The Summer Field

67 made less of; as soon as a pro’ sought any rights, the employer showed he had none. A pro’ was forgettable, and not only because European war cut the season short. The secretary having gone to war, acting secretary George Edmond delicately told members in a November report that ‘the engagement of W.Scholey as professional did not I regret to say prove satisfactory’. The club wondered then if it should seek a professional for 1915. We know now that the game and the country were already on the other side of a watershed; life would never be the same again, and men would look back on life, and cricket, before 1914 as a ‘golden age’. Private Life