Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

154 gymnastics, 11, 25, 30-31, 88, 99-110; Gymnastics Teachers’ Suffrage Society, 99-100 Hall, Radclyffe, 62 Harefield Hospital, 12, 13 Headingley, 34, 35, 115 Hendren, Patsy, 52, 124 Heron-Maxwell, Frances, 41 , 98, 102, 103 , 105, 126 Heyhoe-Flint, Rachael, 146 Hide, Molly, 38, 39 , 126-27 hiking, 28, 30, 68 hockey, 7, 9-11, 30-31, 42, 44, 53, 59, 66-67, 68-69, 84, 87, 104, 111, 121, 125, 127, 131, 134, 138-39, 141, 143; East Molesey Ladies’ Hockey Club, 67 English Ladies’ Hockey Leagues Association, 104 see also All-England Women’s Hockey Association Hockey, Field and Lacrosse , 44, 121 holidays, 21, 60-61, 68, 80, 99; Holiday with Pay Act (1938), 29 homosexuality, 53, 62, 64, 95 horse riding, 68, 100 Hove, 20, 34, 44 Humphries, Ruby, 104, 126 Huntley and Palmer’s, 11, 80, 83-85, 87-89, 143 I Zingari, 22 India, women’s cricket in, 4-5, 147 International Cricket Council, 5, 115-16, 146 International Women’s Cricket Council, 5, 115-16, 146 Ireland, women’s cricket in, 12, 40 , 41 Jarrow March, 99 Joy, Nancy, 75-76, 102 Kenealy, Arabella, 54, 116 Kircher, Rudolph, 13 Knight, Heather, 147 Labour Party, The, 88, 90, 99, 124 lacrosse, 30, 71, 111, 131, 134, 145; Ladies’ Lacrosse Association, 28, 133 Lancashire leagues (men’s), 14, 36, 75 Lancashire Women’s Cricket Federation, 16, 34, 138 Lancet , The , 52-53 Lawton, Albert, 33, 118 league cricket (women’s), 5, 27, 34, 36, 41-44, 79, 86, 90-91, 110, 141, 148; see also English Women’s Cricket Federation League of Nations, 99 Lenglen, Suzanne, 62 Lever Brothers (Unilever), 86 Liberal Party suffrage societies, 98 Lord’s, 4, 18, 38, 47, 50, 144, 146-47; first women’s cricket match, 52, 146 see also MCC Lyon, Malcolm, 55, 59, 71 Maclagan, Myrtle, 29, 38, 39 , 128 , 138 MacRae, Beatrice, 6-8, 10, 16-17 Makepeace, Harry, 72 marriage, 29-30, 57-61, 84-85, 113, 144; marriage bars, 58, 84-85 and singleness, 10, 21, 26, 81 and ‘surplus’ women, 29, 61 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), 4, 18, 38, 44, 47, 50, 52, 66, 114, 127, 146; accepts women members, 148 masculinity, 30, 47-52, 54, 62, 64-68, 71, 86-87, 94-7, 103, 111-12 McLarty, Nell, 128 Medical Sub-Committee on the Desirability of Athletics for Women and Girls, 131 Members of Parliament (women), 38, 94; Wilkinson, Ellen, 99, 101 Merritt, Muriel, 138 Mitcham Green (Surrey), 35, 39 mixed-sex cricket, 60-61, 68-70, 102, 138 Morgan, Grace, 36, 39 , 96 Mothers’ Union, 101, 112 motor vehicles, 29, 81, 142 Muscular Christianity, 49 National Association of Schoolmasters, 144 National Council of Girls’ Clubs, 79 National Council of Women, 97, 113 National Fitness Campaign, 18, 21, 28-29, 116, 120, 130-34, 137, 140; and Physical Training and Recreation Act (1937), 133 National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, 102 National Workers’ Sports Association, 90 netball, 9, 11, 28, 42, 53, 67, 71, 82, 84, 87, 88, 110, 112, 132, 134, 141, 143, 145; All-England Netball Association, 28, 133 Netherlands, The, women’s cricket in, 41 Nevill Cricket Ground (Kent), 94, 95 New Health Society, 89 new modern woman, 61-62, 63 , 108, 125 New Zealand, women’s cricket in, 38, 40-41, 124, 142; New Zealand Women’s Cricket Council, 36, 40, 44 Nicholson, Raf., 62, 69 North Middlesex Cricket Club, 94 Northampton County Cricket Ground, 34, 35, 39, 97, 127, 129 Index