Lives in Cricket No 50 - Tom Emmett

111 a business has caused the cricket humourist – the man who was a source of joy to the crowd, as well as a delight to his companions – to become as dead as a dodo.’ Emmett was listed with John Briggs and James Dean of Sussex as the most notable examples. Linking his death to that of George Ulyett in 1898, another reporter felt that with them ‘died out the old stamp of pro.; their successors are educated and conscious humourists – when they allow themselves to talk.’ In contrast, with the loss of Tom Emmett in 1904, Yorkshire cricket, and Yorkshire society more widely, had indeed lost a unique individual, a man who said a lot with words and deeds. The later years (1889-1904)