Cricket Witness No 6 - His Captain's Hand on His Shoulder Smote

43 Chapter Three The Outcrop; Walpole; Waugh; Wodehouse Et Al The Hope of His House; Rivals at St Johns; The Hardy Brookdale Boys;The Fellows of Ten Trees School; The White House Boys; Forge of Foxenby; The Life of the School; Clare of Glen House; The Luck of the Lower Fifth; After a Fine Innings (with the picture of a schoolboy batsman returning to the pavilion amidst enthusiastic applause) Tringle at Harlech; The Boys of Castle Cliff School; The Sporting Fifth at Ripleys; Something Like a Chum; The Greenway Heathens; Parry Wins Through; The Grammar School Hotspurs; The Fifth Form at Beck House;His Brother at St Concord’s;Up Against the School; With Wat at Wintergleam;The Boys of Tudorville; Two Terms at Linglands; The Four Schools; The Worst Boy in the Town; Tom at Tollbar School; The Boys of Ringing Rock; Pulling Templeton Together; The Broom and Heather Boys; Tudor Vale Colours; Young Rockwood at School; One of the Best; Rival Schools at Schooner Bay; Fenshaven Finds its Feet; The School’s Airmen; The New Boy at Baxtergate; Blake of the Modern Fifth; Three Joskins at St Judes; Battle Royal School; Too Big for the Fifth;The Captain of Glendale; Boys of the Mystery School; Strickland of the Sixth; Jack O’ Langsett (with a cricketing scene on the front cover). Here are over forty school-based books, many of them with cricket featured. What is their provenance? Is it a year’s tally of school-type books or what? The answer arose when I was glancing at a book that had been on my shelves for some time entitled The Hope of His House by an author otherwise unknown to me called RAH Goodyear. Intending, as will be soon seen, to employ this novel as a sample in this chapter, I idly wondered whether or not I should try and find more detail about Robert Arthur Hanson Goodyear. I discovered that he was a Yorkshire-born writer who lived