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NOTES

45 The Cricketing Record ofMajor Warton's Tour, 1888-9,

25 J. Winch, England's Youngest Captain: The Life and Times ofMonty Bowden and Two South African

(Port Elizabeth: Charles Cox,1889),137-138,

146-147.

Journalists (London: Windsor,2003),231.

46 D. Frith, By His Own Hand (London: Stanley Paul, 1990),75-76. See also Frith, Silence ofthe Heart, 100-102,and Hall and Schulze,'The Cricketing

26 C. E. Finlason, Daily Independent, 12 April 1891.

27 One of the Kimberley Team,'The Second Currie Cup Tournament',in Luck.in, History ofSouth African

Brothers Tancred,Part 2',7-9.

Cricket, 203.

47 L. J. Tancred,'Australian Team in South Africa',in Luck.in, History ofSouth African Cricket, 627-632.

28 Ibid., 208.

29

Ibid.,205.

48 P. F. Warner, The MCC in South Africa (London:

Chapman & Hall,1906),67.

30 Ibid., 207.

49 St Aidan's Record (Grahamstown: St Aidan's School,

31 H. Kidson, The History ofTransvaal Cricket

December 1907).

Oohannesburg: Transvaal Cricket Board,1995),

27-28.

50 South African Cricket Association (SACA) minutes, 11 March 1912. The importance of the perceived professional as against amateur status of the players is evident in the following: Nourse was to receive £125 as a professional member of the South African team,of which £16 per month was to be paid to Mrs Nourse over five months and £20 for the sixth

32 G. Allsop,'Reminiscences of Cricket',in Luckin,

History ofSouth African Cricket, 128.

33 Noble,'Early Days of Kimberley Cricket',43.

34 A. W. Seccull,'The First South African Team in England,1894',in Luck.in, History ofSouth African

month: SACA minutes,27 February 1912.

Cricket, 639-662.

51 Transvaal Archives: 'Ex Parte Application - L. J.

35 Obituary, South Africa, 16 February 1895. See also Noble,'Early Days of Kimberley Cricket',34,36 and

Tancred',ref no 823/1913.

52 Correspondence between Robin Isherwood and Jonty Winch,April 2007,in private collection of Jonty Winch. According to Isherwood,a proof page never published by Brian Bassano indicates that Theunissen was presented with a gold watch as the best bowler who Major Warton's team considered

43.

36 When he died,the Diamond Fields Advertiser (21 January 1895) commented that 'he should rather have been an Irish Squire of high degree, indulging in that quality of good fellowship,courtliness,and hospitality which were conspicuous features of his

they had met on the tour.

character'.

53 Noble, 'Early Days of Kimberley Cricket',41.

37 Barnett Collection, A Pictorial History ofEarly

54 Hall and Schulze,'The Cricketin g Brothers Tancred,

Johannesburg, vol. 1 Gohannesburg: The Star,c1970).

Part 2',7-9.

38 Ibid. The photograph shows the defence team. The conviction of the accused followed on 28 April 1896.

55 Central Judicial Commission,Claim for

Compensation,Pretoria,3 August 1903,CJC 1412,[71],No C 726,Resident Magistrate's Office,

39 Barnett Collection, Pictorial History, vol. 1.

Pretoria,finai payment 18 August 1904.

40 W. A. Tindall,'A Chapter of Pretoria Cricket',in Luck.in, History of South African Cricket, 156-162. 41 A Select Committee of the House of Commons, London,met from August 1896 to July 1897 to

56 B. Murray and C. Merrett, Caught Behind: Race and Politics in Springbok Cricket Oohannesburg: Wits University Press,2004); J. Winch, England's Youngest

Captain; Hall and Schulze,'Last Word on the

examine issues raised by the Raid.

Tancred Brothers'.

42 A Cape Dutch house of some significance,now

57 Unlike Edward Said and others,David Cannadine has argued that the British imperialists perceived social hierarchies in terms of class,rather than race or colour,disliking the majority of English people as much as Indians or Africans: see D. Cannadine,

owned by the Ovenstone family.

43 D. Frith, Silence ofthe Heart: Cricket Suicides

(Edinburgh: Mainstream,2001); Hall and Schulze,

'The Cricketing Brothers Tancred,Part 2'.

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire (New

York: Oxford University Press,2001).

44 Graham's Town Journal, 27 February 1889.