Mixed Bag

Posted by Brian Sanderson

Wednesday 7th April.

It had rained on Tuesday night so they would not be started on time at Headingley.So I telephone David Thorpe in Paddock to tell him the weather conditions and to find the room at Huddersfield University where the meeting would be to-night. With the spare time before the match I finished a summary of scrapbook mainly about Major Booth from 1912 to 1914.Also there is press reports about The Leeds Pal.
Looking on the Yorkshire web-site I saw they had started at the ground. Met Kevin Sharp on the way in who said the match yesterday finished about 6.00pm and a new match had started to-day. It turned out to be Rudolph,s X1 V Blain X1. Blain X1 were batting and Sayer was out a duck.
Gerry joined us and is the Middlesex book seller.He said he was going to Old Trafford to-morrow to watch Lancashire v Durham and then catching a coach at 1.am. in the morning to Birmingham and then on to Worcester to see the Middlesex match. Things people do to watch cricket.
Left Headingley about 12.45 to go to Leeds. Mc Grath was 40 not out.Enjoyed a good Chinese buffet however it stated to rain so the match would not be playing.
Went home to log on to Cricket Archive to look at the matches for M.C.C to South Africa 1913-14Tour.
These were included in the scrapbook.Will update the web site to-morrow.
Sent off to Huddersfield by train. Set next to Frenchman who had just come back from two months in India.He was going to Huddersfield New College for a Juggling Convention.Did not understand cricket..
Walked on to University to learned from Sean Read about Irish Cricket in the Nineteeth Century. No nothing about it. First person who I saw there was Mick Bourne who had been two months in Australia. Great to see him again and he will always have interesting tales.Sean did a excellent talk and shown again what interesting cricket matters out there.
Good to see Peter Davies there after he had come out of hospital.
Mick gave me a left home and watched the second half of the Manchester football match.
Great to be a Pensioner.