Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

136 1 Evening News (28 April 1931); Daily Herald (2 April 1931). 2 Sunday Mercury (12 July 1931); Girl’s Own Paper 55 (1934), 474-5. 3 Hargreaves, Sporting Females , 36-7; McCrone, Playing the Game , 1-18, 137-49. 4 Nicholson, ‘Our Own Paper’, 693-4; Pollard, Fifty Years of Women’s Hockey , 33-41; Williams, History of Women’s Sport , 156. 5 Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (16 April 1927); Nicholson, ‘Making Cricket Possible’. 6 Women’s Cricket (May 1935), 23; WCA, Report 1933, 10; Report 1934, 11; Report 1935, 12. 7 The Cricketer 20:1 (1939), 25; Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack (1938), 767-774; (1939), 775; Girl’s Own Paper 60 (1939), 344-6, 457-60, 517, 556-7. 8 Herbert Herman, How’s That? A Little Book on Cricket for Boys and Beginners (London, 1937); Country Life (23 April-23 July 1938); Davies, ‘Bowling Maidens Over’, 281. 9 The Times (7 September 1935), 8; (12 June 1937), 19; (4 August 1937), 3; WCA, Report 1938, 13-4, 60; Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 189. Neither film has been recovered. 10 The Times (29 July 1929), 5; (17 July 1937), 4; (16 April 1938), 8; (21 April 1938), 8; Daily Express (24 June 1939); The Cricketer (17 July 1937); Women’s Cricket (June 1930), 6. 11 Pollard, Fifty Years of Women’s Hockey , 43; The Cricketer 18:13 (1937), 394- 5; The Times (12 July 1937), 6; (13 July 1937), 6; (16 April 1938), 8; Women’s Cricket (August 1934), 57. 12 Daily Mail (6 October 1937); 18; Marjorie Pollard, A Diary of the Matches Played by the Australian Women’s Cricket Team in England (London, 1937), 10, 18, 29. 13 WCA, Report 1937, 13; Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 186. 14 WCA, Report 1937, 13; Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 186; The Queen (12 May 1938); Pollard, Diary of the Matches , 11-15; Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press (29 July 1939), 8. 15 The Observer (19 July 1931). 16 The Times (16 July 1937), 17. 17 Martin Pugh, State and Society (London, fifth edition, 2017), 162, 298. 18 Selina Todd, The People , 85-93. 19 Ida Webb, The Challenge of Change in Physical Education (London, 1999), 53; Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Managing the Body , 279. 20 WCA, Executive Committee and AGM Minutes (19 September 1935-30 September 1936); Report 1950, 19; Callum Brown, ‘Sport and the Scottish Office in the Twentieth-Century’, in J. Mangan, Sport in Europe: Politics, Class, Gender (London, 1999), 183-4. 21 Board of Education, Circular 1445 (FD 1/2273, National Archives, 13 January 1936). 22 Medical Sub-Committee on the Desirability of Athletics for Women and Girls (ED113/49, National Archives, 1937-9). 23 Ibid. 24 Sport in Industry (June 1938); Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity , 56, 69, 86; Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Managing the Body , 246-7. 25 Nott, Going to the Palais , 13-45. 26 Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Managing the Body , 309-25. 27 The Women’s Team Games Board (WTGB), (ED113/82, National Archives, 1937-9); Women’s Cricket (August 1939), 76. 28 Sport in Industry (June 1938). 29 WCA, Report 1938, 10-11. 30 WTGB. 31 The Times (19 July 1937), 9. 32 Hockey, Field and Lacrosse (July 1929), 2-3. 33 Williams, Cricket and England , 1-13. ‘The idea a girl cannot play cricket has proved to be rubbish’