Charles Francis Long Sweet (29 November 1860 –24 January 1932) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Somerset County Cricket Club during the 1880s. He made five first-class and seven second-class appearances for the county as a lower-order batsman.
Sweet attended Winchester College and played for the school cricket team,appearing against Eton College in 1879. [1] He then entered Keble College,University of Oxford,where he played in the freshmen's trial and the seniors trial in 1880 and 1882 respectively,but did not earn a place on the university team. [2] As a student,he got a fourth-class degree in modern history. [3] He made his county debut for Somerset while the side was still a second-class county,debuting against Leicestershire in 1880. He scored three runs in the first innings,and a further eleven in the second,helping Somerset to an 85-run victory. [4] Sweet scored his highest total for the county,26 not out while playing against the "Gentlemen of Devon" in 1880,a match in which Somerset reached 357 and achieved an innings victory. [5]
He made his debut first-class appearance during Somerset's maiden year as a first-class county,scoring three runs in the first innings,followed by two in the second against Gloucestershire in 1882. [6] He played three more times that year,during which he reached his highest first-class total,scoring 16 runs against Hampshire,and finishing not out in the innings. [7] He made one further appearance,in 1883,before playing no further notable cricket.
Sweet married Edith Maud Walrond on 6 July 1887,and the pair had three children;George Charles,Dorothy Maud and Leonard Herbert,all of whom adopted the double barrelled surname Walrond Sweet. [8] He was a minister in the Church of England,and acted as rector of Symondsbury,and as curate of St Nicholas Church in Winterborne Kingston. In 1902 he moved from a post as vicar of Milton Lilbourne,Wiltshire,to be vicar at Stourpaine,Dorset. [9]
Samuel Moses James Woods was an Australian sportsman who represented both Australia and England at Test cricket,and appeared thirteen times for England at rugby union,including five times as captain. He also played at county level in England at both soccer and hockey. At cricket—his primary sport—he played over four hundred first-class matches in a twenty-four-year career. The majority of these matches were for his county side,Somerset,whom he captained from 1894 to 1906. A. A. Thomson described him thus:"Sammy ... radiated such elemental force in hard hitting,fast bowling and electrical fielding that he might have been the forerunner of Sir Learie Constantine."
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