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222 Zam-Buk endorsed: Burton Daily Mail , July 6, 1907. An example of free publicity for ‘ambassador’ inserted into article: Financial Times magazine, November 16, 2013. Teenage Hutton playing in Pudsey after watching Bradman: Observer , August 21, 1988. Lincolnshire club aloof: Grimsby Evening Telegraph , April 8, 1978. Reg Simpson wallet stolen: Nottingham Guardian , June 17, 1948. Lichfield club windows broken: Lichfield Mercury , April 24, 1936. Reg Sinfield: Bristol Evening World , June 1, 1946. Frank Woolley’s parking fine widely reported, for instance Ipswich Evening Star , March 15, 1938. Books: Batsmen wearing skirted jackets: Bonaventure and the Flashing Blade: A novel about cricket (1967), by Gary Sobers, page 92. Wish Russians would play: Ashes to Ashes: A post-mortem on the Tests 1950-51 , by Rex Warner and Lyle Blair (1951), page 108; Tavern waitress, page viii. Like a ‘travelling circus’: Ted Dexter’s Cricket Book (1963), page 84. Three chances for boy: Cricket Dialogue , by C.H.Taylor and D.H.Macindoe (1949), page 9. Imagined second life as county cricketer: Along the Road to Frome , by Christopher Hollis (1958), page 12. No-one drops a catch on purpose: Tackle Cricket This Way, by Colin Cowdrey (1964), page 116. Players not shareholders: page 123. Peter Radford talk on running race times, British Society of Sports History north west symposium, Crewe, May 2013. Lord’s bomb hoax during 2005 Test: interview with security consultant Richard Hester, St John’s Wood, July 23, 2013. Chapter Twenty-Four: Into The Void Archive material: Letters of sympathy after Freeman Barnardo’s death: file D272/3/10, Lichfield. Newspapers: Always played the game: Derby Daily Telegraph , August 14, 1920. Haig speech: many newspapers, May 5, 1919. Graham Cowdrey on ‘spirit of cricket’: City AM , December 3, 2013. Garrett in Sydney Morning Herald , January 25, 1933. On war: Stuart Broad, London Evening Standard , July 3, 2013; and Alastair Cook, Guardian , November 25, 2013. George Geary interview: Leicester Sports Mercury , July 5, 1924. Herbert Vane-Tempest court case: widely reported, for instance Monmouthshire Merlin , July 9, 1880. Verity’s help during Hutton’s 364: Observer , May 6, 1984. Hard game: Observer, June 18, 1989. R.C.Legge’s death while batting: Ashbourne Telegraph , May 31, 1929. Books: Burning a clock not cricket: Through the Bombsight , by Andrew Maitland (1986), page 109. Play the game: The Passing of the Aborigines, by Daisy Bates (1938), page 192. Field-Marshal Haig in Realities of War (1920), by Philip Gibbs, pages 24, 51. Singapore farewell: from Who Dies Fighting (1944) by Angus Rose. Cricket in The Third World War: August 1985 by General Sir John Hackett (1978), pages 321 and 457. Struggle of wills: Cricket … Do it this way , Wheatley and Parry, page 9. Compassion: Keith Andrew, The Skills of Cricket (1984), page 1. For a re-tracing of Hedley Verity’s steps in Sicily in 1943, see James Holland’s article in the first issue of The Nightwatchman , March 2013. * My father died while I was putting these last lines together. I can go outside now to the back lawn, where he, and his father, bowled under-arm to me as a boy. In that spirit I end this book. * Sources