SPORT ANCIENT AND MODERN 



boys' recreation from the outset. The 

 ground, which is still on that fine expanse 

 of turf known as Cranleigh Common, was 

 at first of very small dimensions, consisting 

 of a small piece in the centre duly cut and 

 railed in. The present enclosure, with its 

 excellent pitch, has been made by the com- 

 bined eflForts of the school and the Village 

 Club. The school games are divided into 

 ' First Club and six Dormitory sides.' At 

 the end of the season the Dormitory teams, 

 strengthened by the inclusion of the members 

 of the Eleven and First Club, compete for 

 a Cup. A fund provided by the late Sir 

 Henry Peek provides the Peek Cup and 

 Spoon for the best batting and bowling 

 averages, and also a Cup for the highest 

 score against the School at the annual Old 

 Boys' Match. Cranleigh School has played 

 its part, if not a very important one, in 

 County Cricket. While Captain of the 

 School eleven in 1895 E. C. Mariner received 

 a trial in the Hampshire eleven. C. W. 

 Potter and J. Carmichael both played for 

 Surrey in the seventies, the latter while 

 he was still at Cranleigh. A member of the 

 same eleven, W. Barton, made a high reputa- 

 tion in New Zealand cricket. R. B. Brooks, 

 a wicket-keeper who would have been quite 

 first class if he had been able to get practice 

 in good cricket, has kept for Surrey, and 

 also represented the Gentlemen against the 

 Players in the Scarborough Festival. Several 

 Cranleighians present and past have taken 

 part in the minor matches of the Surrey 

 County Cricket Club. The chief matches 

 played by the Cranleigh School eleven are 

 against Marylebone Club and Ground, 

 Epsom College (whom they beat for the 

 first time in 1901), St. John's School, Leather- 

 head, Whitgift School and the City of London 

 School. Hampton Wick and Ealing are 

 annual opponents, and some of the Hospital 

 Clubs are generally met. James Street, the 

 Surrey fast bowler of the early seventies, was 

 in charge of the cricket for several years. 

 The standard of play has varied a good deal, 

 and the best teams turned out so far have 

 been those of 1875, 1889, and 1896. H. 

 Casswell, one of the first boys to enter the 

 school, was a prominent figure in Cranleigh 

 cricket for many years. He did a great 

 deal for the school games during his master- 

 ship, which extended over a quarter of a 

 century, from 1870 to 1894. 



From its foundation in 1619 till the year 

 1858 DuLwicH College consisted of twelve 

 scholars, and of twelve only, so that the cricket 

 of that period need not be seriously considered. 

 In the year 1858, when the College was first 



opened as a public school, the buildings were 

 of such a size as only to hold at the most 130 

 boys ; and though the number of the school 

 almost immediately reached their maximum 

 of 130, the diflSculty of securing a suitable 

 playing field, and consequently the impos- 

 sibility of introducing properly organized 

 games, rendered the period from 1858 till 1870 

 equally devoid of anything of permanent 

 interest connected with the game. Even 

 at that time, notwithstanding difficulties, 

 there existed first, second, and third elevens, 

 which competed with corresponding teams 

 from other schools. 



It was not till the College removed to its 

 present buildings and playground in 1870 

 that cricket really began to flourish, as in 

 every other public school in the kingdom. 



The interests of the game from 1876 prac- 

 tically up to the present time have been most 

 energetically and carefully guarded by Mr. 

 T. G. Treadgold, one of the assistant masters, 

 and under his guidance the organization of 

 the school cricket, at first necessarily very 

 incomplete, and improvement of the playing 

 fields have made vast strides. 



The games on half-holidays are arranged 

 in the following way. At the beginning of 

 the season the first three elevens have prac- 

 tice games amongst themselves or against 

 scratch teams. Besides these, there is a 

 special game arranged for the most promising 

 of the boys under sixteen years of age, and 

 representatives from this game play an 

 annual match against a Haileybury team 

 of corresponding age. If none of the first 

 three elevens have matches, trial games 

 called Side Matches are often arranged, 

 representatives of each of the four sides into 

 which the school is divided, namely, the 

 Classical, Modern (including the Army Class), 

 Science and Engineering sides playing one 

 against another. These Side Matches, 

 utilizing as they do all the best cricket talent 

 of the school, and by reason of the additional 

 interest attaching to them, have proved, 

 perhaps, the most effectual means of bring- 

 ing to the front and developing the talent 

 of the players. The remaining games are 

 arranged in gradation according to merit, 

 and boys are moved up from one game to 

 another as they improve. Captains are 

 appointed to each game by the captain of 

 the School eleven, whose duties consist (i) 

 in seeing that all necessary arrangements for 

 their special game are properly carried out ; 

 that is to say, that the wicket is properly 

 prepared, the rolling and marking out of the 

 wickets being done to a very great extent by 

 the boys themselves ; (2) in seeing that those 



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