Researching Ralph Evans

He chose to retire after the tournament, becoming a coach for his brother Wayne during his professional boxing career.

Evans made a single first-class cricket appearance for Hampshire County Cricket Club during the 1912 County Championship against Essex.

In 1913 Evans represented Cambridge University, making his debut for the university against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI. Evans played two more first-class matches for the university, against the Marylebone Cricket Club and L Robinson's XI. Against L Robinson's XI, Evans made his only first-class half century, scoring 70 runs in Cambridge Universities second innings.

Evans final first-class match came for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University in 1914.

Evans was killed in a motor accident at Wheeler Ridge, California in the United States on 27 July 1929.

The son of Jewish refugees from Russia and Germany, Evans began his musical studies at the age of five at the Vienna Academy of Music. He graduated cum laude from Yale University, where he studied violin with Broadus Erle. He subsequently received a doctorate from Yale in 1980. As recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award, he continued his studies in Europe with Szymon Goldberg and Nathan Milstein.

After winning the top prize in a number of major American competitions, including the 1978 Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York and the 1981 National Federation of Music Clubs National Young Artist Competition, he concertized as a soloist throughout North America and Europe.

In 1982, Evans won a prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He is briefly featured in a full-length documentary of this 1982 Competition. His performances at this Competition of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and Violin Concerto No. 2 (Bartók) were filmed.

In late 1982, Evans succeeded Leonard Sorkin as first violinist of the Fine Arts Quartet, and he has toured widely with the Quartet ever since. He has recorded over 100 solo and chamber works. Evans has also received recognition for his work as a composer. His award winning composition "Nocturne" was performed on American Public Television and a recording of his "String Quartet No. 1" was released by Naxos in 2008.

Since 2017, he has been Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at The New School's Mannes School of Music in New York.

Born in Hungerford, Evans' first club was Yeovil & Petters United. He joined Football League club Bury on amateur terms in 1934, turning professional at the end of the 1934–35 season. After spending the 1936–37 season at Halifax Town, Evans joined Watford, where he would remain for the rest of his career. The Second World War severely hampered Evans' career, but he managed to finish as Watford's top scorer in 1946–47. His playing days were ended the following year, but Evans stayed at the club as a coach until 1952. He died in 1996, aged 80.