LETTERS

Gentlemen behaving badly

Here are a couple of interesting asides on the carnage at the cricket match between an English team and the New South Wales side in 1879 that was reported in February’s . The umpire who gave the NSW batsman the “dodgy” decision was from the colony of Victoria, and had been hired by the English team. This exacerbated the situation – there being traditionally not much love lost between the two colonies. The other umpire who corroborated the decision was Mr (later on Sir) Edmund Barton, who