Dimming of the Day

52 women travelling alone. On the following day The Times proclaimed ‘Middlesex still unbeaten’. J.W.Hearne had put his head down for 191* and at the close Middlesex were 393-5. The game between Worcestershire and Hampshire was also drawn. Hampshire were left to get 282 in 95 minutes, but did manage 147- 0 in the time with J.Stone, top scorer in the first innings with 83, adding 100 not out. James Stone was another ageing professional who would not come back after the war. The Hon Andrew Mulholland made another hundred in the second innings for the Household Brigade in his last appearance for which there is a record. Haverford College, having perhaps now got their land legs, comprehensively beat Uppingham. June was over – nobody knew what fateful events had taken place. June 1914