Walter Crosbie Baber (21 September 1880 – 1959) was a Barbadian-born Canadian first-class cricketer.
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| Full name | Walter Crosbie Baber | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 September 1880 British Barbados | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1959 (aged 78/79) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Baber was born at British Barbados in September 1880. He later emigrated to Canada, where he played for several provincial teams. He also played club cricket in the United States and was a member of the Staten Island Cricket Club.[1] He made a single appearance in first-class cricket for a combined Canada and United States of America cricket team against the touring Australians at Rosedale in 1913.[2] He took the wickets of Charlie Macartney, Sid Emery, and Austin Diamond for the cost of 101 runs. Batting twice from the middle order, he scored 17 runs in the Canada/United States first innings before being dismissed by Leslie Cody, while following-on in their second innings he was dismissed by without scoring by Macartney.[3]
He attended McGill University in 1913,[1] before serving in the First World War as a lieutenant in the Canadian Expeditionary Force.[4] Following the war, he returned to McGill to complete his studies. Crosbie was living in New York City in 1937 as a partner in the firm Bayliss, Baber & Co., in evidence given to a tax evasion hearing to the Joint Committee on Tax Evasion and Avoidance before the United States Congress.[5] He died in 1959.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "First-Class Matches played by Crosbie Baber". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Corsbie Baber". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ^ "Canada and United States of America v Australians, 1913". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ^ "Item: Baber, Walter Crosbie". www.bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ^ Hearings, June 17-18, 22-24, 1937. United States Government Publishing Office. 1937. pp. 93–100.
- ^ "Walter Corsbie Baber". www.iwm.org.uk. Retrieved 30 January 2022.