100px|1920's-era photograph of Charlie Macartney
Charlie Macartney (1886–1958) was an Australian cricketer who played in 35 Tests between 1907 and 1926. He was known as The Governor-General in reference to his authoritative batting style and his flamboyant strokeplay, which drew comparisons with his close friend and role model Victor Trumper. Making his Test debut in 1907, his most noteworthy Test contribution in his early career was a match-winning ten wicket haul at Headingley in 1909. It was around this time that Macartney befriended Trumper and began to transform himself into an audacious attacking batsman. The First World War stopped all first-class cricket and Macartney enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. Upon the resumption of cricket, Macartney stamped himself as one of the leading batsmen in the world with his performances during the 1921 Ashes tour. Macartney produced an Australian record score in England of 345 against Nottinghamshire, which led to him being named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1922. After missing the 1924–25 series due to mental illness or a recurrence of war injuries, Macartney departed international cricket on the 1926 tour of England. Macartney was posthumously inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2007. (more...) Recently featured: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement – Altrincham – Ring-tailed lemur Archive – By email – More featured articles... Read the rest of this article: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Macartney> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1655: Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of the planet Saturn. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28moon%29> 1807: The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Trade_Act_1807> 1948: Meteorologists at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City issued the world's first tornado forecast after noticing conditions similar to another tornado that had struck five days earlier. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Tinker_Air_Force_Base_tornadoes> 1957: West Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg signed the Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Community. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Rome> 1995: American computer programmer Ward Cunningham established the first wiki site, the WikiWikiWeb. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: in a pig's eye (prep. phrase): (idiomatic) Very unlikely; probably never <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_a_pig%27s_eye> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: 44px Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action. --Rudolf Rocker <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rudolf_Rocker> _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list. To unsubscribe, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]
