The Summer Field

215 Books: Peculiarly game of Englishmen: Cricket , by M.D.(Dar) Lyon (1932), page 9. Feeling for somebody by knowing him while touring England: Back to the Mark , by Dennis Lillee (1975 edition), page 126. Chapter Seven: Private Life Archive material: Leicestershire county club 1951 annual, file DG 42/241, Leicester. Charles Stone letter, DE 5886/1, Leicester. Tribute to Maurice Hallam, Leicestershire 1963 yearbook, file DG 42/251, Leicester. Ron Turner recollections, Lincolnshire 1962 yearbook, file R Box L 796 358, Lincoln. Ellis Robinson tribute to Herbert Sutcliffe, file D6546/3/1/16, Matlock. Philip Legge’s country house embarrassment: 1965 letter to E.E.Snow, file DE 5886/12, Leicester. For a list online of famous sporting Freemasons in English lodges, visit the website of The Library and Museum of Freemasonry. Leonard Creed adverts in Somerset club yearbooks: file DD/TB/L/75, Taunton. ‘Scholey’ at Beverley Town club in 1914: file DDX1003/1/1/6, Beverley. Newspapers: Torquay’s 1894 ‘week’, Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser , August 3, 1894. Praise for the young, Les Berry: Leicester Sports Mercury , July 5, 1924. Major Stanyforth in the Yorkshire Post : January 24, 1933. Bob Wyatt the ardent gramophonist: London Evening Standard , February 16, 1933. Burton Observer , Magic Attic. Bob Wyatt’s mock bat, London Evening Standard , February 25, 1933; and ‘ground staff’ nickname, February 27, 1933. Cardus obituary of Maurice Leyland (‘a Yorkshire cricketer from a vintage period’ – how Cardus had changed his tune!), The Guardian , January 3, 1967. According to Hutton, Leyland said ‘I have got O’Reilly taped’ while they batted together in the 1938 timeless Test: The Observer , May 6, 1984. Dursley Gazette : Gloucester. Bert Oldfield on his ‘mishap’ after Larwood hit him: Sydney Morning Herald , January 18, 1933. Albert Trott’s inquest: Willesden Chronicle , August 7, 1914, Willesden library, north London. Will and Richard Jefferson spoke to Leicestershire cricket society, March 2013, Grace Road. Books: Bodyline Autopsy , by David Frith, read at Lord’s. W.G.Grace and team up and down hotel stairs at 1am: Leaves from my Unwritten Diary , by the hotelier Sir Harry Preston (1936), page 32. Professional Captain , by Tom Dollery (1952), page 169. Herbert Asquith lacking the ‘gambling temperament’: Memories and Reflections (1928), page 258. Chapter Eight: The Myth of the ‘Golden Age’ Archive material: E.A.Dain’s chance conversation with an old cricket lover, Wolverhampton Civil Defence Corps quarterly newsletter, autumn 1956, on open shelves at Wolverhampton city archives. Hampshire yearbooks: Portsmouth library. Walter Feilde Ingram typed recollections, file AMS 5643, East Sussex archives. Obituary of Edgar Barnett in Gloucestershire county club 1922 yearbook, file 46854, Gloucester. Dunkerley happy without rent, and Beverley club booming after the 1914-18 war, file DDX1003 /1/1/6. Herbert Curteis’ cricket recollections, file AMS 6029/8, East Sussex. Newspapers : Cricket not dead, Umpire , May 8, 1910, Colindale. Walsall mayor annoyed at Edgbaston: Walsall Observer , April 24, 1909. Centenary dinner at Lord’s: World of Cricket , June 27, 1914. Books: Transitional periods; Disraeli , by Robert Blake (1969 edition), page 270. For two of many books taking the ‘Golden Age’ for granted, see the well-illustrated The Golden Age of Cricket 1890-1914 , by David Frith (1978) and A History of Cricket (1988) by Benny Green, page 278. See also my article in The Nightwatchman journal, issue five; and The strange silence of Sydney Barnes: a reward for an Ashes-winning cricketer in spring 1912 , in Sports and Leisure Histories , edited by Dave Day (2013), that showed a crafty Barnes and the Staffordshire club secretary squeezing a fund out of the minor county. Barnes, with his portfolio of teams, would have felt at home in the 21 st century. Sources