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

68 a sign of the times, mentioned that there were at least 100 cars inside the ground. Clearly car ownership, like TV ownership, was beginning to hint at the approach, if not the actual arrival, of what came to be known as the “affluent society”. The game was a good one, although it was as well that it was played in early July, rather than later in the season, for the game was held up for half an hour during the first innings by a heavy shower of rain. The fact that it was midsummer meant that there was still enough daylight to finish the game. Meigle scored 93 for 7, and Brechin, after a struggle, got there in the last Over, and it was Commander Kennedy who received the trophy from another Brechin man, Bob Laing. The season was a wet one with quite a few postponements, and a severe problem, caused not by the weather so much as by intransigence and obstinacy about the playing of a Strathmore v Arbroath gamewhich seemed to indicate a certain amount of “previous” and a great deal of local spite. However the game was eventually played and as Strathmore finished third from the top, and Arbroath third from the bottom, one wonders what all the fuss was about! Meigle 1954 - Union Champions and Three Counties Cup Runners-up Back:- A Easson (pres), G Ovenstone (Secy), J Mathers (Umpire), A Keelan, A Hynd, J Easson, J Urquhart (V-Pres), B Finnigan, N Whitelaw, W Patterson, J Drummond (Treas), J Laing Front: P M Drummond, C Matthews, J D Howie, W D Scott (Capt), J Milne, A Reid (V-Capt), J G B Laing, D Easson In Front: J R Laing (Scorer), W G Laing (Scorer)