Ernest Falck
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| Full name | Ernest Dyson Falck | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 October 1907 Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 February 1982 (aged 74) Bridport, Dorset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1935–1936 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 17 July 1935 Somerset v Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 2 June 1936 Somerset v Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 21 January 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ernest Dyson Falck (21 October 1907 – 19 February 1982) played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1935 and 1936.[1] He was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and died at Bridport, Dorset.
Falck was a right-handed middle-order batsman. He made his Somerset debut in the first first-class match to be played at Wells and stood alone while Reg Perks of Worcestershire devastated Somerset's first innings: Falck made 28 of the 56 that Somerset totalled, and Perks took seven for 21.[2] Falck made his runs out of 39 added while he was at the wicket before becoming Perks' last victim. In the second innings he made 20 and was one of only four batsmen to reach double figures. He retained his place in the Somerset side for the next two games, but his success was in inverse proportion to his team's: both matches were won by Somerset, but Falck made only 14 runs in them. He returned for a single match in 1936 without success.
Falck had arrived in Somerset in 1933 to set up a branch of his family firm, a Yorkshire-based company which made sausage casings (skins).[3] Having already played Yorkshire League cricket, he quickly became prominent in club cricket in Wells as both batsman and bowler, and in 1934 won a national award for club cricketers sponsored by the News Chronicle newspaper for scoring 156 out of a total of 218 for Wells City Cricket Club.[3] He also played football for Wells City F.C. and later took up golf and other sports. His Somerset factory was a success, diversifying into subcontract drug production (heparin), and he was able to retire to Bridport, where he died in 1982.[3]
References
- ↑ "Ernest Falck". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Somerset v Worcestershire". CricketArchive. 1935-07-17. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hill, Stephen (2017). Somerset Cricketers 1919 – 1939. Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove. pp. 265–268. ISBN 978-0-85704-306-1. Search this book on
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