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Barnes, by contrast, had a more studious ap‐ proach, being probably the best off‐spinner the school produced. He had a teasing flight, and gave the ball a genuine tweak. He was also a very stylish and productive batsman, and an intelligent captain in 1952 and 1953. He and Robson had both been called to the York‐ shire Junior’s nets in 1951, and Barnes was selected for the Junior XI’s tour. After he left school, Peter played regularly for English Universities over a period of four years. In 1952, Barry Jubb emerged as a leg‐break bowler, the only one of his kind I remember playing for the school, but I would love to know what lay behind Mr Haigh’s Old Scar‐ borian assertion that he ‘bowled the most lethal full toss that we have seen for some time’. John Yeadon and ‘Geezer’ Merriweather were both very sound batsmen by this time, and with Barnes, Robson and the young Overfield, formed the backbone of the 1953 team that won the Hospital Cup. Other good players such as Tom Jones, Derek Hargrave and Frank Ankrett came to the fore only after my time. And though I later saw Ray Bloom play very impressively for the town team, he was still only a colt when I left in 1952. The school was knocked out of the Hospital Cup that year by The Nomads, a team that was made up largely from local schoolmas‐ ters, including Haigh and Hovington. For reasons I still do not know, Don Barnes asked me to open the bowling at the pavilion end, even though I had never previously bowled a ball for the school. I seem to remember bowl‐ ing right through the innings without taking a wicket, but quite economically, while Peter Robson bowled his explosive stuff from the Seamer Road end. I particularly remember his delight when he got opener Haigh for a duck. When we came to bat we faced old boy Stan Lewsey, who bowled medium pace off a pecu‐ liar jerky marionette‐like run. He came in from the Seamer Road end with the bright red set‐ 36 ting sun right behind his arm, with no sight screens. Not surprisingly, though Don Barnes got 37 and I got 42, we found it impossible to score quickly enough, and fell short by just 9 runs. The glorious story of the Hospital Cup win the following year, with notable contributions from a couple of new names – Overfield and Moor ‐‐ has been told elsewhere, and all I will say here is that I would have given anything to have been part of that great team. This story is primarily about the players in my time at the school, but it would be wrong not to pay tribute to the masters mentioned earlier on for their contributions. Others non‐players, such as ‘Bomber’ Stirling and John Rice, gave a lot of their time as scorers, and were truly members of the teams (Rice introduced stroke diagrams, I remember, and later achieved success in his own right as captain of the 2 nd XI). And there’s one other ‘cricketer’ I must men‐ tion. Revan Tranter, my friend for more than 60 years. He played a couple of games for the Second XI, and the pinnacle of his cricketing career was taking 5 for 24 for the Librarians against the Boxing Club. In truth, he had a quite remarkable antipathy to anything re‐ motely athletic – Brad’s sword dances in PT lessons pushed him well beyond his limit. Moreover, the vision in his right eye was so bad that he horrified the marshals on the fir‐ ing range, when he did his national service, by attempting to fire his rifle left‐handed! But though he was never one of the school’s star players, he developed a life‐long passion for the game. To this day, in his California home he stays up half the night following the fortunes of England’s overseas touring teams on his computer. And if you want to know anything about the fortunes of the Yorkshire team or the latest lunacies of its management there is no better authority than Revan. In this account of my personal recollections it has not been possible, for reasons of space, to name every one of those congenial team‐mates
who were my cricket companions. But I re‐ member them all, and in my mind’s eye I can still see those run stealers flickering to and fro in everlasting sun on Oliver’s Mount. In my memory they are as they were then. They do not grow old, and I do not forget that I was Above: Mike Rines and ‘Geezer’ Merri‐ weather walking out to bat on the only occasion Mike captained the school side – only for Mike to retire hurt after being hit on the point of the elbow by a rising ball. 37 very privileged to be one of them. TED LESTER REMEMBERS (1933-39) The Scarborough Cricket Festival When I was born, within the proverbial throw of a cricket ball from the North Marine Road, the Scarborough Festival had been in operation for almost fifty years. I first attended the Festival as a as a schoolboy when 7 years of age – my parents always knew where I was at Festival times ‐ but my real recollections stem from about 1934. At this time it was an integral part of the cricket calendar. It was the end of term celebrations for players and acquaintan‐ ces to make new friends and to reminisce, a time for conviviality, banter, and, above all for Yorkshire hospitality and generosity at its best. This was a wondrous opportunity to absorb the atmosphere – the occasional cries of ‘Rowntrees’ pastilles, clear gums, sugared almonds’ from sweets sellers plying their trade to the accompaniment of the Scarbor‐ ough Town Silver Band which played con‐ The Old Scarborians XI with the Hospital cup. Back: George Mackinley; Stan Lewsey; Mr Hoving‐ ton; Unknown; Un‐ known; Reg Atkin‐ son; Geoff Dennis. Front: Mr Stoddard; Sam Brooke‐Dyde; Mr Rossington; Ted Lester; Paddy (?) Waterhouse.
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