1845.] OF HAMPSHIRE. 257 



Hampshire. M. C. C., 76 and 30 ; Hants, 40 

 and 67, with two wickets to go down. 



The County Eleven were Mr. T. Chamber- 

 lay ne, Mr. C. F. Trower (then of Weston 

 Grove, near Southampton, now a Colonial 

 bishop), Mr. R. Payne, Mr. Alfred Lowth, Mr. 

 G. B. Townsend, Sir F. Bathurst, Mr. W. 

 Ward, Mr. Godfrey B. Lee (who bowled beau- 

 tifully in this match, then bowler to the Ox- 

 ford University Eleven, now the Warden of 

 Winchester College), Mr. John St. John, Mr. 

 Onslow, and Mr. Godfrey Higgins of Ham- 

 bledon . 



Mr. Alfred Lowth was also this year bowler 

 to the University of Oxford, and in his time 

 was one of the best gentlemen bowlers that 

 have ever lived. He was born July 20th, 

 1817, at Chiswick; was first at Eton on the 

 foundation, but finding there was no chance 

 of getting to King's College he went to Win- 

 chester, where he again failed to get to New 

 College, from being superannuated. He then 

 went to Exeter College, Oxford. Mr. Lowth 

 was a very effective left-handed bowler. 



A match was played on the Stone- 



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henge ground between Eleven Gentle- Gentlemen 

 men of Hants v. Eleven Gentlemen of Gentlemen 

 Wilts. The Stonehenge won in one 



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