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ARMY CRICKET ASSOCIATION.
President :
CTENERAL SIR CHARLES H. HARINGTON,
G.B.E., K.C.E., D.S.O., D.C.L., .�
Hon. Secretary and Treasurer :
L
IEUT.
W. M. LEGGATT, R.A., R.M.A., Woolwich, S.E.18.
Telephone: Woolwich 0876.
Committee :
One Representative each Command and District at Home.
EARLY HISTORY.
It would be well-nigh impossible to ascertain the first occasion
upon which a cricket match was played between the Royal Navy
and the Army; or, for that matter, to discover under what circum-
stances the two Services first met in friendly rivalry, though it
is not unreasonable to assume that in the famous game of bowls
at Plymouth Sir Francis Drake was skip of a team of Naval
officers matched against the officers of the local military garrison.
Certain it is, however, that wherever and whenever the two
Services have met in the outposts of Empire, matches at cricket,
as well as other games, were speedily arranged. An old Australian
print depicts a cricket match in progress just outside the military
compound, with ships of His Majesty's Navy lying at anchor in
the bay hard by. The inference is obvious. Indeed, there is a
legend that many years ago the local garrison of Trinidad, after
two successive thrashings from visiting units of His Majesty's
Fleet, specially enlisted, and trained as a fast bowler, a gigantic
negro. And only by such very dubious means were they able to
wreak their vengeance.
In Malta there has taken place annually a match, or matches,
between the Navy and the Army, with honours fairly evenly
divided. And even here in England matches have long been
established at co-incident Naval and Military centres, such as
Portsmouth and Plymouth, between the local Navy and Army.
THE NAVY v. ARMY MATCH.
But it was not until 1910 that a match was arranged to be played
at Lords between the Navy and the Army, the match to rank
as a first-class match. And in the same year a match was arranged
between the Combined Services and a combined team from Oxford
and Cambridge Universities. Some years before, however, the
Army had made its debut in first-class cricket, when a . representa-
tive Army XI played against Hampshire at Aldershot.
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274
ARMY CRICKET ASSOCIATION.
President :
CTENERAL SIR CHARLES H. HARINGTON,
G.B.E., K.C.E., D.S.O., D.C.L., .�
Hon. Secretary and Treasurer :
L
IEUT.
W. M. LEGGATT, R.A., R.M.A., Woolwich, S.E.18.
Telephone: Woolwich 0876.
Committee :
One Representative each Command and District at Home.
EARLY HISTORY.
It would be well-nigh impossible to ascertain the first occasion
upon which a cricket match was played between the Royal Navy
and the Army; or, for that matter, to discover under what circum-
stances the two Services first met in friendly rivalry, though it
is not unreasonable to assume that in the famous game of bowls
at Plymouth Sir Francis Drake was skip of a team of Naval
officers matched against the officers of the local military garrison.
Certain it is, however, that wherever and whenever the two
Services have met in the outposts of Empire, matches at cricket,
as well as other games, were speedily arranged. An old Australian
print depicts a cricket match in progress just outside the military
compound, with ships of His Majesty's Navy lying at anchor in
the bay hard by. The inference is obvious. Indeed, there is a
legend that many years ago the local garrison of Trinidad, after
two successive thrashings from visiting units of His Majesty's
Fleet, specially enlisted, and trained as a fast bowler, a gigantic
negro. And only by such very dubious means were they able to
wreak their vengeance.
In Malta there has taken place annually a match, or matches,
between the Navy and the Army, with honours fairly evenly
divided. And even here in England matches have long been
established at co-incident Naval and Military centres, such as
Portsmouth and Plymouth, between the local Navy and Army.
THE NAVY v. ARMY MATCH.
But it was not until 1910 that a match was arranged to be played
at Lords between the Navy and the Army, the match to rank
as a first-class match. And in the same year a match was arranged
between the Combined Services and a combined team from Oxford
and Cambridge Universities. Some years before, however, the
Army had made its debut in first-class cricket, when a . representa-
tive Army XI played against Hampshire at Aldershot.
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| Description | 'Games and Sports in the Army' was an annual publication produced by the British War Office between the 1930s and 1960s. This included the Second World War. It outlines the rules and regulations for games and sports played by members of the armed forces. It features names and photographs of team members, and examples of contemporary advertising. |
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| Shelfmark | GWB.52 |