Lives in Cricket No 8 - Ernest Hayes

umpire and G.Bellamy, as scorer. They had arranged to play twenty-one matches of varying durations, some against odds, spread over almost three months from 12 January to 6 April. Ten of these matches are now treated as first-class. The players seem to have been chosen for their social qualities: some no doubt chose themselves. Only Hayes and H.V.H.Hesketh-Prichard had played more than a dozen first-class games in the 1904 English season. None of them, including Hayes, were anywhere near the top twenty in the season’s batting and bowling averages. He was obliged to seek permission from Surrey to join the tour. It was granted readily enough – by the Secretary and confirmed by the Committee – albeit with the rider that, following the precedent of Hayward and Strudwick in Australia, no winter wages would be paid. 44 Overseas Trips and Chaos at The Oval Lord Brackley’s well-clad team on their outward journey to Jamaica in December, 1904, aboard S.S. Port Kingston. Standing (l to r): J.Moss (umpire), G.J.Thompson, E.G.Hayes, T.G.O.Cole, C.H.M.Ebden, G.H.Drummond, S.Beton, G.Bellamy (scorer). Seated: G.H.T.Simpson-Hayward, A.W.F.Somerset (wk), Lord Brackley (capt), C.P.Foley, E.G.Wynyard, R.C.W.Burn. H.J.Powys-Keck and H.V.Hesketh-Prichard are absent.