Official handbook of the Forfarshire Cricket Club

Mr W. R. Sharp
F
ORFARSHIRE'S
G
REATEST
C
RICKETER.
Mr. W. R. Sharp has acted as Captain of the Forfarshire
Cricket Club for over forty years, and although he has now
practically retired from the playing field, he will always be
remembered as one of the greatest cricketers Scotland has
ever produced. Mr. Sharp was always known ofd and on the
field as a most gentlemanly and popular captain. When he
was in his prime he devoted his time and energy, organising
powers and cricketing abilities in a manner which has honoured
and popularised his name not only throughout Scotland but
also in many parts of England. Educated at the famous
Clifton College, Bristol, he took his place in the Forfarshire
side when Mr. G. M. Cox was captain of the Club. For many
seasons Mr. Sharp was invariably found at the top of the
batting averages. At one period of his splendid career, he
developed into a first class bowler, and also a wicket-keeper
above the ordinary. He stood out pre-eminently as the best
all round player either in Forfarshire or the whole of Scotland.
During his long captaincy of the Forfarshire Club, his selection
always proved a huge success, those who played under him
and those who opposed him all having unstinted admira-
tion for the great generalship which he has at all times dis-
played. A born leader, thoroughly versed in every point of
the game, Mr Sharp has won many a match by his splendid
tact and generalship, and he has always had the happy knack
of infusing much of his own enthusiasm into the members of
the side. Mr. Sharp had some splendid individual achieve-
ments in his long and honourable career. In the year 1892,
going in first for Forfarshire against Perthshire, he scored 113
from his own bat and was still undefeated at the close of the
innings. He always shone in these particular games. In
the year 1897, he played a dashing innings of 150 not out
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