Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

46 ‘The cohorts of cricket are being swollen’ 1 Hockey, Field and Lacrosse (June 1929), 2; London Evening News (18 July 1929). 2 Women’s Cricket (September 1931), 81-3; The London Magazine (July 1931); Yorkshire Evening Post (1 May 1931). 3 Avery, Best Type of Girl , 115. 4 Williams, Cricket and England , 96-8; Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 214-34; Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer (28 October 1933), 20; Burnley Express (30 March 1940), 7. 5 M. Heywood, B. Heywood, In a League of Their Own: Cricket and Leisure in Twentieth Century Todmorden (Cleckheaton, 2011), 82-3; Williams, Cricket and England , 97-101. 6 Quoted in Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 229-35. 7 Davies, ‘Bowling Maidens Over’. 8 Williams, Cricket and England , 54-60, 135; The Cricketer 16 (1939), 498. 9 Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 219, 332, 221, 416-8; Sheffield Independent (5 April 1927), 6; Daily Herald (2 April 1931); Huddersfield Daily Examiner (1 September 1930). 10 R. Cashman and A. Weaver, Wicket Women: Cricket and Women in Australia (Sydney, 1991), 87. 11 Grace Morgan, Women’s Cricket Touring in 1934/5 and 1948/9: An Autobiography (Wiltshire, 2009); Betty Archdale scrapbooks from 1934/5 tour (MCC archive); Cashman and Weaver, Wicket Women, 94. 12 Joan Hawes, Women’s Test Cricket: The Golden Triangle (Sussex, 1987), 1-26. 13 WCA, Report 1935, 7-9; Report 1937, 23-6. 14 Hawes, Women’s Test Cricket , 27-47. 15 Evidence taken from photographs from Australian War Memorial (https:// www.awm.gov.au/ ). 16 Cashman and Weaver, Wicket Women , 35-77. 17 Duncan, Skirting the Boundary , 62-3. 18 Ibid , 55-95; Women’s Cricket (September 1936), 94. 19 Williams, Cricket and England , 94: Williams estimates by 1939 there was less than 5,000 women regularly playing; Belfast News Letter (5 June 1933). 20 Gunnersbury Cricket Club, Gunnersbury: The First 50 Years (1975, WCA archive). 21 Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS), Ourselves: A Journal for CWS Employees (April 1933), 4; University of London Athletic Union, Annual Report 1922-3 (University of London archive, 1923), 26; Women’s Cricket (June 1939), 35; BWM (July 1934), 226. Battersea Polytechnic, Bedford College, East London, Goldsmith’s, King’s (Household Science), London School of Economics, London School of Medicine, Marie Grey Training College, Royal Holloway, and University College London all had sides. 22 Nicholas Dimsdale and Nicholas Horsewood, ‘The Financial Crisis of 1931 and the Impact of the Great Depression on the British Economy’ in Dimsdale and Anthony Hotson (eds), British Financial Crises since 1825 (Oxford, 2014), 133. 23 Williams, Cricket and England , 46: Williams estimates the number of men playing regularly in England ranges from 100,000 and 400,000 in the interwar years. 24 Bolton Journal (4 July 1930); WCA, Report 1938, 34-62; Report 1933, 18-20. 25 WCA, Report 1933, 18-20; Report 1936, 4-5; Report 1938, 34-62. 26 WCA, First Meeting, 6; Report 1928, 4; Report 1938, 4-9; Report 1931, 3. 27 Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 418-20; WCA, Report 1932, 29; Report 1936, 11; Report 1938, 12; Morning Post (10 August 1932). 28 WCA, Report 1930 (London, 1930), 8; Raf Nicholson, ‘“Our Own Paper”: Evaluating the Impact of Women’s Cricket Magazine, 1930-1967’, Women’s History Review 24:5 (2015), 684. 29 The Times (7 September 1935), 8; Women’s Cricket (May 1939), 2. Pollard edited Women’s Cricket until 1950. 30 The London Magazine (July 1931).