Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

73 ‘Too much emphasis on personal comfort’ 1 Williams, Cricket and England , 94, 107-9. 2 Taking the Field, ‘Spondon Cricket Club’, (http://www.takingthefield.com/ clubs/spondon-cricket-club). 3 Hugh de Selincourt, The Cricket Match (London, 1924). 4 Hugh de Selincourt, Over! Some Personal Remarks on the Game of Cricket (London, 1932); Francis Henley, The Boys’ Book of Cricket (London, 1928). 5 Hargreaves, Sporting Females , 186-7. For conceptual discussion see Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England , 39-44, 133-138. 6 Margery Spring Rice, Working Class Wives: Their Health and Conditions (London, 1939), 94; Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity , 44, 174. 7 Women’s Cricket (May 1935), 20; (August 1937), 76; (June 1946), 22; Eilidh Macrae, ‘Risky or Relaxing? Exercise during pregnancy in Britain, 1930-1960’ Women’s History Review 24:5 (2008), 739-756. 8 Lyon, ‘Cricket’, 684-5; Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 350-1. 9 Birley, Playing the Game , 164; Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England , 139- 178. 10 Reproduced in Women’s Cricket (June 1930), 21. 11 The Cricketer (May 1939), 109. 12 Nottingham Evening Post (26 April 1933), 3; WCA, Report 1933, 9-13; Women’s Cricket (August 1936), 76. 13 Quoted in Nicholson, Singled Out , 20, 28-9, 90. 14 Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity , 123, 181-2, 204. 15 Florence Tamagne , A History of Homosexuality in Europe Vol. II (New York, 2004), 50-60; Betty Archdale, ‘Preface’, in Macpherson, The Suffragette’s Daughter , 9; Nicholson, “Like a man trying to knit”, 86. 16 Justin Bengry, ‘Profit (f)or the public good? Sensationalism, homosexuality, and the post-war popular press’, Media History 20:2 (2014), 146-166. 17 Radclyffe Hall, Well of Loneliness (London, 1928), book one, chapter five. 18 Ibid , book one, chapter ten. 19 Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity , 198; Daily Herald (2 April 1931). 20 Daily News Chronicle (13 July 1934); The Observer (26 May 1935), 3. 21 Christopher Rowley, The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer (London, 2015), 217. 22 Williams, A Game for Rough Girls? , 26-36; A Beautiful Game: International Perspectives on Women’s Football (Oxford, 2007), 130-1. 23 Daily News Chronicle (13 July 1934). 24 Marjorie Pollard, Cricket for Women and Girls (London, 1934), 128; WCA, Report 1930, 3; Report 1938, 2-10; Executive Committee and AGM Minutes 1926-36 (WCA archive, June 1935-July 1936); Williams, History of Women’s Sport , 129; The Observer (22 August 1937), 21. 25 Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity , 34-5; The Observer (23 June 1935), 29; Hockey, Field and Lacrosse (June 1929), 2. 26 Daily Mail (6 June 1921), 5. 27 WCA, Report 1928, 1; Report 1930, 1. 28 Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 245; Sunday Dispatch (19 March 1931). 29 WCA, Report 1937, 9; Stratford-Upon-Avon Herald (13 May 1932); Gunnersbury Women’s Cricket Club, Report (1933). 30 Birley, Playing the Game , 206. 31 Evening News (12 May 1933); Women’s Cricket (August 1936), 66. 32 Nicholson, ‘Our Own Paper’, 690-1. 33 Women’s Cricket (July 1933), 49. 34 Ibid (July 1934), 34. 35 Ibid (May 1939), 1 36 BWM (September 1904), 409; Marjorie Pollard, ‘Women’s Cricket’, in Douglas Jardine, Cricket: How to Succeed (London, 1939), 30; The Daily Sketch (16 May 1930). 37 Women’s Cricket (May 1932), 8; Pollard, Cricket for Women and Girls , 25. 38 Williams, Cricket and England , 99-100; WCA, Report 1933, 20; Women’s Cricket (June 1935), 32; The Cricketer (12 August 1939), 498.