A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



Leigh, Ellis, and Fillery, with four successive 

 balls. 



The encounter with Surrey on 13 July 1863 

 was the earliest occasion in which 1,000 runs 

 were obtained in an unfinished match. Ellis with 

 slow lobs bowled eight for 96 and seven for 201, 

 and made 83, and John Lillywhite scored 91. 

 Griffith compiled 89 and 142, his first innings 

 being made in about an hour, while Mr. Bur- 

 bridge scored 101. Wootton for M.C.C. v. 

 Sussex took eight wickets for 9 runs. In 1 864 the 

 county declined to come to Lord's owing to the 

 roughness of the ground and because M.C.C. 

 always sent 'a tail ' down to Brighton. In 1863 

 Wootton and Mr. R. S. Foster added 106 for 

 the last wicket. Scoring about this period 

 became notably bigger. 



Between 1886 and 1889 Sussex won seven con- 

 secutive matches against Hampshire, and from 

 1851 to 1855 the same number against Kent. 

 The southern county suffered nineteen successive 

 defeats from Nottinghamshire between 1884 and 

 1893, and between 1881 and 1893 lost twenty- 

 four and drew one match. Sussex lost ten suc- 

 cessive matches with Kent from 1837 to 1842, 

 and with Yorkshire from 1873 to 1882. 



It may be noted that in 1901 Mr. C. B. Fry 

 scored six consecutive centuries, and four in 1900, 

 in which year K. S. Ranjitsinhji just failed to 

 perform the feat. The latter, however, twice 

 scored three consecutive centuries for Sussex in 

 1900 and once in 1896. The following are the 

 four principal scorers for Sussex up to 1907 : 



Matches In- Not Runs Most Average 



nings out 



in an 

 innings 



K. S. Ranjitsinhji 184 299 40 17,062 285 65-227 



C. B. Fry . . 212 347 21 16,962 244 52-10 



G. Brann . . 278 464 38 11,458 219 26-382 



W. Newham . 347 602 46 14,249 201 25-349 



The following are the principal bowlers for 

 Sussex : 



Matches Balls Runs Wickets Average 

 J.Lilly white, jun. 16343,72913,534 91714-696 

 F. W. Tate . 313 66,537 27,994 l > 2 3* 22712 



James Broadbridge and H. Morley represented 

 Sussex during four successive reigns, namely 

 those of George III, George IV, William IV, 

 and Victoria. T. Box assisted Sussex for 

 twenty-four successive seasons without missing 

 a match, and James Lillywhite, junior, for 

 twenty. 



A SHORT HISTORY OF CRICKET AT 

 HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARDS 



A map in the possession of the Rev. W. C. 

 Sayer-Milward of Old Hastings House, dated 

 1760, shows that cricket was played in Hastings 

 about the middle of the eighteenth century, a 

 piece of ground on the West Hill being marked 

 as the 'Cricket Field.' 



It was not, however, till 1825 that Hastings 

 may be said to have commenced its con- 

 nexion with first-class cricket. That year saw 

 the birth in the premier Cinque Port of 

 Mr. Arthur Hogarth, the well-known cricketer 

 who continued Frederick Lillywhite 's Scores and 

 Biographies ; in the same year also Edward 

 Thwaites, a tallow-chandler of Hastings, assisted 

 England at Lord's. In the next year a single- 

 wicket match was played at Benenden in Kent 

 between E. Thwaites, Fielder, and Sawyer, of 

 Hastings, and three of Benenden for ^40, when 

 J. G. Wenman, one of the Benenden three, 

 was in nearly two days, scoring close on zoo 

 runs. 



The first Hastings Cricket Club was formed 

 in 1840, having amongst its members E. 

 Thwaites, G. Standen, Sawyer, Baxter, Burchell, 

 and Tutt, and in this, the first year of its forma- 

 tion, the club played two important matches 

 with Tunbridge Wells. The home match was 

 played on the West Hill at Hastings, in the field 

 then known as Thwaites's (now Breeds's) field, 

 when the Hastings club, with Fuller Pilch and 

 Lillywhite, defeated the visitors, who had Mr. 

 Alfred Mynn and Box to assist them. The 

 return match was played on the common at 

 Tunbridge Wells, when Hastings again proved 

 victorious. In both matches George Standen 

 assisted his town eleven; he was a good cricketer, 

 who played regularly in matches in the eastern 

 division of Sussex. On 1 8 and 19 July 1848 

 Hastings, with J. Lillywhite, Adams and Barton, 

 played Brighton with G. Picknell on the East Hill 

 at Hastings. In the visiting team is the name of 

 C. H. Gausden, 5 founder of the ground of that 

 name at Hove. About this time Hastings used to 

 play out and home matches with Battle, Bexhill, 

 Eastbourne, Robertsbridge, Westfield, Northiam, 

 and other places in the neighbourhood, the home 

 matches usually coming off either on the old 

 race-course at Bopeep, on St. Leonards Green, or 

 on the East Hill at Hastings. 



In 1857 the first East Sussex Club, 6 composed 

 of residents at St. Leonards, and of gentlemen 

 living in the neighbourhood, was started, having 

 for its ground the old race-course at St. Leonards, 

 and for professional George Hooker of East 

 Grinstead. No name was for many years better 



6 He afterwards went to live at Hastings, and served 

 his adopted town as mayor. 



6 Among the members of the club at that time 

 well known in Hastings and St. Leonards and the 

 neighbourhood were : Sir Anchitel Ashburnham, 

 Mr. L. Ashburnham, Mr. H. M. Curteis, Sir Augus- 

 tus Webster, Mr. V. B. Crake, Mr. D. Papillon, Mr. 

 A. R. W. Day, Mr. W. M. St. Aubyn, Mr. C. T. 

 Lawrence, Mr. W. E. M. Watts, Mr. C. Musgrove, 

 Mr. C. Farncombe, Mr. E. Farncombe, Mr. R. C. 

 Stileman, Mr. E. Hume, Mr. W. P. Beecham, Capt. 

 Parish, Mr. W. D. Parish, Mr. W. Shadforth-Boger, 

 Mr. H. Bally, and Mr. E. T. Booth. 



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