Ramblers finished a good year - results wise - at Merrow on Sunday, September 26th. They had won 15 of their 24 games up to this point. In this 12 a-side all-day fixture (play began at 12.10pm), lunch was taken at 1.30pm with Merrow 5 wickets down for very few.
In 2 photographs taken by the Club Archivist with his box Brownie, members can be seen enjoying their picnics.
Left to right in the left hand picture are - Hugh Gauntlett, "Mike" Gauntlett, Frank Broadbent, Winton Dean, Joan Gauntlett, and Cyril "Mac" McClintock. The player with his back to the camera is Jimmy Irvine and next to him is "Bang" - the Gauntletts' terrier. In the right hand picture is David Gilby and his wife, Margaret.
Merrow crawled to a declaration at 3.50pm on 129-8 in 165 minutes. Mike O'Sullivan had bowled 16 overs including 10 maidens, in 4 spells at them, for 22 runs taking 1 wicket. "Mike" Gauntlett took 5-33 at the other end. One interesting point arises from the scorebook - Lionel Wood was keeping wicket when he caught his catch. Was Winton Dean, who was also playing, injured? He looked alright at lunch in the picture above.
Charlie Izzard and David Gilby gave Ramblers a reasonable start, but with 24 on the board, Gilby was caught at the wicket by - guess who? - Gordon Smith - and then Ronnie Gethen was bowled for a duck next ball. Ramblers never really recovered and at 60 lost 3 wickets in 6 balls. They hung on for a draw to reach 76-8 when play ended unusually late for this time of year at 6.34pm.
Merrow innings:
T.James b Dupont 0
E.Boswell lbw O'Sullivan 1
G.Amey ct Izzard (gully) b Gauntlett 17
F.Amey b Dupont 8
G.Burnham ct Wood (wkt) b Gauntlett 26
J.Lee b Gauntlett 0
L.Elford b Gauntlett 50
N.Amey b Gauntlett 8
R.Boswell not out 3
G.Smith, H.Clarke, C.Gray did not bat
TOTAL 129-8 declared
Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-2, 3-18, 4-56, 5-56, 6-71, 7-122, 8-129
Bowling:
O'Sullivan 16-10-22-1
Dupont 15-3-20-2
Gauntlett 10.3-2-33-5
Raphael 3-1-2-0
F.Edwards 10-1-36-0
Ramblers innings:
C.Izzard b Clarke 19
D.Gilby ct Smith b Clarke 16
R.C.R.Gethen b Clarke 0
H.H.Dupont b Clarke 3
A.Raphael ct G.Amey b F.Amey
C.L.T.MacClintock b F.Amey 13
F.T.Gauntlett not out 13
F.Edwards ct N.Amey b F.Amey 0
J.Irvine b Gray 0
L.H.Wood not out 6
W.B.Dean and M.O'Sullivan did not bat
TOTAL 76-8
Fall of wickets: 1-24, 2-24, 3-32, 4-44, 5-48, 6-60, 7-60, 8-60
Bowling:
Burnham 6-3-8-0
Gray 7-4-6-1
Elford 9-0-16-0
Clarke 12-2-26-4
F.Amey 8-0-18-3