[2] In October 1918, the London Gazette reported he had been promoted to captain the previous December, but this notice was rescinded five days later.
It was as an opener that he made his first first-class 50, an innings of 59 in a first-wicket partnership of 117 with his captain John Daniell in the match against Essex at Taunton.
[8] There was a small improvement on these figures in 1926, when Case played in 20 matches and scored 471 runs at an average of 15.70, although he did not reach 50 in any innings.
Wisden noted that he "made great strides as a batsman, almost doubling his runs and increasing his average by nearly ten".
[10] The stand was a record for the fifth wicket for Somerset and remained so for 78 years until beaten by the 320 that John Francis and Ian Blackwell put on against a Durham university side in 2005.
"[9] A more recent account is more forthright: "The kindest adjective to evoke his style was probably ugly," wrote David Foot in a 1986 history of Somerset cricket.
Foot recounts a story from a match against Nottinghamshire in which Bill Voce was experimenting with leg theory bowling: "(Case) missed the ball, fell in a ludicrous heap and then picked up a stump instead of the bat.
[13] Then, against Surrey at The Oval, he came in at No 6 after four Somerset wickets had fallen for 35 runs, all of them to Edward Sheffield, and made 155 in 210 minutes.
[16][17] His second century of the summer was an innings of 111 in the match against Middlesex at Weston-super-Mare, when he shared a second-wicket partnership of 184 with Bunty Longrigg, who made a rather faster 101.
[19] His single century, the ninth and last of his career, was an unbeaten 106 in what Wisden called "a remarkable match" against Gloucestershire at Bristol.