 In the match against Essex at Colchester, he achieved his best innings and match bowling figures, his five for 75 in the first Essex innings being followed by seven for 45 in the second – though Somerset still managed to lose the game.Both the Lee brothers were less successful as batsmen in the 1935 season, and Jack only just completed 1000 runs for the season, finishing with 1011 at an average of 22.46 and failing to score a single century.With fast bowler Arthur Wellard, who had been badly out of form in 1934, taking more than 100 wickets, there was less reliance on Lee's bowling, but he still finished with 72 wickets and his bowling average of 24.38 was the best for a single season of his first-class career.