Lives in Cricket No 11 - CP Lewis

filleted the lower order, leaving the scholars with a target of 93. They had a few scares en route to it, including the loss of their talismanic leader for just 19, but the other batsmen held their nerve and on the second afternoon, C.P.Lewis and his boys were able to celebrate their victory by four wickets, and cast aside the bad memories of their defeat to Cardiff the previous year. The scorecard, its bowling details long since missing, read as follows: Swansea Working Men’s Club L.J.Harrop b H.E.Lewis 0 run out 5 C. Farr b H.E.Lewis 1 b C.P.Lewis 6 W.H.Gwynn run out 10 b O.Jones 58 J.Doggett b C.P.Lewis 11 b O.Jones 0 E.M.Jones b C.P. Lewis 0 b O.Jones 0 G.F.Beavan b C.P.Lewis 0 b C.P.Lewis 4 J.Scott b H.E.Lewis 0 b C.P.Lewis 2 S.Caird b C.P.Lewis 1 c H.E.Lewis b C.P.Lewis 8 G.Brooks b H.E.Lewis 8 b C.P.Lewis 13 B.Williams b C.P.Lewis 0 not out 0 D.Gwynn not out 0 b O.Jones 0 Extras 0 18 Total 31 114 Llandovery College D.S.Jones c Beavan b E.M.Jones 9 b Caird 0 J.Carver run out 0 c Brooks b Jones 11 A.T.Lewis not out 12 b Jones 10 G.T.Evans b Doggett 13 thrown out W.H.Gwynn 32 C.P.Lewis c Doggett b Caird 6 c Doggett b Jones 19 A.E.Kempthorne c D.Gwynn b E.M.Jones 6 b Harrop 12 O.Jones b E.M.Jones 3 not out 6 F.C.Cornish b E.M.Jones 0 H.E.Lewis b Harrop 0 A.E.Lewis run out 3 T.H.Bayley b Doggett 2 Extras 4 3 Total 58 (for six wkts) 93 The South Wales club matches, for several years the high point of C.P.’s cricket season, seem to have been rather low-key affairs in 1881, perhaps because of poor weather, although James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual published the club’s averages for the first time. C.P. captained the side against M.C.C. at Cardiff in early August, scoring 25* out of 69, batting at seven, in reply to the Londoners’ first-innings 135, but the match scarcely progressed to a second innings. The London tour was down to two matches, the return match with M.C.C and the regular fixture with the Surrey Club and Ground side. At Lord’s, South Wales were dismissed for 85 and 127 and were defeated by nine wickets. At The Oval, Surrey A Cup Held Aloft 64