VERY excellent play took place on Wednesday; one of the Hampshire lasses made forty-one innings* before she was thrown out;* at the conclusion of the day’s sport the Hampshire lasses were eighty-one ahead — the unfavourableness of the weather prevented any more sport that day, though the ground was filled with spectators. On the following day the Surrey lasses kept the field with great success, and on Monday, the 7th, being the last day to decide the contest, an unusual assemblage of vehicles of all descriptions surrounded the ground by eleven o’clock: tandems, dog-carts, hackney-coaches, &c. formed a complete ring; several handsome females, dressed in azure blue mantles, graced those vehicles.
At three o’clock, the match was won by the Hampshire lasses, who, not being willing to leave the field at so early an hour, and having only won by two innings* they played a single game,* in which they were also successful. Afterwards they marched in triumph to the Angel, at Islington, and took some refreshment.
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* Later editors who used this account generally have corrected the author, and substituted ‘notches’ or ‘runs’, or else omitted the word altogether.
* That is, run out — not ejected from the field of play!
* As before, this should probably be ‘two runs’.
* Charles Box altered this to ‘a single wicket game’, i.e. a match between two individuals rather than two teams of eleven.