Lives in Cricket No 19 - Frank Sugg

Chapter Twelve A Sad End As he approached his seventieth birthday, for the first time Frank found himself with time on his hands. His business had closed and his foray into journalism had ended. But Frank Sugg was not a man to take to his armchair with his favourite pipe in his home at 65 St Johns Road in Waterloo. He helped in the running of another sports business in the area – probably that of his sometime Lancashire colleague Jack Sharp – and he maintained his keen interest in the fortunes of the local sports clubs with which he had been associated. Acquaintances he encountered on his walks or journeys at this time commented how well he looked and how ready he was to relive his own exploits with the cricket bat or billiard cue. But underneath the surface all was not so rosy. 120 65 St Johns Road, Waterloo - Dorlins shop - in 2011. This is where Frank Sugg lived in his later years until his death in 1933; the shop conversion has taken place since his time.