1800.] OF HAMPSHIRE. 25 



pairs of white corded dimity breeches and 

 eleven handsome striped pink waistcoats. 



In the month of September of this year, 

 Kent and Hants played for four days. In 

 July, 1793, a match was played on Stoke 

 Down between twenty -two of Hertfordshire 

 and Essex, who got forty-seven runs only in 

 each innings, and an eleven of England, who 

 were, in fact, nearly all Hambledon Club men, 

 and they got one hundred and fifteen, thus 

 winning by a single innings and twenty-one 

 runs. 



But there were no regular reporters in those 

 days as there are now, and the accounts of 

 cricket and racing were not given with the ac- 

 curacy of the present day : this scanty, unsatis- 

 factory style of reporting was continued until 

 almost recent days. Up to nearly 1825. an 

 account of a country cricket match or race 

 meeting would only be given in two or three 

 lines, and this will account for the very meagre 

 account of hunt races hereafter alluded to in 

 this book. 



At the Winchester races, cock- Racing, nss. 

 fighting, which was part of the programme, 

 was generally recognised as a fashionable 

 amusement, and in the Racing Calendars 

 accounts of the mains fought will be found. 



