Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

19 During the seasons of 1899 and 1900, he amazed the locals with a succession of large scores for T.S.Mercury , including 246 not out in 1899 against Banister Court, a local school side, followed by eight individual centuries the following year of which the highest was 166 for the Deanery Cricket Club of Southampton. In 1901 he amassed 252 against Alton for Hampshire Club and Ground. In the autumn of 1899, he was invited to travel to the United States and Canada as a member of a side led by K.S.Ranjitsinhji. Setting out from Liverpool in a Cunard liner, R.M.S.Etruria, they disembarked in New York for 18 days cricket. Buck turned in some good performances with the ball on this trip, beginning with 12 wickets for 72 against twenty-two Colts of Philadelphia at the Belmont club ground, and achieving analyses of four for 45 and three for 47 in the second of the two most important games of the trip, against the Gentlemen of Philadelphia at the Germantown club ground, but through the strength of Ranji’s team and the weakness of most of the opposition, it was not necessary for him to make big scores. A list of high-powered names, Ranji himself, Stoddart, MacLaren, Jessop and Bosanquet all finished with averages between 58.50 Out of Africa The Deanery club of Southampton, assembled in 1901 for their annual Married v Single match. Standing (l to r): E.Norman, H.Rogers, G.H.Bale, C.H.S.Mattews, T.A.Crook, A.Slight, E.J.Tolfree, T.M.Weaver, C.Conboy, W.Elliott, E.Kemp. Seated: A.I.Russell, E.C.Walter, K.Forbes, W.Osgood, E.J.Newton, E.J.Taylor, W.Mitchell, D.R.Ruffell, A.Bull, E.F.Rudgeley, C.B.Llewellyn. On the ground: W.F.Jarvis, two scorers, C.Mantell.