BOSTON AND ALBANY R[AIL] R[OAD]. All England Eleven Cricket match at Riverside Park … Sept. 28, 29 & 30. Boston: September 24, 1868. Broadside (404 x 326mm). (Old paste stains at margins, 35mm. clean tear at left hand margin repaired on verso, other repairs to page edges). Provenance: acquired from Christopher Saunders in 2004. A RARE RAILWAY BROADSHEET advertising ‘an extra train’ running from Boston to Allston ‘for the accommodation of those wishing to attend the match’. The time of ‘regular trains’, both outward and return, is also given. The match itself was the third played by the travelling group of English professionals who played under the name of the All England Eleven. They were only the second English team to tour the USA and Canada, the first being under George Parr’s captaincy in 1859. Their opponents at Riverside Park on 28-30 September 1868 were a United States Twenty Two including players from New York and Philadelphia as well as local clubs. The All England Eleven scored 180 and won the match by 104 runs with the United States scoring 76 in their two innings.