Scores of Eton and Harrow Cricket Matches from 1805. Edited
by Franklin Brook. (F. E. Robinson and Co. ls. net.)—The 1805 score shows the name of Lord Byron in the Harrow eleven (scores 7 and 2). Curiously enough, the name just above him is Shakespeare. These two classics did not save their school from being beaten in one innings. Harrow, however, leads by three victories in the 59 matches played out. There are about 1,200 names in the index ; about 170 afterwards played for Oxford or Cambridge, nearly half of these being furnished to Cambridge by Eton. Two played five times,—II. Vernon, 1845-1849, for Harrow (his total of runs being 92, and 11 wickets), and Dowson, 1895- 1899, also for Harrow. His runs were 281 in nine innings. As he was " not out " three times his average works out at 46.8. Besides this be got 35 wickets, exactly half of all the Eton wickets taken, —all the innings were not played out. This is doubtless the record of individual achievement. The record score is 152, made by Emilius Bayley in 1841. The family record is held by the Lytteltons. Eight have played for Eton. Between 1858 and 1875 five matches cnly were played without a "raatelton. The record of "extras" was reached in 1836, when out of Harrow's score of 93, 43 were extras (b. 26, w. 17) in the first innings, and 14 (b. 11, w. 3) out of 21 in the second, being only two short of the half.
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