Lives in Cricket No 8 - Ernest Hayes

In 1939, according to The Cricketer , while he was making a slow recovery from an attack of duodenal ulcers, he was doubtless cheered by an outstanding century by stepson Ted for Addiscombe – 160 in two and a half hours, with eight sixes and 15 fours. At the end of the 1948 season, aged almost 72, he was elected President of the Honor Oak Cricket Club, due recognition for sixty years service to the club he had joined as a schoolboy scorer. He served until his death in 1953, but was apparently not often seen there, his duties at the Paxton Arms on Gipsy Road doubtless keeping him away. He was succeeded in the office by his life-long friend, F.G.Cutbush, who had been secretary before the First World War. He remained in touch with the Surrey club and was present at a dinner at the Armourers’ Hall on 29 November 1950, to celebrate sharing the County Championship with Lancashire and winning the Minor Counties competition. 114 Homecoming Greetings and a complaint in Sydney Barnes’ copperplate, 1953