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ENGLAND v. THE UNITED STATES, 1859 -- A pair of scorecards, both printed by F. Lillywhite for the match at Hoboken, New York, October 1859, the first headed "At Hoboken. 11 of England v. 22 of the United States. Monday, October 3rd 1859," printed before the start of the game but with scores subsequently pencilled in, the second headed "At Hoboken, New York, Eleven of England v. 22 of the United States. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 3rd, 4th and 5th, 1859," printing the full match score (both laid down on a leaf extracted from a military scrap album)
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FRED LILLYWHITE'S CELEBRATED SCORECARDS FOR THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL MATCH PLAYED IN THE UNITED STATES. His account of the tour, The English Cricketers' Trip to Canada and the United States (London, 1860), reproduces the full scorecard on p. 33. The tour was organised by Lillywhite, W.P. Pickering who had emigrated to Montreal in 1852, and R. Waller of the Hoboken club, and involved just twelve English cricketers who showed extraordinary physical toughness in undergoing a journey of 7,500 miles in the two months between 7 September and 11 November, 1859. As Robin Marlar so rightly says, Lillywhite's "qualities show in his desire to make a proper job of the tour, to demonstrate to the Candians and Americans the best possible presentation of English cricket, from the proper advertising of the matches right down to the inclusion on the scorecard of the last wicket to fall. Hence his pre-occupation with the transport of his precious printing press, and his irritation with those who cursed his paraphenalia." At the Hoboken match the English cricketers made their way to the ground in a specially prepared "'four-in-hand ... the horses were beautifully decorated with the American and English flags, as well as a multiplicity of flowers," writes Lillywhite (p. 31). A jubilant crowd of 25,000 watched the game in which "Scarcely any tolerable batting on the part of the twenty-two was exhibited, which appeared to, and probably did, arise more from nervousness than any other cause. England, too, showed but little cricket, owing to the somewhat reckless style of the American bowling, though their 'hitting,' in some cases, was brilliant, especially that of Hayward and Carpenter."