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looking concoction of spin varied with the faster one, foxed Astley on the third delivery and took his off stump. His next ball bowled Arlidge neck and crop, his final ball of the over was lofted up by Munday and underwood hurtled himself down the wicket to scrape it up inches from the turf This morale-shattering spell continued in his next


over. so flummoxed was Mugford that he hit his own wicket, while Manning and stockinan were both transfixed, could not make contact and were summar- ily bowled. six wickets in six balls and underwood had not been helped by any other fieldsman. The Brixham trance ended when Vickery chanced his arm, ran down the pitch, met the ball before it could bounce and sent if away for a two. needless to report, Kingswear won without losing a wicket with underwood and Hobbs compiling the necessary 45 runs. The season continued in a similar way with under- wood’s spin taking four for 13, six for 8, four for 8 and six for 11. His final analysis was 3.5 for the season. In 15 matches against the cream of south Devon clubs, Kingswear had 13 victories. It was a peak which un- derwood never reached again. In 1904 he was affected by ill health; nevertheless he topped the batting and bowling averages again. At the end of the season, however, he decided to leave the Commercial Hotel and take up farming in the Midlands. When he left Kingswear cricket was left high and dry.


In 1905 they managed just four wins. underwood too, was not winning his battle to make a living out of the land. The man who once said. ‘When I bowl anybody out they have to go,’ was finding that farming was a more serious game than bowling. For several years nothing was heard of him in south Devon. Then in May 1914, he was found by his son outside a barn, lying in a pool of blood; beside him was a shotgun. Life without cricket, without the massive hit and the click of bails off stumps, was too much for him. He had made his last shot.


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