The Badminton Magazine 1898-04: Vol 6 Iss 33 (1898)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 16
ness the letters of Horace Walpole, as early as 1730, it is more than probable that cricket would have taken a principal part in the pastimes imported to the new Harrow playground. For some while, however, Harrow cricket seems to have made but little noise in the world. There is subsidiary evidence… … cricket.’ Among the many invaluable cricketing records which perished in the burning of the old Lord’s pavilion, there are said to be the scores of the matches played, at irregular intervals, in the beginning of the nineteenth century between Harrow and Eton; and Mr. Thornton rightly points to the…
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