C. B. Fry
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Full name | Charles Burgess Fry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Croydon, Surrey, England | 25 April 1872|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 7 September 1956 Hampstead, London, England | (aged 84)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Beatrice Holme Sumner (wife) Stephen Fry (son) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 95) | 13 February 1896 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 22 August 1912 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1892–1895 | Oxford University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1900–1902 | London County | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1894–1908 | Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1909–1921 | Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1921/22 | Europeans (India) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 12 November 2008 |
Charles Burgess Fry (25 April 1872 – 7 September 1956) was an English sportsman, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer.[1] John Arlott described him with the words: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant – and fun ... he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age."[2]
Fry's achievements on the sporting field included representing England at both cricket and
Education
C. B. Fry was born in Croydon; the son of a civil servant.[9][10] Both sides of his family had once been wealthy, but by 1872 were not as prosperous. After winning a scholarship, Fry was educated at Repton School and then at Wadham College, Oxford. His greatest strength academically was in the Classics. At Repton he won the school prizes for Latin Verse, Greek Verse, Latin Prose and French. He was also runner-up in German.[11] His weakest subject was mathematics; he gained the headmaster's permission to study Thucydides instead and dispensed with maths for the rest of his academic career.[12]
Repton has a strong tradition in football and Fry played for the under-16 Repton football side in his first term, aged thirteen.[13] He went on to captain both the school's cricket and football teams, and also won prizes for athletics.[14] At the age of sixteen he played for the Casuals in the F.A. Cup.[15]
Having won a further scholarship to study at Wadham College, Oxford, he won his university Blue in football, cricket and athletics, but narrowly failed to win a Blue in rugby union, because of an injury.[16][17] Fry's status brought him into the orbit of people whose fame was already spreading far beyond Oxford, such as Max Beerbohm, the writer and caricaturist. He gained a first in classical moderations.[18]
When Fry was only twenty-one, the magazine
In his final term at Oxford Fry experienced his first (but not last) bout of mental illness, suffering a mental breakdown.[20][21] There were a number of contributing factors to this. During his time at Oxford Fry had accumulated disturbingly large debts. In an attempt to alleviate his financial difficulties, Fry capitalised on his reputation to make some much-needed money. As well as writing articles (including one for Wisden), he did some private tutoring but although such activities reduced his debts they did not clear them and, further increased the intense pressure on his time. Fry's continuing indebtedness provides the most obvious explanation for his acceptance of an offer to do some nude modelling. These financial problems combined with his mother being seriously ill, placed an unbearable strain on him. Although he was able to sit his final exams, he was hardly in any fit state to do so, having hardly read a line for weeks. The result was Fry scraping a Fourth, bringing one of Oxford's most spectacular and successful careers to an inglorious end. So in the summer of 1895, only months after being the toast of Oxford, Fry found himself saddled with mounting debts and no way with which to repay them. In the short term, cricket came to his rescue. He was offered, and accepted, the chance to tour South Africa as a member of Lord Hawke's 1895–96 England touring party.[22]
Personal life
In 1898, Fry married Beatrice Holme Sumner (1862–1946),[23] daughter of Arthur Holme Sumner, of Hatchlands Park, Guildford, Surrey;[24][25] they had three children. Beatrice was ten years Fry's senior, and known for her 'fiery, strong-willed, aggressive' personality; she was reckoned to be 'a cruel and domineering woman', and Fry 'lived in fear of her for the duration of their marriage', as 'she made him thoroughly miserable and he tried to stay away from her as much as possible'. His unhappy marriage impacted Fry's mental health; his daughter-in-law observed: 'I should think anyone would have a breakdown married to her".[26] At Beatrice's death, they had been married for 48 years; Fry 'adjusted to her death with great equanimity and even her children showed all the freedom of the newly liberated'.[26][27] Their son Stephen later said: 'My mother ruined my father's life'.[28] He and his son, Charles Fry, also played first-class cricket.
Sporting career
Apart from his other sporting achievements stated below, Fry was also a decent
Cricket
Fry played for Surrey in 1891 (but not in any first-class fixtures),[33] Oxford University 1892–1895 (winning Blues in all four years and captaining the university in 1894, meaning that he was simultaneously not only captain of both the university cricket and football teams but president of the varsity athletics club as well)[34][35] Sussex 1894–1908 (captain 1904–1908), and Hampshire, 1909–1921. First selected by England for the tour of South Africa in 1895–96, he captained England in his final six Test matches in 1912, winning four and drawing two. He twice scored Test centuries: 144 v Australia in 1905 hitting 23 fours in just over 3+1⁄2 hours, batting at number four,[36][37] and 129 opening the batting against South Africa in 1907.[38][39]
As a highly effective right-handed batsman who batted at, or near the top of the order, Fry scored 30,886
In his early career Fry was an enthusiastic and successful right-arm
Fry scored 94 first-class centuries, including an unprecedented six consecutive centuries in 1901. No one else has scored more consecutive hundreds. On 12 September 1901, playing for the Rest of England against Yorkshire at Lord's, he scored 105, which was his sixth consecutive first-class century.
