He was on a half-forward flank in the third game when Norwood lost by four goals to South, premiership bound. He nevertheless came in for three more games that season, a three-goal loss to South and big wins over Adelaide and Medindie.Įrnest played the first four games of 1893. ‘Flyer’ wrote in Quiz and Lantern: “Toms did very little work and was hardly worth his place.” ‘Goalpost’ of The Advertiser rated Ernest “a second twenty man”.
Port Adelaide beat Norwood 5.10 to 3.3 and the critics were not kind. Ernest then helped defeat South 7.17 to 1.5 on 17 August.Įrnest’s next senior game was before a crowd of 10,000 at Adelaide Oval on 20 June 1890. Wearing crêpe to mark the death of George Liston’s brother that week, a scratch Norwood side won 3.12 to nil. His next chance came when half a dozen regulars were absent from the match against lowly Medindie at Kensington Oval on 29 June. A cavalier innings of 33 not out by Ernest in intercollegiate cricket the year before had revived his team’s hopes before Prince Alfred prevailed by 27 runs.Įrnest made his senior football debut against South Adelaide early in the 1889 season and, according to The South Australian Chronicle, “though he did nothing brilliant, at times (he) executed some good work”. Sport also touched the lives of the other boys, Henry, Arthur, Charles and Lindsay.Įrnest and fellow Norwood aspirants, Os Bertram, Jack Holbrook and George Kirby, battled hard for St Peter’s College before going down 8.11 to 2.6 to Prince Alfred College in 1888.
Frank, the second son, was a champion long-distance cyclist. A member of a prominent family warehousing firm, Ernest Toms filled a hole in the Norwood senior side from time to time and kicked the odd goal along the way.Įrnest was born in 1872 and was the eldest of six sons of Samuel Toms, a keen cricketer and co-founder of Good, Toms & Co of Stephens Place, Adelaide.
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