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Reviewer:Sarastro1 (talk) 20:43, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Another good piece of work. Nearly there, just a few nit-picks.
Any idea what his averages were at school? Or the standard of cricket there?
No idea at all, his obituary is the only place I can find any reference to it. As you can see from my reference, is one of few places that mentions him at all!
"He was awarded his cricketing Blue,[2] batting at number ten during a nine wicket Cambridge victory over Oxford University." I always think it's worth giving the score a player gets in the University match. (And as an aside, if he was a specialist batsman, what was he doing at 10? You have to love the 1800s!)
Added score in place of 'batting'. And yeah, I did wonder who made that decision; then he only got 7, so..
"Newton's obituary in the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack notes that he assisted Somerset from 1876 until 1890." Not sure it's worth saying that this comes from Wisden; just give the info.
Removed the Wisden mention.
"...who favoured playing balls on his pads." Another aside, what was an amateur in the 1870s doing padding up? Bounder!
Obviously just had a sensible head on him! Or just a lack of skill; who knows.
"and unlike during his time at Somerset, did not restrict himself to playing only during late-July and August" A little clunky. Maybe break up into two sentences?
Have had a fiddle with this, how is it now? Feel free to alter yourself if you can come up with better!
"after an operation on 16 August 1916" Was the operation of 16 Aug or his death or both?
His death, I've cleaned this up a little.
Another minor nit-pick, and feel free to ignore it, I prefer p. 20 for refs rather than p20, but not a big deal at all.
Fixed.
Refs all good, no dablinks and links fine.
Any images?
Not that I can find at the moment, I'm going to be looking into more images from this time frame though, so may be able to get one in at some point in the future. Will hopefully get some access to newspapers from the time, so they might add some more meat to it too.
No major issues, should be easy to sort. I'll put it on hold for now (probably very briefly!)--Sarastro1 (talk) 20:43, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
As always, thanks for your comments, and for those over at the FAC for Somerset in 2009, which I'll get to at the weekend I expect! Harriastalk 21:29, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
