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GENTLEMEN (WITH LAMBERT AND BELDHAM). 



FIRST INNINGS. 



Hon. Gen. Bligh 22 c. Hammond. 



Pontifex, Esq 14 b. Howard. 



Lambert 57 st. Hammond. 



T.' Smith, Esq 48 run out. 



Beldham 16 c. Howard. 



Lord F. Beauclerk l c. Bennett. 



Wills, Esq 1 c. Hampton. 



G. Leycester, Esq 14 c. Walker. 



Hon. A. Upton 11 runout. 



Nyren, Esq 4 c. Ayling. 



Warren, Esq. 2 not out. 



Byes 5 



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The great success attending this effort on the part of the gentlemen, 

 induced them to make another trial of their strength with the players. 

 On the 21st of July, in the same year, when assisted only by Lambert, 

 they entered the lists again at Lord's, and were victorious by 82 runs. 

 The gentlemen went in first. Lord F. Beauclerk made a splendid 

 score in each innings : viz. 58 and 38 respectively. 



In the following month, viz. on the 5th of August, we find 

 Mr. Smith taking part in a game in which his own county, Hants, 

 with Beldham and Lambert, contended against All England, and won 

 by 10 wickets. In this match, which came off on Stoke Down, not far 

 fi-om the squire's own residence at Tedworth, his great rival. Lord 

 F. Beauclerk, played against him. 



In 1807 the batting of Mr. Assheton Smith was no less distin- 

 guished than in the preceding years. On the 25th of May, 9 of Hants, 

 with Lambert and J. Hampton, played All England at Lord's ; but 

 on this occasion the latter was victorious by 47 runs. Mr. Smith 

 scoited no notches in his first innings, but made 24 in his second. 

 Beldham, on the side of England, ran up to 79 in his first innings, and 

 was not out, but was caught by Lambert in his second, without 

 adding a single run to the score. Lord F. Beauclerk did not play in 

 this game. On the 2nd of June following, in a match played at 

 Lord's, between the Marylebone Club, with Lambert, Beldham, and 

 Hammond, against All England, Mr. Smith played on the Marylebone 

 side, and scored 6, and 26, and not out ; Marylebone won by 9 wickets. 

 Lord F. Beauclerk obtained 53 runs for Marylebone in his first 

 innings, and did not go in a second time. On the 6th of the same 

 month eight of the Marylebone Club, with Beldham, Robinscn, and 

 T. Walker, contended at Lord's with eight of the Homerton Club, 



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