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58 I. Harriss, 'Cricket and Rational Economic Man', Sporting Traditions, 3, 1, pp. 51-68. Harriss argues persuasively that cricket, in particular batting, was subject at this time to a new instrumental logic of accumulation that reflected the penetration of industrial capitalist society by technico-bureaucratic imperatives. 59 This is why Bodyline targeted the rawest essential requirement of batting: the fact that, for a batsman to score runs at all, he needs to place his body in proximity to the bat. A batsman could protect himself only by jettisoning the requirement to score runs, or indeed protect his wicket. Bradman was so good at exercising his options that the idea was thus 61 On 18July 1907, Surrey CC gave a dinner for both sides at the Oval. In his autobiography, Hordem claims he worked out the googly for himself during the 1905/06 season. He also recalls meeting Schwarz when Schwarz toured Philadelphia in 1907: '[We] had many chats together, afterwards bowling googlies at one another in practice, and exchanged to leave him no options at all. 60 Harriss, 'Cricket and Economic Man', 771-776.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

1 Daily Express, 20 August 1907.

2 J. A. Hobson, The War in South Africa: Its Causes and

Effects (London: Nisbet, 1900).

3 R. Hyam and P. Henshaw, The Lion and the Springbok (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 10. 4 L. M. Thompson, The Unification ofSouth Africa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959), 15. difference between English values or character, and British values and character; they were virtually interchangeable. Yet cricket was seen as a particularly English game. Hence when there is talk of the English values of cricket, one should read this as being synonymous with British values as a whole. 5 To the Edwardian mind, there was little 7 A. Gramsci, Selectionsfrom the Prison Notebooks, edited and translated by Q. Hoare and G. N. Smith (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1971); T.J. Jackson Lears, 'The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities', American Historical Review, 90, 3 0une 1985), 567-593. 8 J. A. Mangan, 'Prologue', inJ. A. Mangan (ed.), The Cultural Bond: Sport, Empire and Society (London: 6 R. Holt, Sport and the British: A Modern History (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989), 227.

"grips" to explain how we each arrived at our

objective.'

62 Natal Mercury, 13 and 20 December 1907.

63 Cricket, 26 (1907), 443.

64 Ibid., 472.

Cass, 1992), 2.

65 Cricket, 27 (1908), 24, 33, 75.

9 J. Hargreaves, Sport, Power, Culture: A Social and Historical Analysis ofPopular Sports in Britain

66 Ibid., 90.

(Cambridge: Polity, 1986), 38.

67 Luckin, History ofSouth African Cricket, 743-745.

10 Holt, Sport and the British, 113.

68 'Notes on the 1912 Season', in Green, Wisden

Anthology, vol 2, 70.

11 J. Bradley, 'The MCC, Society and Empire: A Portrait of Cricket's Ruling Body, 1860-1914', in Mangan,

69 A. P. Freeman, 'Spin Bowling', in Green, Wisden

Cultural Bond, 31.

Anthology, vol 2, 1150-1153.

12 P. F. Warner, Long Innings (London: Harrap, 1951),

70 Van Onselen, New Babylon, 26.

42.

71 Among the first acts of the new Union parliament

13 Lord Harris and F. Ashley-Cooper, Lords and the M. C. C. (London: London and Counties Press

was the Mines and Works Act of 1911 which

regularised the colour bar.

Association, 1914), 211.

72 Lewsen, John X. Merriman, 133.

14 J. H. Field, Towards a Programme ofImperial Life (Oxford: Oio Press, 1982), 26.

Ibid., 288.

73

74 C. M. Tatz, Shadow and Substance in South Africa: A Study in Land and Franchise Policies Affecting Africans, 1910-1960 (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal

15 S. Smiles, Character (London:John Murray, 1871), 2.

16 S. Collini, Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain 1850-1930 (Oxford:

Press, 1962), 6.

Clarendon, 1991), 116.

75 C. W. de Kiewiet, A History ofSouth Africa: Social and

Economic (Oxford: Oarendon Press, 1941), 96.

17 Daily Mail, 27June 1906.