Cricket club ceases (1898)

Post date: Jan 04, 2012 10:28:55 AM

A year after the authorisation to purchase a pavilion (at the 1897 AGM) Wateringbury Parish magazine announced the cessation of the cricket club in April 1898:

The Wateringbury Cricket Club has ceased to exist, the chief cause of its decease being the difficulty of obtaining a suitable ground. The effects of the club are being sold, and the proceeds vested in trustees (the Vicar, Dr. Walter Fry, and Mr. P. H. Copley) with power to hand it over to any club that may be started in the village in the future, and which, in the opinion of the trustees, may be worthy of general support.

One is being continually reminded of the want of a village recreation ground, which vested, say, in the Parish Council, but under the management of a representative committee, would confer the greatest possible boon upon the place, administering to ths unanimity, the happiness, health, morality, and general welfare of the inhabitants. Is the idea altogether chimerical ? Some day, perhaps, a wealthy landlord will grub two or three acres of fruit or hops and make a present of the ground to the place under certain conditions A 1d. rate would keep it going, and no one would grudge the money.

For other cricket snippets see Cricket club started, Cricket: 'bricks against beer', Cricket 1896 AGM, Cricket: 1897 AGM approves purchase of pavilion.