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Was It All Cricket?
Contents
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Contents
| Introduction | page 9 | |
| Preface | 11 | |
| Illustrations | 17 | |
| 1 | Youth | 19 |
| Apprenticed to Engineering—Club Cricket—Hat Trick in First Match—Canterbury XI at Sixteen—The Fun of the 'Nineties. | ||
| 2 | First Cricket Tour | 28 |
| 1897 Canterbury XI Tours North Island—Hawkes Bay Gives Us a Fright—Good Match Against Auckland—A Seasick Cricket Team—Wellington Spoils Our Unbeaten Record. | ||
| 3 | First Overseas Tour | 35 |
| New Zealand Team Visits Australia—Tasmania—Victoria—Dropped Catches—New South Wales—Trumper's Brilliant Batting. | ||
| 4 | Apprenticeship Completed | 56 |
| Gold Dredging Makes Engineering Boom—Melbourne Club Team Tours New Zealand—Some Keen Canter bury-Otago Matches—Football Plays a Part. | ||
| 5 | Off to Australia | 64 |
| The Wrench of Leaving Home—Cricket in Melbourne—A Great Club Eleven—Famous Australian Players. | ||
| 6 | Maclaren's English Team | 81 |
| Australians Cricket Mad—Test Match Atmosphere—Two Great Games in Melbourne—Record Hail-storm before Match. | ||
| 7 | An Historic Event-Australia a Commonwealth | 92 |
| A Dream Come True—Duke of York Opens First Parliament—Empire Joins in Celebrations—Problems and Personalities. | ||
| 8 | Life and Work in Melbourne | 110 |
| Anxiety in Finding Work—Howard Smiths—Co-operation Between Companies—Shipping Office Cricket Matches—Planning Ships. | ||
| 9 | A Visit to Northern Queens-Land | 120 |
| A Race up the Coast—Sugar Plantations and Sugar Mills Loading Bananas—A Chinese Opium Den. | page 14 | |
| 10 | Lord Hawke's Team | 136 |
| New Zealand Tour—Attractive Batting—English Public School Style—Warner Potential All England Captain—Albert Trott Joins Team for Matches in Australia. | ||
| 11 | My Departure for England | 154 |
| Cape Horn — Montevideo — Teneriffe—Plymouth—English Channel—The Thames. | ||
| 12 | First Days in London | 160 |
| The East End as well as the West—Historic Buildings— Famous Places—Great Men—The Derby. | ||
| 13 | Cricket in England | 169 |
| Tottenham Club—London County—Remarkable Match at Lord's—Grace and Murdoch—Crystal Palace. | ||
| 14 | W. G. Grace | 187 |
| A Personal Sketch. | ||
| 15 | To the Far East | 193 |
| Engineer in British Tramp—Suez and the Red Sea—Monsoon in Indian Ocean—Aground on Sumatra—Hong Kong— Cock Fighting at Manila. | ||
| 16 | The Return Voyage | 215 |
| Heat in Red Sea—Straits of Messina—Stromboli in Action—Bull Fighting at Marseilles—Iron Ore From Spain—South Shields. | ||
| 17 | The Tyneside | 228 |
| Claverhill Laid Up—Newcastle and Surrounding District—Shipbuilding Activity—The Coming of the Turbine—The Jovial Geordie. | ||
| 18 | The West Indies | 234 |
| The Real Bay of Biscay—Madeira—St. Lucia—Grenada—Trinidad—British Guiana—Return via Le Havre. | ||
| 19 | More Voyages to the Indies—British Honduras | 247 |
| Barbadoes—Antigua—Pitch Lakes of Trinidad—Loading Mahogany at Belize—Amsterdam—Antwerp and Brussels—Board of Trade Exam. | ||
| 20 | Canada and the St. Lawrence | 265 |
| Pageantry at Gibraltar—Queen and Emperor—Sydney, Nova Scotia—Pack Ice in the Gulf—Quebec and Montreal—Shipboard Discussion and Argument—All Blacks' Rugby Tour—Two Famous Matches. | page 15 | |
| 21 | Nova Scotia and Boston | 285 |
