Lives in Cricket No 29 - AN Hornby

34 Voyage of discovery 1 Finally, they arrived back at their departure point, Liverpool, on 8 October, having been away from their home comforts for two long months. For the players the arduous tour had been a success, but cricket didn’t take root to any great extent in either America or Canada as can been seen when 43 years later, in 1925, Captain T.B.Trappes- Lomax headed a mission that had been sent out to Canada to see if anything could be done about damping down the locals’ sympathy for a US invasion. Trappes-Lomax reported back that Canada was ‘dangerously susceptible to cultural influence from south of the border because neither cricket nor rugby had taken sufficient hold’.