshall, c V. E., b R. D. Walker A. Lee, run out T. Ratliff, not out F. Paget, St A. H., b L D. Walker E. Lee, c Hearne, b R. D. Walker Cock Robin, c Dawson, b L D Walker . byes 4, leg-byes 2 . . . . Total 2 c and b L D, Walker . 7 St A. H., bR. D.Walker 2 32 b Parnell . 30 14 St A. H., b R. D. Walker 13 4 c Burbridge, b Parnell 35 9 b Parnell . 32 3 St A. H., b R. D. Walker n 4 St A. H.,bL D.Walker 2 c L D., b R. D. Walker IS I not out ... 3 St A. H., b LD. Walker I 6 byes 10, wides 2 . 12 82 Total 156 ANALYSIS OF BOWLING. Southgate. First Innings. 0. M. R. w. WIDES Rutter 32 II 60 9 Riddell . 32.2 ID 67 I Second Innings. Rutter 38.2 7 lOI 8 I Riddell 35 15 61 ... I Ratliff I 3 I Wilmot 3 ... 14 ... I04 A DRY SUMMER. FREE FORESTERS. First Innings, o. M. R. W. R. D. Walker 22 9 30 5 I. D. Walker 4-3 ... 16 3 Captain Parnell 27 Second 5 Innings. 30 I R. D. Walker 22 6 52 4 I. D. Walker 24 6 50 3 A. H. Walker 4 31 Captain Parnell 13 I 14 3 On July 27 and 28 they beat the Western (Manchester) Club by 9 wickets, their first innings reaching 226 ; H. N. Tennent 75 (not out) being well supported by H. Verelst 20, Lionel Garnett 17, H. Wyatt 20, J. Bennet 21, and W. H. Richards 23. The Western made 137 and 96; R. Clayton 57 and 4, Capt. Marshall 86 and 17, F. W. Wright 4 and 18, being their leading batsmen. The Scottish tour was next undertaken, under very dif- ferent conditions to those usually experienced north of the Tweed, the prolonged drought of an exceptionally hot summer having affected the usually over- luxuriant verdure of Scottish parks. Five matches were played, of which Foresters won three, drew one, and lost the other. At Manchester again, on Aug. 14 and 15, a drawn match was played against the Garrison, who scored 103 and 171 ; C R. Brander 24 and 70, Dodson 15 and 49, and R. Clay- ton 34 and 3, distinguishing themselves. For Foresters, D. W. Macdonald 6y, Stewart Garnett 52, H. Wyatt 32, H. G. Barron 21, made up the major part of an innings of 210. On the 24th Aug. F. F. began a week's cricket in Notting- hamshire, drawing a match at Beeston with Gentlemen of Notts, who made 163 and 276 — D. Pocklington 6 and 90, G. B. Davy 26 and 57, R. F. Miles 32 and o, &c. Foresters scored 173 — A. W. T. Daniel 59 and C. Booth 51. Lord Manvers' match proved a draw also, the Thoresby eleven making 172 and 193 with 5 wickets down ; J. G. s w H-1 .si ^ o T3 5! 1^- NEW GROUND. 105 Beevor 20 and 59, H. W. Hoare 47 and 12, J. F. Hutchin- son 55 and 4, C. Eppleton 16 and 42, and the two not- outs, D. Pocklington 5 and 27 and R. F. Miles 8 and 35, making it hot for the bowlers. F. F. made 264 — R. D. Walker 40, A. W. T. Daniel 66, R. Brodie 49, T. Ratliff (not out) 55. The remaining match at Ratcliffe (one day) was won by F. F. ; C. Booth 80, F. Lee 40, and R. T. Whittington 30, with a few other contributions, realising 205 against 147 of Ratcliffe, for whom W. Clements 62 did best. A fresh campaign was inaugurated at Althorp Park, Sept. 7 and 8, but Foresters met with discomfiture in their first essay, Messrs Kenney and Smith taking all their wickets for 37 and 1 1 1 — R. D. Walker o and 22, A. Lee o and 19, F. Lee 7 and 16, E. M. Riddell 2 and 16, E. Rutter 5 and 14, &c. Althorp made 130 — Plumb 27, W. F. Higgins 21, E. M. Kenney 21, R. L. Parker 20 — and won by 8 wickets. At Uppingham F. F. reversed the spell, and scored 356 — E. Hume 140, F. Lee 82, G. B. Davy 65, &c. — against the School, who only put on 72 and 124; J. Gibson o and 23, W. Kidd II and 15, P. Kidd 6 and 20, W. Alexander 6 and 17, A. Weldon 13 and o, C. Helmsley 13 and 16, being the chief scores. At the unusually late period of Michaelmas an eleven went, as some one cynically observed, "gooseying" to Woburn, where they beat the Gentlemen of Bedfordshire — F. Lee accounting for 9 wickets, E. Rutter for 1 1, for the moderate scores of 39 and 81. Although F. Lee's 27 was the chief score for Free Foresters, and they. were all out for 107, they had no difficulty in winning by 10 wickets. September 28 and 29. Woburn. 1st Innings. 2d Innings. Total. Gentlemen of Bedfordshire . 39 81 120 Free Foresters . . . . 107 15 122 io6 CHAPTER XIV. 1869. Some difficulty exists at this period of the history of the Club in obtaining a correct record of their matches. It was never compulsory upon the Secretary to preserve the scores, which in fact were not always forwarded to him by the managers, nor were they invariably sent to the press. The recognised channels of cricket reports were at that time also in a transitional state, so that the scores of matches appeared when transmitted, in the columns some- times of one paper, sometimes of another. Still the frag- mentary notices of the doings of Free Foresters will suffice to show that they were by no means moribund, even if their sphere might be somewhat restricted. A good match was played at Oxford on June 7 and 8: — UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 1ST INNINGS. Score. A. J. Fortescue, c Buchanan, b Rutter . J. H. Gibbon, c and b Rutter R. Digby, c Watson, b Rutter E. F. S. Tylecote, c Wakeman, b Venables B. Pauncefote, b Rutter W. Evetts, b Rutter .... A. F. Walter, c Wakeman, b Rutter F. H. Hill, not out .... E. Mathews, st Watson, b Buchanan W. A. Stewart, c Watson, b Buchanan . H. Armstrong, c Buchanan, b Rutter . byes 8, leg-byes 5, no -ball i, wides 4 . E. 2D INNINGS. Score. 31 b Walker . . 8 b Walker . 10 b Rutter 6 87 b Buchanan not out ... 41 44 c Buchanan, b Walker 4 9 c Walker, b Buchanan 15 52 8 I 18 b Rutter 31 byes 3, leg-byes 2 • 5 Total 268 Total OXFORD. 107 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS, Capt. F. Watson, c Digby, b Armstrong . R. Brodie, c Armstrong, b Walter . R. D. Walker, c Tylecote, b Mathews E. M. Wakeman, b Armstrong F. R. Evans, c Gibbon, b Mathews . J. Frederick, run out .... S. G. Lyttelton, c Pauncefote, b Armstrong W. F. Higgins, 1 b w, b Mathews E. Rutter, c Tylecote, b Hill . D. Buchanan, not out .... R. G. Venables, b Hill . . . byes 5, leg-byes 2, wide i . . . Total 40 1 9 17 31 66 o 19 40 o 5 8 236 ANALYSIS OF BOWLING. University of Oxford. Fii'st Innings, B. M. R. W. WIE Buchanan . . 100 7 64 2 F. R. Evans 68 4 53 E. Rutter . . 164 12 73 7 2 S. G. Lyttelton . 60 4 30 2 R. G. Venables . 40 2 29 I Second Innings Buchanan . . 72 4 34 2 R. D. Walker . ■ . 51 2 37 3 E. Rutter . 36 4 23 2 R. G. Venables . 40 2 3 Free Foresters. First Innings. Mathews . 96 6 60 3 Walter . 92 7 40 I Hill . 116 12 47 2 I Armstrong 72 7 35 3 Fortescue . 8 15 Pauncefote 32 2 22 I no-ball. On June ii,at Vincent Square, having got the West- minsters out for 193, Free Foresters scored 179 for 4 wickets. Northcote and Rawson, 41 and 40, and R. Curteis, 34, got runs for the School, 7 of whose wickets fell to Goodrich. Chamberlayne 73, Horner 13, Goodrich 25, Smith Barry 23, and Riddell 25 (not out), with 20 extras, made up the F. F. score. io8 ESSEX. On June 24 v. Civil Service, F. F., with S. G. Lyttelton 77, M. T. Martin 37, J. S. E. Hood 25, reached a total of 181. The C. S. made 105, of which W. J. Maitland claimed 30, W. Hamilton 21 ; Rutter took 7 wickets, R. D. Walker 3. On June 30 and July i, at Thorndon Hall, Essex, Free Foresters did well, scoring 167 and 190 against the county professionals Carpenter and Silcock, W. H. Richards scor- ing 40, J. S. E. Hood 24, R. Entwisle the same, and in the second innings 106, C. C. Cotes 54. They dismissed Thorndon for 136 and 112, of which the Hon. W. Maxwell made 39 and 18. Ramsay and Rutter were the Forester bowlers. On July 5 and 6 F. F. succumbed to Rugby School, only scoring 79 and 96, of which Hood made 24 and 8, Captain Watson 7 and 30, C. Marriott i and 34, T. Ratliff 1 1 and 19 (not out), R. G. Venables 13 (not out) and i. Against this the boys' first innings came to 211, H. W. Gardner scoring 44, S. K. Gwyer 39, H. Tubb 29, T. S. Pearson 27, &c. On July 13 and 14 F. F. scored 94 and 229 for 8 wickets at Haileybury, the School making 154. A. A. Wilmot was the principal scorer for F. F., making 36 and 59. At Tooting, on July 14 and 15, the home side in two innings made a total of 230, while the Foresters in one reached 271— A. W. Daniel 98, A. A. Wilmot 61, E. Rutter 34, &c. Rutter bowled 7 wickets, Daniel 5. A fine batting display took place at Southgate on July 19 and 20 : — FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. Score. 2D innings. Score. B. B. Cooper, c and b Burnett . . lo st A. H., b. I. D. Walker . loi A. A. Wilmot, c J., b V. E. Walker . 14 st A. H., b I. D. Walker . 5 A. W. T. Daniel, b R. D. Walker . 36 c Calvert, b A. Vyse . . 2 J. E. Congreve, c Burnett, b R. D. Walker 51 st A. H., b I. D. Walker . 11 T. W. Baggallay, b R. D. Walker . 9 c and b A. Vyse ... 15 Capt. Watson, c Burnett, b I. D. Walker 78 c Mathews, b R. D. Walker 14 SOUTHGATE, \QC^ 1ST INNINGS. E. Rutter, 1 b w, b R. D. Walker . D. Moffat, St A. H., b R. D. Walker S. Harper, c J. , b R. D. Walker . M. T. Martin, not out . W. H. Richards, run out byes 6, wides 4 ... Total )RE. 21) INNINGS. SCORE. b I. D. Walker ... 45 1 not out .... 3 II b A. Vyse . . . . o 41 St A. H., b I. D. Walker . i I c J. Walker, b A. Vyse . 4 10 bye I, leg-bye i, wides 2 . 4 262 Total . 205 SOUTHGATE 1ST INNINGS E. Mathews, c Congreve, b Rutter V. E. Walker, c Watson, b Rutter E. Dowson, c Moffat, b Rutter I. D. Walker, b Rutter . C. Calvert, b Daniel E. W. Burnett, c Cooper, b Harper R. D. Walker, c Martin, b Daniel A. Vyse, st Watson, b Rutter E. W. Vyse, b Daniel . A. H. Walker, not out . J. Walker, b Harper byes 9, wides 2 Total 15 53 I 10 38 18 17 5 4 24 46 II 242 In the second innings of Southgate, 1. D. Walker scored (not out) 10, E. W. Vyse, c and b Harper, 16 ; byes 2, — total 28. Umpires, Mudie and G. Hearne. On Aug. 9 and 10, at Beeston, F. F. made 192 and 342, of which fianiel contributed 70 and 49, M. T. Martin o and 73; while Gentlemen of Notts scored 119 and 121 for 6 wickets — E. M. Riddell, 43 and 12, was best. The three following days were occupied at Thoresby, where the bat was again in the ascendant, Free Foresters scoring 147 and 178— S.-G. Lyttelton 35 and 65, B. T. Fetherston 4 (not out) and 63 (not out), Booth 39 and 9, &c. ; while Thoresby responded with innings of %}^ and 205 — H. H. Gillett 45 and 5, J. G. Beevor 5 and 54, R. Miles o and 53. At Uppingham, on Sept. 8 and 9, F. F. scored 114 and 156 — E. Rutter o and 27, B. Fetherston 7 and 22, T. Ratlifif 15 and 17, A. Lee 17 and 23 (not out) — to the School's first innings of 149, in which the two Greens made 46 each. no CHAPTER XV. 1870. A MATCH with their old hosts and rivals at Bullingdon, on May 28, started the season of 1870, Bullingdon scoring 163, including 40 from C. Hoare and 21 each from T. Hartly and A. Jeffreys : against this F. F. had scored 117 for 5 wickets at the call of time, R. Brodie making 48, A. H. Smith Barry 22, H. M. Lindsell 20. On June 13 and 14, at Rugby, the School made 156 and 71 — H. Tubb 56 and 4 ; F. F. made 60 and 183 — E. Tyle- cote 18 and 32, W. Hadow 6 and 36. Francis took 11 wickets. On the 29th June they encountered Civil Service, mak- ing 195 — Booth 62, W. G. Armitstead 22, Martin 22, C. C. Cotes 20 (not out) — to the 142 of C. S., 7 of whose wickets fell to O. Mordaunt. On the 1st of July Haileybury scored 130 and 139 for 7 wickets, against 140 for F. F., of which D. Moffat con- tributed 52. On the 6th and 7th, F. F. played at Southgate. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. M. Turner, b Horner ....2b Horner .... 2 C. B. Marriott, c Dowson, b R. Walker 18 b R. Walker ... 10 S. C. Voules, c I. Walker, b Horner . 27 c R. Walker, b Homer . 12 E. W. Burnett, c and b R. Walker . 2 b R. Walker . . . o E. Rutter, c Hearne, b Orme . . 29 c R. Walker, b Horner . 8 W. F. Higgins. F. G. Williamson. i •> ^ ^ ? A. H. Smith Barry. A. E. Seymour. SOUTHGATE. III 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. F. Crowder, 1 b w, b I. Walker . . 46 b R. Walker 27 P. Lancashire, c Hearne, b I. Wal . Foresters, with a couple of absentees in the second innings, could only compile 169 and 104 — S. G. Lyttelton, 53 and o, being their best performer. On the two next days, again, they were beaten at Chichester, Priory Park playing Fillery, who took 13 F. F. wickets. F. R. Price 30 and 3, W. H. Hadow 23 and 4, S. G. Lyttelton 31 and 8, E. Bray 13 (not out) and 12 helped the modest totals of 134 and 50. P'or Chichester, who made 86 and loi for i wicket, A. T. Fortescue 7 and 44 (not out), and C. Howard 41 and 44 (not out), dis- tinguished themselves. The Malvern match, played on the College ground, July 29 and 30, was productive of a surprise. Foresters went in first and made 221 — R. Garnett, 59, A. G. Lee 54, T. P. Jervis 30, H. Foster 27, J. H. Gibbon 23. When the School's turn came it occurred to a charitably disposed captain to give them a chance by putting on to bowl a young member of the team, whose chief recommendation was that he did not bowl for his coUeg-e. The novice I40 THE LAST OF HAWKSTONE. duly delivered his first ball and — took a wicket. The next man went in, and ball number two dismissed him also ! In fine, the boys got out for 109 and 47, W. C. R. Bedford claiming 1 1 wickets, A. L. Vernon 6. Scott 34 and 9, Newby 34 and o, Read 26 and 9, and Colt i and 19 (not out), were the only double figures. The Newark match, played 30th and 31st July, was also a thoroughly sensational one. Going in first, Free Fores- ters were disposed of for 74 runs, of which H. W. Verelst made 27, G. Law 21. Newark then obtained a total of 162— A. A. Wilmot 66, E. M. H. Riddell 37. When the F. F. began their second innings, T. S. Pearson and E. F. S. Tylecote stayed at the wickets until the first was out 1 b w 186, and the second run out for 166, — the total innings being 393. Newark then made 49 for 4 wickets. The Scottish tour will be found in its place. It began Aug. 3. Aug. 4 to 7, a Forester team played at Chelford and Alton Towers. Rain spoiled the match v. Cheshire, as when the county (one man short) had made 131, F. F. scored 88 for 2 wickets, and it had to be abandoned. At Alton rain again robbed them of victory, as after the Alton eleven had scored 128 to Foresters' 126 — A. N. Hornby 34 and J. G. Beevor 19 — Mr Fryer disposed of the 10 Staffordshire wickets in the second innings for ij. At Hawkstone, Aug. 10 and 11. Weather wet and windy. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. W, Law, c Cobden, b Fryer C. J. Ottaway, c Wingfield, b Fryer . F. Crowder, b Francis Hon. R. Lyttelton, c V. E. Walker, Francis J. R. Hutchison, c Francis, b Fryer . H. W. Verelst, not out H. Foster, b Francis .... Hon. J. Marsham, b Francis SCORE. 2D INNINGS. 18 c and b Fryer . 10 b Francis . 1 c Wingfield, b Cobden 7 1 b w, b Francis 11 c V. E. Walker, b Fryer 28 c T. D. Walker, b Fryer 2 c Hornby, b Cobden 4 St Hornby, b Fryer . WASP-STINGS. 141 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. R. O. Milne, c Hornby, b Fryer . . 8 not out .... 2 W. G. Armitstead, b Francis . . .4c Francis, b Fryer . . 12 Extras 9 Extras . , . . 13 Total . 102 Total . 62 HAWKSTONE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. J. W. Dale, b Marsham . . 29 W. Wingfield, b Hutchison . 10 T. D. Walker, b Marsham . . 19 V. E. Walker, not out ... 7 A. N. Hornby, 1 b w, b Marsham 3 F. C. Cobden, b Hutchison . . 3 F. E. R. Fryer, c sub., b Marsham 31 Hon. G. R. C. Hill, b Hutchison 9 C. K. Francis, b Marsham . . 2 Extras ..... 12 R. D. Walker, b Marsham . . 2 H. E. Whitmore, c sub., b Hutchi- Total . 155 28 In the second innings Hill (c sub. b Marsham) scored 3, Francis (not out) 6, Dale (not out) i, Havvkstone won by 9 wickets ; Foresters played only ten men. This was the last of the matches played at the invitation of that excellent sportsman the late Geoffrey Hill on the Hawkstone ground, where not cricket only but many other sporting achievements came off. In 1873, A. N. Hornby, R. D. Walker, and others of the home eleven amused themselves by catching the silver-grey rabbits of which the Park was full, and cramming them alive into their woollen jerseys. The fun came to its climax when a well-known cricketer altered the centre of gravity and fell on his face on the top of the live rabbits, his efforts to release himself from his struggling captives being highly ludicrous. When out with the otter-hounds in the same year, *' we came " (says a Free Forester) " to a footpath with deep water on both sides, and the fiercest and strongest wasps' nest in the middle of the path, so that it was a choice of going back into the water or over the nest. After some consultation it was decided to go over it, or rather through it : this we did, and no less than sixteen people were stung, some seriously. Hornby for two hours afterwards was wildly 142 GOODRICH. pulling off coat, waistcoat, and other garments, always to find a wasp under his shirt stinging him. I was stung in the calf of the leg, which caused it to swell as big as my body, and the weight was awful. A doctor was called in, who said I should lose my leg if I played cricket or danced, and that I should have to nurse it for some months. I did dance, at first under great pain and difficulty; but the more 1 danced the better my leg got, and next morning I was perfectly well." At Pype Hayes, where they began their Warwickshire <:ampaign, Free Foresters won a one-day match on Aug. 8 by 133 to 113. J. W. Gardner 32, Lord Lewisham 20, •G. Walker 32, and R. Lant 20, were the best scores. On the loth, at Four Oaks Park, the home side only made 55 to a Forester innings of 222 — J, Garnett 52, L. •Garnett and T. P. Jervis 35 each. Then came a wet day, which caused a draw. The next match, on the Sutton Ground, was a renewal of the old local contest, which, in consideration of the amount of rising talent at the disposal of the home side, was arranged as eighteen of Sutton, J. H. Gibbon acting as captain, against a Forester twelve. The home team won the toss, and despite a good 23 from Gibbon, supplemented by 17 from Ward and 13 from Manley, were all out for 90 runs, 'Goodrich taking 9 wickets (3 c and b) and likewise making 2 catches off Higgins, who took 6. Foresters, however, found Gibbon's bowling not very easy, and went down for .80 runs — Louis Garnett 21, and F. Lee 20, doing best. At time, Sutton had made 10 runs for the loss of 2 wickets, and the second day being again wet the game was drawn. This match had one feature of peculiar interest, being the last time that the veteran Goodrich played with his old club, and not improbably was his final appearance in a x:ricket eleven. The other match on the two following days against LEICESTERSHIRE. 143 Gentlemen of Stafifordshire was drawn also from bad weather. It was played at Little Aston Hall, and F. F. made 160— F. W. Wright 32, T. Ratliff (not out) 28— to 92, R. Moncriefif 21 and C. E. Lyon (not out) 18 being best. At Worcester, Aug. 17 and 18, the County beat the Club, making 102 and 150 — R. Lyttelton 17 and 50, A. B. Martin 36 and 18, F. R. Evans 19 and 22 — to Foresters' 94 and 128 ; F. W. Wright 26 and 18, T. Ratliff 5 and 51 (not out). While at Hanbury (Mr Foley Vernon's), on the 2 1st and 22d, Foresters won a twelve-a-side match by 3 wickets, in spite of a fine 112 (not out) from E. Lyttelton. Hanbury made 44 and 217, Foresters 6j and 199 — Louis Garnett (not out) 66. Deddington, Aug. 19 and 20, was the scene of a draw ; Fetherston making 89 in an innings of 209 for the home side, and Tubb, Ramsay, and Marsham disposing of Fores- ters for 141, W. F. Higgins 48. Deddington then lost a wicket for 17 runs. On Aug. 25 and 26, at Rockingham Park, another twelve-a-side contest was drawn, F. F. making 189 and 147 to the home side's 166 and 135 for 5 wickets. W. F. Higgins 40 and 11, H. Verelst o and 43, E. Hume 31 and O, F. Crowder 14 and (not out) 26, scored for F. F. A match at Leicester v. Gentlemen of the county was likewise left drawn on Aug. 28. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. F. W. Wright, c Stainton, b C. Marriott . 27 c Burge, b C. Marriott . 43 A. A. Wilmot, c and b Mitchell . . 8 b C. Marriott ... 2 F. R. Price, c Dixie, b Byron . . . 116 c Dixie, b C. Marriott . 13 W. F. Higgins, c Mitchell, b G. Marriott 19 b G. Marriott ... 9 H. M. Marshall, b G. Marriott ... 64 absent H. Verelst, b Burge 2 b C. Marriott ... 22 F. Crowder, b Burge . . . . 7 b G. Marriott . . . o T. Ratliff, c J. M. Marriott, b C. Marriott 10 not out . . . .23 J. Marsham, b C. Marriott . . . 2 st Stainton, b C. Marriott 10 144 AN INCIDENT. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. S. P. Bucknill, 1 b w, b C. Marriott . . o Sir A. Palmer, b Byron . . . . i C. F. Reid, not out i Extras 13 Total 2D INNINGS. b Byron . b Burge . c Dixie, b Byron Extras . 270 Total SCORE I 2 s 4 134 GENTLEMEN OF LEICESTERSHIRE. J. M. Marriott, b Marsham . F. Warner, b Higgins . G. Stainton, b Marsham R. A. H. Mitchell, b Marsham C. Marriott, c Wright, b Reid W. H. Hay, c Reid, b Price Sir A. B. Dixie, c Crowder, b Price Capt. Tryon, st Wright, b Price SCORE. 2 I 12 . 28 • 41 SCORE. G. Marriott, st Wright, b Price . A. W. Byron, b Marsham . . 11 F. H. Paget, c Price, b Reid . 13 G. R. Burge, not out . . . 3 Extras 15 • 57 ;e 9 Total 192 © Black-Country Cricket. How's that? — Hout ! Hout be blowed ! I'm biggest man i' the ground, and here I boide." 145 CHAPTER XX. 1875- The season commenced with a match at Chiselhurst on June 7, when West Kent beat Free Foresters by 48 runs. It was a twelve-a-side game, and F. F. reahsed lOi and 58 for 4 wickets — R. Entwistle 25, and E. Rutter 10 and 23, getting most runs. Mr F. Penn made 81 out of the Kentish score of 149. At Winchester, playing the Garrison on June 14, Foresters won by 40 runs, making 164 — E. C. Hartopp 34 — to the soldiers' total of 124. H. Tubb disposed of 4 wickets, S. G. Lyttelton 3, E. Rutter 2. In their second innings Foresters scored 152 for 4 wickets, J. R. Hutchison being not out with 71 runs, and E. Rutter, who had made 2J runs in his first innings, adding another 30. They proceeded to Hilsea, where on June 16 and 17 they beat the Southern Division by 2 wickets, scoring 103 and 107 to 113 and 96. F. Baker and E. Rutter made 20 each in the first innings of Foresters, and in the second the latter added 19, H. Tubb 28, and T. S. Pearson 25. Rutter took 9 wickets, Tubb 6, Lyttelton 3. On June 21 and 22, the match with Rugby School was drawn. The local reporter said : — The reason of the absence of the Rugby School match from the list of last year's fixtures has not transpired, and it would do K 146 RUGBY SCHOOL. no good to hazard conjectures about it now. Suffice it to say that F. F.'s made up for the omission by sending a good team to Rugby on the 21st and 22d of June 1875. That good cricketer and hard hitter H. H. Gillett, who at Bullingdon in 1859, in Exeter College sports, threw 116 yards 2 6 inches, failed to come off as expected ; but for F. F.'s Hay, Williamson, Evans, Milne, Warner, and others in the batting line, and for the School Cunliffe with the ball, gave a good account of themselves, as the score will show. Foresters went in first and scored 93 — F. R. Evans 44, and W. H. Hay 20, doing best. The School then, with a good innings of 54 from A. S. Bennet, totalled 173, and then F. F. compiled 315. R. O. Milne, who had been not out 8 in the first innings, contributed 117, and F. Williamson 45, E. H. Warner 34, W. H. Hay 32, and W. W. Bagot 24. The last named took 3 Rugby wickets, and Gillett and Marriott a like number. D. Buchanan was not playing for F. F. in this match. On the same days another eleven vanquished Marl- borough by five wickets (twelve - a - side), the College scoring 74 and 1 14 from the bowling of Voules, Miles, Venables, and F. Lee. S. G. Lyttelton and F. H. Lee made 35 and 27 respectively out of the 129 scored by F. F. in their first innings, and T. Ratliff was not out 19 in the second. At Shoebury, on June 25, 26, a match was left drawn with the School of Gunnery, who scored 147 and 297 — Pattle 31 and 91 (not out). The one innings of Foresters totalled 191— J. R. Hutchison 42, T. Ratliff 41. "I like playing at Shoebury," said a certain F. F. who shall be nameless ; " start at one, hot lunch at two ! " July I found Foresters at Daylesford, where the home team made 127 and 82 for 5 wickets and won. Foresters getting out for 73 and 135 — W. Evetts 29, the only score worth mention. S. Butler for Daylesford disposed of ten Foresters. To meet Butler in those days was no joke, SAM BUTLER, 147 though Mr Reid appears to have once found a man who thought otherwise : — I remember one year S. E. Butler was playing at Shoeburyness, and he in his day, and if he chose, could put in a tremendously fast ball. I was fielding at mid-on, and he said to me — he had just got a wicket by the way — " Oh, look at this man coming in." He was the most splendid specimen of the genus homo I think I ever saw ; but he disdained pads and gloves, though the ground played like greased lightning. Sam said, " May I give him a fast one ? " I said it had nothing to do with me, but if he hit him on the leg there would certainly be an inquest, and I advised — in fact implored — him not to bowl too fast at him. He said, " Oh, just one^^^ and before I could say anything more he bowled him the " just oneP I can hear that ball hum now : it caught the " splendid specimen " full pitch on his shin, and to " Sam's " great astonishment, and also to mine, the man never rubbed the place, or even limped, but calmly proceeded to be in readiness for the next ball ! After the end of the innings I asked the man if he wasn't hurt, and he said he wasn't, and that he wouldn't have minded the same knock every ball of the over. And I really believe that he meant what he said. What his legs were composed of I don't know — ivory probably ! — C. F. R. On July 5 they met at Prince's the formidable Upping- ham Rovers. FREE FORESTERS. J. R. Hutchison, b Patterson T. S. Pearson, b Cape F. E. R. Fryer, b Kidd G. N. Wyatt, c and b Patterson F. Baker, b Kidd W. H. Hay, c and b Patterson E. Rutter, b Riddell . SCORE. SCORE. • 23 R. Garnett, not out . lOI A. Lyttelton, b Cape . • 27 21 E. Bray, b Cape . 2 2 F. Crowder, b Hough . . 37 byes 14, leg-byes 8, wides 4 26 • 34 22 Total • 295 UPPINGHAM ROVERS. 1ST INNINGS. K. P. Lucas, b Wyatt P. Kidd, c Hutchison, b Rutter F. E. Street, c Garnett, b Rutter W. S. Patterson, st Pearson, b Rutter J. G. Beevor, b Wyatt E. M. Riddell, st Pearson, b Rutter . SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. • 45 c and b Bray . • 39 . 18 st Garnett, b Rutter 66 10 b Rutter . 27 3 c Pearson, b Rutter , 2 2 c Hay, b Fryer 38 . 16 1 b w, b Fryer . 17 148 THE ROVERS. 1ST INNINGS. J. Perkins, run out . C. E. Ridley, not out A. P. Vansittart, c and b Wyatt T. G. Cape, st Pearson, b Rutter G. F. Hough, absent byes 4, leg-byes 2 . SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. not out 14 7 and b Bray . 9 not out . I 7 c and b Rutter absent 6 byes 4, leg-byes 4, wide i 9 il . 114 Total . 222 Tota: This match was harmoniously commemorated in the Uppingham magazine by some excellent verses, entitled "MR JOHN THOMAS AT PRINCE'S. "This comes 'oping, Mr Hedditor, it may find U in good 'ealtli, Which, without it, there's no benefit in wittles nor in wealth. R ! I'd reether be a pawper, and be 'earty, 'ale, and strong. Than a Creesus with the toothake or the 'eadake all day long ; For tho' you gets no wenson in the workouse, nor no wine, You couldn't with the toothake enjoy them when you dine ; And tho' the Parrish gives no ale nor porter, why, it's clear A Creesus with the 'eadake E can't enjy his beer ; Which the chicest of malt lickers ain't of no good when you're ill, 'Cos when you'd like to take a pint, you 'ave to take a pill. But talkink of good 'ealth, my I ! U should 'ave gone with me The valiant gents a-cricketing at Prince's for to see ! The mussels them young fellers 'ad, you wouldn't scarce believe, It swelled out on their shoulders like a fashinnable sleeve. Their harms were like a blacksmith's, only p'raps a trifle whiter. And their bax as broad as Bendigo's, the celebrated fiter ; And some wore 'niggerbockers to ease 'em as they played, And the calves they showed compleetly threw us footmen in the shade ; They swelled out like the letter P, without a bounce of fat, For their legs was sollid mussel, which ours 'aven't much of that. It was on Monday afternoon, a quarter after four. And the carridge was a-waiting for our ladies at the door ; Says my lady, reether languid, ' Where shall we drive to-day ? ' Says Miss Mary, ' O mammar, we'll go to see the Rovers play ; The match is with the Foresters — the best in all the year.' And my lady, smilink graciously, says, ' Very well, my dear.' JOHN THOMAS. 149 So hoff we went to Prince's ground. And ho ! 'twere like a phair, Only neither shows nor happle-stalls nor gingerbread was there ; But 'eaps of gents and ladies in elligant array, Which some 'ad come to flirt, and some to crittysize the Play. And I 'eard them tell how 'Utchingson 'ad batted strong and well, And how to Patterson and Kidd the early wickets fell, And how the wicket-keeper 'ad fumbled many a ketch, Which the Humpire said 'twas Rotten^ and might 'ave lost the Match; How Fryer E playde beautiful, and Lyttelton and Hay 'Ad given the bowlers toko — I suppose that means Tokay, Or some bother plessant beveridge the thust for to allay. The ladies wore the colors of the side they 'oped would beat, And they sat beneath the spreading trees to shade 'em from the 'eat, And some was eating hices, and some strorberries and cream. And some they was a-drinking tea, and a- watching of the geame ; And some was skating at the Rink on wheels of Injy-robber, Which skating in the summer-time I 'ardly think is propper. Miss Mary wore the ribbings of the Rovers in her 'air. Which, if I mite persoom to say, they most becoming were. And I says hunto our Coachman, which upon the bocks I sat, And we'd heach a Rover favor as Miss M. made for our 'at — Says I, ' Some Uppinam Rover 'ave been saying somethink sweet.' Says he, ' It's that young kovey as she met in 'Arley Street.' And being reether curious, says I, *Why, which is E?' Says he, ' Why, don't you see him there, a-handing her the T ? ' And there he was beside her chair, partickler in attention, A tall and 'ansome feller, which his name I mustn't mention. Has thus we were conversing, there went up such a cheer When some one 'it a 6-er, as the likes you seldom 'ear. And ho ! 'twas really wonderful to see the fielders run. As hagile as young grass'oppers, all in the burning sun ; Which men like Mr Beevor, as are bulky in their form. Must find it most puspiring work, leastways when it's so wann. The holers, as I 'eard 'em say, was dead upon the spot. But the slow ones hevery now and then they cawt it reether 'ot. And R ! to see that Mr Huff, the pace he slung 'em in. Without the least regard to 'ead or 'and or rib or shin ; Which not being made of hadamant, nor wishink a black heye, Let others try to stand afore them lightning balls, says I. But la ! that Mr Crowder, E didn't seem to care, And the galliant Mr Garnett was wisibly ' all there.' That Garnett is a cricket gem, as sure as Pm alive. And he 'elped to make the tottle two 'undred ninety-5. I50 MISS MARY'S VERDICT. And now the Upnam Rovers 'ave buckled on their pads, And Kid and Lucas take their place, a pair of hactive lads ; And though they tried for 'alf an 'our, they couldn't get 'em hout, But, bold as any Buffaloes, they stood and 'it about, And when at last the play was stopd, they were unconkered still, 'em with a will. Next day, as soon as lunch were done, Miss Mary she evinces A most uncommon longing for to be again at Prince's ; But my lady 'ad some shopping first, a long and teejus round, And the clox was striking 6 afore we came upon the ground — When hup comes that young feller, and 'We've 'ad bad luck, says E, ' And are follering of our hinnings ' — (wotever that may be ! ) And he said as Mr Pursy Kidd 'ad totted sixty-6, And Lucas got the boling in a very pooty fix ; And none 'ad showed in better style than Street, the County player, And turtle 'adn't spiled the site of the Wussipful Lord Mair,i Which I thinks the Mair, if he was there, a pore sort must 'ave been, For no crimson robes nor golden chain was nowheres to be seen. Now J. G. B. was taking T, they said, with Mr Fryer, And hall this time the tellygraff was mounting hire and hire ; And ho ! it were exciting as the game drew near a close, And the way my 'art was beating at that momink. Goodness nose ! But at last it hended in a Draw, which was a great relief. For such excitement's 'urtful, leastways in my belief. Hour ladies 'aving took their seats, away again we drove. And we brought with us to dinner that tall and 'ansome kove. And ho ! to see him take his food ! it reely were a site, For cricket is a game as much improves the happytite. And to see Miss M.'s heyes sparkle as they talked the matter hover ! It made me wish that I 'ad been a galliant Uppinam Rover. She said as 'ow in all her life she never saw such play, And the Rovers would 'ave won it — which they might 'ave, I dessay. And when they plays another Match, may I again be there, Which I am your 'umble servink, John Thomas, Grosvenor Square.' 1 E. M. Riddel], Mayor of Newark. GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY. 151 On July 7 and 8 their match at Southgate was drawn. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. G. N . Wyatt, c and b Absolom . 42 run out 9 T. S. Pearson, b Absolom . 18 not out 2 W. H. Hay, b Fryer. . 16 S. G. Lyttelton, b Fryer . • 56 V. K. Royle, c Walker, b Fryer . . S3 c Hornby, b Absolom 10 F. Baker, st Akroyd, b Absolom 10 b Hornby I T. Ratlifif, c Le Bas, b Thornton b Absolom 2 E. Rutter, run out . 2 c Thornton, b Hornby 5 F. A. Crowder, 1 b w, b Fryer . 7 1 b \v, b Fryer . 2 E. Bray, b Fryer 3 D. Buchanan, not out 4 not out . byes 18, leg- byes 3, wide i 22 bye I, leg-bye 2, wide i 4 Total sot. . 233 JTHGATE. Total 35 C. J. Thornton, b Lyttelton • 30 1 b w, b Lyttelton . 3 S. H. Akroyd, b Buchanan 4 st Pearson, b Buchanan 54 W. Blacker, st Pearson, b Buchanan 5 b Buchanan 45 F. E. R. Fryer, b Lyttelton • 25 b Buchanan 8 G. Strachan, b Buchanan st Pearson, b Royle . 16 I. D. Walker, c Wyatt, b Lyttelton • 46 c Bray, b Buchanan . I A. N. Hornby, c Wyatt, b Lyttelton 22 st Pearson, b Buchanan 2 M. T. Martin, st Pearson, b Buchans in . 1 b w, b Buchanan . 18 C. Henderson, not out . . . 7 b Buchanan 10 C. A. Absolom, b Buchanan c Royle, b Buchanan 7 R. N. Le Bas, b Buchanan 2 not out . byes 12 12 byes 8, leg-byes 6, wide 2 16 Total . 153 Total 180 Southgate followed their innings. At Brookwood Park, on July 12 and 13, Foresters beat the Gentlemen of Hants by 7 wickets, Hants making 125 and %6. F. F. 174 — H. Verelst 49 — and in their second innings 41 for 3 wickets — G. N. Wyatt 20 (not out). On July 14 and 15 Liverpool won by 107 runs — viz., 103 and 134 — against the bowling of Barron and Stewart Garnett, while Foresters only made 83 — J. S. Phillips (not out) — and 47. Porter and Patterson were the bowlers. And on the i6th and 17th Birkenhead had the best of them by 7 wickets, Foresters claiming 147 and 134 — H. 152 JULY FLOODS. W. Gardner 6'^, J. R. Hutchison 30, R. Garnett 20 — Birkenhead 114 and 169 for 3 wickets, C. J. Crovvther 92 (not out). Stewart Garnett and N. Barron were the Forester bowlers. On the 20th a match at Deddington was stopped by rain, when the home side had got 188, Free Foresters 84. H. T. Allsopp 28, W. Evetts 52, and C. D. Marsham 35, surpassed the F. F. score, and T. E. Cobb and E. Ramsay took their wickets. " Broil sun ! Ice claret ! Let my lady be Upon the ground ! Cricket's the game for me ! " — Mortimer Collins. On the 27th Free Foresters enjoyed a most delightful reception at Fulbeck, where they defeated Col. Fane's twelve on that and the following day by 6 wickets. C. B. Tylecote made a splendid maiden essay with F. F., scoring 61 (not out), and bowling in the first innings 26 overs for 27 runs and 6 wickets. Malvern College, July 28 and 29, only made 203 in both innings to 254 in Free Foresters' first — J. H. Gibbon made 75 and E. Stanhope 56. And on the two next days Foresters drew with the Malvern Club, who made 182 and 98 to their 246. On the 30th also a match at Southwell against Mr Riddell's team was drawn, the Newark twelve having made 132, and Free Foresters 34 and 144 for 7 wickets. This match was played at the Southwell ground, in consequence of the Newark ground being flooded by the Trent ! The Scottish tour began this year on the 2d August. Of four matches played, two were won, one lost, and one drawn. At Worcester, on the 4th and 5th of Aug., F. F. beat Worcestershire Gentlemen by 8 wickets. Worcestershire, though strong on paper, succumbed 1 1 to Appleby and 10 to Bray for 81 and loi runs, R. Lyttelton 13 and 24 THE GARNETTS. 153 being ledger-man ; so that Foresters, who made in their first essay 161, — Crowder 41, Appleby and Ratliff 20 each, — hit off the balance with the loss of 2 wickets — Hay 9, and F. W. Wright 15. At Hanbury, on the two next days, Mr Vernon's eleven turned the tables, making 142, and getting Foresters out for 62 and yZ. By the kindness of the editor of the * Worcester Herald ' I am able to say that F. F. had six ciphers in the first innings, and that H. AUsopp and T. Ratliff both obtained spectacles ; R. Garnett, 26 and 10, showed best for them. The Tylecote brothers, C. B. L. and H. E., took 11 F. F. wickets ; and C. B. L. Tylecote 25, Alfred Lyttelton 30, and E. Allsopp 43, assisted the Hanbury score. The programme at Sutton Coldfield commenced on Aug. 9 with a very interesting contest against eleven Garnetts, won by 7 runs. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. H. G. Barron, c L. O., b S. Garnett 6 cF. H., bG. GameU • 3 F. R. Price, c G., b S. Garnett . 4 retired 10 C. B. L. Tylecote, b S. Garnett b S. Garnett . 10 F. W. Wright, b S. Garnett . • 13 cG.,bF. Garnett . iS J. H. Gibbon, b S. Garnett . 16 St R. L., b S. Garnett 14 N. Barron, c and b G. Garnett . 5 c Reg., b G. Garnett A. Chambers, b G. Garnett 9 b S. Garnett . T. Ratliff, c and b S. Garnett . 5 1 b w, b S. Garnett . 17 W. C. R. Bedford, c Robt., b G. Garnet t 10 b G. Garnett . 4 W. A. Lucy, b S. Garnett I c Lionel, b F. Garnett 14 W. Chance, not out . not out byes 2, leg-bye i, no-ball i . 5 wides 4 . 4 Total 74 Total 94 GARNI i:iTS. Lionel Garnett, b Tylecote 8 b Tylecote 2 F. H. Garnett, c H. Barron, b Tylecote 12 c Chance, b Tylecote I S, Garnett, c Ratcliff, b Tylecote c Lucy, b Tylecote . 9 L. 0. Garnett, b Tylecote . c H. Barron, b Ratliff . 9 Robt. Garnett, c Ratliff, b Tylecote . bRatlifi- .... G. Garnett, c Tylecote, b Ratliff 18 c Wright, b Ratliff . 36 Reg. Garnett, not out ... . 17 c Wright, b Ratliff . 8 154 DRA WS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. H, Garnett, b Tylecote C. H. Garnett, b Tylecote R. L. Garnett, c and b Ratliff F. N. Garnett, run out byes 2, leg-byes 2, wide i 1 b Tylecote o not out 4 run out 2 c H. Barron, b Ratliff 5 bye I, leg-bye i . Total . 67 Total 4 5 16 2 2 94 On Aug. II and 12 Foresters were unable to make the Four Oaks Park eleven follow their innings. Foresters got 167 and 215 — H. G. Barron 50 and 75, F. W. Wright 36 and 54, G. Smythe 7 and 45. Four Oaks Park only- scored 90 and 40 for 5 wickets, J. W. Bagnall and A. F. Manley making 27 each in the first innings, and the latter 16 in the second. Rain stopped the play. The match with Staffordshire Gentlemen on the 13th and 14th was also drawn ; the Lichfield side having made 184 and 119 — A. E. Alcock 49 and 8, W. W. Bagot 37 and o, M. Graham 29 and 21 — against 105 and 44 for 3 wickets; H. G. Barron 28, and his brother, 21 and 19, doing best. At Rockingham Castle, on the 17th and i8th, the match was left drawn for want of time. The garrison made 189 and 146, A. Lyttelton, 34 and 30, heading a string of six double figures in each innings. Against this total Foresters claimed 129 and 128 with 7 wickets to fall — R. Lyttelton 27 and 45, T. Ratliff 3 and 39 (not out), C. B. L. Tylecote 20, J. G. Beevor 30 and 9 (not out). At Uppingham, which came next. Foresters got 257, and won by 35 runs in a single innings. C. G. Lane 57, T. Ratliff 41, F. Crowder 37 (not out), swelled the total of the F. F. score. J. Hare 54 and 26, D. G. Steel 24 and 26, and J. W. Woodgate 35 and o, were prominent for the School. On the 2 1st, at Market Harboro', in a one-day match, Foresters lost by 3 runs, making 100 to the locals' 103, Mr Buchanan assisting the latter team. And at Alton Towers, on the 24th and 25th, they were AS OTHERS SEE US. J55 defeated by 3 wickets. Mr Twemlow made j6 (not out) and 8 for the Towers, whose total score in both innings was 250. For Foresters W. F. Higgins made 39 and 5, H. T. Allsopp 15 and 29, T. Ratlifif 4 and 30. The last match, at Ashbourne, Foresters won by 7 runs 116 and 99 to 151 and 57. Types Militaires. — Oxford University Vomnteers. 156 CHAPTER XXI. 1876. The first match of the season was played on May 23 at Ealing, Free Foresters winning by 22 runs, 118 to 96. The villagers obtained 51 for 3 wickets in their second innings. At Tooting, on June 5, the match was drawn, Free Foresters having made 254 — Pearson 66, Tuck 53, Ratliff 37. Tooting lost 4 wickets for 57. At Eton, on the lOth, the School made 133 — W. F. Forbes 38, Ivo Bligh 25. Foresters rejoined with 154 — T. S. Pearson 75, P. A. M. Pearson 32, and E. F. S. Tylecote 16. Pearson took 8 wickets. At Beddington Park, on the 9th, F. F. made 246 — T. S. Pearson 114, T. RatUff 47, V. E. Walker 31 ; and then Pearson, with some assistance from Walker and Ellis, got the Park out for 136— W. B. Cloete 36 (not out), F. H. Birley 32. On June 12 and 13 rain caused a draw with Rugby School. Free Foresters scored 141 and 182 for 5 wickets ; W. Hay 10 and 62, W. S. Patterson 2 and 60, G. S. Mar- riott 20 and 14 (not out), were to the fore. The School, who had the worst of the weather, made 102, of which W. J. M. Hughes and G. L. King claimed 25 and 24 respectively. At Aldershot Foresters broke new ground with success. ROVERS AGAIN. 157 winning by 9 wickets. The military only obtained 88 and Si. T. S. Pearson took 11 of their wickets. For Foresters, who scored 149, E. Lyttelton 59, G. Law 26, Lord Lewis- ham 17, and C. E. Ringrose 14, were the double figures. At Chiselhurst, on the 29th, West Kent made 175. Pearson, taking 6 wickets, got Foresters out for 115, and then disposed of 9 wickets for 49 runs — J. Beevor 20 and H. Verelst 21. At Shoeburyness the next day, however, the boot was on the other leg, for F. F., who made 254, won in an inn- ings by 6d> runs. At Prince's, on July 3 and 4, another fine run-getting game with Uppingham Rovers was left undecided. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. R. Briggs, 1 b w, b Patterson . 11 1 C. J. Lucas, c Lucas, b Patterson 9 C. G. O. Bridgeman, b Luddington 6 H. Verelst, 1 b w, b Luddington . o A. H. Heath, c and b Luddington 14 E, S, Stanhope, not out . . 19 T. S. Pearson, c Wright, b Pat- C. Childe Pemberton, b Kidd . 13 terson 128 M. P. Lucas, absent . . . o F. A. Twemlow, c Patterson, b byes 14, leg-byes 2 . . .16 Luddington . . . . i D. Moffat, b Luddington . . 10 Total . 327 UPPINGHAM ROVERS. A. P. Lucas, run out . . . 30 S. S, Schultz, c and b Pearson . 5 W. S. Patterson, 1 b w, b Pearson 46 H. L. Wright, c Pemberton, b D. A. Steel, c Briggs, b Pearson . 10 Pearson ..... 9 C, E. Green, c Briggs, b Pearson o H. T. Luddington, not out . . i E. M, Riddell, c Briggs, b Pearson 21 byes 15, leg-byes 2, wide i . 18 P. Kidd, c Pearson, b Briggs . 2 J. G. Beevor, c Stanhope, b Pearson 15 Total F. G. Street, st Pemberton, b 157 Pearson In the second innings Lucas (c Bridgman, b Moffat) scored jj, Steel (not out) 8, Street (not out) 64 ; byes 4, leg-bye i, wides 2,— total 156. On the 5th and 6th Southgate proved too hard a nut to crack. 158 THORNTON AND OTTO WAY. SOUTHGATE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. I. D. Walker, b Hutchison . . 53 A. F. Smith, c S. G. Lyttelton, b G. Bird, c Chamberlayne, b Buch- Buchanan 7 anan . . . . . . 2 W. A. Soames, b Chamberlayne . 6 C. I. Thornton, st Chamberlayne, C. A. Absolom, c Ratliff, b Buch- b S. G. Lyttelton . . .185 anan 17 F. E. Fryer, c Turner, b Pearson 3 V. E. Walker, c Ratliff, b S. G. R. D. Walker, not out . . . 51 Lyttleton 14 S. H. Ackroyd, c Ratliff, b Buch- byes, &c 18 anan 6 C. J. Lucas, b S. G. Lyttelton . 12 Total . 374 In the second innings Fryer (st Ottoway, b Rutter) scored i, Lucas (not out) 10, Soames (not out) 7 ; bye i, — total 19. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. C. J. Ottoway, c Thornton, b Absolom st Bird, b V. E. Walker . lOI T. Ratliff, c Lucas, b Fryer 12 absent — M. Turner, b Fryer .... 38 cV. E.,bR. D.Walker 2 S. G. Lyttelton, c Bird, b Fryer 4 c Fryer, b R. D. Walker . 16 E. Hume, c and b Fryer . I c Soames, b Absolom 7 T. S. Pearson, b Smith . 29 b R. D. Walker 15 J. R. Hutchison, b Absolom 5 st Bird, b R. D. Walker R. Lyttelton, c Smith, b L D. Walker 74 c Bird, b Absolom . 8 E. Rutter, st Bird, b Absolom . 7 c Absolom, b Lucas . 39 D. Buchanan, run out . . . IS c Fryer, b V. E. Walker I S. Chamberlayne, not out ... I not out . 8 byes, &c. ...... 4 byes, &c. 5 Total 190 Total 202 On July 8, at Haileybury, Free Foresters having made 213, got out the boys for 62, and the follow produced 47 runs for 4 wickets. S. B. Chamberlayne 49, R. G. Venables 55, E. P. Ash 25, H. N. Tennent 24, were the principal scorers for F. F. On July 17 a very successful tour in Kent was inaugur- ated by a match at Warnham Court, where F. F. won by 7 wickets — 173 and 39 to 87 and 124. A. P. Lucas made 53 for Foresters, F. H. Lee 30, E. Rutter 28 and 14 (not out). Pearson took 9 wickets, Lee 6, R. Garnett 4. At the Mote (Maidstone), having disposed of the home side for 96, F. F. accumulated 316. H. Verelst was to the UPS AND DOWNS. 159 fore with 79, R. Garnett 54, S. G. Lyttelton 45, but E. Hume took premier place with 81. And the next day, July 21, Free Foresters scoring 100 and ^S^ were beaten at Preston Hall by 2 wickets. R. Garnett made 17 and 15, the best scores for F. F., J. Dale 16 and 30 for Mr Brassey's side. Gilliat took 1 1 of the Hall wick- ets, Francis and Fellowes (Capt. J.) disposed of Foresters. Gentlemen of Bedfordshire beat Free Foresters at Turvey House, July 24 and 25, the Club collapsing in the second innings for 6^,, after having claimed 187 with a man short in the first. S. G. Lyttelton with 54 and 3, H. W. Verelst with 32 and 8, R. Garnett with 3 and 30 (not out), and J. Marsham with 37 and 14, were their best scorers. The County Gentlemen made 125 — T. S. Pearson 30 and F. Safiford the same number — and then wiped off the runs for 4 wickets ; H. G. Tylecote 41, and W. Vyse 37, being not out. After a tolerably close first innings against Malvern College, Free Foresters beat them on July 26 by 213 runs, scoring 154 and 263 to the M. C. C. C. 139 and 65. A. J. Cripps made 31 and H. Harrison 25 for the College ; H. Foster made 63 and 42, W. A. Lucy 47, for Foresters. On the 28th and 29th a match with Newark was drawn, Mr Riddell's twelve scoring 179 and 90 for 8 wickets, while F. F. made 220 in their one innings, of which E. F. S. Tyle- cote made 106, H. W. Verelst 36, F. E. Allsopp 32. For Newark J. G. Beevor 61 and o, A. P. Lucas 25 and 32, E. M. H. Riddell 21 and 26, H. F. Clinton 40 and 3, did best. The brothers Tylecote, E. and C, were instrumental in securing 12 wickets. On the 31st Free Foresters began a four days' engage- ment at the splendid and hospitable mansion of Sir Charles Mordaunt, Walton Hall, where they first encountered the Gentlemen of Warwickshire, whom they defeated by 5 wickets. i6o WALTON. WARWICKSHIRE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. J. R. Walker, st Tylecote, b Pearson 21 b Pearson. 5 C. Smith, c Pearson, b Royle . 25 c Maul, b Voules 6 Rev. W. J. Batchelor, c Tylecote, b Pear son 6 run out . 12 Lord Willoughby de Broke, b Royle 10 c Marshall, b Pearson 4 T. Ratliff, c Tylecote, b Royle I b Voules . 14 Rev. O. Mordaunt, b Voules . 24 c Voules, b Pearson . 6 Rev. F. Evans, c Marshall, b Pearson 12 b Voules . 3 Rev. G. C. Willes, b Voules . 9 St Tylecote, b Pearson 49 Rev. F. C. Williamson, c Royle, b Voulej 4 b Voules . 2 J. Mordaunt, not out 6 c Longman, b Voules 15 S. C. Smith, b Voules 3 c Longman, b Voules 9 Hon. D. Finch, b Voules . 7 not out 14 Extras 9 Extras . II Total 137 Total 150 FREE FORESTERS. E. F. S. Tylecote, c R. Williamson, b Walker T. S. Pearson, run out G. H. Longman, b C. Smith . H. Maul, b Walker .... V. Royle, run out .... S. C. Voules, c Willoughby, b C. Smith W. Evetts, b Walker E. Rutter, c sub. , b Walker H. M. Marshall, b Walker G. C. Sinclair, not out Sir C. Mordaunt, c Finch, b Walker Rev. E. L. Fellowes, b O. Mordaunt Extras Total II c Walker, b C. Smith 13 7 b Walker . 21 10 c Ratliff, b Batchelor 73 c Ratliff, b Batchelor 15 5 not out 17 14 c Williamson, b C. Smith I 16 not out . 2 14 6 13 2 13 retired hurt 13 12 Extras . II 123 Total 166 The two following days were devoted to a match with I Zingari, of which the reporter said : — Two strong teams. Foresters won the toss, and made good use of their advantage, all scoring with the exception of their veteran bowler, whose mind being, unfortunately, more active than his body, was badly run out just as he was beginning to look dangerous. For I Zingari, Lyttelton, Rowley, Marriott, and Lord Willoughby came to the front, Lyttelton's square-leg hitting into the band-tent becoming almost monotonous (at a later period in the day the " big drum " was reported far from well ; a cure was speedily provided by Captain Middleton). • rt != ^ w rt • m j3Q ^ 2 >^ t i bj -1-1 . rt ' i o c i: i-J « 3 o d ^ ^ " : W W .!? . 3 ^ ^ ^ = H -"S ^ D. O C rt O rt t: C/2 CJ § HI / z. i6i Appleby and Buchanan with the ball, Tylecote and Lyttelton with the bat and at the wicket, with Royle, Maul, and Kenyon Slaney in the field, and no better cricket could be wished for. What would probably have been an exciting finish was put an end to by time. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. G. H. Longman, b Mordaunt . E. F. S. Tylecote, c Rowley, b Fellowes T. S. Pearson, b Fellowes S. C, Voules, c Middleton, b Mordaunt H. C. Maul, c and b Fellowes . V. Royle, c and b Mordaunt . G. E. Willes, run out . . . H. M. Marshall, b Middleton . A. Appleby, retired, hurt . E. Rutter, 1 b w, b Middleton (?) D. Buchanan, run out T. Ratliff, not out . Extras Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS. 3 c Drake, b Cobden . 43 c Mordaunt, b Cobden 24 b Mordaunt 23 absent 12 b -Fellowes 3 c Drake, b Fellowes 33 run out 20 1 b w, b Fellowes 4 absent II c and b Fellowes o not out 6 st Lyttelton, b Mordaunt 25 Extras . 207 Total SCORE. 15 50 41 o o 4 3 o o II o 4 12 140 I ZINGARL 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Capt. Rowley, c Buchanan, b Ap- O. Mordaunt, c and b Appleby . 4 pleby 33 W. Evetts, b Appleby ... 6 Capt. Middleton, c Royle, b Buch- E. T. Drake, run out . . . i anan 6 Lord Willoughby de Broke, c Hon. A. Lyttelton, b Appleby . 39 Rutter, b Buchanan ... 20 Capt. Kenyon Slaney, c Buch- F. C. Cobden, st Tylecote, b anan, b Appleby . . . i Buchanan o E. L. Fellowes, st Tylecote, b Extras 8 Buchanan i C. Man-iott, not out ... 21 Total . 140 E. W. Tritton, c Tylecote, b Buchanan o In the second innings Rowley (not out) scored 10, Lyttelton (b Appleby) 32, Kenyon Slaney (not out) i ; extras 2, — total 45. Appleby was struck by Capt. (Bay) Middleton, when batting, on the right elbow ; he had to leave off, and was unable to bat in the second innings, but bowling left- handed, he was not disabled in that capacity. On the same days, Aug. i and 2, another team of Fores- ters made a draw of a match at Alton Towers, which looked L i62 INTERNECINE STRIFE. like a victory, had the clerk of the weather been more pro- pitious. For F. R, who scored 158 and j6, C. B. L. Tyle- cote 28 and 27, R. Garnett 45 and i, W. J. Lyon 23 and 2"], H. G. Tylecote 6 and 40, and F. Baker 23 (not out) and 13, were prominent; and the Tylecote family took the whole of the wickets. For Alton nobody exceeded 20 but W. Moore, 21 (not out). Their score was 93 and 31 for 3 wickets. On the 4th and 5th, at Hanbury, a side which was ipsis Hibernis Hibernior, more Forester than many a Forester eleven, drew a rather interesting contest. For F. F., who scored 197 and 198, in the first innings seven double figures were made, 25 (not out) from T. RatlifT, the highest. In the second innings, G. H. Longman 65, and T. RatlifT 39 (not out), made more than half the runs. For Hanbury, again, there were seven double figures in the first innings, H. G. and C. B. Tylecote, 40 and 32, being chief In the second innings an excellent 45 from A. Lyttelton and a steady 29 from W. F. Higgins made, with extras, a score of 102 for I wicket. The Scottish matches this year (the last in which they were attempted) dwindled to two only : one was lost and the other won. On the same days as the last of these, Aug. 9 and 10, a renewal of the match with Gentlemen of Worcestershire, after a very even first innings, ended in favour of Free Foresters by 231 runs, several of the opposing team having taken their departure. H. C. Maul, 71 and 59, was un- doubtedly the F. F. champion, and was ably seconded by H. W. Verelst 23 and 69, the other figures of note being H. M. Marshall 14 and 36, G. H. Longman 36 and 7, J. Garnett o and 28. For the County, F. H. Lee 54 and J. R. Walker 35 are noteworthy. Stewart Garnett accounted for 10 Worcester wickets. Bray for 8. The next match, Aug. 11 and 12, played at Sutton 1~. > r\. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. T. Ratlifif, not out . 8 G. E. Smythe, st Laurence, b S. Garnett . . i6 W. C. R. Bedford, b S. Garnett . o Hon. J. Marsham, b S. Garnett . 4 W. Smythe, 1 b w. b Lionel Gar- nett . . o byes 3 . . 3 THE FAMILY UNDEFEATED. 163 Coldfield against eleven Garnetts, though unfinished, ex- hibited some very pretty cricket, and if time had permitted might have had an interesting finale. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. G. H. Longman, c and b S. Garnett 28 H. M. Marshall, c S., b F. H. Garnett 29 F. R. Price, c and b S. Garnett . 8 C. Tillard, c Lionel, b S. Garnett 3 H. G. Barron, st Laurence, b G. Garnett 40 A. F. Manley, c Robt., b F. H. Garnett 56 Total , . 195 In the second innings Longman (not out) scored 53, Marshall (c Laurence, b G. Garnett) 36, Manley (not out) 3, Marsham (c Robt., b G. Garnett) 32, — total 124. The author of * Scores and Biographies ' adds, probably correctly, 11 for extras in the second innings. GARNETTS. SCORE. SCORE. Lionel Garnett, b Marsham . . 28 Laurence Garnett, c and b Long- Gerald Garnett, b Marsham . 36 man 14 F. H. Garnett, b Ratliff . . 25 C. A. Garnett, b Marsham . . 9 Stewart Garnett, b Tillard . . 9 Herbert Garnett, c Manley, b Ratliff 3 Robt. Garnett, c Marshall, b Tillard 69 H. C. Garnett, not out . . 3 John Garnett, b Tillard . . o byes 5, leg-byes 7, wides 2 . 14 L. O. Garnett, c Marsham, b Til- lard 9 Total . 219 The match which followed, against twelve gentlemen of Staffordshire at Lichfield, had likewise some interesting features, especially when F. R, going in the second time to get 100 runs to win, saw Longman and Tillard fall for a cipher, and Ratliff follow suit in another over, while their score was as blank (to quote from 'Pickwick') as their faces. Fortunately good play was in reserve : Allsopp and Baker made 21 each, the latter not out, and Wil- liamson carried his bat for 18, so they won by 4 wickets. F. F. 135 and 100, Staffordshire 64 and 170, Malcolm Graham scoring for his county 15 and Z6, Longman i64 A GOOD YEAR. made 45 in the first innings of Foresters, and Ratliff 27, besides accounting for 9 wickets ; Allsopp and Tillard took 5 apiece, Lyon for Staffordshire 10. Shropshire, on the 17th and i8th, were beaten by 9 wickets, Wingfield's 31 being the only individual contri- bution of note, in their 96 and y^. F. F., by the aid of 58 from S. G. Lyttelton and 30 from E. F. S. Stanhope, made 154 in their first innings. At Market Harboro' on the 21st F. F. encountered Mr Hay's team with a deficiency of force ill supplied by kind emergencies. S. Bucknill 34 (not out) and 4, T. Ratliff 15 and 28, F. Baker 24 and 2, H. Verelst 13 and 16, were the chief contributors to their rather meagre totals of 129 and 114. On the other side, John Marsham, 44, helped a first innings of 116, and the requisite 128 was made with the loss of 7 wickets, W. Hay 37 (not out), and Capt. Meares 33. The last match of this successful season was played on Aug. 24 and 25 at Deddington, the home side getting 34 and 128, while F. F., who made 156, won without losing a wicket. Twelve a-side played. CHAPTER XXII, THE SCOTTISH TOURS. 1864-65. When it first occurred to the present writer to try the experiment of the circuit in the Land of Cakes, the off- spring of his brain very nearly perished in infancy for want of encouragement. Selecting the idlest fellow and best batsman of his acquaintance, he tentatively put the question, " What should you say to an autumn cricket-tour in Scotland ? " A pale cast of thought sicklied for an instant the wholesome ruddiness of the hero's countenance, " Is Scotland an island ? " quoth he. When assured that you could reach that portion of Britain without a marine trip, he condescended to say he would "think of it"; i66 SOFT DA YS. " but," he added, " I went to Ireland with I Zingari once, and no more islands for me, thankye." His thought of it, as might be expected, ended in a polite excuse for not going, and somewhat similar replies were received from at least four-and-twenty other intimate friends of the pro- jector. E. K. Hornby, however, was staunch, and with Hood, Bass, and W. J. Lyon, we started, relying on a promise that other Foresters, who were temporary residents beyond the Border, would turn up to our aid. At Glasgow, where we began on Sept. 6, 1864, we literally had only seven men ; but as the first day was too wet to play, and on the second the West of Scotland, winning the toss, went in and made 178, H. Tennent 63 being ledger-man, only one F. F. wicket fell for 35. We journeyed next to Perth, where we went in first and ten batsmen made 227 — Lyon 43, Hornby 41, Tennent 39, Bass 34, Hood 23, R. J. Garnett 16. The Perth men then made 177, and got 8 F. F. wickets down for 167 — Lyon 32 (not out) ; he also bowled six wickets. On the 14th at Stirling it rained all day; and on the 15th and 1 6th bad weather and bad cricket prevailed at Kelso, who made 184, their two professionals accounting for 69 runs, and extras 20 ; while four Foresters went out for 26. This was not encouraging. However, the following year, as I was a temporary resident near Edinburgh, I was able to arrange a good programme, and Osbert Mordaunt brought a strong eleven, including Goodrich, Mott, Hood, Lionel Garnett, Bass, and Colley — the last named, though he ac- companied us, being unable to play from the result of an accident : we had no difficulty, however, in filling his place. We began with the Grange Club, Edinburgh, on Aug. i, who beat us rather unexpectedly, as they did not make many runs, and our batting was strong. They scored 98 in their first innings, and F. F. 119 — Hood 31, Mott 27, &c. The Grange only reached 1 14 in their second hands, 13 O ^ m . -^ a .t; o r-* E -^ I ^ rt ^ •- > O . <« ,/ 1) 4J i I *J o P5 _cj t> "o ^ > U CO THE SOUTH INCH. 167 though Jack Mackenzie made a good 48 ; but with 94 to win we only made 57. On the 3d, in a one day's contest with Dalkeith, we showed up better. The home eleven made 1 36, their full worth ; and then Foresters, with the two last wickets, Goodrich and C. Bedford, still in, made 250 — Mott's 63 being a fine hitting innings (one hit for eight in particular), well supported by Hood with 50, Mordaunt 36, Lyon 25, Downe 17. On the 4th and 5 th, at Glasgow, the West of Scotland succumbed (13 to Goodrich) for the small scores of 47 and 79; while F. F., with nine double figures, gave a total of 210 in one innings — Hood 56, Lyon 32, Garnett 23, &c. At Stirling, thanks to the toss, F. F. went in first and scored 215, of which Garnett was credited with 61, Mor- daunt 48, Lyon 35, Mott and James Smith Barry 20 each. Stirling only scored 70 and 99, their pro., Guild, making 22 and 39 of them. On the second day at Perth, the weather, which had changed for the worse the day before, stopped the match outright, F. F. having scored 136 — Mott 43, Mordaunt 31, &c. — and Perth, whose last man saved the follow-on, 64. The Foresters' second innings in the dark and on a bad wicket only produced 65 for eight wickets, so there might be some speculation on the result. I forget whether it was in this match or the year before that I was scoring, with the Hon. Sec. of Perth for my companion, when a long stand was made on our side, and my colleague sent to speak to his brother, the captain in the field. " You must take Lochead [pro.] off," said he. " Well, he says that if he don't get a wicket presently, he'll try an over of lobs ! " Perth certainly was an old-world place to play cricket in, — an uninclosed ground, and a large contingent of unwashed urchins of tender years by way of gallery : they hissed, as Lyon reminds me, when we made a good hit or catch ; but the batsman, after a long innings, was conducted to i68 POLICE! the tent in triumph, one of the small boys marching in front with the bat. There were other perils at Perth besides those of the Inch. We very nearly left a couple of our eleven in durance vile there. All through the tour one or two obstreperous demonstrations had checkered the usual tranquillity of Forester cricket, and we had tried to give a hint to the principal offender by serving him in the field with a bogus summons for some act of mischief, through the connivance of a friendly "local authority." But at Perth he and another cricketer were actually run in for insisting on calling up a billiard-marker at 12.30 A.M. Luckily a masonic superintendent of police recognised a brother, and did not insist upon bail. The next morning the patriarch of the party thought it incumbent upon him to lecture the other roysterer, when to his great surprise he found that he was far too highly impressed with a burning sense of his own wrongs, especially of the injury he had been subjected to by the policeman. " Was it his duty," he exclaimed, " to call me " We may leave the appel- lative choked, as it was by his indignation, for it w^as that familiar to the British private beloved of Mr Rudyard Kipling, and equally so to the Scottish rough of that period. Fortunately words break no bones, or the finale might have stood " Retired hurt ! " But it certainly was annoying when an infuriated bag- man brought a policeman into the hotel at Glasgow, to give into custody somebody who had filled his Wellington boots with water. Of course he pitched upon the wrong men, and their calm demeanour and evident innocence so wrought upon the guardian of the peace that he recom- mended his client to apologise, lest the gentlemen should retort upon him. A more strictly cricket incident occurred at Stirling : after our innings the county men dallied a good deal BUCHANAN'S TOUR. 169 before going to the wicket, and some one asked for the ball. " We've sent up for it to the town," was the reply. " But why not go on using the one we have ? " " We want to sting your hands a bit with a new yin/' was the ex- planation. Goodrich's analysis is a curiosity : — ist innmgs 2d innings Edinburgh \ Dalkeith Glasgow { ^^V™"-5 I 2d innings Stirling \ ^^* ^"^^"S^ ( 2d innings Perth, ist innings Tota Maiden 3alls. Runs. Overs. Wickets 181 5T 19 7 170 41 21 6 100 43 8 3 60 23 2 6 108 42 7 8 114 32 II 6 144 46 13 9 104 35 8 5 981 313 89 so 1866. By D. Buchanan. It was with pleasant anticipations that in the summer of the above year I accepted Osbert Mordaunt's invitation to make one of his eleven in the cricketing tour to Scot- land which he had arranged ; and I looked forward to this visit to the north with the more pleasure, not only because I should renew my acquaintance with the Grange Club, of which I was a member thirteen years before, but also because I hoped to revisit scenes of early days, and note the many changes which had taken place since the iron horse went snorting through the land. Fortunate it is that in bonny Scotland there are spots far from the beaten track where nature, in rugged beauty, revels in wealth of heath, and stream, and birken glen — tracts which man in his ruthless thirst for gold will ne'er de- face, because it will not pay ; whose solitudes are still the haunt of the red-deer ; from whose heath-clad hills " The gor-cock crousely craws the mom ; " 1 70 AN ANTICIPA TION. and o'er whose loftiest heights, wheeling in majestic flight But I spare you, gentle reader, and will only add the earnest hope that as long as the world shall last there may be found in " Caledonia stern and wild " spots such as these, affording fitting themes for painter and poet alike, for where the iron streak runs all things are levelled down. I have seen the lordly stag with his companions — the "children of the mist" — in the brakes of Auchnashellach, quietly browsing within rifle- shot of the Strome Ferry train, and have knocked over the karken freuche (Gaelic, heather -hen or red -grouse) some twenty yards or so from the Highland Railway at Dalwhinnie ; and who can tell but that some day on some distant mountain - top we may find a scene somev/hat similar to that depicted at the head of this chapter, and be saluted with. Walk up, ladies and gentlemen ; only a penny. Walk up, walk up and see the Fat Lady, and the Golden Eagle a-sittin' on its nest ! ! ! Notwith- standing these animadversions, railways are indispensable in the present age,^ and by their means the Free For- esters were comfortably and rapidly conveyed to Edin- ^ To illustrate the curious notions old people in Scotland held on matters connected with railways. An old lady whom I knew in Roxburghshire, who had never been in a train in her life, and whose ideas on modern discoveries were very primitive, inquired in all soberness, and in much the same words as follows : " If I were in one train and saw a freen [friend] passin' in anither, could I no' stop and hae a crack [talk] wi' her?" Almost a parallel case to that of the old Scotchwoman who, finding she was being carried beyond her destination, called out, " Gerd ! gerd ! let me oot, let me oot ! ! " While the ink with which this note was written thus far was wet, a friend who had driven up to the front told me the following story. His grandfather, in going from Berwickshire to visit his relatives in Northumberland, was in the habit of driv- ing across the old bridge which connects Berwick with Tweedmouth. On a similar journey with his wife, towards the end of the "Forties," when about to start from Berwick by train, seeing the lofty new bridge, with its many arches, across the Tweed, he said to his wife, " I've often gane ower the auld brig ; but am no gaun to risk my neck fleein' through the air here, sae I'll just walk across by the auld brig, and jine ye on the ither side o' the watter." AN ACCIDENT. 