[lit-ideas] Re: Cricket and Literature Revisited
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:43:14 -0800
"The Allahakbarries" was the name of J.M.Barrie's cricket team, which he
said meant "heaven help us," but which we now would probably translate, "God
is Great," plus Barrie's name.
They sometimes played the "Punch" XI, which boasted, in addition to
P.G.Wodehouse--from whose biography this snip comes--A.A. Milne and E.V.
Lucas.
When Wodehouse played for the Authors against the Actors or the Publishers,
Arthur Conan Doyle and E.W. Hornung joined him. "He was sufficiently
renowned for his cricket and cricket fiction that, on their first meeting,
H.G. Wells remarked in a slightly desperate conversational gambit: 'My
father was a professional cricketer.'"
Just thought you might want to know.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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