Cricket 1913

M ay 10, 1913. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 177 Su tton (Surrey) C.C, : 1912. C o l e m a n . D. D. N a p p e r . A. K. H ic k m a n . A. S im s . J. G. M. F. R. S. W iiit b o u r n . A. N. J e w e l l . V. R. B r o m a g e . R. M. B e l l (Captain). M. F . S. J e w e l l . H . M. F o r s t e r . J . A. S. B u t t . H il l (Scorer). has put up m any a useful score. C . F . Reiner w as a bowler as well as a batsm an, and so w a s G . V . R ein er; in the former case b attin g w as in the ascendant, however. O f the bow lers who w ere not batsmen J. R . H aynes is an easy first. In the course of a dozen or so years nearly 600 w ickets fell to him. Space does not allow of justice to everyb od y; but om is­ sions are accidental, not o f malice aforethought. One must not omit mention of the secretaries, the men who mean so much to any club. Am ong V . R . B rom age’s predecessors were E. W indus, who put in years of valuable service, and W . A. Hunt. F . E. Roberts succeeded B rom age, and he did great thin gs for the club. He is still Hon. Treasurer, and as keenly interested as ever. L ast year, to m ark its appreciation of his splendid 'w o rk , the club presented him with a go ld w atch and Mrs. Roberts w ith a silver salver. Sir Ralph C . Forster, B art., is the clu b ’s President, and has earned the gratitude of every member by his liberality to it. T h e senior Vice-Presidents are M r. Akroyd Hyslop (already referred to) and the R ector of Sutton, the Rev. H. W . Turner, 'MlA. Formerly head-master at W h itgift, Mr. T urner w as a capital cricketer until failin g sight made him give up the gam e. “ H e is one o f the most broad­ minded and popular parsons that ever breathed,” I am told; "the most popular man in Sutton, loved, and deservedly loved, by all his parishioners.” I think this is a testimonial 'vorth having:; and I know the absolute sincerity of its writer. T h e brothers Jewell must not be forgotten. T h ey are s'x in number, all loyal supporters of the club, and three of •hem prominent players. J. E. and A. N . are now in the O range Free State, farm ing, and th e former has won fame ln South African cricket (his nam e w ill be found on another p age of this number in the S .A . averages); M. F. S. lives in Sussex these d a y s ; but they do not forget Sutton and the tree-surrounded ground on the Cheam R oad and the days of keen cricket and good-fellow ship there. Coleman must not be overlooked. T h e Sutton grou n d ’s w ickets— m atch and practice— are second to none in the d istrict; and for that Coleman is largely responsible. He has been w ith the club for 15 years, and is likely to stay m any more. H ard-w orking, obligin g, respecting him9elf and' others, he has won the esteem— it w ould not be too much to say the affection— of the members. W hen I first started on this article I w a s very much in the position of the Israelites called upon to m ake bricks w ith­ out straw . Not that I w as quite without stra w ; I had one bale, sm all but thrice-blessed, the Souvenir Programm e of the Sutton C .C .’s G ym khana and C afe Chantant in Sep­ tember, 1910, w ith a capital (though necessarily brief) sketch of the clu b ’s rise and progress, by Mr. W . B. H aycraft. 1 have levied toll unscrupulously upon W . B . H . ; I have searched the C entury Lists of the red IJllywhite , running eyes trained to such w ork down long, closely-printed lists till those eyes ached, w ith comparatively sm all result, though a gain and again “ Sefton ” and “ Seaton ” flattered only to deceive; but I should have made but a poor, bare thing of this sketch, imperfect enough even now, if in the nick of time the clu b ’s annual sheet (latterly a booklet) of averages for the last 15 or 16 years had not reached me from Mr. R . M . Bell. W ith the aid o f these I can do som ething to g iv e statis­ tical details of Sutton ’s more recent history, though, ow ing to the fact that in some years the averages are not given in full, I cannot m ak e the tables so complete as I should like. T h u s there is no century list prior to 1906; in the