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On 4 July 1845 William Bolland took a team of friends to a cricket match at Harrow where they beat the school team with some ease. On their return to London after the match at Harrow John Loraine Baldwin invited three of the cricketers, Fredric and Spencer Ponsonby and R. P. Long, to dinner. The tradition is that R.P. Long was exceptionally fond of claret and port and spent the latter part of the evening in a comatose state, but when the discussion reached the stage of a name for this their first wandering club, he suddenly murmured "The Zingari, of course" and immediately resumed his vinous slumber. There is a deep and unfathomable mystery about the origin of the club colours of black, red and gold, and it seems likely that the truth will never be discovered.

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