M'Gregor would very likely have been added to this list, as they had some way the best of the drawn match. But the comparatively few men who have played in four winning elevens shows that in the long-run the matches have been very even, and there is every reason to suppose that this will always be the case. Both Universities have grand grounds, almost too good perhaps: they show up the weakness in bowling. Both get the leading public schools, though certain of these seem to favour one or the other: Oxford secures the majority of Eton and nearly monopolises Winchester, while Cambridge gets most Uppingham and Marlborough boys. In the last twenty years Cambridge has had rather the best of it, though since 1891 victory has gone in alternate years between them. But from 1878 Cambridge has had a fine lot of cricketers—A. P. Lucas, E. Lyttelton, A. Lyttelton, A. G. Steele, Bligh, C. T. Studd, G. B. Studd, Wright, Bainbridge, Woods, M'Gregor, Streatfield, Jackson, N. F. Druce, and several
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