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NOTES

38 R. E. Foster, 'South African Bowling', in Green,

21 C. van Onselen, Studies in the Sodal and Economic History ofthe Witwatersrand, 1886-1914, volume 1,

Wisden Anthology, 1900-1940, 44-47.

New Babylon (London: Longman, 1982), 26.

39 Cricket, 25 (1906), 73 and 90, and also Cricket, 26

(1907), 191.

22 P. Lewsen, John X. Merriman: Paradoxical South African Statesman (New Haven and London: Yale

40 Schwarz was an all- round sportsman of the type that C. B. Fry was to epitomise a few years later. He was a sensation at St Paul's School and Oxford at the time when the notion of sporting heroism was just beginning to challenge academic achievement, at least in the popular mind, as a measure of individual worth. Before going to South Africa, he played rugby union at half back for England against Scotland, Wales and Ireland between 1899 and 1901: B.Green (ed.), The Wisden Book of Cricketers Lives

University Press, 1982), 258.

23 Marks and Trapido, 'Milner and the South African

State', 70-71.

24 Rand Daily Mail, 5 February 1904.

25 Cricket, 25 (1906), 449.

26 In the Sydney Test in December 1903, Hill and Trumper had already run four from a Trumper drive when an overthrow resulted. Relf gathered, and threw to Lilley behind the stumps. Crockett gave Hill out to his astonishment and spectators threw bottles on to the cycle track that encircled the pitch. The police were forced to escort Crockett from the pitch and Plum Warner threatened to take off his team as cries of 'Crock, Crock' echoed around the ground: J. Pollard, Australian Cricket (Sydney:

(London: Queen Anne Press, 1986), 792.

41 Luckin, History ofSouthAfrican Cricket, 276-288.

42 P. Warner, Long Innings: The Autobiography ofSir Pelham Warner (London: Harrap & Co Ltd, 1951), 76.

43 Ibid., 716.

44 It should be noted that, aside from the question of wickets, wet and turf, the South African batsmen were facing their first experience of swing bowling, as foreign to them as the googly was to the English

Hodder and Stoughton, 1982), 490.

27 M. W. Luckin (ed.), The History ofSouth African Cricket: Including the Full Scores ofAll Important Matches since 1876 0ohannesburg: Hortor, 1915),

batsmen.

696.

45 Cricket, 26 (1907), 233.

28 Cricket, 22 (1903), 108.

46 Ibid., 216.

29 Luckin, History ofSouth African Cricket, 698.

47 Bosanquet, 'Googly', 1147.

30 Ibid., 689.

48 Cricket, 26 (1907), 428.

31 Ibid.,713.

49 Ibid.

32 Rand Daily Mail, 6 August 1904.

50 Cricket, 26 (1907), 402.

33 Cricket, 25 (1905), 427.

51 Ibid., 216.

34 Luckin, History ofSouth African Cricket, 257-271.

52 Foster, 'South African Bowling', 46-47.

35 On a personal level, Warner had enough trouble with Schwarz, who dismissed him five times in the

53 Luckin, History ofSouth African Cricket, 691.

series.

54 J. B. Hobbs, My Cricket Memories (London: William Heinemann, 1926), 112. Not content with learning to spot the googly, Hobbs learned to bowl it too, and remembers bowling it in knockabout cricket as early as 1906. In the final Test of 1909/10 at Cape Town, the biter was bit, as Hobbs had Reggie Schwarz caught by Morice Bird, his one and only Test wicket.

36 R. Parry, 'Old Dave's Finest Hour: South Africa's

First Win', Cricket Lore, 4, 2, pp. 5-10.

37 In this respect too Schwarz would have

been attractive to Bailey. Aside from holding brokers' licences for the Stock Exchanges in both Johannesburg and the City of London, he was related through the marriage of his sister to the Crisp family. Frank Crisp (later Sir),a partner in the legal firm of Ashurst, Morris, Crisp, not only had extensive connections with South African mining interests, but was also Legal Adviser to the Liberal Party, with which Bailey himself later developed

55 Cricketer, 2 (1922), 14 and Cricketer, 5 (1924-1925),

171.

56 Cricket, 22 (1903), 429.

57 A. G. Moyes, Australian Bowlersfrom Spofforth to Lindwall (London and Sydney: Harrap & Co Ltd,

1953), 75.

extensive contacts.