171 burgh, for their first match with the Grange Club — the Marylebone of the North. The match was played on the Academy Ground, Raeburn Place. The Grange Club, owing to expiration of lease, and the property being taken for building purposes, had lost their old ground on the west side of the Lothian Road, and had not then obtained a new site. The Foresters were fortunate enough to win by 36 runs, and had not Hill been put hors de combat the result might have been differ- ent. I have seen many batsmen badly hit, and once in practice on the old Grange ground Jackson, afterwards the fast Nottingham bowler, then engaged by the Club, and a wild tearing bowler, hit me on the face with a bumping ball ; but I have never seen any one struck harder than young Hill was. Macgill — over six feet high, and a hard hitter — and he were batting well, and beginning to make runs fast, when the former drove a ball straight back, hard and low. Hill, who was backing up well, could not get out of the way, and was hit full below the belt a terrific blow, which finished the innings and the match. I never met Hill again, and never could ascertain if any permanent in- jury was done. The following was the score : — FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. R. Brodie, c Brown, b Craig 4 b Adams .... 7 D. Buchanan, b Hill b Adams . 8 J. S. Hood, c Hill, b Adams . 5 b Adams . 12 0. Mordaunt, b Adams . 32 b Adams . 4 W. J. Lyon, c Balfour, b Adams 5 b Hill . 17 H. N. Tennent, c Dunlop, b Hill . 30 b Adams . C. W. Stanhope, st Balfour, b Hill . 7 not out . 9 J. S. Holden, c Macgill, b Craig 5 b Adams . 42 R. Garnett, absent .... b Hill W. Birkett, not out . 8 b Craig . • 45 G. Gillespie, c Mackenzie, b Craig . I b Adams . I bye I, wide i 2 byes 2, leg-by ei, w ides. 3 6 Total 99 Total 151 172 WINS. THE GRANGE 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. R. D. Balfour, b Mordaunt . 5 c and b Buchanan , I J. Moncrieff, run out . . o st Lyon, b Mordaunt J. Mansfield, b Buchanan . . 3 c Hood, b Buchanan G. Dunlop, c Birkett, b Buchanan 28 run out 16 G. Craig, c Stanhope, b Mordaunt IS b Buchanan 5 J. Mackenzie, b Mordaunt . o c Hood, b Buchanan 9 K. Adams, b Hood . 9 st Lyon, b Buchanan 12 W. Dunlop, b Hood . 8 b Hood . 4 A. Brown, b Lyon 41 b Buchanan 4 A. Macgill, b Brodie . 13 not out . 22 J. Hill, not out . 4 hurt .... byes 5, leg-bye i, wides 6, no-balls 2 14 leg-bye . I Total 140 Total 74 The next match was played, Thursday and Friday, the 2d and 3d August, on the picturesque ground in front of Dalkeith Palace, one of the seats of the Duke of Buccleuch, and was won by Foresters in one innings with 6y runs to spare. There being no special feature in the match in a cricket point of view, the score will be a sufficient record : — FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. D. Buchanan, b Stobbs . . 2 R. Brodie, c Balgarnie, b Stobbs 5 J. Hood, b Riddle ... 87 H. N. Tennent, c Seton, b Stobbs 52 O. Mordaunt, b Riddle . . 7 W. J. Lyon, run out ... 8 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. J. Holden, b Riddle ... 9 C. W. Stanhope, b Riddle . . i Gibson-Craig, not out . . 2 byes 10, leg-byes 4, wides 4 . 18 Total . 191 DALKEITH. 1ST INNINGS. Douglas, b Mordaunt Riddle, st Lyon, b Mordaunt Heathcote, b Buchanan . Taylor, b Buchanan . Craig, b Hood . Dunlop, c Hood, b Buchanan Balgarnie, b Buchanan Almond, run out Dods, not out . Seton, 1 b w, b Buchanan . Stobbs, c Lyon, b Hood . byes 2, leg-byes 3 . Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS. 1 St Lyon, b Buchanan 2 b Buchanan 2 not out 35 c Lyon, b Buchanan 19 St Lyon, b Buchanan b Mordaunt 1 b Mordaunt 1 b Mordaunt 2 b Mordaunt o c Hood, b Buchanan 2 b Mordaunt 5 70 Total SCORE. o 6 4 o 9 2 4 I 12 16 o 54 IVET. 173 On the morning of Saturday the 4th of August the Free Foresters proceeded to Stirling. The wicket was rather of a spongy nature, and the out-fielding not good. The match was won by Foresters in one innings with 16 runs to spare. Score — STIRLING. 1ST INNINGS. E. Morrison, b Mordaunt . J. Nicholson, b Mordaunt C. Mackenzie, c Brodie, b Buchanan J. M'Quade, b Buchanan . F. Murrie, c Hood, b Buchanan Lord Erskine, c Hood, b Buchanan R. Walton, c Birkett, b Buchanan J. Wilson, b Buchanan G. Dalgleish, c Birkett, b Mordaunt J. Morrison, not out . J, Henderson, st Lyon, b Mordaunt bye Total IE. 2D INNINGS. J 8 run out 3 not out 5 b Brodie . 2 b Mordaunt 3 run out 3 b Hood . 1 c Birkett, b Mordaunt 10 b Brodie . 2 c Mordaunt, b Buchanan 2 b Mordaunt hit wkt., b Brodie 1 byes 40 Total I 4 10 II o 14 4 4 12 3 I 5 69 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. D. Buchanan, c J. Morrison, b E. Morrison . . . . i W. Birkett, run out ... 2 R. Brodie, c Mackenzie, b Morrison 16 W. J. Lyon, c Dalgleish, b Erskine 11 H. N. Tennent, b Erskine . . 18 J. S. Hood, 1 b w, b Erskine . 2 O. Mordaunt, c Murrie, b Walton 28 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. C. W. Stanhope, st Morrison, b Dalgleish i J. Holden, c Murrie, b Morrison . 24 J. Balgarnie, not out ... 14 P. Henderson, run out . . 5 bye I, wides 2 . . . . 3 Total 125 On Monday the 6th of August, by an early train, with Jupiter Pluvius in the ascendant, Foresters made their way to Glasgow, and on to Drumpellier, where they were heartily welcomed by Colonel and Mrs Buchanan of " that ilk." The kind reception and gracious hospitality enjoyed by the Foresters, not only on this occasion but in subsequent years, whenever the Scottish tour took place, will always be remembered with the greatest pleasure by all the F. F.'s who played in those matches. And particularly by me is this first match at Drumpellier 174 A RETROSPECT. to be remembered, since it was the precursor of delightful visits at Drumpellier, and many more for many years to Colonel Buchanan's charming place, Carradale, in Argyllshire, where — on the " beautiful hills of Kintyre," with good sportsmen, good dogs, and with all arrange- ments carried out in true sportsmanlike manner ; or on the cricket - ground, in friendly riyalry with the Camp- beltown Club ; or, if hills were shrouded in mist and rain came down, by the river-side, beginning at my favourite pool at Auchenruaich, some four miles up the glen, and fishing down ; with evenings graced by the presence of a kind and thoughtful hostess, and a lady friend or two — time, alas ! too swiftly sped away. Owing to rain no play took place on the first day of the match, but on the second, one innings each was concluded. Watson, afterwards the noted slow bowler for Lancashire, then employed in some iron-works in Coatbridge, — a capital wicket-keeper, good fast bowler, and useful batsman, — played regularly for Drumpellier. Score : — DRUMPELLIER. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Shaw, c Balfour, b Hood . . lo Sands, not out .... 8 Isaac, c Hood, b Buchanan . 13 Griffith, c Lyon, b Buchanan . 2 Watson, b Buchanan ... 12 Courtnay, I b w, b Buchanan . o Tennent, c Hood, b Buchanan . 6 Stevenson, c Lyon, b Buchanan . o Col, Buchanan, Ibw, b Buchanan o bye i, leg-byes 5 ... 6 Lewin, c Mordaunt, b Hood . o — Swale, c Brodie, b Buchanan . 4 Total . 61 FREE FORESTERS. R. Brodie, c Buchanan, b Sands W. Lyon, c and b Sands J. Hood, St Watson, b Sands H. Tennent, c Isaacs, b Sands R. Balfour, b Griffiths . C. W. Stanhope, run out J. Holden, c and b Watson . 15 O. Mordaunt, b Watson . . 7 15 D. Buchanan, run out ... 4 31 G. Craig, not out .... 7 49 W. Birkett, c Lewin, b Sands . 14 9 byes 2, leg-bye i , wides 2, no-balls 2 7 o o Total . 158 The last match of the tour was played at Partick, Glasgow, V. The West of Scotland Club, on the 8th and A GOOD FINALE. 175 9th of August. There was nothing special to note in this match except that the Foresters won by 53 runs. Score : — FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. J. Hood, c M'Alister, b F. Norley st Stenhouse, b F. Norley 32 R. Brodie, c J. Norley, b F. Norley 2 b F. Norley 10 0. Mordaunt, b F. Norley • 23 b M'Ahster 21 J. Holden, c Norley, b M 'Mister 4 c Sharp, b F. Norley 9 W. Lyon, c Sharp, b F. Norley I b F. Norley 6 H. N. Tennent, b F. Norley . 3 c Norley, b M'Alister 39 R. Balfour, b F. Norley . 12 c Swale, b F. Norley 29 D. Buchanan, b F. Norley 3 c Rowan, b F. Norley G. Craig, bM 'Mister 3 c M'Alister, b F. Norley 2 C. W. Stanhope, not out . 4 c Swale, b M'Alister 7 J. Houldsworth, c Sharp, b F. Norle Y . 7 not out 12 byes 3, wides 4 . . . 7 bye I, leg-bye i . 2 Tota I . 69 Total 169 WEST OF SCOTLAND. W. Stenhouse, b Mordaunt 7 hit wkt., b Mordaunt 14 J. Pattison, st Lyon, b Buchanan • 23 b Mordaunt I F. Norley, c Tennent, b Mordaunt c Mordaunt, b Buchanan 2 Swale, c and b Mordaunt . c Brodie, b Hood 23 Col. Buchanan, not out 2 bHood . 4 J. Norley, b Mordaunt I b Mordaunt 4 A. M'Alister, st Lyon, b Mordaunt 10 st Lyon, b Buchanan . 48 J. Inglis, b Buchanan b Mordaunt 7 Sands, b Mordaunt . not out 9 J. Sharp, st Lyon, b Mordaunt . 5 bHood . T. Rowan, hit wkt., b Buchanan 3 st Lyon, b Buchanan 9 byes 2, leg-bye i . . . 3 byes 5, leg-byes 5 . 10 Tota 1 . 54 Total • 131 No Scottish tour having taken place in 1867, the getting up a team and the arrangement of the fixtures was under- taken by me in the exceptionally dry season of 1868, and for several years afterwards. The match with Perth in 1868 is specially worthy of mention, because it was the only one ever played by the Free Foresters at that '' fair city " which was brought to a definite conclusion, — the matches of 1864 and 1865 having been prematurely closed by rain, — and the one of the tour which they least cared to lose. It was remarkable to see the interest taken by the " caddies " and 176 ''FIRST PRINCIPLES^ barefooted lads in the streets. They staked their pennies and twopences on the result, and on taking a walk after our evening meal at the George, I overheard one of them remark to his companions, "That's yin o' the Free For- esters." It was a good match, and well won by F. F.'s. Many Scotch clubs were anxious to make matches with the Foresters, but as all the matches were to be played within the limits of a fortnight, only those which were considered convenient were selected . Amongst these was Kelso, which was thought a good place to begin the tour with, especially as the match there gave Foresters an opportunity of seeing the far-famed Tweed, and on their way to Edinburgh they had a glimpse of the Eildon Hills and Melrose Abbey. The country there was well known to me, and I had formerly been a member of the Club, A good story, not generally known, in connection with the visit to Kelso of the All England Eleven, — Old Clarke's eleven, — as far as I can recollect, in the year 1852, may be mentioned. The match was played on the ground — kindly lent to the Club by the Duke of Roxburgh e — on Kelso Race-course. An old grocer, who had been looking on at the match for some time, on an interval taking place, accosted "Old Clarke" in the following terms : " It's a verra fine game this cricketts, Mr Clerk ! I've a gude mind to tak' to it mysel'. Noo, Mr Clerk, wad ye jist instruct me in the first preenciples o' crickett } " Old Clarke looked the old grocer over, and seeing that his finger-nails were long, had been in constant contact with sugar, snuff, pepper, &c., &c., and were innocent of a nail-brush, said dryly, " The first preenciples of cricket are, to coot yer nayls." My experiences of the Scotch tours were very agreeable ones, and when the fortnight was up and the matches over, the team generally broke up with unanimous expressions of regret that their pleasant trip had come to an end. A SAD NOTE. 177 1868. The season of 1868, as Mr Buchanan has incidentally mentioned, was unusually hot and dry, hence the diary of the Forester progress that year commences with a misquotation from Walter Scott — " Land of brown turf and scanty flood " — " descriptive of an August when there was not a particle of verdure upon the hillside nor a bucketful of water in the burn which gems the glen. However, before F. F. bent their backward steps towards the Border, refresh- ing showers had begun to gladden the country - side, putting a veto upon that implicit reliance on the clerk of the weather which is the sheet - anchor of cricket engagements." They began at Edinburgh on July 30 against the Grange, and with 9 wickets only, eight F. F. and a couple of substitutes, compiled 81, Verelst making 26 and Pender 21. The Grange, going in to the bowling of Buchanan and Bass, completed a total of 138, including 40 from Sanderson and 22 from Jack Mackenzie. F. F., who had lost the services of Pender in their second innings, scored 206 — Verelst 6^, Bennet 61 — and drew the match ; the Grange, with 5 wickets down, having made 112 at the call of time, Mackenzie again contributing 46 runs. Two days afterwards he injured his spine when taking a header while bathing, and, after lingering a few days, expired at the age of thirty ; and Scotland had to mourn the loss of one of the finest proficients in all manly games that ever entered a field, a man equally admirable in every other relation of life. On the 1st of August Stirling County only made 42 and 48, to 97 scored by Foresters — Bennet 33, Verelst 14, M 178 A TRIUMPHAL MARCH. and D. M'Donald (not out) 14, taking the palm. Buch- anan accounted for 11 Scottish wickets. On the 3d and 4th, Foresters did badly at Dalkeith, who with the assistance of 32 from Watson (professional) totalled 142. Foresters only scored 34 and 106, and were thus beaten in one innings. D. McDonald 18 and 20, H. Verelst 2 and 33, H. Bass o and 27, made a creditable fight. Aug. 5 and 6 were spent at Drumpellier, where F. F. won by 5 wickets. This was the match of which the chronicler said that the most remarkable feature was the temporary deposition of David (not, as might be sup- posed, by Absalom, but) by Bass from his domain of premier bowler to the F. F. The usurper achieved 17 wickets and twice that number of runs. Verelst made 21 and 34 (not out), Buchanan 14 and 10. At Perth, too, another victory was scored, the home eleven falling — 10 wickets to Buchanan and 11 to Bass — for 61 and 57 runs ; while F. F., though only scoring 37 in the first innings, obtained the required number in the second with 3 wickets to fall — -M'Donald 13 and 28, Verelst o and 25, being the principal scorers. No matches in 1869. 1870. 1870 saw what the * Scottish Cricketers' Annual' desig- nated "the almost unimpeded triumphal march of the Free Foresters." On Aug. I and 2 they played at Dalkeith, where the home team lost, scoring 142 and 59 to the bowling of Buchanan and Francis, the first - named claiming 12 wickets, the latter 7. " For Foresters, Francis," says the local report, " played a magnificent innings, his only bad stroke being his last one ; his bowling in both innings was also first- THE REVERSE. 179 rate. Buchanan, the veteran leader of his eleven, bowled with his usual judgment, proving himself to be one of the best gentlemen * head ' bowlers living." For- esters made 155 and 47 for i wicket — C. K. Francis 60, J. Smith 35 and 24 (not out), and J. Pennycuick 4 (not out) and 20, being conspicuous. On Aug. 3, at the Fettes College ground, the Grange scored 157 and 109, Free Foresters only making 113 in the first innings, but in the second wiping off the balance with 6 wickets to spare. C. K. Francis scored 72 for F. R, and J. Speid for the Grange 52. Aug. 5 found F. F. at Partick, where the West of Scot- land made 118 and got out F. F. for 59 runs. The second innings of the home eleven produced 147, and then Foresters, with 5 wickets to fall, scored 116. On the 8th, in a one-day's match at Kinning Park, Clydesdale got Foresters out for 75, but only made 39 themselves. "Although the Club has been in existence twenty - three years, the score recorded was nearly the smallest one it has ever made. The bowling of Mr Buchanan was too much for the bulk of the eleven." In the second innings Foresters scored 142 for 6 wickets — A. Wilmot 75, J. Smith 26, H. Bass 22. Buchanan took 7 Clydesdale wickets. On the 9th Foresters met with an unexpected reverse at Greenock. The first innings of Greenock was concluded by luncheon-time for 104, Morton and Grieve scoring 23 each. But when the turn of F. F. came, nobody got into double figures save W. H. Richards 32, and H. Bass 17, and they were all out for 88. On the loth and nth Drumpellier scored 81 and 122 for 6 wickets to the Foresters' single innings of 274. C. K. Francis and J. Smith made 60 and 66 respectively, G. Simpson 32, and J. Pennycuick 31. Buchanan took 10 Scottish wickets. i8o OUR BOWLER'S DAY. 1871. Free Foresters this year commenced on the ist of Aug. at Kelso, the home team claiming a victory next day by 8 wickets. Kelso made 182 in their first innings, of which the Marquess of Bowmont contributed 42, H. G. Wedder- burn 30, T. R. Marshall 28. Free Foresters only scored 117 and 71 — J. H. Raven 24 and 5, L. W. Novelli 12 and 27, doing best. In a one-day's match v. the Grange, on the 3d, Foresters put on 182 with 4 wickets to fall, against the Grange's 170. For the home side J. R. Marshall came first with 70, H. Wedderburn scored 32, and J. Mylne 22 ; L. W. Novelli for Foresters scored 65, J. H. Raven 31, G. F. Rayner 26, W. F. Higgins 24 (not out). At Dalkeith, on the 4th and 5th, they got out the natives for 109 and 79 — Rayner 53 (not out) and 8 the best — and made 134 in their first innings, winning by 8 wickets ; R. G. Venables scoring 71 and 31, both not out, E. H. Warner 24 and 26. On the 17th and i8th, on the Partick ground, Glasgow, Free Foresters drew with the West of Scotland, making 153 and 223 to their opponents' loi and 54 for 3 wickets — R. G. Venables 4 and 38, W. F. Higgins 31 and 17, L. W. Novelli 33 and 35, A. Young 37 and 16, D. Buchanan 12 and 34, twice not out.^ For the Westerners J. R. Hutchison 32 and 4 (not out) did best. ^ This is Mr Buchanan's best batting performance for Free Foresters, but it must not be supposed because the great bowler often went in late and carried his bat for infinitesimal scores, that he could not get runs on occasion. Apple- by recalls the incident of his going in M'ith him first in an eleven of J. W. Dale's against Harrow Wanderers in 1873, ^^^ staying in for 102, Buchanan's contribution being 21. This puts one in mind of the lady at Lord's who told her friend that Mr Grace — she called him W. G., and blushed — "was the only man who had made a hundred ofif his own bat." "But I saw Mr Read make a hundred," was the reply. " Yes, dear, but not off his own bat." ''HAMLET LEFT OUT:' i8i At Greenock, on the 9th Aug., the local club made 41 and 53 to Foresters' 108, of which Venables contributed 44 and Warner 20. And they finished their tour by another victory on the two next days at Drumpellier, where, says the reporter, " two or three surprisals came off — to wit, the jerk out by *our David,' the wide ball of * our David,' and the bowling of Bass in the first innings." The home eleven made 117 and %6. Foresters — with Higgins 42, Novelli 40, and Venables 36 — again to the fore, realised 186, and won by 8 wickets. During this tour Buchanan took 47 wickets, Bass 15, Venables 17. 1872. Free Foresters in 1872 had, according to the 'Scottish Cricketers' Annual,' " a very fair team, though the familiar face of Mr D. Buchanan was missed. At Glasgow really good batting was displayed by Novelli, Tubb, Tylecote, and Hutchison. Their fielding was very good, but the bowling inclined to the weak side." They began at Drumpellier on July 30, and getting out the home eleven for 64 and 97, they reached the total of 225, T. S. Pearson making 61, and H. Tubb 52 (not out), L. W. Novelli 32 and J. R. Hutchison 21. Tubb took 9 wickets, Novelli 5, of the Drumpellier side. On Aug. I, against the Grange at Edinburgh, their score was 297, E. F. S. Tylecote claiming 63, Hutchison and Warner 39 each, Pearson 35, Tubb (not out) 28, W. F. Higgins 25. The Grange were all out for 149, of which J. M. Cotterill made 70 — c and b Tubb. On Aug. 2d and 3d Dalkeith made two innings of 107 each to Foresters' iii and 106, with 4 wickets to fall. E. F. S. Tylecote was here to the front with 31 and 15, T. S. Pearson 30 and 12, L. W. Novelli 24 and (not out) 5, while W. F. Higgins, whose score was i82 A WIN FOR DRUMPELLIER. blank in the first innings, carried out his bat for 49 in the second. On the 5th, however, West of Scotland at Partick claimed 258 to Free Foresters' 173 and 128 with 7 wickets down — H. Tubb 48 and 6 (not out), E. F. S. Tylecote 2 and 42, L. W. Novelli 38 and 2. Chalmers for Glasgow made a not-out innings of Z6. On the 7th Greenock scored yj, and then Foresters amassed 281, nine of the eleven getting into double figures — T. S. Pearson 48, the best. Tubb and Novelli each took 5 Greenock wickets. On the 8th F. F. vanquished the Glasgow Caledonian in one innings by 178 to 92 and 52. Capt. Watson for F. F. made 43, T. S. Pearson 40. Of the 16 wickets bowled Tubb claimed 11. No tour in 1873. 1874. Aug. 3 and 4, the Grange scored 180 and 273 against Free Foresters — E. M. Bannerman 93 and 14 and L. M. Balfour i and 86 being best on the score. F. F. made 213 — E. F. S. Tylecote 52, T. S. Pearson 55, T. R. Fleming 54. Foresters beat Dalkeith by 197 runs. Aug. 7 and 8, Drumpellier scored 70 and 103, to no and 45 made by Free Foresters, thus winning by 18 runs after a well-contested match. Aug. 10 and 11, West of Scotland scored 166 — Clarke 53, Capt. Soames 46 — and F. F. 84 for four wickets — E. F. S. Tylecote 43, D. Buchanan (not out) 13, — the match being drawn owing to bad weather. SHOWERY WEATHER. 183 1875. Aug. 2 and 3, Grange made 123 and 66) but Free Foresters having compiled 130 in the first innings, wiped out the runs with 8 wickets to fall. E. F. S. Tylecote 27 and 43 (not out), T. W. Lang 22 and 12 (not out), and G. F. Rayner 47, did best. On the 4th and 5th, Free Foresters played against Dal- keith at Edinburgh, and in their first innings made 83 — T. S. Pearson, 28, J. W. Hutchison 15 — while Dalkeith, with the assistance of 24 from John Craig, equalled their score. Free Foresters next scored 108, Pearson making 58 ; and then Dalkeith, with 52 (not out) from G. F. Ray- ner, won by 2 wickets. Lang and Pearson were the Forester bowlers. On the 6th and 7th, at Partick, Free Foresters got 166 against the West of Scotland, Pearson making 33, and W. F. Story 32. West of Scotland replied with 202, — T. Chalmers yy, J. M'Neill 38. Then Free Foresters scored 210 for 6 wickets — Story 67, T. W. Lang (not out) 52, Lord Elgin (not out) 24. The 9th and loth were devoted to a match with Drum- pellier, where E. F. S. Tylecote having made 83, and Lord Elgin 30 (not out), the total of Free Foresters' first innings amounted to 176. Butler and Pearson then disposed of their opponents for 94 and 97, Lieut. Story 22 and 40 being the principal contributor. 1876. Free Foresters were beaten by West of Scotland at Par- tick on the 7th and 8th of Aug. " The heavy rains which fell within the last few days rendered the ground slippery and marshy, and though it could not be said that there 1 84 FAREWELL TO THE NORTH. was rain during the course of the play, the state of the field was not improved by the almost unintermittent drizzle that fell, making everything bleak and uncomfort- able." The F. F. scores were 92 and 61 — E. F. S. Tylecote o and 20, T. W. Lang 29 and 6, G. Hughes 41 (not out) and 2, J. R. Hutchison i and 16. Clarke (pro.) and Russell bowled. For West of Scotland J. M'Neill 26, and P. B. Russell (not out) 24, headed a score of 127, and Capt. Soames was (not out) 14. At Drumpellier the home side were all out for 31 and 52, D. Buchanan taking 10 wickets, Lang 8. In their turn Free Foresters scored 106, T. S. Pearson claiming 38, T. W. Lang 26. H. M. MARSHALL. 14-lwH'v'-'^ CHAPTER XXIIL FREE FORESTER MUSIC. By Edward Lyttelton. There seems to be no necessary connection between Cricket and Music. It would be difficult to say that this is owing to the somewhat violent science of the former and the extreme and indescribable delicacy of the latter ; since in various quaint and uncouth ways we find that something of a partnership has existed between two such incongruous accomplishments as music and warfare. We are familiar with stories of armies being cheered on a long and dusty march by the brass band ; i86 FREE FORESTER MUSIC. and it is well known that many a charge in battle has owed its irresistible fury to the clarion-like shouts of the attacking party. But it may be said with some truth that the kind of music which these instances call to mind is of the less refined order, and hardly constitutes a serious exception to the rule. It is music indeed, but effective for its purpose because it requires little attention in the listener, and no great skill in the performer. The mention, however, of the brass band reminds us that a certain alliance between that order of music and cricket has existed for some years. Many of our readers will remember gay scenes of cricket-grounds decked with tents and banners, and with a galaxy of fair women and leisurely young men ; while in a suitable spot is drawn up the band, which plays a strange hotch-potch of tunes of the most various quality, such as Strauss' Waltzes, Sullivan's Lost Chord, and the overture to Tannhauser, during the fashionable hours of the afternoon. Here again, however, we must hesitate to call this a necessary connection between music and cricket. Some would even go so far as to say that the connection is not only un- necessary but unnatural. Batsmen have been known to attribute their failure in an innings — quite inexplicable otherwise — to the sudden and intrusive blare of the cornet- d-piston or to the thunder of the trombones ; and there is indeed some reason to suppose that a musical mid-off might find it uncommonly hard to fix his thoughts on the next ball just as a Vorspiel of Wagner's is reaching its climax. Cricketers, in short, in proportion to the zest with which they pursue their calling, hesitate to approve of the combination of the noble game and the brass band. It is a combination which is far less fitting than that between band music and skating as we remember it at Dresden, where the players set the time to rows of skaters whose linked hands and feet plied in graceful forward THE BRASS BAND. 187 curves up and down the Teich, This partook of the char- acter of dancing, and no one supposes that music is out of place in a ball-room. But on a cricket-field it resembles the brilliant strains to be heard in the bull-baiting arena in Madrid, where the tunes are intended — like a piano solo at an evening party — to be a mere disguise to the serious business which has brought people together. Nevertheless, in spite of this broad general rule, the Free Foresters, during a few never-to-be-forgotten years of their history, established an alliance between these two superb but very different arts, which, so far from being unnatural or unfitting, served to bring out in fair relief what was best in both. It is the purpose of this chapter to give some account of this unique development, and the extraordinary success and delight which attended it. Before explaining the way in which this was done, we may pause to consider the kind of combination which is possible, if music is to be real music, and cricket to be in no way interfered with. Probably the reader will have guessed that the music was vocal and for the most part unaccompanied ; and further, that the singing was not in chorus but in quartette. It is hardly possible to imagine a whole cricket eleven capable of forming a chorus, but it would be quite possible to have four good singers frequently playing in a team together. Again, it is essentially necessary that they be independent of musical instruments. The captain of the side cannot provide a piano in a tent, or a harmonium close to long-leg, or a mandoline in the scorer's box. But he can perfectly well add a bag of books to his modest travelling equipment, and those books may contain the most priceless treasures of vocal part-music. And this was precisely what was done. Often and often during a long day's fielding a quick ear among the spectators might have detected something resonant in the tone of l88 FREE FORESTER MUSIC. mid-on's remonstrance when put on to bowl for the third time, or in the banter which passed from cover-point to third-man on the dropping of a high spinning catch. The truth was that singers were interlarded among cricketers : not that we mean to imply that they were soft and inert members of the team — they were themselves cricketers of undoubted prowess; but that stout and hilarious cover- point sings alto, that tall and black-bearded bowler is a sonorous bass, that unrivalled long-stop a second tenor, and that transparent-looking short-slip a first tenor, who not only can bowl puzzling "donkey-droppers," but can render Gounod's Rossignol with a singularly finished de- licacy of style. These, or others of a like calibre, form the Forester quartette, and when the proper time comes they will show how cricket and music may be combined. And before long the time arrives. There is no cricketer alive whose memory is not charged with the dismal in- cidents peculiar to a cricket-match stopped by rain. The fieldsmen come trooping in, and the padded batsmen behind them, running with less eagerness. The tent is charged with a disconsolate horde of onlookers and players, brooding over the fun they are losing: ladies doing their best to make things cheery, but secretly musing over a damp walk home, or, what is far worse, a drenching wet drive. Everybody feigns a cheerfulness that nobody feels or possibly can feel, as they listen to the patter of the remorseless drops, and gloomily view the pitch being ruined before their eyes. There is only one art known to man able to kill this "care and grief of heart," and that is sweet music. In the palmy times of the Foresters, on occasions like these, suddenly the cry would be heard, " Now, Tom, tune up : give us what you can ; never mind the bullion, sing by heart." The " bullion," it should be explained, had no connection with the vexed question of bimetallism, then hardly in existence, but was the THE QUARTETTE, 189 familiar term for the copies of the Orpheus glees and other compositions. No second exhortation is required. The quartette are soon disposed, sitting back to back, round the tent-pole, and without more ado the lovely- strains of Integer Vitcs are heard welling forth to the pleasant accompaniment of the rain above, lifting our thoughts away from life's disappointments to a serener region where pleasures are independent of the humid south-west wind. It would be difficult to find a better fulfilment of the old poet's advice to men to bend circum- stances to their will, and not themselves to circumstances. Or again, supposing the weather had remained fair, there was perhaps the evening concert to be faced. Possibly, but not often, a few moments might be snatched from the early afternoon just after luncheon, and the four singers would be seen under a distant tree humming over a few "curly" bars in "Strike the Lyre," or, more puzzling still, " Come, let us join the roundelay." Perhaps the first bass was new to his work, or a little rusty in memory. But generally the morning practice after break- fast was sufficient ; and they were prepared to do battle as genuine cricketers for some six hours in the day, and sing "without mitigation or remorse of voice" far into the night. But it was not only in the summer that they were called upon to show their talent. Not unfrequently a winter concert was arranged somewhere in the Midland Counties. What do cricketers do in the winter? Various answers might be given to this question. Ill-natured critics might suppose that they pined in enforced idleness, waiting like plants and trees for the call of spring. Some work at the desk in England. Some, like one member of the quar- tette, fly abroad to avoid the fall of the leaf Some dance, some shoot ; and the late W. Mycroft, the Derbyshire pro- fessional, turned the dark months into still deeper dark- I90 FREE FORESTER MUSIC, ness " doon the mine," and then, after a few rounds in the prize-ring in April, was ready to bowl (or throw) for six months on end. But the vocal cricketers generally pre- ferred singing. It was a great treat in the depths of December to leave for a while the heavier duties of life, and gather to some kindly welcome like that twice given by Mr (now Dean) Hole at Newark, and there furbish up the familiar glees, and crack many a time-honoured August joke, too happy to miss "Apollo's summer look," in the glow of a really hospitable English home. Perhaps the concert was followed by a ball, or by a mount with the hounds, or some erratic shooting at driven partridges. But whatever were the other attractions of the visit, to the singers themselves the concert was invariably the best thing of all. It would be possible, now that we have gone so far, to descant long and fondly on days spent on the river, as, for instance, on a glorious summer evening at Taplow Court near Maidenhead, when the part-singing by moonlight caused many a passing boatful of cockneys and pleasure- seekers to wonder where in the world they were. But as this was an instance of music blended, not with cricket, but with rowing, we must reluctantly leave it, as not being strictly germane to our subject. One occasion, however, stands out too prominently in our recollection to be passed over. About the year 1877 the quartette assembled at Trinity College, Cambridge, for some informal evening singing. And on the following morning it occurred to one of the party that a far better place for part-singing than rooms in Neville's Court would be the lecture-room staircase in the Great Court. Thither they repaired, about 1 1. 15 A.M., when all studious members of the College were busily engaged in wooing various Muses. Never before or since has part - singing been heard on that staircase, but nowhere from John o' Groat's to Land's End could a H 11 NEVILLE'S COURT. 191 place be found more perfectly adapted to make the best of the human voice. At first quietly, as if in awe of the august and scholastic surroundings, " the coronach stole " " from stair to stair," the echoes blending the voices into full rich melody. But at last the triumphant ending of " Shall I, wasting in despair?" at the words "What care I how fair she be ? " broke down all reserve. There was a sudden spontaneous shout, of five times the usual volume of sound, which rang far across the quad, and drowned the voice of the junior proctor lecturing hard by on hydro- statics. It so happened that there was no wild swan to pause in the cloud, but gyps and bed-makers stood aston- ied on door-mats, and gazed at each other with a wild surmise : and it is credibly reported that an aged senior wrangler, passing below, stopped dead in the middle of a problem, and stood spellbound in a chaos of emotions, marvelling whence the melody came, and who was the gentle heroine of the song ; and not till ten good minutes had passed did he stiffly resume his walk to his rooms, still labouring with dim memories so rudely awakened of a timid and uncompleted romance at Tooting full fifty years before. But our readers may ask how it was that ordinary part-singing came to occupy so prominent a place in the memories of those who were concerned. As a general rule, it cannot be denied that quartette singing is far more rewarding to the singers than to the listeners. In an ordinary concert in England, there is one piece in the programme which is admittedly inserted merely as pad- ding, generally at the very beginning, to give the people time to get settled into their places — the ladies to arrange their skirts, the men to cross their legs. This is the pianoforte solo or duet. But next to this, a vocal quar- tette is for the most part regarded as a harmless, not unpleasing, little effort, which is not worth very much 192 FREE FORESTER MUSIC. attention unless it be a roaring catch or the vehicle of some absurdly comic words. If, as has already been hinted, the Forester quartette became something better than this, it will be well that some idea be given of the requirements and shortcomings of ordinary part-singing, so that it may be made clear what prevalent faults the singers in question were able to avoid. In the first place, to catch and rivet the attention of an audience with music, it is above all things necessary that the performers shall have a clear idea what is the meaning of the composition. Next, that they should endeavour to express it. This is true of all music ; but in the case of vocal music the question becomes complicated, owing to the presence of words as well as melody. Now, singers have a choice before them. They can either confine their attention to the music and slur the words, or, vice versa, they can pronounce the words so ultra distinctly that the rhythm of the tune is interrupted. Thirdly, they can aim at both in due proportion ; fourthly, they can succeed in neither. But no good singer will adopt the same method for all songs and all audiences. Some songs are first-rate because of their music, though the words be paltry, — such as many of the old Italian schools. Others are charming owing to the beauty of the words, though the music be unvocal ; this is the case with some of Schu- mann's. In the old English ballads the combination is quite perfect. It would be impossible to conceive of the music of " Barbara Allen " expressing any other words, or those words being set to any other music. But it very seldom happens that the words are so perfectly adapted to the music that a careful rendering of the music necessarily involves an adequate expression of the words. It is nearly always the case that a singer can give his best to either one or the other, while very few are equally strong in both. But the problem is PART SONGS. 193 not solved when these simple principles are grasped. The further question arises in connection with the audi- ence. If, as is highly improbable, a concert audience be so musically intelligent as to take delight in the harmonies of a part-song, or in the accompaniment of a solo, merely as music, then it is not necessary to be very careful about the choice or the articulation of the words, in order to produce an effect. But in a general way an audience will strive to catch the words, and is only thor- oughly pleased if it succeeds in doing so, and at the same time enjoys the simple refrain as a vehicle for the story. Therefore to succeed in a concert, the first essential is that the words be well delivered ; the second is, that the voice be pleasing ; the third is, that the tune be attractive. All this makes it obvious why part-singing is so seldom effective in a concert. It is more difficult to catch the words when four people are singing than when one is ; though even in the latter case it often demands prolonged attention to make out even what language is being rendered. Again, a vast number of part-songs consist of vapid words set to good music ; but even if the music be faithfully rendered, nothing will atone with a popular audience for the loss of good words, when every one is striving to "make out what it is all about," and can only catch here and there lifeless and obsolete allusions to Thyrsis and Daphne. Long before they have begun to pay attention to the music, the three verses are at an end, and the performance is a flat failure. And if such be the difficulties inherent in the quartette, what shall be said of the singers? The commonest fault of all is bad pronunciation of words. The next is shyness. When an Englishman is shy he is funereal ; and if he be singing jovial words in a funereal manner, it is better that he slur them over rather than let the audience see the painful incongruity. And without exaggeration it may be said that, considering the demands N 194 FREE FORESTER MUSIC. of an ordinary audience, it is astonishing how few quartette singers manage to put life and expression into their words. Again, very often the voices do not blend. Nobody knows why some voices blend and some do not. It cannot be predicted, but an experiment sets the question at rest ; and if one voice out of four fails to blend, it draws the attention of the audience to itself, and many beauties and much of the meaning of the composition are lost. Then there are, of course, wrong notes, and also the peculiar dulness and monotony which comes of imperfect acquaint- ance with the piece, and from a certain dark misgiving in each singer's heart that at the next turn of the page there will be a catastrophe. From most, not quite from all, of these defects the Forester quartette was singularly free. The first pre- caution they took was, as a rule, to have the words printed in all the programmes, so that if the articulation of all the singers was short of perfection, as was certainly often the case, yet the audience should not be baulked of its first great demand, the sense of the piece. It is undoubtedly a lamentable fact that this is seldom done. A good English or German composer ponders first on the full meaning of his words before he thinks of his music ; but the English public are supposed to be able to get at his idea by their unassisted intellect, though they can't hear a single word from start to finish. It is a sheer impossibility, and the attempt to do without printed words at once ensures the failure of all the lovely part-songs the words of which are dull or out of date, such as ninety-nine per cent of all those of the best English composers. But put the words in plain print before the audience, and they will with a glance take in what Damon said to Phyllis, or, if it be a modern piece, why, there is sure to be something about angels and graveyards somewhere before the end. They then can give their attention to the music ; they will WORDS IN PRINT. 195 anticipate a change of key to suit a change of words, and will be keenly interested in seeing how the composer has interpreted the sense of a particular distich. These secrets were known and acted on by the Foresters almost from the very first. Come what might, let the listeners anyhow know what the song is meant to say. In the next place, they were, as a rule, thoroughly familiar with the pieces to be performed. This was, of course, due to a good deal of practice, and very frequent singing together, and latterly, it must be confessed, to a somewhat restricted repertoire, owing to the imperfect powers of reading new music which characterised one or two of the singers. But the classical part-songs, such as " Strike, strike the Lyre," " When Evening's Twilight," "The Two Roses," and many others, can hardly be re- peated too often or be too well known. Hence their singing was free from monotony. Every composition requires variety of treatment in different places, and this was given without effort, and with a singular unanimity of tone and exactness of time. When the time changed, as it fre- quently did to bring out the expression, the audience were taken by surprise but the singers never, and very often it was like one individual varying his tones in a solo, so perfect was the rapport which existed between the voices. Thirdly, the four parts were well balanced. That is to say, as a general rule the two outside voices, alto and bass, were stronger than the tenor and first bass ; or if, as some- times happened, the bass was not as strong as the alto, the other voices were sufficiently subdued to maintain the re- lation unimpaired. This is not by any means easy to do. But the real secret of the success of the Forester quartette unquestionably lay in this fact. One of the singers, Tom Ratliff, the alto, without whom the quartette would never have come into existence, was possessed of a singular and almost unique dramatic gift. At the risk of being thought 196 FREE FORESTER MUSIC. a little over-analytical, we must explain what we mean by the expression. Put quite briefly, a dramatic gift is the power of ex- pressing feelings so vividly as to carry the feelings of the audience along with the actor or speaker or singer. But how are they to know what those feelings are ? It is interesting to see how an accomplished public speaker, as a general rule, indulges in a few sonorous platitudes or timely jokes at the beginning of his speech, simply to ascertain the exact prevailing tone of feeling in the room. Every audience is in a certain key, as some people say every building is better suited to one key than another. Mr Gladstone was once heard to say that in his great Budget speeches — the greatest and by far the most in- teresting that have ever been delivered — he forebore to arrange beforehand the order in which the different topics should be taken, but waited till he felt the pulse of the House, and was able to see what they wanted and how he could best give it them. And of another supreme orator. Bishop Wilberforce of Oxford, it is recorded that on one occasion, on mounting a pulpit with a sermon ready pre- pared in his head, he discovered somehow that it would not be suitable to the particular audience at that particular time, and without a second's hesitation delivered another magnificent address on a totally different subject. Now, let us consider for a moment how this bears upon the question of part-song singing. To produce an effect, the opening songs of a concert ought to be such as suit the prevailing tone of the audience, and the great difficulty is to ascertain this tone. The speaker, as we have said, cracks a few jokes simply to hear the people laugh ; at any cost they must express themselves early and clearly, and show of what sort they are. How are singers to get them to do this ? In an ordinary concert a great deal can be done by a TOM RATLIFF. 197 good chairman. Two or three felicitous remarks at the beginning sets every one in a good humour : a cheery- demeanour makes it evident that he at least expects a pleasant evening, and so the very common evil is avoided of having to wait for the audience to thaw from the con- dition of glacial depression in which English people fre- quently set themselves to listen to music. But if there is no chairman, the singers must manage this themselves. The only singer we have ever seen or heard who never failed in the attempt was Tom Ratlifif. It is true that he was acted upon by his audience sometimes unfavour- ably. When singing for the first time in a strange locality, he would be less confident about the beginning of a con- cert than when, as at Worcester or Newark, he was well known, and a single glance at some familiar faces was sufficient to show him that the listeners were really eager for the best that he could give them, and knew what style to expect. On these occasions he would choose some such piece as " The Tar's Song," by Hatton, and take up his stand, with the three others ranged in a slight curve alongside of him, waiting till the audience was absolutely quiet. Then with the fore-finger raised, preparatory to giving the first beat, he would often catch, or pretend to catch, the eye of some acquaintance in a far corner, and just as every one was looking at him, a smile of the most irresistible geniality would play over his mobile features and almost at the same moment the words would be heard of the opening alto solo, delivered with the most living intonation, " Our ship now goes with a pleasant gale," and in a few minutes his high C, at the words " So clear your pipes" rang out like a clarion, to be followed by " and join in our heave ho ! " when he would be seen giv- ing an indescribable nautical hitch at his breeches, not because it was proper to the part, but with the air of one who could not sing the words without an appropriate 198 FREE FORESTER MUSIC. gesture. And so it went on till the unison burst, " Cheer- ily, my men," ended with a piano " Heave ho ! " the last note " lingering and wandering on as loath to die." At the end of such a piece of singing as this everybody was happy : the ticket-holders felt that they were getting ex- actly what they wanted ; they were ready to welcome the next solo with applause, and every performer was aware of a general cordiality diffused throughout the premises to the farthest recesses of the green-room. How astonishingly different from the usual beginning of a charity concert ! But to say that Tom Ratliff was possessed of a remark- able dramatic instinct by no means exhausts the subject. It is necessary for us to dwell on his qualifications at some length, since it is quite undeniable that the success of the quartette was as much due to him as the supremacy of Thebes was due to Epaminondas, or that of Gloucester- shire county cricket to W. G. Grace. With him the singing began, and with him, alas ! it decayed and ended. The other singers may have sung since, with pleasure to others and to themselves, but never again with the same exhilaration as in the days when Tom was the leader of the choir. In proof of this statement the following fact may be adduced. On a comparatively recent occasion, somewhere about the year 1885, some quartette singing was arranged for the benefit of the Eton Mission at Hackney Wick. Three of the quartette were Foresters, — that is to say, George Longman, tenor, Edward Lyttelton, first bass, and his brother Spencer, second bass ; but in place of Tom as alto was a thoroughly skilled and finished counter-tenor, who rendered the part-songs along with the others in as artistic a way as any one could wish for. Moreover, the songs that were sung were exactly those which produced the greatest effect when Ratliff had been among us. Not a single encore was asked for, not a single thrill of delight in the audience was perceptible. The mil hd T RECORDS. 199 singers looked and waited at each well-known cadence, and did their utmost to reproduce the turns, the pauses, the phrasing of their leader. All was as good as it could be, except that Tom was not there ; and that is tanta- mount to saying that the quartette, in spite of its excel- lence, was to the audience an ordinary quartette, and shared the inevitable fate of all such. We read that, during the French Revolution, a citizen went out on to the Boulevards and met a friend, with a cheery salutation to the effect that it was a fine bright day. The answer was, " Oui, monsieur, mais Mirabeau est mort." In the same way the Foresters have occasionally gathered together in lonely couples, or three together, to try to recall some- thing of the spirit of old times — but it is in vain : a void has been made which nothing will ever fill up again. But it is time to say something of the coadjutors of this remarkable artist before we pass on to describe more exactly the method they adopted in part-singing. We must begin by saying that the records,^ on which we have to depend for any history of the Forester concerts, bear all the signs of having been collected some time after the singing had begun. They consist of two large volumes, containing numberless cricket scores and accounts of con- certs, programmes, &c., besides some charming illustrations in water-colour and ink, and some very valuable photo- graphs of groups. From these we can extract a certain num- ber of facts which tell us who the singers were, but not, un- fortunately, how the quartette originally came into being. The first concert recorded was at Worcester on Aug. 12, 1872: the first part-song given was "The Summer Eve," by Hatton, at all times a favourite one to start with. The quartette were Tom Ratlifif, the Hon. Rev. John Marsham, Muir Mackenzie, and Herbert Marshall. We find, strangely enough, that Spencer Lyttelton — a most familiar figure later ^ Now in the possession of Mr Herbert Marshall. 200 FREE FORESTER MUSIC. on — was singing a solo at the concert, but not joining the quartette. It was seldom in later times that the singers were reinforced by the excellent musical accuracy of Muir Mackenzie, who combined a thoroughly good blending voice with sound knowledge. Herbert Marshall, after a year or two, was the regular first bass till, from 1876, Edward Lyttelton sometimes took his place, it being of course an advantage to have two brothers singing together, as their voices are pretty sure to blend. It is not necessary to say much of Spencer Lyttelton, as he was for many years well known as a first-rate amateur bass. He had all the native qualifications for part-singing, the quality of his voice being peculiarly soft and smooth, and telling with great effect in such a legato passage as that in "Come, gentle Zephyr." In John Marsham the Foresters possessed a comedian fit to rival Ratliff in social life, though not on the platform, unsurpassed as a raconteur and letter-writer. It was somewhat uncertain work bringing him and Tom together, as the foolery which resulted threatened to upset the orderliness of the evening's proceedings; but in a quar- tette the former was graver than usual, owing to a laudable desire, not always fully gratified, of hitting the right note in the very centre. His excellent solo singing was always a feature of the concerts in which he took part, and in " Old Thomas Day " we have seen him as good as could be. When a soprano quartette was required, there was no one who could take the top part better, or who was more deservedly popular on the platform or in the drawing-room, than Mrs John, and her solo singing, especially in "My Mother Bids Me," was a real treat, owing to the rich and sympathetic tone of her voice. The next concert we read of was at Rugby, where we find two Humes helping, and in July 1873, for the first time, E. Bray, a slow bowler of renown, and a peculiarly refined light tenor. An excellent reader and as true a A FRENCH SOLO. 201 singer as could be found, he was invaluable in all the softer pieces, and the sound of his soft birdlike tones in " Celia's Arbour" will not be forgotten. In louder pieces he was hardly strong enough ; but for an evening's sing in the hall of a country house, with the four singers sitting close together and rendering all the old plaintive favourites, one after another, the best tenor possible was Teddy Bray. During 1873 there were numerous performances through the summer and winter, ending with one at Ashburn in November, when E. Wilson took the tenor part. In Jan. 1874 an amazing fact is recorded: Tom Ratliff is credited with a French solo ! Certain it is that " no mortal wight had ere that night" heard a French sentence proceed from the door of his lips, and it would be difficult to imagine even him putting much meaning into the words — " Avec ivresse et sans effroi Je braverais la mort pour toi " — even if he ever understood their meaning, which is wholly out of the question. And as, not long after, we find Teddy Bray singing this very song, in an excellent French accent, it seems highly probable that Ratliff has been credited by the printer of the programme with linguistic powers to which he would have been the last to lay any claim. We have forgotten to mention that about 1875 G. H. Longman made his appearance in the quartette as a sound and trustworthy first tenor, adding one more to the list of first-rate cricketers of vocal talent. And this reminds us of a fact worthy of mention, that it was quite possible for the Foresters to put on a platform together a galaxy of vocalists all of whom had played in the University match. Suppose a glee such as " The Cloud-capped Towers " was being sung. We should have had Ratliff for the top part, as a cricketer once fully up to University standard. Bray and Longman second tenors, Marshall and Alfred Lyttelton 202 FREE FORESTER MUSIC. first basses (the latter being a very rare visitant, but still able to help at a pinch), and Edward and Spencer Lyttelton as second basses. Add to these E. Hume, and possibly R. H. Lyttelton, and the combination of the two arts be- comes sufficiently remarkable. On one occasion, at Wor- cester, an octette was got together very similar to the one we have sketched. In trying to give our readers some idea of the method of the Forester quartette we find ourselves obliged to recur to Tom Ratliff, and perhaps, as he was always the most striking object on the platform, not only to the ear but to the eye, we had better describe briefly his appear- ance. A stout grey-haired man, with a large rubicund face, and a certain looseness of limb, generally perceptible among middle-aged cricketers, was apparently all that was to be noticed about the alto of the quartette. But when he began to sing, the extraordinary mobility of his ample jowl and capacious mouth, the indescribable con- tagiousness of his smile, and the roving glance of his liquid blue eye, soon arrested the attention of every one in the room, even if his grand falsetto had not done so. When engaged in a pleading and pathetic piece like " By Celia's Arbour," he would often lower his book and raise his eyes to the ceiling, displaying to view the ample volume of his throat, and depicting every passing mood of the music on his face as he poured out the sound.