A Game Sustained

191 Index Accrington 98, 182, 184 Admission prices 73-74, 129 Advisory County Cricket Committee 11, 122, 124, 142 Airedale and Wharfedale Cricket League 28, 32, 90, 129 Aisne, Battle of 27 Albert Hall, Leeds 96 Aldwarke Park Cricket Club 91 Allerton Bywater Colliery Cricket Club 128 Allotments 99, 107-108, 144 Apartheid 5 Armistice Day 122, 137, 141, 163 Armitage Bridge Cricket Club 33, 65 Asquith Government 10 Baildon Green Cricket Club 27-28, 33, 39, 42, 112 Bankfoot Cricket Club 112-113, 126, 144-145 Bank holidays 18, 39, 46, 73, 75, 81, 96, 111-112, 118-119, 136 Barkston Ash Cricket Association 32 Barnes, S.F. 42-43, 45, 47-48, 68, 77, 80- 81, 91-92, 94, 106, 111-113, 143 Barnsley 21, 29, 108, 125 Barnsley Cricket and Athletic Club 58, 88, 125, 144 Barracking of players 118, 138 Baseball 112, 117-118 Bates, W.E. 65 Batley 28 Batley Cricket, Athletic and Football Club 43, 51, 89, 151 Beckett’s Park Military Hospital, Leeds 96 Bedford’s Welfare and Sports Club 163 Bencraft, R. 79 Bird Cricket League 27, 30, 68, 83, 129, 160 Bingham Shield 31 Bingley Cricket Club 39, 44, 47, 108, 111 Birley, Sir Derek 170, 177 Birtles, T 36, 132 Bishop Burton Cricket Club 33 Blackburn (or Blackburne), Capt. W.E. 135 Bloomer, Steve 54 Bond, Dickie 40 Booth, J J. 8, 14, 16, 31, 48, 52, 74, 77, 81, 91-95, 105, 110-111, 115, 117, 143, 150, 157, 161, 164-165, 174, 179 Booth, Major 19, 24-26, 29, 34, 40-43, 51-52, 64-65, 72, 77-80, 132, 161 Bootham Stray, York 160 Bowling Old Lane Cricket Club 16, 21, 26, 42, 44-45, 50, 53, 79, 135, 145 Bowling Tide Week 22, 29, 50, 98, 110, 120 Bradford Cricket, Athletic and Football Club 49 Bradford League 5, 8, 16-17, 21, 27, 31, 33, 39, 42-48, 50, 56, 66, 68-70, 75- 77, 81, 84, 87, 89, 90, 92, 95, 97-98, 106, 110-111, 113, 126, 128, 130-131, 136, 143- 144, 149, 151, 158, 162, 168, 179 Bradford Central League 106 Bradford Park Avenue 57, 98, 158 Bramall Lane, Sheffield 48-49, 80, 118, 139, 148, 161, 166 Briggs, A. 50 Brighouse Cricket Club 111, 113 ‘Brighter’ cricket 139 Brighton 23-24, 141 British Expeditionary Force 14, 22 Brough 127 Burton, D.C.F. 118, 134, 136, 149, 179 Calverley Cricket Club 32 Cambrai, Battle of 87 Cambridge, University of 115, 136 Castleford Cricket Club 66 Castle Howard Cricket Club 33 Charlesworth, C. 90, 149 Chapeltown and District Cricket League 89, 127, 129 Churwell Cricket Club 113 Cleveland and South Durham Cricket League 151 Cleckheaton Cricket Club 43, 84 Clegg, J.C. 15 Collections for good performances 15- 16, 39, 93, 129, 149, 161 Colsterdale camp 39 Complacency in war-time 11 Continuing cricket, views of soldiers 17, 88, 91 Cost of cricket equipment 160 County championship 7, 22, 24, 122- 123, 135, 137- 138, 140-142, 165- 166, 177-179