Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

Ealing 34 1872 For 1872 some of the Ealing CC matches are well reported in the County Times and Ealing continued play other clubs of varying quality. Bute House and Burlington House were each defeated by an innings, Carter taking a total of 12 wickets in those two games – the precise bowling figures are not given, but later in the season Uxbridge proved to be the more formidable side, that team scoring 78 and 97, whilst Ealing managed 43 and 32. Carter in that game managed one run in his two innings but he did take five Uxbridge wickets. Then when Ealing came to Essex to play Thorndon Hall, the home side (including three Honourables) amassed 255 and Ealing were twice out for 89 and 71. It would have been an unhappy journey home to Ealing. In late September Ealing Cricket Club played Ealing Village Cricket Club. The village side included G.Hearne, T. Hearne junior, G.F.Hearne junior, and G.G.Hearne junior with three players with the surname of Parsons. This must have been a scorer’s nightmare. T. Hearne senior played for Ealing who had an innings victory. Carter took seven first innings wickets for Ealing and the County Times wrote: “The result, we believe, is much the same as the Village Club expected, for the simple reason that the majority of its members are not used to such fast and destructive bowling as that of the Rev E.S. Carter, and had that gentleman not put in an appearance, the result might have been, to say the least, more even.” He had one important clerical commission that spring for in April in Slingsby Church he supported his father at the marriage of his sister Helen to Walter Alexander, maybe amongst the first of many marriage services to be conducted in whole or in part by Carter over the next 50 years. In December the second annual dinner of the Ealing Club was held at the Railway Hotel, Ealing. Captain Tyrell, the Vice- President took the chair in the absence of the President, and alongside sat the Reverend Joseph Hilliard. Captain Tyrell in his