A Game Sustained

184 Acknowledgements I would like to acknowledge the support of the Association of Cricket Statisticians in publishing this book. I would also like to highlight again the invaluable contribution of the superb British Newspaper Archive website (www. britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) , without which I could not have told this story in the same way. A number of people have provided assistance and advice in finalising the book, in several cases for the second or third time in recent years. I would like to thank Mark Rowe for acting as editor again and for use of the Jack Hobbs photograph. I would like to thank Mick Pope for again letting me use photographs from his collection, as always much appreciated. I would like to thank Ron Deaton for providing helpful suggestions on an early draft. I am also grateful for use of the photographs of the Saltaire and Keighley 1917 sides, and of Herbert Sutcliffe in 1919. I would also like to thank Tony Bradbury for his very helpful comments on the draft. I would like to thank Brian Sanderson for the loan of a number of scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings from the period, as well as the scorecard from the 1917 match at Accrington which is reproduced in the book. I would like to thank Laurie Milner for allowing the use of the pictures from the Yorkshire v Leeds Pals match at Headingley on 3 June 1915. These appeared in his excellent book ‘Leeds Pals: A History of the 15 th (Service) Battalion (1 st Leeds) The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) 1914- 1918, published in 1991 by Pen and Sword Books. A number of libraries and other institutions have been very helpful and responded very promptly to my requests for the use of certain images in this book. I would like to thank Yorkshire County Cricket Club (Yorkshire Cricket Archive) for use of a number of pictures from the 1917 club Yearbook and the scorecard from the 1918 P.F.Warner’s XI match, which I found in the Yorkshire County Cricket Club material at the West Yorkshire Archives at Morley. The photograph of