Strathmore Cricket Union: the first 90 years a history 1928-2018

25 teams like Aberdeenshire, Watsonians, Cupar and Kirkcaldy on a Saturday on the grounds that they were “long standing” fixtures, and were thus compelled to arrange a few Union games on midweek evenings or during the local Holiday Week. It was more of a problem now that the Union had expanded to 9 teams, meaning 16 League fixtures when there were only about 20 Saturdays that could be used. In later years, this problemwould be solved by playing on a Sunday, but this was still frowned upon in 1933. Occasionally, while Churches tut-tutted their disapproval and hysterical letters reached the local Press talking about “irreverence”, “blasphemy” and “profanation”, a friendly or a benefit game would be played on the day erroneously called “the Sabbath” (the Old Testament quite clearly states that “the Sabbath” is Saturday), but it was by no means common to play cricket on that day, and certainly no-one seems to have suggested it in 1933 as a solution to this particular problem in the Strathmore Union. Bob Sievwright opposed the motion about games having to be played on a Saturday, and said that if this motion was carried, Arbroath would be Strathmore pictured in 1933 Back:- D McLean (V-Capt), J Brown, J Forbes, D H Chapman, J Samson, D McGregor, F Smith (Umpire) Front:- W C Cook (Hon Treas), A Smith, D Donald, J H Melville (Capt), J Herald, L Halstead (Prof), F S Byers (Hon Secy)