| Bay of Fundy—Halifax—Snow and Ice—St. John, New Brunswick—Niagara Falls—New York—the Lucania. | ||
| 22 | County Cricket in England | 299 |
| Essex XI—Great County Sides—Famous English Players—Visit to Wales. | ||
| 23 | Life on an Oil Tanker | 320 |
| A Typical British Tanker—Philadelphia—The Atlantic in all its Moods—A Hard Life in Winter—Farewell to the Sea. | ||
| 24 | Shipmates | 329 |
| Britain's Men of the Mercantile Marine—Messroom Stories. | ||
| 25 | The World's Shipping | 334 |
| Progress in Marine Engineering—Science Lends a Hand—International Rivalry—Famous Ships—The Mauretania and the Blue Riband—Mammoth Liners. | ||
| 26 | Last Days in Britain | 345 |
| Edinburgh and Glasgow—Motherwell and Wishaw—Loch Lomond—Land o' Burns—The Genial Scot—Fleeting Visit to Paris—Epping Forest—Goodbye to the Old Country. | ||
| 27 | Homeward Bound | 357 |
| Suevic Leaves Liverpool—Shipboard Cricket—Capetown—A Captain's Superstition—Albany—Adelaide—Melbourne— Home. | ||
| 28 | Early Plunket Shield Matches | 363 |
| Auckland Leads the Way—Importation of Professionals—Improved Standards of Play—Great Public Interest—Stern Contests—Canterbury Wins at Last. | ||
| 29 | More Years of Strenuous Cricket | 376 |
| Harry Trott Revisits New Zealand—Armstrong Leads First Board of Control Team—Canterbury's Turn to Stand at Bay—Otago and Wellington Challenge—Sensational Finish Against Auckland. | ||
| 30 | Second Cricket Tour of Australia | 389 |
| Queensland—New South Wales—Victoria—South Australia—Fast Wickets Worry our Batsmen—Too Late in Striking Form. | ||
| 31 | My Last Years of Cricket | 402 |
| Arthur Sims's Team of Giants—Auckland Again on Top—Cricket Administration—New Zealand Cricket Council—Lancaster Park Board of Control. | page 16 | |
| 32 | The World's Cricket | 409 |
| How the Game Spread—Great sides of the Past—Famous Matches—A Glimpse of the Cricket of Empire Countries. | ||
| 33 | The Game's Greatest Players | 443 |
| From Grace to Bradman—Spofforth Withstands Many Challenges—from Blackham to Oldfield—Vernon Royle and Syd. Gregory. | ||
| 34 | Commerce and Industry | 454 |
| A Flying Start—What a Name Means—There is Sentiment in Business—Close Calls at the Bank—Up to and over the Limit—A Loyal Team. | ||
| 35 | The Timber Industry | 469 |
| Selling Timber—Through Canterbury on a Bicycle—Markets Further Afield—We Begin Sawmilling—Australia takes Part of the Output—Many Visits Across the Tasman. | ||
| 36 | Ships and Shipping | 486 |
| Opouri, Orepuki, Opua—Wreck of the Opouri—The Story of the Opihi—Romantic Career of New Zealand Tramp Steamer—Extraordinary Troubles Develop—Crew Goes on Strike in Foreign Port. | ||
| 37 | Port Craig | 508 |
| Venture and Adventure—Great Expectations—Tragic Happenings—Anxieties—Hopes Revived—Then Disaster. | ||
| 38 | Sawmilling on the West Coast | 531 |
| Another Contest for Bush—Same Early Struggle—The Industry in Difficult Times—Combined Effort—An Uphill Fight—Devastating Fire—We Rebuild the Mills—Success Again—Coaching Accident in Otira Gorge. | ||
| 39 | Railways Board and Personal Anecdotes | 548 |
| A Great Government Department—Valuable Experience—Glimpses into the Past—Sir George Grey—Golf and Cricket Stories—Humour of the Links and the Playing Field. | ||
| 40 | The End of the Innings | 556 |
| Index of Cricketers | 559 | |
| Index of Persons and Places | 564 |