Googlies & Chinamen
Googlies & Chinamen is a monthly newsletter sent to a private subscription list. It features cricketing comment both nostalgic and topical.
I played from 1963 to 1966 in the St Clement Danes 1st XI and was a playing member of South Hampstead CC from 1963 to 1981. The principal contributors to Googlies over the years, Jack Morgan (The Great Jack Morgan) and John Adams (the Professor), are also Old Danes and they both played at Shepherds Bush CC. John subsequently played at Welwyn Garden City CC and he was President there until he recently decided to become a Yorkshireman. There have been many other contributors over the years since the first edition in January 2003, some are former colleagues, others are cricket lovers who have become recipients of the newsletter and whom I have never met. All such contributions are welcome and they are invariably published in some form or other.
I have uploaded the editions of Googlies to this website without editing and so they appear as they were first circulated, with the exception of the pictures which the software was unable to accommodate. I have added photo pages to this website and these include a lot of the photographs that have featured in Googlies as well as many others. I will be happy to add to these collections if you have any suitable photos.
james sharp
I played from 1963 to 1966 in the St Clement Danes 1st XI and was a playing member of South Hampstead CC from 1963 to 1981. The principal contributors to Googlies over the years, Jack Morgan (The Great Jack Morgan) and John Adams (the Professor), are also Old Danes and they both played at Shepherds Bush CC. John subsequently played at Welwyn Garden City CC and he was President there until he recently decided to become a Yorkshireman. There have been many other contributors over the years since the first edition in January 2003, some are former colleagues, others are cricket lovers who have become recipients of the newsletter and whom I have never met. All such contributions are welcome and they are invariably published in some form or other.
I have uploaded the editions of Googlies to this website without editing and so they appear as they were first circulated, with the exception of the pictures which the software was unable to accommodate. I have added photo pages to this website and these include a lot of the photographs that have featured in Googlies as well as many others. I will be happy to add to these collections if you have any suitable photos.
james sharp
Header Photos
left: St Clement Danes 1st XI - 1965
back row: Russ Collins, Graham Sharp, Neil Adcock, Jack Morgan, Arthur Gates.
front row: Jim Sharp, Dick Bond, Phil Matthews, John Adams, Frank Foreman, Steve Caley, Mick Jordan.
right: South Hampstead CC - Wills Final 1969
back row: Ian Jerman, Bill Hart, Ron Hooker, Jon Matthews, Allen Bruton, Don Wallis, Peter Dickson.
front row: Harold Stubbs, Bob Peach, Len Stubbs, Terry Cordaroy, Jim Sharp.
left: St Clement Danes 1st XI - 1965
back row: Russ Collins, Graham Sharp, Neil Adcock, Jack Morgan, Arthur Gates.
front row: Jim Sharp, Dick Bond, Phil Matthews, John Adams, Frank Foreman, Steve Caley, Mick Jordan.
right: South Hampstead CC - Wills Final 1969
back row: Ian Jerman, Bill Hart, Ron Hooker, Jon Matthews, Allen Bruton, Don Wallis, Peter Dickson.
front row: Harold Stubbs, Bob Peach, Len Stubbs, Terry Cordaroy, Jim Sharp.
