Lives in Cricket No 9 - JH King

made a total of 388 runs for once out in the two matches on this ground (and Whitehead, with his earlier 100 and 68, had made 271); but the pitch was by no means a featherbed, for on it Geary, with 11 wickets in each match, dismissed 22 Worcestershire batsmen for only 229 runs. The ‘Sauce Men’ must have been tired of King: in the four matches of 1913 and 1914 he had scored 607 runs against them at an average of 202.33. The last match of the season, at The Oval, was cancelled because of the outbreak of war, and King’s mother died very shortly thereafter (in September), having been able to follow what surely, as the war continued its seemingly interminable and destructive course, all followers of the game must have considered her son’s entire career in first-class cricket. 90 Maturity