Philip Snow interviewed by David Rayvern Allen Part 3

Reference

MCC/AAL/3/149

Date:

2007-01-19

Level of description

item

Extent

1 CD: 58 minutes 29 seconds

Part of

David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)

Scope and Content

1 CD, Philip Snow, cricketer, colonial administrator and bursar of Rugby School, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 11 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-1:28] Snow talks about MCC playing Rugby Town and persuading Bob Wyatt to play, [1:29-1:39] Snow rustles through papers, [1:40-3:36] Snow talks about Bob Wyatt's personality and what he said about bodyline, [3:37-3:55] Snow rustles papers, [3:56-5:23] Snow talks about discovering being able to make the ball float whilst bowling in his 40's.

Track 2: [0:00-0:29] Snow talks about preferring bowling to batting and enjoying captaincy, [0:30-1:17] Snow talks about retiring in his 50's and ending his last innings with 1 not out, [1:18-1:29] Snow goes through his papers, [1:30-3:08] Snow talks about Major Roland Bowen and his rivalry with Billy Griffith.

Track 3: [0:00-5:23] Snow and Rayven Allen talks about Major Roland Bowen.

Track 4: [0:00-2:23] Snow talks about the donation of a painting off the principal cricket ground in Fiji to the MCC Museum, [2:24-5:30] Snow talks about assisting Billy Griffith in expanding the International Cricket Conference (ICC), being the representative for Fiji and attending meetings.

Track 5: [0:00-0:45] Snow talks about getting George Geary to coach at Rugby School, [0:46-3:13 Snow talks about Peter May, [3:14-3:36] Snow finds his place with his script, [3:37-3:55] Snow talks about being made an honorary life member of MCC, [3:56-5:54] Snow talks about being the first Chairman of the associate members of the ICC and organising an competition.

Track 6: [0:00-0:53] Snow talks about approaching Sir Paul Getty to finance the Fiji team to play 1985 associate members competition, [0:54-1:53] Snow talks about his disappointment with the form of the Fiji team in the 1979 competition, [1:54-2:08] Snow goes over his notes, [2:09-5:36] Snow talks about trying to organise a Fijian tour of England in 1953, [5:37-6:10] Snow talks about the present state of Fiji and whether a Fijian cricket team could go on tour, [6:11-6:30] Snow goes through his papers.

Track 7: [0:00-0:47] Snow talks about his retirement from ICC and his favourite chairmen, [0:48-2:04] Snow talks about wanting a 3 day world cup competition and his dislike for present competition, [2:05-3:00] Snow deplores changes in the game including increased commercialisation and juvenile nature of the game, [3:01-3:30] Snow talks about consoling himself with thinking about cricket played between 1919-1939, [3:31-5:02] Snow talks about some his views on cricketers over his life of watching the game.

Track 8: [0:00-3:52] Snow talks about the best cricketers he's seen in a list format.

Track 9: [0:00-1:43] Snow talks about some of the best cricketers he's seen over his life, [1:44-1:48] Phone rings and interview cuts out, [1:49-2:54] Snow praises Brian Sellars's captaincy, [2:55-3:19 Snow talks about Mike Brearley.

Track 10: [0:00-0:49] Rayvern Allen and Snow talks about Mike Brearley, [0:50-1:15] Doorbell rings and explanation by Rayvern Allen, [1:16-2:01] Snow talks about his time as a magistrate.

Track 11: [0:00-4:50] Snow talks about taming robins, feeding wild cats and garden birds.



A back-up copy of this CD is included.

Associations

Philip Albert Snow
David Rayvern Allen
Robert Elliot Storey Wyatt
Rugby Town Cricket Club
Rowland Francis Bowen
Stewart Cathie Griffith
International Cricket Conference
Allan Fitzroy Rae
Jeffrey Baxter Stollmeyer
Walter Arnold Hadlee
Abdul Hafeez Kardar
George Geary
Peter Barker Howard May
Rugby School
Fiji Cricket team
Jack Gale Wilmot Davies
Sir George Oswald Browning Allen
Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip
Arthur Brian Sellers
John Michael Brearley
John Arlott

Subject

Bodyline, MCC in Australia 1932-1933, bowling, spin bowling, captaincy, Fijian cricket, Cricket World Cup, South Africa in England 1951

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 CD: 58 minutes 29 seconds

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