Английская Википедия:George O'Mullane

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Infobox cricketer George Jeremiah Patrick O'Mullane (3 December 1842 – 20 December 1866) was an Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, O'Mullane was a standout cricketer from an early age, and came to be regarded as his colony's premier wicket-keeper. During the winter months, he excelled as a footballer in the nascent Australian game, receiving praise for his courage and strength.

O'Mullane's promising career was cut short when he died of tuberculosis, aged 24.

Family and early years

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Portrait of Elizabeth O’Mullane and her children by William Strutt, c. 1852, National Gallery of Victoria. George is pictured far right with a bow and arrow.

O'Mullane was born in Melbourne on 3 December 1842, of Anglo-Celtic descent. He was one of five siblings.Шаблон:Sfn His father, Dr. Arthur O'Mullane of Cork, Ireland, graduated as a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Glasgow in 1838.Шаблон:Sfn The following year, he arrived in Australia's Port Phillip District aboard the William Metcalfe on 15 November, along with Miss Maria Elizabeth Barber, formerly of Keyingham near Hull, Yorkshire, whom he married in 1840.Шаблон:Sfn They settled in Melbourne, and Arthur established himself as a leading physician in the fledgling port city, taking up government and medical positions, and was one of the first honorary physicians elected to the Melbourne Hospital.Шаблон:Sfn He took up land speculation and became part-owner of the Port Phillip Gazette in the 1840s, and in 1852, purchased the Bourke Street residence of Sir Redmond Barry, the famous Supreme Court Judge and founder of the State Library of Victoria.Шаблон:Sfn Around this time, Elizabeth O'Mullane and her children, including George, were depicted in a family portrait by colonial artist William Strutt, now held at the National Gallery of Victoria.Шаблон:Sfn

George, along with his brother Arthur, attended the Melbourne Grammar School, and each successively captained the school's cricket team.Шаблон:Sfn One of their classmates, John Conway, also excelled at cricket, and would go on to play for Victoria alongside George.[1][2]

Cricket

O'Mullane joined the East Melbourne Cricket Club, which he went on to regularly captain, and was soon recognised as Victoria's premier wicket-keeper.[3]

In 1861, while still a student at Melbourne Grammar School,[4] O'Mullane represented Victoria against H. H. Stephenson's XI, the first English cricket team to tour Australia. It was during these matches against the English that O'Mullane's abilities as a cricketer were first widely recognised, and it was remarked that he played "as coolly as a veteran."[5] O'Mullane was reported as being "up country" when George Parr's All-England Eleven was in Melbourne during the 1863–64 season, and therefore missed out on playing against the tourists.[6]

When several professional members of the Victoria XI defected to New South Wales ahead of the December 1865 intercolonial match between the two colonies, O'Mullane was selected to play for Victoria at the insistence of its captain, Tom Wills. O'Mullane put in a career-best performance behind the wickets[5] and ended on 33 not out in a thrilling partnership with Wills, who scored the first half century in intercolonial cricket (58), leading Victoria to an against-the-odds win.[2][7] It was to be O'Mullane's solitary first-class appearance.[8]

O'Mullane played in his last club cricket match in October 1866.[5]

A left-handed batsman, O'Mullane played without any pretense to style according to cricketer and journalist William Hammersley, but "was a hard, determined hitter ... a very fast run-getter, and fond of taking liberties with the bowling."[5] He was not the most elegant wicket-keeper, but "hard as nails", unflinching and equally good on the leg side as on the off. Though he could successfully keep wicket for all types of bowlers, he had a perceived preference for pacemen.[6] As a captain, wrote The Australasian, O'Mullane was prone to causing disputes with an "energy of character" that was not always "tempered by tact and discretion".[6] At his club, East Melbourne, he was considered "a bit of a 'martinet' ... but all the same a real good skipper."[9]

Football

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As a schoolboy, O'Mullane played in the famous 1858 match between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College, commemorated by this statue outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Tom Wills is depicted umpiring behind two students contesting the football.

In August 1858, O'Mullane played for Melbourne Grammar against Scotch College in what is claimed by some to be the first match of Australian rules football.Шаблон:Sfn This 40-a-side contest, played over three consecutive Saturdays on the Richmond Paddock next to the Melbourne Cricket Ground, ended in a draw with each team scoring one goal. One spectator recalled:[10] Шаблон:Quote

While O'Mullane represented several football clubs during his career (as was common in those days), including St Kilda and Melbourne, he is most often associated with South Yarra.Шаблон:Sfn Apart from being a standout player, O'Mullane also worked as a club administrator and umpired matches between other teams.Шаблон:Sfn In May 1866, when the code was updated at a meeting of eight club delegates chaired by H. C. A. Harrison, O'Mullane was one of two players appointed to represent South Yarra.Шаблон:Sfn In September of that year, in his last match, he captained the club to victory against Melbourne to gain permanent possession of the Challenge Cup. The club's fortunes declined soon after his death four months later[3]Шаблон:Sfn and South Yarra folded at the start of 1873, having not won a match since 1868.

O'Mullane "loved nothing more than a rough, tough, energetic game",Шаблон:Sfn and it was said that only Tom Wills could match his "pluck and skill" as a footballer.Шаблон:Sfn According to a teammate, O'Mullane's reputation as a first-rate boxer was enough to dissuade the opposition from getting into melees with his club.[11] Harrison remembered O'Mullane as a strong, but good-tempered player, and stated that "it was a pleasure to meet him on the football field—even when the meeting was shoulder to shoulder, and you happened to get the trifle worst of it."[12]

O'Mullane was retrospectively named a "Champion of the Colony" for 1861 in early football historian C. C. Mullen's subjective season-by-season ranking of players, and in The Australian Game of Football Since 1858 (2008), published by the AFL, he was placed among the five best players of the 1860s.Шаблон:Sfn There have been calls for O'Mullane to be inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame, along with other "neglected heroes" of the game's pioneering phase.Шаблон:Sfn

Death

O'Mullane died of tuberculosis at his East Melbourne residence on 20 December 1866, aged twenty-four.[13] His obituary in The Australasian remembered him as "undoubtedly the best wicket-keeper Victoria has produced", and stated that "it would be difficult to name his superior [at football] in the colony".[3] William Hammersley agreed:[5] Шаблон:Quote

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  1. ↑ "Cricket. The M.C.C. v. The Church of England Grammar School". The Australasian (Melbourne). 30 March 1867. p. 12. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  2. ↑ 2,0 2,1 Victoria v New South Wales in 1865/66, CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  3. ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 "Death of Mr. George O'Mullane". The Australasian (Melbourne). 29 December 1866. p. 5. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "80 Years Rivalry: Grammar and Scotch". The Australasian (Melbourne). 23 March 1940. p. 22. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  5. ↑ 5,0 5,1 5,2 5,3 5,4 "Cricket. The Past Season". The Australasian (Melbourne). 15 June 1867. p. 12. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  6. ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 "The Cricketers of Victoria: George O'Mullane". The Australasian (Melbourne). 23 June 1866. p. 11. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "Sporting Notes". Weekly Times (Melbourne). 4 March 1871. p. 4. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  8. ↑ George O'Mullane, CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Some Cricket Reminiscences of the Sixties and Seventies". Leader (Melbourne). 12 November 1910. p. 19. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  10. ↑ Olympus (15 September 1892). "Sport and Play", Melbourne Punch (Melbourne). p. 11. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  11. ↑ "Old Time Football". The Australasian (Melbourne). 10 November 1923. p. 28. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  12. ↑ Observer (1 August 1908). "The Football Jubilee: How the Game Started", The Argus (Melbourne). p. 7. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  13. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
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