Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

to pass in a most enjoyable manner,’ said Bell’s Life . In those circumstances perhaps Yorkshire played creditably next morning in making 212 of which Carter made 15 before being caught and bowled by W.G. himself. Accounts of his batting in first- class games are rare but this account comes from the Sheffield Independent , the score being 68 for six when Carter arrived at the crease: “Mr Carter opened his shoulders well driving Mr Grace’s first ball for 3 and adding three 4’s from Mr Gilbert, two off drives, and a fine square leg hit. Mr Carter after rattling up 15 in four hits returned one to Mr Grace.” Carter again had a bowl taking one for seven, it not being recorded in Wisden as to whether he was bowling the fast deliveries of his youth, or was now bowling his slow twisters or lobsters of his later cricketing days. He was now aged 33. The match dogged by poor weather was drawn. 9: versus I Zingari at Scarborough, September 1878 10: versus MCC at Scarborough, September 1878 The familiar pattern of Edmund Carter playing in the Festival at Scarborough is now emerging. These two matches were described in Wisden as ‘the Londesborough Cricket Week’ with the York Herald describing the attendance as ‘numerous and aristocratic’. The week commenced with the I Zingari fixture whenA.J.Webbe scored 100 run out of the IZ first innings of 175. Yorkshire responded with 296 with the unusual comment in Wisden – ‘so many as nine of the Eleven Yorkshiremen scored doubles in their innings’ underlying the truth that to reach ten runs in those days could be regarded as a minor triumph. Carter indeed scored 39 not out, the first, and maybe only, occasion as a Yorkshire batsman that he really did well. But he did not bowl and was not needed to do more as Yorkshire won by nine wickets. In the drawn MCC match Carter took two MCC wickets including bowling Alfred Shaw, and a while later Shaw returned the compliment by bowling Carter for nought. The game was First-class matches 78