Re: (Not-very-seasonal) Cricket Cartoon/Painting Quiz

by PeterCS Mon 16 Dec 2013, 13:35

No, Armstrong would have been wider. This is a tricky little guy. (The 'cheeky schoolboy' look on the face suggests as much!)

by WideWally Mon 16 Dec 2013, 14:02

Spoiler:

by PeterCS Mon 16 Dec 2013, 14:49

Yes, Wally has it.

Answers to G::::

by tricycle Wed 18 Dec 2013, 04:22

PeterCS wrote:E
This is a later (retrospective) painting by ex-miner Joe Scarborough (b. 1938) of a historic scene at Bramall Lane, Sheffield.

11. Who is being cheered all the way to the wicket?
12. In the (English) summer of which year?

Spoiler:

by tricycle Thu 19 Dec 2013, 12:11

PeterCS wrote:A
1. What year does this cartoon come from?
2, 3. Identify the two players (one in silhouette only).

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by PeterCS Thu 19 Dec 2013, 13:08

tricycle wrote:
PeterCS wrote:E
This is a later (retrospective) painting by ex-miner Joe Scarborough (b. 1938) of a historic scene at Bramall Lane, Sheffield.

11. Who is being cheered all the way to the wicket?
12. In the (English) summer of which year?
Spoiler:

No, this is a bit later, someone given a hero's welcome at a Yorkshire county match (and it isn't even a Yorkie).

Look closely at the cap.

(Good research on Test matches at Sheffield, though!)

by PeterCS Thu 19 Dec 2013, 13:11

A:

Exactly right! Very Happy

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Tom Webster was a genius.

(Even if he was - at least for professional reasons? - a raging Tory ....)

by PeterCS Thu 19 Dec 2013, 13:14

Update.

Still open are:

C (to get Questions 7 and 8 exact - though Trike got one of his two answers right in each case)

D (10)
E (11, 12)
F (13, 14)
I (19)

by tricycle Thu 19 Dec 2013, 17:40

C

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by PeterCS Thu 19 Dec 2013, 17:46

Yep - so that's C sorted out.

Notes on two bowlers:

by tricycle Thu 19 Dec 2013, 17:48

PeterCS wrote:
tricycle wrote:
PeterCS wrote:E
This is a later (retrospective) painting by ex-miner Joe Scarborough (b. 1938) of a historic scene at Bramall Lane, Sheffield.

11. Who is being cheered all the way to the wicket?
12. In the (English) summer of which year?
Spoiler:

No, this is a bit later, someone given a hero's welcome at a Yorkshire county match (and it isn't even a Yorkie).

Look closely at the cap.

(Good research on Test matches at Sheffield, though!)

Spoiler:

by PeterCS Thu 19 Dec 2013, 18:03

You've whistled through an entire century of cricket there - to well within the artist's lifetime, when I said it was his retrospective imagining of a historic scene! Very Happy

And the truth lies part-way between the two eras you've named.

Also, the batsman you name is actually 99% Yorkie - exaggeratedly so, some would say - though by pure accident born "elsewhere".

Okay, clue needed (and well earned): What if I tell you that Bill Bowes, Hedley Verity, Morris/Maurice Leyland and Herbert Sutcliffe were all part of the rapturously applauding team that day?

Maybe the grounds for the (very un-Tyke-like) unconditional love for an opponent of the Broad Acres (*) become a bit more obvious then?

Notice also that the new batsman's cap appears to have more than one colour to it.

(*) = trad. Yorkshire term of affection for "Yorkshire"

by tricycle Thu 19 Dec 2013, 18:26

Yeah, the Michael Vaughan guess was in jest. Must've become a dedicated football ground around the time he was born.

Spoiler:

by WideWally Thu 19 Dec 2013, 18:31

Spoiler:

by PeterCS Thu 19 Dec 2013, 18:39

No, they're not welcoming an Aussie, Trike. Far from it, you might say, if you know who it is .....

Aha! Wally is getting more than warm ...

I think it is SUPPOSED to be the cap of the Oxford Blue select few, though I can only see two colours there (is it my eyes, or didn't the artist do enough homework?)

by tricycle Thu 19 Dec 2013, 18:51

Spoiler:

by WideWally Thu 19 Dec 2013, 18:55

Spoiler:

I've got to get some sleep.
Cya.

by PeterCS Thu 19 Dec 2013, 19:05

Yes, that's the one. 'Night Wally!

Also for Trike:

Here's the match - find the popular captain of that season:

Yorkshire crowds have always loved a winner. Especially if he's a gritty, hard-as-nails no-nonsense one. (Although Boyks may later have been the exception - unusual in splitting Yorks opinion in half ...)

Also, having up to four Yorkies on the team in that mathematically highly successful series won't have done any harm. ... Wink

by PeterCS Thu 19 Dec 2013, 19:11

All that's left - see p1 to check the graphics:

D (Question 10)
F (13, 14)
I (19)

by tricycle Fri 20 Dec 2013, 05:06

That's my lot, can't identify the paintings. Great set btw.

Although just one problem- second place gets more season tickets than first!

by PeterCS Fri 20 Dec 2013, 11:33

You should see what the third prize is, ....

Further hints::

by tricycle Thu 10 Nov 2016, 10:20

PeterCS wrote:I
19. Bateman again. Guess the caption here.
(As before: close enough, on topic, wins the point.)

http://www.hmbateman.com/the_umpire_4.htm

Slow work day. Also, TFF google. Couldn't find this thread at all.

by PeterCS Fri 11 Nov 2016, 04:17

Got it.

by tricycle Fri 11 Nov 2016, 04:39

At this rate, we should solve this by 2020.

by PeterCS Fri 11 Nov 2016, 15:34

And the Germans used to say "paper is patient".

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