IN THE PRESENCE OF AUTHORS

By Brian Sanderson,

On the return from five days break in the London area it was nice to get back to  village cricket.The forecast was sunny but a strong westerly wind at Arthington were they were playing The Jesters who are based round Leeds.One of the first people I met was Tony Hutton who was very pleased to tell me  he had just received three books from Brian Levinson who has recently published a book called All in a Day,s Cricket in which  a story is included from "Off the beaten track" which was written by Tony ,Brian and Mick.One of the nice things was in the index Tony Hutton name was next to Len Hutton.

Back to the match The Jester bowled first with a young Goldthorpe bowling.He is the son of James Goldthorpe who plays for Yeadon and was at the match to see two of his sons play in the match.Another playing in the team was Mel Wood who played for Arthington last week.After the rain last week the pitch was soft and Arthington struggled to score quickly.They managed to score 132 for 9 in the forty overs.

At tea-time Mick Bourne and Brian Senior arrived after watching a match at Harewood a few miles away so they collected their own private copy of the Levinson book.The openers for The Jesters were Matin Ivill and his son who was also the wicket-keeper.Martin plays for Yorkshire over 60,s together with Mel Wood and to-day he topped scored with fifty-four not out .The bowling was not of the highest standard so the match finished about five forty-five plenty of time to see the rugby league.Just to remind people Leeds are in the Grand Final next week after a hard match at Wigan.

Forecast for to-morrow is rain so the match with King James must be questionable.