Match Drawn. A hot and sultry Belmont greeted Standard Athletic Club to the annual fixture in memory of Toby and, more recently, Jimmy Cox, and we were delighted to welcome Libby and Andrew for a picnic lunch at the ground. The game, surprisingly and not in the free...
Standard Athletic Club joined the Stragglers at Belmont for the annual fixture in memory of Toby Cox, this year with added poignancy as we also remembered Jimmy Cox, who passed away at Christmas. Batting first, the Stragglers continued in a similar vein as at Milstead...
The season finally stuttered into life at an overcast Belmont after 3 early season cancellations. Standard Athletic Club, arriving fresh from some big runs at Torry Hill, were confident in the chase, and inserted the Stragglers. Such confidence was immediately...
Paris Tour The enthusiastic 'rule the world and live forever' exuberance of youth was out in force on the tour to Paris. Friday night training took on a whole new meaning in the Zig Zag Club. Breakfast was only attended by a few, and a slightly dishevelled cohort...
Matt Smallwood managed to reduce the average age of the Stragglers selected to face Standard Athletic Club at Belmont (by 20 years), but then had to deal with the intemperance of youth, as the young guns in the upper order misfired badly. Jonathan Neame, elder...
The visit of the Parisians of Standard Athletic Club to Belmont in May has become an early season highlight, a match played in memory of Toby Cox for the ‘Toby Jug Trophy’. As ever the match was played in the finest spirit of the game, and, on a glorious afternoon,...
Finally the Straggler season blossomed into life. Rain, a cancellation and a fixture list light on early season games played havoc with the fitness training and loosening of elderly joints. In the end it took the itinerant Parisians of Standard Athletic Club to bring...
The game against Standard Athletic Club, Paris was very much Toby’s game, and the sides, full of Toby’s friends, met at The White Lion in Selling as guests of Jimmy and Libby before the match to remember Toby and his Straggler career. What became clear about a...