^ But, as will have been already inferred, his greatest powers were best seen in some light melodious piece like " Banish, oh Maiden," or " I know a Maiden fair to see." The first of these two soon became a great favourite. From the beginning to the end of it, every note was delivered by him with all the mock fervour of an impassioned ^ This is the attitude caught in an admirably clever caricature by Mr A. C. James of Eton College, drawn after a concert given about 1886. It is now in the possession of Mr E. Lyttelton at Haileybury College. ''BANISH, OH MAIDENP 203 lover pleading with a mistress whose looks were coy and cold, exactly as if she stood visibly before him, and all the time the most roguish smile showed how com- pletely he entered into the farcical humour of the situation. His burly and most unromantic proportions gave a de- lightful comicality to the skittish sham pathos of the words — " Or if a frown must that smile chase away, Why, frown then to-morrow, but kiss me to-day " — the last two syllables being delivered with most telling effect after the other three voices, as a sort of echo, the pause of which could only be attributed to the profound sentiment simulated by the singer. As a rule, he would improve on all this by addressing his blandishments to the first tenor next him, generally some sinewy middle- aged and married cricketer, whose stolidity was an admir- able set-off to Ratliff's fooling. But his old associates knew too well what was coming, and enjoyed the fun too thoroughly to be able to feign unconsciousness. Once only was this seen in high perfection. The tenor had failed, and a minor canon of Worcester Cathedral kindly came to the rescue, and sang the part through the concert with the most praiseworthy fidelity. But when it came — as sooner or later was inevitable — to " Banish, oh Maiden," the effect was unconsciously ludicrous. The tenor plodded on as conscientiously and seriously through the unfamiliar phrases as if they had been part of a new Magnificat, while Ratliff was pouring into his wholly unconscious ear the tenderest solicitations and most irrelevant endear- ments, combining all the pleading power of voice and eye with a roguish merriment which no one will ever forget who once saw it, but which, alas ! no power of language or pencil will ever reproduce. The same comedian's power was singularly noticeable in such pieces as " I know a Maiden fair to see," where 204 FREE FORESTER MUSIC. the "side glance" was irresistible, and in the ridiculous old catch " Old Thomas Day." Towards the close of this we have seen him with handkerchief in hand, and literally a big tear on his cheek, sobbing out nonsense, with the whole audience and the other singers incap- acitated with laughter. And in the last line, after a long dramatic pause, he would groan out the words "Poor soul" with the deepest intensity of feeling, and then, with a slight shade of annoyance at his questioner's stupidity, " No, no," followed by the tragic admission, " Ay, ay," delivered with the solemnity of an undertaker at a funeral. The remaining syllables were generally lost in sobs. There were times, however, when the infectious expres- siveness of Ratliff's face was a hindrance rather than a help. As every experienced concert-singer knows, there are times when a dismal collapse seems imminent : something has gone askew ; a wrong page has been turned, or a repeat forgotten by somebody, and nobody can conceive how the crisis is to be met. Now, the first requisite on these occasions is an impassive demeanour. No audience detects a trouble of this kind so soon as the singers themselves, and there is always hope that a little fertility of resource may gloze over the mistake before any one knows what is going on. But on such occasions, as on all others, Ratliff's face was a mirror on which the passing emotions of the singers were faithfully and instantaneously recorded. Up went the eyebrows, down went the corners of the mouth: a hasty prod with the left elbow into the tenor's ribs gave a sort of general signal of distress, and if, as was practically certain, the eyes of all present were fixed on him, it was inevitable that the embarrassment of the singers should be at once revealed. In fact, no cat ever leapt out of any bag with more decisive promptitude. This was something of a nuisance, as it is possible, as we have said, to recover a lost position in part-singing, as in chess or football. About AN IMPROVISATORE. 205 the year 1876 the quartette gave a delightful concert at Eton, ending up with Bishop's rollicking glee, " Mynheer Van Dunck." They sang it unaccompanied, and to suit Ratliff's voice it was raised two whole tones. Some of our readers will remember that near the beginning there is a bass solo — " Singing, oh! that a Dutchman's draught could be As deep as the rolling Zuyder Zee;" and on this occasion the second bass, not being a very old hand, unconsciously set off in the original key, and forced the singers to continue the next bars as they were written — that is to say, just on the crack of Ratliff's falsetto. The effect was most disquieting. He was heard to emit a series of uncomfortable yappings, harsh chest - notes varied with involuntary falsetto, so that it was evident that the glee could not possibly be finished in that way without seriously tarnishing the reputation of the Forester quartette. The catastrophe bade fair to spoil a jolly concert just when it was finishing in thorough good style. And there was no concealing the fact : dismay and perplexity were seen chasing each other from brow to jowl, up and down the leading singer's countenance, and betraying themselves in every movement of his arms, and in something indescrib- able even in his back view. Every portion of his person revealed his feelings. But the bass, unlike Histiaeus, having made the shoe, put it on. When the next bit of solo came, " Water well mingled with spirit good store," he boldly left the notes, improvised an incipient cadenza, and brought himself back to within a semitone of the right pitch. So Apollo saved us ! It was doubly delightful to see the change in our alto. Instead of threatening and hurrying clouds coursing over the sky of his countenance, the broad ruddy sun shone out again, and off he went with " No Hollander dreams of scorning," easily subsiding 2o6 FREE FORESTER MUSIC, into the genial and buxom serenity required by the words, and which he of all men was best fitted to express. Besides the specially comic part-songs there were some, like the delightful Orpheus glee " The Two Roses," which brought out a peculiar power of Ratliff's, that of phrasing. The piece can be easily sung so as to produce no effect whatever except that of a mechanical and monotonous composition. But here the real artist was at home. The opening lines describing the roses were given briskly, and without the least pause between the first and second, as if the picture were too vivid not to be eagerly described ; then a slackening at " As I pensive, full of care, gathered two sweet flowers," followed by a pause. This was suddenly and most effectively broken by the exhilarat- ing appeal, " Tell me, roses," running at a quickened pace in a crescendo up to the high B ; then again a pause, and the graceful concluding phrase pianissimo. Any one who carefully studies this charming melody will see how vastly it is improved by these and suchlike little liberties with the strict time, just sufficient to prevent all suspicion of dulness, while preserving the rhythm. In these ways Tom Ratliff was a prodigious favourite with many large audiences in the Midlands. On one oc- casion he was applauded so long and so loud on getting up to sing a solo that with all his aplomb he was embarrassed, and hardly knew which way to look. And the glamour that he threw over the old part-songs was so magical, that it was quite safe to draw up a programme consisting of very little else. We believe we are right in saying that two charity concerts given in consecutive years at Newark, consisting of from twelve to sixteen part-songs each, and a few unimportant solos, yielded £^y and ;^ioo profit re- spectively. Of course this means good local management. But what conceivable management would have yielded this result unless the quartette had been headed by Ratliff? A BORN ARTIST. 207 In short, he was a born artist of a most remarkable kind. His powers were very insufficiently trained. He was a bad reader, and in an echoing room a fine ear could occasion- ally detect him out of tune. But making all necessary subtractions from our encomium, it may safely be said that he was a truly great part-singer : lacking indeed some of the qualifications of an ordinary choir-singer of part- songs, but gifted with a power, unparalleled as far as we know in any professional or amateur, of fascinating a large audience by his masterly interpretation of ordinary four- part music, his delicate appreciation of the meaning of words and cadences, and, above all, by his irresistible and wholly indescribable fun. G. Watson. C. F. Reld. K. Muir Mackenzie. C. E. Boyle. F. K. Price. E. Rutter. S. G. Lyttelton. H. Verelst. F. Crowder. W. F. Higgins. T. Ratlifif. W. H. Hay. H. H. Gillett. H. M. Marshall. H. E. Maul. Rockingham^ 1873. By what wise men ' eternal fitness ' call, The morninsf bat demands the evening ball. ■I. P. CHAPTER XXIV. THE FORESTER BALL. By Edward Rutter. No chronicles of the Free Foresters would be complete without some reference to the Balls which have periodi- cally been given. What has dancing to do with cricket ? many will say, and at the first glance the two do not seem to be connected ; but in a fraternity where social gatherings and good-fellowship are so closely allied to the principal pastime, cricket, dancing is constantly included in the programme. As visitors in country-houses the F. F. HOME DANCES. 209 are often expected, after their arduous duties in the cricket- field, to devote themselves to the ladies, who have looked forward to the presence of a cricket eleven as an excuse for getting their neighbours together and having a dance after dinner. And very pleasant evenings they are, and though the concerts and part - songs of the inimitable quartette were at one time highly and justly popular, still upon the whole the dances were quite as welcome, and have survived the more refined and artistic music. One explanation of the constant popularity of Terpsi- chore unquestionably is, that the fairer sex, although they may be said to have challenged the supremacy of their male admirers and rivals in almost every department of sporting or artistic excellence, have achieved in none of them so decided a supremacy as in the ball-room. The ladies who from the outset condescended to wear Forester colours were well advised of this, and the earliest chroni- cles of the club record that they made the most of their advantage. It was with regard to the inaugural match of Free For- esters that, in a parody of Byron by one " Longfellow " (not the Transatlantic poet), the proceedings of the even- ing were thus summed up — " The men Wore hearts like sieves — all riddled through and through. And yet, poor donkeys, liked it : just as when Whizz ! — at the blazing lamp the scorched moth comes again." And this precedent has never been lost sight of during the intervening years. At Sutton Coldfield, the birthplace of the Club, at Pype Hayes, at Kingscote, at the Harfords' at Knowle in Gloucestershire, at the Greenwoods' in Hampshire, at Thornby and many other houses, the Club has tripped it merrily. At Worcester, Weybridge, and elsewhere, the local hall has been retained for a ball given in honour 210 THE FORESTER BALL. of the visitors, and at Deddington a dance in the Pavilion was always an important feature of the occasion. As time went on the Club began to feel that some return should be made for all this kindness and hospitality, and early in 1876 it was decided to give a ball, at which our hosts and hostesses should be our guests. A circular was sent out, which was very favourably received by the members, and accordingly Willis' Rooms were engaged. On the second night of the 'Varsity match (1876) the first of these pleasant gatherings was inaugurated, and to the strains of the Royal Artillery band dancing was kept up till the morning sun shone brightly through the windows. It had proved an unqualified success. Many wished it to be repeated the following year, but wiser counsels prevailed, and triennial balls were instituted. The ticket of invitation, a felicitous piece of artistic design, will be found at the head of this chapter ; and the copy of the first circular is appended, to show how gener- ally the idea commended itself to Free Foresters of older as well as more modern standing : — FREE FORESTER CRICKET CLUB. At the suggestion of many members of the Club, it has been decided that a BALL should be given at Willis' Rooms on June 27 th next. The following ladies have kindly consented to become Patronesses : — The Countess Manvers. I The Hon. Mrs J. Marsham. The Lady Georgina Vernon. | The Hon. Mrs Parker Jervns. Mrs Allsopp, Mrs Bedford, Mrs Beevor, Mrs Bill, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bray, Mrs de Capel Brooke, Mrs Chance, Mrs H. Garnett, Mrs C. Garnett, Mrs Green- wood, Mrs Hay, Mrs Hartopp, Mrs W. F. Higgins, Mrs Hole, Mrs Hume, Mrs Longman, Mrs Paget, Mrs Watson, Mrs Wilmot. And the undermentioned gentlemen will act as Stewards : — The Earl Manvers. I The Hon. E. Lyttelton. The Rev. the Hon. J. Marsham. | Sir C. Mordaunt. S. C. Allsopp, Rev. W. G. Armitstead, W. C. Alston, C. Bill, Rev. W. K. R. WILLIS' ROOMS. 211 Bedford, J. G. Beevor, A. de Capel Brooke, C. Booth, D. Buchanan, S. P. Bucknill, C. M. Caldecott, F. Crowder, L. Garnett, H. Garnett, R. Garnett, E. C. Hartopp, W. H. Hadow, W. H. Hay, W. F. Higgins, E. Hume, J. R. Hutchison, F. Lee, C. Marriott, H. M. Marshall, M. T. Martin, L. W. Novelli, F. R. Price, T. S. Pearson, T. Ratliff, E. M. H. Riddell, E. Rutter, E. F. S. Tylecote, H. Verelst, Rev. A. A. Wilmot, G. Watson. Members of the Club only are entitled to subscribe to the Ball, Tickets (which are not transferable), One Guinea each. The Tickets issued will be strictly limited to 320, and if the applications exceed that number, a proportionate distribution will be made. The number and names of guests for whom Tickets are required must be sent in before the ist of June, when the Subscription List will be definitely closed. Ball Committee. S. P. B. Bucknill. I H. M. Marshall. I E. Rutter. E. Hume. | T. Ratliff. | Letters to be addressed to the F. F. Ball Committee, 22 Old Burlington Street, London, W. Cheques and P. O. Orders on Charing Cross Post-Office, S.W., to be made payable to S. P. B. Bucknill, 22 Old Burlington St., W. April 2i^, 1876. In 1876, 1879, 1882, 1885, Willis' Rooms were the scene of these festivities ; but in 1888 the popularity of this resort was on the wane, and it shortly after disappeared. The Club was in a dilemma, when Philip H. Coxe, an enthusiastic member of the Ball Committee, came forward and invited them to the " New Club," then at the height of its short but brilliant existence. The old "Evans," where supper and song had long prevailed, had been converted into a luxurious club-house, admirably adapted for balls and theatrical performances, and it was here that the Free Foresters held their most successful and memorable reunion. Ere the next three years had passed this pleasant resort had come to an untimely end, and the Club had to look 212 THE M^TROPOLE HOTEL. about for fresh quarters for their ball in 1891. The Whitehall Rooms attached to the Mdtropole Hotel sup- plied the existing want. In the magnificence and size of the rooms and in the completeness of the arrange- ments they are unequalled, and enabled the Free Fores- ters to entertain their friends right royally in 1891 and 1894. The Club grows old in years, but a constant stream of youth flows into it. And though the fair daughters have taken the place of their fairer mothers, and brave sons the place of braver fathers, the same pleasant socia- bility and almost brotherly intercourse prevails ; and as every three years come round the Free Foresters meet together like a large family party to renew and keep alive old friendships, to form and strengthen new. E. R. E. RUTTER. 213 CHAPTER XXV. 1877. The season of 1877 began with a match at Woolwich, drawn on even terms, F. F. scoring 114 and 164 to 94 and 135 for 5 wickets. E. F. S. Tylecote 32 and 49, G. H. Longman 25 and 21, bore the bell. On May 28 the favourite old haunt of Upper Tooting was revisited, but unsuccessfully, for S. Harper 37 and E. Bray 34 helped a modest total of 114, which proved more than sufficient. H. Verelst 23 and R. G. Venables 18 were the only double figures in the Forester score of 69, which Tooting equalled with 6 wickets. At Esher, on the 2d June, an uninteresting match ended in a draw. F. F. Sy and 55 — Esher 39 and 79, with 2 wickets to fall. Venables for F. F. got 44 runs. At Oatlands, on June 5, F. F. made 134 to 172 from the Park. On June 6, however, F. F. obtained a score of 311 against Crystal Palace — T. S. Pearson and A. A. Nepean 56 each, H. M. Marshall 57, A. P. Lucas 50, G. Law (not out) 44. Two wickets of the C. P. C. fell for 11, when " an awful storm of wind and rain put an end to the proceedings." At Eton, the Monday following, the School scored 129 — Ivo Bligh 42, from the bowling of Gilliatt, 6 wickets, Bray 3, and Chamberlayne 2 — and then got F. F. out for 115 — G. H. Longman 61. 214 SCHOOL MATCHES. On the appropriate date of June i8 Free Foresters engaged Wellington College in a bloodless Waterloo. S. G. Lyttelton made 37 runs and S. P. B. Chamberlayne 25 out of 132 for F. F., and then the same Foresters took the Wellington wickets (the latter 6, the former 3) for 53 runs. In a fragmentary second innings the School did better, 120 for 5 wickets, all claimed by Chamberlayne. The Rugby match was played on June 18 and 19, and was won, after some tall hitting, by 9 wickets, the School scoring 116 and 234, including 50 from Baily and 44 (not out) from Gaddum. In Foresters' first innings of 328, H. W. Gardner 116 was an easy first, well supported by A. S. Bennett 53, F. R. Evans 45, and I. D. Walker 37. Buchanan took 12 wickets. At Marlborough, on the 20th and 21st, the School claimed 203 and 191. F. F. began with 147 — E. Hume 55, M. R Lucas 31 — and then made 132 for 6 wickets; Dunell and Longman not out for 30 and 26. At Shoeburyness, where two innings filled up the whole of June 29 and 30, Foresters began with 303 — W. H. Hay 71, G. Law 78, F. Crowder 44, E. Rutter 34, J. R. Hutchi- son 27, &c. — but the Gunners, with 137 from E. C. Trollope, 6Z (not out) from H. E. Walter, and sundry minor contri- butions, exceeded this amount by 62 runs. Beddington Park, on the 30th, was the scene of a two- to-one beating, for the Park made 204, F. F. 102, of which 20 were A. P. Lucas's. On July 4 and 5, at Southgate, the usual fine display of batting came off. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. R. T. Richardson, c Absolom, b Daniell 70 b Ftyer .... 92 T. S. Pearson, c Thornton, b Absolom . 88 b I. D. Walker ... 20 F. Crowder, c V. E. Walker, b Fryer . i R. Lyttelton, c Childs, b I. D. Walker . 20 c and b V. E. Walker . . 3 E. Lyttelton, c Martin, b Daniell . . 9 c Pemberton, b V. E. Walker 58 "^^^^- .^ R. D. Walker. I. D. Walker. M V. E. Walker. C. E. Green. SOUTHGATE. 215 1ST INNINGS. 2D INNINGS. E. Bray, b Fryer .... E. Rutter, c I. D. Walker, b Absolom J. R. Hutchison, c V. E., b I. D. Walker H. Gilliatt, run out W. N. Powys, b Fryer . D. Buchanan, not out . byes 5, leg-byes i, wides i . Total 31 10 2 I 9 o 7 248 not out byes 7, leg-byes 2 Total 19 SOUTHGATE. T. H. Akroyd, retired . C. B. C. Pemberton, b Buchanan R. D. Walker, b Powys I. D. Walker, b Powys F. E. R. Fryer, c and b Powys C. J. Thornton, b Gilliatt . C. A. Absolom, b Powys SCORE. • 41 I 20 107 27 48 29 SCORE. C. J. Daniell, st Pearson, b Gilliatt 11 M. T. Martin, c and b Gilliatt V. E. Walker, b Powys J. Childs, not out byes 5, leg-byes 5, wides 6 Total 14 I 5 16 320 No report is procurable of matches at Haileybury, July 7; Shorncliffe Camp, July 9 and 10; Aldershot, July 11 and 12. On the 1 6th and 17th a match at Hartley Row, Hants, was left unfinished owing to the rain, F. F. having com- pleted an innings of 202 — F. R. Twemlow 81, R. Garnett '^6, G. H. Longman 25. The Row made 180 — Baldwin 41, Maturin (not out) 30. At Hilsea, the two days after. Foresters drew again with the Southern Division, scoring 95 and 234 to 169 and 44 for 3 wickets. F. R. Twemlow was again to the fore with 23 and ic6, R. Garnett 7 and (not out) 33. Capt. Heneage, R.E., with 46 and 20, was the leader of the opposition. On the 17th and i8th The Node made 243 and won by 10 wickets, G. F. Vernon, 54 and 45, being the only F. F. scorer of importance. On the 20th and 21st F. F. beat Priory Park at Chiches- ter by 6 wickets. The Park, singular to say, just compiled a century in each innings, while F. F. got 152 in their first, G. E. Willes 46 and R. Garnett 27 doing best ; the latter 2i6 RUNS AT THE MOTE. was (not out) 20 in the second innings, and W. H. Hadow (not out) 22. Hadow also took 12 Chichester wickets, Gilliatt 6. A match which had not appeared upon the card was played, July 23 and 24, at Sutton Coldfield, v. Gentlemen of Staffordshire, and was drawn, the County scoring 6^ and 17 for 3 wickets, Free Foresters 51 and 159. E. F. S. Tylecote made 7 and 59, H. E. P. Steadman o and 38 (not out), E. Flint 18 (not out) and 6. On the same days, at Warnham Court, F. F. were defeated by 5 wickets. F. F. went in first, and, with 38 from Verelst and 35 from F. Lee, totalled 130, a number which the home team failed to reach by 6 runs — M. P. Lucas (not out), 50 ; but in the second innings F. F. only made 68, of which 23 went to the credit of J. R. Hutchison (1 b w), consequently, despite good bowling from Appleby (6 wickets in the first and 2 in the second innings), and two or three run out, the necessary runs were obtained. July 26, 27, at Fulbeck. Col. Fane's eleven made 245 — G. H. Longman yj', while F. F. made 94 and 44 — Gardner 35, Tylecote 18. On the 26th Foresters encountered the Mote, Maidstone. " Of the 300 runs scored by F. F., Mr J. R. Hutchison contributed 83 (a six, 7 fours, 3 threes, 8 twos), Mr M. T. Martin 50 (8 fours, 5 threes, and 3 twos), Mr F. Lee 38 (a six, 8 fours, a three, and 4 twos), and Mr T. Ratliff 31 (4 fours and 3 twos). Qn behalf of the Mote (134 for 8 wickets), Mr D. Duncan scored 54, comprising 5 fours, 3 threes, and 4 twos." And the two next days F. F. obtained a victory at Preston Hall. The home side went in first and made 113, Lord Harris 28, heading the score ; then F. F. totalled 291 — S. G. Lyttelton 89, A. C. Lucas 31, J. H. Hutchison 34, J. G. Beevor 29, R. Garnett 28, H. Verelst 27, &c. The second innings of the Hall eleven produced . 220, WALTON. 217 Duncan and Francis playing well for 60 and 67 ; but F. F. had no difficulty in getting the 43 runs required without the loss of a wicket. Aug. I found Free Foresters at Walton again, for a three days' match with I Zingari and a single day's contest with Warwickshire. How they fared the papers of the day and the appended scores will show. Wednesday morning found two strong teams in the field. I Z. won the toss, and went in, and began badly, Fortescue, Forbes, and H. R. Webbe all being disposed of for small scores, 4 wickets down for 47, looking like a one -innings defeat; but Walter Hadow, who has so often done the old Club a good turn, did not fail them to-day, and played a magnificent innings of 92 not out, — worth, at least, 120 on Lord's, as the long grass here stopped most of the big hits. A. W. Ridley arrived from Canterbury in time for his innings, and I Z. finished their innings for 206, Capt. Stewart contributing a most useful 16, including two splendid square-leg hits for 4 each. Francis and Ridley were on the spot in the bowling department, and disposed of the strong batting team opposed to them for the small score of 114, Long- man playing well and steadily for 25 runs. Richardson was in one hour and three-quarters for 9 runs, a proof of the goodness of the bowling. The Foresters had to follow on, and I Z. had to delegate the bowling at the commencement of the second innings to Ridley and Middleton, as Francis's side began to be painful again. Pearson and Longman got well set, and put together 120 before they were separated : both played excellent cricket, and neither gave a chance. The spectators had, as they say, " a rare batting treat," but whether I Z. looked upon it in that light may well be doubted. The innings closed for 206 at half-past three on Friday, leaving I Z. with 1 1 3 to get to win. Forbes and Webbe went in and scored 1 1 off the first 7 balls, and looked all over like winning the match without a separation being ef- fected ; but, alas ! at five o'clock down came the rain, and I Z. were obliged to put up with a draw in their favour, instead of the victory they so fondly hoped was theirs. I ZINGARI. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Rev. A. J. Fortescue, st Pearson, Capt. Middleton, b Buchanan . o b Buchanan .... 9 Lord Willoughby de Broke, st W. Fj Forbes, b Buchanan . . o Longman, b Buchanan . . 11 2l8 / ZINGARL 1ST INNINGS. S W. H. Hadow, not out H. R. Webbe, b Appleby . C. K. Francis, c Allsopp, b Ap pleby .... Rev. E. L. Fellowes, b Lucas W. C. Higgins, run out 92 I 6 II 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. A. W. Ridley, b Buchanan , . 14 Capt. Kenyon Slaney, b Willes . 8 Capt. Stewart, b Appleby . . 16 byes 21 Total 206 In the second innings Forbes (not out) scored 21, Webbe (not out) 27 ; byes 6, -total 54. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. T. S. Pearson, b Ridley . 10 c Francis, b Forbes . 62 R. J. Richardson, b Francis . 9 c Fortescue, b Francis 28 A. P. Lucas, b Francis . 14 b Forbes . 3 G. H. Longman, b Francis . 25 c Forbes, b Francis . 63 H. C. Maul, b Francis . . b Francis . 10 C. Smith, c Forbes, b Ridley . 5 b Francis . 9 F. E. Allsopp, b Ridley . . 19 c Francis, b Middleton 9 R. Garnett, c Webbe, b Francis 12 b Hadow . G. E. Willes, c Higgins, b Ridley . 3 b Forbes . 14 A. Appleby, c Webbe, b Francis 8 b Forbes . I T. Ratliff, not out . I b Francis . I D. Buchanan, b Ridley . 4 not out . I byes 4 byes 9 Total 114 Total 210 On Saturday the Free Foresters were opposed to the County, and easily headed them on their first innings. Longman was again in his best form, and got 52. Appleby was all there with the leather, and got 5 wickets, 3 of them with 3 consecutive balls. So ended the Walton week, and each cricketer, whether Zingaro, Free Forester, or County Warwick, left the ground with the deepest feelings of gratitude to Sir Charles Mordaunt for the week's pleasure he had afforded them. May the house of Mordaunt long flourish, and may we all meet there again in 1878 and fight our friendly battles once more! WARWICKSHIRE. SCORE. SCORE. D. Buchanan, b Ratliff . . 4 F. R. Evans, c Garnett, b Appleby o C. Smith, c and b Appleby . . 4 Lord Willoughby de Broke, riot W. J. Batchelor, b Appleby . 29 out 36 H. E. Rathff, c Garnett, b Allsopp i R. A. Hull, st Longman, b Allsopp 15 R. O. Milne, c Mordaunt, b Hig- J. R. Walker, c Longman, b Mar- gins 18 riott 2 G. E. Willes, c Mordaunt, b Ap- byes 4 pleby I H. S. C. Everard, b Appleby , o Total , 114 COUNTIES. 2t9 FREE FORESTERS. SCORE. C. Marriott, c Walker, b Buch- anan lO G. H. Longman, not out . . 52 F. E. AUsopp, b Buchanan . . 6 W. F. Higgins, c Hull, b Walker SCORE. R. F. Richardson, b Buchanan . 3 H. C. Maul, not out ... 34 byes 5 34 Total T. Ratliff, A. Appleby, R. Garnett, J. Mordaunt, S. C. Smith, to bat. 144 On the 8th and 9th, at Worcester, the match with the County Gentlemen was declared drawn. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. H. M. Marshall, c A. Lyttelton, b Belcher G. H. Longman, b Caldicott . H. G. Tylecote, b Belcher H. C. Maul, c A. Lyttelton, b Moncrieff R. Garnett, b Caldicott . C. B. L. Tylecote, c Hudson, b Walker S. Garnett, c H. Allsopp, b Moncrieff H. Verelst, c and b H. Allsopp T. Ratliff, not out . E. M. Wakeman, b Caldicott . G. H. Goldney, b H. Allsopp . Extras Total 6 7 6 49 o 17 34 4 16 9 o 12 160 St R., b A. Lyttelton . 41 c A. Lyttelton, b Caldicott o R. Lyttelton, b H. Allsopp 4 c A. Lyttelton, b H. Allsopp 9 c Moncrieff, b H. Allsopp 33 R. Lyttelton, b H. Allsopp 3 c Stanhope, b F. Allsopp c and b Walker b Belcher . not out b A. Lyttelton . Extras . Total 35 7 27 38 I 12 WORCESTERSHIRE. Hon. A. Lyttelton, b C. Tylecote . . 3 Hon. R. Moncrieff, b C. Tylecote . . i H. T. Allsopp, c S. Garnett, b H. Tylecote 35 E. S. Stanhope, b C. Tylecote . . . i F. E. Allsopp, b S. Garnett ... 14 Hon. R. Lyttelton, run out ... 10 Earl of Coventry, c and b S. Garnett . 7 J. R. Walker, b S. Garnett ... 7 A. H. Hudson, not out .... 14 W. Caldicott, c S. Garnett, b H. Tylecote 2 T. Hayes Belcher, b H. Tylecote . . 6 Extras 6 Total . 106 c Garnett, b Tylecote run out b S. Garnett . b S. Garnett . c Marshall, b S. Garnett c Ratliff, b S. Garnett c Longman, b S. Garnett not out b S. Garnett b C. Tylecote . not out Extras . Total 58 7 o 2 2 8 o II I 2 7 4 The score of the two next days at Hanbury I have been unable to discover. At the annual general meeting of the Rugby Cricket Club in March of this year, the use of the ground was 220 THE ROVERS. granted for the match F. F. v. Uppingham Rovers, to be played in the following August. The match came in due course on the 13th and 14th, and the Foresters, not being so strongly represented as they should have been, and with the luck against them, were easily beaten. The record says : — This match was played at Rugby on Aug. 13 and 14, and commenced the northern tour of the Rovers, who won easily in one innings with 2 1 runs to spare. Messrs Street, Schultz, Steel (D. Q.), and Green (C. E. Green 20, and Rev. J. H. Green 30) were most successful with the bat; whilst for the Foresters, Messrs Longman and Marshall played splendid cricket in the second innings. D. Buchanan and S. S. Schultz both bowled well for their respective sides. George Longman, of the great publishing firm, a thorough cricketer, and Herbert Marshall were unfor- tunate in their first venture with the bat. Schultz bowled splendidly. UPPINGHAM ROVERS. SCORE. SCORE. A. P. Lucas, b Buchanan . T. B. Grunsdale, c Eaton, b Buch- anan D. Q. Steel, c Marsham, b Buch- anan F. E. Street, c Goldney, b Buch- anan C. E. Green, c Eaton, b Buchanan S. S. Schultz, b Buchanan . 7 Rev. J. H. Green, c Smith, b Goldney 30 J. Perkins, b Buchanan 10 J. B. Maul, b Bray 13 39 H. Gibson, not out C. E. Ridley, c Marshall, b Buch- 15 52 anan ...... 3 20 byes 5, leg-bye i, wides 2 8 31 Total 228 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE D. Buchanan, b Schultz . . . . 4 H. Ratliff, b Schultz 20 G. H. Longman, 1 b w, b Schultz . . o H. M. Marshall, b Schultz . . . o G. H. Goldney, b Lucas . . . . o Hon, R. Lyttehon, c Street, b Schultz . 3 T. Ratliff, b Schultz . . . . . 5 Hon. J. Marsham, c C. E. Green, b Lucas 10 E. Bray, b Schultz 10 C. Eaton, not out 2 A. Bowden Smith, b Schultz . . .0 byes II, leg-byes 3, wides 2 . . 16 Total . 70 2D INNINGS. c Schultz, b Gibson c Grunsdale, b Steel b Gibson . run out c Lucas, b Gibson b Lucas . c Gibson, b Schultz St Steel, b Gibson c Perkins, b Lucas not out b Gibson . byes 9, leg-byes 3 Total SCORE. 2 5 48 42 3 19 o 2 2 2 o 12 137 NEW GROUND. 221 On the 1 6th and 17th, at Deddington, F. F. reached the respectable score of 257, thanks to 74 from G. Law, 30 from F. Lee, 27 from T. Ratliff, 29 from F. R. Price, and divers minor contributions ; then an eleven which looked more than respectable on paper crumbled before Buchanan (12 wickets) and Bray (7) for 33 and 48 runs. At Shrewsbury, Aug. 21 and 22, Shropshire scored 192 against Free Foresters' 177, R. Lyttelton 83, and 84 for 4 wickets — F. R. Twemlow 44, S. G. Lyttelton 28. Rutter took 5 v/ickets. On the 24th and 25th at Kingscote a match was drawn, which must have been a good deal interrupted by bad weather, for F. F. only got 165 — E. M. Wakeman 28, S. G. Lyttelton 21, E. Rutter 19, &c. — and the home side 100 less, and no second innings seems to have been attempted. Soiithgate Cm kcl - \ji uunu . 322 CHAPTER XXVI. 1878. The season of 1878 appears to have begun on May 27, when Upper Tooting scored 170 — Syd Harper 83 — to Free Foresters' 59 — Hon. N. Lyttelton 18. On the 3d of June a match v. R.E. was drawn at Chatham. F. F. totalled 130 and 227, of which F. E. Street made 21 and 72, D. Moffatt 14 and 82, C. V. Eccles 40 (not out) and 3, F. R. Price, 14 and 20. R.E. made 235 and 26 for no wicket, Renny Tailyour (retired hurt) 90. On the loth, at Colchester, Free Foresters encountered the nth Hussars, who only scored Zj and 90 runs, K. Borrowes contributing 32 and 35 of them. The club made 284 — J. R. Hutchison Z%, C. S. Ringrose 63, S. G. Butler 42. Price disposed of 10 Cherubic wickets, Cham- berlayne 6, Butler 3, Reid 2. The Aldershot Division on the 13th claimed 103 and '^i to 119 from Foresters, eight of whom were then got out for 17 runs, and the other three were absent. F. Twemlow, 91 and 4, did best. Higgins and Law got 6 wickets each, and Taylor (for the Soldiers) 11. On the 15th they were beaten at Cooper's Hill by i run, F. F. 99, the College 100 ; but in the second innings had lost 4 wickets for 14. F. H. Lee took 5 wickets and got 41 runs, J. M. Yates 22. PLENTY OF RUNS. 223 Two days later they won at Woolwich, R.M.A. getting 87 and 73, F. F. 137 and 29 for i wicket. E. F. S. Tyle- cote 39, F. E. Street 26, F. R. Price 20, and Hon. W. N. Hood 19, were the scorers for F. F. Chamberlayne claimed 8 wickets, AUsopp 7. On the 26th June, at Oatlands Park, the home side scored 89 and 60 for 2 wickets, F. F. 154 — Hon. E. Lyttel- ton 54, G. Longman 27, E. Bray 21 (not out). The last named took 6 wickets, Goldney 5. At Shoeburyness, June 28 and 29, the Gunners made 244 and 178 for 3 wickets — S. G. Miles 36 and 6'^ (not out), F. E. Allsopp 72 and 43. Foresters made 246 — S. E. Butler 49, E. Hanbury 43, H. M. Marshall 31. Eton, on July 4, scored 6Z and 94 for 5 wickets, F. F. 180. C. R. Moore 38, E. S. Stanhope 34, G. H. Longman 25, were their best performers. D. Q. Steel and W. F. Forbes each disposed of 7 wickets. At the Node the F. F. had a good team but were easily beaten, says the manager of the match : the score, however, is not forthcoming. At Henley, on the 6th July, F. F. made 234 to the Henley's 94. S. G. Lyttelton contributed 102 to the winning side, and there were five other double figures. Bray took 6 wickets. Plenty of runs were got at Chiselhurst on the 8th, as after F. F. had scored 294, West Kent for 4 wickets claimed 211 — F. Penn 143 (not out). The Forester scorers were G. H. Tuck 84, R. Garnett 53, C. R. Dunell 67, E. Bray 45. The twelve-a-side match with Rugby School on the 8th and 9th of July, fortunately for F. F., ended in a draw, the boys being only 31 runs behind, with 6 wickets to fall. Totals, F. F. 166 and 129; the School 220 and 44, with 4 wickets down. For the Foresters G. F. Vernon made 29 and 12. G. S. Marriott 65 and 2, H. W. Gardner 40 and 224 / ZINGARI. 23, H. G. S. Hughes 3 and 29, W. J. Hughes 7 and (not out) 19. Buchanan took 7 wickets in the first innings, Marriott 3 ; in the second, Buchanan i and Marriott 3. For the School C. F. H. Leslie made 60 and 2, B. Fitz- gerald 34 and (not out) 17, F. L. Evelyn 48 and (not out) 4. At ShorncHffe, July 9 and 10, the Camp scored 212 and 75 to 149 and 79 for 4 wickets from F. F. R. Garnett made 73 and 17 (not out). Rutter took 6 wickets, Reid 4, Price 7. At Rockingham, July 16, the Castle made 189 and 146 —A. Lyttelton 38 and 30, H. H. Gillett 39 and i, H. C. Maul 28 and 26. F. F. 129 and 122 for 3 wickets — E. Lyttelton 27 and 45, J. G. Beevor 30 and (not out) 9, T. Ratliff 3 and (not out) 39.1 At Walton, July 22 to 26, F. F. met I Z. and Gentlemen of Warwickshire. Julyzz, 22, a7id 2<^ f. I ZINGARI. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. W. F. Forbes, c S. Garnett, b Buchanan 45 c Royle, b Appleby . 47 H. R. Webbe, 1 b w, b Buchanan . 3 b Buchanan 2 T. S. Pearson, st R. Garnett, b Buchanar 1 14 c Royle, b Appleby . 12 A. W. Ridley, b Appleby . 4 c T. Ratlifif, b Appleby O A. Fortescue, c Appleby, b Buchanan i6 b -Appleby O G. H. Portal, not out . . , 27 b Appleby 4 C. Marriott, st R. Garnett, b Buchanan 6 c Marsham, b Buchanan 3 Capt. Middleton, b Appleby 12 c Hill, b Appleby , i8 O. Mordaunt, b Appleby . o st R. Garnett, b Appleby 9 Lord Willoughby de Broke, c Royle, t Appleby. . . , . 7 not out . . . . i6 W. Evetts, absent .... o c Dale, b Appleby . o Hon. W. Verney, b Buchanan . o b Buchanan o byes . . .... lO byes 5, leg-bye i . 6 Total . 144 Total . 117 1 No report is obtainable of a match at Market Harborough announced for July 19. E. M. Kenny Herbert. W. D. Bovill. For W. D. Bovill, read B. Pauncefote. A. J. Webbe. H. R. Webbe. THE COUNTY. 225 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS, F. H. Hill, b Forbes . V. Royle, b Forbes . J. W. Dale, hit w, b Mordaunt . H. S. Maul, retired hurt . R. Garnett, c Portal, b Middleton C. Smith, St Pearson, b Mordaunt S. Garnett, st Pearson, b Mordaunt G. S. Marriott, c sub., b Mordaunt J. Marsham, st Pearson, b Mordaunt A. Appleby, c and b Forbes T. Ratliff, not out . D. Buchanan, 1 b w, b Mordaunt byes 6, leg-bye i, wides 2 Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 7 b Mordaunt 13 13 c Ridley, b Mordaunt 4 I b Mordaunt 14 39 13 c Ridley, b Forbes . 2 3 c Forbes, b Mordaunt 2 1 b w, b Forbes . 5 5 c Pearson, b Forbes. 13 t 8 b Forbes . 4 c Portal, b Mordaunt 6 b Mordaunt I not out . 9 bye I, leg-byes 2, wide I 4 ll 102 Total . 6^ July 25 and 26. WARWICKSHIRE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. J. R. Walker, c R. Garnett, b Forbes A. Fortescue, b S. Garnett C. Smith, c G. S. Marriott, b Forbes Lord Willoughby de Broke, st R., b S, Garnett W. C. Alston, c Evans, b Forbes O. Mordaunt, b S. Garnett R. C. Milne, c Forbes, b Hill . D. Buchanan, c Ratliff, b Hill . A. H. M. Russell, c Ratliff, b Hill W. M. Smythe, c Evans, b Portal S. B. H. Chamberlayne, c Evans, b Hill W. Rashleigh, run out ... Hon. G. Leigh, c S. Garnett, b Portal J. Goodacre, not out .... byes 3, leg-byes 5 . Total E. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. bHiU 14 9 b S. Garnett . 3 4 b Marriott 10 and b Marriott 4 I c S. Garnett, b Marriott 7 6 c Ratliff, b S. Garnett 6 II c R. Garnett, b Hill . 24 3 not out . 5 3 7 c Hill, b Marriott . 12 csub.,bS. Garnett . I 3 c R. Garnett, b G. S Marriott I 1 b w, b G. S. Marriott 7 absent 8 byes 8, leg-byes 3, wide [ 12 66 Total 95 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. W. F. Forbes, c Walker, b Buch- anan 10 C. Marriott, b Buchanan . . o G. H. Portal, b Mordaunt . . 4 1ST INNINGS. SCORE, S. Garnett, 1 b w, b Buchanan . 18 G. S. Marriott, b Buchanan . 6 R. Garnett, c Buchanan, b Mor- daunt . . . . .16 226 BATTING. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. F. H. Hill, c Fortescue, b Buch- Hon. J. Marsham, st Walker, b anan 3 Buchanan 15 W. Evetts, c Willoughby de Broke, T. Ratliff, not out ... 4 b Buchanan .... 14 byes 7, wides 2 . . . . 9 F. R. Evans, c do. , b Mordaunt . 5 H. R. Webbe, c do., b Buchanan 23 Total . 127 In the second innings W. F. Forbes (c Smith, b Buchanan) scored 17, C. Marriott (not out) 15, F. R. Evans (c Mordaunt, b Buchanan) o, G. S. Marriott (not out) 7, — total 39. On the 29th and 30th, at Winchfield, Mr Wood's Eleven made 220, while Foresters, who had commenced with 160, claimed a second score of 224. Most of them got runs — G. H. Tuck 31 and 9, G. H. Longman 17 and 22, R. Garnett 32 and 7, S. G. Lyttelton o and 60, H. M. Marshall 5 and 19, F. H. Lee 36 (not out) and 2, G. H. Goldney 24 and 32 (not out). Bray took 7 wickets. C. C. Clarke made 80 for Mr Wood. At Malvern, July 31 and Aug. i, the School won a close contest, scoring just 7 runs majority in each innings. M. C. C. C. 155 and 117— R. B. King 39— and F. F. 148 and no — W. A. Lucy 43, H. Foster 33. The Mote on the ist Aug. was the scene of a good match, the home side obtaining 205 runs, of which Foord Kelcey claimed 100 ; while F. F. had to be content with 190 — Stw. Garnett making 60 and H. G. Tylecote 41. The latter took every Kentish wicket. A fine display of batting took place at Preston Hall, August 2 and 3. The home eleven went in first, and scored 130, to which F. F. responded with 158 — H. G Tylecote 38, S. G. Lyttelton 23, G. Garnett 21, E. Hume 22 (not out). Then the Hon. Ivo Bligh 96 (not out) and Lord Harris 73 inaugurated a second innings for the Hall of 296. Tylecote took 10 wickets. On the 7th and 8th, Foresters met again the Gentlemen of Worcestershire, who beat them by 2 runs in one innings, scoring 302 to F. F. 189 and in — F. W. Wright 33 and BOWLING. 227 28, J. G. Crowdy 3 and 22, H. M. Marshall 38 and 9, F. R. Tvvemlow 31 and o, F. H. Lee 17 and 20, S. Garnett 32 and 7. The Worcester heroes were two Lytteltons — S. G. 127, R. H. 67. On the two following days at Hanbury Hall Mr Ver- non's eleven scored 113, and then F. F. made 183 — Hon. R. Lyttelton 41 — J. G. Crowdy yZ. The home side then succumbed for 28 runs, Crowdy taking 7 wickets, Stewart Garnett 3. Shrewsbury, on Aug. 16 and 17, was the scene of a match with Gentlemen of Shropshire, of which one innings each was played — F. F. 199, Shropshire 125. S. G. Lyttel- ton 79, G. P. Ash 33, C. F. Reid 20 (not out), were leading Foresters. On the 19th and 20th, at Sutton Coldfield, Gentlemen of Staffordshire made an innings of no to Foresters' 113 and 169 — G. H. Goldney 45 and 28, G. Smythe 15 and 41, H. G. S. Hughes 19 and 45. The County, 5 of whose wickets fell to James Alston, would have cut a bad figure, but for a good not-out 41 from W. W. Bagot, who also took 7 F. F. wickets. On the 22d and 23d, at Deddington, F. F. made loi ; and after the Gentlemen of Oxfordshire had scored 62 for 6 wickets, rain stopped the match. H. E. Rhodes 26 and R. H. Lyttelton 21 (not out) did best for F. F. A very enjoyable week in Gloucestershire was com- menced at Kingscote on the 26th, when F. F. got two totals of 64 to the like of 65 from the home team, with 2 wickets in hand. Bruen, for Kingscote, captured 15 F. F. wickets ; S. G. Lyttelton 7, and J. G. Crowdy and E. Rutter 5 each, of the Kingscote side. On the 29th and 30th Mr Baker's twelve made 58 and no to Foresters' loi and 44. Crowdy again took 7 wickets, Allsopp 8. 22^ CHAPTER XXVII. 1879. On June 2, v. R.A., at Woolwich, there is no report. West Kent, at Chiselhurst on the 4th, made 117 to 131 from F. R, for whom J. Wise scored 32 (not out), G. Macan 21. Goldney took 5 wickets, Cunlifife 3, Rutter 2. On June 4 and 5 F. F. played the Cavalry Brigade, Aldershot, who scored 104 and 95 to iii and 89 for 5 wickets — Garnett 25 and 24, H. Verelst 18 and 16, Capt. Eccles 3 and 18 (not out), C. F. Reid 21 (not out), &c. Godfray took 8, Eccles 4 wickets. On the 6th, v, Winchester Garrison, no report appears. At Sevenoaks Vine, on the 9th, although F. F. only exceeded the century by a run, they won in one innings, to 48 and 46. H. M. Marshall made 24, F. E. Street and F. E. Mellor 15 each. C. M. Cunlifife took 9 and G. Law 8 wickets. On June 10 and 11, v. R.M.A., at Woolwich, Foresters obtained 91 and 164 to the Academy's 117 and 94. E. F. S. Tylecote, the customary hero of this match, surpassed himself, claiming 14 and 122 runs (i six, i five, i four, 17 threes, and 17 twos), Capt. Beresford Baker 44 and 18. The wickets of R.M.A. fell to Hon. W. N. Hood and S. B. Chamberlayne, who each took 8. The score of the match on the 14th, R. I. E. College, ROYAL ENGINEERS. 229 has not been preserved, the books of the college club con- taining none of the contests of this period. On the 19th, at Henley, the match could not be played, in consequence of the state of the ground through floods. The F. F. met R.E. at Chatham, June 20. Rain second day. ROYAL ENGINEERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. H. N. Dumbleton, b Bulpett . 3 H. W. Gregson, b Bulpett . . 3 H. F. Stafford, b Chamberlayne . 17 H. W. Renny Tailyour, b Cham- berlayne ..... 4 P. G. Von Donop, c Jeffreys, b Bulpett 4 F. G. Bowles, b Bulpett . . 7 1ST INNINGS, S F. W. Bennett, c Chamberlayne b Bulpett . E, Druitt, c sub,, b Bulpett M. Lindsay, not out . B. Russell, b Bulpett . S. R. Rice, b Bulpett . byes .... Total 3 I I o S 13 61 In the second innings Gregson (not out) scored 16, Renny Tailyour (not out) 49, — total 65. FREE FORESTERS. J. Wise, c Rice, b Dumbleton J, S. Russell, b Dumbleton . F. E. Street, c Lindsay, b Dum- bleton J. Garnett, 1 b w, b Von Donop . W. J. Jeffreys, b Druitt F. H. Mellor, c Dumbleton, b Druitt E. W. F. Bulpett, run out . I 16 63 II 35 SCORE. W. D. Bovill, c Von Donop, b Gregson 32 C. Browne, c Druitt, b Rice . 4 F. R. Price, not out . . . 10 S. B, H. Chamberlayne, b Rice . i byes 2, leg-byes 6, wides 3 . 11 Total . 197 On the 27th and 28th F. F. improved the practice of the School of Gunnery at Shoeburyness by getting 337 runs to their hosts' loi and 155. M. P. Lucas claimed 181 of the total, G. Law 46, E. Rutter 27, W. Bovill and S. Chamberlayne 20 each, the latter also taking 10 wickets, the former 6. On 7th and 8th July the match with Rugby School ended in the defeat of F. F. by 7 wickets, the totals being F. F. 98 and 127 ; the School 177 and 48, with 3 wickets 230 THE FAITHFUL CITY. down. For F. R, H. R. Webbe made 12 and 7, H. W. Gardner 2 and 45, R. W. Gillespie Stainton 33 and 17, A. J. Webbe 7 and 29. For the School Leslie made 84, F. W. Capron 15 and (not out) 36, E. H. Kempson 28, and H. J. Fowler (not out) 16. In the first innings Buchanan took 6 wickets, A. H. Heath i, and 3 were run out. In the second A. L. Vernon i, G. S. Marriott i, and I run out.^ At Preston Hall, July 28 and 29, Mr Brassey's eleven claimed 183 and 107 to Foresters' 117 and 78 for 5 wickets. G. H. Longman made 1 1 and 30, S. G. Lyttelton 36 and 12 (not out), E. Hume 39, S. Garnett o and 28. Lyttelton took 8 wickets, Garnett 5. A match with Malvern on July 30th was undecided, the M. C. C. C. making 139— R. B. King 35, A. C. Bird 29 (not out) — to 95 for 6 wickets of F. F. — W. Lucy 49 (not out).^ And on the 7th and 8th Aug. they met Gentlemen of Worcestershire on the County ground at Worcester, with the following result : — FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. T. Wise, b S. G. Lyttelton 7 not out . 7 G. H. Goldney, b S. G. Lyttelton . G. H. Longman, b E. P. Jobson 26 retired • 19 S. Garnett, b E. P. Jobson 23 F. Lee, c V^alker, b S. G. Lyttelton . 16 not out . 9 R. Garnett, b Buckle 61 F. H. Lee, c R. H. Lyttelton, b Stallard 6 W. D. Bovill, b E. P. Jobson . 53 c E. P. Jobson, b S. G. Lyttelton . 17 E. Bray, b E. P. Jobson . 3 b S. G. Lyttelton . 4 T. Ratliff, b Buckle . . . . 24 H. P. Richardson, not out 12 byes, &c II byes, &c. 3 Total 242 Total • 59 1 No report of the matches announced for Rockingham and Market Har- borough, July 15 and 18, and for Warnham Court and Deddington, Aug. I and 5, could be discovered. BAD TIMES. 231 WORCESTERSHIRE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. E. P. Jobson, b Bray 48 bBovill . 21 M. B. Buckle, b S. Garnett 16 run out II Hon. S. G. Lyttelton, b S. Garnett . 12 c S. Garnett, b Bray 14 Hon. R. H. Lyttelton, c Goldney, b Bovil 1 18 bBovill . 40 W. Pullman, b S. Garnett 12 c and b Bray . 13 R. C. Moncrieff, c Longman, b Bray c Wise, b Goldney . 9 R. Atthill, c and b Bray . 8 c S. Garnett, b Bray 5 J. R. Walker, c Ratliff,' b Goldney . II b S. Garnett . 20 G. Stallard, c F. Lee, b Bray . 4 c R. Garnett, b Bray II H. C. Jobson, not out 2 not out H. Caldicott, b S. Garnett b S. Garnett . I byes, &c 9 byes, &c. . . 14 Total 140 Total . 159 At Sutton Coldfield, on the nth and 12 Aug., F. F. beat the Gentlemen of Staffordshire in one innings, scoring 128 — Goldney 23 — to Staffordshire's 84 and 38. Goldney took 10 wickets, Bovill 7. F. F. had the worst of the match with Shropshire Gentlemen on the 15th and i6th, at Shrewsbury, in wet weather, claiming only 125 to the County's 159 for 4 wickets. The next match was at Alton Towers against an eleven of Mr Bill's. F. F. in bad weather compiled 81 and 49 for 3 wickets to their adversaries' 6^. Bovill took 7 wickets. On the 25th and 26th Aug. F. F. got 95 and 62 for 5 wickets against 153 made by the Southern Division (Army and Navy). J. G. Crowdy, 20 and 16, was the best of the modest scorers for F. F. 232 CHAPTER XXVIII. 1880. The season began on May 31 at Woolwich, when a wet first day spoiled the match with Royal Artillery, who on the 1st June scored 121 to the 188 of F. F. — J. S. Russel j6, E. F. S. Tylecote 33. Bovill took 4 and G. Law 3 wickets. On the 4th June the scene of action was Wellington, but no gazette appears to have been published. At Upper Tooting on the 7th F. F. got 154, Schultz, Z^ ; and then Schultz (8 wickets), Goldney (3), and Gilliatt (2), got Tooting down for 132. On the nth and 12th the match at Chatham, after a close first innings, proved an easy victory for R.E. ROYAL ENGINEERS. 1ST INNINGS. : R. S. Maclagan, c Lucas, b W. D. Bovill R. S. Hedley, b Bulpett . H. W. Renny Tailyour, b Bulpett . Capt. P. S. G. Reid, not out . C. D. Learoyd, b Bulpett . . . , Major Fellowes, b W. D. Bovill C. W. S. Sherrard, st Kington, b Bovill E. Druitt, b W. D. Bovill . , . E. Creswell, b W. D. Bovill . B. B. Russell, c Lucas, b Bovill C. A. R. Browne, b Bulpett byes 9, leg-byes 3 . Total RE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. b W. D. Bovill 22 b Law 49 II b W. D. Bovill 5 35 b W. D. Bovill 2 st Kington, b Moffat 27 I run out . 18 7 b Bulpett . 38 st Kington, b Bovill 19 6 not out . 27 9 1 b w, b Bovill . 6 I run out . 8 12 byes 21, leg-byes 3, wide I 25 104 Total 224 ROYAL ENGINEERS. 233 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. Col. Kington, b Fellowes . G. Law, c Hedley, b Fellowes . W. D. Bovill, b Browne . C. J. Lucas, b Druitt C. W. Bulpett, c Browne, b Fellowes F. E. Street, st Hedley, b Fellowes E. P. Bovill, c Hedley, b Fellowes J. S. Russel, b Browne D. Moffatt, b Druitt . J. Cooke, not out W. A. Cairnes (emergency) absent byes 2, leg-bye i . Total RE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 6 b Druitt . 7 5 c Fellowes, b Browne . 19 38 b Browne . 7 7 c Hedley, b Reid . . 24 3 b Browne . 6 c Renny Tailyour, b Reid 3 9 bReid . 5 20 b Reid . . 28 16 st Hedley, b Reid . 2 3 bReid . I not out 9 3 ;i6 Total los At Rugby, on 17th and i8th June, the Foresters, who had not won since 1877, were defeated by 59 runs, F. F. making 80 and 114 against 125 and 128 by the School. H. G. S. Hughes made 18 and 4, G. S. Marriott 7 and 13, C. M. CunHffe 12 and 23, H. W. Gardner 12 and 40, Rev. O. Mordaunt o and 13, H. Rotherham (not out) 13 and I, Buchanan 10 and (not out) o. For the School W. P. Ward made 28 and 11, A. L. Melly 29 and i, C. E. Cobb 27 and 4, E. H. Kempson 24 and 2, E. N. Fellowes o and (not out) 39. In the match Buchanan took 8, Rotherham 7, Marriott 4 wickets, and Mordaunt i. " It was thought that the bowl- ing talent of the Free Foresters would more than compen- sate for their deficiencies in batting, that department of the game never having been better represented ; the victory of the School was therefore a well-earned one." On the 19th June, at Henley, the natives obtained 159 — W. J. Hughes 46 — and F. F. only 107 — B. N. Acroyd 37, H. E. Speed 30. W. D. Bovill took 9 Forester wickets. On the 22d and 23d time and rain prevented the con- summation of a one-innings victory over R.M.A. at Wool- wich, F. F. scoring 351, A. F. Jeffreys loi (not out) and J. 5. Russel 105 being the chief contributors, F. G. Street assisting with 34, W. F. Higgins 25, W. Byass 24, D. 234 THE SHUTERS. Moffatt 27. The R.M.A. made 121 and loi for 8 wickets, Rutter taking 7, Byass and Higgins each 5 of their wickets. At Shoeburyness, on the 25th and 26th, another un- finished match in favour of F. F. took place with the School of Gunnery, F. F. scoring 136 and 256, H. Gilliatt claiming 14 and 74, Colonel Kington 8 and 71, A. F. Jeffreys o and 44, T. Wise 27 and 17, Capt. B. Baker 25 (not out) and 3. Of the Gunners, whose totals were 10 1 and 40 for 4 wickets, E. Rutter accounted for 9. On the 30th, at Chiselhurst, West Kent scored 234 runs — the Shuter brothers making 56 and 75 of them — and then F. F. ha4 to retii*e for 127, G. F. Vernon claiming 39, C. M. Cunliffe 25, G. Law 21. Two wickets were down in the second innings for 27 — Vernon (not out) 19. On July I, F. F. scored 232 against Eton, who made 56 and 5 3 for two wickets. H. W. Gardner 5 5, W. F. Forbes 54, J. G. Crowdy 51, E. Lyttelton 33, were the best performers for F. F. with the bat ; Goldney 9, and Bray 3 wickets, with the ball. On the 7th, at Oatlands Park, having got the home side out for y^, F. F. made 127, including 33 from D. Moffatt, 25 from A. H. Trevor, 21 from M. G. Wilkinson, and 13 (not out) from C. Y. Bedford. S. Lyttelton, G. Law, and H. AUsopp were the bowlers. The 1 2th and 13th found F. F. opposed to Capt. Bridge's eleven, who scored 157 and 25 for 3 wickets, while F. F. had one innings for 100 — W. Lucy 26, their best man. S. Garnett took 8 wickets, Law 4. And on the two next days at Knole Park, playing thir- teen a-side, the Park made 250, F. F. 207 for 10 wickets — E. Hanbury 89, H. G. S. Hughes 38. Gilliatt took 5 and J. Marsham 4 wickets of the Park, for whom E. M. Grace made 89 runs. At Warnham Court the week was concluded by a one- o -: o W 5? BIRMINGHAM. 235 innings defeat, F. F. making 138 and 102, the Courtiers 372. E. Hanbury was best again for the F. F. with 28 and 54 (not out), C. W. Bulpett 48 and 3, W. D. Bovill 20 and o. For Warnham (whose wickets were equally divided between Godfray, Bulpett, and Bovill), three of the Lucas family did the mischief— A. P. 83, A. C. 72, E. M. 64. On July 19 and 20, at Aldershot, Free Foresters made two innings, T13 and 106 for 6 wickets, against one of 205 for the Camp. H. J. B. Rollings 55 and 33, both not out, did best. But on the following days the Club mended their hand considerably, scoring 260 to 103 and 36 for 2 wickets from the Garrison at Winchester. Capt. Borrowes made 70, C. Booth 48, E. Hanbury 46, A. Jeffreys 35. Rutter took 9 wickets. At Preston Hall, July 26 and 27, the match was drawn, Mr Brassey's eleven scoring 157 and 159 (Ivo Bligh 26 and 63) to F. F.'s 153 and 52 for i wicket — V. Royle 17 and 20 (not out), E. Bray 14 and 22 (twice not out), T. S. Pearson 30, and H. G. Tyiecote 20, doing best. Appleby took 1 1 and H. G. Tyiecote 6 wickets. Of the match against Malvern, July 28 and 29, no record appears in the M. C. C. C. book. Worcestershire beat F. F. at the Boughton ground on Aug. 5 and 6. The totals of F. F. were 90 and iii, while the County, who scored 177 in their first essay, rubbed off the balance without losing a wicket : no individual Forester reached 20 runs. At Edgbaston, Birmingham, on Aug. 9 and 10, the match was drawn. F. F. scored 141 and 131 — C. W. Rawlinson 57 and 10, E. Hanbury 35 and 36. Edgbaston in their first innings made 138, and 49 for 4 wickets in the second. A. Smith, 45 and 15, was their best man. Bovill took 7 of their wickets. The match with Staffordshire at Sutton Coldfield on the 236 LOSSES. nth and 1 2th was also drawn in an interesting position. One run was the lead obtained by the County, i6o to 159, in the first innings. E. Alcock, 58. best for the Shire, and E. Hanbury, 42, for the Club. Then Staffordshire fell for 123 (Alcock again 41), and time prevented more play. At Wellesbourne, two days later, a couple of missed catches earned Mr Bachelor a long innings, and F. F. a defeat. Wellesbourne made 173 and F. F. only 84; so they had to follow, and got 107 — E. Hanbury 15 and 20, F. H. Lee 8 and 28, S. C. Voules 8 and 18, G. S. Hughes 17 and 8, W. D. Bovill 19 and o. Then South Warwick- shire knocked off the runs with the loss of 2 wickets. On the 20th and 21st, at Shrewsbury, the F. F. brought to an appropriate close an anything but brilliant campaign ; for Shropshire, with the assistance of 164 from C. F. Leslie, 81 from E. Wakeman, 70 from Payne, and 69 from Gillies, compiled (in spite of the attacks of Cobden, Lucas, Gibbon, and other noted bowlers) an innings of 483, and then got F. F. out for 85 and 82 for 3 wickets, A. H. Heath, 35, sav- ing the credit of his side. On the 23d and 24th a match at Deddington, of which the full score will be found in a later page, was won by the home side. 237 CHAPTER XXIX. 1881. The programme began this year with a match at Esher, May 21, of which the score is not forthcoming. On the 30th May the R.M.A. at Woolwich opposed 118 runs to Foresters' 192. Capt. Beresford Baker made 54, E. Rutter 39, A. F. Jeffreys 26, A. Chambers 12 (not out). Goldney took 6 wickets, Rutter 3. R.A., on June 6 and 7, after F. F. had scored 228, made 166, and got 7 F. F. wickets for 124. In Free Foresters' first innings the principal scores were those of Capt. Pear- son 72 (not out), E. Hanbury 28, S. G. Wilson 52, and E. Rutter 18. Rutter also took 4 wickets. In the second innings A. Jeffreys 36 (not out) and F. H. Lee 26 did best. On the next day, at Chiselhurst, the spell was reversed, West Kent claiming 223 to Foresters' 106, of which Lord Carnegie made 33, C. Booth 28. On the 9th F. F. played nth Hussars at Hounslow. A match against Longwood ended in a draw in favour of the home side, who got 169 and 217 to 84 and 88 for 6 wickets. J. G. Crowdy o and 44, G. H. Goldney 45 and 3, did best for F. F. At Chatham, on the loth and nth, only five Free Foresters put in an appearance, who with the assistance of emergencies contrived to score 35 and 139 — J. S. 238 EMERGENCIES. Russel 19 and 16, A. F. Jeffreys o and 25, R. O. Milne 48. R.E. therefore, having made 127 in their first hands, rubbed off the balance without losing a wicket. Capron accounted for 6 and R. E. Milne for 4 wickets. A twelve-a-side match with Eton, June 11, ended in a draw, Eton scoring 185, F. F. 151 for 9 wickets — T. S. Pearson 46, the best score. G. Law took 5 Eton wickets and made 19 runs. At Elstree, on the 15th and i6th, F. F. just managed to stave off a defeat in one innings, making 136 and 187 for 9 wickets to 330 from Elstree, whose chief batsmen were E. F. S. Tylecote 100, Breedon 71 (not out). For Foresters F. R. E. Fryer made o and 75, Capt. B. Baker 27 and 27, F. W. Capron 18 and 2, C. F. Hoare 18 and o, E. Rutter 17 and 6 (not out). Fryer got 5 wickets. The School of Gunnery at Shoeburyness, on June 24 and 25, had two innings of 145 and 149 to one of For- esters, which totalled 161. E. Rutter scored 35, Capt. Baker 29, T. O. Reay 22 for F. F. Goldney and Rutter got 8 wickets apiece. F. F. encountered Clifton College on the 1st and 2d July, and seem to have been rather fortunate in their emergencies. They scored 334 in their first innings, of which H. F. Fox made 137, A. D. Greene 64, P. W. H. Miles 51. The College then made 228 and 182, and F. F. 52 for 4 wickets. Gilliatt took 5 wickets. At Henley, on the 2d, the home side reached the total of 328, and then F. F. made 128 for 3 wickets — A. H. Trevor 58 (not out). On July 4 and 5, against Capt. Bridge's eleven, the Blaise Castle team made ZZ and 100 to Foresters' 35 and 91, A. H. Evans reckoning 7 and 24 and 10 wickets, Gilliatt 6 wickets. And on the 6th, at Knole Park, 254 was the score against which F. F. had to go in, and they only succeeded in WEATHER BAD. 239 rubbing off 151— E. Hanbury 51, A. F. Jeffreys 35, being the best performers. Evans claimed 4 wickets, Rutter 3. On the nth and 12th of July, at Rugby, "a strong team of F. F. made the star of the Wanderers rise with a bound, as the School team was beaten by 150 runs, F. F. making 157 and 262 and the School 163 and 2>6, T. S. Pearson made 28 and 40, W. R Ward (of last year's School eleven) 10 and 32, J. D. Walker 23 and 19, A. J. Webbe 10 and 82, Capt. Beresford Baker 39 and 13, C. Smith (Clary) 21 in the first, C. J. Inglis and H. G. S. Hughes 16 and 31 respectively in the second, and Buchanan not out in both innings. The School wickets were disposed of as follows : Buchanan 6 and 3, Walker i and 5, Webbe 2, Inglis 2, and Ward i. The loss of the services of Arnall, the slow bowler, early in the match, from an injury to his foot, considerably lessened any chance of winning on the part of the School." The match with King Edward's School, Oxford, on the 13th, was not played from stress of weather. On July 18 and 19, at Warnham Court, F. F. realised 151 and 146, the Court 155 and 48 for 4 wickets — C. W. M. Bulpett 62 and 14, A. O. Burton 35 and o, F. H. Lee o and 33, R. M. Turnbull 7 and 27 : he also took 6 wickets. On the 22d and 23d, at St Cross, Winchester, the Rifle Depot, after F. F. had scored 238, made no and 328, F. F. in the second innings having lost i wicket for 10 runs. A. F. Jeffreys 89, and Beresford Baker 86 (not out), were the heroes of the Forester score. C. K. Wood took 11 wickets. At Broughton, Worcester, on the ist and 2d Aug., F. F. encountered the Gentlemen of Worcestershire, and won by 24 runs. 240 WORSE. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. ! C. B. Tylecote, b Millward G. Law, b Millward .... C. W. Bulpett, c E. Jobson, b Millward H. G. Tylecote, c H. Jobson, b Millward J. G. Crowdy, b Millward . A. D. Burton, b Thring . W. D. Bovill, c Lyttelton, b Millward F. H. Lee, st Lyttelton, b Millward . J. Marsham, c H. Jobson, b Thring . P. R. Toynbee, c Lyttelton, b Millward G. H. Goldney, not out byes ...... Total iE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. I b Thring . 4 5 St E. Jobson, b Millward 3 28 bBuck . 25 24 c E. Jobson, b Buck 22 8 bBuck . 43 5 b Millward 6 20 b Millward . : 44 35 b Millward I 48 c Roughton, b Buck 2 I not out . 4 8 c E. Jobson, b Millward IS byes 7 toB Total . 161 WORCESTERSHIRE. E. P. Jobson, b C. Tylecote . A. Millward, c Crowdy, b H. Tylecote R. Moncrieffe, c Lee, b H. Tylecote R. H. Lyttelton, c Crowdy, b H. Tylecote H. C. Jobson, c Lee, b H. Tylecote . R. Atthill, b H. Tylecote . H. T. Twynam, c Law, b Goldney . H. W. Buck, b C. Tylecote J. C. Thring, not out ... J. Hastings, c C. Tylecote, b H. Tylecote Rev. Roughton, b C. Tylecote . byes 14 Total 92 c and b Bovill . 60 21 b Goldney 14 21 c Law, b Bulpett IS c C. Tylecote, b Bulpett 7 5 b Bulpett . 3 6 b H. Tylecote . 3 I c Crowdy, b Bovill . 18 2 c and b Bovill . I 14 c Goldney, b Bovill . 12 not out . 6 12 c Lee, b Bovill . 14 byes 8 . . . 8 [88 Total . 147 At Hams Hall, on the 6th Aug., nine of the F. F. made 59, and got out Edgbaston for 257. On the 8th and 9th, in very rainy weather, they drew with Staffordshire Gentlemen at Lichfield ; the County making 162 — H. Bagot 30, C. H. Gardner 2i^ — ¥. F. 203 (Bovill 94 not out — he scored 8 not out in second innings) and 65 for 4 wickets. And on the loth and nth Welles- bourne came over to play them at Sutton Coldfield, but as it rained both days from dawn to eve, not a single ball was bowled ! Rain again ruined the match at Middleton Towers against Mr Jervis's eleven on the same day, though one A CURIOUS UMPIRE. 