“All cricket nations were good – just not the combinations,” said Robert Lowe Sr., the president and co-founder of the Vienna Cricket & Football Club, in view of his new acquisitions, his English compatriot Fry and Prague’s Engel after the 3-0 win joked against Vienna on September 16, 1904. A week later, the Cricketers had the Munich Club of 1896 come to the opening of their place on Vorgartenstrasse. And for better combinations a young man from England – Charles Stanfield. “A top-class footballer”, “the fastest wingman in London” and “one of the best English runners over the quarter mile”, the Viennese newspapers said.
