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NOTES

18 Marylebone Times, 26 April 1907.

38 Sir Abe Bailey, 'Cricket in South Africa', in Warner,

Imperial Cricket, 312.

19 MCC minutes. 24 June 1907.

39 See also F. J. G. van der Merwe, 'Sport and Games in Boer Prisoner-of-War Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902', International Journal ofthe History of

SACA minutes, 15 March 1907. I am indebted to Professor Bruce Murray for this reference. The total

20

collected to pay the expenses was £1 120.

Sport, 9, 3 (1992), 439-454.

21 As a matter of fact, in contrast to the tour of 1904 which lost money, the 1907 tour made a profit of £1400: Wisden Cricketer'sAlmanack, Part II (1908), 4. 22 J.-P. Bodis, Le rugby sud-africain: Histoire d'un sport politique (Paris: Editions Karthala, 1995), 56-59. 23 D. R. Black and J. Nauright, Rugby and the South African Nation (Manchester: Manchester University

40 Sewell, 'The "Oolta-Poolta" Team', 419.

41 DailyMail, 2 May 1907.

42 G. M. Trevelyan, quoted in D. Birley, A Social History

ofEnglish Cricket (London: Aurum, 2000), 29.

43 Daily Express, 3 May 1907.

44 J. Darwin, 'The Dominion Idea in Imperial Politics', in J. M. Brown and W. M. Roger Louis, Oxford History ofthe British Empire: Vol. IV: The Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 72.

Press, 1998), 33.

24 Bodis, Le rugby sud-africain, 56.

25 Morning Post, quoted in Black and Nauright, and the SouthAfrican Nation, 34. 26 Quoted in E. J. L. Planauer (ed.), The Springbokken in Great Britain (Johannesburg: GEO Wunderlich, 1907), Rugby

45 Sewell, 'The "Oolta-Poolta" Team', 418.

46 Merrett and Nauright, 'South Africa', 75.

47 Daily Mail, 3 July 1907.

114.

48 Ibid., 4 July 1907.

27 Cricket:A Weekly Record ofthe Game, 9 May 1907.

49

Rand DailyMail, 22 August 1907.

28 Marylebone Times, 19 July 1907.

50 Wisden (1907), 489.

29 K. Jackson, George Newnes and the New Journalism in Britain, 1880-1910: Culture and Profit (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), 206. 30 E. H. D. Sewell, 'The "Oolta-Poolta" Team', in C. B. Fry'sMagazine, vol. 7 (London, 1907), 416. One wonders what Fry's close friend, K. S. Ranjitsinhji, would have made of that assertion.

51 Rand DailyMail, 3 March 1907.

52 B. Bassano, SouthAfrica in International Cricket (East London: Chameleon, 1979), 37. Nourse did not serve in the South African War, having become a

policeman shortly after arriving in Natal.

53 S. Canynge Caple, The Springboks at Cricket: England versus SouthAfrica 1881-1970 (Worcester: Littleb ury , 1970), 47.

31 Ibid.

32 Daily Express, 3 May 1907.

54 Daily Express, 4 May 1907.

33 Holborn Guardian, 4 May 1907.

55 Caple, The Springboks at Cricket, 48.

34 Caterer & Hotel-Keepers' Gazette, 15 June 1907. The original building was demolished in 1966 to be replaced by an alternative monstrosity. An idea of the opulent decorative style of Doll's original hotel can be gained from the Russell Hotel, a short

56 PallMall Gazette, 2 April 1907.

Daily Express, 10 April 1907.

57

58 P. Warner, The M. C. C. in SouthAfrica (London:

Chapman and Hall, 1906), 218.

distance away.

59 Rand DailyMail, 2 March 1907.

35 C. Merrett and J. Nauright, 'Chapter 3: South Africa', in B. Stoddart and K. A. P. Sandiford, The Imperial Game: Cricket, Culture and Society (Manchester:

60 Warner, TheM. C. C. in SouthAfrica,219.

61 The Times, 2 May 1907.

Manchester University Press, 1998), 58.

62 See G. Haigh, The Big Ship: WarwickArmstrong and theMaking ofModern Cricket (London: Aurum, 2002) for a discussion of the rise of Australian nationalism and its relationship with cricket during this period.

36 John Buchan, quoted in Holt, Sport and the British,

227.

37 P. F. Warner (ed.), Imperial Cricket (London: London

& Counties Press Association, 1912), 323.

63 Rand DailyMail, 8 March 1907.