He played first for Warwickshire, but later found much more success at Worcestershire, where (unlike at his original county) he became the usual wicket-keeper.
[3] He had a better year in 1923, playing regularly and almost making a maiden hundred against Northamptonshire: he was 99 not out in the first innings when he ran out of partners.
[5] However, this season was to be a one-off: the 704 runs he made easily exceeded the aggregate from his other six summers at Edgbaston, and after 1926 he left Warwickshire.
[6] He ended the year with over 900 first-class runs at a little under 26, including his long-awaited first century: 136 not out versus Glamorgan at the start of August.
His batting, said his Wisden obituarist, was "solid and consistent rather than brilliant",[3] but he still managed to pass a thousand runs for the season on two occasions, in 1933 and 1935, and to score two further hundreds.