which published this illustration showing the one-legged team at bat. reported a match in his magazine, All the Year Round'', having seen an advertisement in the window of a
tobacconist. It was held at
Peckham Rye in the grounds of the Rosemary Branch
tavern, which hosted many sporting events and pastimes. The match was for the benefit of one of the one-armed men and the players were mostly locals but one was a well-known
musical barber and dancer from
Essex, who bowled for the one-legged team. Some spectators sat on benches but Dickens sat on the
roller which was used to level the
pitch. He described the spectacle as "painfully wonderful and ludicrously horrible":After much energetic play and incident, the one-armed team won by 14 runs.
1863 There was a match in
Manchester where a player nicknamed "No-Legs" bowled for one team. ==See also==