22 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1745 to 



whose first recorded matches date from 1772, 

 maintained the credit of the county by a long 

 series of victories. Its matches were generally 

 played on Broad Halfpenny Windmill or Stoke 

 Downs. In 1787 (August 14, 15, 16), at Bi- 

 shopsbourne Paddock, the seat of Sir Horace 

 Mann, they beat All England, winning by 266 

 runs; and in June, 1788, on Stoke Down, 

 they again beat All England by one innings 

 and 76 runs. 



Amongst the names of the giants of those 

 days are Nyren, who kept the Bat and Ball 

 Inn, near Broad Halfpenny Down, and after- 

 wards the George Inn at Hambledon. rTyren 

 catered for the cricket meetings. In the Hants 

 Chronicle, July 6, 1778, is the following ad- 

 vertisement : " Nyren hopes the air of Stoke 

 Down will, with the ladies, stand in the place 

 of Marbres, Aspiques, Blanc-Manges : for good 

 appetites there will be a quantity of beef, ham, 

 chickens, tarts, &c," 



Names of the At this time James Aylwarcl, who 

 players. lived at Corliampton, was a crack 

 man, and amongst the others of the old club 

 were Richard Purchase of Liss, Hogsflesh of 

 Southwick, Taylor of Ropley and Alresford, 

 Richard Aubrey- Veck of Bishop's Waltham, 

 William Barber of Horndean, Noah Mann of 



