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ier in life were seen as warning signs that were ignored and writers just as giffard s defence team and neustatter had done pointed fingers of blame at giffard s father and the difficult relationship between the two even today the story of the double murders features in podcasts documentaries and news articles each version of the story mentions giffard s cricket background no matter how flimsy the association doubtless the particularly gruesome killings and giffard s apparent cold bloodedness remain a source of fascination so too the suspicion that the legal system of 1955 was not quite developed enough for the complexities of the case and yet the suspicion lingers that even after seventy years there is still the element of wonder that harks back to an earlier time and an earlier social framework how could a public schoolboy commit such horrific crimes and how could a cricketer stoop so low share this share on reddit opens in new window reddit print opens in new window print share on 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of the 1881 strike alfred shaw image wikipedia and arthur shrewsbury image wikipedia what had begun as a dispute over the title of a cricket match quickly escalated into a test of authority at a time when amateurs had seized control of english cricket from the professionals who had popularised it two nottinghamshire players sought to assert what they saw as their rights before the 1881 season alfred shaw and arthur shrewsbury agreed to play in bradford for a team that was to be styled as nottinghamshire organised without the approval of nottinghamshire county cricket club the committee of the club in the person of henry holden the honorary secretary protested strongly and a series of letters passed between the various parties neither side showed any willingness to back down the crucial turning point came when shaw and shrewsbury were joined by five other professionals john selby fred morley william barnes william scotton and wilfred flowers who presented a list of demands in a letter to the committee the first of these was that shaw and shrewsbury should be able to play at bradford for an unofficial team styled nottinghamshire second that the seven rebels should be guaranteed selection for all county matches that season the usual practice then and for many many years later was for the players to be selected one match at a time finally that they would receive a guaranteed benefit match after ten years of playing for the county again this was unprecedented benefits were granted by county committees to players seen as deserving but were often dependent upon the state of county finances these were not mere demands for individual gain they were a challenge to the authority of the nottinghamshire committee the resulting dispute variously labelled as the nottinghamshire strike or the nottinghamshire schism almost tore the county apart in the aftermath of this letter the claims and counter claims further poisoned relationships between the already entrenched sides the rebels insisted that one of the committee captain william denison who had previously been the mp for nottingham had suggested each of their requests would potentially have been acceptable and shaw offered to apologise on behalf of the rebels for their non attendance at the committee meeting to which they had earlier been summoned but correspondence later leaked to the press continued and attitudes hardened the nottinghamshire assistant secretary edwin brown now insisted that any such apology from shaw had to be in writing shaw replied in a dismissive telegram that he was playing in edinburgh for the next three days would not sign any agreement and would only play on the terms submitted brown also wrote privately to shaw suggesting that selby was negotiating separately a meeting of the committee on 7 may seemed to finalise the position of the county unless the players apologised and signed the new agreement they would not be selected the committee also informed the players that no benefits would be guaranteed as the committee have not the power to make such promises only the annual general meeting could grant benefits for each upcoming season lord harris in the 1880s image wikipedia four of the players including shaw appeared for the mcc against a colts of england team on 9 may at the game lord harris who had played with several of the rebels when he captained england in the 1880 test match advised them to apologise for not meeting the nottinghamshire committee and accept the county s terms at the same game denison met shaw and supposedly guaranteed that if he apologised on behalf of the rebels the seven would be selected for the rest of the season shaw indicated that the players might be willing to accept such terms but the committee later insisted denison was speaking only in a personal capacity not in any official sense and shaw s retort that the dispute would not have arisen under the three previous secretaries was further evidence that the matter had become a deeply personal one in a letter from the committee dated 18 may the rebels were invited to represent nottinghamshire against sussex from 26 may all seven played but met the committee during the match to ask why they had only been selected for one match after it had been arranged by captain denison that they would be engaged for the season they also pressed that if the committee could not guarantee a benefit did they agree that a player should be entitled to one after ten years and would they agree to the bradford match being listed as an eleven of nottingham selected by alfred shaw in a formal written reply to the questions holden suggested that denison had not told the committee of any such offer but they would adhere to any pledge he had actually made he hedged on the ten year issue merely agreeing that each deserving player should be recommended from time to time to the annual general meeting for a benefit and that the committee could not allow the use of nottingham or notts in any matches not arranged by them but the bradford match could be styled as being played by alfred shaw s eleven another invitation to the players was issued for the lancashire match of 2 june but holden made clear that any player who did not reply would be presumed to have declined to appear and someone else would be selected instead the five rebels who joined shaw and shrewsbury john selby image wikipedia fred morley image wikipedia william barnes image wikipedia william scotton image wikipedia and wilfred flowers image wikipedia on 30 may the committee met and agreed to offer a whole year s guarantee to five of the seven rebels but not to scotton or flowers and invited all seven to play against lancashire the local press were critical of this unprecedented offer suggesting that it was unwise to make such a concession to the professionals they also blamed the precedent set by the financial greed of the 1880 australians but the seven rebels collectively refused