Alfred Percy Marr (28 March 1862 – 15 March 1940)[1] was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test match in 1885.[2]
Personal life
Marr was the youngest son of William (a ship's captain) and Mary Ann Marr (née Sayers).
On 10 December 1887, Percy Marr married Rachel Ann Julian at the Wesleyan Church in Windsor, Sydney.[3]
He worked as a carpenter with the New South Wales Railway Department, spending part of his life stationed at Goulburn, and later on at Newcastle.[4]
Marr died at his home in Arncliffe, Sydney on 15 March 1940.[5]
Cricket career
In April 1884 Marr was a member of the New South Wales Eleven which travelled to Brisbane and unexpectedly lost a non-first-class inter-colonial match to a Queensland Fifteen. He top-scored in both innings, hitting a brilliant 50 in the first, and 16 in the second.[6]
Percy Marr's highest score in first-class matches was made for New South Wales in the inter-colonial match versus Victoria in Melbourne at the end of December 1884. Tom Horan as "Felix" writing in The Australasian commented: "His innings of 69 was almost without a blemish. He played very steadily until fairly set, and then he punished the bowling in a manner that evoked loud applause".[7]
He was then selected to play for Australia against England in the second Test match of the 1884–85 series. After an economical spell of bowling in England's innings conceding just 11 runs off eleven overs, Marr's batting failed to come off in either innings. He was unluckily bowled by Barnes for nought in the first innings, playing the ball hard against his pads from where the ball bounced against the stumps and disturbed the bails, and he scored just five runs in the second.[8]
Later in life, after his state career was over, Marr continued to score runs at minor match level.[9][10][11]
References
^"Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. XLV, no. 7429. New South Wales, Australia. 29 March 1862. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 15, 522. New South Wales, Australia. 24 December 1887. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Cricket". Referee. No. 906. New South Wales, Australia. 16 March 1904. p. 8. Retrieved 28 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Former Test Man Dies". Sporting Globe. No. 1851. Victoria, Australia. 20 March 1940. p. 15 (Edition1). Retrieved 1 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Intercolonial Match". The Australasian. Vol. XXXVIII, no. 979. Victoria, Australia. 3 January 1885. p. 21. Retrieved 31 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^"CRICKET CHATTER". The Australasian. Vol. XXXVIII, no. 980. Victoria, Australia. 10 January 1885. p. 20. Retrieved 1 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^"SPORTING". The Ulladulla and Milton Times. Vol. 15, no. 820. New South Wales, Australia. 28 October 1893. p. 6. Retrieved 1 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^"BREVITIES". Goulburn Evening Penny Post. New South Wales, Australia. 16 September 1897. p. 2. Retrieved 1 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^"ST. GEORGE JOTTINGS". Arrow. No. 1949. New South Wales, Australia. 5 February 1926. p. 5. Retrieved 1 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
