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Ibid., 24 August 1910. Cricket, 27 October 1910. SACA minutes, 10 August 1910. Cape Times, 15 January 1972.

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61 T. Collins, Rugby's Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins ofRugby League Football (London: Frank Cass, 2003), 121-122. 62 SACA minutes, 12 April 1903. 63 Gutsche, Old Gold, 118-119. Sinclair gave support to the 1905 campaign; Indian cricket followers hoped to watch matches played by the MCC tourists in 1905/06; 64 I. A. R. Peebles, 'Dawn of the Modem Age, 1900-1914' in E.W. Swanton (ed.), Barclays World of Cricket: The Gamefrom A to Z (London: Collins, 1980), 20. 65 See Bruce Murray's chapter in this volume (Chapter 14). 66 Cricket, November 1908, 115.When Nourse scored 93 not out to lead South Africa to their first Test victory in 1905/06, he recalled climbing the stairs of theWanderers pavilion:'...as I pushed my way up, one of the first men I met was a well-known cricketer, George Kempis who held out his hand to congratulate me with a "Well-played, Dave!" It was a very nice hand for me to cross for there was a golden coin in the palm. As soon as others who were coming downstairs saw what he had done, they also did the same thing. They put their hands in their pockets and shook hands in the same way...' The collection amounted to fB7 (Gutsche, Old Gold, 133). 67 Dave Nourse had arrived in South Africa as a drummer-boy with theWest Riding regiment in 1895. He subsequently earned a living as a railway guard, billiard marker and saloon keeper before becoming a cricket coach at the University of Cape Town: B. Green, The Wisden Book ofCricketers' Lives: Obituariesfrom Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (London: Queen Anne Press, 1986), 661. Vogler was qualifying for Middlesex when Bailey influenced him to return to South Africa, initially to work as a steward on one of his estates. After several positions, including a failed sports business, it was reported that the cricketer could venture out on his own but 'the stipulation is that Vogler must not leave South Africa without Mr Bailey's knowledge and consent': Cricket, 25 November 1909, 454. 68 Cricket, 30 July 1908, 305-306. The magazine added: 'If Llewellyn had belonged to a stronger county he would probably have made an even greater name for himself.' 69 Ibid., 29 April 1911. 70 SACA minutes, 10 August 1910. It should read A.W. 'Dave' Nourse and A. E. E. Vogler. 71 Ibid., 19 August 1910.

Ibid., 11 October 1910. Ibid., 19 October 1910. Ibid., 5 October 1910. Ibid., 12 October 1910. This amount included the England tour during 1902. Green, Wisden Book ofCricketers' Lives, 556; Cricketer, March 1976, 29. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1911 notes that the 'counties were pleading poverty and that familiar cry of declining public interest filled the air'.

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G. Haigh and D. Frith, Inside Story: Unlocking Australian Cricket's Archives (Melbourne: News •Custom Publishing, 2008), 39; SACA minutes, 5 February 1912. Reported in the Natal Mercury, 20 January 1911. B. Frindall (ed.), The Wisden Book ofTest Cricket Volume I, 1877-1977 (London: Queen Anne, 1990), 125. Star, 2 January and 13 January 1911. SACA minutes, 23 September 1910. Cricket, 29 April 1911, 89. Natal Mercury, 14 April 1911. Faulkner scored 732

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Llewellyn also had some good performances in the matches deemed'not first-class', notably taking 6 for 37 and scoring an unbeaten 148 against the Combined Universities. Cricket, 30 March 1911, 40 and 53.

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