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ain fell, Howard Reynolds strode to the wicket. Better known for his prowess on the rugby field, he threw his combative nature into the fray and in doing so put the College bowling to the sword. In just over two overs he scored 19 precious runs, including three boundaries, one of them a six over point! With three overs to go, 15 runs were still re‐ quired for victory but with seven wickets down. However, with some helter‐skelter running and not a little luck, Barry Beanland and yours truly scored the winning runs with nine balls to spare. It was nail‐biting stuff but the High School had won and this set up a run of successes in the ‘Bright Bowl’ competition that lasted four years. For the High School at least it had been a memorable match. Innings of Scarborough College: PO Clowes lbw b. Overfield 41 JD Richardson b. Overfield 23 CG Gregory run out 14 AJ Moor run out 3 M Hebden b. Overfield 1 A Jacques not out 14 T Weastell c. Beanland b. Overfield 6 JE Nunn c. Goulding b. Overfield 14 RD Greenwood not out 0 Extras 4 Total (7 wickets) 120 Bowling: Overfield 5 for 60 Innings of SBHS A Midgley lbw b. Pickering 2 GC Thornton b. Pickering 22 DG Goulding b. Greenwood 17 ND Overfeild b. Pickering 27 MJ Scott lbw b. Greenwood 3 30 H Reynolds b. Greenwood 19 BE Walker b. Pickering 1 BM Beanland not out 12 JD Found not out 3 Extras 15 Total (7 wickets) 121 Bowling: Pickering 4 for 45 Greenwood 3 for 41 CRICKETING MEMORIES by Mike Rines (1941-52) The supreme moment in the history of cricket at our school came just after 9.0pm in near darkness at North Marine Road on a late summer evening in1953. With only one ball to go, Peter Robson scored a two to beat Gan‐ ton. Don Barnes, as captain of one of the best sides ever to have represented the school, col‐ lected the Hospital Cup. The only other time the school had won it had been in 1944, when the team had included masters and old boys. Ted Lester scored 74 not out and took 7 for 33, and the last wicket fell when Mr Rossington made an astonishing running catch in the deep before falling on his back in front of the sight board. Robson, Barnes and Lester ‐‐ some of the great names of our school’s cricket, and I’d like to share my memories of them and other fine players and team mates from my 11 years at the school and from my later experience of playing alongside them for Scarborough teams. This is therefore not an attempt to write a comprehensive history of SBHS cricket, but rather a personal memoir. That there were so many good players is re‐ markable, because we were at a considerable disadvantage compared with some other schools – a fact that I did not discover until I
played for an Oxford University team against some of the major public schools. At Radley, for instance, I remember there were four large cricket fields, with pitches good enough for test matches. At Wellington, there were about 20 nets. All we had was the rather rough track perched atop Oliver’s Mount and the even rougher net wicket cut in the coarse grass of the outfield. Consider, too, the standard of coaching. True, we had dedicated masters such as Rossington, Stoddard, Hovington, Roxburgh and Haigh, who gave unstintingly of their time, umpiring and giving up their Saturdays to take us to away matches. However, I do not remember being coached by any of them. Indeed, when there were no practice facilities worthy of the name it would have been impossible, so we had to look elsewhere. Eric Dixon’s experience makes the point. Like me, he went to the nets at the Scarborough Club ground every night of the season. On one occasion, former Yorkshire and England player Wilf Barber was visiting the Club and someone suggested that Eric should have a go at keeping in the nets to the bowling of Bill Foord. And, of course, the lack of space meant he had to stand up to the wicket to take Bill’s considerable pace. On the strength of this performance alone Barber, who was then employed by the North Riding County Council Education Committee, invited Eric to play for his youth team against the West Riding. Up to this time, Eric had been playing for the school Under 14 team, plus a few games with the 2 nd XI. Only now that he had been recognised outside the school was he chosen for the school 1 st XI to give him some experience before the big match. Three other SBHS players were chosen for Barber’s side: Hume, Newton and Horswood, Hume as captain. Dixon remembers that Brian Close was playing for the West Riding. He also remembers that Horswood opened the bowling and, in his first over, bowled 31 three or four beamers (dangerous head‐high full ‐ tosses), which gave rise to some hostile mutterings among the spectators. As he and Eric crossed at the end of the over the embar‐ rassed bowler explained that he had never had a new ball in his hand before and that it just kept slipping out. Even the once‐ or twice‐a‐season sessions on Oliver’s Mount with Wilf Barber and his suc‐ cessor Maurice Leyland, which started after 1945, provided little benefit on their fleeting visits These deficiencies could account for some of the astonishingly low scores recorded, par‐ ticularly during the war years. In 1943, for instance, the School tied with Leeds Training College with a score of 28, the batting aver‐ ages were topped by Boddy (8.4) and Geoff Dennis topped the bowling averages with just 4.3. In the Colts, Horswood’s bowling average of 2.5 got him only second place to Tindall at 2.48. Again, in a match in 1945, Vokes took 6 for 6 against Bridlington. By contrast, about 500 feet down from the Oliver’s Mount field, Scarborough College had a lovely flat ground about 25 yards from the back door of the school building, and at different times they had Wilf Barber and then Percy Holmes, another former Yorkshire and England player, as full‐time coaches. The benefits were made clear when the College’s Brian Moor metamorphosed from gawky no‐ hoper into a batsman with one of the loveliest swings you could ever wish to see send a cricket ball rippling over the grass for four. What compensated for our school’s shortcom‐ ings was the Scarborough Cricket Club, which had good nets and a succession of profession‐ als to look after the coaching. And what also must have helped was the fact that we were able to watch and emulate the first class and very good club cricketers who played there. So although we did have a succession of very good players, it is probably fair to say that they emerged almost in spite of the school.
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