Between the Innings

A short story

The home cricket team is pondering the weather and its effect on the next day's cricket. A wet pitch will help them and that will also get their captain out of a sticky problem. But can they rely on rain?

Characters

Tommy Heath	Heath Hall's cricket team captain
Peter Baynes	team member and narrator
Dalgleish Felstone Melhuish	team members
Wentworth Flood	guest
Ella Heath	Tommy's younger sister

Publishing Information

Probably published July 1905 in Novel magazine.

Notes and Quotes

Zingari and Incogniti
- two of the 'wandering' cricket clubs.

Pool
- probably not the game we now know as pool but snooker-pool, now called just snooker.

Winchester and Eton
- two prominent public schools.

Braund
- L. C. Braund (1875-1955), an all-round cricketer, for England, London City, Somerset and Surrey.

Horizontal blue bar

The Heath Hall team with Ella Heath appears to be a reference to the King-Halls of Emsworth House (where PG helped out with sports and plays around this time) and Ella King-Hall, who later became his literary agent.

This story may be available on the Internet - free - subject to copyright laws in your country. (I cannot reproduce it here.)