Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE ASHBURIAN 11 the Toronto schools with their better faciHties for practice and ' ' Old Country professionals to bowl at their nets, stronger than we were, but we gained very useful experience and the only way to improve one ' s game is to play against stronger opponents. Our batting, bowling and fielding bore favourable comparison with that of our opponents, whose strength lay in that they had a greater number of batsmen and bowlers to choose from. CRICKET CHARACTERS 1930. E. W. Beardmore : Vice-captain. 4th year on the team. A brilliant field and very reliable bat with a variety of good strokes ; a useful change bowler. H. A. Fauquier : 4th year on the team. An erratic fast bowler. A lazy field but a safe catch. A forceful bat and head of the batting- averages. E. C. Elwood : 2nd year on the team. A wicket-keeper who let very few byes ; he dropped a few catches because of being too eager. A very reliable and stylish bat. A good lob bowler and a good judge of a run. H. C. Hammond : 1st year on the team. A good medium pace bowler and a reliable first wicket batsman. A poor field. A. Henderson : 2nd year on team. A good opening batsman who was high up in the averages. A good change bowler. He fielded brilliantly at cover point. G. R. Perodeau : 1st year on the team. An unreliable bat who occasionally made runs. Did not make the most of his height and strength. A sure catch and safe ground field. F. B. Robinson : 1st year on the team. An erratic field who was sometimes brilliant. A sure catch. Showed good form in the nets but was very unlucky in matches, should be very good next year. W. R. MacBrien : 1st year on the team. A forceful bat, some- times made a lot of runs. A poor ground field and an erratic catch . F. A. Heubach : 1st year on the team. Came into the team late. A good ground field and a safe catch. A forceful bat with good strokes ; should be good next year. M. E. Grant: 1st year on team. A stone-wall type of batsman who never failed to keep his end up. A fair field and catch. P. B. Smellie : A very keen Captain with a sound knowledge of the game. Always gave of his best in the interests of the team both on and off the field. A good fast medium bowler and a clean quick field. Has plenty of scoring strokes but was very unlucky in matches this year.

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10 THE ASHBURIAN 1st XI COLOURS. P .B. Smellie (Captain), E. W. Beardmore (Vice Captain), E. C. Elwood, H. C. Hammond, H .A. Fauquier, A. Henderson, G. Perodeau, B. Robinson. We came back from the summer term earlier than usual and had great hopes of an early start for cricket and more practices than usual ; the weather, however, decreed otherwise and was very unsettled throughout the season, so that, although only two matches had to be abandoned on account of rain, a great many practices were spoiled. It was disappointing that Lower Canada College had to cancel our annual fixture which was made for May 24th. We were glad to receive a visit from St. Andrew ' s College, Auora, and had a very interesting game. The XI went to Toronto and played matches with Upper Canada College and Trinity College School ; a return game with St. Andrew ' s had to be abandoned on account of rain. We found

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12 THE ASHBURIAN Congratulations to Fauquier and Smellie on being selected to play for the Ottawa Valley vs Ridley College. The School XI again triumphed over the Masters this year by ten wickets. ASHBURY vs. THE MASTERS C. C. Played at Ashbury, May 14th. Won by the School by ten wickets. 1st Innings of The Masters J. R. Pattisson, l.b.w b. Smellie 0 W. H. Brodie, hit wkt. b. Fauquier 1 H. F. Wright, b. Smellie 6 Rev. H. N. Myers, c. Henderson, b. Smellie 10 A. Li. Bickford-Smith, b. Fauquier 4 F. E. B. Whitfield, b. Smellie 4 Sergt. Maj. Stone, c. Heubach, b. Henderson 5 G. Benson, b. Fauquier 0 C. W. Thompson, b. Beardmore 3 B. K. T. Howis, not out 4 B. Gilmour, absent 0 Extras 6 Total 43 Bowling Analysis Smellie, 4 wkts. for 15; Fauquier, 3 for 19; Henderson, 1 for 4; Beardmore, 1 for 0. 1st Innings of Ashbury Beardmore, not out Henderson, b. Mr. Whitfield MacBrien, b. Mr. Whitfield . Robinson, Fauquier, Elwood, Perodeau, I Did Not Bat MacDougall, Ritchie, Smellie, Heubach, Extras 29 29 1 Total 60 THE OLD BOYS ' CRICKET MATCH. An Old Boys ' match was played this year for the first time and proved a very successful innovation. Ted Lyman brought up a team which included some of the best cricketers who have left Ashbury. They were naturally short of practice but a very en- joyable game took place. Ned Pacaud show ' ed that he has not for- gotten the finer arts of batting, by compiling forty-three runs in his well remembered easy and faultless style. John Fauquier bowled well for the Old Boys and Smellie bowled very well for the School. Beardmore, Henderson, Fauquier and Smellie all batted well and gave the Old Boys plenty of exercise in the field as well as showing them that Cricket at Ashbury is in a very flourishing condition. We hope that T. Lyman will bring another team up next year and that an Old Boys ' fixture will become an annual event.