Lincolnshire County Cricket League Handbook 1971

Ted Cook, one of the Lincolnshire League's best known and respected umpires. His reply to such ind iscretion is a witheringly level stare. If he were, at such times, to break into the hoenst-to-goodness terms which typify Lincoln shire's farming fraternity, he would probably say: "Don't try it on with me. I've seen it all before" . His cricketing career -opened in the obscurity of village competition, playing for Grainthorpe for the first time in 1920 and subsequently over the next four seasons. When that side dis– banded he was tempted to play for the nearby team at Yarburgh near Lout h and there sta rred as opening bat and opening bowler. After Yarburgh came Louth Thursday, who had offered him a place after he mauled their batting to the tune of 7 for 12 and their bowling for 25 not out in a memorable fixture. With them he became the Club's first player to take more than 100 wickets in a season and continued to play for Louth in Grimsby League One until the war caused the Club to disband. In 1941 he joined Grimsby Town C.C. and played for them until 1947, when he left to rejoin Louth having never been out of Grimsby's top three batting or bowling positions at the end of each season. Back in Grimsby League One with Louth, Ted still managed his impressive stints with both bat and ball and in 1951 crowned his perform– ances by " doing the double"-collecting 1066 runs and 125 wickets in League and friendly matches for Louth .