For both Sussex and England, he was closely associated with the outstanding cricketer Prince
Athletics
In athletics, Fry won Blues in all four years at Oxford 1892–95, representing the university against Cambridge in the long jump in 1892, 1893, 1894 and 1895; the high jump in 1892 and the 100 yards in 1893 and 1894.[54][55] In 1892 Fry broke the British long jump record with a jump of 23 feet 5 inches (7.14 m)[56] and a year later on 4 March 1893 equalled the world long jump record of 23 feet 6+1⁄2 inches (7.176 m)[57][58] (tied with the American Charles Reber).[58] This is often incorrectly claimed to have stood as a world record for 21 years, but this length of time actually only refers to how long he held the university record, Cambridge's H. S. O. Ashington adding three-quarters of an inch to Fry's distance in 1913.[59] Fry's shared world record was broken on 5 September 1894 by Ireland's J. J. Mooney.[60]
In the first contest between universities from different countries, Oxford v Yale at the
Football
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Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
Position(s) | Full-back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1891–1903 | Corinthian | ||
1900–1902 | Southampton | 16 | (0) |
1902–1903 | Portsmouth | 2 | (0) |
International career | |||
1901 | England | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Fry's achievements extended to association football.
A defender with exceptional pace,
Fry's game was probably a little too refined for the hurly-burly of
The following season (1901–02), Southampton reached the
Rugby union
Fry played
Acrobatics
Fry's party trick was to leap from a stationary position on the floor backwards onto a
Career outside sport
Teaching
In 1896 Fry took up a teaching position at Charterhouse.[33] Two years later in 1898 he left the profession, moving on to a successful and much more lucrative and less time-consuming career in journalism. He later recalled: "I could earn by journalism three times the income for the expenditure of a tenth of the time."[91] In December 1908 he became the Captain Superintendent of the Training Ship Mercury,[92][51] a nautical school primarily designed to prepare boys for service in the Royal Navy; this was run by his wife Beatrice from 1885 to 1946, she having founded the school with her lover (and father of her illegitimate children), the rich banker Charles Hoare. She subjected the boys, 'hounded from morn to night', to 'barbarities' including ceremonial floggings of extreme violence and forced boxing matches inflicted as punishment.[27] Fry held this position until he resigned to make way for a younger man in 1950.[93] Eventually he was given the rank of captain in the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR).[94] Alan Gibson wrote: "He ... would stride about in his uniform looking, as I think it was Robertson-Glasgow who said, every inch like six admirals."[95] Interviewed about the Mercury, and his role in its development, he was addressed as 'Commander C. B. Fry'.[96]
Politics
As far back as his time at Wadham College, Fry had been interested in politics, but admitted: "I take a great interest in heaps of things that I know nothing about ... politics for one".[97]
In 1920 when his friend and former Sussex teammate Ranjitsinhji was offered and accepted the chance to become one of India's three representatives at the newly created League of Nations in Geneva he took Fry with him as his assistant.[53] It was whilst working for Ranjitsinhji at the League of Nations, in Geneva, that Fry claimed to have been offered the throne of Albania.[98][99] Whether this offer genuinely occurred has been questioned, but Fry was definitely approached about the vacant Albanian throne and therefore seems to have been considered a credible candidate for the post.[100][101]
He stood (unsuccessfully) as a Liberal candidate for parliament for the Brighton constituency in 1922.[102] Fry's presence certainly brought some welcome glamour and excitement to the election, and his campaign was given extra colour by the appearance, at an election meeting, of Dame Clara Butt, the opera singer (and a close personal friend of the Frys).[103] He won 22,059 votes, 4,785 fewer than the Conservative victor.
