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216 Chapter Nine: Journalism Archive material: Yorkshire 1939 county yearbook, file DDX 1690/34, Beverley. Somerset 1962-3 yearbook: file DD/TB L/75, Taunton. Sam Berridge obituary, Leicestershire 1958 yearbook: file DE 5196/2, Leicester. Newspapers: Lord Hawke as Yorkshire president for a 35 th year: Yorkshire Post , January 26, 1933. Brian Sellers in Barnoldswick: Yorkshire Post , January 21, 1933. The pioneering telephone interview with Jardine: London Evening Standard , February 16, 1933. Cardus’ sneer at ‘stunt journalists’: The Field , August 4, 1934. Earl of Dartmouth at Staffordshire club annual meeting: Wolverhampton Express & Star , May 4, 1938. BBC radio ‘Cricket Interval’: Bridgnorth Journal , April 9, 1938. Stuart Broad on ‘trash talk’ before 2013-4 Ashes series: widely reported, for example, The Independent , October 29, 2013. Books: Thrills not captured from press-box: The Fight for the Ashes , by Jack Hobbs (1934), from the preface. The Bodyline Controversy , by Lawrence Le Quesne (1983), Lord’s library. For Bruce Harris’ brief biography, see Who’s Who in World Cricket , by Roy Webber (1954), pages 76-77; and for a testimonial by Ian Johnson, see his foreword to Harris’ book Defending the Ashes 1956 . Press did ‘double somersaults’ for Botham: My Dear Old Thing , by Henry Blofeld (1988), page 124. But see also his earlier tale of Botham confronting him, in Caught Short of the Boundary and other tall tales (1984), pages 57-60. The cover drawing of Botham and Blofeld smiling together was presumably ironical. Chapter Ten: Australia Archivematerial: ThomasPickbournediary,1926:fileDD/2560/1/7,Nottinghamshire record office. Test gate money regulated since 1898: see, for instance, Yorkshire 1939 yearbook, Beverley. Keith Miller letter to Derek Whitehead, Lord’s library. Newspapers: Sir Lawrence Pack on why Englishmen so superior: Torquay Directory , August 3, 1864. Major J.C.Tozer praising Englishmen with guts: Western Morning News , January 27, 1933, Plymouth library. Times supplement on Australia: March 12, 1963. Major Buckley excused his footballers losing on Continent: Wolverhampton Express and Star , May 28, 1938. R.H.Bettington deploring bodyline: Daily Mail , February 2, 1933. Australians find something good to say about Larwood: Daily News , Perth, January 17, 1933. Pelham Warner showing off classical phrases: London Evening Standard , January 3, 1933. Pair of articles in Southern Daily Echo , November 17 and December 8, 1951, also in 1952 Hampshire handbook. Wally Hammond on ‘backs to the wall’ Australians in fourth Victory Test, in various newspapers, for example, Bristol Evening Post , August 9, 1945. Walter Robins arguing for concrete pitches: The Cricketer , May 1, 1937. Bishop of Durham on Australian superiority: Durham County Advertiser , July 22, 1921, Durham record office. John Abrahams interview in Shropshire Magazine , October 1989, Bridgnorth library. Threlfall letter, game ‘in danger’: Yorkshire Post , July 31, 1968. Books: News of Bradman and Ponsford from northern cottages: The Heart of England , by Ivor Brown (1939 edition), page 107. Chapter Eleven: Schooling Archive material: Arthur Lloyd-Baker diary for 1914, file D3549/33/1/19, Gloucester. See there also Ayres’ Cricket Companion, 1916 edition, for long article on Cheltenham College. Rev Denys Yonge diary, file D/DCI 358/26, Essex record office, Chelmsford. K.L.Gill report on teenage boys: file DDX 1694/9/27, Beverley. Newspapers: John Brown interview in Walsall Observer , May 22, 1909. Old Reptonians’ dinner: Derby mercury, July 8, 1874. Newton College 490 for five, Torquay Times , July 13, 1894. Albert Knight on ‘over-coached schoolboys’: Sheffield Green Un , July 1, 1911. Comment on Charterhouse headmaster Frank Fletcher’s views: for example, Yorkshire Post , January 4, 1933. Books: Besides so many about particular schools, see, for instance, A History of Wellington College 1859-1959 , by David Newsome (1984 edition, published by Sources