LIves in Cricket No 31 - Walter Robins

44 Chapter Five Part-Time Cricket The 1930/31 football season was soon under way and between 11 October and 13 December, Robbie played in every Corinthian first-eleven match, as well as making another appearance for Nottingham Forest in a friendly at Oxford University. On Christmas Day he played again for the professionals at home in a Second Division match against Reading. On New Year’s Day he was in Scotland for the traditional game with Queen’s Park at Hampden Park, which the Corinthians won 2-0. Robbie played in nine of the next ten games and then it was time for the Easter tour, this year to Switzerland with a game in Berne and another in Zurich. Returning to England there was just enough time for Robbie to play one more game, his twenty-fifth before he began to make preparations for the ‘Big Day’ in less than a fortnight — his marriage to Kathleen Knight at All Souls, Langham Place, just off Oxford Street in central London, on 23 April. There was a huge crowd present and after the service the happy couple drove to Highgate to see Robbie’s old headmaster and mentor Dr Johnston, who had been unable to attend the wedding due to illness. Returning from their honeymoon at Babbacombe in Devon, they moved into a small detached house in the Nottingham suburb of Edwalton. Kathleen and Robbie outside All Souls, Langham Place in central London after their wedding on St George’s Day 1931.