241 innings each was finished. The home side scored 120, and F. F. 148 — J. Marsham 30, the highest single score. Tillard secured 6 wickets, R. Lyttelton 4. At Melton Constable, Aug. 15 and i6(?), Free Foresters lost to Lord Hastings' eleven, making 64 and 170, to 198 and 41 for no wickets — C. Tillard o and 65, R. H. Lyttel- ton 4 and 37. An amusing incident happened during the Melton Constable innings. Dale was fielding at long-leg. Thornton hit the ball straight to him. Dale never thought the batsman would try to get a second run, but Thornton did not like the idea of giving up the bowling, so started on the return journey. This roused Dale, who dashed at the ball with all his old Cambridge energy and sent it in like lightning, and ran Thornton out by about two yards. He, not liking to die without a struggle, said, ** How's that, umpire ? " — the umpires were two local brethren. " Not out," said that worthy. The field were all not a little astonished, and Dale furious after his fine piece of fielding. The brother umpire, who saw the whole affair, went to talk to his brother after the fall of the next wicket, when he confided to him that he had often heard of the ^* great hitter," but had never seen him before, and there- fore wanted to see what he could do. At Deddington, on the 15th and i6th, F. F. scored 214 — G. H. Longman 65, H. W. Hoare 40, A. O. Burton 25. Deddington scored 87 and 177 for 5 wickets — H. Tubb I and (not out) 100, Clary Smith 26 and 20. The Aldershot Division on the 24th were to have met F. F., but there is no record of their having done so. 242 CHAPTER XXX. 1882. The season commenced with a capital match at Esher on May 27, the last wicket of F. F. — G. H. Goldney — when only 6 runs were required to win, being finely caught by W. Bovill, fielding as a substitute for Esher. Scores — F. F. 164, Esher 169. On the 29th and 30th of the same month, F. F. at Woolwich scored 159 and 225 against the R.A., who made 123 and 153. This was a most extraordinary match. R.A. went in the second time for 262 to win, and lost 9 wickets for 33 runs; then Purvis (31) and Dorehill (85) got together and played out time. The chief display of batting for F. F. was made by F. E. Speed 15 and ill (not out), E. F. S. Tylecote 40 and 45, S. J. Wilson 24 and 38, C. Booth 30 and 7, W. D. Bovill 23 and I. C. R. Wood took 8 Artillery wickets, G. H. Goldney 7. On June 2, v. the Moors, Crookham., who made 73 and 92 for 5 wickets, F. F. completed an innings of 82 — A. H. Trevor 20. Goldney and Bray each annexed 5 wickets. Wet spoiled the match v. Elstree Masters on June 9, F. F. completing an innings of 106, Stokes making 20. Elstree had 9 runs for no wicket. The next day, at Sandhurst, F. F. scored 136, Ravenhill contributing '^6 (not out), and then the MiHtary Collegians, DEFICIENCIES. 243 for 9 wickets, put up 166, of which 96 were added by the ninth batsman. C. R. Wood took 6 wickets. On June 10, at Woking, Sandholme, another F. F. eleven scored 290 against Mr Leese's team, who got 112. The best scores for F. F. were made by C. M. Tuke Z6 (not out), F. C. Coxhead 85, J. S. Udal 58. C. M. Tuke and T. W. Lang each took 4 wickets. Of a match on the i6th, v. R.E. at Chatham, no score has been preserved. On June 17, at Rugby, against the School, F. F. scored 150 and 310 (twelve a-side) — G. F. Vernon 10 and 116, Beresford Baker, 55 and 7, H. W. Gardner, 16 and 46, C. E. Cobb 13 and 50, Clarence Smith 3 and 38, A. J. W^ebbe 25 and o, F. L. Evelyn 4 and 21. Buchanan took II wickets of the School, who made 80, and 109 for 10 wickets, drawing the match. On the same day, at Eton, the Royal School made 225, Free Foresters 95— E. Lyttelton 53, Capt. Macan 20. E. Bray took 5 wickets. On the 23d and 24th, v. The School of Gunnery at Shoebury, a match was drawn, F. F. making 340 — M. Lucas 107, F. E. Street 59, G. H. Goldney 52, T. Carrick 40, &c. — to 316 from the Gunners, for whom Lieut. Hewson made 139. S. G. R.A. had 2 wickets to fall; only one F. F. was bowled, and only one S. of G. was caught. July I, at Hounslow, v. nth Hussars. No score ob- tainable. Long innings and a wet day brought the match at Clifton to a draw on July 3 and 4. One innings on each side was completed — F. F. 221, and the College 210. On the 5th, V. Capt. Bridge's eleven (Knole Park) at Blaise Castle, F. F. won easily in an innings by 24 runs, F. F. making 95 — R. C. Ramsay 47 — and then getting out the home eleven for 45 and 26. Ramsay 10 wickets, Peake 4, and Gilliatt 2. 244 LIVERPOOL. On the 8th, at Henley, F. F. scored 86— S. G. Lyttelton 23, W. D. Bovill 18 ; Henley 107. On the 8th July, at Vincent Square, F. F. lost to St Peter's College, F. F. making 100, R. S. W. 131 and 48 for 4 wickets in second innings. P. Toynbee 40, and C. Y. Bedford 23, scored best for F. F. H. F. Chance took 8 wickets. Of a match on July 17, v. Winchester Garrison, no score seems to have been preserved. On July 19, at Longwood, v. Lord Northesk's eleven, F. F. lost by 7 wickets, scoring 138 and 138 — A. H. Trevor 50 and 11, J. Eyre i and 65 — against 212 in the first innings of Longwood, of which A. H. Wood made 6Z and E. F. S. Tylecote i run less. On July 24, and the two next days, an interesting match was played with Liverpool, who went in first, and from the bowling of Appleby and Stewart Garnett made 135 — Lyster 59, their best single score. Then F. F. replied with 162— Major Miles 57, A. Appleby 39, and C. W. Bulpett 25, doing best. The second innings of Liverpool produced 139, Appleby again taking 5 wickets; and as F. F. lost 8 wickets for ^9 runs, the match was drawn, presumably in favour of the city. On July 28 and 29, at St David's, Reigate, F. F. drew a match with W. H. Churchill's eleven. F. F. achieved 126 and 88. Reigate, who were 16 runs behind on the first innings, just missed the balance for 5 wickets (no and 102). The Forester leaders were W. D. Bovill 58 and 12, R. M. Turnbull 43 and 11, F. C. Coxhead o and 39. Bray (5), Byass (4), Turnbull (3), took the wickets. On Aug. 7 and 8 F. F. beat Colchester Garrison by 5 wickets. The soldiers' total was 57 and 204, F. F. 140 and 122 — A. H. Trevor 41 and 6^ not out, F. H. Mellor 25 and 35, W. D. Bovill 32 and 7. G. H. Goldney accounted for 10 wickets. RUNS GALORE. 245 At Melton Constable, on the 9th and loth Aug., F. F. scored 84 and 105 — A. H. Trevor 25 and 33, R. A. H. Mitchell 10 and 28, G. H. Longman 19 and 18 — while Lord Hastings' side, having made 132, got the necessary runs for 2 wickets. C. B. L. Tylecote disposed of 6 bats- men, C. Tillard 3, E. Rutter 2. On the nth F. F. met the Gentlemen of Norfolk, and a great batting display ensued. FREE FORESTERS. SCORE. V7. D. Bovill, c Wickham, b Rye 18 H. G. S. Hughes, b Rye . . 58 A. H. Trevor, c and b Tillard . 104 G. H. Longman, run out . . 41 R. A. H. Mitchell, c Kennaway, b Raikes 102 C. W. Boyle, b Rye . . .33 SCORE. C. B. L. Tylecote, c Gurney, b Raikes S. J. Wilson, b Rye . Major Gamett, b Rye . L. P. Marshall, not out E. N. Fellows, b Tillard Extras Total 6 o o 6 73 25 466 NORFOLK. H. Birbeck, b Boyle . Sir K. Kemp, run out . Hon. J. W. Mansfield, b Boyle Capt. F. A. Currie, b Boyle . W. S. Gurney, b Boyle C. Tillard, b Bovill . Rev. C. L. Kennaway, c Tylecote, b Bovill .... 147 W. A. Thurgar, c Tylecote, b Mitchell 29 Rev. A. P. Wickham, c Mitchell, b Bovill 77 E. B. Raikes, 1 b w, b Bovill . o Rye, not ou .... 2 Extras 38 Total 398 At Middleton Towers, on the 14th, the home side scored 146 — Capt. Currie 54 — to which Foresters replied with 192 — R. A. H. Mitchell 81. The Towers, however, in their second innings made 299 — H. R. Webb 69 — and Foresters had only time to lose 2 wickets for 69 runs. Appleby took 6 wickets, Tillard 5, Bovill 6} On the 2 1st and 22d Deddington made 261, while the F. F. made twin innings of 119 each — F. M. Buckland ^ See post for full score. 246 DOUBLE FIGURES. 39 and 38, W. D. Bovill 24 and 5. Deddington had seven double-figure scores — Collins, Maul, and Evetts all over 40. And Banbury beat F. F. by 5 wickets. F. F. 104 and 106 — J. G. Crowdy 37 and o, W. D. Bovill 25 and 5 ; Banbury 113 and 99 — W. E. Collins 7 and 44 (not out), F. C. Cobden, who was missed more than once, 3 and 27 (not out). On the 29th F. F. scored 107 and 58 for 3 wickets, to y6 from Shepperton. C. C. Clarke made 40 runs and C. R. Wood took 7 wickets for F. F. At Aldershot, on the 30th and 31st Aug., the mihtary made 128, and F. F. 195 for 8 wickets. A. J. Webbe claimed 102 (not out), W. D. Bovill 23. The latter with Goldney shared 6 wickets of Aldershot. Rain stopped the game. W. H. Jenkins. G. W. Ricketts. T. T. Peyton. F. E. Speed. H. C. Maul. W. Toynbee. W. D. Bovill. W. E. W. Collins. G. Willes. D. Prothero. J. G. Walker. P. Toynbee. H. Tubb. R. Skipwith. 247 CHAPTER XXXI. 1883. With this year the task of the compiler comes to an end, and a more facile and familiar pen will chronicle the re- maining years in up-to-date fashion. Thanks are tendered, as honestly due, to the many Foresters who have kindly contributed items q( information, and helped to make the narrative as perfect as the capacity of the writer would admit of. The season began with a match at Woolwich v. R.A. on the 14th and 15th May, which was lost, R.A. making 113 and 155 to 54 and 123 from F. F. E. M. Bannerman 26 and 12, F. H. Mellor 2 and 39, W. F. Capron o and 48, batted well for F. F., and C. R. Wood took 8 wickets, R. M. Turnbull 7. The match at Esher on May 26 was spoiled by rain. On June 6 F. F. lost to Elstree Masters, who got 138 to F. F. 117, though as Cattley and Kenrick were (not out) 47 and 45 respectively in their second innings, the pros- pect had brightened considerably. E. F. S. Tylecote also claimed 23 runs and J. Robertson 5 wickets. On June 9, at Crookham, the Moors scored 90 to F. F. 123. Maul 31, Turnbull 25, Oswald 21, Brougham 22, were the F. F. champions. Lang took 5 wickets, Goldney 4. At Eton, on the i6th June, the home side made 143 to 248 DRA WS. F. F. 159. E. Lyttelton 57, J. W. Dale 56, were best with the bat for Foresters, and Goldney took 8 wickets for 84 runs ; Richards for Eton took 7 for 40. The match at Oatlands Park, June 20 and 21, was drawn, F. F. scoring 125 and 296, the Park 168. The prominent figures were J. Spens 14 and 129, J. Kenrick 33 and 81, J. H. Bridges 14 and 25, J. Eyre 2 and 22, G. Law 20 and 17. Goldney took 4 and Kenrick 3 wickets. The match at Shoeburyness, on June 23 and 24, against the School of Gunnery was also drawn, F. F. scoring 148 and 227, the Gunners 89 and jy for 4 wickets. F. E. Street made 33 and 107, F. W. Capron 32 and 2, S. J. Wilson 8 and 35, T. Wise 12 and 23, F. E. Allsopp 13 and 19 ; the last named claimed 8 wickets, E. Rutter 4. At Henley, on July 7, the natives scored 92 (and 71 for no wicket) against Foresters' 139, of which H. G. S. Hughes made 17, H. P. Marriott 28, and W. D. Bovill 27. The last-named also took 4 wickets and Goldney as many. At Rugby, on the 9th and loth, after getting the School out for 58 runs, F. F. made 172, and though the boys improved in the second essay, scoring 154, it only cost Foresters 3 wickets to win the match. A. J. Webbe 41 and 19 (not out) was their premier batsman. Robertson and Buchanan took 12 and 4 wickets respectively. Against Westminster, at Vincent Square, on the 12th July, F. F. scored another win, 212 and Zy, to the School's 156. P. R. Toynbee made 133 and 20, G. Macan 18 and 21, W. R. Peyton 12 and 25. W. C. R. Bedford and C. Armstrong each took 4 wickets. The match at Longwood v. Lord Northesk's eleven, on July II and 12, was drawn. F. F. 120 — G. H. Goldney (not out) 46; Longwood 132 — A. F. Jeffreys 30, F. E. Lacey 36. The Liverpool Club, on July 16, 17, 18, defeated F. F. after a good fight. THE COUNTY-PALATINE. 249 LIVERPOOL. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. G. Dunlop, b Goldney 20 c Goldney, b Henery 7 H, Eccles, b Appleby 7 b Garnett 4 G. Bird, c Tapling, b Henery . 48 c Goldney, b Garnett 2 H. B. Steel, b Goldney . 3 c and b Appleby 5 E. H. Porter, b Appleby . 5 b Henery . 27 E. C. Hornby, b Appleby . 8 c Seymour, b Henery 14 H. B. Parr, b Appleby c Goldney, b Garnett . 59 E. E. Steel, not out . . 28 1 b \v, b Goldney . 27 G. F. Hornby, b Henery . not out 2 F. Williamson, c Henery, b Appleby IS b Appleby 20 0. H. Jones, run out . . c Seymour, b Appleby 7 Extras .... . 5 Extras . 2 Total 139 Total 176 FREE FORESTERS. C. R. Seymour, b E. E. Steel . R. Garnett, c and b E. C. Hornby . A. H. Heath, c E. C. Hornby, b E. E. Steel P. J. Henery, st H. B., b E. E. Steel Capt. Miles, c G. F. Hornby, b E. Hornby W. H. Heale, c Dunlop, b Hornby . G. H. Goldney, b'£. E. Steel . T. K. Tapling, b E. Hornby S. Garnett, c H. B. Steel, b E. Hornby . H. Verelst, b E. Hornby .... A. Appleby, not out Extras 33 c H. B. Steel, b E. Hornby 31 Jones, b Hornby . • 13 II c G. Hornby, b E. Steel, 7 c and b G. Hornby . 43 27 b Hornby 17 24 b Hornby 4 c H. Steel, b E. Hornby 3 3 c and b E. Steel I 3 c H. B., b E. E. Steel 2 not out . 3 5 c G. Hornby, b E. Steel I 8 Extras . 6 Total 114 Total 131 At Manchester, Western, on the 20th and 2ist, the match was drawn. After F. R, who went in first, had lost 4 wickets for 226 — C. R. Seymour 113, J. E. K. Studd 40, G. Bird (not out) 56 — rain prevented further play. On July 23 and 24 F. F. lost at Abbots Langley, the home team claiming 138 and 153 to F. F. 79 and 129. F. E. Allsopp made two innings of 18 and 21, Capt. Renny Tailyour 4 and 36. The latter, with Rutter, Baker, and Allsopp, dismissed four batsmen apiece. On July 25 and 26 F. F. lost to East Gloucestershire at 250 OXFORDSHIRE. Cheltenham. The Club made the paltry total of 29 runs, and though they mended their second essay to 173 — C. Smith 13 and 105, J. S. Russell 9 and 19 — yet the county gentlemen, who had got 112, just managed to secure the needful 91 with i wicket to fall. On Aug. 3 and 4, at Reigate, F. F. lost to Mr Churchill's team. On Aug. 7 and 8, at Hitchin, the Gentlemen of Herts just saved themselves from a defeat in one innings, getting 143 and 47 for 7 wickets to 253 from F. F., H. G. S. Hughes making yj and F. W. Maude 33 of them, G. H. Goldney 27 and G. Macan 21. Beresford Baker took 10 wickets. At Middleton Towers, on Aug. 15, 16, the match was drawn in favour of the Towers, who scored 358 — Capt. Frederick "jy, A. F. Kemp 58, A. B. Giles 56, &c.— to 164 from F. F., who had made 132 for 5 wickets in the follow — H. G. S. Hughes 17 and 59 (not out), E. H. Buckland 16 and 15. On the two following days Norfolk County won a most exciting match by i wicket. Buckland played splendidly for 104, and Maude bowled 7 wickets for 44. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. H. G. S. Hughes, c Davies, b Wilson o c and b Rye 6 E. H. Buckland, c and b Rye . 104 run out . W. D. Bovill, b Wilson . c sub., b Rye . 16 F. W. Maude, c and b Rye. 17 b Wilson . 12 C. Gurdon, 1 b w, b Rye . 50 b Wilson . J. S. Udal, 1 b w, b Rye . I not out . 13 S. J. Wilson, c Hare, b Wilson 10 c and b Rye 3 G. H. Goldney, st Wickham, b Rye 4 c Rye, b Wilson 7 H. M. Marshall, b Wilson I b Wilson . 6 A. Appleby, not out . 4 1 b w, b Rye . 5 P. Bennet, b Wilson .... 2 b Wilson . 4 Extras 7 Extras . 3 Total Total 75 ^•1 Oh NORFOLK. 251 NORFOLK. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. J. H. M. Hare, b Appleby . . . i run out . Rev. A. C. Davies, c Gurdon, b Maude . 7 c Gurdon, b Maude Sir K. Kemp, not out . . . . 35 1 b w, b Maude C. P. Wilson, b Maude . . . . o c Maude, b Appleby Rev. G. L. Kennaway, b Maude . . 21 b Maude . Rev. A. G. Blyth, b Maude ...5c and b Appleby G. P. El was, c Appleby, b Maude . . o c Buckland, b Goldney Rev. A. P. Wickham, c Wilson, b Buckland 23 b Goldney Morris, b Maude 17 b Buckland C. Scott-Chad, b Maude . . . . i not out Rye, b Appleby o not out ^^ Extras 21 Extras . Total . 131 Total 2 13 10 o o 4 28 15 39 19 2 16 148 F. F. also lost two matches in Oxfordshire, one on Aug. 20 and 21 at Lord Jersey's, Middleton Hall, Bicester, where the home side made 258 — J. G. Walker 65, F. W. Maude 57, H. Tubb 33 — to the Foresters' 73 ; and though the latter then made 202 — W. D. Bovill 5 and 41, A. H. Trevor 5 and 43, G. Willes 8 and 31, T. T. Peyton 21 and 24, T. Wise 4 and 25 — Lord Jersey's eleven wiped off the runs without losing a wicket ; H. Tubb 15. At Deddington, on the 23d and 24th, F. F. fared but little better, as they only made 103 and 149 — A. H. Trevor 58, T. T. Peyton 6 and 40. Deddington made 189 and 6^ for 4 wickets — H. C. Maul 36 and 3 (not out), and J. G. Walker 6 and 25 (not out).^ At Shepperton, Aug. 28, F. F. won, getting out their opponents for 79 — E. Money Wigram 35 — and themselves scoring 285 — F. Capron loi and F. Maude 60; the latter took 4 wickets, W. Bovill 3 ; Rutter took 5 F. F. wickets. And at Aldershot they concluded the season with a draw, 117 and 226 to 212 and Z'^ for 4 wickets. Their best contributors were C. R. Seymour 20 and 61, W. D. Bovill 1 1 and 60, F. W. Capron i and 44, A. H. Trevor 24 and o. ^ Full scores of these matches will be found further on. 252 CHAPTER XXXII. R.E. MATCHES. By W. E. W. Collins. In this attempt to carry out the work entrusted to me by my superior officers, the Rev. W. Bedford, the father, and Edward Rutter, whom I may call the pedagogue, of the Free Forester Club, I am fully conscious of the delicate nature of my task — the task, that is, of at once writing of and writing to living contemporaries. In a record of this sort it is almost impossible to avoid personalities. If any cricket friend or cricket foe is inclined to feel aggrieved by any word of mine, I would ask him to remember that " Many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant ! " and to acquit me of any intention to offend. How far my memory of incidents and my opinions on the game may differ from those of others is perhaps a matter of little moment. If any other Forester would have undertaken these chapters in my stead, he would have earned my eternal gratitude. Let me, then, without further apology, try in some degree to merit his approval. In the first place, then, I do not think that I need apologise to Edward Rutter for the sobriquet I have bestowed on him. To him it has been a labour of love to guide almost from its earliest infancy the tottering CHATHAM, 253 footsteps of this now middle-aged Club, to steer it clear of all the pitfalls and stumbling-blocks which must occa- sionally imperil the existence of the strictly amateur C.C. ; to keep it from taking false steps, to open out for it roads to new and happy hunting-grounds, and finally to win from every member with whom he has come into con- tact that sort of affectionate regard and respect which we may fancy a Roman boy felt towards his pedagogue, the companion of his daily walk, which we ourselves as boys have felt towards some cherished and valued family friend. How much of their successes in after-life Masters Caesar, Cato, or Scipio owed to the words of wisdom which fell from the lips of their childhood's instructor history does not record ; the Free Forester Club both knows and appre- ciates the debt it owes to Edward Rutter. And now it is difficult to know whence to start my nar- rative. But as at Chatham I played my first match for the Free Foresters, and whereas I have played more matches in my life against the R.E. than against any other one club, I will take Chatham as my starting-point. That our matches there have been most pleasant no one who has ever played against the Engineers on the Chatham lines can doubt. On that somewhat bleak and dreary- looking ground the wickets are excellent, the cricket keen, the crowd orderly and apparently impartial, the company undeniably good ; and if the wind sometimes blows cold there in the latter days of August, the welcome at all times is warm enough to satisfy the most hypercritical. Than those twin-sister corps, the R.E. and the R.A., the Free Forester Club has no dearer foes. But apart from the pleasantness of our visits to Chatham, we have had in these latter years, with but few exceptions, a series of most even and excellently contested matches. Once in 1885 the F. F. won somewhat easily, and again in 1889 and 1890 Albert Thornton in a high wind, which fortunately does not materially affect his action, played havoc with the R.E. 254 R'E. MATCHES. wickets. The matches have generally been drawn, and on those occasions I may say that we have always been, on paper, the stronger side, have usually got distinctly the worst of the match in the first innings, sometimes to the extent of having to follow on, and yet at the finish made our opponents bustle to save rather than to win the game. It is hard to account for those apparent inconsistencies. But be it remembered in the first place that the Chatham match has generally followed a stay at Linton Park, where it might be as truly said as of Brussels that — " There was a sound of revelry by night, . . . and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again. And all went merry as a marriage-bell." Now we all love the Linton week dearly, and I shall have much to say in its praise later on ; but I fancy that Mr Cornwallis will agree with me that this sort of thing is extremely pleasant at the time, but not exactly calculated to improve the eye on the following day. More than once, too, when we have been in the field, it has seemed to me that the thoughts of the younger Forester have unconsciously wandered back to the bright faces he has left behind him in the Weald of Kent instead of being wholly concentrated on the game, and that the ball of the previous night has still possessed a greater fascination than that more prosaic article which I would fain have had him in the present pursue. And in the second place, a certain doughty R.E. colonel, who has worked destruction in the first innings of more than one of our recent matches at Chatham, has laboured so hard on the one day that on the second a natural attack of stiffness has reminded him that the old complaint, Anno Domini, must occasionally affect the powers of a TIVO WICKETS IN ONE BALL. 255 man who was the greatest bowler in the British Army. To be bowled at or even bowled out by Jim Fellowes will, we hope, again be an occasional feature in our matches at Chatham. At Chatham, as must be the case at any place where a series of matches has been played, there have been some curious incidents. It does not often fall to the lot of any bowler to capture more than one wicket with a single ball, but in 1886, the only occasion on which I personally remember I. D. Walker playing in a F. F. match, he un- doubtedly did bowl a ball which was fatal to the batsman at either end. The R.E. wickets had been falling rather rapidly in the second innings, but Stafford, perhaps the soundest if not the most brilliant batsman on the side, and a very strong side it was then, was playing a patient and steady game, and had apparently got the measure of all our bowling. Unfortunately for him, his partner walked out to the last ball of an over of I. D.'s lobs, and drove it back so hard and straight that Stafford, who had backed up a yard or so, could not get out of the way. The ball struck him hard on the upper arm, and then dropped gently into mid-off's hands ; all the power was taken out of Stafford's arm, and he was easily caught off the first ball of the over from the other end. On another occasion, Timothy O'Brien having elected to take 137 in his own style, and Sellars, the most patient of batsmen, having blocked the other end for over two hours to the tune of some fourteen runs, time alone seemed necessary to ensure a victory. A council of war was held,, and we determined — it was before the days of the closure — to finish off our innings as quickly as possible. Two men not unnaturally objected to the prospect of fielding out twice without any compensation in the way of an innings, and were accordingly sent in next and allowed to do their best. As evil fate — their evil fate — would have it, they both got out unintentionally with quite as much rapiditj^ 256 R.E. MATCHES. as could be desired by the rest of us. Then I went in, meaning to have a hit if possible, and get out — the latter in my case never a difficult feat to accomplish. Hedley was bowling and I ran out to the first ball, which happened to be a fast and straight long-hop, and I hit it almost perfectly straight up into the air. Harder hits I may have seen, a higher never. It went to mid-on where Von Donop was standing, and seldom was a fieldsman more completely flabbergasted. There was a high wind, and at the moment a bright sun was shining — quite a pleasant change to most of us, as it was one of the wettest and coldest of days. But I doubt whether Von Donop much appreciated the change, as the ball, after having paid its respects to the sun, began to fall in the most provok- ingly leisurely manner in the wind. The fieldsman tried to watch the ball : we all watched him. His face was well worth studying, the expression varying between concen- trated agony and hopeless bewilderment. For a moment he was stationary ; then he tried to follow the tortuous course of the ball, turning round and round much after the fashion of a puppy chasing its own tail ; and finally he sat down on a very muddy patch, exactly as the ball fell some ten yards away from him. He looked so ludicrously unhappy that the whole field, including Renny-Tailyour, generally the strictest of disciplinarians, simply collapsed with laughter. I will not mention the name of a Free Forester who played in one of our matches at Chatham, in his case by the way a qualifying match, but I will briefly give what might have been his diary of a two days' holiday. Friday, Aug. 29. — 1. Bowled first ball by Pllcher. 2. Missed the first ball which came to me In the field — a high catch — and split my finger, which ached consumedly the whole evening. CHATHAM. 257 Saturday^ Aug. 30. — 1. Finger still aching : every ball which I attempted to field seemed to come to that one finger, with the result that I mis- fielded everything. 2. Bowled again first ball. 3. Ground slippery: finger sore: spikes worn out — general result was that I invariably fumbled the ball, and ft-equently sat down in a most painful and involuntary manner; crowd good- naturedly roared with laughter or cheered vociferously. 4. Fielded a hard drive so brilliantly and so unexpectedly that both batsmen were at the same wicket : to that wicket I threw very hard and very wide — result a 4 over-throw. " Thocht I heard swearin'." 5. My very nice dressing-bag elected to roll off the top of the cab, and everything fell out into the mud at Chatham Station. 6. Got to London by the L.C.D. just in time to miss my train at G.W.R. Had to wait till midnight and then walk home on a dark and wet night. And but for his innate modesty the victim might have added that — he kept his temper. Penitent, nervous, dis- gusted with himself, inclined to put up his cricket effects for auction — all of these he may have been, but he was so absolutely amiable under most depressing circumstances that he was unanimously elected a Free Forester in the following spring, and has on several occasions done yeo- man service to the Club. But the enjoyment of a match at Chatham is by no means limited to the cricket-ground. The sappers are as cheery hosts in the mess-room as they are formidable opponents on the lines. And it was in the mess-room some years ago that I witnessed a most ludicrous incident. We had had a gay evening. After a lively game of Rugby football in the ante-room, Walter Bovill on the one side, and Jim Fellowes, who played the part of M.C., on the other, had vied with each other in feats of derring-do : Jack Dale had fallen a most egregious cropper in a mounted tournament, and the gymnastics were only ter- minated at a late hour, when the gallant Colonel posi- R 258 R.E, MATCHES. tively declined to follow Bovill in walking round the room on his hands. " No, no ! " he remarked, " I won't try that ; let's go and have some broiled bones," and we adjourned to the mess-room. It was then that Joe Hornsby conceived the charit- able idea of attempting to arrest an incipient inclination to baldness on the part of John Ricketts. The pair were sitting opposite to each other at the supper-table, and John, leaning over the table to reach some con- diment, speedily paid the penalty for the breach of etiquette. He was in those days the proud possessor of a mighty forelock, which has long since joined the majority. It may have been that to Joseph's classical mind recurred the old proverb, — " Prendite praecipitem — post est occasio calva." At any rate, he gently, but firmly, grasped the forelock, and then discovered that John was very much in the same plight as occasio. For on the back of the head was ex- posed to view a round bald patch some three inches in diameter. After a brief but searching inspection of the place, Joe's eye wandered round the table till he caught sight of a pat of butter. This he put with much care in the centre of the bald patch, and then proceeded to spread it with a knife much after the fashion of a nurse buttering a piece of bread for a child. Both parties — operator and patient — seemed to recognise the gravity and delicate nature of the operation. The extreme care which Hornsby took to spread his pat of butter exactly on the bald patch was only to be equalled by the patience displayed by John. There was no undue hurry on the one part, on the other no unseemly struggling. When the operation was quite completed, Joe released the forelock and both went on with their supper as unconcernedly as if nothing POMADE DU BEURRE. 259 unusual had occurred. After a few minutes the butter commenced to melt and finally to drip, and then, for the first time, John became aware of the exact nature of the application — up till that moment all he knew, as he subse- quently confessed, was that something cool had been put on his head, and the sensation had been rather pleasant than otherwise. However, he did not seem the least dis- concerted when he found what had really happened, but merely wiped the butter off and went on eating. It is to be regretted that from a medical point of view the opera- tion proved signally unsuccessful — possibly oleo-margarine might have produced more effect. 1884. Played, June 13 and 14. ROYAL ENGINEERS. 1ST INNINGS. C. V. W. Stratford, b Maude . H. Bonham Carter, c sub., b Goldney H. U. Dumbleton, b Maude W. H. Stafford, c Moon, b Goldney . H. E. Rawson, b Goldney Capt. C. L. Young, b Goldney . Capt. P. G. Von Donop, not out J. E. Hamilton, 1 b w, b Goldney A. H. Van Straubenzee, c Spens, b Payne W^. J. Bythell, b Goldney . E. W. Walton, b Payne . Extras Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS. 20 c Spens, b Payne 7 b Payne . 32 c Payne, b Rawlinson 28 c and b Payne . 63 b Payne . 63 b Goldney 36 1 b w, b Goldney 22 b Goldney 1 b Goldney o b Payne . 2 not out 17 Extras . 291 Total o 2 6 19 32 10 2 o 97 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. A. E. Payne, b Young ... 29 R. M. Turnbull, run out . . 25 Capt. J. Spens, st Rawson, b Von Donop 115 J. G. .Walker, c Young, b Strau- benzee . . . . .22 S. C. Oswald, c Stafford, b Dum- bleton 30 F. W. Maude, 1 b w, Dumbleton 6 Total . 301 In the second innings R. M. Turnbull (c Stratford, b Dumbleton) scored 7, Capt. Spens (not out) 39, J. G. Walker (not out) 32, C. H. Goldney (b Young) 12 ; extras i, — total 91. Result, F. F. won by 8 wickets. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. A. W. Moon, c Hamilton, b Young 37 C. W. Rawlinson, b Dumbleton . o H. T. Griffiths, b Von Donop . 2 T. F. B. Renny Tailyour, b Young 12 C. H. Goldney, not out . . n Extras 12 26o R.E. MATCHES. Played, August 28 and 29. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. C. J. E. Jarvis, b Hedley . . 166 F. W. Maude, b Young . . 6 W. D. Bovill, c Renny Tailyour, b Young ..... I Capt. J. Spens, b Hedley . . 3 R. H. Fowler, c Hedley, b Strau- benzee ..... 14 Capt. L. Spens, c Hedley, b Strau- benzee 57 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. J. H. Hornsby, c Fowke, b Friend 14 C. L. Hickley, not out ... 25 E. J. Beaumont, c Renny Tailyour, b Friend 3 Hon. W. North, b Young . . 6 Capt. J. Frederick, c Renny Tail- your, b Young . . . .8 Extras ..... o Total 312 There is no score to hand of second innings, but, as stated below, F. F. won by 10 wickets. ROYAL ENGINEERS. 1ST INNINGS. Capt. Stafford, b Beaumont Capt. Stratford, b Beaumont W. C. Hedley, b Hickley . Capt. Young, b Beaumont A. H. Van Straubenzee, b Beaumont Capt. Renny Tailyour, 1 b w, b Jarvis Capt. Friend, c Beaumont, b H H N. Dumbleton, b Maude J. A. S. Tulloch, b Beaumont G. H. Fowke, b Beaumont Col. Edwards, not out Extras .... ckley Total Result, F. F. won by 10 wickets. CORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. b Maude . II 2 b Beaumont 10 3 c Fowler, b Hornsby . 28 . 65 b Maude . b Maude . • 31 c North, b Maude . 4 • 13 c and b Maude 4 24 b Maude . 52 not out . 16 2 run out 3 . 16 b Maude . 10 II Extras . 10 . 167 Total 148 1886. Played, August 27 and 28. ROYAL ENGINEERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE Capt. Abbott, b Hornsby . G. M. Blair, b Collins . Capt. Renny Tailyour, c Hornsby, b Collins Major Savage, b Hornsby . Capt. Stafford, b Hornsby W. C. Hedley, b Ricketts . Capt. Young, b Ricketts . T. A. H. Bigge, c Bovill, b Collins . P. J. J. Radcliffe, c Ricketts, b Hornsby Col. Fellowes, c J. D. Walker, b Hornsby A. J. Pilcher, not out Extras Total IE, 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 7 c Allason, b Collins . . 16 6 b Collins .... 21 b Collins .... 7 II cCollins.b J. D.Walker 5 40 c J. G. Walker, b Collins 24 49 c Allason, b Collins . . 22 not out .... 5 8 not out .... 8 7 to bat. 5 to bat. 3 b Collins .... II Extras , . . . i 168 Total 88 R.E. MATCHES, 261 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. J. D. Walker, b Fellowes .... 3 J. G. Walker, c Tailyour, b Hedley . . 17 Hon. F. E. Allsopp, b Fellowes . . 8 J. W. Dale, c Young, b Fellowes . . 19 Capt. Allason, not out .... 22 Major L. T. Spens, b Pilcher ... 7 J. H. Hornsby, b Pilcher . . . . o W. D. Bovill, c Tailyour, b Fellowes . 3 W. E. W. Collins, b Fellowes ... 2 G. W. Ricketts, c Young, b Fellowes . 8 O. M. Slaughter, b Pilcher ... 2 Extras 6 Total . 97 Result, drawn. 2D INNINGS. c Young, b Fellowes c Pilcher, b Hedley b Hedley . c and b Tailyour b Radcliffe b Fellowes b Fellowes not out b Richer . b Pilcher . b Pilcher . Extras . Total 230 1887. Played, August 26 and 27. ROYAL ENGINEERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. W. C. Hedley, b Collins . 18 b Webbe . • IS Capt. Friend, b Collins . I c Vernon, b Collins . 27 H. W. Dumbleton, b Collins . b O'Brien . • 32 Capt. Renny Tailyour, c Vernon, b Rickett s 42 c O'Brien, b Bovill . 18 E. M. Blair, c Vernon, b Collins 5 c Walker, b Bovill Capt. Stafford, run out . . . 3 b Collins . 3 Capt. Young, c Walker, b Ricketts . 3 not out . II E. Druitt, b Collins .... 1 b w, b Bovill . Capt. Von Donop, not out 8 c Bovill, b Collins Capt. Stratford, b Ricketts I not out 8 A. J. Pilcher, b CoUins . 7 to bat. Extras 7 Extras . . 15 Total . 95 Tota . 129 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. A. J. Webb, c Pilcher, b Hedley . 6 T. C. O'Brien, c Hedley, b Druitt 137 W. D. Sellar, b Pilcher . . 14 J. G. Walker, c Druitt, b Pilcher 46 G, W. Ricketts, c Stratford, b Pilcher 25 G. F. Vernon, not out ... 19 W. E. W. Collins, c Stafford, b Druitt 11 1ST INNINGS. SC Capt. Rice, run out W. D. Bovill, b Druitt Capt. J. Fredericks, c Tailyour, b Pilcher .... J. H. Twiss, Stratford, b Pilcher Extras lotal 278 Result, drawn. 262 R.E. MATCHES. 1888. Played, August 31 and September i. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. H.R.H. Prince Christian Victor, b Fellowes 3 G. W. Ricketts, 1 b w, Fellowes . .18 P. J. T. Henery, b Fellowes . . .13 A. T. B. Dunn, not out .... 32 W. E. W. Collins, b Fellowes . . . o J. H. J. Hornsby, b Pilcher ... 3 P. E. Ricketts, b Fellowes . . . o R. T. Atthill, b Fellowes . . . . o N. K. Stephen, b Pilcher . . . . i C. M. Woodbridge, b Pilcher . . . o S. W. Gore, b Pilcher . . . . o W. D. Bovill, c Friend, b Fellowes . 8 Extras 11 Total 2D INNINGS. c Liddell, b Fellowes b Pilcher . b Stockley c Friend, b Stockley c Liddell, b Stockley c Dumbleton, b Pilcher b Pilcher . b Pilcher . not out b Pilcher . c Friend, b Pilcher c Pilcher, b Dumbleton Extras . Total SCORE. 38 3 61 22 5 2 6 18 10 o 14 15 II 205 ROYAL ENGINEERS. Capt. L. B. Friend, b Collins . Lieut. E. Druitt, c Henery, b Collins Lieut. J. S. Liddell, b Collins . Capt. H. N. Dumbleton, c Henery, b G, W. Ricketts .... Lieut. C. Ainslie, b Collins Capt. C. L. Young, b Collins . Corp. Bayfield, b Bovill . Lieut. C. J. Burnaby, b Collins Lieut. H. R. Stockley, c and b Bovill Lieut. H. O. Lathbury, not out Lieut. A. J. Pilcher, b Collins . Col. Fellowes, c and b Collins . Extras 7 1 b w, b Collins 38 c G. Ricketts, b Collins o b Stephens SI 14 12 3 8 o 4 18 8 16 Total . 179 Result, drawn. not out c Henery, b Collins b Collins . not out Extras Total (5 wickets) II 62 1889. Played, August 30 and 31. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. Capt. W. D. Jones, run out A. J. Thornton, b Burnaby G. W. Ricketts, b Pilcher J. A. Turner, b Pilcher Major J. Spens, b Smyth A. M. Inglis, c Tower, b Rice W. D. Bovill, Tower, b Burnaby o 72 14 13 29 3 55 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Major L. Spens, c Talbot, b Burnaby 29 W. E. W. Collins, c Guggisberg, b Bayfield 20 S. W. Gore, not out . . . 12 G. F. Corringe, run out . . 4 Extras 15 Total 266 R.E. MATCHES. 263 ROYAL ENGINEERS. 1ST INNINGS. Corp. Bayfield, not out C. G. Burnaby, b Collins . Capt. Bowles, 1 b w, Thornton . J. S. Liddell, c Turner, b Collins Capt. Rice, c L. Spens, b Thornton . T. A. Bigge, c Ricketts, b CoUins Capt. Tower, b Collins Major Hon. M. G. Talbot, b Thornton A. J. Pilcher, b Thornton . D. C. Smyth, b Thornton . F. G. Guggisberg, c Gore, b Collins . Extras Total E. 2D INNINGS. 49 b Collins . b Collins . 6 b Turner . 4 run out . c Bovill, b Collins 14 c Inglis, b Collins 14 b Collins . 4 not out b Ricketts 5 b Collins . 23 c Gore, b Turner 22 Extras . 141 Total SCORE. 4 4 9 2 o 50 10 o 16 6 I 15 117 Result, F. F. won by i innings and 8 runs. 1890. Played, August 14 and 15. ROYAL ENGINEERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. C. G. Burnaby, b Hornsby . c Ricketts, b Thornton 44 Corp. Bayfield, b Thornton . 4 c Turner, b Hornsby Capt. Bowles, b Thornton . b Thornton 6 W. C. Hedley, b Thornton 2 c and b Hornsby 4 T. A. H. Bigge, b Thornton 6 b Thornton 2 Capt. Rice, b Thornton 3 b Thornton 4 F. G. Guggisberg, c Robertson, b Hornsby 4 c Hornsby, b Thornton 32 R. M. Yeates, b Thornton . . 2 b Hornsby II P. Maud, b Thornton . . 3 c Spens, b Thornton 9 A. J. Craven, not out . . II run out . B. H. Rooke, c and b Thornton 4 not out 2 Extras .... • 3 Extras . 4 Total . 42 Total 118 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. G. W. Ricketts, c Bowles, b Hed- ley 100 J. A. Turner, c and b Bayfield . 10 J. H. Hornsby, c Craven, b Bigge 36 J. Robertson, c and b Hedley . 8 C. F. Vernon, c Maud, b Hedley 36 Major J. Spens, b Hedley . . o A. J. Thornton, b Bayfield . . 18 F. F. won by i innings and 77 runs 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. K. M 'Alpine, c Burnaby, b Hed- ley Major L. Spens, b Hedley . Major Rice, not out W. E. W. Collins, b Bayfield Extras .... Total 4 12 o o 13 237 264 R.E. MATCHES. 1891. Played, August 14 and 15. ROYAL ENGINEERS. 1ST INNINGS. E. M. Blair, b Thornton . G. O. Bigge, b Collins C. G. Burnaby, b Collins . P. Maud, b Collins .... C. W. Gwynn, st Philipson, b Thornton T. A. H. Bigge, b Curteis . A. H. Cunningham, b Turner . H. F. Freeland, b Thornton Capt. Rawson, c Hardy, b Collins . Corp. Bayfield, c Spens, b Collins H. H. Turner, not out . . . Extras Total SCORE. 2 102 5 6 o 16 18 34 18 I 5 17 224 2D INNINGS, b Collins . b Collins . c Metcalfe, b Thornton not out b Collins . Thornton, b Collins SCORE. 4 9 . 35 4 Extras Total 66 FREE FORESTERS. W. E. W. Collins, b Bigge Major Hardy, c Cunningham, b Bigge H. Philipson, b Bayfield . Major J. Spens, run out Capt. Curteis, b Bayfield . J. A. Turner, c Cunningham, b Bigge A. J. Thornton, c Blair, b Freeland . T. W. Burbury, st Rawson, b Maud E. L. Metcalfe, c Cunningham, b Maud R. T. Atthill, c Bayfield, b Maud . Major L. Spens, not out . Extras 6 9 7 II 42 15 26 28 49 13 o Total , 218 Result, drawn. c Bigge, b Blair b Blair . c Bigge, b Maud c Gwynn, b Burnaby b Blair . not out not out b Bayfield b Bayfield Extras . Total 1 o 49 o 6 35 21 4 24 I 8 148 1892. Played, August 12 a7jd 13. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Capt. E. G. Wynyard, c Wood- roffe, b Freeland ... 40 G. W. Ricketts, b Guggisberg . 5 Capt. Curteis, c Gwynn, b Gug- gisberg 95 A. J. Thornton, b Freeland . . 5 Major J. Spens, not out . . 178 E. A. J. Maynard, c Bayfield, b Maud 25 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. H. W. Brougham, b Blair . . 19 Major L. Spens, b Guggisberg . 23 W. E. W. Collins, b Bayfield . 6 Major Rice, did not bat . . o E. Fisher, not out ... 21 Extras . . . . .20 Total . 437 1 Innings declared closed. R.E. MATCHES. 265 ROYAL ENGINEERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. C. W. Gvvynn, hit wicket, b A. J. Thornton I Corp. Bayfield, b A. J. Thornton 3 M. 0. C. Tandy, c and b Wynyard . 31 b Fisher . E. M. Blair, b Fisher 38 b Collins . 19 H. E. Freeland, b Fisher . I not out . 10 A. J. Woodroffe, b Collins 20 run out . 19 Capt. Abbott, b Thornton . 17 not out . 26 F. G. Guggisberg, 1 b w, b Thornton 2 J. A. S. Tulloch, not out . 39 run out . 39 P. Maud, b Collins .... 9 Capt. Homiblow, b Wynyard . 4 Extras 19 Extras . 5 Total 184 Total 118 Result, drawn. 1893. Played, August 18 and 19. ROYAL ENGINEERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Corp. Bayfield, b Homsby . . 5 Capt. Rice, b Homsby . . 3 Captain Hamilton, c Bovill, b Hornsby 14 E, M. Blair, b Adair . . .19 W. Robertson, b Thornton . . 33 A. J. Woodroffe, b Hornsby . 39 C. H. Versturme, b Asher . . 12 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Major Rawson, 1 b w, Homsby C. N. North, not out . G. C. M. Hall, b Adair C. H. Ley, b Adair . J. P. Moir, c Thornton, b Hornsby Extras Total I II 7 4 12 13 173 In the second innings Captain Hamilton (b Collins) scored i, E. M. Blair (not out) 19, A. J. Woodroffe (b Thornton) 17, C. N. North (b Collins) 2 ; extras i,— total 40. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. Capt. H. R. Adair, b Bayfield . Major Rice, b Bayfield J. Hornsby, b Bayfield Major Curteis, b Bayfield . W. D. Bovill, c Rawson, b Woodroffe A. G. Asher, c Rawson, b Woodroffe A. E. Leatham, b Bayfield Major L. Spens, b Bayfield A. J. Thomton, b Bayfield Capt. Hamilton, b Hamilton R. B. Pearson, not out W. E. W. Collins, c Ley, b Hamilton Extras . • SCORE. 10 4 18 o o 10 o 24 8 6 2D INNINGS. b Ley not out c Rice, b Woodroffe not out b Ley c Hamilton, b Ley . c Hamilton, b Ley . c North, b Bayfield . c Rice, b Bayfield . 8 b Moir 12 16 SCORE. O 3 • 35 2 2 • 131 10 . 16 2 . 40 Extras Total . 116 Result, drawn. Total I 1 Innings declared closed. Linton Park. CHAPTER XXXIII. OTHER MATCHES IN KENT. Had Noah once landed from his Ark Upon the Mount at Linton Park, He might have pitched his cricket tent, And played a match, Noah's team v. Kent. A perfect pitch, a lovely ground, I'm sure the Patriarch would have found : A Paradise for an Eleven — The very ground is close to heaven." /. — Linton Park. If at the present moment I cannot recall the closing lines of our poet Spencer Gore's effusion, I can at least cordially endorse the sentiment they contained, which was to the effect that the Free Foresters were better off than LINTON PARK. 267 the Patriarch's team might have been, inasmuch as we latter-day cricketers have found Mr and Mrs Cornwallis reigning at Linton Park, and making things extremely- pleasant for their visitors. Yes, we have had everything at Linton that can make the surroundings of a cricket- match pleasant ; and, most important fact of all, the cricket has been really good and keen : and if it has happened that we have on the whole had a little bit the best of our matches there, we have had to work hard for those we have won, and the drawn games might easily have gone either way. When I mention the names of W. H. Patter- son, Leslie Wilson, W. Rashleigh, Captain Hamilton, F. Marchant, E. C. Streatfeild, A. M. Streatfeild-Moore, S. Christopherson, T. Tonge, M. C. Kemp, Major Friend, and the Rev. R. T. Thornton, it will be seen that we have on various occasions had arrayed against us the pick of the Kentish amateurs, with a little bit of Surrey thrown in. Most of these celebrities have once and again taken runs, though Patterson and Streatfeild-Moore alone have exceeded the century ; while on our side John Ricketts and Jack Turner have also scored over 100, and other large scorers have been A. G. Asher, A. M. Inglis, and those m.odern Ajaxes the brothers Spens. We have invariably been captained by the elder Spens, to whom is due the credit of instituting that most cheery week in Kent ; but once — it must have been, I think, when he declined to go on bowling — he was temporarily superseded, and the affair was managed by a syndicate, of which he was kindly allowed to represent the Corporation, a post which he filled with becoming gravity. But in addition to the cricket talent, we have also had arrayed against us at Linton a goodly "Band of Sisters," to say nothing of wives, mothers, cousins, and ew^w fiancees of our opponents, all keenly anxious for our defeat, the triumph of the op- posite faction in general, and the success of favoured 268 OTHER MATCHES IN KENT. individuals in particular. I have at some time or other played cricket in almost every single county in England, and in a few Welsh and Scotch counties as well ; but nowhere else have I ever seen so — if I may use the word — intelligent and so keenly interested an audience of the fair sex as that which has year after year watched our match at Linton, and with all the strength of feminine pertinacity willed our discomfiture. Still, when we have been vic- torious, they have graciously condoned our error ; and if party spirit has run high in the cricket-field, we have buried the hatchet later on in the day, and have spent most cheery and sociable evenings. The member for Maidstone and his charming wife have indeed deserved well of the Free Forester Club ; and their reception of us has been so cordial that when the time comes for us to strike our colours to the Linton XI, we shall only be too ready to avow with De Grantmesnil that we have been "vanquished as much by the courtesy as by the address of our opponent." 1888. Played, August 15 and 16. BAND OF BROTHERS. 1ST INNINGS. _ SCORE. J. N. Tonge, b Collins S. Christopherson, c Inglis, b Robertson W. H. Patterson, b Collins Rev. R. T. Thornton, b Collins Capt. L. B. Friend, b Collins . A. M. Streatfeild, b Collins F. Marchant, c Thesiger, b Hickley E. C. Streatfeild, b Collins M. C. Kemp, c Ricketts, b Hadow A. W. Cornvvallis, not out E. H. Hardcastle, b Collins F. S. Cornwallis, c Thesiger, b Collins bye 1, leg-byes 2, wides 2 2D INNINGS. 1 b w, b Hadow b Collins . b Thornton 35 b Robertson b Thornton c Bovill, b Hadow absent, hurt b Thornton b Hadow . b Collins . b Thornton not out 38 21 46 o 50 107 o 14 2 12 O 12 byes 12, leg-byes 13, wides 5 30 Total 63 Total 332 LINTON PARK. 269^ FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCO G. W. Ricketts, run out A. J. Thornton, b Hardcastle E. M. Hadow, c and b Hardcastle Hon. F. Thesiger, c Kemp, b Thornton Major J. Spans, c F. S. Cornwallis, b Thornton .... G. F. Vernon, c and b Thorn- ton J. Robertson, b Christopherson . In the second innings Ricketts total 19. 25 1ST INNINGS. SC( Major L. Spens, c Thornton, b E. C. Streatfeild W. D. Bovill, c Friend, b E. C. Streatfeild .... A. M. Inglis, st Kemp, b Thornton W. E. W. Collins, c sub., b Thornton C. Hickley, not out bye I, leg-byes 2 . . . Total 10 24 4 3 3 176 (not out) scored 8, Vernon (not out) 11, 1889. Played, August 28 and 29. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. A. J. Thornton, b E. Streatfeild W. D. Bovill, b Pilcher . J. A. Turner, b Pilcher G. W. Ricketts, run out . Major J. Spens, c F. Cornwallis, bE. Streatfeild 12 A. M. Inglis, c A. W. Cornwallis, b Pilcher J. H. J. Hornsby, c Rashleigh, b Pilcher W. E. W. Collins, c and b E. Streatfeild Major Spens, c Friend, b Pilcher S. W. Gore, b E. Streatfeild . Capt, Jones, not out .... byes 4, leg-byes 5 . Total .E. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. b E. Streatfeild b Pilcher . 5 4 b Pilcher . 56 27 b Pilcher . 8 12 b Richards 81 64 not out 12 8 not out .... 24 34 6 b Pilcher .... 7 9 byes 9, leg-byes 5 . 14 164 Total 207 LINTON PARK. Major L. Friend, b Turner W. Rashleigh, b Turner . J. N. Tonge, c J. Spens, b Collins A. M. Streatfeild, retired hurt . E. C. Streatfeild, c Bovill, b Collins H. F. Kemp, b Collins . L. M. Richards, c Collins, b Turner A. W. Cornwallis, b Collins A. J. Pilcher, c Turner, b Collins E. F. Chaplin, not out F. S. W. Cornwallis, run out . byes 7, leg-byes 6 . Total 3 c and b Turner • 39 3 c and b Turner 19 II b Turner . 40 II c Jones, b Thornton c Bovill, b Turner . I 35 c Thornton, b Turner 8 b Collins . c Turner, b Collins . 15 II c and b Turner 10 I b Thornton I not out . 5 13 byes 8, leg-byes 2, no ball S5 15 96 Total 145 270 OTHER MATCHES IN KENT. 1891. Played, August 12 and 13. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. J. A. Turner, c Streatfeild, b Friend 106 A. J. Thornton, b Streatfeild . 13 Major J. Spens, c Streatfeild, b Christopherson ... 29 H. Philipson, c Streatfeild, b Friend 22 Capt. Curteis, c and b Friend . 4 Capt. Rawlinson, b Christopherson 37 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. R. T. Atthill, b Hinde . . 8 Major L. Spens, c Streatfeild, b Thornton 14 E. L. Metcalfe, b Hinde . . 34 Major Hardy, st Christopherson, b Hinde 4 W. E. W. Collins, not out , .2 Total 273 In the second innings Major J. Spens (not out) scored 29, E. L. Metcalfe (not out) 9, — total 38. LINTON PARK. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Capt. Friend, c and b Turner . . . o Capt. Hamilton, st Philipson, b Turner . 53 Rev. R. T. Thornton, b Turner . . 8 E. C. Streatfeild, b Collins ... 18 F. J. Richardson, c and b Turner . . 31 S. Christopherson, b Turner , . . i R. H. Pemberton, b Turner . . . o Capt. Hinde, b Turner .... 13 A. W. Cornwallis, c Philipson, b Thornton 17 F. S. W. Cornwallis, b Turner ... 7 L. M. Richards, not out .... 7 byes 3, leg-byes 2, no ball i . . .6 Total . 161 2D INNINGS. c Rawlinson, b Curteis c and b Curteis c Turner, b Thornton b Collins . b Thornton c Curteis, b Thornton b Turner . c Metcalfe, b Turner b Turner . not out b Turner . byes 10, leg-byes 2 Total 12 38 25 14 7 8 I 6 21 19 18 12 181 [892. Played, August 10 atid 11. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. G. W. Ricketts, st Kemp, b Richards . 147 Major J. Spens, b Streatfeild ... 29 ■Capt. E. Wynyard, c Pemberton, b Streatfeild 4 Capt. Curteis, b Streatfeild . . . i E. A. J. Maynard, b Streatfeild . . 2 H. W. Brougham, c sub., b Champion . 9 A. J. Thornton, not out .... 85 Major Spens, c Kemp, b Richards . . 20 W. E. W. Collins, c Wilson, b Richards . 7 E. Fisher, c Kemp, b M 'Alpine . . 5 F. G. Stenning, b Streatfeild ... 30 byes 4, leg-byes 3 7 Total . 346 2D INNINGS. SCORE. c Streatfeild, b Marchant 5 c Marchant, b Wilson . 7 c Wilson, b Champion . i not out .... 28 not out .... 12 c Wilson, b Champion . 18 c Marchant, b Richards . 28 leg-byes ... 3 Total . 102 MOTE PARK. 271 LINTON PARK. 1ST INNINGS. Spens, Fisher, b G. E. Champion, c Wynyard . F. Marchant, b Collins W. H. Patterson, c Collins L. Wilson, cStenning, b Wynyard E. C. Streatfeild, b Collins . D. W. Carr, c Ricketts, b Thorn- ton SCORE. b 15 I 104 78 14 1ST INNINGS. SCORE R. H. Pemberton, b Collins . i: K. M 'Alpine, c Ricketts, b Thornton .... M. C. Kemp, b Collins F. S. W. Cornwallis, not out L. M, Richards, b Ricketts . byes 4, leg-byes 3, no balls 3 Total 332 1893. Played, August 16 and 17. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. G. W. Ricketts, b Champion Capt. Adair, c Streatfeild, b Champion A. G. G. Asher, c Rawson, b Streatfeild Major Curteis, b Champion H. Philipson, b Christopherson Major Spens, c Rawson, b Christopherson A. J. Thornton, b Christopherson A. E. Leatham, run out . W. D. Bovill, c and b Friend . W. E. W. Collins, c Wilson, b Christopherson Capt. Hamilton, not out . byes II, leg-byes 5 . Total . 188 SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. . 16 c Weigall, b Champion . 19 . 16 b Champion . IS . 28 c Richards, b Champion . 72 c Weigall, b Christopherson 21 • IS b Champion . , 20 n 7 b Champion • 15 not out .... 17 • 43 b Christopherson 5 . 26 rson 3 3 not out .... I . 16 byes 7, no balls 2 . 9 Total 179 LINTON PARK. Major Friend, c H. Hamilton, b Collins . E. C. Streatfeild, c Grant Asher, b Bovill . G. E. Champion, b Collins L. Wilson, b Collins G. J. Weigall, c Ricketts, b Bovill . F. Marchant, c Leatham, b Colhns . S. Christopherson, b Bovill Major Rawson, b Thornton A. Kent, b Collins L. M. Richards, not out .... F. S. W, Cornwallis, c H. Hamilton, b CoUins leg-byes Total , 135 8 b Collins . 5 34 c Curteis, b Collins . 31 c Ricketts, b Collins S Hamilton, b Collins 86 19 b Ricketts 35 41 b Ricketts 5 6 c Leatham, b Ricketts 14 9 b Collins . 4 c Bovill, b Collins . 16 I not out 3 I c Collins, b Adair . 23 7 byes 6, leg-byes 5, no ball S2 13 Total 231 272 OTHER MATCHES IN KENT II.— Mote Park. On the first two days of the Linton week we have played at the Mote, where we have had a series of pleasant matches, though we have occasionally found the opposition a little bit too good for us. If, on the one hand, I am ready to admit that the better side has usually won, which is all as it should be, there is no doubt that the Forester sides at the Mote have not been quite so strong as those we have put into the field at Linton, and that the former is a ground which requires a little education, as ability to act up-hill and down- hill is not always to be expected from men who have been accustomed to bat and field on the flat. The batting of F. M. Atkins and Walter Wright's bowling have been im- portant factors in our adversaries' success, and if Kent possesses eleven better all - round cricketers than the former, it must have a much stronger side than results would lead one to imagine. Whether Walter Wright's bowling would be quite as formidable on any ground except the Mote is an open question. It is recorded in the Forester scores that in 1889 A. M. Inglis and myself scored 88 runs off 11 consecutive overs in 20 minutes. And I ought to mention that in 1887, when a prodigious amount of runs were scored, Walter Wright made well over 200 for the Mote, and Lionel Spens played two magnificent not-out innings for 115 and Zy, and thereby not only covered himself with glory but saved the match. In 1 89 1 that- most excellent all-round cricketer, J. A. Turner, scored exactly one-half of the runs made by our side on a very tricky wicket, and when he was bowled in the second innings the telegraph-board registered 79 — 5 — 6^. A catch at cover-point made by Atthill in the second innings of the Mote fairly brought down the house. It will be noticed that in this innings ten men on a really strong batting side only contributed 15 runs between them. MOTE PARK. 273 We thought that we had done badly enough when nine of us had totalled 24. 1887. Played, August 8 and g, FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. sec F. E. Speed, c A. Hearne, b Wright L. W. Cattley, c F. M. Atkins, b Wright . Major J. Spens, c Hickmott, b Hearne Rev. V. Boyle, c F. M, Atkins, b Wright . Rev. H. E. Thursby, b Bligh . Major L. T. Spens, not out Capt. Von Donop, c Hickmott, b M 'Alpine A. T. B. Dunn, 1 b w, b M 'Alpine . H. J. Burrell, b Wright .... W. Loring, b Wright .... Extras Total RE. 2D INNINGS o b Wright . IB b Hearne . 46 St Hickmott, b F b Wright . 22 112 not out . 24 not out . I c and b Hearne I 17 b Hearne . II Extras . Hearne Total 87 17 14 I 14 180 MOTE 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. J. L. Hardy, b Burrell . . 10 F. M. Atkins, c Thursby, b Burrell 76 A. W. Fulcher, st Speed, b Burrell 34 E. Hickmott, st Speed, b Burrell 20 A. Hearne, c Royal, b Burrell . 11 W. Wright, not out . . . 237 Capt. W. B. Roberts, b Burrell . 5 L. E. Bligh, b Spens ... 37 PARK. 1ST INNINGS, SCORE. Capt. Evans, c Loring, b Von Donop 8 Rev. J. B. Burra, c Thursby, b Spens 47 M 'Alpine, c Spens, b Thursby . 4 Extras 42 Total . 531 1888. Played, August 13 and 14. MOTE PARK. 1ST INNINGS. F. M. Atkins, b Robertson C. Lake, b Collins A. W. Fulcher, b Collins , Hickmott, b Thornton H. Mann, b Robertson Capt. Daniel], c J. Spens, b Thornton Hon. V. Parnell, c and b Robertson Wright, run out L. E. Bligh, b Hadow Rev. T. F. Burra, b Hadow J. S. Hardy, not out . byes 12, leg-byes 5 . SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. b Hadow . 14 . 15 b Collins . I . 4 c and b Bovill . 21 . . 14 b Thornton 15 . 9 c Vernon, b Bovill . 2 ornton 3 b Bovill . rtson . I b Bovill . 6 not out . . . 48 I c and b Bovill . 8 c Thornton, b Ricketts 3 c Vernon, b Bovill . I 17 byes 16 Total 81 Total 118 74 OTHER MATCHES IN KENT FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Hon. F. Thesiger, c Hickmott b A. M. Inglis, b Wright 8 Atkins .... . 8 Major L. Spens, c Parnell, b Bligh 30 G. W. Ricketts, b Wright . 4 W. E. W. Collins, b Wright 7 Major J. Spens, b Bligh 76 J. Robertson, not out . 17 E. M. Hadow, b Wright . W. D. Bovill, b Bligh . G. F. Vernon, c Hickmott, b byes 5, leg-byes 5 . 10 Bligh .... . 45 A. J. Thornton, run out . 14 Total . 219 1889. Played, August 26 and 27. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SC A. J. Thornton, c Vaughton, b Le Fleming E. Matheson, 1 b w, b Lake J. A. Turner, c Hickmott, b Le Fleming Major J. Spens, b M 'Alpine J. H. Hornsby, c Hickmott, b M 'Alpine Major L. Spens, c Hickmott, b Le Fleming A. M. Inglis, c M 'Alpine, b Atkins . W. D. Bovill, c and b M 'Alpine W. E. W. Collins, c Vaughton, b Lake Capt. W. D. Jones, not out H. Beeching, b Atkins bye I , leg-byes 3 . . . . IE. 2D INNINGS. 22 b Lake o not out 24 st Hickmott, b Lake 13 b Atkins . 6 c Le Fleming, b Atkins 10 b Lake 62 c Evans, b Lake 9 c Hickmott, b Knight 49 St Hickmott, b Lake 3 St Hickmott, b Lake 2 b Knight . 4 SCORE. 39 56 5 4 8 Total 204 Total 164 MOTE PARK. C. Lake, c and b Turner . F. M. Atkins, c Turner, b Collins H. Vaughton, c Matheson, b Thornton J. Le Fleming, b'CoUins . E. Hickmott, b Hornsby . A. W. Fulcher, c and b Thornton R. Marchant, c Bovill,, b Hornsby Capt. C. W. Evans, not out G. Knight, c and b Thornton . H. M'Alpine, c Turner, b Collins Capt. O. Daniell, b Turner byes 7, leg-byes 2 . . . . Total 3 c and b Collins IX c and b Collins 49 b Collins . 1 c and b Thornton 30 c J. Spens, b Collins 6 not out I b Turner . 20 c Bovill, b Collins 3 c Hornsby, b Turner 29 c and b Turner o b Turner . 9 byes 2, leg -byes 4, wide I, no ball I 162 Total MOTE PARK. 275 1890. Played, August 11 and 12. MOTE PARK. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Wright, c Prentis, b Homsby . F. Solbee, run out .... E. Hickmott, b Homsby . F. M. Atkins, b Homsby . A. H. Harrison, st J. Spens, b Thornton K. M 'Alpine, b Homsby . A. W. Fulcher, b Homsby A. M'Kinlay, b Hornsby . H. Foster, b Thornton G. M. Styles, c L. Spens, b Thornton W. Stratton, not out .... byes 4, leg-byes 2 . . . . E. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 7 not out . . . .84 I c and b Thornton . 4 8 c Ricketts, b Hornsby 17 18 b Hornsby 76 I b Hornsby 5 5 c Ricketts, b Braybrook 27 10 c and b Hornsby 24 2 did not bat. 8 did not bat. 9 c and b Hornsby . . 12 b Hornsby . . . 6 byes 2, leg-byes 3, wides 2, no balls 7 . 14 Total 75 Total 263 FREE FORESTERS. A. J. Thornton, run out . H. M. Braybrook, c and b Atkins J. A. Turner, b Wright G. W. Ricketts, b M 'Alpine Major J. Spens, b Wright . G. F. Vernon, run out J. H. J. Hornsby, b Wright W. E. W. Collins, c and b Wright Major L. T. Spens, not out A.J. Prentis, b M 'Alpine . G. F. Bennett, absent c Mackinlay, b Wright I not out 6 Fulcher, b Foster . 18 1 b w, b Wright c and b Wright 6 M 'Alpine, b Wright 4 c Style, b Wright . 9 c M 'Alpine, b Wright 18 St Hickmott, b Wright 3 b Foster . c Atkins, b Foster . byes 5, leg-byes 4, wide Total 65 2 9 49 I 46 29 4 4 o 2 o 10 Total . 156 1 89 1. Played, August 10 and 11. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. J. A. Turner, st Hickmott, b Champion R. T. Atthill, run out ... Major J. Spells, not out Capt. F. Curteis, 1 b w, b Burra A. J. Thornton, b Champion W. E. W. Collins, c Page, b Champion Major Hardy, b Champion Major L. T. Spens, c Best, b Champion E. L. Metcalfe, 1 b w, b Page . SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 50 b Le Fleming ... 68 t6 c and b Le Fleming . . 8 34 c M 'Alpine, b Champion . o 1 b Champion . . . x 4 c Thornton, b Best . . 3 2 b Best . . . . o 6 b Le Fleming ... 5 2 c M 'Alpine, b Best . . 28 o b Best .... 7 276 OTHER MATCHES IN KENT 1ST INNINGS. G. Campbell, b Champion S. Hardy, absent bye SCORE. Total 117 2D INNINGS. SCORE. not out b Best leg-bye . I Total MOTE PARK. F. G. Stenning, b Collins . C. Lake, c Turner, b Collins Rev. R. T. Thornton, b Turner W. W. Best, b Turner J. Le Fleming, b Thornton A. S. Page, b Collins G. Champion, c Campbell, b Turner E. Hickmott, b Thornton . H. Prentis, b Turner . Rev. T. Burra, c J. Spens, b Turner K. M 'Alpine, not out byes 4, leg-byes 9, vvides i Total 7 c and b Collins . 29 lb vv, b Collins o b CoUins . o c Atthill, b Turner 29 b Collins . c Atthill, b Turner 19 b Turner . 4 b Turner . 1 b Turner . 1 not out 2 c Thornton, b Turner 14 byes 10, leg-byes 2 106 Total I 21 3 3 o o 2 o 4 o 2 12 48 1892. Played, August 8 a7id 9. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCO] G. W. Ricketts, c Solbee, b Prentis . Major J. Spens, c M'Alpine, b Prentis J. N. Tonge, b Wright .... Capt. E. G; Wynyard, c M'Alpine, b Wright E. A. Maynard, b Wright Capt. F. Curteis, not out .... Major L. Spens, b Prentis H. W. Brougham, 1 b \v, b Prentis . Colonel Fellowes, b Wright W. E, W. Collins, c Atkins, b Wright . E. A. Talbot, b Prentis .... Extras Total E. 2D INNINGS. 12 run out 24 c Mann, b Prentis 6 c and b Wright II b Evans . 4 c Login, b Prentis II c and b Wright not out b Wright . b Wright . 26 b Evans . c sub., b Prentis 5 Extras . 99 Total 21 o 1 8 27 6 o 7 12 8 9 20 6 134 MOTE PARK. F. M. Atkins, c Curteis, b Ricketts . E. Hickmott, b Collins F. L. Solbee, c Brougham, b Wynyard W. Wright, c Brougham, b Fellowes F. G. Stenning, not out K. M'Alpine, c Wynyard, b Fellowes • 37 1 b w, b Collins 32 b Tonge . 5 • 30 b Tonge . 42 . 16 c Collins, b Fellowes 51 21 c Ricketts, b Wynyard 15 c Fellowes, b Tonge BOXLEY. 277 1ST INNINGS. H. Prentis, c Tonge, b Collins . Capt. Login, b Fellovves . Capt. JNIann, b Fellowes . G. M. Style, c Ricketts, b Fellowes E. G. Evans, b Fellowes . Extras Total ?E. 2D INNINGS. 5 c Tonge, b Wynyard o b Fellowes 6 b Collins . 3 b Collins . 6 not out II Extras . [35 Total 4 14 7 12 9 13 204 1893. Played, August 14 arid 15. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. G. W. Ricketts, not out . 63 b Whitby . . 18 Capt. Adair, b Wright 4 b Champion • 59 A. G. Asher, b Knight 18 b Wright . 6 Major Curteis, b Wright . 7 b Knight . . 24 H. PhiUpson, b Wright . 2 c Stenning, b Chamj )ion . 18 W. D. Bovill, st Atkins, b Wright . c M 'Alpine, b Whitt jy • 4 Major L. Spens, b Knight not out . 28 W. E. W. Collins, St Atkins, b Knight 20 c Atkins, b Whitby 4 A. E. Leatham, b Knight . 18 c Hickmott, b Cham pion . Capt. Butler, b Wright 3 b Whitby . 6 A. N. Other, st Atkins, b Wright . 3 st Atkins, b Whitby Extras 6 Extras . 12 Total 144 Tota 1 . 