Dimming of the Day

73 July 1914 already 42 and had been a Wisden cricketer of the year in 1902, but would play for the county until 1928. Charles Baker left Warwickshire after 1920, playing for Cornwall and pursuing a career as a cartoonist. Somerset and Derbyshire at Taunton played like a one-day match – Derbyshire 63 and 93-5, Somerset 100. E.Robson took seven for 32 in Derbyshire’s first innings and had taken two in the second. Robson, a right-arm-fast-medium bowler and a Yorkshireman, was 44 years old and was to carry on after the war. Rugby beat Marlborough at Lord’s, Marlborough being out for 82 in their second innings. On Friday 31 July the Aberdeen Journal reported that during a cricket match at Cork, the soldiers taking part were called off and the match abandoned. The bank holiday weekend was about to begin.