Cecil Bailey

Known also as Skip, Dick or just Bailey, Cecil played for over 30 years and was captain for either 1st or 2nd XIs for 20 of those years. This was a tremendous achievement when one considers that for most of those years he had a game leg following a motor cycle accident. Skip, as he is probably best known, was a useful middle order batsman and occasional bowler.
He too, was local to Spye Park and so spent a lot of time working on the pitch. He and his great friend Ben Amor were largely responsible for keeping the club going through the early years of the second World War. Skip married Reg Goddard's daughter, Marion, who with all the other wives spent many years doing teas, first 'under' Mrs. Gee and later Mrs. May.