History of Bucks CCC

stampeded. In his view Thorpe was not good enough and that was that. On the casting vote of HE Bull, who was in the chair, Franklin won his point. If the committee thought that they had heard the last of the matter they were in for a rude shock. There was a further exchange of letters, the full contents of which are not recorded, which caused the committee to express regret at the tone of the Slough secretary’s missive. The Slough captain, WJ Newberry, who was on the county committee, maintained that his club’s secretary had not conveyed the true view of the committee members, but enough damage had been done for David Sewell to cancel the Club and Ground fixture with Slough for 1922, a decision that the committee ratified. Eighteen months after the original rumpus the matter was still rumbling on with the newly installed president, the Bishop of Buckingham, asked to make conciliatory approaches to the Slough club. Thorpe, meanwhile, never got his cap and he never played for Bucks again. Success continues Champions again in 1925, Bucks had to endure another season of wretched weather. The away match with Hertfordshire never started and there was no decision on first innings in the return fixture or in the match against Surrey Second Eleven at High Wycombe. But in a year where the ball invariably dominated affairs Frank Edwards captured 62 wickets at a cost of 7.39 each. The season began in dramatic style at Bletchley Park where, after a blank first day, Kent Second Eleven won the toss and batted, only to be dismissed for 34 with Edwards and Payne sharing the wickets. There 47 Success continues The 1925 Team At back: GH Quint (scorer) Standing (l to r): F Edwards, WT Brindley, LG Baker, EA Fawcus, OG Battcock Seated: JN Buchanan, PW Le Gros, WB Franklin, WE Haselton, AO Payne On the ground: EF Robson