Lives in Cricket No 26 - HV Hesketh-Prichard

92 it’s cheaper’. Wynyard of course bowled underarm lobs. Any other record of cricket Hex played in Ireland is hard to find. There was cricket about: Englishmen stationed in Dublin might play for Phoenix. One of the more prominent teams was Na Shuler, sometimes referred to as the Irish I Zingari, but there is no record of him playing for or against them. On 25 July Hex took a team to Worplesdon to play Frederick Selous’ team. In August, Kate tells us, Lily and Hesketh went to cricket weeks at Longford, Easton Park, Shugborough and an IZ week in Ireland to which he had to go alone. Francis Lacey, the secretary of MCC, wrote asking Hesketh to get a team up to play the Philadelphian touring side at Lord’s on August 13, 14 and 15. In ‘a keenly fought and interesting match’, the Philadelphians scored 186, in which Hex bowled one over, a maiden – the side had plenty of bowling – and MCC 154. Philadelphia’s second innings was 214 (Hex one for 31) and MCC were out for 221, losing by 25 runs. In the second innings beginning late in the evening Hex went in first as nightwatchman and in fact survived to make 17. There was a dinner given for the visitors after, at which W.H.Long MP, 47 reported by The Times, ‘laid stress on the incalculable good that arose from visits from the cricketers of other countries, especially when those cricketers came from the only other great nation speaking our own language and playing cricket.’ This was however the last time a side from the United States undertook a first-class tour to the British Isles. Pearson’s in August carried a piece by Hex on moose calling and moose hunting in Canada which is where he is described the use of a birch-bark trumpet – a technique he later demonstrated to some public alarm with a rolled-up newspaper in a London street. 48 In September the front page of the Daily Mail announced, next to the masthead, that Don Q’s Love Story was beginning a serialisation in the London Magazine. In 1900 Harmsworth’s Monthly Pictorial Magazine had been renamed the London Magazine by Cecil Harmsworth, proprietor of the Mail at the time – so the publicity is unsurprising. The announcement merely said by Hesketh Prichard. But a week later it was plugging away: THOSE WHO REMEMBER with what enthusiasm the exploits of Don Q were received some few years since will welcome the news that Mr HESKETH PRICHARD has again taken up his pen to record the doings of the famous Brigand. In DON Q’S LOVE STORY, a very big instalment of which appears in the LONDON MAGAZINE (NOW ON SALE, 4¼d), he introduces an entirely new series of brilliant adventures in which Don Q plays a prominent part; he also relates, for the first time, what was undoubtedly the most eventful incident of Don Q’s eventful life. The story deals with a portion of Don Q’s career not hitherto touched upon by the author, and will be found to exceed in interest everything that has hitherto been published concerning ‘The Outlaw of the Sierra’. 47 He had been MCC president in 1906. 48 Perhaps this was the incident which the compilers of Who’s Who of Cricketers had in mind, rather later in the twentieth century, when they reported him as an ‘authority on moose calling’. Married Man