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NOTES

100 Gutsche, Old Gold, 151.

CHAPTER TWELVE

101 Cricket, 30 March 1911, 40.

1 See, among others, C. Williams, Bradman (London:

102 The SACA secretary was instructed to offer Llewellyn '£20 per match for each of the Test

Little, Brown and Co, 1996).

matches in which he played': SACA minutes, 1

2 C. B. Fry, Life Worth Living (London: Eyre and

Spottiswoode, 1939), 245.

January 1912.

3 N. Cardus, Days in the Sun (London: Grant Richards, 1924), 20. 4 B. J. Bosanquet, 'The Googly: The Scapegoat of Cricket', Wisden 1925, reprinted in B. Green (ed.), The Wisden Anthology, vol. 2, 1900-1940 (London: John

103 Cape Argus, 5 June 1912.

104 Ibid., 12 June 1912.

105 A Yorkshire Post report reproduced in Accrington

Observer and Times, 20 July 1912.

Wisden, 1980), 1147-1149.

106 Cape Argus, 27 July 1912.

5 Ibid.

107 Accrington Observer and Times, various issues 16-27 July 1912 (the picture taken by C. Haworth appeared

6 Ibid.

7 P. Wynne-Thomas, The Complete History ofCricket

on 16 July).

Tours (London: Guild Publishing, 1989), 51.

108 Accrington emerged as league champions in 1914

8 Bosanquet, 'The Googly', 1149.

and 1915.

9 Lord Harris, quoted in Cricket, 20 (1901), 473. For Harris's support for the so-called 'respectable professional', see R. Sissons, The Players (London:

109 Allen, writing in Cricketer, February 1976, 21, is incorrect in stating Llewellyn was 'the only man to take 100 wickets in the Bolton League'. Robin Isherwood states 'there were numerous bowlers in the Bolton League who took over 100 wickets in a season in the 1930s and in the same season when

Kingswood Press,1988), 86-91.

10 Cricket, 21 (1902), 106.

11 Negotiations were conducted by Bailey's private secretary, Frank Mitchell, who had played for England and was to captain South Africa in 1904: Cricket, 21 (1902), 346. For details of the terms, see the Diamond Fields Advertiser, 5 September 1902.

Llewellyn did it'.

110 See, for example, J. Nauright, Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa (London: Leicester, 1997), 36.

12 Rand Daily Mail, 30 November 1904 and 7 December

111 See South African Cricket Annual (1976), 5-7 as to how

1904.

Chettle lived his life.

13 Ibid., 11 January 1904.

112 Murray and Merrett, Caught Behind, 22-23.

14 In a previous incarnation as Governor of Bombay (1890-1895), Lord Harris's Military Secretary was Col. Frank Rhodes, brother of Cecil.

113 R. Holt, Sport and the British: A Modern History

(Oxford: Clarendon, 1992), 103.

114 B. Richards, The Barry Richards Story (London: Faber

15 C. B. Fry, Life Worth Living (London: Eyre &

and Faber, 1978), 40 and 79.

Spottiswoode, 1943), 238.

115 Swanton, Barclay's World ofCricket, 576; Wynne- Thomas quoted Rosenwater in his article, 'The Man

16 Rand Daily Mail, 18 March 1904.

17 Ibid., 5 February 1904.

who Remade History', 18.

18 R. Ally, Gold and Empire Oohannesburg:

116 Cricket, 15 March 1913, 85-86; Gutsche, Old Gold, 121. Cricket reported: '... he was a favourite with the crowd, and - which is not always the case with the crowd's idols - he was held in the highest esteem by those who really knew him'. He represented South Africa at rugby against the British tourists in 1903.

Witwatersrand University Press, 1994), 22-28.

19 E. J. Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire (London:

Penguin Books, 1990), 178.

20 S. Marks and S. Trapido, 'Lord Milner and the South African State', in P. Bonner (ed.), Working Papers in Southern African Studies, volume 2, (Johannesburg:

Ravan Press, 1981), 52-96.

117 Gutsche, Old Gold, 121.