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64 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack website. http:// content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/ story/228427.html 65 R. Hyam, Britain's Imperial Century, 1815-1914: A Study ofEmpire and Expansion (Basingstoke: Pal gr ave Macmillan, 1993), 50. 66 Warner, Imperial Cricket. 67 Daily Mail, 19 February 1907. 68 The Times, 15 April 1907. 69 Hyam and Henshaw, The Lion and the Springbok, 57-76. 70 J. Eddy and D. Schroeder (eds), The Rise ofColonial Nationalism (London: Allen & Unwin, 1988), 211. 71 Daily Mail, 18 March 1906. 72 Hobson, The War in South Africa. 73 Manchester Guardian, 28 September 1899. 74 John Burns MP, quoted in G. Wheatcroft, The Randlords: The Men who Made South Africa (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1993), 206. 75 John Dillon MP, quoted in Ibid. 76 Hyam and Henshaw, The Lion and the Springbok, 11. 77 P. Richardson,'The Recruiting of Chinese Indentured Labour for the South African Gold Mines, 1903-1908', The Journal ofAfrican History, 18, 1 (1977), 85-108; Hyarn, Britain's Imperial Century, 252 and 266. 78 Wheatcroft, The Randlords, 224. 79 The Times, 2 May 1907. 80 K. Prior, 'Harris, George Robert Canning, fourth Baron Harris (1851-1932)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). 81 P. Warner, My Cricketing Life (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1926), 142. 82 Bradley, 'The MCC, Society and Empire', 40-41. 83 Quoted in Holt, Sport and the British, 227. 84 Warner, M. C. C. in South Africa. 85 J. D. Coldham, Lord Harris (London: Allen and Unwin, 1983), 101. 86 Holt, Sport and the British, 227. 87 Coldham, Lord Harris, 98. 88 Ibid., 99. 'Comer House' was the name given to Consolidated Goldfields, thus it must have been an intra-company match.

89 "'Rhodes the Second", Men of the Day No. 1134 (1908)', in R. March (ed.), The Cricketers of'Vanity Fair' (Exeter: Webb & Bower, 1982), 94. 90 Wisden, quoted in Caple, The Springboks at Cricket, 32. 91 Cricket, 25 April 1907. 92 The men were P. Sherwell (Mining Manager), J. H. Sinclair (Stockbroker), R. 0. Schwarz (Secretary to Mr Bailey), G. A. Faulkner (C. S. A. R. Engineer), M. Hathorn (Estate Manager), G. C. White (Mining Secretary) and H. E. Smith (Mining Engineer): Daily Mail, 2 May 1907 and 27 June 1907. 93 Warner, M. C. C. in South Africa, 219. 94 Merrett and Nauright, 'South Africa', 62. 95 Thompson, Unification ofSouth Africa, 63; W. Nimocks, Milner's Young Men: The Kindergarten in Edwardian Imperial Affairs (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968). 96 S. Marks, 'Southern Africa' in Brown and Louis, Oxford History ofthe British Empire: vol. IV, 545. 97 See Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, for the concept of hegemony. 98 The Times, 24 January 1908. Lord Selborne later became president and treasurer of MCC. 99 R. Guha, A Corner ofa Foreign Field: The Indian History ofa British Sport (London: Picador, 2002), passim.

100 Wheatcroft, The Randlords, 256. 101 MCC minutes, 29 June 1908. 102 The Times, 14 August 1912. 103 Ibid. 104 Merrett and Nauright, 'South Africa', 64. 105 Holt, Sport and the British, 228. 106 Guha, Corner ofa Foreign Field, xiv.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

1 Jim Bailey, Abe Bailey's son by his second marriage, wrote a biography of his father, 'Abe Bailey: Super Patriot' (1999), but it was never published. The bio gr aphy, together with the material collected for it, has proved an invaluable source, and I am gr ateful to Barbara Bailey for giving me access to it. Another important unpublished work on Bailey is H. Sayer, 'Sir Abe Bailey: His Life and Achievements' (BA History Honours research report, University of