Mr. J. W. H. T. Douglas
Mr. J. W. H. T. Douglas, who was forty-eight years old, was a versatile sportsman. At Felsted he was a remarkably good school-boy boxer and he more than fulfilled the promise of his boyhood by winning the Amateur Middleweight Championship in 1905 and the Olympic Middleweight Championship in 1908. He played in county cricket for some years before he rose to the top. He was almost equally good as batsman and bowler. He went to Australia as a member of the 1911-12 team under Mr. P. F. Warner and when Mr. Warner was laid aside by illness he became captain. His side won four out of the five matches. In his subsequent captaincies he was not nearly so fortunate, but his unquenchable spirit and his great powers of endurance were always stimulating to his side. He was so famous as a cricketer that it may have been forgotten that he was also an international player of Association football.
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