179 MOTE ] PARK. F. M. Atkins, c Philipson, b Collins . 9 c Asher, b Collins • 74 Wright, c Philipson, b Collins . 4 c Philipson, b ColHn s . 42 G. Champion, b Ricketts . 39 b Adair • 37 Hickmott, b Bovill .... 15 c Adair, b Butler . 40 Rev. E. L. Colebrooke, c Phihpson, b Ashe r 29 1 b w, b Ricketts 2 F. Stenning, b Collins .... 1 b w, b Ricketts • 41 J. S. Hardy, c Philipson, b Collins . 5 not out K. M 'Alpine, c Philipson, b ColUns . 5 c Asher, b Collins 2 H. 0. Whitby, not out . 12 c Bovill, b Collins G. Knight, b Collins .... I c Spens, b Collins . 26 E. Cruttenden, b Collins .... II c Butler, b Ricketts 3 Extras 20 Extras . • 30 Total 150 Tota I . 297 ///. — Boxley. For two or three years past there have been Forester matches played at Boxley, where Mr Style has got to- gether a strong side to oppose us ; and if once at least we 278 OTHER MATCHES IN KENT. have lost our match there, we have had the pleasure of knowing that a good many of our opponents are entitled to wear Free Forester colours, so that we have only been hoisted on petards of our own production. In the one match I played for the Club v. Boxley, Herbert Thursby hit tremendously hard for lOO on our side, and Frank Gresson got lOO for Boxley, his innings being terminated by a most extraordinary catch made by L- Spens, who caught a sharp drive straight at his nose exactly as if he was brushing a fly off that appendage. As we grow callous with age we may forget our occa- sional defeats, even though at the moment they may rankle — as a beating at any game should, if the game is worth playing at all, rankle — in our minds ; but we shall not so lightly forget the many pleasant days spent in the hop-country, and the kindly welcome and warm hospitality we have received in many houses in the Maidstone district. Why there should be such an abominable service of trains to one of the most attractive parts of England will ever remain a mystery to my mind, unless the directors of the various lines have so thoroughly gauged the hospitable in- clinations of the men of Kent as to think it advisable to put some barrier in the way of too great an influx of visitors. 1890. Played at Boxley House, July 15 and 16. G. M. STYLE'S XI. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. H. Tubb, b A. J. Thornton . . . i W. D. Llewelyn, b W. C. Hedley . . 28 Hon. F. J. N. Thesiger, b W. C. Hedley . 2 F. M. Atkins, b V^. C. Hedley ... 9 Hon. M. ToUemache, b W. C. Hedley . o Hon. R. G. Verney, b A. J. Thornton . o F. E. Johnson, b W. C. Hedley . . o C. D. Llewelyn, run out .... 4 G. M. Style, c Smith, b W. C. Hedley . 22 2D INNINGS, SCORE. b W. C. Hedley run out b A. J. Thornton . 1 b w, b A. J. Thornton not out . b W. C. Hedley b A. J. Thornton . b W. C. Hedley c G. F. Vernon, b A. J Thornton BOXLEY. 279 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. H. Foster, c Vernon, b Hedley . lO run out 4 W. Hickmott, not out I run out . 23 byes 4 bye . . I Total 81 Total ^58 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SC A. M. Streatfeild-Moore, c Tolle- mache, b Thesiger . A. W. Fulcher, c E. Hickmott, b W. Llewelyn .... Rev. R. T. Thornton, b F. E. Johnson ..... G. F. Vernon, c H. Forster, b Tollemache .... W. C. Hedley, b F. E. John- son ...... In the second innings the Rev. (c Hickmott, b Atkins) i, Rev. H. )RE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. A. J. Thornton, c G. M. Style, b 6 Tubb 41 Major L. T. Spens, b F. E. Johnson 28 37 K. M 'Alpine, b F. M. Atkins , 6 S. H. Walrond, not out . . 15 o S. Smith, run out . . . o Rev. H. W. Trower, b Tubb . 4 40 byes 15, leg-bye i . . .16 25 Total . .218 R. T. Thornton (not out) scored 11, S. Smith W. Trower (not out) 6 ; extras 8, — total 23. C891. Played, July 17 and 18. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. H, T. Hewitt, c Thesiger, bGres- son 86 A. J. Thornton, c H. Tubb, b Gresson 64 Rev. H. E. Thursby, c Llewelyn, b Gresson ..... 96 N. E. G. Stainton, b Gresson . 8 Major L. T. Spens, b Gibbs . 11 S. H. Walrond, c Llewelyn, b Gresson 2 1ST INNINGS. S( W. E. W. Collins, c G. M. Style, b Gibbs .... K. M 'Alpine, 1 b w, b Gresson L. M. Richards, c G. M. Style, Gresson .... C. E. S. Mason, not out H. S. F. Hole, c Thesiger, b Tubb byes 8, leg-byes 3, no-balls, 2 Total I 24 3 10 10 13 328 BOXLEY HOUSE. F. M. Atkins, c sub., b Collins . 11 W. D. Llewelyn, c Spens, b Collins 20 H. Tubb, run out ... 2 Hon. F. J. N. Thesiger, c Rich- ards, b Hewett .... 69 F. H. Gresson, c Spens, b Hewett 95 C. E. Cobb, c Thursby, b Collins 16 H. Philipson, b Collins . . 6 Capt. Wyld, c M 'Alpine, b Collins 12 E. L. Metcalfe, c Thornton, b M 'Alpine 17 J. A. Gibbs, retired hurt . . 5 Hon. H. Milles, absent . . o G. M. Style, not out . . . 4 byes 14, leg-byes 4 . . .18 Total . 275 28o OTHER MATCHES IN KENT. IV.— R,A. Matches. Alas ! that my account of the matches against the R.A. at Woolwich must of necessity be meagre, and alas ! for the reason, which is, that on only two occasions I have been able to play there for the Foresters. Once we won hand- somely, when Freddy Thesiger, who had played the teeto- taller with signal want of cricket success on the four previ- ous days, was on the eve of the Woolwich match driven by desperation to mixing port wine and champagne, and was so much invigorated by the unwonted excess that he made lOO in fine style ; when Albert Thornton was so much conscience-stricken at the unconscionable time that it took him to scrape up 60 that he was only too ready to retire on being caught first-bound, much to the bewilderment of some of the fieldsmen and the manifest disconcertment of the umpire ; when most of us scored freely, and Alfred Inglis kindly did all the fielding for our side. Time may have tempered to some degree that ready enthusiasm ; but a few years ago, when Inglis was playing on my side, I found it expedient to yell out " Inglis " whenever a ball was hit at all high in the air, by way of saving from utter destruction any other rash or unwary fieldsman who might feel inclined or possibly entitled to go for the catch. He was the most zealous and untiring fieldsman I ever saw, the sort of man who, if standing or fretting at deep square-leg, might be re- lied upon to back up cover-point on an emergency. Who that has experienced it will ever forget the sound, as of a mighty rushing steam-engine behind him, as he went to fetch a fourer when Inglis was on the war-path ! His activity in very sooth covered not only much ground, but a multitude of other people's sins. In the other match I played at Woolwich things did not go quite so well. In the first place, we went down short, and had to hunt high and low for substitutes ; then again not a ball was bowled on the first day owing to persistent I R.A. MATCHES. 281 rain, and on the second day the ground was very sloppy and the weather cold. Finally, ours was not a good side, and we got distinctly the worst of the inevitable draw. A rather curious incident occurred towards the close of the R.A. innings. Curteis was batting, and had made a lot of runs, but he knew all along that at 5.30 he would have to retire. A wicket happened to fall to the last ball but one of an over, and as his time was all but up, Curteis, had he been a wise man, would have retired then ; but, fortunately for the look of the score-sheet, and unfortunately for the new-comer, the greedy gunner elected to stay and receive that one ball. He hit out wildly, made a miss-hit, and dropped into the hands of one of our substitutes at mid-on such a dolly catch that he burst out laughing, and ran off towards the pavilion. But that substitute being, unhke Curteis, a man of ready wit, commenced to play a species of pat-ball with the catch, and finally fumbled it right on to the wicket of the other batsman, who was standing out of his ground watching the performance, feeling probably, as most of us did, that it was really beyond the power of mortal man to drop the catch. " Plauserunt omnes : batsmanius exit uterque." I was more sorry for that batsman, who, as it happened, had come from afar especially for that match, than I ever felt even for Mrs Leo Hunter's expiring frog. In 1893 A. J. Thornton with his lobs captured four wickets in one over, performing the hat trick. But I gather that, taken as a whole, the matches at Woolwich have not been entirely satisfactory, and the fault has most certainly not been on the side of the Gunners, who play good cricket themselves, and in many seasons have been, on their own ground at any rate, a difficult side to beat. Perhaps the time of year at which the match has been played has had something to do with the comparative apathy shown about what ought to be one of our best matches. A Whitsuntide 282 OTHER MATCHES IN KENT. which falls in the middle of May is apt to tempt men who are in business and get few holidays in the early summer, to find their pastime elsewhere than in the cricket-field, and they naturally choose a game which is not so com- pletely made or marred by weather. If May has the re- putation of being a sunny month, the forecast for that particular section of May in which our calendar ordains that Whitsuntide should fall would in most years run "cold and damp," and nothing so entirely spoils the pleasure of cricket as cold and damp weather. But as the British public demand that a certain amount of cricket should be played for their edification, such F. F. as are county players have a prior attachment ; and a good many sober-minded members of the Club, who might possibly play in the absence of any counter - attraction, prefer to watch the matches at Lord's and the Oval, and see other people shiver instead of shivering themselves. Finally, to men of my own profession, from whom the ranks of the Foresters are largely recruited in August, a Whitsuntide holiday is a myth or an anachronism. Hence it has come to pass that weak and at times short sides have gone to Woolwich, and that when weather has permitted the match to be finished at all, the Foresters have lost. 1885. Played, May 25 and 26. ROYAL ARTILLERY. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Capt. Davidson, cThursby.bBovill o Capt. Hardy, b Robertson . . i Major Anstruther, b Bovill . . o G. V. Kemball, c Metcalfe, b C. D. King, b Tlaursby . . 59 Robertson .... 7 Capt. Wheble, c Booth, b Robert- H. E. W. de Robeck, c Capron, b son 17 Robertson .... 48 Major Duthy, c and b Coxhead . 17 Capt. Murchison, not out . . 10 P. H. M. Dorehill, b Robertson . 59 Extras 18 C. R. Buckle, c Macpherson, b Robertson . . . , o Total . 236 In the second innings Capt. Davidson (not out) scored 20, Major Anstruther (not out) 32 ; extras 6, — total 58. R.A. MATCHES. 283 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. C. Booth, c Dorehill, b Anstruther Capt. Metcalfe, c Dorehill, b Anstruther F. W. Capron, b Anstruther J. Robertson, run out . A. C. Macpherson, c Anstruther, b Kemball W. D. Bovill, b Wheble . 35 28 2 38 14 10 F. C. Coxhead, b Wheble . . 5 H. Thursby, b Wheble . . 9 F. Vans-Agnew, b Anstruther . 11 Capt. Boteler, c Murchison, b Wheble o Capt. Baker, not out . . . i Extras 11 Total . 164 [886. Played, June 14 and 15. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. 1ST INNINGS. E. F. S. Tylecote, 1 b w, b Dorehill 42 M. Wilde, c Usborne, b AUsopp , J. S. Russell, c Redfern, bAUsopp 11 Major Spens, c King, b Redfern . 42 J. Robertson, c Allsopp, b Dore- hill 13 G. F. Vernon, c Dorehill, b King 58 F. W. Capron, c Slee, b Cooper- Key 49 R. H. Fowler, b King ... 18 F. E. Speed, not out ... 21 F. H. Mellor, c Allsopp, b Dorehill 23 Major Ravenhill, b Dorehill . 3 G. H. Goldney, c Dorehill, c Stockdale o Extras . . . . -23 Total . 308 ROYAL ARTILLERY. 1ST INNINGS. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. P. H. Slee, c Wilde, b Robertson . . 14 P. H. M. Dorehill, c and b Vernon . . 3 Hon. F. E. Allsopp, run out ... 18 Capt. Bannatine-Allason, not out . . 63 H. E. Stockdale, b Vernon . . . o A. M'N. C. Cooper-Key, c and b Robertson 9 C. D. King, St Tylecote, b Robertson . 2 G. D. Symonds, c Tylecote, b Robertson . 3 Capt. Fegen, 1 b w, b Robertson . . 9 Capt. Phipps-Homby, b Robertson . . 2 T. M. Usborne, c Ravenhill, b Robertson o Sergt. Redfern, c Wilde, b Robertson . 5 Extras 10 c Robertson, b Vernon c Tylecote, b Spens c Tylecote, b Vernon c Tylecote, b Robertson c Ravenhill, b Spens c Wilde, b Spens b Robertson c Tylecote, b Capron c Tylecote, b Spens . not out c Tylecote, b Goldney c Vernon, b Robertson Extras . I 33 5 15 4 o 3 13 I 18 19 16 Total 138 Total 138 :84 OTHER MATCHES IN KENT. 1887. Played, May 30 a7id 31. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. J. R. Hine-Haycock, b Pratt E. H. Buckland, b Dorehill J. E. N. Greatorex, b Pratt W. D. Bovill, c Dorehill, b King E. F. S. Tylecote, c Barton, b Curteis M. Wilde, b King . G. H. Goldney, c Dorehill, b King S. J. Wilson, not out C. A. S. Leggatt, 1 b w, b King F. S. Cornwallis, c Pratt, b King L. M. Richards, b Curteis Extras Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. b Dorehill 6 b Curteis . 21 6 c Gordon, b King . 19 20 c Douglas, b Pratt . 16 is 2 1 b w, b Pratt . 8 8 b Dorehill 5 8 not out 7 13 b Pratt . 21 4 c Dorehill, b Pratt . I 2 c Gordon, b King . 13 I b Dorehill I 4 Extras . II 74 Total 123 ROYAL ARTILLERY. 1ST INNINGS. 1ST INNINGS. b Leg- J. Haggard, c Greatorex, gatt Bombr. Barton, c Goldney, b Leggatt P. H. M. Dorehill, st Tylecote, b Buckland A. P. Douglas, b Buckland . Major Stephenson, c Wilde, b Leggatt C. D. King, b Leggatt . . i Capt. Curteis, c Wilson, b Bovill 43 Capt. Fegen, c and b Bovill . . 18 Capt. Wheble, not out . . 14 Capt. Pratt, c Goldney, b Bovill . 4 Capt. Gordon, b Buckland . . 11 Extras 5 Total . 144 In the second innings Haggard (b Goldney) scored 24, Barton (b Leggatt) 2, Dorehill (not out) 20, Douglas (not out) 2 ; extras 6, — total 54. 1888. Played, August 17 and li FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. Hon. F. Thesiger, b King A. J. Thornton, c King, b Barton G. W. Ricketts, b Barton . Major J. Spens, b King G. F. Vernon, c Adair, b King W. E. W. Collins, b Adair . Major Spens, c King, b Adair SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. . 102 A. M. Inglis, c King, b Barton 25 n 64 W. D. Bovill, b Adair . I • 14 C. Hickley, b Barton . 4 9 Capt. Cockburn, not out s 6 Extras .... 4 40 . 14 Total 288 R.A. MATCHES. 285 ROYAL ARTILLERY. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Major Anstruther, c Vernon, b Thornton 21 H. R. Adair, c Ricketts, b Hickley . . 38 Bombr. Barton, run out . . . .11 Qr.-Mr. Sergt. Hunter, b Ricketts , . 11 C. D. King, b Ricketts .... 5 J. Haggard, c Vernon, b Ricketts . . i Capt. Wheble, b Bovill .... 28 J. J. MacMahon, c and b Ricketts . . i Hon. W. D. Sclater-Booth, not out . . 16 Capt. Pratt, b Thornton .... 3 H. L. Powell, c Vernon, b Bovill . . 11 Extras 11 Total . 157 2D INNINGS. SCORE. b Bovill .... 3 c Vernon, b Hickley . 17 b Ricketts . . . o not out .... 14 b Collins .... 36 b Collins . . . . o c Ricketts, b Collins . 36 c Spens, b Thornton . 13 c Bovill, b Hickley . . 6 c J. Spens, b Thornton . o b Bovill .... 6 Extras .... 5 Total . 136 1889. Played, June 10 and 11. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. F. E. Lacy, c Flower, b Adair . 14 C. A. S. Leggatt, b Adair . . 12 L. Sanderson, c Adair, b Curteis 27 D. H. Barry, c Campbell, b Barton i E. A. J. Maynard, b Barton . o H. M. Stutfield, b Adair . . o L. M. Richards, b Barton . . 2 1ST INNINGS. F. J. Richardson, c and b Barton A. Fulcher, b Adair P. J. T. Henery, not out H. T. Hewett, b Barton Extras .... Total SCORE. S6 7 22 3 152 ROYAL ARTILLERY. J. Haggard, c Sanderson, b Henery 18 H. R. Adair, c and b Lacey . 22 Bombr. Barton, c Leggatt, b Henery 28 Capt. Curteis, not out ... 68 C. H. de Rougemont, run out . 7 A. C. Currie, b Hewett . . 2 Capt. Abdy, b Leggatt P. H. Flower, b Leggatt J. Bellhouse, b Henery H. M. Campbell, run out . H. E. Stanton, c and b Leggatt Extras .... Total [65 No play possible on loth — raining all day. 1890. Played, May 26 and 27. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. J. S. Russell, b Dorehill . F. H. Mellor, b Barton W. D. Bovill, st Hutchinson, b Currie L. Sanderson, b Barton CORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. . 46 c Cochrane, b Dorehill . 26 • 23 run out . 2 b Cochrane 2 II b Dorehill 6 286 OTHER MATCHES IN KENT. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. J. Robertson, c Curteis, b Benson . . 36 F. H. Gates, retired hurt ... C. A. S. Leggatt, c Du Cane, b Benson . 16 L. M. Richards, run out .... 6 H. E. Stutfield, c Douglas, b Cochrane . 7 C. E. Farmer, b Cochrane . . . i Major Rice, not out .... Extras Total 2D INNINGS. SCORE. c Dorehill, b Cochrane . i (E. M. Lachlan, sub.) b Dorehill b Dorehill absent, hurt, not out run out c Douglas, b Cochrane Extras . 163 Total ROYAL ARTILLERY. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. A. P. Douglas, c Farmer, b Rob- Capt. Dorehill, not out . . 79 ertson 6 Sergt. Cochrane, b Rice . . o J. P. Du Cane, c Robertson, b Capt. Phipps-Hornby, c Robert- Bovill o son, b Sanderson ... 14 Bombr. Barton, c Farmer, b Rob- H. D. White-Thomson, c Rice, b ertson 7 Robertson .... 25 Capt. Curteis, c Stutfield, b Rob- R. P. Benson, c Leggatt, b Bovill 64 ertson 29 Extras 25 C. H. Hutchinson, b Rice . . 22 A. C. Currie, b Robertson . . 4 Total . 275 1891. Played, May 19. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. G. W. Hillyard, c De Rougemont, b Benson 3 H. M. Stutfield, c De Rougemont, b Currie 49 Capt. Cowper-Coles, c Hornby, b Barton 11 H. W. Dickson, c Benson, b Currie 54 J. S. Russell, c and b Barton . 32 Capt. Vizard, c and b Currie . o 1ST INNINGS. G. Ray, run out . Capt. Colvin, b Barton Capt. Hon. C. Lambton, c Bar ton, b Currie Capt. Heyman, c and b Currie W. E. W. Collins, not out . Extras .... Total 163 ROYAL ARTILLERY. J. P. Du Cane, b Collins . Corporal Barton, c Lambton, b Cowper-Coles . A. C. Currie, c Ray, b Hillyard C. H. De Rougemont, 1 b w, t Hillyard .... Major Davidson, c Ray, b Cowper Coles .... Capt. Dorehill, run out Capt. Curteis, retired . . • 4 Capt. Phipps-Hornby, b Cowper- 13 o 61 Coles Sergt. Cochrane, c Dickson, b Cowper-Coles .... 30 R. P. Benson, not out ... 15 Bombr. Bailey, c Stutfield, b Hill- yard 9 Extras 17 Total 192 R.A. MATCHES. 287 1892. Played, June 6. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. W. D. Bovill, b Butler J. S. Russell, c Cochrane, b Butler D. R. Napier, c Du Cane, b Osmond Capt. Rice, b Osmond Major Spens, run out L. Sanderson, 1 b w, b Osmond C. E. Murdoch, c Butler, b Osmond H. Bull, run out R. E. Latham, b Osmond . C. E. Farmer, c Osmond, b Butler Capt. Elliot, not out . E. Butler, st Campbell, b Butler Extras Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS. 16 c Campbell, b Cochrane o b Findlay . 22 c Findlay, b Cochrane o c Campbell, b Cochrane 2 b Findlay . 1 b w, b Osmond 3 b Osmond 1 not out 3 c Elton, b Osmond 4 c Osmond, b Butler o c Findlay, b Osmond 2 St Campbell, b Osmond 13 Extras . 66 Total SCORE. 36 27 24 o 2 42 o 23 o 17 8 6 19 204 ROYAL ARTILLERY. tST INNINGS. SCORE, J. P. Du Cane, c Russell, b Mur doch E. R. J. Peel, c Farmer, b Sander son Capt. F. A. Curteis, b Rice . Capt. Wynne, b Sanderson . A. E. J. Perkins, c Murdoch, Sanderson Bombr. Osmond, c and b Bovill Sergt. Cochrane, b Murdoch 106 45 18 16 73 5 2 1ST INNINGS. Capt. Dale, c Murdoch, b Sander- son Capt. Campbell, st Farmer, b Sanderson F. A. G. Y. Elton, b Butler Bombr. Butler, not out Trumpeter Findlay, absent Extras Total 14 3 I o o 16 299 1893. Played, June 7 and 8. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. J. S. Russell, c Curteis, b Elton G. F. Vernon, b Dorehill . Major Friend, c and b Elton Major Hardy, b Elton J. A. Gibbs, c Crampton, b Elton A. J. Thornton, c and b Dorehill Capt. Banbury, b Dorehill Capt. Willes, st Usborne, b Elton H. E. Chapman, b Elton . Major North, not out Capt. Bunbury, b Elton Extras Total .E. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 27 b Dorehill 4 58 b Crampton 43 7 c Usborne, b Elton . 27 16 b Elton . 4 c and b Dorehill 2 I not out 18 b Elton . 7 37 1 b w, b Elton . I 4 b Crampton 14 b Crampton 2 7 absent II Extras . . 5 182 Total 113 288 OTHER MATCHES IN KENT. ROYAL ARTILLERY. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Capt. Du Cane, b Gibbs .... 68 C. C. Van-Straubenzee, c Vernon, b Thornton i8 Capt. Dorehill, 1 b w, b Thornton . . 9 Major Curteis, 1 b w, b Thornton . . 7 E. J. R. Peel, not out .... 17 T. M. Usborne, b Thornton . . .19 A. E. J. Perkins, b Thornton . . . o Capt. Abdy, b Thornton . . . . o Capt. Crampton, b Friend ... 19 F. A. G. Y. Elton, b Gibbs ... 2 E. G. Waymouth, b Thornton . . . i Extras 4 Total . 164 2D INNINGS. c North, b Friend not out hit wicket, b Gibbs b Thornton b Friend . not out Extras Total 132 Major Bannatine-AUason. M, F. Maclean. G. F. Vernon. Major Curteis. C. Booth. E. Rutter. H. E. Cobb. Major Hardy. Lieut. R. J. M. Locke. Lieut. Moorhouse. C. Leveson-Gower. Lieut.-Col. Bingham. Goodyear. Colonel Richardson. Lieut. Hine Haycock. Lieut. L. M. Wilson. Lieut. Tomkins. Lieut. Cayley. Lieut. Craig. Lieut. Waymouth. N. Morrice. H. M. Burge. Lieut. Van Straubenzee. Shoehwyness, 1893. g ^ B 5 x ITl ii ^ H ^ c iz; •? S o >^ Mad lards l^s o x§-3 U o t;. ^ >« iH-H i -^ e< .X 3 ?^, •^ fe^ a. ^ o o H c pL, •" — 5 o O 3 -C h-I ^•►^ 1^ o . ;^ ,; o o P^ _: 3 ffi S d o Ij ^ > ti K '^ 3 m "OS 1 W H 5«^ w 3 P< -3 u S o "j3a IXH ,& H I m ^ o w w WW Upton House. CHAPTER XXXIV. MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. A ROVING club in very truth is this of ours, and it is a matter of considerable difficulty to follow its peregrinations. A series of matches is inaugurated in one district, and then something happens to break the chain, and the Foresters for a time disappear, only to reappear on some future occa- sion under new auspices. For some i^^ years we had a merry one-day encounter with C. J. Hegan's XI on his pretty ground near Watford. I had the good fortune to play in this match in three con- secutive seasons, and on the last two occasions got up the F. F. XL Each of these matches had its own peculiar features, but in one respect all were very much alike, there having generally been almost as many Foresters playing against as for the Club. In the first year we were soundly thrashed, a result mainly, so far as I remember, due to the excessive good- T 290 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. nature of our captain, who, by way of what he, or it may have been Hegan, called " equalising the sides," gave over to the opposition sundry men who had been originally enlisted in our service. It was in this match that A. E. Leatham, then a great buyer of tups, signally distin- guished himself by fielding long-leg to his own bowling, and running out a man who was attempting a fifth or sixth run from a hit into a neighbouring plantation. " I don't want a long - leg," remarked Leatham with cheery confidence as he took the ball ; and when he com- menced with a wide on the off, it really looked as if he was in his rights. But in the second over came a gruesome half-volley to leg, which was hit fair and square in the middle of the bat. Mid-on made a merit of necessity, and began to move in the direction of the vanishing ball, but, much to his relief, off galloped Leatham capless and — he will forgive the remark — hairless, and shortly proved that he not only runs rather faster than he bowls, but is also a long and a straight thrower, for he ran one of the batsmen out from a prodigious distance. Nor was that wicket his only stroke of good luck, for presently Green- field hit him magnificently on the on-side into the top of a high tree a very long way off, without any run being scored for the hit. Every one except the umpire thought that the tree was a boundary, and the umpire kept his own counsel till the ball was returned. " How many was that 1 " inquired the batsman, as he prepared to receive the next ball, and he spoke with the air of a man who has just done a big thing. " Run it out," was the chilling response. In the next two years, when I got up the Forester side, I am afraid that Hegan did not find me so willing to part as my predecessor had been. We both had strong sides, and the Foresters just got home on each occasion. The first of these two matches was not productive of large ASH-SOWN WICKETS. 291 scores, as after playing for about an hour we began to imagine that Hegan must have been holding high festivities and roasting oxen whole upon the pitch during the winter months. It was what a Scotsman would have called a " saft " day, and we did not commence play much before one o'clock. The wicket was very slow and easy at first, but as the ground cut up, cinders of all sorts and sizes cropped up in unexpected places, and things did not im- prove as the day went on. It turned out that some wiseacre had informed Hegan that ashes improved the turf, and the ashes had been put on with no niggard hand. As a means of ensuring that every player should have at least one innings in a short one-day match, I can con- fidently recommend the ash theory. Neither batsman nor bowler had the slightest conception what any given ball was going to do : it was quite an open question whether it would shoot dead, go over the wicket-keeper's head, or twist a yard either way. Albert Thornton distinguished himself by making a barefaced attempt to put an end to our host's existence. He began by scraping away with praiseworthy patience at the mud, ashes, and ball, until he had induced Hegan to stand in rather close at mid-off. He then suddenly ran out into the middle of the pitch, and made a real fine drive straight at Hegan's heart. Much to his credit, and perhaps a little to his surprise, Hegan, who received a nasty knock, clutched the ball as it rebounded from his body, and A. J. had to go. And then was to be seen the unusual spectacle of a batsman profusely apolo- gising to the man who had caught him in the act of trans- gressing every rule of the game of batting as commonly practised by A. J. Thornton. In my third year both sides were again well represented. Seldom, I think, has a stronger all-round XI played for the Foresters. Bowling was our weakest point, and in this department of the game Hegan's XI had the pull of 292 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. us, as he had got hold of six fairly useful trundlers in the persons of H. G. Tylecote, C. Pigg, W. N. Roe, D. H. Jephson, G. W. Hillyard, and T. Bigge, who in that par- ticular season did good service for the Engineers. In the end — a rather bitter end for Hegan — we won a really sporting match ; but owing to some carelessness in the scoring, our opponents had fair ground for not being entirely satisfied with their defeat. For us Arthur Heath played a fine innings, and both Hewitt and Charlie Cobb treated the spectators to some tall hitting : altogether we piled up about 280, — quite enough runs, as we thought, for a one-day match. It had been arranged that we should play till 6.30, and that, if there was any likelihood of finishing, the match should go on for an extra quarter of an hour. At 6.30 there was just an off-chance of a definite conclusion, Hegan's side having three wickets to fall, and some 45 runs to make ; and so we agreed to go on for that extra quarter of an hour, though it involved running our train desperately close. At 6.45 there were still three wickets to fall, and still 20 runs to get. Hegan thought that it would be a pity to allow so good a match to remain drawn, and on the principle that a moral is quite as unsatisfactory as an actual defeat, I quite agreed with him. But, on the other hand, the train had to be considered. Our host kindly offered dinner to any of us who would stay and play the match out, and some half-dozen of the side, who had only to get to London some time that night, readily acceded to his proposition. But the rest, including most of our bowling talent, had no option in the matter, and were obliged to go. So with six Foresters and five sub- stitutes we again took the field, and in ten minutes the runs were, as we thought, hit off. But by the time that we had reached the tent and congratulated Hegan, the scorers came to announce that there was an error of 10 MATCH NEVER LOST TILL WON. 293 runs in the score, and that consequently 10 more runs were still required. So again we went out, ostensibly for the purpose of giving them the chance of knocking off those 10 runs ; but, as it happened, we got the three wickets and won the match. A friendly discussion fol- lowed at dinner. W. N. Roe, who had made upwards of 80, always religiously counts his runs as he scores them, and he had positively asserted that he had made 10 more than the scorers had accredited to him. '^wt, per contra^ we in the field had remarked on the astounding rapidity with which the telegraph-board had covered the distance between 150 and 170; and if the scoring had been of so casual a character as to rob any one batsman of 10 runs, it might just as easily have added those 10 to other men's scores. At any rate, no amount of argument or assertion could controvert the fact that according to the score-sheet we had made 9 more runs than our opponents — and so the victory lay with us. That Roe was absolutely correct as to the number of the runs that he had made I believe to this day ; but it is much more probable that some one else got the credit of those important 10 runs than that they were altogether omitted, and it was satisfactory to us to feel that our opponents had during their own innings kept the score. So it fell out that we six who had stayed behind had the double satisfaction of winning the match, and of eating the excellent dinner which our host kindly provided in spite of the bad turn we had done him. Verily and in truth, a cricket-match is never lost till it is won. And to point the moral further, I will take two other Forester matches quite out of their turn, each of which afforded a vivid illustration of the breadth of that gulf which lies between the possibilities and the probabilities of cricket. Once at Portsmouth, in 1888, a Forester XI was beaten by a few runs by the United Services, for whom P. J. 294 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. Henery, whom I presume to be a Volunteer, and L. Ham- ilton scored freely. Notwithstanding their exertions, we had a good deal the best of a long two days' cricket, and it looked as if nothing but time was wanting to ensure our easy victory. Walter Bovill was our commander, and he, like Hegan, felt that it was hard lines that a match should be left drawn in our favour when an extra half-hour would enable us to finish it ; and the captain of the U.S. team, a thorough sportsman, readily assented to Bovill's proposi- tion that play should continue till seven o'clock. Poor Hornby's ipagnanimity met with its due reward ; for on a wicket which was quite as good as at any period of the match, we failed to get the necessary lOO odd runs, though we had made nearly 300 in our first innings. We were so cock-sure of victory that one man, a very steady bat, had been allowed to go home, and several others had changed, and had to hurry in as they were. A slow bowler, with the setting sun behind his arm, did the execution ; but even if some slight excuse might be made on the ground of indifferent light, we really had only our- selves to blame for our miserable exhibition. Walter Bovill himself got nearly half the runs scored, but re- ceived little assistance. It may readily be conjectured that we fell foul of him for having arranged to go on beyond the stipulated time, and that he with much more reason retorted that he had not conceived it possible that nine men could make such fools of themselves. If we had recovered our tempers by the next day, we none of us cared to talk much about that match at Portsmouth. The other was a still more extraordinary case of the fallibility of human hopes. That the match could ever be finished at all seemed to be almost impossible ; that we could win, absolutely so. It was played three years ago (1892), in variable weather, and on a still more variable wicket, at Aldershot. We won the toss, and soon found c3 B J Q 5 6 P3 2 W ■^< u- u H A BOWLING FEAT. 295 that the wicket was very tricky; but it improved as the day went on, and with a distinctly weaker side, the Division almost equalled our score overnight for the loss of 3 wickets. A mistaken idea that a review — that ap- parently indispensable accompaniment of a cricket-match at Aldershot — would stop play till luncheon-time, caused three of our men to absent themselves on the second morning ; and though the opposite side insisted on send- ing out one substitute, and offered more, we felt that we were so entirely in the wrong that we preferred to go on with nine men in the field till luncheon-time, when the truants turned up. Under the circumstances, we did fairly well to get rid of our opponents for about 60 more runs than we had scored. It was almost a necessity for E. C. Streatfield and myself, who had some way to go on that Saturday night, to catch a train at 5.30 ; and most cer- tainly when we left the ground at 4.45 we were justified in thinking that a draw was a certainty. We had 7 good wickets to fall, not much bowling to contend against, the balance of runs had been knocked off, two men were ap- parently well set, and there was an hour and three-quarters more play, less the interval between the innings. But as soon as we had left the ground a collapse set in, one of our soundest batsmen was most unnecessarily absent, and eventually the Division were set to make about 40 runs in an hour. That looked an easy task enough, and when i wicket was down for 28 all seemed over but the shouting. It was then that C. Toppin came to the rescue, and, ably backed by Asher, disposed of the other 9 wickets in about six overs for as many runs. One of the most curious parts of the whole affair was that Toppin had hardly bowled for us at all during the week, as he was suffering from a sprained side — the bete noir of a fast bowler — and had begged to be excused bowling. But it did so happen that he had been one of the absentees in the morning, and 296 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. felt so conscience-stricken at his misdemeanour that he pluckily chose to ignore the sprained side, and to bowl for all that he was worth ; and on that wicket he was simply unplayable. As had been the case with us at Portsmouth, several of the opposition had changed, and had to go in to be demolished by Toppin in their workaday clothes. Toppin did the hat-trick once, and twice besides got 2 wickets in an over ; and I doubt whether such a bowling feat has ever been equalled in the annals of Free Forester cricket. It has been a matter of deep regret to a good many Free Foresters that a most enjoyable week at Upton House has of late years found no place on our card, and that, owing to the departure from the neighbourhood of our quondam host and hostess, the doors of a place we so dearly loved in the past are now practically closed to us. Nothing can ever quite fill the gap. We may find better grounds, it is true, than either Deddington, Banbury, or Middleton ; cheerier matches we shall never have ; and the long chatty drives and the gay evenings spent in the miniature drawing - room and the quaint old smoking- room at Upton can hardly be reproduced. Nodes Am- brosiance those were indeed, and Nodes Nedarince to boot ; and if grouse and champagne took the place of the more orthodox articles, what Sybarite could wish for better fare } Who that was privileged to witness the sight will ever forget the reproduction of the bombardment of Alex- andria by Harry Maul, when, having raised a mighty pile of cushions to represent the doomed city, he implored and entreated every member of the smoking-room party in turn to sit upon the top and play the part of Arabi ! — or who that took part in that great lawn-tennis tournament wherein six of the Upton House party made rings round the champions of a local club on one by-day, will not recall the utterances of the unintentionally and yet most irresistibly comic man, who, after convulsing the luncheon- i" < j3 h4 C/3 i ^S- ^ 1^ . ^ ra (« t» S ^ s u O W W C^ UPTON HOUSE. 297 party by suddenly entering the room with the startling announcement that he had " cub to play teddis with Mr Jedkids," later on in the day fairly capped his own best on record by inviting James Walker to " spid " ! " Ichabod " should indeed be written up over the gates of Upton ; for if the archaeological glories of the old Dower- House still remain, gone are our popular host and our sympathetic hostess ; gone is the dog Jack, the shrewdest judge of cricket ; gone is Harding, most charming of stud-grooms, and the deftest handler of spade and bucket who ever took a wasp's nest in broad daylight ; gone, alas ! they all are to lands where cricket is almost unknown, and their like we can hardly hope to see again. " The steed is vanished from the stall ; No serf is seen in Hassan's hall ; The lonely spider's thin grey pall Waves slowly widening o'er the wall." So far as Forester cricket is cortcerned, Upton must be accounted as a relic of the past : a future it is impossible to foresee. Those were days before I was a Forester ; but most of the Upton party, which formed the nucleus of the sides which the Foresters encountered on the three grounds I have mentioned, sooner or later became members of the old Club. Such were Frank Cobden, Harry Maul, James Walker, Charlie and poor Arthur Cobb, Clarence Smith, Harry Tubb, and Jinks himself, and all of us got runs on occasion, and we won more matches from the Free Foresters' XI than we lost to them. But though many of our side even in those days wore Forester colours, there was no shifting of players from one XI to the other by way of equalisation of strength ; nor did Walter Bovill, who got up the Club team, ever unduly trespass on the home preserves. As to the cricket, there is no need to go far afield to 298 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. search for incidents. A match at Middleton in those days was Hkely to afford enough incident to last a Hfe- time ; and the cheery cry of " got him/' as the ball sounded on the batsman's ribs, might have been heard pretty frequently. If we bowlers could not quite say with J. C. Shaw that we put the ball where we liked, I doubt if after it had once pitched on a real old Middleton plantain, even W. G. Grace at his best would have backed himself to grapple with its subsequent eccentricities. That we got a good many more runs than far stronger sides could get on Hegan's ash-sown wicket, was perhaps due to the fact that we have become a little ultra-civilised in the way of our requirements in these latter days. " Have a shot at them, old fellow," remarked Jack Dale, as he retired, with his bat behind his back, in the direction of short-leg just as I was on the point of delivering the ball ; and so I did, but I missed them. Perhaps George Willes on the Forester side and myself on the other got as many runs as most people at Middleton, nicety of cal- culation, not being quite such a strong point with either of us as it was with more scientific batsmen; and when it was odds on the ball hitting the body if it missed the bat or wicket, to shut the eyes and let go the painter was sound policy. However, we never did have an inquest on the ground, and we got plenty of amusement out of the game. I cannot conscientiously say that either Banbury or Ded- dington was exactly a bread-and-butter wicket, but both were so atrociously slow that there was a less exciting element of danger, and on the whole I vastly preferred Middleton. At Banbury one year, Teddy Rutter distin- guished himself by taking the ball when we had got about 80 for no wickets, and getting rid of James Walker, a Pigg (whether it was H. or C. is still an open question), and Harry Maul, then a most dangerous bat, in six balls, and I was very nearly caught from a rebound off the opposite BICESTER. 299 batsman's hind-quarters in the next over. I remember Harry Tubb playing a fine not-out innings of just 100 in the second innings on a very muddy wicket at Dedding- ton; and I also remember that gay deceiver, Walter Bovill, considerately borrowing my best bat for the express pur- pose apparently of hitting me out of the ground with it, as I bowled the first ball of the match. And to this day I can vividly recall the piteous expression of Holford Risley's face, when he had rashly asked Jenkins to lend him a dancing man for the night of the Deddington ball, and on coming up to the ground to be introduced to his guest, found that he was expected to entertain a man who was at the moment standing upon his head in the midst of the wreckage of furniture which he had created just outside what was to be the ballroom. " Oh, is that the young gentleman } " was all that he said, but his face spoke volumes. But if unkind fate has decreed that the Upton week is to come again no more, it is a matter of congratulation that for the past three years Forester cricket in the Ox- fordshire district has had a renaissance, and so long as those keen and hospitable supporters of the game, Harry Tubb and Charlie Hoare, reside in the neighbourhood of Bicester, we may hope that there are good days in store for us, and that good yarns may be reserved for a future chronicler. The matches played since the revival have been most hotly contested, and though Atthill and Walter Bovill managed to split a finger apiece at Bicester on one and the same day, the light, not the ground, was responsible for the twin mishaps. If results proved that Harry Tubb was slightly out of his reckoning when he informed me last year at Lord's that he fancied that both Bicester and Bignell would beat the Foresters, either match took a good deal of winning, and the only thing that marred the 300 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. enjoyment of the four days' cricket was the fact that the temporary disablement of Tubb himself deprived the home XI of a still more than serviceable cricketer. There must be something very rejuvenating about the climate of this part of Oxfordshire. For either at Banbury, Middleton, Deddington, or Bicester successive generations of Free Foresters have had the pleasure of encountering that genial old cricketer Edward, or, as he is more commonly called, "Wash" Ramsay of Croughton, who has belonged to the Club from its very earliest beginning, and playing on one side or the other, has taken part in more F. F. matches than any man in that or possibly any other district. Not only has " Wash " with ever ready hospitality opened the doors of his house at Croughton to many Foresters during their tours in Oxfordshire, but he has probably in his time bowled some hundreds of them out, and is quite likely to perform the same kind office for some of them in the future. There were few more dangerous bowlers in England than " Wash " some thirty years ago, and even now on his day he wants a good deal of watching, "^YvXq per contra \i^ is always game to back himself for a crown to make his ten runs against any bowling. Another familiar figure in the same district is that of the chatty and energetic Rector of Middleton. W. H. Draper had, I fancy, already taken his M.A. degree when as a very small boy at Radley I first admired his brilliant fielding ; and to this day he can still hold a hot catch, steal a short run, or take as well as talk more than his fair share in a long day's outing better than a good many cricketers belonging to a generation which was yet unborn when he was in his prime. To that despairing philosopher, who has already in his own mind settled upon the age of forty, or it may be even an earlier date, as the " fixed period " for giving up cricket and taking to golf or some other form of gentle exercise, I would prescribe a visit to the Bicester Country and a match CHRISTCHURCH, OXFORD. 301 either with or against a Bicester XI, in the hope that a couple of overs from "Wash" Ramsay or half an hour's batting with Draper as a partner might induce him to postpone the evil day for yet another twenty years. I had almost forgotten to mention that a very pleasant match has been for the last eight years played during the summer term at Oxford against Christchurch. The Forester Elevens have been got up by H. Tubb, and he has often put a very strong side into the field ; but, strange to say, only one match of the whole series has been finished, and that resulted in the defeat of the Foresters. Drawn games are of frequent occurrence on the " House " ground, owing to the excellence of the wicket, and owing partly also to the unfortunate fact that the summer team may too often be entitled the Oxford "Monsoon." However, any match under the auspices of one of the most popular captains of the present or any era of Free Forester cricket is likely to retain its attractiveness in the face of far more untoward circumstances. I have not been specially retained to sing the praises of individual members of the Club, but the general effect of Harry Tubb's residence in the district upon the tone of the local cricket has been little short of remarkable, and can only be fully appreciated by those who have played in the Bicester country. In his picturesque house, Thornby Hall, lying on the borders of Warwickshire and Northants, the county of spires and squires, Mr Pender, a Forester of some years' standing, for several seasons hospitably entertained a Club XI which played two or three matches in the district. These matches were generally managed by C. Farmer, under whose auspices a fairly strong side encountered the Gentlemen of Leicestershire and either the Gentlemen of Northants or the County XL A good many drawn games were played, and now and again the F. F. got by no means the best of the deal. But in 1893, the last year 302 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. in which the matches figured on our programme, a decidedly strong Forester XI, the mustering whereof a chapter of accidents rendered anything but a sinecure, easily beat a weak amateur side at Lutterworth, and on the two following days won the match against Northants Club and ground in an innings with some runs to spare. Both matches were finished early on the second day, results partly attributable to the fact that in neither case was the wicket quite unexceptionable. At Lutterworth the turf was rather of the slow and sticky order ; at Northampton, on the other hand, it was rather a fast and a decidedly fiery wicket ; and at both places the ball wanted a good deal of watching. We had on our side a fast bowler of some repute, who — I trust the ' Lancet ' will not review our book — had been strictly forbidden by his doctor to bowl. He kept the spirit, if he somewhat transgressed the letter, of the law, as he only went on occasionally for a couple of overs when the bowl- ing was in a knot. And he invariably brought about a dissolution of partnership between the batsmen ; but, by way of keeping on good terms with the doctor, begged that his name might not appear on the score-sheet as a bowler. There was a good deal of competition for the credit of those wickets, and the claims put forward were in many cases ingenious. The bewilderment of the scorers when they were informed that one and the same man, when he was bowling, was sometimes Curteis and sometimes Bovill, but when he was batting was quite another person altogether, may be more easily imagined than described. I must apologise for thus giving away the two great bowlers I have mentioned ; but as it occasion- ally happened that one or other of them was nominally bowling at both ends, the analysis must have been rather a curiosity. At Northampton Curteis proved in more ways than one that his heart is always in the right place, V 3 7. < o . 6 w fa qh DEDDINGTON. 303 as after receiving a very severe blow in that region early in his innings, he stuck to his guns manfully, and helped Walkenshaw to put on a hundred before the first wicket fell. While the latter was batting, an old gentleman in- formed me that no one had ever hit into the pavilion from the middle of the ground, whereupon, by way of giving my informant the pleasure of a new sensation, Walkenshaw kindly performed the feat twice in the same over. 1880. Played at Deddington, August 23 and 24. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. W. D. Bovill, not out .... 50 c Tubb, b Ramsay . 22 T. Wise, hit wicket, b Maul 5 b Burra . I Hon. R. H. Lyttelton, c Ramsay, b Maul 3 b Ramsay I C. J. Hegan, st C. E. Cobb, b Maul c Burra, b C. E. Cobb 7 W. A. Lucy, c Cobden, b Ramsay . b C. E. Cobb . 6 E. Rutter, c and b Maul .... 3 run out . 8 T. Ratliff, c Willes, b Maul 3 c A. Cobb, b Ramsay 2 R. G. Venables, b Burra .... 18 c A. Cobb, b C. Cobb 7 E. W. Hemingway, c Willes, b Burra b C. Cobb 3 E. L. Fisher, absent. c Maul, b Burra I C. R. Draper, absent. not out . 6 Extras 2 Extras . 9 Total 84 Total 73 DEDDINGTON. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. A. R. Cobb, run out ... 3 H. Tubb, c Hegan, b Bovill . 33 H. C. Maul, St Wise, b Rutter . i W. Evetts, c Hegan, b Rutter . o F. C. Cobden, c Lucy, b Rutter . 2 C. E. Cobb, c Wise, b Bovill . 18 R. W. Byass, c Lucy, b Rutter . 15 Rev. G. E. Willes, c Ratliff, b Rutter 19 1ST INNINGS. E. Ramsay, not out Rev. J. F. Burra, hit wicket, Venables .... W. H. P. Jenkins, b Rutter. Extras .... Total 12 9 131 In the second innings A. B, Cobb (b Rutter) scored o, H. Tubb (c Rutter, b Bovill) I, W. Evetts (not out) 14, F. C. Cobden (run out) 2, C. E. Cobb (not out) 10, — total 27. Deddington won with 7 wickets to fall. 304 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS, 1881. Played Augiist 15 and 16. DEDDINGTON. 1ST INNINGS. Rev. E. D. Prothero, b Burton . H. Tubb, 1 b w, b Bovill . W. E. W. Collins, st Hoare, b Rutter A. R. Cobb, b Bovill .... Rev. Clary Smith, c Ratliff, b Buckle F. C. Cobden, c Hoare, b Bovill Rev. C. D. B. Marsham, c Rutter, b Bovill H. C. Maul, c Lee, b Bovill E. V. Hemingway, b Buckle H. Bullock, c Byass, b Buckle . S. H. Byass, c Longman, b Bovill W. H. P. Jenkins, not out byes 4, wides 3 . . . . Total 19 I 14 5 26 5 2 3 I I 3 o 7 87 2D INNINGS. b Lee not out hit wicket, b Lee c Dewar, b Rutter b Buckle . c sub., b Rutter not out . . • SCORE. 6 100 S 13 20 13 byes 8, wides 3, no-balls 2 13 Total 177 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SC G. H. Longman, c Smith, b Collins G. H. Goldney, b Smith W. D. Bovill, b Collins M. B. Buckle, b Collins A. O. Burton, b Byass . H. W. Hoare, b Byass E. Matthews, c Maul, b Collins F. H. Lee, c Prothero, b CoUins RE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 65 R. W. Byass, c Maul, b Smith . 17 2 E. Rutter, c Marsham, b Cobden 12 3 E. J. Dewar, not out . . .18 o T. Rathff, c Smith ... 6 25 byes 8, leg-byes 2, wides 2, no- 40 balls 3 15 4 Total . 214 1882. Played at Deddington, August 21 and 22. DEDDINGTON. 1ST INNINGS. : Rev. W. H, Draper, b Buckland A. R. Cobb, c sub., b Rutter H. C. Maul, 1 b w, b Peyton W. Evetts, b Peyton . W. E. W. Collins, b Lee . F. C. Cobden, b Buckland . Rev. Clarence Smith, c and b Lee 34 1ST INNINGS. Rev. T. F. Burra, not out . Rev. G. E. Willes, b Lee . E. Ramsay, c and b Buckland W. H. P. Jenkins, b Lee . Extras .... Total 14 o o I 34 261 DEDDINGTON. 305 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. Capt. H. C. WiUes, b Collins ... 2 c Maul, b Collins . W. D. Bovill, c Collins, b Cobden 24 bMaul . 5 F. M. Buckland, b Ramsay • 39 c Cobden, b Collins . 38 E. L. Fisher, c Burra, b Maul 6 b Cobden 14 Rev. T. T. Peyton, b Ramsay II c Burra, b Ramsay . 17 E. Rutter, b Ramsay . not out . 9 F. H. Lee, c Maul, b Ramsay 3 b Burra . 8 L. J. Fish, b Collins . 6 b Burra . 7 H. Hole, b Collins . 19 St Cobb, b Burra . 6 A. E. Bedford, b Burra . c Smith, b Collins . 7 C. H. Cobb, not out . b Cobden 3 byes, &c. 9 byes, &o. 5 Total no Total 119 1884. Played on B anbury ground, August 21 and 22. DEDDINGTON. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. J. G. Walker, b Bovill 6 c Rawlinson, b Appleby 7 W. T. Toynbee, b Bovill . 2 b Maude . 8 Rev. E. D. Prothero, c Rawlinson, b Bovil 1 13 b Maude . 8 W. E. W. Collins, b Bovill 5 b Appleby S. H. Byass, b Appleby . 9 b Evans . 6 C. E. Cobb, b Appleby . 4 c Foster, b Maude . 2 W. Evetts, c Maude, b Bovill . 13 c Ricketts, b Appleby 21 A. C. Willy, c Rawlinson, b Appleby 3 b Appleby 5 H. Byass, not out ... . 4 b Maude . 2 E. Ramsay, c Appleby, b Bovill c Bovill, b Appleby . 3 W. H. P. Jenkins, c and b Bovill . 2 not out . Extras 6 Extras . 6 Total ^7 Total . 68 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. A. H. Evans, run out . 65 A. Appleby, b Willy . . 38 F. W. Maude, c Cobb, b Collins 7 W. D. Bovill, b Willes 5 J. H. J. Hornsby, b Collins . 13 G. W. Ricketts, b Collins . • 14 C. Rawlinson, b Willy . 3 F. J. Foster, not out . Rev. G. E. Willes, c Willy, b Extras .... • 25 Collins 16 F. W. Capron, c Cobb, b Ramsay 20 Capt. B. Baker, c Evetts, b Ramsay o Total Free Foresters won in one innings, with 70 runs plus. U 206 3o6 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. 1885. Played at Banbury, August 19 aiid 20. DEDDINGTON. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE, 2D INNINGS. SCORE. H. C. Maul, b Ricketts . II b Rutter . 30 J. G. Walker, b Ricketts . 14 b Rutter . 13 C. Pigg, b Bovill .... 6 b Rutter . 26 C. H. Balderson, b Ricketts 6 c Ricketts, b Rutter . 17 E. L. Fisher, c Rutter, b Bovill b Bovill . I W. E. Collins, 1 b w, b Bovill . 2 c W. Toynbee, b Ricketts 54 C. Shillingford, run out . 30 b Bovill . 7 Hon. W. F. North, b Cattley . 12 run out . 6 H. Tucker, not out .... 4 c Speed, b Bovill A. B. Franey, b Cattley . 2 not out . 3 E. Ramsay, b Cattley I c and b Bovill . 14 W. H. P. Jenkins, b Cattley . run out . Extras 4 Extras . 5 Total 92 Total 176 1ST INNINGS. FREE FORESTERS. SCORE p. R. Toynbee, hit wicket, b Collins R. W. Skipwith, b Ramsay . A. C. Cattley, c Maul, b Shilling- ford Rev. G. E. Willes, b Collins F. E. Speed, run out . W. D. Bovill, b Ramsay G. W. Ricketts, run out E. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 27 A. Hoare, b Collins 7 I W. A. Lucy, b Collins . 3 W. T. Toynbee, not out II 3S R. Peel, b Collins I 6 E. Rutter, b Maul 5 9 Extras • 32 17 Total In the second innings P. R. Toynbee (not out) scored i, A. C. Cattley (b Collins) 21, F. E. Speed (not out) 27, W. T. Toynbee (c Shillingford, b Collins) 11 ; extras 7, —total 6^, The Foresters won with 8 wickets to fall. Played at Middleton Park, Atigust 20 and 21. LORD JERSEY'S ELEVEN. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. J. G. Walker, c Wise, b W. D Bovill .... A. R. Cobb, b E. Rutter . H. C. Maul, c W. Peyton, b E, Rutter .... M. P. Lucas, b W. D. Bovill W. E. W. Collins, c Trevor; Rev. T. T. Peyton . F. W. Maude, c Wise, b W. D, Bovill .... 57 Total 1ST INNINGS. SCORE, Rev. E. D. Prothero, c Bovill, b Rev. T. T. Peyton . H. Tubb, b E. Rutter . Rev. C. D. B. Marsham, not out , E. Ramsay, c Bovill, b Rev. G Willes . . . . , W. H. P. Jenkins, c Willes, b E. Rutter 2 byes 6, leg-byes 2, no-balls i . 9 258 In the second innings H. Tubb (not out) scored 15, A. R. Cobb (not out) 4 no-balls i, — total 20. MIDDLETON. 307 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INxNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. W. D. BoviU, c Jenkins, b Collins . 5 c Marsham, b Lucas 41 Capt. B. Baker, b Collins . I c Tubb, b Maude . 7 A. H. Trevor, b Collins . 5 b Ramsay 43 H. R. Webbe, b Collins . b Ramsay 2 Rev. G. E. Willes, b Collins . 8 c Walker, b Lucas . 31 J. W. Dale, c Maude, b Collins . 7 b Maude . 5 Rev. T. T. Peyton, c Maul, b Lucas . 21 c Cobb, b Collins . 24 T. Wise, c Lucas, b Collins 4 c Lucas, b Maude . 25 A. Hoare, b Collins .... 4 b Lucas . 5 W. R. B. Peyton, b Collins . not out . E. Rutter, not out ... . 4 b Collins . byes 10, leg-byes 2, wides 2 . 14 byes 14, leg-byes 3, wides 2 19 Total 73 Total 202 Played at Middleton Park, August 18 and 19. LORD JERSEY'S TEAM. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. J. G. Walker, c and b James ... 32 H. Tubb, c W. D. Bovill, b Capron . . 16 H. C. Maul, c sub., b Maude ... 6 Rev. T. T. Peyton, b Bovill ... 60 W. E. W. Collins, c and b Bovill . , 26 Rev. W. H. Draper, c Baker, b Bovill . 4 C. E. Cobb, c James, b Bovill . . . i C. Shillingford, c Rev. Bedford, b Maude 4 Rev. C. D. B. Marsham, c Capron, b Maude 4 S. H. Byass, not out o Lord Jersey, b Bovill o W. H. P. Jenkins, c Capron, b Bovill . o byes 13 Total . 166 2D INNINGS. SCORE, c Dale, b Bovill . . 2 c North, b Maude . . 12 c Maude, b James . . 8 b Maude .... 4 st James, b Maude . . 24 b Maude . . . . o c North, b James . . 31 c Baker, b Maude . . • o not out .... 8 c and b Maude . . 23 c and b Maude . . o c Toynbee, b Maude . 14 byes 9, leg-byes 7, wide i 17 Total . 143 FREE FORESTERS. Capt. B. Baker, b Collins . F. W. Maude, b Shillingford . F. W. Capron, b Collins . W. D. Bovill, c Cobb, b Collins Rev. J. E. Willes, b Collins J. W. Dale, b Shillingford C. James, c Rev. Draper, b Byass C. W. Rawlinson, b Collins W. T. Toynbee, c Cobb, b Collins . Hon. W. F. North, b Collins . Rev. W. C. R. Bedford, b Shillingford Hon. R. Villiers, not out . byes 5, leg-byes 2 . Total 96 c and b Shillingford . . 4 c Rev. Draper, b Shillingford 21 c H. Tubb, b Shillingford 12 b Shillingford . . . o c Tubb, b Shillingford . 30 not out .... 34 c Tubb, b Collins . . 3 c Lord Jersey, b Collins . 2 b Shillingford . . . o b Collins .... 3 b Shillingford . . . o c Peyton, b Collins . . 2 byes 27, leg-byes 8 . 35 Total 146 3o8 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. 1886. Played at Bicester, July 19 and 20. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. A. W. Moon, c Paxton, b Lindsey . F. W. Bovill, b Hamilton .... E. J. Beaumont Nesbitt, c Tubb, b Ramsay Hon. W. F. North, b Lindsey . F. M. Lucas, b Lindsey .... J. H. J. Hornsby, c Tubb, b Lindsey C. A. S. Leggatt, not out .... A. H. Blackwell, b Shillingford . E. Dames-Longworth, c Heath, b Lindsey A. T. Thring, 1 b w, b Lindsey . C. J. Stratton, absent. byes 8, leg-byes 6, wide i . . . Total . 155 E. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 74 c and b Lindsey 6 30 c Glanville, b Shillingford 37 b Shillingford . I 6 c and b Lindsey 4 b Shillingford . 5 2 b Shillingford . 10 21 c Prothero, b Lindsey 6 3 b Ramsay c Hoare, b Paxton . 9 4 not out . . 16 b Lindsey 3 15 byes 2, leg-byes 2, w de I 5 Total BICESTER. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. C. T. Hoare, b Stratton 52 Capt. Douglas Hamilton, b Nesbitt 5 A. H. Heath, not out . 146 F. W. H. Lindsey, b Hornsby . 11 E. W. Glanville, b Hornsby 29 E. H. Paxton, st Moon, b Thring 23 Rev. H. A. Douglas Hamilton E. Ramsay, b Stratton . . .10 b Hornsby 9 C. Shillingford, b Stratton . . i Rev. E. D, Prothero, st Moon byes 7, leg-byes 3 . . .10 b Hornsby H. Tubb, b Hornsby . 4 Total . 300 1888. Played at Bicester, July 23 and 24. BICESTER. TST INNINGS. SCORE C. T. Hoare, b Wilson Rev. E. D. Prothero, c Cowan, b Nesbitt Capt. Talbot, st Moon, b Wilson H. Bassett, c Hill, b Wilson F. W. H. Lindsey, b Nesbitt . W. D. Llewellyn, b Nesbitt C. D. Pennant, b Wilson . Rev. H. A. D. Hamilton, b Wilson C. J. Stratton, c Hill, b Wilson . C. Shillingford, c Fitz-Roy, b Wilson G. H. Page, not out . H. Tubb, b Wilson . bye. . , . , . Total E. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 3 c Cowan, b Nesbitt . . 5 b Wilson . 4 3 c Pennant, b Wilson 13 c Moon, b Nesbitt . 30 c Cowan, b Wilson . 10 4 c Moon, b Nesbitt . 2 b Nesbitt . I 6 b Wilson . 4 b Wilson . 2 not out 9 2 b Nesbitt .... 2 c Fitz-Roy, b Wilson 6 I byes 3, leg-byes 2, wide I 6 43 Total 70 BICESTER. 309 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. Capt. F. Cowan, c Hamilton, b Page J. Hill, b Page . Capt. W. R. B. Peyton, run out A. W. Moon, b Bassett C. Thursby, b Bassett . E. B. Nesbitt, c and b Lindsey Capt. B. Roberts, c Hamilton, b Bassett 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Rev. G. C. Willes, b Shillingford 3 Lord A. Fitz-Roy, c Hoare, b Lindsey 4 R. Skipwith, c Stratton, b Bassett 12 R. A. Wilson, b Bassett . . 2 F. D. Pennant, not out . . 3 byes 8, leg-bye i . . . 9 Total . 103 In the second innings Cowan (not out) scored 5, Hill (b Bassett) o, Moon (not out) 5 ; bye i, — total 11. 1890. Played at Bicester, Augtist 25 a7td 26. BICESTER. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. E. Jakeman, c Ricketts, b Collins o S. D. Maul, 1 b w, b Webbe A. Rogers, c sub., b Collins Capt. Wyld, b Ricketts C. T. Hoare, c and b Ricketts E. L. Metcalfe, b Ricketts . F. W. H. Lindsey, c and b Rick etts In the second innings Maul (c 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. H. Tubb, hit wkt., b Webbe . 5 C. J. Stratton, c Dewar, b Collins 6 Policy, b Bovill .... 14 F. Dickenson, not out . . . i E. Ramsay, c Gillman, b Ricketts o byes 3, leg-byes 2 ... 5 2 Total . 134 Dauglish, b Gillman) scored 34, Wyld (not out) 4, Metcalfe (not out) 10, Tubb (b Gillman) 27 ; leg- bye i, — total 76. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. G. L. Windier, b PoUey J. Hill, run out C. Dewar, c Maul, b Lindsey R. T. Atthill, b Rogers W. E. W. Collins, not out . byes 2, leg-byes 4 Total 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. A. J. Webbe, b Lindsey . . 19 G. W. Ricketts, b Rogers . 14 D. F. Gillman, b Rogers . H. V. Page, b Lindsey I W. D. Bovill, b Maul . 26 Rev. J. H. Savory, c Dickenson bMaul .... 20 M. J. Dauglish, b Rogers . II SCORE. I I 14 13 2 6 128 1892. Played at Bicester, Jiily 13 and 14. BICESTER. 1ST INNINGS. E. Jakeman, run out . J. G. P. Draper, b Lang . H. Bassett, run out A. E. Leatham, b Maclean . W. S. Case, c Lang, b Rutter Rev. J. H. Savory, c Walker, b Rutter C. T. Hoare, c Welman, b Lang SCORE. 5 o 41 7 23 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. C. J. Stratton, c Maclean, b Rutter o Policy, c Lord Dalkeith, b Lang . 66 R. Renn, b Lang ... 21 G. H. Page, not out . . . 3 Extras 18 Total . 255 3IO MATCHES IN THE MIDLAADS. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. O. R. Dunell, c Jakeman, b Bassett C. H. R. Gresson, b Bassett . G. G. Lang, c Bassett, b Page . H. E. Bull, c Savory, b Bassett J. G. Walker, c and b Page M. F, Maclean, c Jakeman, b Bassett Capt. Becher, c Savory, b Bassett Major Rice, st Renn, b Page . Earl of Dalkeith, c Savory, b Page F. T. Welman, not out . E. Rutter, absent Extras Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. o c Hoare, b Bassett . 14 22 c Bassett, b Page . 28 6 b Policy . 15 6 b Page . 2 4 run out . i6 tt 28 c Jakeman, b Leatham 28 5 c Stratton, b Policy . 14 4 b Policy . 4 o not out 14 7 c Savory, b Bassett . o o absent o 4 Extras . i8 1 86 Total 153 1893. Played at Bicester, July 19 and 20. BICESTER. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. T. B. Case, c Hanbury, b Harding . 