SPORT ANCIENT AND MODERN 



Oval to try conclusions with Surrey. It was 

 to him Mr. Mallam, the agent of Messrs. 

 Spiers and Pond, appealed when he wished 

 to get together an English Eleven to visit 

 Australia at the commencement of 1862, 

 and it was to Mr. Burrup's personal influence, 

 in great measure, that the players were 

 assembled for this visit, so that Australian 

 as well as English cricket has reason to re- 

 member him with gratitude. That the 

 club suffered, as it undoubtedly did for a 

 time, was due to the existing arrangements, 

 or rather to the lack of proper organisations 

 than to an official who did his best with the 

 means and time at his command. The fact 

 remains that when the new regime began 

 the club was in a somewhat unsatisfactory 

 state. The next few years, too, found the 

 County eleven weaker perhaps than at any 

 period of Surrey's history. Three players 

 whose names have been mentioned were of 

 quite the first class ; Southerton for a long 

 time was without a superior as a slow round- 

 arm bowler, Henry Jupp was one of the most 

 painstaking batsmen of his time, and Edward 

 Pooley beyond doubt was the most brilliant 

 wicket-keeper of the later sixties ; but even 

 these three had seen their best days in the 

 early seventies. Surrey cricket was at a very 

 low ebb from 1 87 1 to 1875 ; in the season 

 of 1 87 1 only one victory was credited to the 

 County eleven, and that over a weak eleven 

 of the Marylebone Club and Ground. This 

 time of depression was relieved by the 

 appearance of Mr. W. W. Read, whose 

 brilliant record as a batsman for Surrey 

 during a period of twenty-five years forms 

 one of the brightest pages in the cricket 

 history of the county during the last quarter 

 of the nineteenth century. Mr. W. W. 

 Read, who made one of the Surrey eleven 

 when a boy of seventeen, was the first of 

 a succession of great Surrey amateurs. A 

 combination of circumstances induced Mr. 

 John Shuter, who had previously been tried 

 in a minor match for Kent, for which he was 

 qualified by residence, to give his valuable 

 services to the county of his birth. How 

 much Surrey owed to him as a captain it is 

 impossible to say. Coming into the eleven 

 as he did in 1877, when Surrey cricket was 

 under a cloud, the value of his personal in- 

 fluence and cheery personality, combined 

 with his great experience and profound 

 knowledge of the game, during the fifteen 

 years he was captain of the Surrey eleven 

 can hardly be overrated. The latter part 

 of his captaincy was a long record of brilliant 

 successes. One of the first of the great 

 amateurs to serve under him, after Mr. W. 



W. Read, was Mr. A. P. Lucas. After a very 

 short period he dissociated himself from 

 Surrey to assist Middlesex, and later on 

 Essex. Fortunately there were other 

 promising amateurs and professionals coming 

 on. Among the former were Mr. W. E. 

 Roller, one of the best all-round cricketers 

 latter day Surrey cricket has produced, and 

 Mr. K. J. Key, a batsman of great power 

 and resource, who did splendid service for 

 Surrey up to 1899. 



Of professionals the principal were Maurice 

 Read, Robert Abel, William Brockwell, all 

 Surrey born and bred, with Henry Wood, the 

 wicket-keeper of the team for many years, 

 and George Lohmann, one of the greatest 

 all-round players (many wiU say, in some 

 respects, the greatest) of the latter part of 

 the century. These five, with Messrs. J. 

 Shuter, W. W. Read and W. E. Roller, 

 formed the nucleus of a side which for a 

 number of years had certainly no superiors 

 in county cricket. Good service was ren- 

 dered by Bowley, Beaumont and Sharpe 

 among other bowlers, but they were not 

 natives of the county. Neither George 

 Lohmann nor Wood was born in Surrey, 

 but the former came into the county when 

 a very small boy and learned his cricket in 

 Surrey, as did Wood, though the latter owed 

 his adopted county less. The roll of the 

 County Championship prove the strength 

 of Surrey towards the end of the eighties 

 and up to the end of the nineties. 



For six years in succession, from 1887 to 

 1892 inclusive, Surrey was the champion 

 county. In 1893 the position was lost, but 

 it was regained in 1894 and 1895, and was 

 once more held in 1899. Thus during the 

 thirteen years from 1887 to 1899 inclusive 

 the Surrey eleven held the County Cham- 

 pionship no less than nine times — a wonderful 

 record. Mention has been made of the 

 players who formed the regular eleven for 

 a number of years. To this list may be 

 added Mr. C. E. Horner, who came to the 

 relief of the county as a bowler when bowling 

 was sadly needed, and did yeoman service 

 for several years. As a batsman, R. Hen- 

 derson well deserves notice. Messrs. E. J. 

 Diver (who subsequently became a pro- 

 fessional, and qualified for Warwickshire) 

 and M. P. Bowden, both brilliant batsmen 

 and good fields, the latter, in addition, a 

 more than useful wicket-keeper, were for 

 too brief a time connected with Surrey 

 cricket ; W. H. Lockwood, T. Richardson, 

 T. Hayward, and Mr. D. L. A. Jephson were 

 all practically of a later period, entering the 

 County eleven in successive years, the first- 



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