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188 Endnotes 1 Barker, T (2009) Cricket’s Wartime Sanctuary: The First-Class Flight to Bradford, ACSH 2 Midwinter, E (1987) The Lost Seasons: Cricket in Wartime 1939-45, pp25-36 3 One interesting overview is provided by John, S (2013) ‘ ‘A Different Kind of Test Match’: Cricket, English Society and the First World War’ in Sport in History, volume 33, Number 1, March pp19-48 4 Sheffield, G A Short History of the First World War, 2014, pp128-129 5 Howat, G (1989) Cricket’s Second Golden Age: The Hammond-Bradman Years, Hodder and Stoughton, p25 6 Star Green’un, 22 April 1916 7 Gregory, A, The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War, 2008, p32 8 De Groot, G, Back in Blightly: The British at Home in World War One, p100 9 DeGroot, p27 10 DeGroot, pp288-9 11 De Groot, p293 12 For a history see Harrison, T (1952) Yorkshire Cricket Council, The Yorkshire Post 13 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 13 January 1915 14 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 16 March 1916 15 Sheffield Independent, 8 January 1916 16 See Dickinson, J (2015) The Origins of Sheffield Wednesday, Amberley, p75 for a description of Clegg’s achievements. 17 Root, Fred (1937) The Cricket Pro’s Lot, Edward Arnold and Co, pp180-181 18 https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation- calculator 19 Yorkshire Evening Post, 28 April 1917 20 Shipley Times and Express, 27 April 1917 21 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 4 August 1914 22 Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 7 August 1914 23 Sheffield, G (2014) A Short History of The First World War, p35 24 Tomlinson, R (2015) Amazing Grace: The Man Who Was WG, pp 292-293 25 Yorkshire Evening Post, 2 September 1914 26 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 4 September 1914 27 Smith, A (2010) 125 Not Out: The Story of Illingworth St Mary’s Cricket Club 1994-2009, p45 28 Yorkshire CCC General Committee, 13 October 1914 29 Yorkshire CCC General Committee, 10 December 1914 30 Yorkshire CCC General Committee, 24 February 1915 31 Pope, M (1990) The Laughing Cricketer of Wombwell. A centenary biography of Yorkshire and England cricketer Roy Kilner, Darf Publishers, p22 32 Greaves, G (1976) Over the Summers Again, Harrogate Cricket Club, p57 33 Yorkshire CCC General Committee, 2 June 1915 34 Yorkshire CCC General Committee, 13 October 1915 35 Yorkshire CCC General Committee, 16 December 1915 36 Pickup, P (1988) The History of the Bradford Cricket League 1903-1988, p12 37 Pickup, p12 38 Hobbs, J (1935) My Life Story, The Star Publications Department, p172 39 McKinstry, L (2012) Jack Hobbs: England’s Greatest Cricketer, Yellow Jersey Press, pp157-164 40 Hobbs, J (1935) My Life Story, p172 41 Yorkshire CCC General Committee, 2 June 1915 42 Leeds Mercury, 3 June 1915, Yorkshire CCC General Committee, 2 June 1915 43 YCCC Finance Committee, 24 February 1915 44 Yorkshire Evening Post, 11 September 1915 45 West Yorkshire Archive Services, diaries kept by John Yeadon during his time in the Leeds Pals (WYL2443) 46 Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yearbook 1916 p11 47 Sheffield, G (2014) A Short History of the First World War, pp64-70 48 Yorkshire Evening Post, 7 March 1916, Credland, A G, The Hull Zeppelin Raids, 1915-18, pp57-59 49 DeGroot, G (2014) Back in Blighty: The British Home in World War I, pp138-143 50 Yorkshire CCC General Committee, 16 December 1915, Yorkshire CCC General Committee, 13 October 1915, 19 January 1916, Finance Committee, 13 October 1915 51 Star Green’un, 29 April 1916 52 Lodge, A (1991) Drakes Huddersfield Cricket League, Centenary 1891-1991, p29