Wartime cricket in Yorkshire - June 1943 (Part two)

Posted by Tony Hutton

More from the wartime archives of the Yorkshire Post newspaper.

22.6.1943 - Arthur Wood's XI v Jack Appleyard's XI at Yorkshire Post Sports Ground, Glen Road, Far Headingley, Leeds. This match raised £100 plus proceeds of an auction in aid of the Merchant Navy.

Appleyard's XI 106-6 (Scarborough 31, Lawrence 23) Wood's XI 107-5 (S. Lawrence 51 not out, Clarke 22, Wood 13). Sutcliffe hit a six and was then caught out.

Wood's XI - A. Wood (Yorkshire & England), H. Sutcliffe (Yorkshire & England), L. Hutton (Yorkshire & England), Vic Hey (captain of Leeds R.L.), Hepworth (Woodhouse), J. Clarke (Woodhouse), S. Lawrence (Carlton), H. Paley (L.I.C.S.), H. James (Leeds), G.Stones (Kirkstall Educational), and N. Bennett (L.I.C.S.).

Music provided by the Pipe Band of the 2nd Battalion Army Cadet Force.

Saturday 26.6.1943 - Major A.B. Sellars XI v The Army at Headingley. This was a star studded game with many well known county cricketers turning out. (12 players a side).

Sellars XI 201 all out (G.F.H. Heane 72, C.B. Harris 34, G. Lambert 3-42).The Army 202-8 (C.S. Dempster 52, F.T. Prentice 46, Bullock 3-44).  

Sellars XI - A.B. Sellars, M. Leyland, H. Halliday (all Yorkshire), A. H. Pearson, C.H. Hall, Douglas, Bullock, (Bradford League), W.H. Lister (Lancs), F. Sibbles (Lancs), G.F.H. Heane, C.B. Harris (both Notts), and H.G. Davies (Glamorgan).

The Army - Lt. C.S. Dempster (Leicestershire), Capt. H.T. Bartlett (Sussex), Pte. L.H. Compton (Middlesex), Maj. S.C. Griffith (Sussex - captain), Sgt. T.G. Evans (Kent), Capt. J.D. Robertson (Middlesex), Capt. R. Sale (Derbyshire), Sgt. Inst. G. Lambert (Gloucester), Sgt. Inst. M.S. Nichols (Essex), Lt. F.T. Prentice (Leicestershire), Sapper J. Knowles (Notts) and Capt. A.H. Parnaby (Durham).

Also on 26.6.1943 - In the Bradford League Len Hutton scored 105 for Pudsey St Lawrence v Bankfoot and Leslie Ames of Kent scored 75 not out for Windhill against Eccleshill.

 

Roundhay Park Oval today. It is hard to imagine Hill 60 full of spectators watching the cricket during the war. It got it's name from a hill near Ypres to remember the Leeds Pals dead from World War One.

Sunday 27.6.1943 - at Roundhay Park, Leeds, Jack Appleyard's XI 134 all out (Robertson 40, King 41, Wharton 5-34, G.H. Ellicott's XI 138-6 (Phillips 41, Emmerson 33, Fisher 3-19).

Appleyard's XI - W. Barber (Yorkshire & England), E. Paynter (Lancashire & England), M. Martindale (Keighley & West Indies), T. Goddard (Gloucester & England), H. Fisher (Yorkshire), G. Brook (Worcester), G. Carter (Eccleshill), G. Dawson (Pudsey St. Lawrence), K. Fiddling (Yorkshire), R. Shaw (Holbeck), J.D. Robertson (Middlesex) and B.P. King (Worcester).

G.H. Ellicott's XI - G.H. Ellicott (Menston), H. Halliday (Yorkshire), C.A. Hudson (Menston), H. Bolton (Otley), J. Swift (Yeadon), J.C. Rigg (Menston), F. Wharton (Yeadon), A. Davison (Eccleshill), H. Daphne (Yeadon), E. Emmerson (Guiseley), Sgt. J. Nightingale (Army) and G. Phillips (Idle).

 (To be continued).