Cricket team
Cricket team
MEDIAImage
PHOTOGRAPHERFujicolour
COLLECTIONHastings-Western Port Historical Society
REG NO.P384
HISTORYThis is the earliest known photograph of a Hastings Cricket Team. Some of the men are not identified. The names printed at the bottom of the photo are as follows: “The earliest known photograph of a Hastings cricket team. Six of the team members have not been identified. The team is (back row, from left) :______, Salvatore Orsino, Ernest Robinson, ______, ______, N. Kearns, Eddie Ward, (centre row), ______, Alby Perrott, Bill Sheehey, Fred Lloyd, (front) ______, Jim Mentiplay, Jack Ward, ______.
This image shows a group of fifteen cricketers, in three rows, posing for a photo. There are seven men standing in the back row, four men crouching in the middle row and four men sitting on the grass in the front row. All the men are wearing hats or caps. Most have white, long sleeved shirts and ties. A man on the left-hand side in the back row is holding a cricket bat over his shoulder. The man, second from the right in the back row, is wearing cricket gloves and leg pads. Two men in the front row are holding cricket bats. A border collie dog is sitting at the front of the men. There are large shrubs behind the men. The names of the men are printed under the photo.
SUBJECTSCricket, Cricket clubs, Cricketers, Group (people), Men, Sports and recreations
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