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218 Chapter Fourteen: Captaincy and Command Archive material: Brian Sellers recollections: from handwritten, undated notes by unnamed interviewer, bought from a Manchester city centre second-hand bookshop. Charles Palmer in Leicestershire 1956 yearbook, DG42/246, Leicester. Hughes-Hallett letter to Snow, DE 5886/1, Leicester. Invite to chief constable Lemon, POL 3/3/8/41, Beverley. Newspapers : Lower-ranking officer ran himself out: Derby Mercury , August 28, 1914. Leyland on ‘tuition and encouragement’: Tamworth Herald , June 20, 1925. Tich Freeman article: Lichfield Mercury, July 3, 1936. See also 1938 Wisden . Sydney Southerton after bodyline series: Western Morning News , March 1, 1933. Alf Gover on a good captain: Lichfield Mercury, July 24, 1936. Gilbert Smith: Derby Football Express , September 12, 1908. Jardine on captaining a school side: The Field , July 14, 1934. Books: Senior pro of ‘determinate value’: Australian Test Tour , by Bruce Harris (1937), page 34. Brian Close’s sacking as England captain: see, for instance, his memoir I Don’t Bruise Easily . The Atherton dust in pocket affair: Over to You, Aggers , by Jonathan Agnew; and Atherton’s own Opening Up . Sir Leonard Hutton: ‘ Thoughts on the Game’ , Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yearbook 1985, pages 43-45. Andy Flower from Jim Troughton Benefit Year 2013 website. Edwin Smith was speaking at the launch of his biography, A Life in Derbyshire Cricket , by Steve Dolman; Chesterfield library, August 2015. Chapter Fifteen: Batting and Bowling Archive material: George Duckworth’s single-sided letter to the Nottinghamshire Society of Lancastrians: file DD2361/1/12, Nottingham. Newspaper cutting of single-wicket match, September 1840, inside Burton club scorebook 1835-47, file D442/5/1/1; and Burton club scorebook for 1861-5, file D442/5/1/2, Lichfield. Rising number of Yorkshire matches in a season: Yorkshire club 12 th annual yearbook, 1904, file DDX 1690/3, Beverley. Cowdrey speech to East Riding umpires: Hull Daily Mail , March 4, 1978, file C/ DSUS/3/4, Hull. Newspapers: Duckworth’s talk on bodyline tour: Nottingham Journal , and Nottingham Guardian , February 17, 1934. Cadman exploiting leg theory: Nottingham Evening Post , July 1, 1909; and see also Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s obituary of W.G.Grace, claiming him as inventor of leg theory, using leg traps in the 1870s: Times , October 27, 1915. Larwood’s ‘moral supremacy’: London Evening Standard , February 16, 1933. Woolley needing stitches (having earlier retired ‘owing to a bilious attack’ – his stomach’s, or Northamptonshire’s!?): Times , June 21, 1929. Arm in a sling: Derby Mercury , September 2, 1840. Erratic leg spin: Wolverhampton Express and Star , June 1, 1938. Slow bowling ‘quickly discontinued’: Sheffield Independent , July 31, 1852. Jack O’Connor on standing your ground: Leicester Sports Mercury , July 7, 1928. ‘Old school’: Derby Mercury , July 13, 1846: ‘Etonian school’: July 6, 1842: and ‘science and skill’, September 4, 1861. Cyril Smart on batting: Lichfield Mercury , May 15, 1936; and Reg Santall, May 1, 1936. Under-hand bowling laughed at: Tamworth Herald , July 25, 1925. Hammond alone not finding being bowled by Bradman funny: London Evening Standard , January 17, 1933. Fast under-hands: Sheffield Evening Star , July 27, 1875. Middlesex out for 75: for example, Cardiff Evening Express , June 13, 1892. Thanks to Andrew Hignell for pointing me to Welsh Newspapers Online Beta, National Library of Wales website. Cowdrey on danger of ‘brute strength’: Country Life , May 5, 1983. Alfort Smith changing batting hands: Derby Mercury , June 6, 1877. Sugg disapproving of batsman throwing ball to bowler: Leicester Sports Mercury , July 14, 1928. Books: Cec Parkin on the way of the bowler: Cricket Triumphs and Troubles (1936), page 134. Country estate rivals: A Wiltshire Home: A Study of Little Durnford , by Dorothy Devenish (1948), pages 33-34. For Somerset’s ill-mannered declaration in a 55-over match in 1979: see Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1980, page 693. See also John Arlott’s commentary in The Sources