Lives in Cricket No 34 - Frank Mitchell

30 Chapter Five Cambridge, Yorkshire interlude and America, 1895 The Cambridge summer Both Gonville & Caius Cricket Club and Cambridge University awaited the 1895 season with keen interest. Would the early success of Frank Mitchell in 1894 be repeated, or would the failings of the last half of the 1894 season be the norm? His college, in fact, was to see little of him, and a contributor to the Caian magazine was to write by summer’s end ‘ Though sorry to lose him to a great extent to College matches, we content ourselves on the glory he reflects on the college’. No college scorebook is now available for that or subsequent 1890s seasons, and no record has been found of high scores for his college in 1895. The Cambridge University XI of 1895. W.G.Grace junior always played with the handicap of his famous father. Three others – C.E.M.Wilson, Horace Gray, and John Burrough – were all ordained into holy orders.