Cricket Witness No 5 - Whites on Green

157 blame. The fielder threw the ball back to the wicket from about forty yards away — it happens dozens of times in a game. But the umpire didn’t see it coming.” Neil Hobbs, Honorary Chairman of the South Wales Cricket Association, said: “No one can quite believe it has happened. Umpires do get hit by the ball occasionally, but the chances of it being a fatality must be less than one in a million.” The match was duly abandoned and the following weekend a minute’s silence was held at all League games in South Wales as a mark of respect for one of the League’s most popular umpires. A minute’s silence also took place before play on the second day of the 2009 Ashes Test Match at Cardiff as England met Australia in the opening match of the iconic series. 1 Evening Express , 18 June 1907. 2 Billy Trew appeared on 29 occasions for the Welsh rugby team and also led Swansea RFC to their victories over Australia and South Africa in 1908 and 1912 respectively. 3 Glamorgan Yearbook 2010. Dedication St. Helen’s could have been more of a sporting amphitheatre had the plans above for additional grandstands, dated September 1946, been given the green light. Given the scale of re-building after wartime bombing, elsewhere in Swansea, the Corporation dropped these plans.