Original illuminated scorecard for the Eton v Winchester match held at Winchester on June 23-24, 1876 and the Eton v Harrow match played at Lord's on July 14-15, 1876. Eton won both matches comfortably.
27 x 33cm. Framed and glazed. A few light marks but generally in very good condition.
The Eton teams of 1876 boasted many eminent statesmen and sportsmen, including Ivo Bligh, the great Ashes winning captain; Evelyn Ruggles Brise, the prison reformer and founder of the Borstal System for the treatment of young offenders; and Gerald Portal, who was instrumental in the establishment of the Uganda Protectorate (Fort Portal, a town in Western Uganda, is named after him).
Kynaston Studd was the oldest of the three Studd brothers who all went on to captain Cambridge at cricket. He played for Middlesex, carried the flag for Great Britain at the 1908 Olympics and became the Lord Mayor of London. There are also four FA Cup winners in the Eton ranks. Herbert Whitfield, Lindsay Bury, Harry Goodhart and Charles Foley all won the cup with the Old Etonians either in 1879 or 1882.
Without doubt the most interesting character who played in these games was Winchester’s opening bowler, Montague Druitt. In November 1888, for reasons unknown, Druitt was dismissed from his job as a schoolmaster in London. A month later his body was recovered from the river Thames after apparently committing suicide. It was at around this time that the “Jack the Ripper” murders came to an end and many, including the police, began to suspect that Druitt was indeed the Ripper. There is documentary evidence that Evelyn Ruggles Brise, as Principal Private Secretary to the Home Office, was heavily involved in the Ripper investigation and was well-informed about the suspicions surrounding his old adversary on the cricket field. After further information came to light in the 1960s many books (and some films) made Druitt the chief suspect, but there has never been any direct evidence to link him to the murders.
- Date
- 1876
£395.00 (Code: 95062)
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