Lives in Cricket No 20 - Maurice Tompkin

Scarborough to Torquay. There was great shock that such a fit and dynamic player should lose his life, still with several playing seasons left to him, and maybe a coaching contribution beyond that. There was an instinctive recognition that his earnings from cricket could not provide fully for the future of his family; hence the pounds, shillings and pence from schoolboys, suited businessmen and factory social clubs. It won’t happen again. 122 Final days