Cricket's Historians

182 Rowland Bowen causes Ripples Canadian Secretary, reports regularly onmatters fromhis country, women’s cricket gets a fair airing, Frank Crompton’s ‘History of Bedfordshire’ is also serialised. Martineau and A.A.Thomson produce their light pieces. David Kelly writes two worthwhile essays on overseas cricket and Marder writes on the United States. The book reviews are very limited; Golesworthy’s effort and even the new Altham-Swanton history are not mentioned. One wonders at the long review given to Rosenwater’s own A Portfolio of Cricket Prints , especially when his notes are singled out as the best part of the book. There is nothing wrong with the work, but… R.G.Ingelse wrote one article for the magazine. Ray G.Ingelse was the mainstay of the Dutch cricket club, ‘Still Going Strong’. The club, similar to England’s Forty Club, was formed in 1929 for older cricketers. Ingelse was a major publicist for Dutch cricket who was in addition a most knowledgeable historian on the subject. From 1936 he had contributed Dutch notes to The Cricketer . He died in May 1976 aged 78. Passing reference has already been made to John Marder, the United States equivalent of Ingelse. Marder’s initial notes in The Cricketer concerning United States cricket appeared in 1932. Born in Nottingham in 1908 he had emigrated in 1927 to Canada and then moved on to the United States, law being his profession. He had served on the Western Front in the Second World War and was injured in Belgium. Based after the war in California he determined to revive cricket in that state and having been instrumental in the reformation of the United States Cricket Association, revived, in 1963, the United States v Canada annual match. In 1967 he published The International Series : The Story of the United States v Canada at Cricket . The book brought together for the first time the detailed scores of all the matches in this long series and just as vitally gave notes on most, if not all the players who had taken part. Marder died in London in August 1976.