 Educated at Epsom College, he was a right-handed opening batsman who played five times in first-class matches for Sussex between 1903 and 1905.Only in one match, against Kent at Tonbridge in 1905, when he scored 80 and an undefeated 68, did he show any particular talent.After 1905, he did not play again in the years leading up to the First World War, though he appeared for Canada against the United States in 1908.