won the match by 10 wickets; he also took three first-innings catches off the bowling of Snuffy Browne. In its report on this match, The Times provided a detailed description of Francis' bowling: He bowls fast and obviously scorns to conserve his strength. He is in a hurry to be at the batsman. He turns sharply to begin his run, jumps off at a great pace, throws up his arm high, and then makes a terrifying leap into the air—a leap which one feels should be accompanied by a yell. At the end of his over he snaps up the ball, if it is anywhere within reach, and passes it hurriedly to the colleague who is having at them at the other end. With it all, his length was under control, and for a time the batsmen could make nothing of him. Unusually, Francis also contributed significantly with the bat to this victory, making 41 out of a last-wicket partnership of 136 with the opening batsman, George Challenor, whose unbeaten 155 was more than half the West Indians' total of 306. Francis continued to take wickets through August, although he was "indisposed" for one match. The tour finished on a high note for him: during the last match at the Scarborough Festival against H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI, with the Leveson-Gower side requiring only 28 to win on the third morning, Francis and George John bowled for an hour and 20 minutes and took six wickets between for 19 runs before a seventh wicket partnership hit the runs off. The Times reported that "the bowling of Mr Francis and Mr John may be compared to that of those famous Australian bowlers, Mr Gregory and Mr Macdonald [sic], during their last tour in this country". The review of the 1923 tour in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack's 1924 edition singled Francis out for praise as "an excellent fast bowler of quite an old-fashioned type". It went on: "Scorning the 'off theory' he bowled at the wicket, and in match after match he was justified by results...Though not abnormal in speed he always maintained a fine pace." Back in the West Indies Francis played a little first-class cricket in the Inter-Colonial Tournament, but his main senior cricket between the 1923 and 1928 tours of England came in a series of five games against the 1925–26 MCC side, which played Barbados twice and a West