June 28, 1911.
Frank Foster will not play against Hampshire.
Mr Foster is under the weather and has been suffering a heavy cold for some days. That, it transpires, is the reason for his lethargic performance at Gloucester. It was nothing at all to do with any late-night wassailing. Arbuthnot was talking hogwash as usual.
According to Sintard (a much more reliable source), rather than having let his team down by a wanton act of indiscipline, Mr Foster actually ventured far beyond the call of duty by leading his men on to the field despite feeling like he had collided with an omnibus. His heroism simply knows no bounds.
I do wish people would not take idle, fatuous tittle-tattle and leap to conclusions.
Byrne will captain the team against Hampshire. Foster will be missed but Hampshire are without Mead so Warwickshire should still be able to, if I may use the sporting vernacular, clean their clocks.
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Algernon J Halford - proprietor of chimney-sweep firm, taking a summer sabbatical to follow Warwickshire's County Championship campaign around England.
About the lost blog of 1911
One hundred years ago Warwickshire County Cricket Club won the county championship for the first time. It remains one of the sport's most remarkable triumphs. They began the 1911 season as a leaderless rabble but, driven by inspirational all-rounder Frank Foster, ended it as champions.
Algernon J.Halford, great-great-grandfather of Mail cricket reporter Brian Halford, attended every day's play throughout that stunning season and, years ahead of his time, kept a blog. A century on, as Jim Troughton's Bears try to emulate Foster's side, throughout this summer the Birmingham Mail will reproduce Algernon's blog as it unfolded during that magical year in the Golden Age of Cricket.
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