[3] Alick Handford opened both the batting and the bowling on debut, but the professionals lost the match comprehensively, by an innings and 281 runs.
[4] The Players side generally consisted of expatriate Englishmen, often employed as coaches, with the Gentlemen allowing only non-Americans with amateur status, five years' residency, and intended naturalization.
[5] Handford had returned to England by 1894, where he appeared twice for Liverpool and District early in the season – in a first-class match against Cambridge University, and then in a two-day fixture against the touring South Africans.
[17] Returning to England, he coached at Marlborough College, and also made his first-class umpiring debut during the 1908 season, officiating a match at the County Ground, Derby, between Derbyshire and the touring Philadelphians.
Handford, aged 46, captained Southland in its inaugural first-class match, played against Otago at Rugby Park, Invercargill.
[17] Returning to England, he coached Leicestershire's second XI during the 1930 season, but the following year, in November 1931, he was convicted of fraud for obtaining property by deception.