SPIRIT OF CRICKET TO 1880 AND LATER. Mr. William Davies, the old Sussex scorer, from a coloured lithograph in the Colman collection of the Tate Gallery, London. It shadows forth the joys of cricket in that golden era when “characters” and “identities” and “personalities" enriched the folk-lore of the game, without the hysterical acidities now attaching to “idols” and “heroes” in the journalism of Test matches. Maybe the multifarious equipment of the official here depicted may explain the mellowness of the old game's spirit, and maybe, also, of the origin of the old adage “There’s many a slip ’twixt cup and lip." But the sketch is instinct with character.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 243, 11 September 1934, Page 4
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109SPIRIT OF CRICKET TO 1880 AND LATER. Mr. William Davies, the old Sussex scorer, from a coloured lithograph in the Colman collection of the Tate Gallery, London. It shadows forth the joys of cricket in that golden era when “characters” and “identities” and “personalities" enriched the folk-lore of the game, without the hysterical acidities now attaching to “idols” and “heroes” in the journalism of Test matches. Maybe the multifarious equipment of the official here depicted may explain the mellowness of the old game's spirit, and maybe, also, of the origin of the old adage “There’s many a slip ’twixt cup and lip." But the sketch is instinct with character. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 243, 11 September 1934, Page 4
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