Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

56 It’s not Cricket? Public Hostility and Apathy 1 Daily Mail (25 June 1931), 10; (26 June 1931), 9; (4 July 1931), 9-10; (6 July 1931), 6; (7 July 1931), 10. 2 Daily Mail (13 July 1931), 9. 3 The Cricketer Annual (1923), 24; Williams, Cricket and England , 93-4. 4 Women’s Cricket (May 1930), 8. 5 Halifax Courier (10 September 1932). 6 Richard Holt, ‘Heroes of the North: sport and the shaping of regional identity’, in Jeff Hill and Jack Williams (eds), Sport and Identity in the North of England (Keele, 1996), 139; Hargreaves, Sporting Females , 123-4; The Times (16 July 1937), 17. 7 Williams, Cricket and England , XVI-3, 45; Bateman, Cricket, Literature and Culture , 1-3. 8 London Opinion (July 1932); Yorkshire Evening Post (12 May 1931). 9 Bristol Evening World (12 May 1931); (18 May 1931). 10 Bateman, Cricket, Literature and Culture , 31-41; Williams, Cricket and England , XIV-7. 11 Niall Edworthy, Lord’s: The Home of Cricket (London, 1999), 250, Leicester Mercury (28 April 1930) 12 Women’s Cricket (May 1935), 10 13 Ibid (May 1930), 8; Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer (14 June 1954), 7; Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail (24 August 1931), 6. 14 Hockey, Field and Lacrosse (July 1929), 2. 15 The Cricketer (29 April 1939), 25; (1 September 1923), 14; Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 75 (London, 1938), 767-774. 16 Hockey, Field and Lacrosse (June 1929), 3; The Times (25 May 1937), 55. 17 Reproduced in Women’s Cricket (September 1932), 6. 18 Daily Mail (25 August 1936), 7. 19 Quoted in Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity , 44-6; Girl’s Own Paper (18 October 1902), 61. 20 Beddoe, Back to Home , 12-18; Yorkshire Evening Post (19 June 1931). 21 Quoted in McCrone, Playing the Game , 147-8. 22 Quoted in Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity , 44-6; Medical Sub-Committee on the Desirability of Athletics for Women and Girls (ED113/49, The National Archives, 1937-9); Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Managing the Body , 307-8. 23 Mary Scharlieb, ‘‘Recreational Activities of Girls during Adolescence’, Child Study: The Journal of the Child-Study Society V (1911), 1-15. 24 Arabella Kenealy, Feminism and Sex-extinction (London, 1920), 69, 87, 236-7; Girl’s Own Paper (May 1930), 323-4 25 Brisbane Sunday Mail (6 January 1935), 1. 26 Malcolm Lyon, ‘Cricket’ in The Aldin Book of Outdoor Games (London, 1933), 682-686.