[1] An all-rounder who batted in the middle order, he was selected as one of Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 1909.
He learned the game under the tutorship of William Brunton - a North Riding cricketer of good local repute in the days of the England eleven.
He was given two trials for the county in 1903 against Cambridge University and Derbyshire, but he was treated as a batsman and not as a bowler.
His emergence in 1908 was prefigured by an extraordinary analysis of 7 wickets for 10 runs against Worcestershire at Bradford, on his recall to the Yorkshire team at the end of the 1907 campaign.
[2] In 1908 he made 927 runs and took 140 wickets and was a big factor in Yorkshire's regaining the County Championship.