A HISTORY OF SURREY 



play annually are Westminster and Wel- 

 lington. 



There are records in existence of two 

 matches played at Vincent Square against 

 Westminster in 1850 and 1851, but the 

 match appears not to have been played 

 again tmtU 1865, from which year, with the 

 exception of 1872, when there was no match, 

 it has been a regular fixture. The summary 

 reads: — Charterhouse 20, Westminster 13, 

 drawn 4. Only once has the match fur- 

 nished a really exciting finish, namely, in 

 1876. The wicket was not all that could 

 be desired — sodden and rough. Charter- 

 house went in first and made 60 ; West- 

 minster followed with 63. Charterhouse, 

 going to the wickets a second time, ' took the 

 long handle,' and hit for all they were worth ; 

 200 was up in an incredibly short time ; the 

 tail ran themselves out, for there was no 

 declaring in those days, and Westminster 

 were left with the apparently simple task of 

 keeping up their wickets for icxj minutes. 

 But the two famous school bowlers of that 

 year, Dobie and Wood, were not to be 

 denied. The former bumped his lightning 

 deliveries down at a frenzied pace, while 

 Wood made his slow left-hand teasers pop 

 in all directions, with the result that West- 

 minster were out in forty minutes for 22. 

 The bowling analysis is worth recording — 



Oven. Maidens. Runa. WickcCi. 



H. H. Dobie . . 7 J 8 3 



H. Wood ... 6-4 I 8 7 



The Wellington match was first played 

 in 1872, then for a few years omitted, 

 but since 1877 it has been a regular 

 fixture. Like the Westminster, this match 

 has only furnished one exciting finish, 

 namely, in 1885, when H. H. the late Prince 

 Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein cap- 

 tained Wellington, and C. Wreford-Brown 

 did the like for Charterhouse. Wellington 

 went in first and made 133 (E. W. Markham 

 not out 75), to which Charterhouse re- 

 sponded with 114 (C. Wreford-Brown not 

 out 33). It was a one-day match, and 

 triumphant telegrams were despatched to 

 Wellington. But with the second innings 

 Wellington were perhaps over-confident; 

 the order of batting was altered, with dis- 

 astrous results, as so often happens, and 

 Wreford-Brown and E. C. Streatfield had 

 the satisfaction of dismissing the whole side 

 in a very short time for 33. Their analysis 

 reads — 



Oven. Maidens. Runs. Wickets. 



C Wreford-Brown 18-4 6 17 6 

 E.G. Streatfield .18 9 ,5 ^ 



Charterhouse were left with 54 runs to get 

 and only 25 minutes wherein to get them. 

 Nothing daunted they set to work ; orders 

 were given to hit or get out ; 2 wickets fell 

 at once ; but before the retiring batsmen 

 could fully realize what had happened the 

 next men had taken up their position. The 

 credit of this performance belongs no doubt 

 to Messrs. C. Wreford-Brown and J. B. 

 Hawkins, who lashed out at everything, and 

 ran almost impossible runs. The score 

 mounted slowly — too slowly — and it seemed 

 that the clock must win ; then Wellington 

 made the mistake that cost them the match ; 

 they changed their bowling, and as a result 

 the 54 runs were hit off, with three minutes 

 to spare. 



At the time of writing the total summary 

 of the Wellington matches reads : Charter- 

 house won 12, lost 10, drawn i. 



Many Old Carthusian cricketers have made 

 their mark outside the narrow range of 

 school cricket, playing for their Universities, 

 their counties, and elsewhere in first-class 

 cricket. 



For Oxford there played F. G. Inge in 

 1861, 1862, and 1863 ; C. E. Boyle in 1865, 

 1866, and 1867; C. E. B. Nepean in 1873; 

 E. L. Colebrook in 1880, when he saved the 

 match by stubborn defence; C. Wreford- 

 Brown was selected to play in 1890, but was 

 obliged to stand down at the last minute 

 owing to an injured finger ; G. O. Smith in 

 1895 and 1896. A later representative was F. 

 L. Fane, in 1897 and 1898 so valuable to Essex. 

 For Cambridge there played in 1882-3-4-5 

 C. A. Smith, ' All-round-the-corner-Smith,' 

 as he was called, from his peculiar method 

 of advancing to the wicket to bowl. C. W. 

 Wright in the same years kept wicket and 

 made many runs in an incredibly long time. 

 E. C. Streatfield in 1890, 1891, 1892 did 

 wonders both with bat and ball, and is 

 perhaps the finest all-round cricketer that 

 Charterhouse has ever turned out. In 1892 

 he was invited to play for the Gentlemen of 

 England. E. H. Bray kept wicket for Cam- 

 bridge in the famous match of 1896, when 

 he scored 49 and 41. 



In connection with County Cricket E. C. 

 Streatfield, G. O. Smith and E. O. Powell 

 have appeared for Surrey on more than one 

 occasion, and the last-named, with Major 

 E. G. Wynyard, also for Hampshire. C. W. 

 Wright has frequently been included in the 

 Notts team, and F. L. Fane and H. J. E. 

 Burrell in the Essex eleven. E. H. Bray 

 has played for- Middlesex, and C. Wreford- 

 Brovra for Gloucestershire. The only Car- 

 thusian who has had the honour of repre- 



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