12 c and b Appleby 4 H. E. Bull, c Hardy, b Leatham c and b Appleby 5 W. S. Case, c Rice, b Harding 21 c Rutter, b Harding Rev. W. H. Draper, st Hanbury, b 1 H[ard ing ...... 10 b Harding 2 H. Allen, b Harding . c Becher, b Harding 18 P. Colville Smith, b Appleby . 16 b Appleby Policy, c and b Leatham . c Hanbury, b Leatham 35 H. Tubb, b Harding 29 c Becher, b Leatham 17 C. T. Hoare, b Appleby . II c Rice, b Harding . II C. J. Stratton, not out I b Harding 2 A. B. Ramsay, b Appleby I b Appleby E. Ramsay, b Appleby not out Extras .... 2 Extras . I Total 103 Total 95 FREE FOE .ESTERS. E. Hanbury, c and b Tubb 2 b E. Ramsay . . 32 Rev. J. H. Savory, b Policy 6 b Policy . 7 Major Hardy, run out not out . • 44 C. H. Harding, b Policy . 8 c W. S. Case, b E. Ramsa V 4 Major Rice, b Tubb . c Allen, b Tubb 20 Capt. Becher, run out not out . 8 A. E. Leatham, b Tubb . 2 A. Appleby, b Policy 10 c and b W. S. Case . 9 G. Style, c Draper, b Policy . 23 Capt. A. H. Butler, c Allen, b Tubb F. Dickenson, st T. B. Case, b W. S Cas e 13 E. Rutter, not out . Extras 3 Extras . 8 « Tota 1 . 67 Total . 132 NEW BOLD REVEL. 311 1894. Played at Bicester, July 23 and 24. BICESTER. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. Capt. S. D. Maul, c Appleby, b Leatham 88 1 b w, b Hickley 17 H. Tubb, c Savory, b Leatham 35 b Appleby IS T. Emberlin, run out .... 8 c Leatham, b Hickley 16 P. C. Smith, b Hickley .... not out 3 C. T. Hoare, b Hickley . 17 c and b Leatham H. Allen, b Harding 33 c Leatham, b Hickley 22 J. Hill, c Rutter, b Appleby . I b Appleby 18 Polley, c Hanbury, b Hickley . 9 C. J. Stratton, c Hanbury, b Hickley c Marshall, b Appleby 13 F. Morgan, st Hanbury, b Harding . 9 c Marshall, b Appleby E. Ramsay, b Harding 2 G. H. Page, b Harding . 4 b Hickley C. L. H. Burton, not out . I c Hanbury, b Hickley 2 byes 4, leg-bye i, wide i 6 byes 2 Total 213 Total 108 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SC E. Hanbury, c and b Maul . H. G. S. Hughes, b Maul . H. E. Cobb, b Morgan C. H. Harding, b Maul A. E. Leatham, c Polley, b Page Rev. J. H. Savory, c Emberlin, b Page Lieut. -Col. Rice, c Emberlin, b Tubb ^E. 1ST INNINGS. II Capt. Becher, c Hill, b Page 9 C. L. Hickley, b Page . 84 J. F. Marshall, not out 8 F. Dickenson, b Maul . 72 A. Appleby, c Ramsay, b Page E. Rutter, b Page 40 byes 23, leg-byes 5, wides 3 29 Total 2 2 20 II 4 7 31 330 No account of Free Forester cricket in the past few years would be complete without something more than a passing reference to the matches played at Newbold Revel. Thanks to Arthur Wood's unfailing hospitality, the Newbold Revel cricket-ground has become a highly favoured resort of a goodly. throng of amateur cricketers, and the scene of many a keen encounter. There Butter- flies, Eton Ramblers, Free Foresters, and many other clubs have assembled to fight their friendly battles, and neither on the cricket-ground nor before or after the day's 312 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. play need any one find the time hang heavy on his hands. It is not given to many places to combine so many forms of outdoor amusement. A plunge in the ample swimming- bath, trout-fishing, rabbit-shooting, lawn-golf, squash rack- ets are all included in the programme ; and those unappre- ciated mortals, like Jeff Maynard, who have been pining to bowl all day and yet never put on, are allowed to try their hands at lawn-bowls in the evening, and, by the deadly accuracy of their aim, vindicate their reputation as straight if not dangerous bowlers. If it did so happen that Gunner Curteis was so unreasonably startled by the sudden appari- tion of a black rabbit between his feet as he was ferreting with the keeper at an early hour in the morning, and so much upset thereby that he not only dropped catches and made ducks for the rest of the day, but is even credited with having for the first time in his cricket career tempor- arily lost his temper and instituted comparisons between a brother Forester and an unclean animal ; and even though to this day it is darkly hinted that Rawlin shot a pheasant out of season, — the presence of a plurality of pursuits is a distinct and most attractive feature of the place, and neither host nor captain can be held responsible for the eccentrici- ties of individual cricketers. Very pleasant has a stay at Newbold Revel been in the days of Mr Wood's bachelor- hood, and there is good ground for hoping that the advent of a wife upon the scene of action, so far from diminishing the popularity of the Newbold weeks, will rather tend to add to those charming surroundings one attraction that has been missing in the past, a gallery of fair spectators. For even in this prosaic and matter-of-fact age the " love of ladies" and the knowledge that "fair eyes look upon their deeds" is an additional incentive for distinguishing themselves to many men whom nature obviously intended to play up to a gallery. Here and there I have heard a CANDELABRUM PRESENTED TO MR WOOD ON HIS MARRIAGE, ARTHUR WOOD, 313 jealous or crusty bachelor, whose idea has been that Para- dise was not quite the same place after Eve was admitted, suggest that the master of Newbold was full young to marry ; but the suspicions of even the most confirmed woman-hater have been allayed by the hearty interest taken by Mrs Arthur Wood in the cricket programme for the season of 1894. To the young and active cricketer, as well as conservative old fossils of my own type, the cricket-ground with its " six " boundary, and the constant extra strain on the powers of endurance, may be said to realise an ideal else- where sought for in vain ; and if to a wearied bowler the perfect wicket may seem rather to favour the batsman, the former, when the scoring rules high, may at least console himself with the idea that he is not by any means mono- polising the real hard work, as is too frequently the case where the boundaries are smaller. There are plenty of runs to be got at Newbold Revel, but the spectacle of a comparatively fresh batsman hitting a succession of 4's, and landing the ball high in the air just over the ropes, is conspicuously and necessarily absent, and any one who can hit out of that ground honestly deserves his 6 and his brief rest. The finest hit I have ever seen at Newbold myself was made by Arthur Wood in a Forester match against a local team last July, when the ball pitched ten yards over the railings to square-leg ; and Asher created a record hard to beat when he made 27 off one over in the second innings of our match against Shropshire County. The runs were scored as follows : 6, 6, 6, 4, 5 ; and as the fourth ball was hit to the on -boundary, it was honestly worth 6, but had, unfortunately, in its course passed under a seat, one of the only two 4 boundaries on the ground, and 6 might easily, but for a misunderstanding, have been run for the last ball of this sensational over. The bowler 314 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. was not in the slightest degree put out by the rough usage that he had received, but informed me that he had been hit for 26 in an over a few weeks previously. In 1892 A. J. Thornton took 36 wickets in a week, but last year (1893), when the ground was very hard, he was freely hit by the Oxford Authentics, who beat us in an innings. "Let me have one more over, Spens," he pleaded, on our Captain hinting that a change was imminent. " I'm sure that Punch is not at all at home with me." So he was allowed that one more over, and Punch Philipson, by way of proving that he really was " not at all at home" with A. J., scored 17 off the first four balls. But to this day A. J. thinks that he should have got him if he had gone on. However, we none of us got much change out of Punch that day, as, after being badly missed early in his innings, he knocked all our bowling about to the tune of 130. For us Hornsby played a good innings ; but taking it all round, our batting was feeble in the extreme. Hornsby has played several good innings on the Newbold ground, but has notably failed in the bowling line. Blair, Ricketts, and Walter Bovill have also been large scorers, and our host has hit hard on more than one occasion. As very much the same lot of cricketers have been playing at different times as Free Foresters, Butter- flies, or the Newbold Revel Club, which numbers upwards of 120 paying members, it is rather difficult in the absence of the scoring-book to recall in which particular colours any individual has been successful. That the Foresters may have many more pleasant matches at Newbold is the wish dear to the hearts of all of us that have played there. For a year or two the Foresters, under my guidance, strayed back to what was, if I am not mistaken, the orig- inal home of the club, the Forest of Arden. At Fillongley Hall, at Meriden, and elsewhere, we met with abundant ME RID EN. 315 hospitality, and our best thanks are due to Arden Adderley, Cliarles Digby, and others, for the kindly welcome which they extended to us. Nor could any one wish to visit a more beautiful country than that district, which claims to be the very centre of England. If it was not destined that, to Ricketts' inquiring eye, the magic name Rosalind should be revealed, we were quite prepared to believe that Rosa- lind and Celia, as well as Orlando and Oliver, found in the Forest of Arden many a pretty spot obviously designed by nature for love-making. But if we were fain to admire the quaintly picturesque beauty of the old archery-ground at Meriden, a brief experience taught us that it by no means follows that a good ground for archery need be a good ground for cricket, or that the man who can drop an arrow into the clout is thereby constituted a formidable opponent in the cricket-field. The wicket was slower, I think, than any wicket I ever played on, the out- fielding in many places impossible, and the lights and shadows on the ground at certain times of the day most baffling. We won our matches each year, and on one occasion Gillman made 100 by some really brilliant hitting. But by far the most interesting match that we played in that district, from a cricket point of view, was against Hugh Rother- ham's XI at Coventry ; and though, after declaring our second innings over, we won rather easily at the finish, they had headed us by some 50 runs in the first innings. Hard hitting was the order of the day in the latter part of our second innings ; and as a hard hitter, under those cir- cumstances, I can confidently recommend Harry Bagot, to whom nothing in the way of pitch or pace seemed to come amiss. Much to be condoled with was the man Caldwell, who, having travelled some hundreds of miles to play that week for the Foresters, split his finger in a local match at Meriden on the day before the Forester cricket began, and 3i6 MATCHES IN THE MIDLANDS. finding himself absolutely incapacitated, returned to Scot- land in disgust. We had a match against the Gentlemen of Staffordshire at Lichfield each year ; but the weather spoilt both games, and a more bleak place on a cold and rainy day than that Lichfield ground would be hard to find in the whole of England. Gillman and John Ricketts caused a little amusement while they were in together one second innings — the former, who had taken o at the first time of asking, not evincing the slightest anxiety to save his spectacles, and failing altogether to respond to the self- sacrificing efforts of his partner to run some rather short things. Eventually, after playing for some four overs with- out attempting to run, Gillman hit out finely, and made 50 in very quick time. Here let me relate a rather curious coincidence which happened in a Forester match with the Green-jackets at Winchester. Against a rather weak bowling side, John Ricketts, going in first, had elected, in the most unfeeling manner, to knock up a century, and had rather taken the gilt off the gingerbread for the rest of us. However, we made a good many runs, and after they had had to follow on we were left with only 9 to get in order to win the match. Two champions, of whom Frank Gresson was one and, I fancy, either Pember or Bobby Skipwith the other, having failed to score in the first innings, w^ere naturally given the chance of bagging their brace. After prolonging the excitement for quite a quarter of an hour, and after each had had several hairbreadth escapes, they returned to the pavilion in triumph, each having scored o — each being " not out," but having secured 9 extras. And I had almost forgotten to chronicle that when 4 runs were required in the second innings of our match against the Old Carthusians at Newbold Revel last year, we commenced operations by losing 3 wickets for no runs, with the result that one, if not two, distinguished s ^ ^ 5 ^ '- 2 i f^ ■>:^. H . < c« H W ffi b-i u ^ ;^ < ^ TS [£1 P^ M S^' •-> 3 ?:> n u G c/) fe S Sb (4 e:^^^^ H .;<^ S ■S.'->fe Pi < ^ S W ^ P^ Pi (>< •a -^ 3 . «- «« o ss yERSEY. 321 what fiery order : a tent was the only recognised boundary, but a hospital, a mess-room, a corn-field, a precipice, and a camp were tempting marks for a hard hitter. Teddy Buckland, who elected to bowl without a long-leg, was hit prodigiously hard in that direction. His elder brother was the unlucky short-leg, and, as he commenced to pur- sue the ball, which travelled merrily over a morass and along a hard and gritty road, with more perseverance than speed, had the presence of mind to ejaculate, " Back me up, some one ! " Fieldsman after fieldsman responded to the appeal, with the result that cover-point and two outfields v/ere left to watch the pleasing spectacle of seven men, with the " Bishop," gloves and all, bringing up the rear, toiling after the ball. How many were run for that hit I forget, but I have a distinct recollection of Jack Turner's last ball for the season of 1891 being hit by Easby for 9 in very much the same direction. We finished ofif match No. I. before luncheon on the second day, and the weather being too lovely to be wasted, at once started a return, in which, being set to make rather under 100 to win, we knocked them off in twenty-nine minutes by the clock. On the Saturday we played the Island on the Victoria College ground, where Ingram brought off a sensational catch close to the boundary. Here again the wicket was somewhat dangerous, one gentleman's life being only saved by the stoutness of his straw-hat ; and the captain of the opposi- tion had to be frequently encouraged by the Bishop " to stand up to his guns," as the balls whizzed past his ears. This match, like its predecessors, we won easily. We had a most festive dinner one night at the Fort, on which occasion Walter Bovill fairly frightened our entertainers by turning somersaults over chairs in the small hours of the night ; and it was on the morning after that dinner that I had the pleasure of personally conducting a nautical X 322 THE COW, expedition, consisting of the Bishop, Mid Kemp, M'Alpine, and Walter Bovill. There was plenty of wind, which materially affected the comfort of the latter trio, who were all ill at intervals, but were kindly nursed by the " Bishop," who played the part of steward to perfection, and obligingly passed up the green slugs, intended for bait, to be inspected by any temporary convalescent. The mal de mer took Kenneth M'Alpine in a peculiar form, and he reminded me much of Mr Squeers, his groans and gasps tending to the " 'arrowing belief that he had received some injury in his inside." Eventually, after eating an abnormal quantity of figs and grapes, talking more bad French than could be imagined, and drinking much excellent champagne at somewhere about half the cost of an inferior brand in England, we returned to Weymouth, and notwithstanding the sea passage commenced a match immediately on our arrival, and finished it in our favour in the afternoon of the second day. I have omitted to record how Walter Bovill so wofully frightened a cow on the fort cricket- ground in Jersey that he nearly drove the unhappy animal to commit suicide. Peeler Buckland and myself com- manded an excellent view of the proceedings, and a very funny sight it was. The cow, tethered after the manner of Jersey cows, was sedulously grazing her way up one side of a big grass mound, and we presently saw Walter, for want of a better occupation, divest himself of his coat, and so deftly time a laborious walk on all-fours up the other side that his nose almost encountered the cow's at the apex of the mound. Walter burst out laughing, but the cow was so startled at the apparition that she smashed her tether-rope and bolted after the manner of the Gadarene swine down a steep place, with a settled resolution to drown herself, a calamity which only Ingram's activity averted. From our position we thought it was a " gone " cow, and A NOVEL MATCH. 323 were much relieved when we saw it led back by our athletic cross-examiner. In 1 89 1 a good many of the original side again made the passage. Wet and cold weather rather marred the pleasure of the first part of the trip ; but the weather in Jersey was bright and warmer, I think, than any part of the summer. We started by playing Weymouth ; but, in the absence of " Bishop " Kemp, Jack Turner, and Walter Bovill, were soundly beaten twice over. The ground cut up badly, and we had all the worst of the wicket, but the amount of catches dropped was abnormal. In Guernsey we had a bit the best of a match played in a strong north- east wind, which chilled us all to the very bone, so that the game was stopped by mutual consent. Some half- dozen of our side had been conveyed from Weymouth in the yacht Roseneath — at that time owned by A. W. Fulcher — and we had a most cheery voyage, notwithstand- ing a little sea-sickness. If we had been unable to beat the Guernsey folk at cricket, Walter Bovill carried off for the time being, at all events, the honours of an encounter with the Major of the regiment quartered in the island. We had been most kindly welcomed by the Mess, who, in addition to showing us much hospitality, had pressed us to dine on the last night of our stay. But visions of an early start induced a change of programme, and we event- ually persuaded as many members of the Mess as we could get hold of to dine at our hotel instead. After dinner we all adjourned to the Club, and it was there that Walter Bovill had a most amusing contest with one of our guests. It was Joseph Hill who made the match, pitting his Free Forester unknown against the regimental fancy. Whether there had been any previous argument or dis- cussion, that I know not ; this only do I know, that some- where about midnight to the smoking-room of the Club there penetrated — even though uttered in those dulcet 324 PRELIMINARIES. accents for which Joseph is so justly famed — this start- Hng announcement, " Well, I'll back a fellow on our side to stand on his head against any man on yours." Ye gods ! what a challenge, and that when most of us were rather inclined to doubt our capacity for standing on our feet, let alone our heads. For though the day had been cold enough, the night was not only warm, but what a Scotchman would call "unco drouthy." I myself at the moment was doing my best to make small-talk to the two senior ofhcers of the regiment, — my best was not, I fear, very successful, as both my guests looked sleepy, sleepier of the pair the Major. But at the cry he started up, and then might be seen, as Napier puts it, " with what strength and majesty the British soldier fights," and how "nothing can stop that astonishing infantry." For that dark drowsy man simply bounded from his seat as if pro- pelled from a catapult, and ran down-stairs at a breakneck pace, loudly vociferating, " I'll take up that challenge with any man living ! " " Well, then, Bovrill is my man," announced Joseph ; and in the hands of Bovrill, or Bovill — you can spell it which way you like — we felt that the honour of the side was safe. For had it not been recorded of Walter Bovill that on one occasion he had dived into the window of a train in motion like the harlequin in the pantomime of our childhood would vanish into a post-box } that on another occasion, when he went to make a call, his hostess, enter- ing the drawing-room with her company smile, discovered her genial visitor sitting cross-legged on the top of the door? Had we not in the previous year v/ith our own eyes seen him at i o'clock A.M. turn a somersault over four chairs, to the astonishment of our hosts the South Lanca- shire Regiment, and to the evident disappointment of his showman Freddy Capron, who had apparently calculated upon his breaking his neck in the execution of this per- I THE CONTEST. 325 formance ? And had we not further seen him in ^Z^ pul- verise a well-known sporting colonel of the Royal Engineers at Chatham, who after fairly holding his own in cock-fight- ing, cavalry tournaments, and other gymnastic displays, simply declined attempting to walk round the anteroom on his hands at 2 A.M. What the Englishman is to other whites, what a Red Indian is to an Englishman, what an ape is to a Red Indian, what an orang-outang is to other apes, that — had Providence seen fit to make him an orang-outang — would Walter Bovill have been to the rest of his species. Preliminaries were soon settled. Two mats were brought out into the hall ; the men stripped to the buff, or rather took off their coats and waistcoats, stood face to face, and at a given signal up went — the Major. On his head, with his legs upreared straight as arrows, stood, motionless as a statue, that marvellous man for the space of fully five minutes — stood until (it was really quite interesting to watch) all the blood ran into his head, and his face grew purple. And where was our Walter all the time ? Kneeling on his mat with a quiet smile upon his face, and apparently trying to count the hairs on the back of the Major's head. For a moment there was a dead silence ; then as Foresters and guests alike entered into the spirit of the thing, uprose a mighty babel of voices, encouraging now the Simon Pure, now the impostor. " Bravo, Walter ! stick to it ; the Major is tottering." " Good old Major ! hold on one minute more, and you'll win yet ! " And right gallantly that Major held on — his face was almost black now. Six minutes passed — a tremulous movement in his legs indicated failing power, and sud- denly he came down with a run, an example which his adversary, who had calculated it to a nicety, and mounted just before the final catastrophe, followed half a minute later. 326 THE FINALE. " Well," exclaimed the Major, as soon as he had re- covered his breath sufficiently to make himself heard amidst the tumultuous laughter and roars of applause which greeted both performances, " I really had no idea that any one else could stand on his head so long. Of course I could have gone on for another ten minutes, only I thought that you were sure to be down." " Well, so could I, if it comes to that," retorted the un- blushing Walter ; " but I heard you fall, so I didn't care to go on. Anyhow, you are much more pumped than I am." By our guests' advice we held our peace, for the Major, they warned us, was a bit of a fire-eater, and it was thought that the harmony of the evening would be better preserved if he were left in blissful ignorance of the deceit practised on him. So at the time we allowed him to return to his quarters, a somewhat crestfallen and victimised man. But here let me make the amende honorable. What in the matter of standing on the head Walter Bovill is to other Free Foresters, that, and something more than that, I firmly believe the Major to be to Walter Bovill. We left Guernsey very early the next morning, and were again most cordially welcomed by our old friends, the 40th or South Lancashire Regiment. We had lovely weather, amusing cricket, and two most cheery dinners, and it was with unfeigned regret that we found that that was to be their last season in Jersey. All of us were sorry to take leave of those pretty islands ; and if some of the party were abominably ill on the return voyage, a wise minority who took champagne as a preventive can look back upon the trip with a conscience void of offence. Yacht Rona, CHAPTER XXXVI. 1894. I WILL own that I had fondly hoped that I had long since written my last chapter in the F. F. book. But alas for the fallaciousness of human expectations ! Another year has passed, and the records of another cricket season have been added to my labours. In this year of grace 1894 two distinctly new departures in the way of Free Forester cricket have taken place — i.e.^ the cruise of the yacht Rona and an Expedition to Ireland. If I cannot with a clear conscience say that the twelve brothers of our order who were privileged to sail in the Rona one and all proved themselves past masters in the art of navigation, it did not, on the other hand, seem as if 328 - JERSEY AND GUERNSEY. temporary fits of bodily uneasiness much interfered with thorough enjoyment of the excursion, nor did the awful amount of catches that were dropped weigh deeply upon the offenders' conscience. For men, they argued, who were night after night tossed upon the ocean could not be expected to judge catches on land in the morning, and it was clearly the bowlers' business to hit the wicket. We commenced our tour with a match against a very weak Isle of Wight side, played on what is by courtesy called "The County Ground," near ShankHn. In our second innings H. G. Tylecote and Ginger Mor- daunt each took a hundred, though for several overs it was an open question whether the latter would not prefer the distinction of spectacles. Early in the afternoon of the second day rain effectually stopped further play, and the match was left drawn considerably in our favour. On that Saturday night we made tracks for Jersey, but wind and tide necessitated a change of route, and we found ourselves anchored on Sunday morning in Cher- bourg Harbour. Some of our party were not particularly clever at breakfast that day, and our umpire looked as if he would gladly have given himself " out " of the rest of that or any other voyage. A quiet morning restored the lost appetites, and after lunch we went on shore and visited the fair, where Harry Forster distinguished him- self by performing some surprising feats of strength with a beetle. His energy was not allowed to pass unre- warded. For the Amazon who ran the show pinned on his breast with her own fair hands a medallion bear- ing an appropriate inscription. Then, in order to prove that there was really no deception, the lady proceeded to reproduce the feats herself ; but albeit that this un- called-for exhibition rather discounted the merits of his performance, Forster retained possession of his medallion, which will doubtless remain an heirloom in the family. < o 5J aj 3 W3 1^1 ^■^W ^- W r« W tn |3 WEYMOUTH. • 329 We reached Jersey on the following morning, and on a soft wicket easily defeated Colonel Bruce's XL A wet day at Guernsey gave ample opportunity for inspecting the capital town of that island, and we found the Island side so unexpectedly weak that a single day proved ample time to play out what should have been a two-days' match. We declared our first innings over with one wicket down for 150, and disposed of our op- ponents twice for an aggregate of 120. The one re- markable incident of the match was illustrative of the steadiness of the British Infantry under fire. For when Cranston drove a ball into the middle of the regimental band, more than one member of which was for the moment in imminent bodily peril, they never faltered in their playing, but went on as gaily as if a knock from a cricket -ball was a matter of no importance. Some sporting paper laid much stress on the fact that Le Mesurier committed suicide by knocking down his own wicket in either innings, but when we inspected the place where he took guard we came to the conclusion that it would have been rather a matter of surprise if he had failed to accomplish his weird design. From Guernsey we went on to Weymouth, and then played a most enjoyable match on a wicket which was not only very true, but, considering the amount of rain that had fallen, remarkably fast. Though we eventually won somewhat easily by 8 wickets, the locals were by no means a bad side, and it was unfortunate for them that one of their soundest batsmen should have been run out in each innings when apparently well set. For them W. H. Mansfield played a spirited innings for 70, and their professional, Hughes, bowled well and steadily from start to finish. It would be a pity if a match at Wey- mouth were not occasionally to figure in the Forester programme : the ground is good, the cricket keen, and the 330 IRELAND. place most attractive. With this match ended our most pleasant tour. If we could have wished that the cricket in the Channel Islands had been of a somewhat higher standard, all the arrangements on board the yacht were simply perfect, and when I say that Mr M'Arthur Wood made us feel as comfortable and as much at home as we have always been at Newbold Revel, men who have played there will readily understand that Paradise Row was no inappropriate name for that section of the yacht of which I was the self- appointed Commodore. Ours was a distinctly strong side, too strong of course for most of the teams we encountered ; but it had been confidently anticipated that the effects of the sea-passages would equalise matters to a far greater degree than was the case. Ginger Mordaunt and H. G. Tylecote came out with prodigious averages, while Boger, Leatham, and Harry Forster also made a good many runs. Forster and Theo. Wilson were the most success- ful bowlers, but most of us had on occasion a turn with the ball. Hanbury kept wicket so consistently well that Philipson's services were not called into requisition, and the latter was allowed to swell the ranks of the change- bowlers. In this capacity Punch met with some success, and I have it on the best authority — his own — that his fast ball is especially effective. It has not yet been officially decided whether the Champion Belt, to be worn by the fieldsman who misses most catches on a tour, which was long and worthily held by Joe Goldney, and in the season of 1893 passed into my possession, should be awarded to Boger, Gray Tylecote, or Harry Forster. That each of them has strong claims in his favour will be readily admitted by all the passengers of the steam-yacht Rona. The other new feature of the year was an Irish tour organised and personally conducted by Frank Sitwell and IRISH WEATHER. 331 myself. One thing only was wanting to make it a com- plete success — i.e., fine weather. People had prophesied hard things to us about the weather to be expected in Ireland during August, and their predictions were amply fulfilled. Altogether we were in Ireland for twelve days, inclusive of Sundays. On three days it rained almost continuously ; on three we really had something like summer weather, with bright sunshine and blue sky — but, unfortunately for our cricket aspirations, two of these latter were Sun- days. Some of our party, who visited Killarney on a Sunday, seemed inclined to congratulate themselves on having secured a bright day for their expedition. Per- sonally I, who had gone to Ireland to play cricket rather than look at scenery, felt aggrieved that so fine a Sunday should have followed three impossible working days. The remaining six days may be briefly described as muddy and cloudy. If on the one hand there was no rain, on the other there was a total absence of sunshine, with the natural result that the wickets after the excessive rain were too slow and muddy for words. We spent a very fair proportion of our time on the railway, and twice had to start at 7 A.M., and pass on one occasion four, on the other six, hours in the train before playing cricket. We found the trains neither rapid nor punctual, and when every other expedient for spinning out the time prescribed by Bradshaw or by custom failed, petty officials used to come and mutilate our tickets or argue with Jeff Maynard. The stationmasters at Dublin, Cork, and Limerick were extremely courteous and ob- liging, but many of the understrappers at intermediate stations we found very much the reverse. As a final steadier of the nerves before going in to bat, I can con- fidently recommend a jaunt on an outside car through crowded streets laid with tramway lines and under the auspices of a slightly elevated Jehu. Not even the 332 RESULTS IN IRELAND, abominable weather or the lengthiness of the journey could make our visit to Cork otherwise than pleasant. For there we once more forgathered with our old friends the South Lancashire Regiment, and were for three days most hospitably entertained by them and the York and Lancaster, who were quartered in the same barracks. Whether a supper off grilled bones and poached eggs, washed down by Spiltzner beer, at 2 A.M., is likely to be conducive to good cricket was a wholly immaterial ques- tion, as the only cricket played by the F. F. at Cork was an hour's mud-larking on the Saturday afternoon. And now for the composition of the team, which on the evening of the first day of our match with the Vice- regal was described as consisting of " has beens," " never was's," and fair-class contemporaries. I am not at all anxious to quarrel with this description, which, if uncompli- mentary, had the merit of being fairly accurate ; but whereas seven of the opposition were reported in the same paper to be about as strong as could be called up in the absence of F. H. Browning, and a good many people were at pains to inform us that all the best bowling in Ireland was arrayed against us, it must have been rather a blow to the prophets when we converted what looked like a lost match into a distinctly favourable draw. My whole idea in getting up the side had been to collect a team capable of making a fair show in the Dublin matches, and at the same time not overwhelmingly strong for the outlying garrisons. And now that it is all over I may fairly claim to have accomplished my object. We had a bit the better of the draws with the Viceregal and Limerick County teams, and we defeated the Curragh by 8 wickets and the Military of Ireland by 3 wickets. In fact, we proved ourselves to be rather a better team in the field than we looked on paper, and the show we made contrasts very favourably with that o c** C (V o ^ m K-1 HARD HITTING. 333 of the far more classy I Zingari side which invaded Ireland earlier in the season. By far the most creditable performance of the tour was our second innings against the Viceregal XI. In the first innings our opponents made on a slow but very easy wicket 255. Their batting was described as being most pugnacious, and they cer- tainly seemed to be thoroughly at home with the ex- traordinary lights and shadows of a ground surrounded on all sides by trees. As no one on our side seemed to be able to judge a catch, the batsmen hit out freely with absolute impunity. When we went in to bat at 5 P.M. the light was abominably bad, and Maynard was the only man on the side who seemed to have any notion of timing the ball or judging the pitch of two slow bowlers. Penny and Hamilton, the latter of whom came out with an extraordinary analysis. Our eight best wickets fell overnight for 68 runs, and on the following morning the other three went for one more run, so that we had to follow on in a minority of 166. We again started badly, losing two good wickets for 20 runs ; but then Hamilton's steady defence and Cuninghame's brilliant hitting altered the whole complexion of the match. Three off- drives made by Cuninghame from consecutive balls sent down by the Irish Hamilton were magnificent hits, and fairly brought down the house. As long as Cuninghame was in, the bowlers hardly seemed to know where to pitch the ball ; and even after he was dis- posed of for a grandly hit 118, there was little diminution in the pace of the scoring. Nearly every remaining member of the side got into respectable double figures, and the last over bowled by the overnight terror Penny produced 19 runs. The local papers singled out Appleby for special commendation, and were pleased to liken him to one Phil Casey ; but whether the latter was the Clown or the Fenian of that ilk is still a disputed question. Doubtless 334 -4 TIGHT FINIS//. Appleby, who accepted the position with characteristic modesty, would have shone in either capacity. Eventu- ally we put in our opponents to make 190 runs, and as at the call of time we had got their six best wickets down for 90, we may fairly claim to have had a bit the best of the deal. For the Viceregal side Hamilton and Meldon played sterling good cricket, and Penny was in a long time for his runs ; but Cuninghame's hitting for us put all other performances in the background. We owed our victory over the Military of Ireland to Crosfield's all-round cricket. In this particular match he batted, bowled, and fielded magnificently, and, fortunately for us, stayed the rot which had set in at the outset of our second innings, when, having to make 37 runs to win the rnatch, we started by losing 6 wickets for 11. For the soldiers. Finch and Morant bowled finely on a wicket which the uninvited application of the roller, while we were in the dressing-room, had made extremely difficult, and it did not take us long to discover that the victory which we had already begun to discount was no great certainty after all, and though we did eventually pull through by 3 wickets, we had not much to boast about. Oswald played two really fine innings for the soldiers, and Finch hit with some luck and much pluck. The other matches in Ireland were so much interfered with by the weather that it is not worth while to give any details. I would recommend any future manager of a F. F. team in Ireland to see that his XI is amply provided with mud-wicket bowlers and waterproof garments, and leave the batting to look after itself ; and, above all, I would warn him either to avoid the week of the Dublin Horse Show or to take a stout-hearted and, for choice, an impecunious side, abundantly insured in Accidental In- surance Companies. PHCENIX PARK. 335 1894. Played at Viceregal Lodge, Phcefiix Pa}'k, Dublin. Atigust 20 and 21. VICEREGAL. 1ST INNINGS. S( A. D. Comyn, b Hamilton B. Hamilton, c Hamilton, b Appleby T. M, Meldon, b Collins .... Hon. and Rev. E. Lyttelton, c and b Collins F. F. Kilkelly, c Ryder- Richardson, b Crosfield G. F. Berkeley, c Lawson-Smith, b Ham ilton Major Lindsay, c Lawson-Smith, b Collins G. H. Thesiger, b Crosfield A. Penny, b Appleby Col. Hon. N. Lyttelton, b Cuninghame H. E. Lord Houghton, b Pilcher Capt. Dundas, not out Extras Total JE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 19 c Cunninghame, b Pilcher 18 44 c Sitwell, b Collins . . 45 40 c Hamilton, b Collins . 14 4 b Collins .... 3 6 b Collins .... 21 20 c Richardson, b Crosfield 3 50 not out .... 5 10 3 18 Extras . . . -4 235 Total (for 6 wickets) 92 FREE FORESTERS. E. A. Maynard, b Hamilton R. J. Atthill, c Meldon, b Penny Capt. Hamilton, c Thesiger, b Penny S. Crosfield, b Hamilton . E. R. Lawson-Smith, b Hamilton B. A. Cuninghame, c sub., b Hamilton W. D. Bovill, b Penny W. E. Collins, b Penny F. H. Sitwell, b Hamilton A. Appleby, b Berkeley A. J. Pilcher, b Hamilton W. Ryder-Richardson, not out Extras .... Total 32 c Houghton, b Hamilton 8 1 b w, b Berkeley 7 b Meldon . 8 c Lindsay, b Penny . o run out 9 c Comyn, b Berkeley o not out o c and b Comyn 2 c Meldon, b Penny . c Lyttelton, b Hamilton 1 st Thesiger, b Hamilton o c Hamilton, b Berkeley 2 Extras . 69 Total 7 o 36 14 18 117 72 31 o 29 17 3 10 354 1894. Played at Phasnix Park, Dublin. August 2g and 20. MILITARY OF IRELAND. 1ST INNINGS. Captain Baker, c Pilcher, b Collins . R. K. Price, b Pilcher Captain Oswald, b Pilcher Captain Oates, c Pilcher, b Collins . SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 3 c Ryder - Richardson, b Crosfield . . .11 I b Pilcher .... 2 44 c Collins, b Crosfield . 71 o c Ryder - Richardson, b Pilcher . , . . 2 336 MILITARY OF IRELAND. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. Captain Lindner, b Crosfield . 5 b Pilcher . 6 M. B. Ffinch, b Crosfield . o b Hamilton 44 A. Penny, b Crosfield o c and b Crosfield 2 Captain Macjier, c and b Crosfield . 2 not out . o H. H. Morant, b Crosfield • 15 b Hamilton 2 W. P. Barter, not out . . . 5 c Cuninghame, b Cros field . o Private Garside, c Hamilton, b Pilcher 4 b Crosfield o Extras I Extras . II Total . 8o Total iSi FREE FORESTERS. F. H. Sitwell, b Morant . E. A. J. Maynard, b Morant Captain Hamilton, b Morant . B. A. Cuninghame, c Dates, b Ffinch S. M. Crosfield, c Macjier, b Ffinch W. D. Bovill, St Barter, b Penny R. J. Atthill, b Morant E. M. Lawson-Smith, 1 b w, b MacJ A. J. Pilcher, c sub., b Garside W. E. W. Collins, not out W. Ryder-Richardson, run out . Extras Total 27 b Ffinch . 4 8 b Morant . 2 7 b Morant . 22 c Gates, b Morant . 2 51 b Morant . 13 12 c and b Ffinch . 41 1 b w, b Ffinch I 6 not out . 15 II 2 not out . 2 Extras 19s Total (for 7 wickets) 41 School Matches. Hitherto I have treated of matches or series of matches in which I have from time to time myself taken an active part. But as it is impossible for an individual to be, like the Free Forester Club, ubiquitous, and as, moreover, it is only on rare occasions that the hard-worked school- master can snatch a day for cricket until the end of July, there have of necessity been any number of F. F. matches of which I know little beyond the facts that I see them down on the card, hear of them at the meeting, and oc- casionally find them reported in the * Field ' or the * Sportsman.' And here let me remark that, with all due respect to * Cricket ' and the ' Cricket-field,' I am SCHOOL MATCHES, 337 inclined to believe that the ' Field ' and the ' Sportsman/ as having a wider circulation, are the most convenient papers in which to report matches. In the first places, then, come matches against the Public Schools, those treasured opportunities for revisit- ing haunts of the past, as well as favourable occasions for keeping in touch with the Foresters of the future. In- cluding Woolwich Academy — I must apologise to the gentlemen - cadets and sub - officers for thus classifying such veterans among schoolboys — there are no less than seven of these matches on the '94 programme, and the only thing to be regretted is that there are not more. It would be sound policy for a Club of this stamp, which naturally recruits its ranks almost entirely from men who hail from public schools, to make it a rule— subject, of course, to an invitation — to visit every public school once at least in three years. And if it is the case, as rumour says, that it is impossible to induce men to go far away from London to play matches in June and July, there must be plenty of local Foresters, belonging either to the Active Service Corps or the Reserve Battalion, in every county in England to form the nucleus of a side. At any rate, my own experience in getting up F. F. teams has been that, if time is taken by the forelock, it is far more easy to make oneself unpopular by refusing applications for places than it is difficult to muster a fairly strong side. Only once have I had the chance of playing against a school for the Foresters, and that was some few years ago at Eton, when on a hard wicket I was snicked to leg by those Eton boys in a way which was "quite frightful to see." The boys made plenty of runs, and we only got an innings late in the afternoon ; but even then, thanks to some marvellously fast scoring by Arthur Heath and H. J. Burrell, those runs would have been got in the time, but for the interference of an umpire, who came to the rescue Y 338 ETON AND RUGBY. of his side with one of those decisions which only a school umpire or a village-green ignoramus has the hardihood to utter. When the partnership between two men who were flogging weak bowling and had grown accustomed to the light was dissolved, slower scoring followed, and we had to rest content with a moral victory. But the Forester sides at Eton, which have usually of late years been got up by Charlie Farmer, have by no means had matters entirely their own way, and several of the drawn games have been much in favour of the School. It has not been found altogether an easy task to please the powers that govern the cricket at Eton, and more than one side that has gone there has been pronounced to be either too strong or too weak or too local to be entirely satisfactory. Probably the most popular of all the matches against Public Schools is the annual two-day fixture at Rugby. In the first place, owing to the excellent service of trains, Rugby is very accessible from the metropolis ; in the second place, many Free Foresters are old Rugbeians ; and lastly, it is felt that the Free Forester match is one of the events of the Rugby cricket season really looked forward to by the boys, and likely to have a definite conclusion. Of late the Foresters have generally had the better of the deal, but appearances point to better things to come in the way of Rugby cricket, which has fallen far below the standard of the days in which Rutter, Willes, Venables, Francis, poor Bernard Pauncefote, Harry Tubb, and other celebrated Foresters first made their mark. Now and again some of these time-honoured names crop up in the Forester teams which oppose the School. And a few years back a cheeky young member of the School XI was heard to cast somewhat disparaging reflections on the personal appearance of the side which was representing the Club. " Well," remarked the youthful critic, " this is RUGBY WIT. 339 the funniest side I ever saw. All of them have got grey hair except three, and they have got no hair at all." But if it was a funny side to look at, it proved fairly strong when it came to playing cricket, and the fielding of the grey-headed and bald-headed old gentlemen was about as good as anything that the boys saw that season. The Foresters administered a sound thrashing to the School, thereby proving that the old adage, "youth must be served," does not hold quite as good in cricket as in other forms of athletic exercises. It would be invidious to mention names, but I could count on my fingers at this minute an XI of bald-headed Foresters who would make rings round any Public School side at Lord's. To have played in the Rugby XI was in days gone by regarded as a sort of passport for entrance into the ranks of the Free Foresters, and good service has been often rendered to the Club by the old Rugbeian contingent. It is unfortunate that Malvern and Uppingham, which have lately turned out excellent sides, should be so very inaccessible from town, and that a good deal of difficulty has been experienced in getting a sufficiently strong For- ester team to undertake the journey. Several good crick- eters from either School have lately been elected For- esters, and it would seem to rest with them to emulate George Willes' example, and collect a side capable of better things than merely leather-hunting for the boys. Kent and South Coast Matches in 1894. My apology for having written at some length of events which occurred in the later days of the season before treat- ing of other matches must be that I preferred to record what was still fresh in my memory before attempting to grapple with the -results of a very lengthy programme of matches. 340 R'A. AND R.E. In Kent the Foresters cannot be said to have shown to great advantage, as we were decisively beaten both at Woolwich and Chatham, and in both matches sides which on paper looked strong in batting failed to make a respectable show. In our first innings at Woolwich we actually lost 6 good wickets for 17 runs, and in the in- evitable follow-on, which, by the way, the courtesy of the Woolwich captain postponed to the good light of the second day, batsman after batsman stayed at the wicket long enough apparently to get set, and then retired clean bowled. There were some curious decisions given by the umpires, both of whom seemed to be affected with tem- porary blindness ; but, fortunately, their mistakes did not in any way affect the issue of the match, and our oppo- nents as thoroughly deserved to win as we did to lose what proved a very one-sided game. For the Gun- ners, De Rougemont, after feeling for the ball for his first few overs, played well and hit hard, while Orlebar gave for us what the * Sportsman ' would describe as a dashing display during the short time that he was in. Don Wauchope's catch, which brought the first innings of the Gunners to a close, was one of the finest I have ever seen in the long field. He had to run a very long way to the ball, and no one but an exceptionally fast mover could have got to the catch at all. In our Chatham match we secured a fair lead in the first innings, but in the second our batting collapsed in the most disappointing manner. We had rather the worst of the luck in the. way of the wicket, as the umpires elected to delay the match after a heavy downpour of rain on the second day of the match just long enough to give the bowlers every advantage. But it is graceless work attempting to explain away defeats, and the real secret of our discomfiture lay in the excellence of Bayfield's bowling against fame and feeble batting, and the smart out-fielding of the Sappers^ \ CHATHAM AND THE MOTE. 341 which contrasted very favourably with our own display. For them all the catches in the country seemed to come to hand; but though in both innings Tandy and others hit hard and high, often the only catch which our out- fields brought off was one which Dorehill clasped to his body. It is a long lane that has no turning, and the Free Foresters could well afford to lose a match to their cheery hosts at Chatham. The Mote we beat handsomely by 10 wickets, and had only a moderate percentage of the chances they gave in their second innings been taken, we should have won in an innings. As it was, nearly every batsman on their side made double figures, and most of them gave two or more easy chances. For us Spurway and Tonge played fine cricket, and Hewett's rough handling of Walter Wright's bowling showed that Atkins is not the only left-handed batsman who can "cart" left-handed bowl- ing on the Mote ground. It was even-money betting that Hewett would hit Wright to the boundary twice at least in every over, and to the left-handed trundler who started the bowling at the other end he was even more unkind. It was a source of deep regret to the Foresters that there was no August cricket at Linton Park, and that conse- quently the very pleasant annual match there did not figure in the programme for '94. And the match which had been arranged with Boxley eventually fell through, owing, I fear, to the indisposition of one of the kindliest of our many kindly hosts in Kent. A pleasant substitute for the Linton match was the game played at Bedgebury Park, where Captain H. Campbell entertained us royally, and got together a fairly strong side to meet us. We were vilely treated by the weather, and the wicket is probably slow under any circumstances ; but we had, notwithstanding, a most sociable and fairly even match, and thoroughly enjoyed 342 BEDGEBURY PARK. our two days' visit. When rain stopped play on the second day we were in the enviable position of being practically "dormy," as, while we had a chance of winning, by no possible combination of circumstances could we have absolutely lost the match. Hewett hit well in each innings, and Leatham was also on the knock ; but Spurway's was perhaps the soundest exhibition of batting. Sidney Crosfield made his runs well for the other side, and it was refreshing to see that Joe Hadow's absence from the cricket-field had not made him forget what a half-volley looked like. Stanley Christopherson did a little fancy bowling, and hereby hangs a tale. Chris had originally been expected to play throughout the week, but was detained in London by business. As we had not got him to bowl for us at the Mote, we consoled ourselves by talking about the great things he would have done for us ; and whenever our bowling was at all in a knot, our gallant leader, Lionel Spens, made the same apology, " If Stanley Christopherson had been here, we should have had them out in no time." In fact, so great was the value that was set on Chris's services, and such the enchantment that distance added to the view, that it was determined to play with ten men on the first day of the Bedgebury match rather than risk the loss of so potent an auxiliary on the second. And through- out the earlier part of the enemy's innings we still continued to conjure with the name of Stanley Christopherson. In fact, Crosfield, who was the overnight " not out," probably had a nightmare, in which Chris with cricket-ball in hand played a prominent part. And in the morning Chris in person came and saw, and — bowled the three most ghastly overs that ever were sent down. Of the fifteen balls, eleven were rather fast long-hops on the off, and the other four rather slow full pitches to leg. Seldom has a bowler displayed so much want of originality. Had he sent down DRAWN AGAIN. 343 a full pitch to off or a long-hop to leg, or even an occasional straight ball, it would have been a welcome variety ; but nothing of the sort occurred, and by the end of the third over, point, the umpire, and short-leg had had plenty of perilous excitement. It was fortunate for us that a hit to the off-side boundary counted three, and that one of the batsmen was of the cautious type ; but whenever Crosfield got to that end, matters became extremely lively. Our only bowler's skill will require a considerable amount of booming before it ever again reaches the premium it commanded previous to being actually in the market, and the downfall of Pip's great expectations was a mere trifle compared to the bursting of the still greater Stanley Christopherson bubble. The Southampton, Portsmouth, and Aldershot tour re- sulted, as usual, in two drawn matches at the former places and a win at the last-named. It would seem desirable that two three-day matches should in that particular week take the place of three two-day fixtures. A cricket-match without a definite result is always unsatisfactory, and when two sides go into the field year after year with a sort of condition that, bar accident, a draw will be the result of two days* work, the game must lose a good deal of interest, and men are tempted to play, like the Gow Chrom, for their own hand. There is a certain monotony about having to make the same old stereotyped remarks : " We should have won if we had time," or, " We saved the match any- how," year after year ; and though in the days to come we may look back with some pardonable pride on our vic- tories, and occasionally brood over our reverses, the draws, whether in our favour or against us, will still be labelled unsatisfactory. I have heard a rumour to the effect that Peeler Buckland, who, as being less than ten years younger than myself, must be accounted quite a veteran, had a not altogether encouraging experience of this particular tour 344 SOUTH COAST. in the seasons of '92 and '93. In the latter of these years he received two balls and scored o and o in the whole week, but as a set-off against this bad luck had the pleasure of fielding out for something like 1200 runs. In '92 he was rather more fortunate, as he made very nearly 20 runs himself, and only had to field out for about 1000. But he was intensely pleased at being spoken of by a young and zealous member of the side as " the old gentleman." The fact that a still older gentleman in the season just ended helped to put on 160 runs for the last wicket in a Forester match ought to be an encouragement to a good many of us, who have begun to feel that our room might be more valuable than our company in some of the August matches. H. J. Burrell scored largely in both innings at Southamp- ton, though a good deal of encouragement was required in the second innings to make him forget that he had dam- aged his hand. At Portsmouth, Hornsby, who elected to figure in the ranks of the opposition, found Streatfeild's bowling a bit too good for him, and possibly wished before the game was over that he had been playing on the Forester side. For once in a way no one got a century in the week, though Burrell went very near it. In '92 Captain Quinton amused himself by making 120 for the Foresters at Southampton and somewhere about the same number against them at Portsmouth, and he made another century in one of the '93 matches. In short, to individual cricketers matches on these two very easy grounds have been pleasant opportunities for making large scores ; but as six matches in succession have been left drawn, it would seem advisable either to put the Aldershot match into another week, and have three-day fixtures at Southampton and Portsmouth, or to let it be an understood thing that each side shall do its level best to cap the score made by the Australians in 1893, ^i^^) like the Austrahans, make no attempt to finish the match. ECCE ITERUM. 345 History repeats itself, and Teddy Rutter once more co.MES TO the Fore. It has been the unanimous feeling of Foresters who have been consulted in the matter that the subjoined score should have a page to itself. It would almost seem as if our worshipful and honoured Secretary had purposely delayed the production of these records, which had not been originally intended to include the year 1894, and had made up his mind that, before the book was finally published, he would yet do one more doughty deed which should stand forth as a conspicuous example for younger generations of Free Foresters. I believe it to be a fact that at the time when Rutter joined Savory a follow-on was still on the cards. By the time that memorable stand was over and Rutter left, possibly, like Fitz-James, "breath- less all," and certainly, like that hero, master of the situa- tion, the only hope for the opposing team lay in a draw, which just — only just — came off. I have seen Savory hit hard and well more than once, and rumour says that he hit harder than usual, and that some of his drives took a good deal of stopping. He gave, it is true, a chance to Draper, but an eye-witness remarked it was one of those chances which few men but the plucky old Rector would have gone for. 1894. Played at Bignell, July 25 and 26. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. E. Hanbury, b PoUey . . . i Capt. Becher, b Maul ... 9 H. G. S. Hughes, b Policy . . 9 C. F. Hickley, b Maul . . 7 H. E. Cobb, St Renn, b Policy . 35 A. Appleby, c and b Maul . . o C. Harding, b Policy . . . i Rev. J. H. Savory, st Renn, b A. E. Leatham, c Jakeman, b Draper 125 PoUey 13 E. Rutter, not out . . . 41 J. Hill, b Maul .... 10 Extras 26 J. F. Marshall, c Renn, b Jakeman i Col. Rice, b Maul ... 2 Total . 280 346 VALE. MR HOARE'S TEAM. 1ST INNINGS. I S. D. Maul, c Appleby, b Hickley E. Jakeman, c Leatham, b Hickley Rev. W. H. Draper, b Hickley W. S. Case, c Hanbury, b Hickley H. Tubb, b Appleby P. C. Smith, c Hanbury, b Harding H. Allen, b Appleby F. G. Morgan, c Hanbury, b Leatham F. Dickenson, h-\v, b Harding C. J. Stratton, b Harding Policy, c Hill, b Appleby R. Renn, b Harding C. T. Hoare, not out Extras E. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 2 c and b Marshall II lO not out 6 i8 b Harding . 5 b Hickley . 14 o b Harding . 3 38 1 b w, b Hickley . 21 8 b Harding . 12 II St Hanbury, b Harding I 32 b Harding . 2 2 c Savory, b Harding . 2 27 1 b w, b Hickley . 7 21 c Becher, b Hickley . 4 not out ... 4 6 Extras 17 Total 180 Total 104 And now I have finished my appointed task, and have given what I fear is a very lame and a very imperfect sketch of Free Forester cricket during these latter years. It only remains for me to thank many secretaries of private and other cricket clubs for furnishing copies of scores, and to apologise to many men for not entirely respectful, if friendly, mention of their names. I think that it may be fairly claimed for our Club that in every part of the United Kingdom to which it has wandered, it has played the game of cricket in the spirit in which cricket should be played ; that we Foresters have worked for victory hard and accepted defeat not ungraciously; that we have shown our due appreciation of the merits of our opponents, and due gratitude to the many clubs and private houses which have opened their doors to us. And for myself I will just add that I account the days I have spent in playing for the Free Foresters as the brightest and happiest in my cricket career, and that I shall always regard the Club, to which for ten years past I have been " united though untied," as the beau ideal of what an Amateur Cricket Club ought to be. ■ ' 1 ' vvLji^^ '''^%,j|NH| piiBUil F. Capron. J. H. Hornsby. F. C. Evelyn. H. Maul. C. Cobb. W. Bovill. G. E. Willes. H. Hamilton. E. D. Prothero. E. Peake. W. H. P. Jenkins. F. F. V. Liidloxu, 1885. CHAPTER XXXVII. WILLES'S TOURS. It was in 1883 that a suggestion was made by Captain Willes, the secretary of the newly formed East Glouces- tershire Cricket Club, that the Free Foresters should play an annual match on the picturesque ground at Charlton Park, Cheltenham. This match was undertaken by W. H. P. Jenkins and G. E. Willes, and was continued year by year until 1891. The first match was won by E. G. C. C 348 ''ALMOST THE DELUGE?' by one wicket, and was the forerunner of many a stubborn fight. In 1884 the average ages of the Free Forester team was thirty-five, and one of their number, Clarence Smith, played an admirable innings of 105. In another match, at Cheltenham, A. W. Moon scored over 90 not out, while the total of the whole side only amounted to 122 ; the wicket was sodden, and no one except himself could do anything with the bowling. On another occasion W. D. Bovill did an excellent performance, getting a lot of runs, and taking all the wickets in one innings. The last match that was played v. E. G. C. C. was in 1891, and was remark- able for the fact that, both days being more or less wet, E. G. C. C. did not handle the willow, the Foresters keeping possession of the wickets during all the available time of play, and making 371 for the loss of 6 wickets. Nor must we omit an incident which created much amusement and not a little controversy at the time : a certain prominent member of the E. G. C. C. in the 1890 match played the ball twice, on the second occasion putting it in the direction of point. The ball was picked up, and hurled somewhat wide of the bowler's wicket in .the direction of the boundary. The batsman started to run, and the umpire adjudged him " Out," whereupon laughter, confusion, and almost "the Deluge." In 1885 operations were extended to Ludlow, and v. Radnorshire at Knighton, where F. C. Cobden of Cam- bridge fame (the Cobden, as he once was called by a youthful cricketer) had always a strong team against the Foresters, while Frank Sitwell also did, and still does, his best to beat the Club at Ludlow. It was on the Knighton ground in 1885 that F. W. Capron scored 105 in almost record time, and a year or two later C. E. Cobb knocked up 73 in thirty-five minutes. Pleasant, indeed, are the memories of these matches, and of the hospitable homes in which the Foresters have THE ROVER. 