Lives in Cricket No 52 - Schooled in Cricket (2nd edition)

122 the Yorkshire captaincy and had not done well under that excruciating pressure. His return to Leeds synchronised with Johnny’s arrival. It may not have been a total co- incidence – given Johnny’s friendship with the Sutcliffe family. There was also Arthur Clues, the veteran great Australian rugby league international who played in the winter on the other side of the old two-way grandstand at Headingley for the Leeds Rugby League side but who was a no mean all- rounder at cricket. There was the young Brian Bolus who would go on to play for Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and England as a (mainly opening) batsman and who could bowl useful off spinners and in the leg-break department there was besides Johnny the young Peter Kippax who also joined the club in 1958 and went on to play several times for Yorkshire. Gordon Chadwick was a batsman wicketkeeper who challenged for a place at Yorkshire and then at Lancashire – in both cases playing for those counties’ second elevens. A fast bowler called Ian Hallas from York CC was another highly talented player as was Peter Brayshay who had occasionally A star again in league cricket Leeds, 1958: Back Row: Wolf Mylan, Gordon Chadwick, Colin Huby, Dennis Duncan, Ian Hallas, Mal Colley, Alan Horsler. Front row: Arthur Clues, Billy Sutcliffe, Mike Crawford, Johnny Lawrence, Brian Bolus.