A HISTORY OF SURREY 



10 wickets; but though the losers became 

 extinct, the winners did not play again. 

 That same season, when England scored 503 

 against Surrey, Lillywhite, having no-balled 

 Wilsher, Street stood umpire on the last day. 

 After 1863 the Universities regularly played 

 the Surrey eleven. In this year Surrey played 

 XVIII of Rugby, Marlborough, and Chel- 

 tenham, when Griffith took 20 wickets, and 

 Sir R. T. Reid was admirable in the post of 

 wicket-keeper. For England v. Surrey, 

 Bennett took 4 wickets in i over — Stephen- 

 son, Caffyn, Mr. Dowson and Griffith. In 

 1865 the news that Middlesex had beaten 

 Surrey by 158 runs created some enthusiasm 

 at Lords, as feeling ran very high. Mr. C. 

 F. BuUer, aged nineteen, scored 105 not out, 

 and Mr. R. D. Walker took 8 wickets for 

 23 runs. 



The earliest match between Surrey and 

 Lancashire was in 1866, when Surrey scored 

 422, Jupp making 165 in six hours. That 

 year, when England beat Surrey by an 

 innings and 296, the national score being 

 521, W. G. Grace, who was then eighteen, 

 made 224 not out, and during the progress 

 of the match won a hurdle race at the Crystal 

 Palace. No other county played England 

 until 1877, when Gloucestershire did so. 

 Surrey did not meet Notts owing to dis- 

 sensions. George Parr had refused to play 

 in the previous year, when Surrey won by 

 a wicket. At Lords in 1867 the Grand 

 Stand was first used for the match between 

 M.C.C. V. Surrey, when Wootton and 

 Grundy dismissed the latter for 38. Surrey 

 tied Middlesex in 1868, and did so again in 

 1876, Messrs. V. E. and I. D. Walker, as well 

 as Jupp, Street, Pooley and Southerton 

 playing in both matches. In 1868, in suc- 

 cessive matches against Sussex and Kent, 

 Pooley actually dismissed twenty men at the 

 wicket. Surrey won the toss against M.C.C. 

 in 1869, but put the club in, and lost by 10 

 wickets. Grundy, aged forty-five, bowled 

 50 overs for 28 runs and 4 wdckets, and Jupp 

 was at the wicket two and a half hours for 26. 

 In 1870 Kent beat Surrey by only 2 runs, 

 Wilsher claiming 7 for 22. Oddly enough 

 891 was the aggregate in the match with 

 either University that year, the blues in each 

 case beating the county. Surrey dismissed 

 Kent for 20, Southerton taking 5 for 16, and 

 Anstead 4 for 3. The match between 

 Gentlemen of South v. Players in 1871 was 

 won by the latter by 3 runs, the aggregate 

 being the then record of 1,139 ; J^PP made 

 97, and Pooley 125 ; Mr. C. I. Thornton 

 hit a ball 140 yards before it pitched. Surrey, 

 in a bad light, dismissed the M.C.C. for 16, 



W. G. Grace, C. P. Coote, D. R. Onslow, C. 

 J. Brune, with A. Shaw and Tom Hearne, 

 being all out before a run was scored. No 

 one in the match obtained 20 on the saturated 

 pitch. Surrey also beat Gloucestershire by 

 I wicket 3 June 1872, and in 1873 met M.C.C. 

 for the last time. When Yorkshire beat 

 Surrey in 1874 by 4 wickets, Jupp in each 

 innings carried his bat, with 43 out of 95, and 

 109 out of 193. A quaint match was that 

 between Non University Gentlemen v. Past 

 and Present of the Universities ; the former 

 won by an innings and 76 runs. Prior to 

 the rejuvenescence of Surrey's cricket, Notts 

 in 1880 sent the side back for 16, Shaw 

 claiming 3 for 6, and Morley 7 for 9. 

 When this review was being prepared the 

 Surrey Club published a monumental work 

 on the history and associations of Surrey 

 cricket. By bringing up to date the mass of 

 statistics prepared by the Marquis de Sant 

 Susana, we find that up to the close of 1904 

 Surrey has won 481 matches, 5 being tied, 

 19s drawn, and 298 lost. 



In all, Surrey has scored 304,390 runs for 

 14,558 wickets, averaging 20-90, the oppo- 

 nents scoring 287,544 for 16,314 wickets, 

 averaging I7'62. Abel has scored the most 

 centuries, 40, has twelve times exceeded 

 the second hundred, and three times the 

 third. Mr. W. W. Read scored 38 centuries, 

 including 338 v. Oxford. The largest score 

 made against Surrey is 236 not out, by Gunn 

 in 1898. 



To deal with the tremendous series of 

 extraneous games played at the Oval would 

 occupy much space. Of test matches three 

 must be briefly recalled. Firstly, the superb 

 initial victory of England over Australia by 

 4 wickets in September 1880, when Dr. W. 

 G. Grace scored 150, and Mr. W. L. Mur- 

 doch 151. Next the disastrous return in 

 1882, when after Mr. H. H. Massie had hit 

 up 55 with extraordinary brilliance, England 

 was left with 85 to win. With only 19 to 

 get, Mr. A. G. Steel joined Mr. A. P. Lucas 

 with Maurice Read, Barnes, Mr. C. T. Studd 

 and Peate to follow, but so marvellously did 

 Mr. Spofforth bowl that the Colonials won 

 by 7 runs. Finally must be mentioned the 

 fifth contest of 1902, when England, after 

 being 141 behind on first hands, had to go 

 in to get 263 on a bad wicket, with Mr. 

 Trumble literally conjuring with the ball. 

 After five men had gone for only 48, Mr. 

 Stanley Jackson and Mr. Gilbert Jessop gave 

 an astounding exhibition of courageous 

 cricket, and as Hirst subsequently played 

 with great spirit, England won, amid un- 

 paralleled excitement, by i wicket. 



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