KENT AGAINST ALL ENGLAND.
Played in the Artillery-Ground, London, 1746.
ENGLAND.
| 1st Innings. | 2nd Innings. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RUNS. | RUNS. | |||||
| Harris | 0 | b by | Hadswell | 4 | b by | Mills. |
| Dingate | 3 | b | Ditto | 11 | b | Hadswell. |
| Newland | 0 | b | Mills | 3 | b | Ditto. |
| Cuddy | 0 | b | Hadswell | 2 | b | Danes. |
| Green | 0 | b | Mills | 5 | b | Mills. |
| Waymark | 7 | b | Ditto | 9 | b | Hadswell. |
| Bryan | 12 | s | Kips | 7 | c | Kips. |
| Newland | 18 | — | not out | 15 | c | Ld. J. Sackville. |
| Harris | 0 | b | Hadswell | 1 | b | Hadswell. |
| Smith | 0 | c | Bartrum | 8 | b | Mills. |
| Newland | 0 | b | Mills | 5 | — | not out. |
| Byes | 0 | Byes | 0 | |||
| 40 | 70 | |||||
KENT.
| 1st Innings. | 2nd Innings. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RUNS. | RUNS. | |||||
| Lord Sackville | 5 | c by | Waymark | 3 | b by | Harris. |
| Long Robin | 7 | b | Newland | 9 | b | Newland. |
| Mills | 0 | b | Harris | 6 | c | Ditto. |
| Hadswell | 0 | b | Ditto | 5 | — | not out. |
| Cutbush | 3 | c | Green | 7 | — | not out. |
| Bartrum | 2 | b | Newland | 0 | b | Newland. |
| Danes | 6 | b | Ditto | 0 | c | Smith. |
| Sawyer | 0 | c | Waymark | 5 | b | Newland. |
| Kips | 12 | b | Harris | 10 | b | Harris. |
| Mills | 7 | — | not out | 2 | b | Newland. |
| Romney | 11 | b | Harris | 8 | c | Harris. |
| Byes | 0 | Byes | 3 | |||
| 53 | 58 | |||||
Cricket was introduced into Eton early in the last century. Horace Walpole was sent to Eton in the year 1726. Playing cricket, as well as thrashing bargemen, was common at that time. For in Walpole’s Letters, vol. i. p. 4., he says,—
“I can’t say I am sorry I was never quite a school-boy; an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect; but, thank my stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty.”
The fourth Earl of Carlisle learnt cricket at Eton at the same time. The Earl writes to George Selwyn, even from Manheim, that he was up, playing at cricket, before Selwyn was out of his bed.