349 always been entertained so regally. Nor shall we lightly forsfet the welcome we have received in the houses of R. Harley, C. Rogers, H. Crawshay, Lady Gierke, R. G. Venables, &c.; and last, but not least, at Ferney Hall, the home of that good sportsman, W. H. Sitwell, who is not only a Forester himself but the father of two of the best, Tim and Franky. But here a memory of Knighton cricket-ground intrudes itself. Frank Cobden was practising at a net before a match, — for a wonder he was playing steadily, — and so pleased was he with his performance that he ventured to compare himself with Fuller Pilch, whereupon a funny man behind the net, a native, gravely remarked, " Full o' whisky, you mean, whatever." And now perhaps may follow some lines by the Forester bard, which illustrate an event of some obscurity. The subject of them was not then a Forester ; we had picked him up en route, and right good service did he do us, scoring v, Ludlow 57 and 43 (not out), and taking 15 wickets. " After the dinner was over, When no one could drink any more, We discovered our Uppingham Rover, Fast asleep, on the step of the door. When asked for a true explanation By the rest of the Forester team, He said, 'twas excessive potation Of his hostess's excellent cream. But all sportsmen who know Mrs Rowton, And have dined at her table before, This fact will have never a doubt on. That cream was the best of creme d'or. And now that our cricket is ended. Let us all of us Foresters Free Thank our hosts for their welcome extended, And toast them with thirty times three." 350 AULD LANGS YNE. Owing in a great measure to Frank Cobden leaving the neighbourhood, the Knighton match was abandoned, and in its place Heath House became the venue^ where a welcome both by night and day was extended to the Club. How shall we describe the hospitality of Mr Seton and Mrs Sunderland ? Perfect wickets in the day, a perfect floor at night ; fair ladies equally ready to applaud our feats in the cricket-field and to dance us off our legs in the ball-room. Yes, the Heath House match was verily and indeed a match to be remembered, and many a Forester regrets that Mr Seton has given up his ground, and that we shall no more encounter that keenest to win, and at the same time most generous, of adversaries. But we must say a word or two of other matches. Worcester was visited, and a place was given in the County Club cricket-week to the Forester match. Some- how they always got the better of us, as they succeeded in putting into the field a side just a bit too strong for a "touring team." At Shrewsbury, however, we have met with better success, and in the many battles which have of later years taken place on the old ground by the river, sometimes the County and sometimes the Foresters have come off victorious. Here it has always been the custom for the Foresters to stay together at the George Hotel, and hearty has been the welcome we have received year by year from host Fox and his excellent staff, including that most amiable and all-important functionary, the cook. Nor must we forget three visits to Cirencester, one to Stoke {v. Staffordshire), two to Hereford, one to Leomin- ster, several to Wellesbourne ; and, above all, there is the memory of the last match at Sutton Coldfield in the good old Rector's time, where once more the Father of the Club gathered " his children " round him in the ancestral home. No one can rob us of the pleasures we have had, and DO OR DIE. 351 there is many a Forester who will keep a kindly recollec- tion of the fun he has had with " the Skipper " and his crew. The friendships so many have made, the places visited, the matches lost or won, will linger in the minds of some of us long after the bat has been laid aside and the pads handed over to the next generation. In one never-to-be-forgotten match at Shrewsbury, "res venit ad triarios," or, in other words, a distinguished officer of the Royal Artillery, was sent in to face the attack when there were two wickets to fall and one run needed to give the Foresters a victory. The gallant Gunner's face wore a " do-or-die-in-the-attempt " expression. But it was re- marked that he was so much impressed with the gravity of the occasion that he entirely omitted the formality of taking guard, to the manifest disconcertment of the umpire. Perhaps under the circumstances it was fortunate that the ball, the last of the over, missed both bat and wicket. The winning hit was made from the other end, and the Gunner to this day doubtless cherishes a pleasing recollection of the way in which he kept up his end, and of the lusty manner in which he smote — the air. G. E. W. 1885. Played at Cheltenham, July 28 and 29. EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Rev. J. H. Baxter, c Lucy, b T. W. Knight, c Hornsby, b Bovill 4 Bovill 4 Captain W. Roberts, b Bovill . 8 E. A. Bennett, c Beevor, b Bovill 14 Captain C. W. Knox, c Capron, Rev. V. Leatherdale, c Willis, b b Bovill 35 Bovill ..... 8 A. E. Leatham, c Beevor, b Bovill 4 O. R. Sergeant, not out . . 33 R. Gore, b Bovill .... 10 Extras 18 C. Tillard, c Smith, b Bovill . 108 T. W. Gould, b Bovill ... 8 Total . 254 In the second innings Baxter (b Bovill) scored o, Knox (c and b Lucy) 20, Leatham (not out) 24, Leatherdale (c Hornsby, b Bovill) 5, Sergeant (not out) 41 ; extras 5, — total 95. 35- WESTERN SCORES. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. E. D. Prothero, c Roberts, b Bennett F. W. Capron, run out H. C. Maul, c Sergeant, b Bennett J. C. Beevor, run out W. D. Bovill, not out J. H. Hornsby, c Gore, b Leatham Rev. G. E. Willes, c Gore, b Bennett C. E. Cobb, sub., b Bennett . Rev. C. Smith, c Knox, b Bennett W. A. Lucy, b Bennett W. H. P. Jenkins, c Leatherdale, b Bennett Extras Total RE. 2D INNINGS. i 2 b Tillard . 8 c and b Bennett 7 b Tillard . 1 b Tillard . 28 b Roberts 13 b Tillard . o c Bennett, b Tillard . o 1 b w^, b Leatham 22 c Leatherdale, b Bennett o not out 2 c Knox, b Sergeant . 5 Extras . 88 Total II o 24 2 IIS 20 10 II 34 18 I 8 254 1885. Played at Ludlow, July 29 and 30. LUDLOW. 1ST INNINGS. C. J. Gierke, c Willes, b Bovill . Rev. E. G. Baker, c Hornsby, b Bovill E. H. Newill, c Hornsby, b Peake . F. P. Norbury, run out . W. H. H. Sitwell, c Cobb, b Bovill . W. H. Hopkins, b Peake . Sir W. Gierke, c Cobb, b Bovill R. G. Venables, b Peake . E. H. Giles, c Cobb, b Bovill . W. W. Tyrer, b Peake . F. Hale, not out ... . Extras Total LE. 2D INNINGS. 23 c Bovill, b Peake 3 c and b Bovill . 4 1 b w, b Bovill . I b Peake . 21 c and b Peake . 5 run out o run out b Peake . 1 c Prothero, b Hornsby 10 b Peake . o not out 6 Extras . SCORE. 74 Total T 3 12 5 I 24 9 II 3 4 o 6 79 FREE FORESTERS. W. Bovill, c C. J. Gierke, b Sit- well 4 J. H. J. Hornsby, run out . . 27 F. L. Evelyn, c Norbury, b Hop- kins 63 H. C. Maul, c Newill, b Hopkins 58 H. A, D. Hamilton, b Hopkins . 3 E. Peake, c Venables, b Gierke . 4 F. W. Capron, 1 b w, b Gierke . 15 SCORE. E. D. Prothero, c Sitwell, b Ven- ables . . . . -23 C. E, Cobb, not out . . .11 W. H. P. Jenkins, c Newill, b Venables ..... 5 Rev. G. E. Willes, b Venables . o Extras 15 Total . 228 WESTERN SCORES. 353 1885. Played at Knighton, July 31 and August i. RADNORSHIRE. 1ST INNINGS. C. J. Gierke, b Bovill . . ■ . A. Green- Price, b Bovill . , F. L. Evelyn, st Gobb, b Gapron W. H. H. Sitwell, b Peake W. Green-Price, c Hamilton, b Peake F. G. Gobden, c Hornsby, b Peake . Rev. G. Green-Price, c Maul, b Peake Rockley, b Bovill C. Salmon, b Bovill . E. Bright, b_ Peake . E. G. Gartwright, not out Extras . Total RE. 2D INNINGS. 6 b Bovill . 19 c Bovill, b Peake 40 c Bovill, b Peake 9 c Gobb, b Peake 3 c Bovill, b Peake 2 c Prothero, b Gapron 6 not out II c Bovill, b Peake o c Prothero, b Bovill 7 run out 3 b Bovill . 9 Extras . [IS Total FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. J. H. Hornsby, c Sitwell, b Gierke 35 J. S. Phillips, b Rockley . . 4 H. G. Maul, c Salmon, b Gobden 97 W. D. Bovill, b Bright . . 14 E. Peake, c W. Green-Price, b Bright o Rev. G. E. Willes, b Gobden . 6 F. W. Gapron, b Gobden . . 105 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. E. D. Prothero, c A. Green- Price, b Bright 14 H. D. Hamilton, c Gierke, b Bright 23 G. E. Gobb, c Gierke, b Bright , 13 W. H. P. Jenkins, not out . . o Extras 19 Total . . 330 1886. Played at Cheltenham, July 28 and 29. EAST GLOUGESTERSHIRE. SCORE. E. L. Griffiths, b Nesbitt . . 9 R. Gore, b Hornsby . . . i Rev. P. Hattersley Smith, c Skip- with, b Nesbitt .... 65 G. Tillard, b Hornsby ... 85 W. H. Sevier, b Rawlinson , 20 W. B. Piers, b Nesbitt . . 4 F. H. Freer, c Lucy, b Hornsby . 3 Major M'Neale, b Rawlinson A. J. Luckham, b Rawlinson E. A. Bennett, st Gobb, b Raw linson .... E. W. Richardson, not out . Extras .... Total 9 o 3 13 23 23s 354 WESTERN SCORES. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. E. D. Prothero, c Bennett, b Richardson . i M. B. Buckle, b Richardson ... 3 J. S. Russell, c and b Richardson . . o J. H. J. Hornsby, c Sevier, b Tillard . 9 E. J. B. Nesbitt, c Tillard, b Richardson . 4 C. E. Cobb, c Richardson, b Bennett . 4 R. Skipwith, c Freer, b Richardson . . 10 W. Lucy, b Bennett ..... 10 G. E. Willes, not out .... 2 J. B. Rawlinson, run out . . . .2 W. H. P. Jenkins, c Piers, b Bennett . o Extras 3 2D INNINGS. SCORE. Total c Sevier, b Richardson b Tillard . c Freer, b Richardson c Sevier, b Tillard b Tillard . not out b Tillard . run out c Tillard, b Richardson c Griffiths, b Richardson c M'Neale, b Richardson Extras . Total 6 22 24 7 29 24 6 o 2 13 I II 145 1886. Played at Ludlow, July 30 and 31. LUDLOW. 1ST INNINGS. A. W. Moon, c Cobb, b Rawlinson . R. Newill, St Cobb, b Hornsby W. Green-Price, c Skipwith, b Hornsby C. E. Brown, c Crake, b Rawlinson . F. L. Evelyn, c Skipwith, b Hornsby F. C. Cobden, c Skipwith, b Hornsby F. H. Sitwell, c Skipwith, b Cobb W. H. H. Sitwell, not out C. J. Clerke, absent . F. Norbury, b Nesbitt H. V. Hewitt, St Cobb, b Royds Extras Total iRE. 2D INNINGS. 33 c sub. , b Hornsby . 4 b Nesbitt . I c Cobb, b Hornsby . 9 absent — hurt . 13 b Nesbitt . 56 b Nesbitt . 10 c sub., b Nesbitt 26 c Phillips, b Hornsby o b Hornsby 20 b Hornsby 6 not out 11 Extras . 189 Total • FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SC J. B. Rawlinson, b Sitwell . F. T. Royds, b Cobden R. G. Venables, c Hewitt, b Cob- den W. H. P. Jenkins, not out . Extras Total E. D. Prothero, 1 b w, b Clerke . 43 W. P. Crake, c Brown, b Clerke . 13 J. H. J. Hornsby, c Green-Price, b Clerke 40 J. P. Phillips, c Clerke, b Cobden i C. E. Cobb, c Newill, b Cobden . o E. B, Nesbitt, c Evelyn, b Cobden 26 R. Skipwith, b Newill ... 25 In the second innings Crake (not out) scored 18, Hornsby (b Cobden) i, Phillips (not out) 7 ; extras 2, — total 28. 21 I 4 o 16 190 WESTERN SCORES. 355 1886. Played at Knighton, August 2 and 3. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. S( J. H.J. Homsby, c Gierke, b C. J. Gierke W. P. Grake, hit wkt., b G. J. Gierke Gapt. Spens, b G. J. Gierke E. B. Nesbitt, c Moon, b Gobden R. Skipwith, b Gobden G. E. Gobb, c W. H. Sitwell, b Gobden Gapt. B. Roberts, b G. J. Gierke J. B. Rawlinson, run out . A. Appleby, c Green-Price, b Sitwell Major Gowan, c Sitwell, b G. J. Gierke F. T. Royds, b Gobden . W. H. P. Jenkins, not out Extras ....... Total 2D INNINGS. SCORE. o c Evelyn, b Gobden . 6 b Gobden . 8 Gartwright, b Gobden 9 b Gobden . o b G. J. Gierke . 7 c Green-Price, b Gobden 16 c Sitwell, b G. J. Gierke 9 c Gobden, b G. J. Gierke 18 c Sitwell, b Gobden . 8 c Green- Price, b Gobden 2 not out 15 b Gierke . 3 Extras . roi Total 3 o II o 5 10 4 I 37 22 6 3 II "3 RADNORSHIRE. W. Green- Price, c Gobb, b Nesbitt . A. W. Moon, b Nesbitt . F. L. Evelyn, c Jenkins, b Nesbitt . F. Sitwell, b Rawlinson F. G. Gobden, b Rawlinson Major Lewis, c Homsby, b Rawlinson A, Green-Price, b Homsby W. H. Sitwell, c Royds, b Homsby . H. G. Green- Price, b Appleby . Sir W. P. Gierke, c Rawlinson, b Appleby G. J. Gierke, b Appleby . E. Gartwright, not out Extras Total 4 2 2 28 6 1 8 19 2 6 14 I 13 106 c Appleby, b Rawlinson b Rawlinson not out not out b Nesbitt . c Skipwith, b Nesbitt . b Rawlinson c Royds, b Appleby Extras Total 15 109 1887. Played at Stoke, July 25 and 26. STAFFORDSHIRE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. Glay, c Hill, b Appleby .... 13 c Skipwith, b Rawlinson 53 H. Fishwick, b Appleby . 5 b Rawlinson . 21 W. H. Gatkin, b Homsby 48 c and b Gowan 21 A. H. Heath, b Appleby . 31 b Appleby 59 P. S. Sheldon, b Appleby . 6 b Goldney . 42 G. E. Meakin, b Appleby . I c Spens, b Appleby . 3 G. R. Street, c North, b Appleby . c and b Goldney T. Robinson, not out ... 46 absent 356 WESTERN SCORES. 1ST INNINGS. 2D INNINGS. R.-Stainer, run out . . . . P. Mainwaring, c Tilney, b Homsby J. Heath, c Tilney, b Rawlinson Extras Total 1 b .Goldney 2 not out 7 b Appleby II 171 Extras Total 2 o o 17 218 FREE FORESTERS. J. Hill, b Robinson Hon. W. H. North, c Stainer, b Catkin J. H. J. Homsby, c Street, b Catkin Major J. Spens, b Fishwick . R. H. Tilney, b Fishwick . Capt. Cowan, c and b Clay . I A. Appleby, b Robinson 14 G. H. Goldney, b Fishwick . 26 i6 R. W. Skipwith, not out 12 G. E. Willes, Heath, b Clay I 22 J. B. Rawlinson, run out 6 12 Extras .... I I 39 Total 1887. Played at Cheltenham, July 27 and 28. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. J. Hill, csub,, bTillard . Capt. B. Roberts, 1 b w, b Elliot T. M. Wilde, 1 b w, b Leatham Major J. Spens, c Leatham, b Elliott J. H. J. Homsby, st Desages, b Elliott J. A. Turner, c and b Elliott . Captain Cowan, st Desages, b Leatham G. H. Goldney, b Elliott . A. Appleby, c Jessop, b Elliott . R. W. Skipwith, mn out . J. B. Rawlinson, c Desages, b Tillard G. E. Willes, not out ... Extras Total iE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. I not out . • 25 24 c Elliott, b Tillard . I 5 b Elliott . 3 52 b Elliott . 8 32 3 c Jessop, b Tillard . 26 c Tillard, b Leatham . 14 II c Leatham, b Elliott 5 20 not out 8 34 c Desages, b Elliott . . 16 15 3 Extras 244 Total 85 EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE. J. H. C. Baxter, b Appleby . . o W. H. Sevier, c Cowan, b Appleby 17 W. A. Lucy, b Turner . . 16 A. E. Leatham, c Cowan, b Ap- pleby 144 C. Tillard, c Appleby, b Wilde . 55 O. Phillips, c Wilde, b Rawlinson 13 E. A. Bennett, c sub., b Rawlinson o G. H. Cooper, b Turner C. E. Willes, c Spens, b Turner H. Jessop, not out Elliott, c Skipwith, b Wilde P. Desages, st Spens, b Cowan Extras .... Total 7 3 22 o 9 25 311 WESTERN SCORES. 357 1887. Played at Ludlow, July 29 a?id 30. LUDLOW. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. S COKE. W. F. Felton, b Turner . • 15 c Hill, b Turner . 13 F. L, Evelyn, c Grosvenor, b Turner • 43 c Lewes, b Turner . 2 E. C. Evelyn, b Turner . 3 c Cowan, b Turner . 14 A. W. H. Percy, b Turner . 18 b Turner . 33 W. H. Sitwell, b Rawlinson . • 30 b Rawlinson . II F. C. Cobden, c and b Turner . 5 c Grosvenor, b Rawlinson 15 J. T. Day, c Lewes, b Turner . 3 b Turner . 40 C. J. Gierke, b Goldney . 3 b Turner . P. Rogers, c Goldney, b Turner 3 c Crake, b Turner . 2 F. H. Sitwell, b Turner . 2 c Skipwith, b Rawlinson 17 T. H. Green, run out not out . G. F. Lloyd, not out . 4 run out I Extras . 14 Extras . 13 Tota . 143 Total 161 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. W. P. Crake, b Rogers . . 5 H. Grosvenor, c and b Cobden . 7 J. H. Goldney, b Cobden . . 5 G. E. Willes, c P. Evelyn, b Cobden i J. B. Rawlinson, not out . . 4 Extras 26 Total . 179 In the second innings Skipwith (b Day) scored 11, Turner (not out) 43, Cowan (not out) 9, Hill (b Cobden) 11 ; extras 10, — total 84. Capt. B. Roberts, b Day . R. Skipwith, b E. C. Evelyn J. A. Turner, c E. Evelyn, b Day Major Lewis, c Cobden, b Evelyn Capt. Cowan, c Felton, b Gierke . E. D. Prothero, b Cobden . J. Hill, c Cobden, b Rogers I 24 57 o 2 22 25 1887. Played at Knighton, August i and 2. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. Capt. B. Roberts, b C. Gierke . R. W. Skipwith, b C. Gierke . J. T. Day, b C. Gierke . Capt. Cowan, c Rogers, b C. Gierke G. G. Skipwith, c Gierke, b Sandwith C. E. Cobb, c Felton, b Cobden Major Lewis, b Gierke J. Hill, c W. Sitwell, b Cobden E. D. Prothero, b Cobden W. P. Crake, c Cobden, b C. Gierke SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 21 1 b w, b Sandwith . 12 . 5 c Sitwell, b E. Evelyn 20 II c E. Evelyn, b Gierke 7 . 6 b Cobden . 16 h 8 b Cobden . 19 . 6 b Rogers . 72 . b Cobden. 10 . 4 b W. H. Sitwell . 16 . 12 c Rogers, b Gierke . 12 8 not out . 31 358 WESTERN SCORES. 1ST INNINGS. J. B. Rawlinson, b Cobden G. E. Willes, not out Extras .... E. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. II b Cobden 2 2 b Cobden 7 12 Extras . . 27 Total 106 Total 251 RADNORSHIRE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. F. L. Evelyn, c Cobb, b Day E. C. Evelyn, b Rawlinson . W, F. Sandwith, c Cowan, b Day C. J. Clerke, c Day, b Hill . W. H. Sitwell, c Lewes, b Hill . W. F. Felton, c Cobb, b Day . F. H. Sitwell, c Crake, b Rawlinson 2 54 o 30 o 26 24 1ST INNINGS. F. C. Cobden, not out C. Boyle Smith, b Day Sir W. Clerke, run out P. Rogers, b R. Skipwith . E. Cartwright, b R. Skipwith Extras .... Total SCORE. 55 II 24 I 4 17 248 In the second innings F. L. Evelyn (not out) scored 62, E. C. Evelyn (run out) II, W. F. Sandwith (b Rawlinson) o, W. F. Felton (not out) 6, P. Rogers (c andb Hill) 23 ; extras 4, — total 106. 1887. Played at Shrewsbury, August 3 and 4. SHROPSHIRE. SCORE. E. Engleheart, c Cobb, b Rawlin- son R. Fowlis, c Cobb, b Voules J. S. Phillips, c Cobb, b Rawlinson W. H. Griffiths, c Cobb, b Raw- linson ..... Capt. H. France, b Cowan . W. Deedes, c Cobb, b Hill . 3 13 47 120 48 10 A. F. Chance, c Cobb, b Hill R. SaviUe, b Hill . W. H. Davies, b Rawlinson W. H. Ray, b Hill Rev. T. Woodhouse, not out Extras .... Total 34 41 6 o 15 375 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. R. W. Skipwith, c Davies, b France J. Hill, c Davies, b France . G. G. Skipwith, c Phillips, b Woodhouse .... C. E. Cobb, b Saville . S. C. Voules, b Saville Capt. Cowan, c Davies, b Griffiths 17 31 22 47 27 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. W. P. Crake, c Phillips, b Griffiths 7 Capt. B. Roberts, c Davies, b France 43 E. D. Prothero, c Ray, b France 17 G. E. Willes, c Ray, b Chance . 31 J. B. Rawlinson, not out . . 10 Extras 27 Total 287 In the second innings R. W. Skipwith (b Saville) scored 5, J. Hill (not out) 6, C. E. Cobb (c Chance, b Saville) 24, S. C. Voules (c and b Chance) 17, Capt. Cowan (not out) 18, J. B. Rawlinson (b Saville) 2 ; extras 4, — total 76. WESTERN SCORES. 359 1888. Played at Knighton, July 30 and 31. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. A. W. Moon, b Jones H. E. Cholmely, c Gierke, b Jones C. E. Cobb, c Cobden, b Jones E. B. Nesbitt, b Cobden . Capt. B. Roberts, c Clerke, b Cobden R. A. Wilson, b Cobden . J. Hill, c Jones, b Cobden Capt. Cowan, b Cobden . Lord A. Fitzroy, c Cobden, b Jones R. Skipwith, not out . G. E, Willes, c Evelyn, b Sharpe J. M. Prinsep, b Cobden . Extras Total SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 5 c and b Jones . 6 c Evelyn, b Jones . 14 II run out 17 2 b Jones . 1* 3 b Jones . 2 not out . 33 II c Sandwith, b Cobden 9 b Evelyn . 20 I b Cobden. . • . 6 12 c Boyle Smith, b Jones 2 12 c and b Jones . 2 b Cobden . I 7 Extras . 5 ll . 68 Total 114 RADNORSHIRE. F. L. Evelyn, c Nesbitt, b Wilson . E. C. Evelyn, b Prinsep . . . C. Boyle Smith, c Hill, b Wilson W. F. C. Sandwith, c Prinsep, b Nesbitt D. M. Jones, c Prinsep, b Wilson C. J. Clerke, c Hill, b Nesbitt . A. Green-Price, c and b Cowan Capt. H. France, st Moon, b Nesbitt Sharpe, b Nesbitt F. C. Cobden, not out W. Green-Price, b Nesbitt H. C. Green-Price, b Wilson Extras .... Total 22 b Nesbitt . 8 6 c Cobb, b Prinsep . IS c Cobb, b Nesbitt . 3 II b Nesbitt . 27 c Prinsep, b Nesbitt 5 b Nesbitt . IS II not out . 15 14 c Cobb, b Prinsep . 9 I not out . 3 II c Prinsep, b Nesbitt 2 4 I 108 Total 75 1888. Played at Shrewsbury, August i and 2. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. S E. D. Prothero, c H. France, b R. Davies R. W. Skipwith, b H. France . C. E. Cobb, c W. H. Davies, b R. Davies J. M. Prinsep, b H. France R. A. Wilson, c sub., b Griffiths A. W. Moon, b Griffiths . . . E. B. Nesbitt, b Rivett Carnac . Capt. Cowan, c France, b Rivett Carnac CORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. b Rivett Carnac 2 • 13 b Griffiths 4 3 43 b H. France . IS I c sub., b Griffiths . 36 4 c Chance, b Carnac . 9 . 19 b Rivett Carnac 20 9 1 b w, b Griffiths 6 9 b Rivett Carnac 9 360 WESTERN SCORES, 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. Capt. Roberts, not out . . . . i Lord A. Fitzroy, st W. Davies, b Rivett Carnac o G. E. Willes, b Griffiths . . . . i Extras 8 Total . 108 2D INNINGS. c and b Rivett Carnac b Rivett Carnac not out Extras . Total SCORE. 3 I SHROPSHIRE. W. H. Griffiths, b Prinsep R. Fov^'les, c Skipwith, b Nesbitt W. Deedes, b Prinsep J. S. Phillips, b Nesbitt . Capt. H. France, c Nesbitt, b Prinsep Rev. G. Rivett Carnac, b Prinsep Captain Peyton, b Wilson . R. O. Davies, b Prinsep . A. Chance, b Prinsep Rev. H. G. Glennie, b Prinsep . J. E. Pickering, c Cobb, b Prinsep W. H. Davies, not out Extras Total 2 b Prinsep ... 4 run out . 10 5 c Moon, b Prinsep . 6 I b Nesbitt . 13 3 b Nesbitt . 15 2 b Prinsep . 9 13 c Cobb, b Nesbitt . 5 absent— hurt . 2 c Fitzroy, b Prinsep . 5 b Nesbitt . I 7 not out . 2 c and b Nesbitt 8 Extras . 6 54 Total 65 1888. Played at Worcester, August 3 and 4. WORCESTERSHIRE. 1ST INNINGS. Major Clarke, b Toppin , H. Wilkes, c Cowan, b Toppin . Rev. E. Fitzherbert, b Nesbitt . Millward, b Nesbitt .... J. Foord Kelsey, c Hill, b Nesbitt . Rev. M. B. Buckle, c Cobb, U Toppin Smith, c Toppin, b Nesbitt E. P. Jobson, b Nesbitt . R. T. Atthill, c Cowan, b Nesbitt . H. J. Ferkins, b Dixon P. H. Foley, not out . Extras Total RE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 3 b Prinsep . 20 c and b Toppin 8 25 not out 25 31 b Toppin . 8 b Toppin . 2 24 b Toppin . 28 not out 31 S II 14 Extras .... 3 161 Total 77 FREE FORESTERS. A. W. Moon, b Foord Kelsey . J. Hill, run out .... C. E. Cobb, c Atthill, b Millward C. Toppin, 1 b w, b Foord Kelsey 2 b Millward 9 3 c Ferkins. b Millward . 14 5 b Millward 5 4 b Smith . . 61 WESTERN SCORES. 361 1ST INNINGS. SC( A. W. Dixon, c Foley, b Mill ward . J. M. Prinsep, c Foley, b Millward . E. B. Nesbitt, b Millward .... Capt. Cowan, b Millward .... G. E. Willes, c Atthill, b Millward . Capt. B. Roberts, c Atthill, b Foord Kelsey Lord A. Fitzroy, not out .... Extras E, 2D INNINGS. SCORE. 9 b Millward 9 b Ferkins . 13 9 not out . 12 7 b Millward 15 5 c Foley, b Millward . 3 II 1 b w, b Millward . 8 b Jobson , 11 Extras . 18 Total 74 Total 159 1891. Played at Cirencester, July 27 and 28. CIRENCESTER. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. C. R. Gresson, st Wynyard, b Gresson 14 E. B. Haygarth, b Gresson . E. M. Beecham, c Wynyard, b Maclean Rev. L. B. Butt, b Maclean A. E. Leatham, b Peachey . E. Henry, c and b Gresson . In the second innings Gresson (c Cowan, b Peachey) scored 94, Haygarth (not out) 132, Beecham (not out) 18, Butt (b Gresson) 14, Leatham (c Peachey, b Gresson) o; extras 18,— total 276. Innings declared closed. C. Wolferston, b Maclean . 6 14 S. P. Ralli, c Rawlinson, b Gresson 12 21 W. G. Legg, c and b Gresson 7 A. Prout, 1 b w, b Gresson . 8 6 Attewell, not out .... 3 Extras II 38 Total . 126 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. Capt. H. France, st Haygarth, b Attewell Capt. Cowan, b Legg F. H. Gresson, 1 b w, b Legg Capt. Wynyard, b Legg C. E. Cobb, b Attewell Capt. Vizard, b Prout M. F. Maclean, b Legg J. Hill, c Leatham, b Prout J. B. Rawlinson, not out C. Peachey, c and b Legg G. E. Willes, b Legg Extras . 30 b Leatham , . o st Haygarth, b Leatham 13 st Haygarth, b Leatham 5 c Wolferston, b Attewell 32 st Haygarth, b Leatham 67 1 b w, b Leatham * 3 not out 31 c Haygarth, b Attewell 19 not out . 6 o 3 Exlras . Total 209 Total 108 I 362 WESTERN SCORES. 1891. {Free Foresters v. East Gloucestershire.) Played at Cheltenham, July 29 and 30. FREE FORESTERS. A. E. Leatham, b Hay . . 31 F. L. Evelyn, c Hay, b Young . 102 F. H. Gresson, b Young . .118 Capt. Vizard, 1 b w, b Tillard . 26 Capt. Wynyard, c Rice, b Tillard 42 C. E. Cobb, 1 b w, b Carketon Capt. Hayhurst, not out Capt. Cowan, not out . Extras .... Rain stopped further play. Total SCORE. . 17 • 23 . 13 9 . 381 1891. Played at Heath House, July 31 and Augtist 1. FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. : A. E. Leatham, c F. L. Evelyn, b Jones C. R. Gresson, c Jones, b Toppin F. H. Gresson, c and b Toppin . Capt. Vizard, b Toppin F. H. Sitwell, c C. J. Gierke, b Jones C. E. Cobb, b Toppin Capt. Cowan, b Toppin J. Hill, c W. H. Sitwell, b Toppin M. F. Maclean, b E. C. Evelyn C. Peachey, c C. Gierke, b Jones G. E. Willes, c B. Seton, b Toppin R. S. Benson, not out Extras Total ^E. 2D INNINGS. 13 c Jones, b Leake I b Leake . b Toppin . 15 b Toppin . 6 run out 30 c and b Jones . 1 c W. Sitwell, b Toppin 1 b C. H. Seton . o not out 16 c W. Sitwell, b Jones 6 c C. Seton, b Jones . 7 not out 2 Extras . 98 Total SCORE. 31 29 45 6 2 43 4 16 6 I I I 8 193 HEATH HOUSE. F. L. Evelyn, c Hill, b Leatham 37 c Peachey, b Gresson 13 E. C. Evelyn, b Benson . 6 run out . 3 D. T. M. Jones, c Cobb, b Leatham 24 b Gresson 16 J. C. Mallam, b F. Gresson 46 c and b Gresson C. Toppin, b Maclean b Gresson 4 C. H. Seton, 1 b w, b Gresson . 10 b Maclean 23 C. J. Gierke, c Cobb, b Gresson b Benson . 4 W. H. Sitwell, b Gresson . . '. 2 c Hill, b Gresson 4 J. S. Leake, b Gresson b Gresson Sir W. F. Gierke, 1 b w, b Gresson . not out B. H. Seton, run out ... 22 c and b Benson 4 Sharpe, not out . . 2 b Benson . Extras 13 Extras . 5 Total 162 Total Ve WESTERN SCORES. 363 1892. Played at Cirencester ^ August i and 2. FREE FORESTERS. I 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. H. K. Foster, b J. A. Gibbs 8 C. E. Cobb, b Gibson . . 72 D. F. Gillman, b Legg M. F. Maclean, b Leatham . . 17 W. L. Foster, c Haygarth, b Legg 22 J. Hill, b Prout . • 25 F. H. Gresson, b Leatham . 69 Capt. Cowan, c Haygarth, b Prout 4 C. Toppin, b Legg 15 G. E. Willes, not out . Capt. Bruce, b Legg . 32 Extras .... 7 Capt. Watson, c and b Leatham . 7 Total CIRENCESTER. S. Boulton, c H. Foster, b Gresson 4 C. H. Gresson, b Gresson . . 41 J. A. Gibbs, c Hill, b Gresson . i E. B. Haygarth, b Gresson . . o W. G. Tovey, c H. Foster, b Gresson 7 A. E. Gibson, b Gresson . . 2 A. E. Leatham, b Gresson . . 2 F. M. Beecham, run out G. H. Gibbs, b Gresson Lord Truro, c Toppin, b Gresson A. Prout, not out W. G. Legg, b Gresson Extras Total 278 20 12 17 7 o 17 130 In the second innings Boulton (run out) scored 29, Gresson (c Cowan, b Maclean) 6, Gibbs (c Cobb, b Gresson) 41, Haygarth (b Cowan) i6, Gibson (not out) 5, Leatham (c Hill, b Gresson) 5 ; extras 8, — total no. 1892. Played at Ludlow, August 3 and 4. FREE FORESTERS. I 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. F. H. Gresson, c Wright, b Nash . 20 not out . 33 Capt. Bruce, c and b Nash c Kent, b Jones D. F. Gillman, b Nash 19 c and b Jones . 5 A. E. Gibson, 1 b w, b Jones . 3 c F. Sitwell, b Nash 7 Capt. Watson, st Moon, b Nash 4 c F. Sitwell, b Nash I C. Toppin, c Kent, b Jones 3 bNash . I C. E. Cobb, b Nash .... 12 b Nash . M. F. Maclean, b Jones . c Wright, b Nash 6 J. Hill, St Moon, b Nash . I c Boyle Smith, b Jones 5 G. E. Willes, c Moon, b Nash . b Jones . Capt. Cowan, not out b Jones . 3 Capt. Benson, c Kent, b Nash . bNash . Extras 4 Extras . I Total 66 Total 62 364 WESTERN SCORES. LUDLOW. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. F. L. Evelyn, st Cobb, b Gresson 4 D. T. M. Jones, run out . . 13 W. C. Bridgman, c Gillman, b Benson 39 H. J. Carson, b Benson . . 2 A. W. Moon, c Gillman, b Benson 51 W. H. Sitwell, b Gibson . . 4 C. Boyle Smith, c Toppin, b Gibson o 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. A. R. Kent, c Maclean, b Benson 14 F. H. Sitwell, c Hill, b Gresson . 28 Wright, c Maclean, b Gresson . o Nash, not out .... 1 A. C. Sim, c Gillman, b Benson , i Extras 14 Total . 171 1892. Played at Heath House, August 5 and 6. HEATH HOUSE. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. 2D INNINGS. SCORE. F. L. Evelyn, b Gresson . I b Gresson 5 D. T. Jones, c Gillman, b Toppin • 13 run out . 25 A. E. Gibson, b Toppin . 4 b M'Lean 54 A. W, Moon, c Watson, b Toppin • 17 b Toppin . I C. J. Gierke, b Toppin 4 c Toppin, b Leatham 4 W. Radcliffe, b Gresson . . 36 c Gillman, b Leatham 10 F. C. Cobden, c Gillman, b Gresson 3 b Maclean 6 Lord Truro, b Toppin 10 c and b Leatham 16 W. H. Sitwell, not out 6 c Leatham, b Maclean C. H. Seton, b Gresson . I run out . 12 B. H. Seton, b Gresson st Cobb, b Leatham 5 Sharpe, b Gresson 3 not out . Extras 8 Extras . 9 Tota I . 106 Total 147 FREE FORESTERS. 1ST INNINGS. SCORE. F. H. Gresson, c Radcliffe, b Sharpe 61 27 12 77 II 3 22 A. E. Leatham, b Cobden . D. F. Gillman, c Jones, b Sharpe C. Toppin, c Gierke, b Jones F. H. Sitwell, 1 b w, b Jones C. E. Cobb, 1 b w, b Gibson Capt. Bruce, c Jones, b Radcliffe 1ST INNINGS. Capt. Watson, b Gibson M. F. Maclean, b Gibson J. Hill, b Jones . Capt. Cowan, not out . G. E. Willes, b Gibson Extras Total 12 I o o I 15 242 In the second innings Maclean (not out) scored 8, Hill (not out) o. Cowan (c C. Seton, b Jones) 4,— total 12. STATISTICS OF MATCHES PLAYED BY THE FREE FORESTERS FROM 1564 TO 1 502. 1884. Matches played, 26. Won, 10; lost, 10; drawn, 6. Batting Averages. Innings. Times not out. Runs. Most in innings. Average Captain J. Spens . ■ . . 5 I 337 131 84.25 M. P. Lucas . 3 166 139 55-33 J.G.Walker . 6 I 197 130 39-40 A. Appleby 5 I 152 53 38.50 C. R. Seymour S 160 108 32 F. C. Coxhead 6 I 158 III 31.60 C. Gjirdon 3 92 57 30.66 S. J. Wilson . 8 2 158 59 26.33 S. C. Oswald . 6 149 57 24.83 J. Robertson . 6 I 124 93* 24.80 Major Wallace 3 73 53 24.33 A. E. Payne . 4 95 33 23-75 W. D. Bovill . 20 2 408 81 22.66 F. W. Maude . 18 361 117 20.55 F. E. Speed . 6 123 46 20.50 F. W. Capron 9 177 51 19.66 P. R. Toynbee 5 94 68 18.80 H. G. S. Hughes 12 I 194 54 17.63 C. W. Bulpett . 5 I 83 27 16.60 G. D. Rowe . 10 I 148 49 16.44 H. T. Griffiths 14 2 196 49* 16.33 G. Law . 3 42 34 14 G. H. Goldney 16 4 165 50 13-75 G. Macan 3 41 40 13-66 Captain Beresford Baker 16 I 204 112 13.60 R. M. TurnbuU 4 54 25 13-50 * Signifies not out. 366 STATISTICS OF MATCHES. Innings. Times not out. Runs. Most in innings. Average E. Money- Wigiam . 6 o 69 53 11.50 E. Bray .... 3 I 20 14 10 E. Rutter 5 o 46 26 9.20 Rev. G. E. Willes . 7 o 62 30 8.85 Rev. W. C. R. Bedford . 3 I 25 25 8.33 T. Wise .... 6 I 43 33 7.16 C. W. Rawlinson . 8 o 55 23 6.87 W. T. Toynbee 5 o 27 14 5.60 H. Gilliat 3 I 4 3 1.50 W. H. Jenkins 4 o 4 3 I The following played in less than three innings : A. Arkwright, 4, 8 ; E. M. Bannerman, o, 57* ; H. W. Brougham, 60* ; C. Y. Bedford, 27* ; A. E. Bedford, 7 ; A. G. Bovill, 34 ; E. H. Buckland, 107, i ; G. Bird, 9, 25 ; C. C. Clark, 12 ; W. Chance, 14 ; Rev. J. G. Crowdy, 20, 28 ; Captain W. F. Cowan, o* 2 ; J. Dale, 2, 34* ; A. H. Evans, 65 ; S. Garnett, 24 ; H. Gibson, 6, 13* ; Rev. H. H. Gillett, 8 ; E. Phipps-Hornby, o ; W. F. Higgins, 2 ; F. S. Head, 5 ; C J. E. Jarvis, 17, 3 ; C. F. H. Leslie, o, 15 ; T. W. Lang, 12* 8 ; G. H. Longman, 22 ; Hon. E. Lyttelton, 16; Hon. R. H. Lyttelton, 18; Rev. W. Law, 12; C. J. Lucas, 76* i; W. A. Lucy, o*, o; A. W. Moon, 37; F. H. Mellor, 107, 53; H. Mellor, 74, 12 ; Captain Miles, 4 ; C. Marriott, i ; J. C. Page, 3, i ; T. S. Pearson, i, 10 ; E. Peake, 18, 5 ; H. Rhodes, o, 24 ; J. S. Russel, 15, 2 ; F. R. Twemlow, 60 ; Rev. C. Tillard, 42, 8 ; J. S. Udal, 12, o; A. J. Webbe, 2, 4. 1885. Matches played, 24, Won, 10; lost, 6; drawn, 8. Results of Matches. May 25, 26.— Woolwich. Drawn. Royal Artillery, 236; F. F., 164. 30. — Esher. Lost. Esher, 190 ; F. F. 65 and 130 for 4 wickets. June 6. — Wellington. Won by 3 runs. Wellington College, 129 ; F. F., 132 for 8 wickets. 12, 13. — Horsham. Drawn. Horsham, 434; F. F., 281. 13. — Eton. Unfinished. Eton College, 219 ; F. F. , 42 for 4 wickets. 18.— At the Bucknall's, Watford. Lost. C. T. Hegan's XI, 198 ; F. F., 130. 22, 23. — St Cross, Winchester. Won by one innings. Green Jackets, 70 and 167 : F. F. , 263. 24, 25. — Weybridge. Won by one innings. Oatlands Park, 72 and in ; F. F., 258. 26, 27. — Shoeburyness, Won by one innings. School of Gunnery, 83 and 131; F. F.,43S. July 4.— Henley. Drawn. Henley, 99 for 8 wickets ; F. F., 199. 6, 7.— Rugby. Drawn. Rugby School, 134 and 450; F. F., 132 and 90 for 8 wickets. 7, 8.— Longwood, Drawn. Lord Northesk's XI, 172 ; F. F. 130 and 159 for 4 wickets. ■* Signifies not out. STATISTICS OF MATCHES. 367 July 15, 16. — Abbotts Langley. Lost by two wickets. Abbotts Langley, 130 and 197 for 8 wickets ; F. F., 165 and 160. 18. — Woolwich. Lost. Royal Military Academy, 292 ; F. F., 97. 27, 28. — Cheltenham. Lost by 7 wickets. East Gloucestershire, 249 and 95 for 3 wickets ; F. F., 88 and 254. 29, 30. — Ludlow. Won by one innings. Ludlow, 74 and 79 ; F. F., 228. 31, Aug. I. — Knighton. Won in one innings. Radnorshire, 115 and 93; F. F., 330. II II — Reigate. Won in one innings. Rev. Churchill's XI, 57 and 129 ; F. F., 275. Aug. 6, 7. — Hitchin. Drawn. Gents of Herts, 304; F. F., 231 and 61 for 4 wickets. 17, 18. — Bicester. Lost. Bicester, 149 and 223; F. F., 100 and 191. 19, 20. — Banbury, Won by 8 wickets. Deddington, 92 and 176 ; F. F., 202 and 67 for 2 wickets. 25. — Shepperton. Won. Shepperton, 73 and 60 for 7 wickets ; F. F., 139- 26, 27. — Aldershot. Drawn, Aldershot Division, 100 and 160 for 6 wickets ; F. F., 336. 27, 28. — Chatham. Won by 10 wickets. Royal Engineers, 167 and 148; F. F., 312 and 6 for 10 wickets. Bowling, No complete record of the analyses has been obtained, but the following were the principal bowlers : — W, D. Bovill E. J. Beaumont F. W. Maude J, H. J. Hornsby E. Peake *. G. H. Goldney C. L. Hickley Wkts. Inns. 55 16 G. W. Ricketts J. Robertson E, M. Hadow A. J. Webbe E. Rutter F, W. Capron C. W. Bulpett Wkts. Inns. 14 5 Battixg Averages. H. C, Maul E. M. Hadow . S. J. Wilson . W. T. Toynbee Captain B. Baker W, D. Bovill . E, J. Beaumont. R. H. Fowler . A. C. Cattley . C. W. Bulpett . F, W. Capron . J. H. J. Hornsby G, W. Ricketts . C. L. Hickley . R. W. Skipwith C. E. Cobb o Runs. 186 175 194 34 59 383 267 105 88 90 195 249 81 61 74 61 Most in innings. 97 108 124 II 30 115 120 52 35 50 105 35 26 25 34 20 Average. 46.2 43-3 38.4 34 29.1 27.5 26.7 26.1 22 18 17.8 16,9 16. 1 15. 1 14,4 12. 1 368 STATISTICS OF MATCHES. Innings. Times not out. Runs. Most in innings. Averag P. R. Toynbee . . . ' 5 I 48 27 12 F. E. Speed lO o 119 27 11.9 Rev. G. E. Willes . 9 o 97 27 10.7 F. C. Coxhead . 6 o 67 33 10.7 C. R. Seymour . 4 o 43 25 10.3 G. H. Goldney . 8 2 61 41 10. 1 F. W. Maude . 4 O 35 19 8.3 F. Rutter .... 4 O 30 14 7.2 S. P. Bucknill . . . . 4 O 28 17 7 W. H. P. Jenkins . 4 I 8 5 2.2 The following played in three innings : C. Booth, 56, 47, 35 ; Rev. J. G. Crowdy, 17, 64, 24 ; Captain J. Frederick, 10, 44, 8 ; A. Hoare, i, 3, 7 ; H. G. S. Hughes, 29, 51, 8 ; G. H. Longman, 21, o, 51 ; H. H. Longman, 22, 17, 19 ; W. A. Lucy, o, 18, 3 ; J. Robertson, o, 2, 38 ; Captain L. T. Spens, 22, 87, 57 ; W. W. Whitraore, 10, 17, 5 ; Rev. E. R. Yerburgh, 2, 5, 19. Played in two innings : A. Appleby, 43, 17 ; J. G. Beevor, 1,2; R. W. Byass, 9, o; F. Crowder, 31, 2; F. H. Lee, o, 10; H. M. Marshall, i, 2 ; F. H. Mellor, 22, 15 ; E. Peake, 4, o ; Rev. T. T. Peyton, 13, o ; G. D. Rowe, 18, o ; Rev. Clarence Smith, 22, 54 ; Captain J. Spens, 23, 3 ; R. W. Gillespie-Stanton, 7, 10 ; C. B. L. Tylecote, 7, 6 ; J. G. Walker, 83, 9. Played in one innings : C. J. E. Jarvis, 162 ; P. H. Coxe, 93 ; F. L, Evelyn, 63 ; A. F. Jeffreys, 49 ; T. Wise, 47 ; H. T. Griffiths, 43 ; Rev. W. H. Heale, 33 ; P. Norman, 32 ; A. S. Francis, 31 ; J. C. Page, 30 ; E. Money- Wigram, 24 ; A. R. Cobb, 24 ; Rev. W. Law, Hon. R. H. Lyttelton, T. K. Tapling, E. Bray, Hon. C. Finch, A. B. Ridley, Lord Stanhope, Rev. T. O. Reay, A. G. Bovill, Hon. and Rev. J. Marsham, D. Buchanan, R. M. Turnbull, F. H. Birley, Rev. F. G. Williamson, H. W. Brougham, J. H. Bridges, J. Kenrick, J. S. Phillips, A. J. Webbe, Dr Bourns, H. Gilliat, D. Moffat. 1886. Matches played, 27. Won, 13; lost, 4; drawn, 10. Results of Matches. May 26.— Woolwich Academy. Won in an innings. Academy, 43 and 42 ; F. F., 86. 29.— Esher. Lost. Esher, 168 ; F. F., 104 and 43 for two wickets. 31, June I. — Christ Church, Oxford. Drawn. Christ Church, 63; F. F., 175. June 9. — Elstree. Drawn. Elstree, 230 ; F. F. , 77. 10, II. — Rugby School. Drawn. The School, 186; F. F., 33. 12. — Crookham. Won. The Moors, 78; F. F., 196. 14, 15. — Woolwich, Won in one innings. Royal Artillery, 138 and 138 ; F. F., 308. 19.— Eton College. Won. The College, 181 ; F. F., 186 for 8 wickets. 23, 24. — Weybridge. Won by 6 wickets. Oatlands Park, 139 and 49 ; F. F., 113 and 77 for 4 wickets. 25, 26. — Shoeburyness. Drawn. School of Gunnery, 142 and 42 for 6 wickets ; F. F. , 603. STATISTICS OF MATCHES. 369 July 12, 13. IS- 19, 20. 22, 23. 23. 24. 26, 27. 28, 29. 30, 31- Aug. 2, 3- 4. 5- 13. 14- - 18, 19.- 24.- 25, 26.- 27, 28.- Sept. 3, 4.- ■St Cross, Winchester. Drawn. Green Jackets, 173 ; F. F., 329. -Hounslow. Won. 7th Hussars,. loi ; F. F., 344. -Bicester. Lost. Bicester, 300; F. F., 155 and 102. -Northampton. Drawn. Northamptonshire, 222 and 25 for 3 wickets; F. F., 184. -Longwood. Drawn. Lord Northesk's XI, 224; F. F., 147. -Hackwood Park. Drawn. Hackwood Park, 109 and 86 for 3 wickets ; F. F., 332. -Cheltenham. Lost. East Gloucestershire, 235 ; F. F., 48 and 145. -Ludlow. Won by 10 wickets. Ludlow, 189 and 26 ;F. F., 190 and 28. -Knighton. Lost. Radnorshire, to6 and 109 for 6 wickets ; F. F., lot and 113. -Hereford. Won in one innings. Herefordshire 76 and 52 ; F. F. , 136. -Hitchin. Drawn. Gentlemen of Herts, 238 and 248; F. F., 164 and 209 for 7 wickets. -Bucknalls. Won by 6 wickets. George Longman's XL 146 and 240 ; F. F. , 323 and 64 for 4 wickets. -Banbury. Won. Deddington, 36 and 55 ; F. F., 98 and 58. -Shepperton. Won. E. Rutter's XI, 69; F. F., 177. -Aldershot. Won in one innings. The Division, 161 and 193 ; F. F., 525. -Chatham. Drawn. Royal Engineers, 170 and 87 for 7 wickets ; F. F., 97 and 230. -Ayot St Lawrence. Won by 6 wickets. H. E. Crawley's XI, 53 and 41 ; F. F., 83 and 17 for 4 wickets. Batting Averages, Innings. Times not out. Runs. Most in innings. Averag Captain B. Baker 6 2 220 126 55 F. W. Capron . . . . 305 164 50.5 C. R. Seymour . 4 179 153 44-3 Major J. Spens . 8 2 223 49 37-1 I. D. Walker . 4 162 60 40.2 J. W. Dale .... 7 2 181 84 36.1 G. W. Ricketts . 8 I 237 84 33.6 F. E. Speed 10 2 264 174 33 F. W. Pember . 5 116 48 23.1 Major L. T. Spens 4 79 36 19.3 A. W. Moon . 6 115 74 19. 1 W. P. Crake 5 I 71 34 17-3 Rev. E. Prothero 5 87 43 17.2 W. D. Bovill . 12 3 154 56 17. 1 J. Robertson 4 65 29 16. 1 J. H. J. Homsby 20 262 56 13-2 Captain W. T. Cowan 5 60 28 12 E. J. Beaumont-Nesbitt 13 156 36 12 A. Appleby 7 69 37 9.6 C. F. Leslie 5 48 21 9-3 R. W. Skipwith . 6 55 25 9.1 C. E. Cobb 6 1 54 24 9 M. Wilde .... 2 43 37 8.3 2 A 370 STATISTICS OF MATCHES. I ""■"8^-n'^'ir Runs. Most in innings. Avera J. W. Rawlinson 7 I 55 21 7.6 C. W. Bulpett .... 5 o 34 21 6.4 W. P. Jenkins .... 5 I 20 15 5 Captain W. B. Roberts 7 o 37 16 3.6 Bowling Averages. Inning. . Wickets. Average. E. J. Beaumont-Nesbitt . 13 48 3-9 A. Appleby 8 3^ 3-7 J. H. J. Hornsby . 16 51 3-3 J. Robertson 5 18 3-3 W. W. Collins . 4 15 3-3 Captain C. K. Wood . 4 14 3-2 C. F. Leslie 4 12 3 J. B. Rawlinson . 7 19 2.5 W. D. Bovill 4 11 2-3 C. W. Bulpett . 5 II 2.1 G. H. Goldney . 5 13 2-3 F. W. Capron 5 9 1.4 The following played in three innings : Rev. G. E. Willes, Roger Walker, J. S. Russell, G. F. Vernon, G. H. Goldney, S. W. Cattley, Captain C. K. Wood, L. Owen, C. L. Hickley, W. E. W. Collins, J. G. Walker, Major Ravenhill, S. J. Wilson, F. H. Gates, The following played in two innings : E. M. Hadow, G. H. Longman, G. D. Rowe, E. F. S. Tylecote, E. Rutter, E. J. C. Studd, R. H. Fowler, Captain Frederick, D. H. Barry, J. E. A. Greatorex, Hon. W. F. North, F. M. Lucas, Rev. M. B. Buckle, F. E. Lacey, J. L. Phillips, O. R. Dunell, Captain Hon. F. E. Allsopp, Captain B. Allison, Captain Lyle, J. Kenrick. The following played in one innings : A. N. Hornby, H. B. Steel, M. C. Kemp, A. R. Cobb, H. T. Arnall-Thompson, H. Tubb, E. Ramsay, Rev. C. Smith, J. Pender, F. H. Mellor, J. C. Page, A. F. Jeffreys, Major Eccles, H. Gilliat, W. F. Higgins, Rev. W. Townshend, H. G. Tylecote, C. Marriott, R. W. G. Stainton, H. L. Butler, Rev. J. H. Savory, A. H. Evans, Rev. J. G. Crowdy, R. G. Ven- ables, F. E. Street, Major Bally, Surgeon-Major Bourns, Rev. F. C. Williamson, A. J. Webbe, Rev. W. Law, E. H. Buckland, Hon. R. H. Lyttelton, A. C. Cattley, F. M. Buckland, Rev. W. H. Heale, T. R. Hine-Haycock, E. Money- Wigram, F. W. Maude, W. J. Hughes, H. J. J. Hughes. 1887. Matches played, 26. Won, 6; lost, 7; drawn, 13. Results of Matches. May 30, 31. — Woolwich. Lost. F. F., 74 and 123 ; Royal Artillery, 144 and 54 for I wicket. June I, 2. — Oxford. Drawn. Christ Church, 180 and 162 for 8 wickets ; F. F., 121. 8, 9.— Rugby. Lost. Rugby School, 117 and 205 ; F. F., 77 and 159. 16.— Eton. Lost. F. F., i8o; Eton College, 237. M — Harrow. Won. Harrow School, 137; F. F., 178. STATISTICS OF MATCHES. 371 July I, 2.- 6.- 20, 21.- 22, 23-- 25. 27. 23-- 26. 28. 29, 30-- Aug I, 2. June 21. — Esher. Won. Esher, 218 ; F. F., 301 for 3 wickets. 22.— Weybridge. Won. F. F., 206; Oatlands Park, 131 and 54 for i wicket. 24, 25.— Shoeburyness. Drawn. School of Gunnery, 239 and 387 for 4 wickets; F. F., 165. Carshalton. Drawn. F. F. , 404 ; Carshalton Park, 460 for 8 wickets. Dulwich. Won. F. F., 200; Dulwich College, 87 and 135. Hackwood. Won. F. F., 162 and 90; Hackwood Park, 85 and no. Winchester. Drawn. Green Jackets, 154 and 332 for 7 wickets ; F. F., 379. Godalming. Won. Charterhouse, 98 and 46 for i wicket ; F. F. 162. Stoke-on-Trent. Drawn. Staffordshire, 171 and 218 ; F. F., 151. ■Cheltenham. Drawn. F. F., 244 and 85 for 7 wickets; East Gloucestershire, 311. Ludlow. Drawn. Ludlow, 143 and 161; F. F., 179 and 84 for 2 wickets. ■Knighton. Lost. F. F., 100 and 251; Radnorshire, 248 and 106 for 3 wickets, li II — Norwich. Lost. F. F., 121 and 149; Norfolk, 417. 3, 4. — Shrewsbury. Drawn. Shropshire, 375; F. F., 287 and 76 for 4 wickets. •I 11 — Ipswich. Drawn. F. F., 293 and 252 ; Ipswich and East Suifolk, 297. 5.— Littlebury, Saffron Walden. Lost. F. F., 120; Mr Burrell's XI, 197 for 8 wickets. 8, 9. — Maidstone. Drawn. F. F,,'256 and 172 for 6 wickets; Mote Park, 531. 10, II. — Linton Park, Maidstone. Lost. F. F., 213 and 171 ; Band of Brothers, 330 and 55 for one wicket. 12, 13. — Shorncliffe. Drawn. F. F., 184 and 272 for 5 wickets ; Shorncliffe Garrison, 223. 24, 25. — Aldershot. Drawn. Aldershot Division, 273 ; F. F., 336 and 12 for 2 wickets. 26, 27. — Chatham. Drawn. Royal Engineers, 95 and 129 for 8 wickets ; F. F., 278. Batting Averages. I""i"S-nIro?c. Runs. Most in innings. Averag Major L. Spens .... 6 2 262 112* 65.2 C. E. Cobb 4 149 72 37.1 G. F. Vernon 4 I loS 71 35 S. W. Cattley . 6 I 172 n* 34.2 Hon. W. F. North 5 2 100 57* 33.1 A. C. Macpherson 5 153 116 30.3 Major J. Spens . lO I 259 114* 28.7 Rev. H. Thursby 12 I 305 53 27.8 H. G. S. Hughes 5 132 106 26.2 W. D. Bovill . 6 139 88 23.1 T. Hine-Haycock 4 87 49 21.3 Capt. Von Donop 4 I 63 24 21 J. H. J. Hornsby 9 170 48 18.8 Captain Cowan . *Sig 9 2 nifies not out. 132 39 18.6 372 STATISTICS OF MATCHES. Inninofs. Times Runs. Most in Averas; ° not out. innings. C. L. Hickley . . . . lo 2 146 63 18.2 Captain B. Allason 4 I 55 28 18.1 R. W. Skipwith . 9 I 144 34 18 W. P. Crake 4 I 51 31* 17 F. E. Speed 8 o 128 30 16 Captain B. Roberts 7 o 107 ■ 43 15.2 G. H. Goldney . 15 4 166 30 I5-I Rev. V. Royle . 6 o 84 67 14 Rev. E. Protheroe 5 o 67 22 13.2 Rev. G. E. Willes 8 2 78 31 ^3 C. B. L. Tylecote 5 o 60 28 12 E. F. S. Tylecote 5 I 46 23 II. 2 H. J. E. Burrell . 8 o 84 31 10.4 J.J.Frederick , II o no 53 10 J. B. Rawlinson . 7 2 50 IS 10 C. A. S. Leggatt 8 I 62 27 8.7 R. M. Turnbull . 5 o 39 21 7-4 M. Wilde . 5 o 32 II 6.2 The following played in three innings: H. J. Mordaunt, F. C. Coxhead, E. Rutter, W. E. T. Bolitho, W. W. Whitmore, F. W. Capron, A. Appleby, Captain Stratford, N. E. Stainton, H. Tubb, F. C. Cobden. The following played in two innings : E. H. Buckland, J. E. A. Greatorex, A. S. Francis, F. S. Cornwallis, H. C. Maul, L. M. Richards, F. H. Sitwell, C. R. Thursby, J. H. Savory, G. C. G. Dewar, Rev. S. C. Voules, G. W. Ricketts, W. G. Hargreaves. The following played in one innings : Hon. and Rev. E. Lyttelton, E. Han- bury, F. Buckland, Rev. W. Law, Hon. R. Lyttelton, G. Ralli, W. Byass, H. F. Lee, G. N. Marten, D. S. Dury, F. W. Wright, H. F. de Paravicini, E. A. J. Maynard, T. Greatorex, Sir Guy Campbell, I. D. Walker, R. E. Inglis, H. Clough Taylor, J. Robertson, T. Kaye, Hon. A. Grosvenor, A. J. Webbe, J. G. Walker, W. E. W. Collins, Major Griffiths, Captain B. Baker, F. E. Lacey, C. R. Seymour, G. H. Longman, R. L. Knight, F. W. Pember, A. Rotherham, E. Ramsay, L. Owen. Matches played, 32. Won, 16; lost, 5 ; drawn, 10. Results of Matches. May 26. — Esher. Won. F. F., 141 ; Esher, 75 and 118 for 3 wickets. June 2, — Weybridge. Won. F. F., 181; Oatlands Park, 136. 7. — Oxford. Drawn. F. F., 231 and 124 for 7 wickets ; Christ Church, 244. 9. — WeUington College. Drawn. F. F., 56 for 3 wickets; Wellington College, 139. 12. — Winchester. Won. F. F., 163; The School, 31 and 25 for 3 wickets. 14, 15. — Rugby. Drawn. F. F., 133; The School, 159. 16. — Woolwich. Won. F. F., 313 for 9 wickets ; Royal Military Aca- demy, 52. * Signifies not out. STATISTICS OF MATCHES. ^7Z June 29. July 16.— Eton. Won. F. F., 151 ; The College, 133. 23. — Shorncliffe. Won. F. F., 317; The Camp, 50 and 82. 30.— Shoeburyness. Won. F. F., 321 ; School of Gunnery, 151 and 165. 30. — Sandhurst. Won. F. F., 168; Staff College, 100 and 46 for 3 wickets. 7. — Godalming. Won. F. F., 96; The Charterhouse, 32 and 91 for 7 wickets. 12. — Colchester. Lost. 23, Drawn. F. F., 105 and 100 ; The Garrison, 86 and 143. F. F. did not bat; The College, 20 for 6 Aug. I, Dulwich. wickets. Bicester. Won. F. F., 103 and 11 for i wicket ; Bicester, 43 and 70. Cheltenham. Drawn. F. F., 43 and 114 for 7 wickets. East Gloucestershire, 164. Ludlow. Drawn. F. F. did not bat ; Ludlow, 97 for 8 wickets. F. F., 68 and 114 ; Radnorshire, 108 and 75 for Lost. 17, 18. 22, 23- 24. 25 27. 28. 29, 30. 31. — Knighton. 8 wickets. — Shrewsbury. Won. — Worcester. Lost. for 5 wickets. — Audley End. Lost. — Ipswich. Won. F, — Norwich. Drawn. — Maidstone. Won. — Linton Park, Maidstone. 63 and 320. —Woolwich. Won. F. F. 157 and 136. — Hackwood Park. Won. wood Park, 85 and 87. —Portsmouth. Lost. F. F., 234 and 95 ; United Services, 172 and 178. — Winchester. Won. F. F., 264 and 6 for no wicket ; Green Jackets, 153 and 116. — Aldershot. Drawn. F. F., 279 ; The Division, 170 for 7 wickets. — Ayot St Lawrence, v. Mrs Pringle's XL No record. Sept. I. — Chatham. Drawn. F. F., 90 and 205 ; Royal Engineers, 179 and 62 for 5 wickets. F. F., 107 and no ; Shropshire, 54 and 65. F. F., 78 and 159; Worcestershire, 161 and jj F. F., 105 and 52 ; Mr Burrell's XI, 73 and 171. F. , 104 and 197 ; East Suffolk, 109 and 150. F. F., 203 ; Norfolk, 205 and jj for 5 wickets. F. F., 225 ; The Mote, 99 and 118. Drawn. F. F., 176; Band of Brothers, 288 and 6 for no wicket ; Royal Artillery, F. F., 103 and 69 for no wicket; Hack- Batting Averages. Innings. Times not out. Runs. Most in innings. Averag G. F. Vernon .... 5 184 118 36.4 N. E. Stainton . 8 I 251 53 35.6 Major J. Spens . 4 129 76 32.1 J. A. Turner 5 I 128 47 32 W. E. W. Collins 11 258 95 23-5 G. W. Ricketts . 10 231 108 23.1 J. Robertson 5 I 90 30 22.2 Major L. T. Spens 5 I 79 30 19. 1 W. D. Bovill . 12 2 180 41 18 C. E. Cobb 9 158 53. ^7-5 E. D.-Longworth 9 157 46 17.4 A. W. Moon . 17 2 242 94* 16.2 * Signifies not out. 374 STATISTICS OF MATCHES. Innings. Times not out. Runs. Most in innings. Averag A. T. B. Dunn . 7 I 113 32* 16. 1 J. H. J. Homsby 4 o 59 46 14-3 E. A. J. Maynard 9 o 119 33 •13.2 E. J. Beaumont-Nesbitt . 20 2 174 39 12.9 E. Money-Wigram . 8 o I02 34 12.6 M. Wilde .... 4 o 44 30 II. W. E. Crake . 5 o 48 17 9-3 J. F. M. Prinsep 7 o 57 36 8.1 Captain Cowan . lO I 70 20 1-1 C. E. Farmer . 5 2 23 10 7.2 J. Hill .... 9 o 54 14 6.0 R. W. Skipwith . II I 61 13 5.6 Captain B. Roberts . 9 I 45 25 5-5 Captain Von Donop . 5 o 25 15 5-0 Lord A. Fitzroy . 7 2 24 10 4.4 Captain J. Frederick . 6 O 25 II 4.1 Rev. G. E. Willes 12 I 40 12 3-7 F. W. Pember . 4 I II 5 2.3 The following played in three innings : E. M. Hadow, E. Rutter, Rev. E. D. Protheroe, A. E. Leatham, H. Tubb, T. R. Hine-Haycock, D. H. Barry, Rev. E. H. Hardcastle, C. L. Hickley, Capt. Dumbleton, and A. W. Cornwallis. The following played in two innings : Prince Christian Victor, Capt, Caunter, S. W. Cattley, F. E. Speed, L. Saunderson, G. H. Longman, A. C. Macpherson, R. W. Byass, M. J. DaugHsh, H. W. Hutson, C. Toppin, F. H. Gates, and Capt. B. Baker. The following played in one innings : R. W. Turnbull, C. J. Hargreaves, Captain C. K. Wood. E. H. Buckland, J. S. Udal, L D. Walker, J. Colman, E. Ramsay, A. S. Francis, J. G. Walker, C. E. Currie, S. T. Wilson, F. C. Cobden, R. O. Milne, J. W. Dale, F. M. Buckland, Rev. C. Smith, T. S. Dury, Roger Walker, Hon. R. H. Lyttelton, E. G. Wynyard, F. H. Lee, Capt. Holden. E. RaUi, Rev. J. H. Savory, P. J. T. Henery, Rev. H. E. Thursby, T. K. Tapling, G. H. Goldney, H. E. Crawley, C. A. S. Leggatt, C. R. Seymour, Rev. J. G. Crowdy, J. H, Bridges, Major Lewes, H. H. Castens, M. C. Kemp, Capt. Peyton, Rev. T. O. Wray, A. Rotherham, C. Thursby, H. F. de Paravicini, L. Owen, A. J. Webbe, F. Dames-Longworth. 1889. Results of Matches. May 25. — Esher. Lost by 185 runs. Esher, 306; F. F., 121. June I.— Weybridge. Won by 156 runs. F. F., 236 ; Oatlands Park, 80. 6.— Winchester. Drawn. F. F., 225; Winchester College, 71 for 2 wickets. 10, II.— Woolwich. Drawn. F. F., 152 ; Royal Artillery, 166. 13, 14. — Rugby. Won by 10 wickets. Rugby School, 90 and 145; F. F., 201 and 37 for no wickets. 15. — Woolwich. Drawn. F. F., 205; Royal Military Academy, 59 for 5 wickets. * Signifies not out. Hi -a o U STATISTICS OF MATCHES. 375 June 15. — Wellington. Lost by 150 runs. Wellington College, 202 for 6 wickets (innings declared finished) ; F. F., 52. 19, 20. — Oxford. Lost. Christ Church, 221 and 131 for 3 wickets : F. F., 219 and 132. 24. — Eton. Drawn. Eton College, 262 ; F. F., 207 for 5 wickets. 28, 29. — Shoeburyness. Won by 7 wickets. School of Gunnery, 65 and 202 ; F. F., 162 and 108 for 3 wickets. July 4. — Bucknalls, Watford. Lost by 179 runs on first innings. Bucknalls, 271 ; F. F., 92 and 43 for 5 wickets. II. — Ayot St Lawrence. Won by 52 runs. F. F., 193; H. E. Craw- ley's XL 141. 13. — Dulwich. Drawn. Dulwich College, 177; F. F., 47 for 2 wickets. ' 17, 18. — Winchester. Won by 7 wickets. Green Jackets, 156 and 247; F. F., 294 and 113 for 3 wickets. 19, 20. — Eccles V. Western. No score. 20. — Godalming. Drawn. F. F., 167 for 5 wickets (innings declared finished) ; Charterhouse, 54 for 7 wickets. 22, 23. — Liverpool. Drawn. F. F., 82 and 80 for 3 wickets ; Liverpool, 59. ti II — Horsham. Drawn. Horsham, 174 ; F. F. , 486 for 5 wickets. 29, 30. — Bicester. Lost by an innings and 21 runs. F. F., 65 and 102; Bicester, 188. 31, Aug. I. — Cheltenham. Lost by an innings and 53 runs. E. Glou- cestershire, 445; F. F., 203 and 189. It It — Kingswalden Bury, Hitchin. Lost by 6 wickets. Rev. H. C. Fellowes' XI, 184 and 59 for 4 wickets; F. F., 70 and 177. Aug. 2, 3. — Ludlow. Lost by an innings and 75 runs. F. F., 71 and 53; Ludlow, 199. 5, 6. — Knighton. Drawn, Radnorshire, 205; F. F., no and 119 for 5 wickets. It It — Meriden. Won by an innings and 106 runs. Mr Digby's XI, 88 and 73 ; F. F., 267. 7, 8. — Shrewsbury. Drawn. F. F., 162 and 183 ; Shropshire, 242 and 70 for 3 wickets. II II — Meriden. Won by an innings and 116 runs. F. F., 382 ; Warwick- shire Crusaders, 87 and 79. 9. — Kenilworth. Lost by 45 runs. Kenilworth, 138 ; F. F., 83. 9, 10. — Worcester. Drawn. Worcestershire, 179. 19, 20. — Aldershot. Drawn. Aldershot Division, 287 ; F. F., 156 and 218 for 8 wickets. 21, 22.— Portsmouth. Drawn. United Services, 165 and 46 for 3 wickets; F. F., 187. 23, 24. — Hackwood. Lost. F. F., 103 and 123 ; Hackwood Park, 186 and 39 for 3 wickets. 26, 27. — Maidstone. Won by 84 runs. F. F., 204 and 164 ; Mote, 162 and 122. 28, 29. — Linton Park. Won. F. F., 164 and 207 for 6 wickets ; B. B.'s, 98 and 145. 30, 31. — Chatham. Won by an innings and 8 runs. F. F., 266; Royal Engineers, 141 and 117. At the Mote, W. E. W. Collins and A. M. Inglis made 78 runs off 8 overs in fifteen minutes. 376 STATISTICS OF MATCHES. Batting Averages. A. M. Inglis G. Garnett . W. D. Marshall J. M. Jones R. W. Skipwith C. E. Farmer G. F. Vernon L. M. Richards A. J. Thornton A. T. B. Dunn Major J. Spens Major Spens H. J. E. Burrell C. W. Ricketts R. T. Atthill Captain Hayhurst- France J. A. Turner J. H. J. Hornsby Rev. J. H. Savory W. D. Bovill Captain W. D. Jones Captain Cowan . F. W. Maude . E. Rutter . A. E. Leatham . W. E. W. Collins F. C. Cobden . E. J. Beaumont-Nesbitt Rev. C. Smith Hon. H. A. Adderley S. Garnett . F. Dames-Longworth A. W. Cornwallis J. Hill G. H. Goldney . H. G. Tylecote . S. J. Wilson Rev. G. E. WiUes Captain Talbot . R. G. H. Hughes Captain B. Baker A. Appleby H. T. Hewett . H. G. S. Hughes A. E. Payne H. Tubb . Lord A. Fitzroy . The following played in two innings : H. Buckland, 76, i ; G. Bird, 3*, 13 ; H. E * Signifies not nings. Times not out. Runs. Most in innings. Average. 5 I 149 64 37-1 3 I 74 48* 37 7 2 179 61 35-4 8 283 97 35-3 3 I 63 44 31- 1 3 I 59 28* 29.1 5 137 44 27.2 4 no 55 27.2 5 133 72 26.3 3 80 57 26.2 6 151 81 25.1 8 196 68 24.4 3 87 72 24 7 156 71 22.2 3 I 44 33 22 4 I 63 36* 21 6 123 56 20,3 9 I 158 45 19.6 10 I 150 40 16.6 8 I 117 55 16.S II 2 145 43 16. 1 9 13s 40 15 4 60 40 15 5 4 IS 5* 15 10 I 131 27 14-5 8 I 99 49 14. 1 3 42 37 14 7 I 74 38 12.2 4 46 26 II. 2 3 31 23 10. 1 3 I 21 9* 10. 1 5 I 40 18 TO 7 57 36 8.1 14 I 118 33 9.1 8 2 49 14 8.1 s I 33 20 8.1 10 80 15 8 9 I 63 15 7-7 3 23 17 7.2 7 2 37 18 7.2 7 3 27 9 6.3 3 19 13 6.1 3 I 13 8 6.1 3 18 15 6 3 I 12 6 6 3 18 7 6 9 3 20 10 3.2 : H. T. Arnall-Thompson, 0, 31 ; E. H .. Bull, 5, 0* ; Captair I C. Boultbee, 6, i out. STATISTICS OF MATCHES. 2,77 Hon. D, Carnegie, 7*, 9* ; M. J. Dauglish, 12, 2 ; Rev. E. Davenport, 4, 23* ; C. Dewar, 9, 4 ; S. W. Gore, 12*, o; R. Hine-Haycock, 6*, 20; W. J. Hughes, I, 21 ; F. R. Kindersley, 20*, 15 ; C. A. S. Leggatt, o, 12 ; M. P. Lucas, 34, 26 ; C. J. Lucas, 16, 15 ; W. Lucy, 8*, o ; A. W. Moon, 20, 6* ; G. N. Marten, o, 6 ; E. A. J. Maynard o, 21 ; A. C. Macpherson, 10, 37 ; F. H. Gates, 4, 23 ; C. D. Pennant, 3,0; G. D. Rowe, 43, 6 ; Captain C. Rawlinson, 2, 10* ; N. Stainton, 6, o ; L. Sanderson, 85, 27 ; C. B. L. Tylecote, i, 8 ; R. M. Turnbull, o, 15 ; R. G. Venables, 8, o ; C. M. Woodbridge, 23, 33 ; R. A. Wilson, 33*, 24*; Roger Walker, 2, 12 ; A. J. Webbe, 2, 32*. The following played in one innings : D. H. Barry, i ; Dr Bourns, 7 ; C. C Burke, 4 ; H. L. Butler, o ; Rev. J. E. Crowdy, 46 ; C. E. Cobb, 23 ; S. W Cattley, 13 ; F, C. Coxhead, o ; J. Colman, 2 ; T. S. Dury, 14 ; Major Dorling 76 ; E. C. Evelyn, 39 ; A. S. Francis, 21 ; A. Fulcher, 7 ; E. M. Hadow, 32 ; A H. Heath, 88; Lieut.-Col. Inge, 27; C. F. H. Leslie, 6 ; F. E. Lacey, 14; F. H Lee, 3; H. Mellor, 51; W. F. Moore, o; K. M'Alpine, 6; R. J. M'Niel, 17; J J. Richardson, 56; Rev. V. Royle, 11 ; Rev. T. O'Reay, o; Captain Ridley, 8 J. Robertson, 4; F. E. Speed, 3 ; H. M. Stutfield, 24; C. R. Seymour, o; Cap tain Stratford, 4; C. Bogle-Smith, o ; J. S. Udal, 37; J. G. Walker, 4; C. T Weatherby, 18 ; Captain M. G. Wilkinson, 52. Results of Matches. May 24. — Esher. Won. Esher, 108 and 108 for 5 wickets ; F. F., 183. 26, 27. — Woolwich. Lost. Royal Artillery, 278 ; F. F., 72 and 163. June II. — Eton. Won. Eton College, 128; F. F., 211 for 6 wickets. 14. — Wellington. Won. Wellington College, 156; F. F., 161 for 8 wickets. 16, 17. — Rugby. Drawn. Rugby School, 303; F, F., 313. 18. — Woolwich. Lost. Royal Military Academy, 149 ; F. F., 127. 19, 20. — Oxford. Lost. Christ Church, 307 and 9 for 9 wickets ; F. F., 98 and 215. 21.— . Lost. C. Rose's XI, 182; F. F., 142. M — . Won. Lord Chesham's XI, 112; F. F, , 204. 24. — Winchester. Won. Winchester College, 154; F. F., 157 for 2 wickets. 25. — Ayot St Lawrence. Won. H. E. Crawley's XI, 69 ; F. F., 116 and 196 for 9 wickets. 27, 28. — Shoeburyness. Drawn. School of Gunnery, 227 and 116 for 4 wickets; F. F., 224. July 3.— Watford. Won. C. J. Hegan's XI, 90; F. F., 102. 16. — . Won. Evelyns, 225 ; F. F. , 234 for 5 wickets. 19. — . Won. Charterhouse, 50 and 43 for 5 wickets ; F. F., 176. 23, 24. — Horsham. Lost. Horsham, 202 and 24 for 5 wickets ; F. F., 141 and 83. 25, 26. — Winchester. Drawn. Green Jackets, 211 and 127 for 6 wickets; F. F., 507. 28, 29. — Wellesbourne. Won. Wellesbourne, 131 and 59; F. F., 123 and lis- * Signifies not out. 378 STATISTICS OF MATCHES. July 30, 31.— Cheltenham. Drawn. East Gloucestershire, 146 and 78 for 5 wickets; F. F., 164 and 164. Aug. I, 2. — Ludlow. Drawn. Ludlow, 74 and 135 for 6 wickets ; F. F., 198 for 5 wickets. 2. — Oatlands Park. Drawn. Oatlands Park, 130; F. F., loi for 2 wickets. 4, 5.— Hopton Heath. Lost. Hopton Heath, 116 and 113 for 8 wickets ; F. F., 149 and -jj. 6, 7. — Shrewsbury. Drawn. Shropshire, 107 and 151 ; F. F., 193. 8, 9. — Worcester. Drawn. Worcestershire, 411 ; F. F., 199 and 140 for wickets, ir, 12. — . Lost. The Mote, 75 and 263 for 8 wickets ; F. F., 65 and 156. 15, 16. — Chatham. Won. Royal Engineers, 42 and 118 ; F. F., 237. 18,19. — Aldershot. Drawn. Aldershot Division did not bat ; F. F., 396. 20, 21. — Portsmouth. Won. United Services, 161 and 150; F. F., 153 and 158 for 5 wickets. 29. 30- — • Lost. Gentlemen of Leicestershire, 264 ; F. F. , 103 and 48. Sept. I, 2. — . Won. Guernsey, 34 and 139 ; F. F., 209. 4, 5. — Jersey. Won. South Lancashire Regiment, 87 and 82; F. F., 168. 6. — Jersey. Drawn. Island of Jersey, 53 and 53 for 6 wickets ; F. F., 212. 8, 9.— Weymouth. Won. Weymouth, 51 and 149 ; F. F., 79 and 124 for 3 wickets. A^.^.— No records of Staff College at Camberley, at Boxley, at Hams Hall, or Northampton. Batting Averages. Innings. Times not out. Runs. Most in innings. Averag Captain B. Baker ... 7 5 134 54 6j Major Rice 8 3 241 • III 48.1 E. H. Buckland . 6 I 173 119 34-3 A. T. Atthill 7 227 74 32.3 Rev. J. H. Savory 5 I 131 85 32.3 Major J. Spens . S 161 106 32.1 F. M. Buckland . 5 153 62 30-3 G. W. Ricketts . 4 123 100 30.3 F. Gilman . 10 I 263 65 29.2 H. T. Hewitt . 4 114 48 28.2 J. A. Turner 8 225 61 28.1 G. F. Vernon . 9 232 17 25-7 W. D. Bovill . 6 3 59 33 19.2 Captain Prinsep . 10 I 171 36 19 A. E. Leatham . 7 I 109 57 18.1 J. H. J. Hornsby 12 197 62 16.5 H. Bull 7 2 78 26 15-3 C. E. Farmer . II 3 14s 28 15 C. E. de Trafiford 5 95 41 15 W. E. W. Collins ■ 13 3 14s 28 14.5 M. F. Maclean . II I 140 39 14 J. A. Gibbs 5 I 56 21 14 F. W. Maude . 4 55 22 13-3 4^«K < STATISTICS OF MATCHES. 379 Innings. Times not out. Runs. Most in innings. Averag K. M 'Alpine .... 6 o 77 30 12.5 H. E. M. Stutfield 5 I 49 32 12. 1 E. A. J. Maynard 5 o 6o 29 12 Rev. G. E. Willes 8 2 6i 15 10. T C. M. Woodbridge 4 o 41 35 10. 1 J. Hill 7 I 6o 21 10 S. H. Walrond 4 o 37 16 9-1 A. J. Thornton 4 o 36 18 9 Captain Cowan 8 T 57 26 8.1 M. C. Kemp 5 o 37 26 7.2 R. A. Wilson 4 I 20 9 6.2 W. H. Sitwell 5 I 26 16 6.2 J. Robertson 6 o 55 36 6.1 F. Coxhead 4 o 16 16 4' R. Skipwith 8 I 24 7 3-3 The following played in three innings : F. W. Bovill, Major L. T. Spens, H. W. Brougham, F. W. Capron, Captain C. E. Clowes, H. G. S. Hughes, H. E. Hoff- meister, Major Pearson, Captain Hornby (R. A. ), H. Tubb, E. Rutter, Ll Sander- son, J. Pender. The following played in two innings : E. M. Bannerman, R. W. Byass, A. C. Cattley, O. R. Dunell, Rev. H. J. E. Burrell, A. T. B. Dunn, Captain Young (R.E.), C. W. Parry, E. M. Hadow, A. E. Payne, E. S. Hanbury, Captain Talbot, Captain Wheble, H. J. Mordaunt, J. T. Sanderson, H. G. Tylecote, W. D. Marshall, J. S. Russell; F. H. Mellor, C. A. S. Leggatt, L. M. Richards, S. H. F. Hole, Rev. J. S. Marriott. The following played in one innings : Captain W. D. Jones, R, O. Milne, F. G. Barker, I. D. Walker, P. R. Toynbee, R. Turnbull, H. Rotherham, Captain Rice, (R.E.), Captain Lipscombe, E. Murdoch, Rev. V. Royle, A. S. Francis, Ca'ptain Elliott, F. E. Speed, C. Bridgeman, C. Booth, C. L. Hickley, Major Griffiths (R.A.), Colonel Nicholson (R.A.), Captain Curteis (R.A.), C. F. H. Leslie, Captain Wynyard, P. C. Smith, J. Colman, W. F. Higgins, A. C. Macpherson, L. G. A. Collins, F. L. Evelyn, F. T. Welman, M. J. Dauglish, E. T. Hodgson, A. Chinn, Captain Hayhurst-France, C. J. Stratton, F. H. Gates, W. N. Cobbold, Captain V. Tippinge, G. D. Rowe, F. Dames-Longworth, E. Bray, A. J. Webbe. 1891. Results of Matches. May i8, 19.— Woolwich. Royal Artillery. No record, 30.— . Won. Eton College, 34 and 116; F.F., 125. June I, 2.— . Won. Rugby, 83 and 109; F. F., 166 and 30 for 3 wickets. 3.— Woolwich. Won. Royal Military Academy, 71 and 69 for 4 wickets; F. F., 92. 6. — V. Esher. No record. 10, II.— Oxford. Drawn. Christ Church, 271 and 59 for 3 wickets; F. F. , 231. .13. — Won. Westminster School, 117; F. F., 322. - II — V. Charterhouse. No record. II — . Lost. C. Rose's XI, 248 for 8 wickets ; F.F., 158, II — V. Staff College, Camberley. No record. 38o STATISTICS OF MATCHES. June 17.— . Won. H. G. Tylecote's XL, 120; F. F., 238 for 6 wickets. 24. — . Won. Winchester College, 137; F. F., 184 for 8 wickets. 26, 27. — . Drawn. School of Gunnery, 161 and 225 for 4 wickets ; F. F. , 342. July I. — Southgate. Drawn. Southgate, 205 for 6 wickets ; F. F., 132 for 2 wickets. 2. — V. C. J. Hegan's XI. No record. 4. — . Lost. Lyric, 253; F. F., 117. 8. — . Drawn. Evelyns, 199 for 6 wickets. II. — . Won. Wellington College, 156; F. F., 176 for 9 wickets. 13, 14. — V. Horsham. No record. 15,16. — z/. Green Jackets. No record. 17, 18. — V. Mr Style's XL No record. 20. — Sandhurst. Drawn. Staff, 202; F. F., 148 for 6 wickets. 27,28. — Cirencester. Drawn. Cirencester, 126 and 276 for 3 wickets ; F. F. , 209 and 108 for 7 wickets. 