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

62 unavailability due to holidays and other things, but they won the game well by three wickets after dismissing Meigle for 84. They were coasting to a very easy triumph indeed, but suddenly lost three wickets and were indebted to H L Philip for keeping a lid on things and hitting two boundaries to win the game. By 1950, things were changing in society as well as on the cricket field. Rationing was slowly being phased out, and in any case being largely ignored when shopkeepers suddenly discovered that they had more supplies than they thought they were going to get, and in an era of full employment (everyone was still needed to do something to help the post-war recovery), healthy babies were being born in National Health Hospitals, and slowly the battle was beginning to be won against horrific and preventable diseases like tuberculosis, poliomyelitis and diphtheria. Sport was considered a good thing, and cricket was thriving from the Prime Minister down, for Mr Attlee was well known for being a devotee of the sport, occasionally, it was said, going to the Oval or Lord’s on the London Underground with his raincoat and sandwiches and not being recognised, for he was such an insignificant looking little man! Strathmore 1950 - Union Champions Back: W Hovell (Hon Secy), J W Langlands, G Myles, R T Towns, W R I Lakie, E Balfour, J B Forsyth (Umpire), G T Strachan (Hon Treas) Front: J A Samson, D M Robertson, J K Young, A A Sturrock, D Donald, T W L Bell, A Powe (Prof) In Front: A Oram (Scorer)