Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

73 Australia Fair: The Triumph of Trumper He later sued Bailey for payment of the sum of £475. Vogler was omitted from the Third Test, but his colleagues got on pretty well without him, as we saw. Of the other googly bowlers who had been so successful in England in 1907, White was not on the tour, and Faulkner was burdened by having so much responsibility in batting. The fourth member of the 1907 spin attack was Reggie Schwarz, and he and Faulkner were the stars of the team, the one capturing 25 wickets in the Tests at an average of 26.04 and the other scoring 732 runs at 73.20 an innings. Llewellyn’s contribution to the Test matches was scoring 198 runs, average 22.00 and, taking 14 wickets, he was the next most successful bowler to Schwarz. Some players allegedly complained about Buck’s remuneration for the tour (see page 66 above), where it is compared to the amounts paid to Dave Nourse and Vogler, the other professional members of the team and to the amateurs’ allowances. Then there were the insinuations made in 1970 by Rowland Bowen, at that time a well known historian of cricket, that on the trip Buck, as a coloured man, was ill treated by other members of the team. The only comments of the slightest authority about Buck’s treatment on the 1910/11 trip came many years later from Herby Taylor as will be discussed presently. After the tour Percy Sherwell, his captain, praised Buck’s performances; it was, he said, fortunate that Charlie Llewellyn came along to strengthen the bowling. The tour manager also indicated his support for Llewellyn by recommending the award of a bonus to him, but SACA did not accept the proposal; as it was, the trip resulted in a loss. After the end of the tour, Dan Taylor struck a different note by referring to Buck’s inclusion in the South African team ‘after ten years continuous residence in England’ and proposing that a recommendation be put to SACA that, after a lengthy absence, a player be deemed to have lost his qualification to represent his country in international cricket. He had some grounds for disappointment. He had helped Buck on his way to a successful career in English cricket, only in the end to see him jettison that career. Moreover, Herby’s omission from the Australian trip may have come as a surprise to father and son, because years later Herby claimed ‘it was between him and me,’ yet Buck was the first player to be mentioned as a member of the touring party.