the offer reasoning that it should be all or none who were given the guarantee however a report in the derby daily telegraph on 4 june suggested that fred morley had written to holden accepting the invitation to play unaware that shaw had declined on his behalf and arrived at the ground on the morning of the match on becoming aware of the situation he withdrew from the team it was at the beginning of june just before the lancashire match that the press became aware of what was happening when it became known that seven nottinghamshire players would be absent from that game there was some speculation for example in the burton and derby gazette on 1 june that the seven rebels would make up an eleven and take the representation of the county out of the hands of the committee when the story emerged publicly in june holden offered his side of the tale to the press he argued that all interest in nottinghamshire and yorkshire matches would be lost if any yorkshire town could advertise the county sides as playing there he also said that the committee have evidence to prove that one of the seven said as far back as 1879 that he did not see why the eleven should not arrange their own matches take the gate money c as for a nottinghamshire match organised by the then captain richard daft in 1873 cited by shaw and shrewsbury as a precedent for players organising county matches independently holden said that the committee had objected at the time and that in any case the game predated the practice established by 1881 of the county secretaries meeting at lord s to arrange fixtures he also noted that the committee would not have objected to another match suggested as a precedent between nottinghamshire and sixteen of derbyshire because such games were not official county ones holden defended his efforts to secure benefits for the players and noted that because the rebels had agreed at the time of the early season colts match to play on the usual terms they had broken their word he concluded i can only add for the committee and myself that we are acting and have acted as we believe for the true interest of county cricket and in a manner which will ultimately prove beneficial to professional cricketers present and to come the claims and demands made by a shaw and shrewsbury are not such as have sprung up at a moment s consideration i have heard rumours of them for a long time i much regret that other and younger players should be drawn into a course which if persisted in must be greatly to their disadvantage henry perkins the mcc secretary in the 1890s image charles alcock famous cricketers and cricket grounds 1895 if both sides had publicly hardened their positions negotiations continued in a more private sphere before nottinghamshire s next game against middlesex at lord s the mcc secretary henry perkins was asked to mediate by holden he had authority in the matter because five of the seven rebels were members of the lord s groundstaff and therefore employed by the mcc as well as nottinghamshire according to perkins s own account written to the surrey secretary charles alcock the rebels agreed to make themselves available for selection but holden omitted scotton and flowers supposedly owing to their lack of form they played instead for the mcc flowers scored 40 and scotton a century the other five would not play without them and so the intervention by perkins failed to resolve the dispute even so perkins told alcock that the five rebels who were part of the lord s groundstaff had placed themselves in a right position with our club this might indicate where perkins placed the blame he went further in his support at the height of the dispute in june holden wrote urging alcock not to select any of the seven rebels for the annual gentlemen v players match at the oval for which the surrey committee selected the two teams alcock asked perkins for his opinion the mcc secretary responded that he had no objections to their selection yet alcock in turn perhaps revealed his sympathies because none of the seven played in the oval match but they continued to have the support of the mcc the following week four of the seven played for one side or the other at lord s for a match between the mcc and an england team and three played for the mcc selected gentlemen v players match at lord s a week later and alcock cannot have been too concerned either because shaw and two other rebels played for the north against the south at the oval a few days later on 18 july the match that had provoked the dispute was played at bradford tom emmett s xi defeated alfred shaw s xi by seven wickets all seven rebels played for shaw s team but none especially excelled in a low scoring match perhaps that was unsurprising as they played much less cricket than usual that summer although barnes 18 first class games and morley 16 first class games played only slightly less than normal that season the others had a substantially reduced workload shaw and flowers made twelve appearances each and selby eleven but scotton seven matches and shrewsbury three matches barely played even if those who were part of the mcc groundstaff would have been paid regularly each must have keenly felt the reduction in income professionals were paid by the match as might be expected the wider reaction to the dispute was mixed there is no real evidence of how the public felt about the situation but the press were split bell s life for example said it is very difficult to see how the conduct of the professionals can be excused the publication also observed that the rebels seemed to be trying to usurp the powers hitherto invested in the committees of the county clubs the demand for benefits it said displays a want of gratitude such opinions would have been widely shared among most county committees and among county members but other newspapers sided with the professionals the referee whose writer had clearly been in contact with the rebels said on 12 june it seems passing strange that a county which has benefited so much by the services of its professionals which owes its position in the world of the willow entirely to them should by means of its committee treat these same professionals with insult and contumely the writer suggested that the demands of the rebels may at first sight look like dictation but was merely a necessary effort at self protection he had also been told that the dispute was caused by a long period of petty tyranny culminating in the problems with the bradford match the writer suggested that the feeling of the cricketing public is almost entirely with the ill used professionals but doubtless both sides claimed to have the backing of that silent body publications with connections to the cricketing establishment unsurprisingly sided with nottinghamshire the cricketer s companion condemned the professionals these professionals formed themselves as it were into a union each member of which declined to take part in any of the matches unless all the 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