29, 30. — Cheltenham. Drawn. East Gloucestershire, ; F. F., 381 for 6 wickets. 31, Aug. I. — . Won. F. F., 98 and 103 ; Heath House, 162 and yS. Aug. I. — . Won. Oatlands Park, 50 and 64 ; F. F., 174. 3, 4. — Ludlow. Drawn. Ludlow, 93 and 60 for no wicket ; F. F., 156. 5, 6. — . Won. Shropshire, 187 and 102; F. F. , 149 and 141 for 9 wickets. 7, 8. — Worcester. Lost. F. F., 90 and 149 ; Worcestershire, 116 and 124 for I wicket. 10,11. — . Won. The Mote, 106 and 48 ; F. F., 117 and 121. 12, 13. — Linton Park. Won. Linton Park, 163 and 181 ; F. F., 305 and 38 for no wicket. 14, 15. — Chatham. Drawn. Royal Engineers, 224 and 66 for 5 wickets ; F. F., 218 and 149 for 7 wickets. 17, 18. — Aldershot. Won. Division, 138 and 100 ; F. F., 183 and 164 for 6 wickets. 19, 20. — Portsmouth. Drawn. United Services, 278; F. F., 116 and iii for 2 wickets. „ M — Kearsiey Grange. Won. Kearsley, 186 and 85; F. F., 159 and 294 for 8 wickets. 21, 22. — . Drawn. Gents of Staffordshire, 34 and 51 for i wicket ; F. F., 105. 24, 25. — . Drawn. Rockingham, 53; F. F., 107 and 27 for I wicket. 26, 27.— . Drawn. Northants C. & G. , 88 ; F. F. , 270 for 6 wickets. 28, 29.— . Won. Gents of Leicestershire, 102 and 48 ; F. F,, 173 and yj for 6 wickets. 28.— Weymouth. Lost. Weymouth, 161 ; F. F., 39 and 48. 29. — Weymouth (return match). Drawn. Weymouth, 186; F. F., 60 and 81 for 5 wickets. 31, Sept. I. — Guernsey. Drawn. Guernsey, 54 and 108 for 3 wickets ; F. F., 141. Sept. 2, 3. — Jersey. Won. South Lancashire Regiment, 53 and 78 ; F. F., 194. 4, 5. — Jersey. Won. Jersey, 115 and 80; F. F., 254. STATISTICS OF MATCHES. 381 Batting Averages. . Innings, Times not out. Runs. Most in innings. Average J. A. Turner 7 I 276 106 46 C. Toppin .... 4 I 178 78 44.2 F. Dames- Longworth . 5 I 158 58 39-2 W. D. Bovill .... 8 3 192 102 38.2 C. E. Farmer 6 163 41 37-1 Captain Hayhurst-France . 5 2 109 30 36.1 F. L.. Evelyn 5 150 102 30 C. Parry .... 5 147 66 29.2 C. E. Cobb 10 287 65 28.7 F. H. Gresson . 10 283 118 28.3 H. E. Bull .... 4 I 86 61 21.2 Major J. Spens . 5 I 80 34 20 Captain B. Baker 4 I 60 51 20 A. E, Leatham . 8 ^S7 32 19-5 Captain Vizard . 10 188 67 18.8 E. L. Metcalfe . 9 165 49 18.1 F. H. Sitvvell . 4 I 53 29 17.2 H. M. Burge . 4 I 50 20 16.2 E. Rutter .... 4 2 32 13 16 Captain Curteis, R.A. 16 253 61 15-13 M. F. Maclean . 15 4 166 40 13.10 Major Hardy, R.A. . 5 73 49 14-3 Major L. T. Spens . 5 I 55 28 13-3 C, A. M. Kempe 7 I 75 25 12.3 Rev. H. E. Thursby . II 132 48 12 T. Hill .... 14 156 52 II. 2 A. J. Thornton . 4 46 26 II. 2 R. T. Atthill 22 I 205 40 9.16 W. E. W. Collins . 16 I 125 48 8.5 H. C. Currie, R.A. . 4 35 23 8.3 H. Philipson 4 29 22 7-1 Rev. G. E. Willes 7 2 31 6 6.1 Captain Cowan . 10 I 52 13 5-7 Lord Truro 5 I 25 9 5 A. W. Fulcher . 4 I 14 14 4.2 E. P. Benson, R.A. . 7 3 17 7 4.1 The following played in three innings : C. Bogle Smith, J. Robertson, E. C. Mordaunt, R. Turnbull, F. E. Speed, Captain E. Wynyard, C. Peachey, A. C. Richards, Rev. H. E. Burrell, A. J. Boger, C. J. E. Jarvis, Hon. A. Adderley, H. T. Arnall Thompson, K. M'Alpine, Captain Phipps Hornby, M. C. Kemp, Lieutenant P. Hornby, R.N., J. A. Gibbs. The following played in two innings : E. M. Hadow, C. E. Murdoch, R. A. Widson, T. O'Brien, Captain W. G. Wyld, H. E. HofFmeister, G. F. Vernon, J. G. Walker, C. E. Mason, G. Style, P. Toynbee, R. Skipwith, J. B. Rawlinson, G. Beaumont Nesbitt, J. Pender, C. Douglas Pennant, C. W. Digby, Captain Gatliff. The following played in one innings : E. A. Nepean, D. F. Gillman, C. P. Foley, Captain Cowper Coles, F. T. Welman, Captain Elliott, S. H. F. Hole, H. T. Hewitt, M. P. Lucas, G. G. Skipwith, R. Gibson, Rev. M. P. Buckle, Captain Rawlinson, VJ. S, Case, C. L. Hickley, A. Appleby, A. J. Webbe, Rev. 382 STATISTICS OF MATCHES. W. Law, A. H. Heath, A. C. Collier, Hon. F. Thesiger, G. M. Jones, S. H. Walrond, G. D. Rowe, C. R. Seymour, H. W. Brougham, G. G. Moir, R. J. Pinney, A. C. Macpherson, S. J. Wilson, C. F. H. Leslie, J. R. Head, E. T. Hill, L. Y. ColHns, Captain Becher, W. F. Higgins, C. J. Stratton, H. Tubb. Matches played, 32. Won, 9 ; lost, 7 ; drawn, 16. Results of Matches. June I. — Woolwich. Lost. F. F., 161; Royal Military Academy, 163 for 8 wickets (12 a-side). 6, 7. — Woolwich. Lost. F. F. , 66 and 208 ; Royal Artillery, 299. Ti. — Eton. Won. F. F., 155 and 74 ; Eton College, 125 and 66 for 3 wickets. 13, 14. — Rugby. Won. F. F., 214 and 141 for 6 wickets (innings declared closed) ; The School, 137 and 92. 15, 16. — Oxford. Drawn. F. F., 298; Christ Church College, 215. 20, 21. — Newbold Revel. Won. Newbold Revel, 132 and 153; F. F., 274 and 12 for i wicket. 22. — Westminster. Won. F. F., 82 and 61 for 3 wickets; Westminster School, 96 and 50. 23, 24. — Newbold Revel. Won. F. F., 124 and 97; Warwickshire Crus- aders, 123 and 87. 24, 25. — Shoeburyness. Drawn. School of Gunnery, 138 and 200; F. F., 146 and 139 for 7 wickets. July 8, 9. — Malvern. Drawn. F. F., 208 and 10 for no wicket ; The College, 279. 9.— Godalming. Drawn. F. F., 219 for 6 wickets (innings declared closed) ; Charterhouse, 174 for 3 wickets. 13, 14. — Bridge Castle. Drawn. Lord Abergavenny's XI, 167 and 272 for 7 wickets (innings closed) ; F. F., 146 and 70 for 2 wickets. It II — Bicester. Lost. Bicester, 262; F. F., 86 and 154. 15, 16.— Colchester. Drawn. The Garrison, 196 and 194 for 6 wickets (innings closed) ; F. F., 229 and 17 for 3 wickets. 18. — Sandhurst. Drawn. F. F., 132 ; The Staff, 30 for no wicket. 22, 23. — Maidstone. Drawn. F. F., 123 and 192 ; Mrs Styles' XI, 323. Aug. I, 2. — Winchester. Won. F. F., 314 ; Green Jackets, 100 and 95. II II — Cirencester. Drawn. F. F., 278 ; Cirencester, 130 and no for 5 wickets. 3, 4. — Ludlow. Lost. F. F., 66 and 62 ; Ludlow, 171. 5, 6. — Heath House. Won. Heath House, 106 and 147; F. F., 242 and 12 for I wicket. 8, 9. — Shrewsbury. Lost. F. F., 92 and 202 ; Shropshire, 266 and 33 for no wicket. ,1 II — Maidstone. Lost. Mote Park, 135 and 204 ; F. F., 99 and 134. , 10, II. — Newbold Revel. Won. F. F., 121 and 74; Warwickshire Crus- aders, 60 and 82. II It — Linton Park. Drawn. F. F., 346 and 102 for 5 wickets ; Linton Park, 332. 12, 13. — Wellesbourne. Drawn. Wellesbourne, 134; F. F., 129 for 6 wickets. STATISTICS OF MATCHES. 3^3 Aug. 12, 13. — Chatham. Drawn. F. F,, 417 for 8 wickets (innings closed) ; Royal Engineers, 184 and 118 for 4 wickets. II II — Chelmsford. Drawn. F. F., 521 ; A. P. Lucas's XI, 562 for 5 wickets. 15, 16. — Southampton. Drawn. Hampshire Hogs, 310; F. F., 176 and 261 for 7 wickets. 17, 18. — Portsmouth. Drawn. F. F., 286 and 12 for no wicket; United Services, 322. 19, 20. — Aldershot. Won. F. F., 141 and 63 ; The Division, 163 and 35. 22, 23. — Northampton. Drawn. F. F., 153 and 323; Northamptonshire, 357- 24, 25. — Lutterworth. Lost. F. F., 162 and loi ; Leicestershire, 202 and 68 for 4 wickets. Batting Averages. Innings. Times not out. Runs. Most in innings. Average Major J. Spens . 5 I 236 178* 59 G. W. Ricketts . 4 185 147 46.1 A. J. Boger 6 254 60 42.2 Captain Quinton 5 103 106 38.3 F. H. Gresson . II I 364 80 36.4 A. C. Richards . 5 I 144 55 36 H. J. Mordaunt . 4 144 118 36 C. A. R. Gresson 5 150 66 30 0. R. Dunell 5 120 48 25-3 E. F. Rutter 5 2 77 37* 25.2 Captain Beecher . 3 72 53 24 Captain E. G. Wynyard . 8 176 64 22 A. J. Thornton . 7 I 130 85* 21.4 C. E. Cobb 4 87 72 21.3 E. C. Streatfeild 6 126 44 21 C. Toppin .... 13 2 224 77 20.4 R. 0. Milne ... 3 I 41 36 20.1 F. L. Evelyn 4 I 55 36 18.1 Captain Bruce . 9 162 44 18 Captain Curteis, R.A. . 17 286 95 16.14 A. E. Leatham . 9 146 84 16.2 D. F. Gillman . 13 204 59 15-9 C. E. Murdoch . 6 93 51 T5-3 M. F. Maclean . 15 2 194 45 14.12 E. A. J. Maynard 4 I 44 25 14.2 G. G. Lang 4 I 42 15* 14 C. Heseltine 4 53 30 13- 1 C. L. Hickley . 3 39 20 13 C. E. Farmer . 10 I 113 33* 12.5 G. F. Vernon 3 38 20 12.2 Major Rice 14 4 121 58 12.1 J. H. Hornsby . 4 49 23 12.1 Major L. T. Spens . 12 3 108 21 12 H. E. Bull .... 9 I 89 23* II. I F. T. Welman . 9 2 74 26 10.7 Captain Elliot . 3 I 21 13 10. 1 * Signifies not out. 384 STATISTICS OF MATCHES. Innings. Times not out. Runs. Most in innings. Average H. M. Burge 3 I 20 17 10 H. W. Brougham 12 I III 21* 9-3 F. M. Buckland . 9 2 66 33* 9.3 A. G. G. Asher . 5 I 39 25* 9-3 W. E. W. Collins 9 O So 26 8.8 R. T. Atthill . 9 I 69 • 19 8.5 J.Hill .... 9 2 54 25 7-5 Captain Cowan . 9 2 50 26 7-1 E. Rutter .... 8 4 33 8 8.1 J. Pender .... 4 o 20 II 5 ■ Captain Watson 8 o 37 12 4-5 Lord Truro 5 o 24 10 4.4 G. E. Willes 8 3 23 16* 4-3 Captain Benson . 6 o 21 10 3-3 A. H. E. Wood . 4 I 9 9 3 The following played in two innings only: W. D. Bovill, 16, 36; J. S. Russell, o, 27; D. R. Napier, 22, 24; Captain Rice, R.E., o, o; L. Sanderson, o, 42; Captain Knox, 0,0; L. M. Richards, 7, 6 ; Colonel Fellowes, o, 8 ; G. A. Talbot, o, 20 ; Major Gatliff, 3, o ; A. S. Macpherson, o, 3 ; K. M 'Alpine, 13, 22 ; J. A. Gibbs, 27, o; R. J. Shipworth, i, o ; J. R. Head, 54, 100; Hon. P. Thesiger, 4, 9; C. H. Morton, 11*, 3* ; F. Harvey-Bathurst, 2, 3 ; A. C. Collier, 9, o ; C. Peachey, 3,0; J. Robertson, 13, i ; Rev. W. Law, 2, 9 ; Earl of Dalkeith, o, 14* ; G. A. Talbot, o, 20 ; J. G. Walker, 4, 16 ; A. L. Watson, 18, 15 ; F. Sitwell, 3, II ; Major Young, 68, 2*; E. A. Milne, 33, o; H. J. Mordaunt, 16, 12; H. E. Hoffmeister, 2, 10 ; Major Pratt, 4, 6* ; T. C. O'Brien, 24, 9 ; G. G. Skipwith, 34*, 12* ; C. Booth, 9, 8 ; C. P. Foley, 3, 5 ; J. H. Weatherby, 9*, 6 ; E. L. Met- calfe, 15, 67* ; Captain B. Baker, o, o. The following batted in one innings only : G. H. Cotterill, 66* ; N. Thursby, i ; V. F. Leese, 19; C. J. Stratton, 2; N. E. Stainton, o; H. Tubb, 4*; Lieut. Blair, 141 ; C. A. S. Mason, o ; R. A. Wilson, o ; Colonel Nicolson, 3 ; Captain Prendergast, 30* ; A. H. J. Cochrane, 17 ; J. B. Rawlinson, 31 ; W. H. Sitwell, 5 ; Rev. M. B. Buckle, i; A. W. Moon, 3; F. Dames-Longworth, o; Captain Wheble, o ; C. R. Seymour, 12 ; R. Christopherson, 8 ; J. A. Turner, 23 ; W. H. Brain, 73 ; Captain Abdy, 3 ; W. E. T. Bolitho, 34 ; Hon. F. Thesiger, i ; G. J. Mordaunt, 29 ; Sir C. Cuyler, 3 ; F. M. Ingram, 130 ; Captain H. Curteis, R.M.L.L, 2; M. J. Dauglish, 20; Captain Wyld, i ; J. B. Hughes, 4 ; E. M. Gibson, 38 ; H. Gibson, 115 ; W. S. Case, 21 ; W. D. Marshall, 34 ; E. Bray, o. * Signifies not out. INDEX. Abbots Langley, 249. Abbott, Capt., 260, 265. Abbott, L. C, 102. Abdy, Capt, 285, 288. Absolom, C. A., 95, 137, 151, 158, 215. Academy Ground, Raeburn Place, 171. Ackroyd, B. N., 233. Ackroyd, S. H., iii, 151, 158, 215. Adair, Capt., 265, 271, 277, 284, 285. Adams, K., 172. Adderley, A., 315. Agnew. See Vans Agnew. Ainslie, C, 262. Alcock, A, E., 154, 236. Aldershot, 156, 215, 222, 228, 235, 241, 246, 251, 294, 295. Alexander, W., 105. Allason, Capt., 260, 261, 283, 288. Allen, H., 310, 311, 345. All England Eleven, 52, 53. All Muggleton, 12. AUsopp, Hon. F. E., 153, 159, 218, 219, 223, 248, 249, 261, 283. Allsopp, Hon. G. H., 112, 113, 153. Allsopp, Hon. H. T., 152, 155, 219, 234. Alston, J., 227. Alston, W. C, T13, 133, 225. Althorp Park, 105. Alton Towers, 134, 14c, 154, 161, 231. Anderson, , 53. Anstruther, Major, 282, 283, 285. Appleby, A,, 124-126, 133, 152, 153, 161, 180, 216, 218, 219, 225, 235, 244, 24s, 249-251, 305, 310, 311, 333, 335, 336, 345, 346, 355. 356- Appleton, C, 128. Appleton, W., 128. Arden, Forest of, 10, 21, 314. Arkwright, G., 34, 37. Arkwright, H., 38, 76. Armitage, C. J., 128. Armitage, V. K., 25, 44-46, 100, 112, 117. Armitstead, Henry S., 10-12, 14, 20, 23, 25-28, 30, 33-35, 37, 41, 43-47, 54, 56, 58, 60, 73, 79, 89, 119, 125. Armitstead, John R., 10-12, 16. Armitstead, W. G., 5, 10-12, 14, 15, 21, 23, 25-27, 28, 37, 38, 40, 43, 46, 49, 50, 52, 54.56, 58, 66, 68, 73, 75, 77, 79, 80, 85, 86, 89, 91, 95, no, 112, 113, 117, 119, 124, 125, 133, 134, 138, 141. Armitstead's narrative, 69-72. Armstrong, C, 248. Armstrong, H., 106. Ash, E. P., 82, 98, 116, 126, 158, 227, Ashbourne, 155. Asher, A. G., 265, 267, 271, 277. Asher, J. G., 295, 313. Ashwell, C. T., 127. Aston, Little, 126, 133, 143. Atkins, , 341. Atkins, F. M., 272-278. Atkinson, G., 45-47. Atthill, R. T., 231, 240, 262, 264, 272, 275. 299. 309> 317* 335> 336. 360. Aylesford, Earl of, 29, 55, 76. Baggallay, T., 99, 108. Bagot, H., 240, 315. Bagot, W. W., 113, 126, 146, 154, 227. Bailey, Bomb., 286. Baker, Capt. Beresford, 228, 234, 237- 239, 243, 249, 250, 283, 305, 307, 335. Baker, E. G., 352. Baker, F., 98, 99, 102, 145, 147, 151, 162-164. Baker, J. D., 123. Balderson, C. H., 306. Balfour, L. M., 139, 182. Balfour, R. D., 78, 84, 85, 172, 174, 175- Balgarnie, J. , 173. Banbury, 246. Bannerman, E. M., 139, 182, 247. Barker, G. W., 20. Barker, J., 117. Barker, T., 118. Barlow, E. P., 124. Barron, H. G., 104, 112, 117, 138, 151- 154, 163. Barron, N., 153. 2 B 386 INDEX. Barry, D. H., 285. Barter, W. P., 336. Bartholomew, A. C, 96. Barton, Bomb., 285, 286. Bass, H., 98, 166, 177-179, 181. Bassett, H., 308. Batchelor, Rev. W. J., 160, 218, 236. Bateman, E. L., 98. Baxter, Rev. J. H., 351, 356. Bayfield, Corporal, 262-265, 340. Beacham, E. M., 361, 364. Beaumont, E. J., 260. Beaumont, W. B., 20. Beaver, P., 51, 68. Becher, Capt., 310, 345. Beddington Park, 156, 214. Bedford, A. E. R., 305. Bedford, C. J. R., 11, 12, 14, 167. Bedford, C. Y., 234, 244. Bedford, R. B. R., 27, 29. Bedford, W. K. R., 140, 153, 163, 248, 252, 307 — presentation to, 64. Bedfordshire, Gentlemen of, 105, 113, 159- Bedgebury Park, 341. Beeston, 100, 104, 109, 118, 134. Beevor, J. C, 351, 352. Beevor, J. G. , 98-100, 105, 109, 113, 118, 119, 127, 128, 134, 140, 147, 154, 157, 159, 216, 224. Belcher, T. H., 219. Bell, , 45, 46. Bell, C, 231. Bellhouse, J., 285. Bellhouse, T. T. , 58. Benn, G., 14. Benn, W., 14. Bennet, J., 104, 177. Bennet, P., 250. Bennett, A. S., 146, 214. Bennett, E. A., 351, 352, 353, 356. Bennett, F. W., 229. Bennett, G. F., 275. Benson, Capt., 362, 363. Benson, R. A. B., 35. Benson, R. P., 286. Benson's lines, 35, 36. Benthall, W. H., 67. Berger, J. H., 116. Berkeley, G. F., 335. Best, W. W., 275, 276. Bicester, 299. Biddulph, S., 72, 73, 75, 87. Bidwell, H., 119. Bigge, G. ©.,264. Bigge, T. A, H., 260, 263, 264. Bignall, T.,73, 87. Bignell, S. H., 299, 304, 305, 307, 345. Bill, C. H., 79, 98. Birbeck, H., 245. Birch, S., 20, 22, 23, 29, 30, 63. Bird, A. C, 230. Bird, G., 158, 249. Birkenhead, 126, 131, 138, 151. Birkett, W., 171, 173, 174. Birley, F. H., 112, 156. Birmingham, 21, 28, 38. Bissett, R., 85. Black Country Cricket, 144. Blacker, W., 151. Blackwell, A. H., 308. Blair, A. N., 100. Blair, E. M., 260, 264, 265, 313. Blaise Castle, 238, 243. Blane, Capt., 41. Bligh, Hon. Ivo, 156, 213, 226, 235. Bligh, L. E., 273, 274. Blyth, A. G., 251. Boden, H., 42, 49. Bonehill, 13. Booth, C, 31, 40, 75, 78, 82, 86, 87, 89, 104, 105, 109, no, 119, 130, 139, 235, 237, 242, 283. Borrowes, K., 222, 235. Boteler, Capt., 283. Bott, J. W., II, 91. Boulton, S., 363. Bourne, A. A., 138. Bousfield, E. J., 44, 46, 80, 125. Bovill, E. P., 233. Bovill, W., 229-233, 235, 236, 240, 242, 244-246, 248, 250, 251, 257, 260-262, 265, 268, 269, 271, 274, 277, 284-287, 294, 297, 299, 302-308, 314, 321-323, 335. 336, 348, 3S3j 367- Bowden, Smith, 31. Bowey, , 78. Bowles, Capt., 263. Bowles, F. G., 229. Bowmont, Marquis of, 180, Boxley, 277, 341. Boyle, C. E., 81, 84, 87, 91, 96. Boyle, C. W., 132, 245. Boyle, J. A., 5. Boyle, v., 273. Bracy, Sir F. de, 29, Eradshaw, A., 112, 133. Brampton, C, 40, 70, 73, 86. Brander, C. R., 104. Brandt, F., 20, 22, 23, 26-29, 3^, 37, 41- 43. 45-47. 50- 57, 58. Brasenose, 20, 27, 34, 39, 49, 65, 77, 83, 90, 97- Brassey, H. E., 159, 230, 235. Bray, E., 132, 136, 138, 139, 147, 151, 152, 162, 200, 201, 213, 215, 220, 221, 223, 230, 234, 235, 242-244. Braybrook, H. M., 275. Bridge, Capt., 234, 238, 243. Bridgeman, C. G. O., 125, 126, 157. Bridges, J. H., 248. Bridgman, W. C, 364. Briggs, R., 157. Bright, E., 353. Brodie, R., 39, 41, 43, 83, 90, 91, 95-99* 102, 105, 107, no, 113, 171-175. Broke, Lieut, de Capel, 27. Brooke, W. P., 102. Brookwood Park, 151. Brougham, H., 247, 264, 270, 276. Broughton, Capt. J., 12, 24, 27. Broughton Club, 47. INDEX, Z^l Brown, A., 172. Brown, C. E., 354. Browne, C, 229, 232. Browne, H. J., 99. Browning, F. H., 332. Bruce, Capt, 363, 364. Brune, C. J., 95, 114, 132. Buchanan, Colonel, 173-175. Buchanan, David, 14, 21, 39, 44-48, 50-52, 58, 65-68, 73, 75-78, 81, 84-90, 92, 95, 96, 102, 107, 124, 131, 135, 137, 138, 151, 154, 158, 161, 169, 171- 175, 177-182, 184, 214, 215, 218, 220, 221, 223, 225, 230, 233, 243, 248. Buck, H. W., 240. Buckland, 49. Buckland, E. H., 250, 264, 321, 343. Buckland, F. M., 245, 305, 321. Buckle, C. R., 282. Buckle, Rev. M. B., 231, 304, 354, 360. Bucknill, S. P., 102, 113, 118, 133, 144, 164. Bull, H., 287. Bull, H. E., 68, 71, 73-78, 80, 310. Buller, C. F., 84. Bullingdon, 20, 26, 34, 39, 49, 65, 'j'j, 83, 90, 96, 115, 130. Bullock, H., 304. Bulpett, C. W. F., 229, 233, 235, 239, 240, 244. Bunbury, Capt., 287. Burbridge, F., 103. Burbury, T. W., 264. Burge, G. R., 144. Burnaby, C. J., 262-264. Burnand, L., 97. Burnett, E. W., 85, 109, no, 113, 119, 120, 133. Burnett, J. D., 51, 58. Burr, A. S., 102. Burra, T. F., 273, 276, 303-305. Burrell, H. J., 273, 337, 343. Burton, A. O., 239-241, 304. Burton, C. L. H., 311. Burton-on-Trent, 113. Bury, W., 60. Butler, A. H., 310. Butler, Bomb., 287. Butler, E., 287. Butler, S. E., 146, 147, 222, 223. Butt, Rev. L. B., 361. Butter, Capt., 277. Byass, R. W., 233, 234, 244, 303-305. Byron, A. W., 144. Bythell, W. J., 259. Caesar, Julius, 53. Caffyn, VV., 38, 44-47, 68. Caldecott, F., 66, 68, 76. Caldicott, W., 219, 231. Caldwell, L., 315. Calvert, C, 85, 109. Cambridge University, 78, 82, 89, 95. Cammell, G., in. Campbell, Capt. H., 341. Campbell, D., 14. Campbell, G., 276. Campbell, H. M., 285, 287. Campbeltown Club, 174, Cannock, 91. Canterbury, 122. Cape, T. G., 148. Capron, F. W., 230, 238, 247, 248, 257, 282, 283, 305, 307. 347, 348, 351-353. Carnac, Rev. G. Rivett, 360. Carnegie, Hon. C, 40. Carnegie, Lord, 237. Carpenter, J., 20, 38, 45-47. Carr, D. W., 271. Carrick, T., 243. Carsham, A. W., 127. Carson, H. J., 364. Carter, E. S., 96, 97. Carter, H. Bonham, 259. Cartwright, E. C, 353, 355, 358. Case, T., 49, 61, 65, 76, 85, 96, 310. Case, W. S., 309, 310, 346. Casey, P., 333. Catkin, W. H., 355. Cat or, C, 67, 97. Cattley, A. C, 306. Cattley, L. W., 247, 273. Caunton Manor, 2. Cayley, Lieut., 288. Chalmers, T., 183. Chamberlayne, S., 107, 130, 136, 158, 213, 214, 222, 223, 225, 228, 229. Chambers, A., 131, 153, 237. Champion, G. E., 271, 275, 277. Chance, A. F., 358, 360. Chance, H. F., 244. Chance, W. , 153. Chapman, H. E., 287. Chatham, ze^'Z et seq. , 341. Chatham, R. E., 222, 229, 232, 237. Chatterton, 99. Chelford, 58, 79, in, 140. Cheltenham, 8, 102, 115, 124, 250. Cherbourg Harbour, 328. Cheshire, 9, 36 — Gentlemen of, 38, in. Chester, E. A., 114, 125. Chichester, Priory Park, 215. Childe-Pemberton, C, 157. Childs, J., 215. Chinn, H. S., n, 12, 14, 20, 23, 27, 29, 32, 34, 37, 41, 42, 46, 55, 126. Chiselhurst, West Kent, 138, 145, 157, 223, 228, 234, 237. Cholmely, H. A., 359. Christ Church Cardinals, 100. Christ Church, Oxford, 20, 27, 66, jj, 83, 90. 95- Christian, Victor, H.R.H. Prince, 262. Christopherson, S., 267, 268, 270, 342, 343. Churchill, W. H., 244, 250. Civil Service, 66, 84, 90, 102, 108, no, 116, 123, 130, 136. Civita Vecchia, 18. Clarke, , 5, 6, 30, 53, 176, Clarke, A., 73. Clarke, C. C, 226, 246. 388 INDEX. Clarke, Major, 360. * Clay, , 355. Clayton, R., 104. Clements, W., 100, 105. Clerke, C. J., 352, 355, 357-359. 362, 364- Clerke, Lady, 349, Clerke, Sir W., 352, 355, 362. Clifton College, 238. Clinton, H. F., 159. Cloete, W. B., 156. Cobb, A., 297, 303, 304, 306. Cobb, C. E., 233, 243, 279, 292, 297, 303. 30S» 347, 352, 353-355» 357-364- Cobb, H. E., 288, 311, 345. Cobb, T. E., 42, 57, 152. Cobden, F. C., 119, 134, 141, 161, 236, 246, 297, 303-305, 348-350, 353-355. 357-359. 3^4' Cochrane, Sergt., 286, 287. Cock Robin, 103. Codrington, J. E., 20, 32, 34, 36, 65. Colchester, 222 — Garrison, 244. Colebrooke, E. L., 277. Colley, J. R., 45, 46, 76-78, 83, 88-90, 166. Collins, W. E. W., 246, 252, 261-265, 268-277, 279, 284-286, 295, 304-307, 309, 317. 335, 336. Collyer, W. R. , 78. Colmore, , 123. Colvin, Capt., 286. Coniyn, A. D., 335. Congreve, J. E., 108. Cooke, G., 22. Cooke, J., 233. Cooke, W. H., 112. Cooper, B. B., 48-50, 52, 54-56, 65, 66, 68, 84, 103, 108. Cooper, G. H., 356. Cooper-Key, A. M'N. C, 283. Cooper's Hill, 222. Cork, 331. Cornwallis, A. W., 267-270. Cornwallis, F. S,, 268-271, 284. Corringe, G. F., 262. Cotes, C. C, 95, 96, 98, 108, no. Cotterill, A., 134. Cotterill, J. M., 139, i8i. Cotton, F., 134. Cotton, R., 65. Coventry, 27, 315. Coventry, Earl of, 219. Cowan, Capt., 356-359, 361-364. Cowan, Major, 355. Cowper-Coles, Capt., 286. Coxe, P. H., 211. Coxhead, F. C, 243, 244, 283. Coyney, Walter, 52, 55, 59, 91, 134. Craig, G., 172, 174, 175. Craig, J., 183. Craig, Lieut., 288. Crake, W. P., 354, 355, 357 358. Crampton,' Capt. , 287, 288. Craven, A. J., 263. Crawshay, H., 349. Creswell, E., 232. Cripps, A. J., 159. Critchley, J., 125. Crookham, , 242, 247. Crosfield, S., 334-336. 342, 343. Croughton, 300. Crowder, F., no, 116, 122, 123, 128, 132, 134, 135, 140, 143, 147, 151, 153, 154, 214. Crowdy, J. G., 118, 227, 231, 234, 237, 240, 246. Crowther, C. J., 152. Crummack, H., 131. Crusaders, 114. Cruttenden, E., 277. Crystal Palace, 213. Cuninghame, B. A., 333-335. Cunliffe, C. M., 228, 233, 234. Cunningham, A. H., 264. Cunningham, D., 117. Currie, A. C, 285, 286. Currie, Capt., 245. Curry, E, L., 116. Curteis, Capt., 264, 265, 270, 275-277, 281, 284-288, 302, 312. Curteis, T. S., 78, 83. Daft, C, 73, 87. Daft, R., 70, 71, 73. Dale, Capt., 287. Dale, J, W., 116, 119, 123, 132, 134, 141, 159, 180, 225, 241, 248, 257, 261, 307-. Dalgleish, G., 173. Dalkeith, 167, 169, 172, 178, 180-182, 183. Dalkeith, Earl of, 310. Dames-Longworth, E., 308. Daniel, A. W., 60, 78, 84-86, 100, 104, 105, T08, 109. Daniell, C. J., 215. Daniell, Capt., 273, 274. Daniell, F. W., 97. Dauglish, M. J., 309, 317. Davenport, E., 48, 78, 83, 84, 86. Davidson, Capt, 282. Davies, A. C, 251. Davies, J., 98, 102. Davies, R. O., 360. Davies, W. H., 11, 358, 360. Davy, G. B., 100, 104, 105, 118. Dawson, C. C, 51, 103. Day, J. B., 102. Day, J. T., 357. Daylesford, 146. Deddington, 37, 42, 57, 68, 118, 123, 133, 143, 152, 164, 2TO, 221, 227, 236, 241, 245, 246, 251, 304. Deedes, W., 358, 360. Dent, L. W., 82. Derby, 59. Derbyshire, South, 135. Desages, P., 356. Devonshire, 50. Dewar, E. J., 304, 317. Diamonds, The, 59. INDEX. 389 Dickinson, F., 309, 311, 346. Dickson, H. W., 286. Digby, C, 315. Digby, R., 96, io6. Dixie, Sir A. B., 144. Dixon, A. W., 361. Dolphin, J. M., 128. Donop. See Von Donop. Dorehill, P. H. M., 242, 282-288, 341. Douglas, A. P., 284, 286. Dove, W., 139. Downe, Lord, 167. Dowson, E., 58, 67, 68, 97, 109, iii. Drake, E. T., 22, 24, 56, 57, 76, 161. Draper, J. G, P., 309. Draper, W. H., 300, 303, 304, 307, 310, 345. 346. Drayton, 120, 129. Druitt, E., 229, 232, 261, 262. Drumpellier, 173, 174, 178, 179, 181- 184. Dublin, 331. Du Cane, J. P., 286-288. Dugdale, J. S., 24, 27. Dumbleton, H. N., 229, 259-262. Duncan, D., 216, 217. Dundas, Capt., 335. Dunell, A. R. , 214, 223. Dunlop, G., 172, 249. Dunlop, W. , 172. Dunn, A. T. B., 262, 273. Dunn, W., 112. Duntze, G. A., 99. Dupuis, G. R., 21. Durnford, R., 98. Duthy, Major, 282. Ealing, 156. Earle, R. B., 11, 30, 36, 119. Easby, , 321. Eaton, C, 220. Eccles, C. v., Ill, 112, 222, 228. Eccles, H., 249. Eccles, Manchester, 15, 44, 117. Eddis, R. U., 102. Edgbaston, 235. Edinburgh, 169. Edwards, Col., 260. Edwards, J. G., 20, 112. Edwards, T. H., 119. Eighty-fourth Regiment, 36, 37. Eleventh Hussars, 34, 222. Elgin, Lord, 183. Elliot, Capt., 287, 356. Ellis, E. H. , 40. Ellis, H. v., 65, 78, III, 120, 124. Elmdon, 113, 117, 126. Elmhirst, Rev. E., 5. Elphinstone, R. D., 97. Elstree, 238, 242, 247. Elton, F., 287, 288. Elwes, G. P., 251. Emberlin, T., 311 Enfield, H., 118. Engleheart, E., 358. Entwistle, R., 94, 108, 125, 136, 145. Enville, 21, 22. Eppleton, C., 105. Erskine, Lord, 173. Esher, 213, 237, 242, 247. Eton, 90, 95, III, 156, 213, 234, 238, 243, 247, 248. Evans, A. H. , 238, 239, 305. Evans, Capt., 273, 274. Evans, E. G., 277. Evans, F. R., 33, 40, 53, 54, 57, 58, 66, 73' 75> 82, 107, 143, 146, 160, 214, 218, 226. Evelyn, E. C, 347, 357-359- 362. Evelyn, F. L., 224, 243, 353-355. 357- 359. 362, 364. Everard, H. S. C, 218. Everett, C, 21. Evetts, W., 96, 97, 106, 123, 130, 146, 152, 160, 161, 224, 226, 246, 303-305. Eyre, J., 244, 248. Faber, Arthur H., 16, 17, 22-24, 27-32, 34. 39. 40, 42, 43. 45. 46. 48-50. 52. 54> 56. 57, 60, 61, 62, 65, 66, 68, 77. Falkner, , 3. Fane, Colonel, 152, 216. Farmer, C. E., 286, 287, 301, 338. Fegan, Capt., 284. Fellowes, Col., 159, 232, 257, 260-262, 276, 277. Fellowes, Rev. E. L., 97, 160, 161, 218. Fellowes, E. N., 233, 245. Fellows, G., 118. Fellows, H. W., 29, 56, 57, 99. Fellows, W., 20. Felton, W. F., 357, 358. Fenton, J. K., 12, 14, 20, 23. Ferkins, H. J., 360. Fetherston, B. T., 65, 'j-j, 78, 87, 89, 90, 95, 109, 113, 116, 118, 126, 136, 143. Ffinch, M. B., 336. Fiennes, Hon. C., 29, 31, 37. Fiennes, Hon. Wingfield, 23, 24, 29, 37, 43-46, 52, 54. Filgate, C. B., 102. Fillery, 139. Fillingham, G., 118. Fillongley Hall, 314. Finch, H., 66, 78, 98. Finch, Hon. D., 160. Findlay, Trumpeter, 287. Fish, L. J., 305. Fisher, E. L., 264, 270, 271, 303, 305, 306. Fishwick, H., 355. Fitzgerald, A. W., 95. Fitzgerald, B. , 224. Fitzgerald, J., 88. Fitzgerald, R., 29, 56, 76, 84. Fitzherbert, Rev. E., 360. FitzRoy, Lord A., 309, 359-361. Fleming, T. R., 182. Fletcher, W., 117. Flint, E.. 216. Flower, P. H., 285. Foley, P. H., 360. 390 INDEX. Foord Kelcey, 226, 360, 361. Forbes, W. F., 156, 217, 223-225, 234. Forman, J. R., 118. Forster, H., 328, 330. Forster, R., 40. Fortescue, A. J., 106, 139, 217, 224, 225. Foster, F. J., 305. Foster, H,, 82, iii, 113, 126, 129, 139, 140, 159, 226, 275, 279. Foster, H. K., 363. Foster, W. L., 363. Four Oaks Park, 142, 154. Fourth Light Dragoons, 27. Fowke, G. H., 260. Fowler, H. J., 230. Fowler, R. H., 260. Fowler, T. F., 68, 78. Fowhs, R., 358, 360. Fox, H. F., 238. France, Capt. H., 358-361. Francis, C. K., 116, 123, 132, 137, 141, 159, 178, 179, 217, 218. Francis, F. W., 115. Frank (Bedford), 32. Fraser, J. F., 14. Frederick, Capt., 250, 260, 261. Frederick, J., 96, 97, 107. Free Forester Ball, 210. Freeland, H. F., 264, 265. Freer, F. H., 119, 353. Friend, Capt., 260-262, 267-271. Fryer, F. E. R., 117, 119, 132, 137, 141, 147, 151, 158, 215, 238. Fulbeck, 152, 216. Fulcher, A. W., 273-275, 279, 285, 323. Galbraith, J., 100. Gardner, C. H., 240. Gardner, H. W., 108, 113, 120, 131, 138, 152, 214, 216, 223, 230, 233, 234, 243. Gardner, J. W., 118, 133, 142. Garnett, A. P., 11, 13. Garnett, Charles, 12. Garnett, C. A., 12-14, 27-30, 34, 36, 39, 41, 43, 49j 68, 91, 131, 154, 163. Garnett, F., 14. Garnett, F. H., 12-14, m? "3, iS3, 163. Garnett, G., 153, 163, 226. Garnett, H. C, 163. Garnett, Henry, 24, 117, 154. Garnett, Herbert, 163. Garnett, J., 126, 142, 162, 163, 229. Garnett, L., 83, 104, 112, 134, 138, 142, 143, 153, 163, 166, Garnett, L. O., 125, 126, 137, 138, 153, 163. Garnett, Major, 245. Garnett, R,, 12, 43, 112, 113, 139, 147, 152, 153, 158, 159, 162, 163, 171, 215, 216, 218, 219, 223-226, 230, 249. Garnett, R. J., 11, 13, 112, 153, 166. Garnett, Stewart, 104, 112, 138, 151-153, 162, 163, 219, 225-227, 230, 234, 244, 249. Garnett, T., 112. Garnetts, 8, 12, 153, 163. Gamier, A. E., 132. Garnier, E. S., 132. Garnier, T., 82. Garside, , 336. Gem, C. H., 11, 12, 27. Gentlemen of the South, 85. Gibbon, J. H., 97, 106, 113, 115, 117, 118, 133, 137, 139, 142, 152, 153. Gibbs, G. H., 363. Gibbs, J. A., 279, 287, 363. Gibson, A. E., 363, 364. Gibson, H., 220. Gibson-Craig, , 172. Gilbanks, G., 12. Giles, A. B., 250. Giles, E. H., 352. Gillespie, G., 171. Gillett, H. H., 51, 66, jj, 109, 120, 127- 129, 131, 132, 136, 137, 146, 224, 232. Gilliat, H., 159, 213, 215, 216, 234, 238, 243- Gillman, D. F., 309, 315, 317, 363, 364. Glasgow, 166-169. Glasgow Caledonian, 182. Glennie, Rev. H. G., 360. Gloucestershire, East, 249. Godby, Colonel, 136. Goldney, G. H., 219, 220, 223, 226, 228, 230-232, 234, 237, 238, 240, 242-244, 247-250, 259, 283, 284, 304, 330, 355- 357. Goodacre, J., 225. Goodlake, Colonel, 49. Goodrich, T. C, 3-6, 15, 16, 21-24, 28- 30, 32, 37, 38, 41-43, 45-48, 50, 53-58, 66, 68-73, 79, 86, 87, 91, 94, 98, 107, 142, 166, 167, 169. Goodyear, , 246, 288, 317. Gordon, Capt., 284. Gordon, C. S., 126. Gore, R., 351-353- Gore, S. W. , 262, 263, 266, 269. Goschen, W. E., 90. Gould, A., 24. Gould, T. W., 351. Grace, E. M., 85, 234. Grace, W. G., 17, 298. Graham, M., 113, 117, 124, 126, 154, 163. Grange Club, Edinburgh, 166, 169, 171, 177, 180-183. Greatorex, J. E. N., 284. 82, 88, 89, 95, 109, 157, H., 220. 357. 238. Green, C. 220. Green, Rev. J. Green, T. H., Greene, A. D. Greenfield, G. P., 139. Greenock, 179, 181, 182. Green- Price, A., 353, 355, 359. Green-Price, Rev. C, 353, 355, 359. Green-Price, W., 353-355, 359. Greenwoods, 209. Gregory, F. H., 27. Gregson, H. W., 229. INDEX. 391 Gresley, A., 128. Gresley, W. L., 11, 27. Gresson, C. H. S., 310. Gresson, C. R., 361-363. Gresson, F. H., 278, 279, 361-364. Grey, Hon. T. D., 78. Griffith, G., 38, 45-47, 67, 68. Griffiths, E. L., 353. Griffiths, W. H., 358, 360. Grosvenor, H., 357. Grundy, J., 70, 73, 87. Grunsdale, T. B., 220. Guernsey, 320, 329. Guggisberg, F. G., 263-265. Gundry, J., 20, 26. Gurdon, C, 250. Gurney, W. S., 245. Gwyer, S. K., 102, 108. Gwynn, C. W., 264, 265. Gyll, Capt., 136. Hadow, E. M., 268, 269. Hadow, J., 342. Hadow, W. H, , no, in, 132, 139, 216, 217. Haggard, J., 284, 285. Haileybury, 79, 83, 90, 98, 102, 108, no, 158, 215. Hale, F., 352. Hall, G. C. M., 265. Hamer, J. P., 112. Hamilton, B. , 333-335. Hamilton, Rev. H. A. Douglas, 308, 309, 347, 352, 353. Hamilton, Hon. A. Baillie, 138. Hamilton, Capt., 265, 267, 270, 271, 335. 336. Hamilton, Capt. Douglas, 308. Hamilton, J. E., 259. Hamilton, L., 294. Hamilton, W., 108. Hampson, Mr, 44. Hampton Wick, 94. Hams Hall, 114, 240. Hanbury, 143, 153, 162, 219, 227. Hanbury, E., 223, 234-237, 239, 310, 311, 345, 346. Hancock, G., 24. Hants, Gentlemen of, Brookwood Park, 139, 151. Harbord, Hon. W., 56, 57. Harcourt, A. V., 130. Hardcastle, E. H., 268, 269. Harding, C, 297, 310, 311, 345, 346. Hardy, J., 273, 276, 277, Hardy, Major, 264, 270, 282, 288, 310. Hare, J. H. M., 154, 251. Harlequins, 27, 33. Harper, E. J., 98. Harper, S., 109, 213, 222. Harris, Lord, in, 216, 226. Harrison, A. H., 275. Harrison, H., 159. Harrison, W. B., 11. Harrow, 8. Harrow Wanderers, 180. Hartley Row, 215. Hartley, T., no. Hartnell, E. S., 58. Hartopp, E. C, 145. Harvey, C. M., 67. Harvey, F. C. , 78. Hastings, 115. Hastings, J., 240. Hastings, Lord, 241, 245. Hawkstone, 119, 133, 134, 140, 141. Hay, , 362. Hay, W. H., 95, 144, 146, 147, 151, 153, 156, 164, 214. Hayes, Pype, 113, 118, 126, 133, 142. Haygarth, A. B., 361, 363. Hayhurst, Capt., 362. Hay ward, P., 44, 45, 47, 53. Heale, W. H., 249. Hearne, A., 273. Hearne, George, 97, 103, 109, in. Hearne, G. F., in, 116. Hearne, Tom, 40, 50, 66, 67. Heartfield , 50. Heath, A. H., 157, 230, 236, 249, 292, 308, 337. 355. Heath, J., 356. Hedley, R. S., 232. Hedley, W. C, 256, 260, 261, 263, 279. Hegan, C. J., 289-292, 303. Helmsley, C., 105. Hemingway, E. W., 303, 304. Hemming, A., 51. Henderson, C, 151. Henderson, J., 173. Henderson, P., 173. Heneage, Capt., 215. Henery, B. J., 294. Henery, P. J. T., 249, 262, 285. Henley, 223, 229, 233, 238, 244, 248. Henry, E., 361. Herts, Gentlemen of, 250. Hewitt, H. T., 279, 285. Hewitt, H. v., 354. Hewitt, J. R., 292, 341, 342. Hewson, Lieut., 243. Heyman, Capt., 286. Hickley, C. L., 260, 268, 269, 284, 311, 345. 346. Hickmott, E., 273-277. Higgins, F., 112. Higgins, W. C, 95, 118, 218. Higgins, W. F., 95, 98-100, 102, 105, 107, 120, 129-131, 135, 143, 155, 162, 180, 181, 219, 222, 233, 234. Higham Ferrers, 120, 129. Hill, B. R., 119. Hill, E., 14, 32. Hill, F. H. , 106, 225, 226. Hill, Hon. Geoffrey, 119, 134, 141. Hill, fj., 129, 172, 309, 311, 317, 323, 345. 346. 355. 364- Hillingdon, 115, 122, 130, 136, Hillyard, A., 90, 91, 95, 96, 99, 112-114, 117, 118, 126. Hillyard, G. W., 286, 292. 392 INDEX. Hilsea, 145. Hilton, T. J. R., II, 33, 34. Hinchliffe, , 33, 34. Hinckley, , 39. Hinde, Capt., 270. Hine-Haycock, J. R., 284, 288. Hitchin, 250. Hoare, A., 306, 307. Hoare, C. no, 137, 238, 299, 308-311, 317. 345. 346. Hoare, H. W., 105, 241, 304. Hobley, , 317. Hodgkinson, G. L., 27. Hogge, Capt., 14. Holden, Capt., 70. Holden, H. W., 119. Holden, J. S., 90, 171-175. Hole, H. S. F., 279, 305. Hole, S. R., 6, 10, 61, loi, 190. Hollings, H. J. B., 235, Homfray, G. S., 12, 14, 20-23, 28, 29, 32, 34, 36, 37. Hood, J. S. E., 40, 61, 82, 84, 89, 90, 95, 97, 108, 166, 167, 171-175. Hood, W. N. , 223, 228. Hopkins, W. H., 352. Hornby, , 294. Hornby, A. N., 119, 123, 134, 137, 138, 140, 141, 151. Hornby, Cecil, 69, 73, 77, 79, 91, 112, 138. Hornby, E. K., 34-38, 40, 41, 53, 54, 58, 66, 68, 69, 73, 75-77, 79, 82, 84, 91, 166. Hornby, G. F., 249. Horner, J. F., 97, 107, in. Horner, Mr, 41. Horniblow, Capt., 265. Hornsby, J. H. J., 258, 260-263, 265, 269, 275, 305, 308. 314, 344, 347, 352, 353, 356. Horwood, C, 34, 95. Houghton, Lord, 335, 336. Houghton, T., 20. Houldsworth, J., 175. Hounslow, 243. Howard, C, 139. Howell, L. S., 116. Howsin, H., 58. Hudson, A. H., 219. Hudson, F. H., 118. Hughes, H. G. S., 184, 224, 227, 233, 234, 236, 239, 245, 248, 250, 311, 345- Hughes, W. J. M., 156, 223, 224. Hull, R. A., 218. Hulton, H. E., 39, 41, 59, 125. Hume, E., 40, 41, 66, 68, 83, 85, 97, 105, III, 114, 143, 158, 159, 200, 202, 214, 226, 230. Humphrey, T., 50, 66-68. Humphreys, , 30. Hunt, , 15, 24, 27. Hunter, Q.-Mr. Sergt., 285. Hutchinson, C. H., 285, 286. Hutchison, J. R., 105, 119, 125, 126, 131, 138, 140, i45-i47> 152, 158. 180, 181, 183, 184, 214-216, 222. Hyde, Lord, 89. Hyndman, H. M., 78. Incogniti, The, 68, 91. Inge, C. H., II, 12, 40. Inge, F. G., 33, 36, 40, 45, 46, 48, 54- 56, 79, 80, 83, 86. Inge, J. W., 66. Inge, T. H., 15. Inglis, A. M., 262, 263, 267, 269, 272, 274, 280, 284. Inglis, C. J. , 239. Inglis, J., 175. Ingram, F. M., 319, 321. I Zingari, 13, 21, 26, 28, 29, 55, 75, 84, 160, 161, 217, 224. Jackson, J., 4, 53, 69, 73, 86, 171. Jakeman, E., 309, 310, 317, 345. James, C, 307. Jarvis, C. J. E., 260. Jeffery, L., 124. Jeffreys, A. F., no, 229, 233-235, 237- 239, 248. Jenkins, W. H. P., 297, 303-307, 347, 352-355- Jephson, D. H., 294. Jersey, Lord, 257, 307. Jervis, Hon. E. Parker, 113. Jervis, Hon. W. M., 20, 21, 27, 125, 131. Jervis, T. Parker, 142. Jessop, H., 356. Jobson, E. P., 231, 240, 360. Jobson, H. C, 231, 240. John Thomas at Prince's, 148-150. Johnson, G. R., 55, 84. Johnson, H. F., 97. Jones, Capt. W. D., 262, 269, 274. Jones, D. T. M., 359, 362, 364. Jones, O. H., 249. Jupp, H., 68. Kelsey. See Foord Kelcey. Kelso, 166, 176, 180, Kelson, G. M., 85. Kemball, E., 243, 248. Kemball, G. V., 282, 283. Kemp, A. F., 250, 259. Kemp, M. C, 267, 270, 271. Kemp, Sir K., 245, 251. Kempson, E. H., 230, 233. Kempson, George A. E., 8, 26, 34, 38, 125. Kempson, Matthew, 8, n, 19. Kendle, W. J., 139. Kennaway, C. L., 245, 251. Kennedy, G. M., 51. Kenney, A. R., 14, 27, 95-99. Kenney, E. M., 78, 96, 97, 105, 126, 130. Kenrick, J., 247, 248. Kent, 254. Kent, A., 271. INDEX. 393 Kent, A. R., 363, 364. Key, R. T., 99. Kidd, P., 105, 147, 157. Kidd, W., 105. Kilkelly, F. F., 335. King, C. D., 282-285. King Edward's School, Birmingham, 21. King, G. L., 156. King, R. B., 226, 230. Kingscote, 209, 221, 227. Kingston, 49. Kington, , 24. Kington, Col., 233, 234. Kinning Park, 179. Kirkpatrick, J., 98, 102. Knight, G., 274, 277. Knight, T. W., 357. Knighton, 348. Knole Park, 234, 238, 243. Knowle, 209. Knox, C. W., 351. Lacey, F. E., 248. Laidlay, W. J., 139. Lake, C, 273, 274. Lambton, C., 286. Lancashire, Gentlemen of, 124, 125. Lancashire, P., iii. Lang, G. G., 310. Lang, T. W., 183, 184, 243, 247. Langford Club, 120. Lane, C. G., 20, 65, 70, 76, 80, 102, 154- Lane, W. W. C, 82, 89, 95, 96, 98. Lant, R,, 142. Latham, H., 20, 112. Latham, R. E., 287. Lathbury, H. O., 262. Law, E. C, II. Law, G., 123, 137, 138, 140, 187, 213, 214, 221, 222, 228, 229, 232-234, 238, 240, 248. Law, J., 138. Law, W., 116, 123, 137, 140. Lawrence, J., 103. Lawson-Smith, E. R., 335, 336. Leake, J. S., 362. Leamington, 14, 28, 37, 42, 43, 52, 57, 68. Learoyd, C. D., 232. Leatham, A. E., 265, 271, 277, 290, 309- 311, 345, 351, 352, 356, 361-364- Leatherdale, Rev. V., 351, 352. Ledsham, Sergt. -Major, 136. Le Bas, R. N., 151. Le Fleming, J., 274-276. Lee, A. G., 139. Lee, Arthur, 65, 79, 102, 103, 105, 109. Lee, E., 103. Lee, F., 26, 83, 99, 105, 129, 134, 142, 146, 216, 221, 230. Lee, F. H., 146, 158, 162, 222, 226, 227, 230, 236, 237, 239, 240, 304, 305. Leese, E., 125. Leese, J. F,, 86, 125. Leese, Mr, 243. Legg, W. G., 363. Leggatt, C. A. S., 284, 286. Leicester, 59, 143. Leigh, A., 21. Leigh, C, 21. Leigh, Hon. E. C, 29. Leigh, Hon. G., 225. Leigh, S., 21. Lennox, Lord W., 48. Leslie, C. H. F., 224, 230, 236. Lewes, , 357. Lewis, Major, 355, 357. Lewisham, Lord, 142, 157. Ley, C. H., 265. Lichfield, 154, 163, 240, 316. Lichfield, Lord, 37. IJddel, J. S., 262, 263. Lillywhite, John, 46. Limerick, 331. Lincolnshire, Gentlemen of, 119. Lindner, Capt., 336. Lindsay, M., 229. Lindsay, Major, 335. Lindsell, H. M., no. Lindsey, F. W. H., 308, 309, 317. Linton Park, 254, 266-272. Linton, S., 33, 51, 65, 66, 68, 76, 77, 79- Lipscomb, A., 102. Little, W., 51. Liverpool, 41, 42, 117, 131, 137, 151, 244. Llewelyn, CD., 278. Llewelyn, J., 27. Llewelyn, W. D., 278, 279, 308. Lloyd, E. M. W., 82, 89. Lloyd, G. F., 357. Lochead, , 167. Locke, R. J. M., 288. Lockyer, T., 38, 68. Login, Capt,, 276, 277. Lords, 8, 39, 40, 59, 99. Loring, W., 273. Longman, G. H,, 160-163, 241, 245, 304. Longwood, 237, 244, 248. Longworth. See Dames-Longworth. Lucas, A. C, 216. Lucas, A. P., 147, 157-159, 213, 214, 218, 220, 235. Lucas, C. J., 157, 158, 233. Lucas, F. M., 308. Lucas, M., 243. Lucas, M. P., 214, 216, 229, 306, 307. Luckham, A. J., 353. Lucy, W. A., 153, 159, 226, 230, 234, 303, 351, 352, 354, 356. Luddington, H. T,, 157. Ludlow, 35, 43, 44. Lutterworth, 302. Lyon, C. E., 143. Lyon, W. J., 42, 54, 55, 73, 75, 78, 82, 83. 89, 95. 162, 166, 167, 171-175- Lyster, , 244. Lyttelton, Hon. A., 147, 153, 154, 161, 162, 201, 219, 224. 394 INDEX, Lyttelton, Hon. Lyttelton, Hon. Lyttelton, Hon. 76, 78, 82, 89, Lyttelton, Hon. 202, 214, 223, Lyttelton, Hon. Lyttelton, Hon. 143, 152, 154, 227, 231, 240, Lyttelton, Hon. 102, 107-109, 137. i39j i45> 199, 200, 202, 227, 230, 231, A. T., 126. A. v., 82, 95. C. G., 38, 42, 43, 50, 90, 92, 98. E., 143, 157, 185, 200, 224, 234, 335. N., 122, 222, 335. R. H., 131, 134, 140, 158, 202, 214, 219, 221, 241, 303. S. G., 79, 86, 87, 89, 95, 120, 128-132, 134, 136, 146, 151, 158, 159, 164, 214, 216, 221, 223, 226, 234, 244. Macan, Capt., 243, 248, 250. Macan, G., 228. M'Alister, A., 175. M 'Alpine, K., 263, 271, 273-276, 279, 320, 322. Macdonald, D. W., 104, 112, 178. Macgill, A., 171, 172. M'Intyre, Martin, 69, 73. MacTier, Capt., 336. Mackenzie, C, 173. Mackenzie, J., 167, 172, 177. Mackenzie, K. M., 123, 132, 199. M'Kinley, A., 275. Maclagan, R. S., 232. Maclaren, W., no. Maclean, M. F., 288, 309, 310, 361-364. MacMahon, J. J., 285. M'Neale, Major, 353, 354. M'Neill, J., 139, 183, 184. Macpherson, A. C, 283. Macpherson, Bomb., 116. M'Quade, J., 173. Magdalen, 2, 27. Maidenhead, 20, 21. Maidstone, 268, 278. Mainwaring, P., 356. Maitland, W. F., 83, 84, 96, 97. Maitland, W. J., 108. Makinson, Joseph, 15. Mallam, J. C, 362. Malvern, 16, in, 117, 124, 132, 139, IS2, 159, 226, 230, 235. Manchester, 29, 39, 41, 47, 59, 75, 85, 104, 112 — Club, 15, 24, 29 — Garrison, 104 — Western, 249. Manley, A. F., 163. Mann, H., 273, 276, 277. Mansfield, J., 172. Mansfield, J. W., 245. Manvers, Earl, 91, 100, 104, 127. Marchant, F., 267, 268, 271. Marchant, R., 274. Mares, Capt., 164. Market Harborough, 154, 164. Marlborough, 136, 146, 214. Marriott, Charles B., 108, no, 123, 131, 132. 137) i44> 161, 219, 224, 225. Marriott, G. S., 144, 156, 223, 225, 230, 233. Marriott, H. P., 248. Marriott, J. M., 144. Marshall, Capt. F., 22-24, 29, 52, 53, 57. Marshall, Rev. F., 5. Marshall, Charles J., 40, 68, 88, 95. Marshall, H. M., 103, 115, 116, 122, 123, 129, 132, 133, 136, 143, 160-163, 185, 199, 201, 213, 219, 220, 223, 226- 228, 250, Marshall, J., 118, 134. Marshall, J. F., 311, 345. Marshall, J. R., 180. Marshall, L. P., 245. Marshall, T., 139. Marsham, C. D., 22, 24, 27, 55, 'jd, 84, 124, 152, 304, 306, 307. Marsham, Charles, 117. Marsham, Hon, J., 115, 116, 120, 122, 129, 130, 140, 143, 159, 163, 164, 199, 200, 220, 225, 226, 234, 240, 241. Marsham, Hon. Mrs J., 200. Marsham, R., 29, 55, 76, 84. Marten, G. N., 90, 100, 102, 109. Martin, A. B., 143. Martin, C, 100. Martin, J. W., 98. Martin, M. T., 26, 31, 33, 42, 48, 61, 66, 68, 69, 75, 76, 78, 79, 81, 82, 84, 87, 88, 100, 103, 108-110, 116, 118, 127, 128, 130, 132, 134, 151, 215, 216. Mason, W. H., 128. Matheson, E., 274. Mathews, E., 106, 109, 304. Maud, P., 263-265. Maude, F. W., 250, 251, 259, 260, 305- 307- Maul, H. C, 129, 132, 160-162, 218, 219, 224, 225, 246, 247, 251, 296-298, 303-307. 317, 347. 352. 353- Maul, J. B., 220. Maul, S. D., 309, 311, 345, 346. Maxwell, Hon. W., 108. Maynard, E. A. J., 264, 270, 285, 312, 335. M. C. C, 21, 39, 40, 99. Meakin, G. E,, 355. Meldon, T. M., 335. Mellor, F. H., 228, 229, 244, 247, 285. Mellor, P. H., 98, 117, 138. Melly, A. L., 233. Melton, Constable, 241, 245. Meriden, 21, 314, 315. Metcalfe, E. L., 264, 270, 275, 279, 283, 309. 317- Middleton, Capt., 161, 217, 224. Middleton Hall, 251, 296-298. Middleton Towers, 240, 250. Miles, Capt., 249. Miles, P. W. H., 238. Miles, R. F., 96, 100, 104, 105, 109, 112, 113, 146. Miles, S. H., 127, 128, 223. Miller, F. P., 58. Milles, Hon. G., 22, 24. Milles, Hon. H., 279. Millward, A. , 240, 360. INDEX. 395 Milne, R. O., 141, 146, 218, 225, 238. Mitchell, R. A. H., 56, 57, 60, 66, 70, 71, 73. 75-77, 84, 90, 95, 114, 144, 245. Moffat, D., 96, 109, no, 116, 157, 222, 233, 234. Moir, J. P., 265. Moncrieff, J., 172. Moncrieff, Hon. R., 113, 143, 219, 231, 240. Monypenny, R., 20. Moon, A. W. , 259, 308, 348, 354, 355, 359, 363, 364. Moor Hall, 13. Moore, A. M. S., 267, 279. Moore, Capt., 40. Moore, C. R., 97, 223. Moore, W., 162. Moorhouse, Lieut., 288. Moors, the, 242, 247. Morant, H. H., 336. Mordaunt, J. M., 53, 54, 59, 61, 160, 219. Mordaunt, Osbert, 66, 76, 78, 82, 83, 90, 91, 95, 96, 98, no, 160, 161, 166, 167, 169, 172-175, 224, 225, 233. Mordaunt, Sir C, 159, 160, 218. Morgan, C, 84, 85, 98. Morgan, Dr, 80, 81. Morgan, F. G., 346. Morley, J., 20. Morrice, N., 288. Morris, J., 251. Morrison, E., 173. Morrison, J., 173. Mortlock, W., 46, 67, 68. Moseley, , 83. Mote Park, 122, 158, 216, 226, 272, 273, 342. Mott, W. K., 31, 34, 37, 40-42, 48-51, 53-57. 68, 69, 73, 102, 166, 167. Murchie, J., 125. Murchison, Capt., 282. Murdoch, C. E., 287. Murray, Reginald, 65. Murrie, F., 173. Music, 185. Mylne, J., 180. Mytton, Capt. J., 12. Napier, D. R., 287. Nash, E. H., 116, 363. Needwood, 10. Nepean, A. A., 213. Nesbitt, E. J. Beaumont, 308, 309, 353, 354. Nesbitt, E. B., 354, 355, 359, 361. Newark, 114, 120, 140, 159, 185, 190. Newark, Viscount, 128. Newbold Revel, 21, 311. New Club, 211. Newill, E. H., 352. Newill, R., 354. Newport, W., 102. Nicholls, J. G., III. Nicholson, J., 173. Nixon, , 24. Node, the, 97, 117, 215, 223. Norbury, F. P., 352, 354. Norfolk, Gentlemen of, 245, 250, 251. Norley, F., 175. Norley, J., 175. Norman, H. G., 27. Norman, P., 85. North, C. N., 265. North, Major, 287. North, W., 260. North, W. F., 306-308. North, Hon. W. H., 356. Northampton, 302. Northants, N., 6. Northcote, Mr, 3, 4. Northesk, Lord, 244, 248. Nottingham, 59, 69. Nottingham County, 69, 70-73, 86. Nottinghamshire (Gentlemen) County Club (N. C. C), 2, 3, 30, 87, 100, 104, 109, III, 120, 127. Novelli, L. W., 122, 123, 135, 180-182. Gates, Capt., 335. Gates, F. H., 286. Oatlands Park, 213, 223. 234. O'Brien, T., 255, 261. Old Trafford, 15, 124. Oliver, F. W., 51. Ollivant, A., 125. Onslow, F. P., 12, 14, 20, 23, 27, 36. Orlebar, , 340. Orme, W., in. Oscroft, W., 86. Osmond, Bomb., 287. Oswald, Capt,, 335. Oswald, S. C, 247, 259. Ottaway, C. J., 123, 140, 158. Oval, the, 50, 67, 85. Oxford University, 96, 106. Oxfordshire, 251. Packington, 55, 56, 75. Page, G. H., 311, 317. Paget, F., 98, 103, 116, 119, 138, 144. Paget, Lord A., 27. Palmer, Sir A., 144. Parker, R., 27. Parker, R. L., 105. Parnell, Capt., 103. Parr, George, 22, 52, 53, 69, 86. Parr, H. B., 249. Parr and Wisden's Ground, 26, 52. Parry, Capt., 118. Parsons, J., 20, 21, 29. Partick, Glasgow, 174, 179, 180, 182, 183. Patterson, W. S., 135, 147, 151, 157. Pattison, J., 175. Pauncefote, B., 87, 90, 102, 106, 338. Paxton, E. H., 308. Payne, A., 22-24. Payne, A. E., 236. Payne, A. F., 24, 38. Peachey, C, 361, 362. 396 INDEX. Peake, E., 347, 353. Pearson, Capt. P., 237. Pearson, P. A. M., 156. Pearson, T. S., 108, 114, 119, 131, 133, 136-138, 140, 145, 147, 151, 156-161, 181-184, 213, 214, 218, 224, 235, 238, 239- Peel, Herbert, 43. Peel, R., 306. Peel, S., 112. Pelham, Hon. F., 78, 83, 84, 89. Pember, F. W., 316. Pemberton, C. B. C, 215. Pender, J., 125, 177, 301. Penn, F., 145, 223. Pennant, F. D., 308, 309. Penny, A., 333-335- Pennycuick, J., 179. Pepys, J. A., 26, 39, 95, 99. Percy, A., 116. Percy, A. W. H., 357. Perera, Mr, 29. Perkins, A. E. J., 287. Perkins, D. S., 11, 12. , Perkins, G. D., 43. Perkins, H., 67. Perkins, J., 148, 220. ^ Perth, 166-169, 178. Peyton, T. T., 246, 251, 305-307. Peyton, Capt. W. R. B., 248, 306, 307, 309, 360. Philipson, H., 270, 271, 314, 330. Phillips, G. H., 34, 39. Phillips, J. P., 354. Philhps, J. S., 119, 151, 353, 358, 360. Phillips, O., 356. Phipps-Hornby, Capt., 283. Phipps, H. G., 97. Phipps, W. T., 97. Pickering, J. E., 360. Pickering, W., 99. Pierrepont, Hon. E., 129. Piers, W. B., 353, 354. Pigg, C, 292, 298, 306. Pigg, H., 208. Pilcher, A. J., 256, 260-263, 335j 33^. Pilkington, C, 14. Pim, A. W., III. Plumb, , 105. Pocklington, D., 52, 86, 90-92, 100, 104, 105. Policy, , 309-3T1, 345, 346. Ponsonby, Hon. S,, 29, 76. Portal, G. H., 224, 225. Porter, E. H., 249. Potter, T. O., 125. Powell, H. L., 285. Powys, W. N., 215. Pratt, Capt., 284, 285. Prentis, A. J., 275. Prentis, H., 276, 277. Preston Hall, 169, 216, 226, 230, 235. Price, F. R., 41, 46, 54, 56, 57, 97-99, I02, 112, 113, 115, 117, 118, 124-127, 130* 1395 1435 i53j 163, 221-224, 229. Price, R. K., 335. Prince's Ground, 147, 157. Prinsep, J. M., 359, 361. Prior, G., 119. Priory Park, Chichester, 131, 139. Prothero, E. D., 305, 308, 347, 352-354, 357-359- Proudfoot, A., 100. Prout, A., 361, 363. Pullman, W., 231. Purvis, Capt., 242. Pycroft, Mr, 5. Quinton, Captain, 344. Radcliffe, P. J. J., 260. Radcliffe, W., 364. Raikes, E. B., 245. Ralli, S. P., 361. Ramsay, A. B., 310. Ramsay, E., 42, 84, 85, 91, 95, 108, 113, 143, 152, 300, 303-308, 310, 311, 317. Ramsay, R. C, 243. Randolph, B. M., 11. Randolph, J. H., 99. Rashleigh, W., 225, 267, 269. Ratcliffe, 100, 105. Ratliff, the Brothers, 31. Ratliff, H. E., 218, 220. Ratliff, T., 25-28, 31, 33, 36, 37, 40, 43, 48-5o> 54, 56, 58, 67, 68, 75, 76, 83-85, 87, 88, 90, 92, 95-100, 102, 103, 105, 108, 109, III, 114, 116, 117, 123, 126, 129, 131-134, 136, 137, 143, 146, 151, 153-156, 158, 160-164, 195, 199, 216, 218-221, 224-226, 230, 303, 304. Ratliff, W., 40, 68. Raven, J. H., 98, 180. Ravenhill, Major, 242, 283. Rawlin, , 312. Rawlins, A., 84. Rawlins, C, 84. Rawlinson, C. W., 235, 259, 270, 305, 307- Rawhnson, J. B., 353, 354-358, 361. Rawson, H. E., 131, 259, 264, 265, 271. Ray, G., 286. Ray, W. H., 358. Rayner, G. F., 180, 183. Reade, H. S., 134. Reay, T. O., 11, 34, 39, 40, 49, 5i, 52, 54, 56-58, 60, 61, 73, 75, 83, 90, 91, 97, 238. Redfern, Sergt., 283. Reid, C. F., 78, 97, 102, 127-129, 144, 147, 222, 224, 227, 228. Reid, Capt. P., 232. Reid, J. J., 102. Reid, R. T., 96. Reid, Saville, 97. Reigate, 244, 250. Renn, R., 309, 346. Renny-Tailyour, H. W., 131, 222, 229, 232. Renny-Tailyour, T., 256, 259-261. Rhodes, F., 119. Rhodes, H. E., 227. INDEX. 397 Rice, Capt., 261-263, 265, 287. Rice, Major, 263-266, 310, 311, 345. Rice, S. R., 229. Richards, B., 24. Richards, J. A., 112. Richards, L. M., 248, 269-271, 279, 284- 286. Richards, W. H., 104, 108, 109, 179. Richardson, Col., 288. Richardson, E. W., 353, 354. Richardson, F. J., 270. Richardson, H. A., 89, 95. Richardson, H. P., 230. Richardson, J. A,, 131. Richardson, J. M., 89, 95. Richardson, R, T., 214, 218, 219. Ricketts, G. W., 246, 258, 261-264, 267, 269-271, 275-277, 284, 285, 305, 306, 309, 314-317. Ricketts, P. E., 262. Riddell, E. M., 103, 105, 107, 109, 118, 127, 128, 140, 147, 157, 159. Ridding, Charles, 27. Ridding, W., 12. Rider, T. J., 131. Ridley, A. W., 217, 218, 224. Ridley, C. E., 148, 220. Ringrose, C. E., 157, 222. Rislev, H., 299. Roba'rtes, J. C, 96. Robeck, H. E. W. de, 282. Roberts, Capt. B., 309, 351, 352, 355- 361. Roberts, Capt. W., 273. Robertson, G. P., 40, 49, 61, 78, 85. Robertson, J., 247, 248, 269, 274, 282, 286. Robertson, W., 265. Robinson, G. M., 113, 133. Robinson, T., 355. Rockingham Castle, 129, 132, 143, 154, 207, 224. Rockley, , 353. Roe, W. N., 292, 293. Rogers, , 40. Rogers, A., 309, 317. Rogers, C, 349. Rogers, P., 357, 358. Rokeby, H. K., 14. Rona yacht, 327. Rooke, B. H., 263. Rotherham, H., 233, 315. Rougemont, C. H, de, 285, 286, 340. Roughton, J., 126, Round, J., 66, 85, 94, 96, 99. Roupell, J. H., 83, 89. Rowan, T., 175. Rowland, , 37. Rowley, Capt., 161. Rowley, E., 44, 46, 47, 85. Rowley, S., 125. Royal Engineers, Chatham, 130, 252- 269. Royds, C. T., 11, 12, 14, 30, 35, 36. Royds, F. T., 354, 355. Royle, Vernon, 131, 138, 151, 160, 161, 225, 235. Rugby, 5, 8, 14, 26, 35, 39, 49, 60, 138, 214, 223, 229, 233, 239. Rugby Club, 14, 21, 26. Rugby School, 25, 26, 31, 33, 48, 65, ^e, 78, 87, 90, 92, 98, 102, 108, no, 116, 124, 131, 145, 156. Rules of the Free Foresters, 92, 93. Russell, A. H. M., 225. Russell, B., 229, 232. Russell, J. S., 229, 232, 233, 238, 250, 283, 285,-287, 354. Russell, P. B., 184. Rutter, A., 26, 31, 122. Rutter, E., 33, 49, 83, 90, 95, 96, 99, 100, 102, 103, 105, 107, 109-111, 114, 116- 118, T22, 123, 132, 134, 137, 145, 147, 151, 158, 160, 161, 208, 214, 215, 221, 224, 227-229, 234, 235, 237, 239, 245, 248, 249, 251-253, 298, 303-307, 310^ 3ii> 345- Ryder-Richardson, W., 335, 336. Rye, 245, 250, 251. Rylott, , 113. SafFord, F., 159. Salmon, C, 353. Sandbach, 21. Sanderson, L., 285, 287. Sandford, E. G., 27, 31, 33. Sandholme, 243. Sandhurst, 242. Sands, , 175. Sandwith, W. F. C, 357-359. Saunders, F. N., 102. Savage, Major, 260. Saville, G., 95. Saville, R., 358. Savory, Rev. J. H., 309-311, 317, 345. Schofield, J., 125. Schreiber, F. E. L., 98. Schultz, S. S., 157, 220, 232. Sclater-Booth, Hon. W. D., 285. Scotland, Gentlemen of, at Rugby, 138,^ 139- Scott-Chad, C, 251. Scottish tours, 165-176. Sealy, H. A., 102. Sellars, W. D., 255, 261. Seton, B. H., 362, 364. Seton, C. H., 362, 364. Seton, Mr, 350. Sevenoaks Vine, 123, 136, 228. Severn, the, 35. Sevier, W. H., 353, 354, 356. Sewell, J. J., 100. Sewell, T., 68. Seymour, A. E., 57, 59, 61. Seymour, C. R., 249, 251. Shanklin, 328. Sharp, J,, 139, 175. Sharp, R., 139. Sharpe, , 359, 364. Shaw, , 39. Shaw, J. C, 87, 298. INDEX. Sheldon, P. S., 355. Shepperton, 246, 251. Sherrard, C. W., 136, 232. Shillingford, C, 306-308. Shoeburyness, 116, 130, 136, 146, 157, 214, 223, 229, 234, 238, 243, 248. Shorncliffe, 215, 224. Short, F. H., 98. Shrewsbury, 34, 43, 100, 221, 227, 231, 236, 350- Shropshire, 34, 164. Shugborough Park, 37. Silcock, F., 108, 118. Sim, A. C, 364. Simpson, C. H., 131. Simpson, G., 179. Sinclair, G. C., 160. Sitwell, F. H., 335, 336, 339, 354, 355, 357? 358, 362, 364. Sitwell, W. H. H., 349, 352-35S? 357? 358, 362, 364. Skelmersdale, Lord, 29. Skipwith, G. G., 357, 358. Skipwith, R., 246, 353-355? 357-359- Skipwith, R. W., 306, 356-359. Slaney, Capt. Kenyon, 96, 161, 218. Slaughter, O. M., 261. Slee, P. H., 283. SHnn, , 34. Smith, A. IBowden, 220. Smith, A. F., 123, 158. Smith-Barry, A. H., 46, 58, 90, 91, 96, 107, no. Smith, C. Boyle, 359, 364. Smith, Capt. Meux, 40. Smith, C. J., 117, 138. Smith, Clarence, 138, 160, 218, 225, 239, 243, 250, 297, 304, 348, 352. Smith, E., 51. Smith, J., 85, 179. Smith, P. Colville, 310, 311, 346. Smith, Rev. P. Hattersley, 353. Smith, S., 14, 279. Smith, S. C, 160, 219. Smith, S. C. Spencer, 98. Smyth, D. C, 263. Smythe, G. E., 96, 154, 163, 227. Smythe, W. M., 113, 163, 225. Soames, Capt., 182, 184. Soames, W. A., 158. Solbee, F., 275, 276. Sondes, Lord, 22. Southgate, 49, 66, 67, 97, 103, 108-110, 116, 123, 132, 136, 137, 151, 157, 214, 221. Southwell, I, 3, 30, 42, 87, 91, 152. Speed, F. E., 233, 242, 246, 273, 283. Speid, J., 139, 179. Spens, Capt., 355. Spens, J., 248, 259, 260, 262-264, 267, 269, 270, 273-276, 284, 366. Spens, L. T., 102, 260-265, 267, 269-279, 283, 284, 287, 314, 342. Spurway, , 341. Stafford, H. F., 229. Stafford, W. H., 255, 259-261. Staffordshire, 113, 126, 133, 143, 154 — Rangers, 12 — Rifles, 27. Stainer, R., 356. Stainton, N. E. G., 279. Stainton, R. G., 144, 230. Stallard, G., 231. Stamford, 4, 6. Stamford, Lord, 21, 24. Stamford, Lady, 23. Stanhope, C. S., 77-79, 90, 171-175. Stanhope, E., 152, 157, 164, 219, 223. Steadman, H. E. P., 119, 137, 216. Steel, D. Q., 220, 223. Steel, E. E., 249. Steel, H. B., 249. Steele, D. B., 135, 154, 157. Stenhouse, W., 175. Stenning, F. G., 270, 271, 276, 277. Stephen, N. K., 262. Stephenson, E., 45, 46. Stephenson, H. H., 29, 52, 53, 68. Stephenson, Major, 284. Stewart, Capt., 217, 218. Stewart, W. A., 106. St Heliers, 318. Stirling, 166-169, i73? ^71- Stockdale, H. E., 283. Stockley, H. R., 262. Stokes, , 242. Story, J. B., 12, 49. Story, W. F., 118, 183. Stow, M. H., 95. Strachan, G., 114, 151. Stratford, C. V., 259-261. Stratton, C. J., 308-311, 346. Stratton, W., 275. Straubenzee, A. H. Van, 259, 260, 288. Streatfield, E. C, 267-271, 295, 344. Streatfield, Moore A. M., 267, 268. Street, F. E., 147, 157, 220, 222, 223, 228, 229, 233, 243. Street, G. R., 355, 356. Street, J., 68. Studd, J. E. K., 249. Stutfield, H. M., 285, 286. Style, G. M., 275, 277-279, 310. Suffolk Borderers, 48. Sunderland, Mrs, 350. Surrey County, 67, 68. Surrey, Gentlemen of, 50, 51, 58. Sutton Coldfield, 9-21, 28, 34, 37, 43, 55, 57, 68, 112, 118, 133, 142, 153, 163 209, 216, 227, 231, 235, 240. Sutton, E. G., 99. Swale, , 175. Symonds, G. D., 283. Tabor, W. C, 50. Tailyour. See Renny-Tailyour. Talbot, Capt., 308. Talbot, E. A., 276. Tamworth, 12. Tandy, M. O. C, 265, 341. Tapling, T. K., 249. Taplow Court, 190. Tarrant, 53. INDEX. 399 Taylor, E. F., 85, 98, 102. Taylor, J. W., 82. Taylor, Mr, 35. Taylor, S., 40. Tennant, A. E., 33. Tennent, H. N., 85, 91, 100, 104, 138, 158, 166, 171-175- Thesiger, A., 20. Thesiger, E. P., 102. Thesiger, P., 269, 274, 279, 280, 284. Thesiger, G. H., 335. Thomas, D. G., 20. Thompson, M., 17, 97. Thoresby, 91, 100, 104, 109, 127. Thornby Hall, 209, 301. Thorndon Hall, 108. Thornewill, E., 11, 12. Thornton, A,, 253, 262-265, 268-270, 273-275* 279-281, 284, 285, 287, 288, 291, 314. Thornton, C. J., iii, 116, 123, 137, 138, 151, 158, 215, 241. Thornton, R. T., 267, 268, 270, 276, 279. Thring, A. T., 308. Thring, J. C, 240. Thurgar, W. A., 245. Thursby, C, 309. Thursby, H. E., 273, 279, 282, 283. Tillard, C, 163, 164, 241, 245, 353, 354, 356, 362. Tilney, R. H., 356. Tinley, Frank, 4. Tinley, R. C, 29, 53, 70, 71, 73, 87. Tippinge, V., 119. Tobin, F.. 99. Tod, A. J'., 131. ToUemache, H. J., 96. Tomkins, Lieut., 288, Tomkinson, J., 58, 69. Tonge, J. N,, 341. Tonge, v., 267-269, 276, 283. Tooting, 213, 222, 232. Toppin, C, 295, 356, 357. Tovey, W. G., 363. Townshend, W., 112, 117, 119, 125, 126, 131- Toynbee, P. R., 240, 244, 246, 248, 306. Toynbee, W. T., 246, 305-307. Traill, W. F., 84, 132. Tredcroft, E., 56, 57. Trentham, 21, 24, 27. Trevor, A. H., 234, 238, 242, 244, 245, 251, 307. Tritton, E. W., 161. Tritton, W. F., 95. Trollope, A. B., 27. Trollope, E. C, 214. Trower, H. W., 279. Truro, Lord, 363, 364. Truswell. J. R., 118. Tryon, Capt., 144. Tubb, H., 108, no, 131, 143, 145, 181, 182, 241, 246, 251, 297, 299, 301, 304, 306-3TI, 317, 346. Tuck, G. H., 82, 84, 89, 90, 96, 116, 156, 223, 226. Tucker, H., 306. Tuke, C. M., 243. Tulloch, J. A. S., 260, 265. Turnbull, R. M., 239, 244, 247, 259. Turner, H. H., 264. Turner, J. A., 262-264, 267, 269, 270, 272, 274, 275, 320, 321, 356, 357. Turner, Montagu, no, in, 115, 116, 119, 128, 132, 137, 158. Turner, Mr, 59. Tumour, Lord, 49. Turvey House, 159. Twemlow, F. R., 119, 155, 157, 215, 221, 222, 227. Twiss, J. H., 261. Twynam, H. T., 240. Tylecote, C. B., 152-154, 162, 219, 240, 245. Tylecote, E. F. S., 106, no, 131, 132, 140, 156, 159-161, 181-184, 213, 216, 223, 228, 232, 238, 242, 244, 247, 283, 284. Tylecote, H. G., 153, 159, 162, 219, 226, 235, 240, 292, 330. Types Militaires, 155. Tyrer, F. W., 352. Tyringham, 132. Udal, J. S., 243, 250. " Unfulfilled Renown," 6. United England Eleven, 38, 39, 44-46. " United though Untied," 13, 35, 63, 80, 94. University College, 27, 33. Upcher, H. B., 120. Upper Tooting, 83, 90, 99, 108, in, 156. Uppingham Rovers, 147, 157, 220. Uppingham School, 76, 81, 88, 92, 105, 109, 135, 154. Upton House, 289, 296. Usborne, T. M., 283, 288. Van Straubenzee. See Straubenzee. Vandermeulen, , 49. Vansittart, A. P., 148. Vaughton, H., 274. Venables, R. G., 180, 181, 213, 303, 349, 352, 354- Venables, R. J., 96, 107, 108, 123, 130, 138, 146, 158. Verelst, H., 102, 104, 111-113, ^^S, 126- 132, 134, 140, 143, 151, 157-159, 162, 164, 177, 178, 213, 216, 228, 249. Verney, Hon. W., 224. Vernon, A. L., 68, 84, 140, 230. Vernon, Foley, 143, 153. Vernon, G. F., 131, 215, 223, 234, 243, 261, 263, 273-275, 279, 284, 285, 287. Versturme, C. H., 264. Victor. See Christian Victor. Villiers, R., 307. Vizard, Captain, 361, 362. Von Donop, P. G., 229, 256, 259. 400 INDEX. Voules, S. C, no, 123, 132, 146, 160, 161, 236, 358, Vyse, A., 109, in, 114, 124, 137, 159. Vyse, E. W., 50, 51, 58, 67, 103, 109. Wakeman, E. M., 96, 102, 107, 219, 221, 236. Wakeman, O. F., 21, 23. Wakley, F., 112. Walkenshaw, , 303. Walker, A. H., 103, 109. Walker, Ashley, 78, 82, 124, 127, 129. Walker, G., 142. Walker, I. D., 85, 97, 103, 109, in, 117, 119, 123, 134, 137, 141, 151, 158, 214, 239, 261. Walker, J. G., 246, 251, 259, 261, 297, 298, 305-307, 310. Walker, John, 67, 103, 109,. in, 124, 132. Walker, J. R., 133, 160, 162, 218, 219, 225, 231. Walker, R. D., 67, 85, 97, 103, 105, 107- 109, III, 114, 115, 117-119, 122, 132, 134, 137, 14I5 ^58, 215. Walker, V. E., 58, 67, 97, 103, 109, 117, 123, 132, 134, 136, 137, 141, 156, 158, 215. Waller, A., 27. Waller, C, 50, 51. Waller, E., 31, 65, 68. Walrond, S. H., 279, Walsall, Twenty- two of, 38. Walter, A. F., 106. Walter, H. E., 214. Walton, E. W., 259. Walton Hall, 159, 217, 224. Walton, R., 173. Ward, W, P., 233, 239. Warner, F., 144. Warner, E. H., 180, 181, 120, 146. Warnham Court, 158, 216, 234, 239. Warren, C, 89. Warrington, 38. Warwick, 3. Warwickshire, 217, 225 — Gentlemen of, 159, 160 — Knickerbockers, 57. Watson, A. M., 125, 126. Watson, Captain F., 50, 107, 108, 182, 363, 364. Wauchope, Don, 340. Waud, B., 27. Waymouth, E. G., 288. Webb, C. J., 12. Webb, H. R., 245. Webbe, A. J., 230, 239, 243, 246, 248, 261, 309, 317. Webbe, H. R., 217, 218, 224, 226, 230, 307- Wedderburn, H. G., 180. Weighell, W. B., 89, 95. Weldon, A., 105- Wellesbourne, 236, 240. Wellington College, 214. Wells, , 40. Welman, F. F., 310. Western Club, Manchester, 14, 15, 24, 29, 37, 41, 44, 59, 69, 75, 80, 85, 86, 91, 100, 104, 112, 117, 125, 131, 138. Westminster School, 8, 10, 102, 107, 116. Weybridge, 209. Weybridge School, 50, 66, 78, 90, 98, 102. Weymouth, 319, 329. What came of wearing a Forester rib- bon, 18, 19. Wheble, Captain, 282, 284, 285. " When the Green Leaves come again," 31- Whitby, H. O., 277. Whitehall Rooms, 212. White-Thompson, H. D., 286. ' Whitmore, H, E., 134, 141. Whittaker, A., 58. Whittington, R. T., 43, 68, 69, 83, 86, 91, 92, 100, 105. Wickham, A. P., 245. Wigram, E. M., 281. Wild, G., 117. Wilde, M., 283, 284. Wilde, T. M., 356. Wilkes, H., 360. Wilkins, Master R., 3. Wilkinson, A. J., 58. Wilkinson, M. G., 234. Willes, C. E., 356. Willes, Rev. G. E., 78, 82, 89, 90, 96, 160, 161, 215, 218, 246, 251, 298, 303- 307, 3091 339j 347, 351. 352, 353, 354, 356-364. Willes, Captain H. C, 42, 45, 46, 75, 287, 305. Williams, S., n. Williams, W., 86. Williamson, Rev. F. C, 146, 160, 163, 249. Willis' Rooms, 211. Willoughby de Broke, Lord, 160, 161, 217, 224, 225. Willy, A. C, 305. Wilmot, A. A., 91, 97, 103, ic8, 140, 143. 179- Wilson, C. P., 250, 251. Wilson, E., 200. Wilson, J., 173. Wilson, L., 267, 270, 271, 288. Wilson, R. A., 308, 309, 359. Wilson, S. G., 237, 242, 248, 250, 284. Wilson, T., 331. Wimbledon, 52. Winchester, 8, 317. Winchester Garrison, 145, 235, 239, 244. Winchfield, ;226. Windier, G. L., 309, 317. Wingfield, W., 34-36, 38, 40, 45-48, 51, 52, 54. 56, 58, 100, 119, 134, 141, 164. Winter, A. H., 82, 89, 95. Wisden, 38, 44-47. Wise, T., 228-230, 234, 248, 303, 306, 307- INDEX. 401 Woburn, 105, 113. Woking, 243, Wolferston, C, 361. Wood, A., 311-313. Wood, A. H., 244. Wood, C. K., 239. Wood, C. R., 242, 243, 247, Wood, F., 14. Wood, Mrs, 313. Woodbridge, C. M., 262. Woodgate, J. W., 154. Woodhouse, Rev. T., 358. Woodroffe, A. J., 264, 265. Woolley, , 3. Woolwich, 213, 223, 228, 232, 233, 237. Woofton, G., 53, 72, 73, 86. Worcester, 126, 132, 143, 152, 162, 209, 219, 226, 230, 231, 235, 239, 240. Wright, , 24, 37, 364. Wright, F. L., 139, 157. Wright, F. W., 37, 66, 68, 71, 73, -j^, 79, 80, 84, 104, 119, 133-137, 143, 153, 154, 226. Wright, H. S., 60. Wright, W., 272-277. Wright, W. H., 133, 134. Wyatt, G. N., 115-117, 147, 151. Wyatt, Halifax, 80, 104. Wyld, Capt., 279, 309, 317. Wynne, Capt., 287. Wynyard, Capt. E. G., 264, 265, 270, 276, 277, 361, 362. Wyreside, 13. Yardley, W., 99, 102, 132. Yates, J. M., 89, 95, 98, 102, 138, 222. Yeats, R. M., 263. Young, A., 180. Young, A. W. C, 98. Young, C. L., 259-262. I^IHH^B^^^^H^^^^^^H BIKWWffl^^^^^ H^^^H ^BKlWI^iJ^^ ' '9I^M\IHiV ff^^9 PfHpH /^K^^^^^^Hf ',,jm^^^^k Lieut. Van Straubenzee. Capt. Bolton. C. D. Shute. Capt. Cooper Key. S. H. Walrond. Mr Carter. E. H. Bray. Major Gatliff. P. Lee. Col. Jopp. F. Dames Longworth. C. R. Seymour. J. F. Marshall. F. T. Welman. Major Hardy. P. F. Warner. Major Rice. Capt. E. Wynyard. Capt. Cuthbertson. E. Rutter. Capt. Rawlinson. Col. Ferguson. Free Foresters v. R. M. C. Staff, Sandhurst, 1894. PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY BERKELEY Return to desk from which borrowed. This book is DUE on the last date stamped below. 23/an'54Ei; :VfW, ||?54^Li( 'U 3 1973 LD 21-100m-7,'52(A2528sl6)476 lU ^M< iv!:?09is4