He later fought the seat of Banbury in 1923, losing by just 219 votes,[104] and the Oxford by-election in 1924, where he was defeated by 1,842 votes.[105]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist
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Rt Hon. George Clement Tryon | 28,549 | 32.0 | ||
Unionist
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Sir Alfred Cooper Rawson | 26,844 | 30.0 | ||
Liberal | Charles Burgess Fry | 22,059 | 24.7 | ||
Ind. Unionist | H Wheater | 11,913 | 13.3 | ||
Majority | 4,785 | 5.3 | |||
Turnout | 70.1 | ||||
Unionist hold
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Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist
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Albert James Edmondson
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12,490 | 45.8 | -0.7 | |
Liberal | Charles Burgess Fry | 12,271 | 45.0 | +15.6 | |
Labour | Ernest Nathaniel Bennett
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2,500 | 9.2 | -14.9 | |
Majority | 219 | 0.8 | -16.3 | ||
Turnout | 27,261 | 76.0 | -0.4 | ||
Unionist hold
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Swing | -8.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist
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Robert Bourne | 10,079 | 47.8 | +3.9 | |
Liberal | Charles Burgess Fry | 8,237 | 39.1 | -17.0 | |
Labour | Kenneth Martin Lindsay | 2,769 | 13.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,842 | 8.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 21,085 | 80.3 | |||
Unionist gain from Liberal
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Swing | +10.5 |
Writing, editing, publishing and broadcasting
Books by Fry include:
- The Book of Cricket: A New Gallery of Famous Players (1899), editor, appeared in 14 weekly parts.[107]
- Giants of the Game: Being Reminiscences of the Stars of Cricket from Daft Down to the Present Day (c. 1900), with R. H. Lyttleton, W. J. Ford & George Giffen.
- Great Batsmen: Their Methods at a Glance (1905), with George W Beldam, who provided the photographs.[108]
- Great Bowlers and Fielders: Their Methods at a Glance (1907), with George W. Beldam
- A Mother's Son (1907), a novel written in collaboration with his wife.[109]
- Cricket: Batsmanship (1912).
- Key-Book of The League of Nations.[110]
- Life Worth Living: Some Phases Of An Englishman (1939), his autobiography.[105]
- Cricket on the Green For Club And Village Cricketers And For Boys (1947), with R. S. Young.
He is also believed to have written much of The Jubilee Book of Cricket (1897), of which the nominal author was Ranji.[111] He wrote prefaces and introductions for a number of other cricket books, and wrote articles on cricket and football for The Strand Magazine in the early years of the 20th century.[112] In the 1930s, he wrote a column for the London Evening Standard, which covered many topics.[105] The column was credited with a considerable increase in the paper's circulation.[95] He launched and edited C. B. Fry's Magazine. In his magazine he promoted toys such as the diabolo. A History and Bibliography of Fry's Magazine was published in December 2022 by Sports History Publishing.
His broadcasting career began in 1936 with commentary for the BBC on a match between Middlesex and Surrey. He declined to join the panel on
Later life
In the 1920s, Fry's mental health started to deteriorate severely. He had encountered mental health problems earlier in his life, experiencing a breakdown during his final year at Oxford, which meant that, although academically brilliant, he achieved a poor degree. In the late 1920s, he had a major breakdown and became deeply paranoid. He reached breaking point in 1928 during a visit to India, becoming convinced that an Indian had cast a spell on him.[117] For the rest of his life, he dressed in bizarrely unconventional clothes.[118] He did recover enough to become a popular writer on cricket and other sports, and even into his sixties he entertained hopes of becoming a Hollywood star. At one point when he was staying in Brighton he was supposed to have gone for a walk along the beach early in the morning and suddenly shed all his clothes, trotting around stark naked.[118]
In 1934, as reported in his 1939 autobiography, Life Worth Living,[90] he visited Germany with the idea of forging stronger links between the uniformed British youth organisations, such as the Boy Scouts, and the Hitler Youth, so that both groups could learn from each other. Fry met Adolf Hitler who greeted him with a Nazi salute which he returned with a Nazi salute of his own.[119][120] He failed to persuade von Ribbentrop that Nazi Germany should take up cricket to Test level. Some members of the Hitler Youth were welcomed at TS Mercury, and Fry was still enthusiastic about them in 1938, just prior to the outbreak of war.[121] Fry's laudatory statements about Hitler persisted through his autobiography's third impression in July 1941[122] but appear to have been purged in the fourth impression (1947).
He retired from his position at TS Mercury in 1950, and died in 1956, in Hampstead, London.[121][123] The English writer and critic Neville Cardus wrote the following words for Fry's obituary:[citation needed]
Fry must be counted among the most fully developed and representative Englishmen of his period; and the question arises whether, had fortune allowed him to concentrate on the things of the mind, not distracted by the lure of cricket, a lure intensified by his increasing mastery over the game, he would not have reached a high altitude in politics or critical literature. But he belonged – and it was his glory – to an age not obsessed by specialism; he was one of the last of the English tradition of the amateur, the connoisseur, and, in the most delightful sense of the word, the dilettante.
His ashes were buried in the graveyard of
Honours
Southampton F.C.
- 1902
Two Brighton & Hove buses (429 and 829) were named "C B Fry" in his honour.[124]
See also
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External links
- CB Fry at Englandstats.com
- Charles Fry – biography on the Oxford University Association Football Club web site
- Corinthian Casuals F.C. – Player profiles
- Works by C. B. Fry at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)