Yorkshire Cricketers Serve With Forces
Second-Lieut. T. F. Smailes, R.A. (who took all 10 wickets of Derbyshire at Sheffield in 1940), looked in to see the Sports Editor of the “Yorkshire Evening Post” on March 15 when on leave.
He is stationed within reach of a ground on which he has bowled well for Yorkshire in many a keen County championship game, and he said he is nicely settled, though he would be happier were he and the others attending Headingley in preparation for the opening of a 1941 cricket campaign. • •
Smailes went into the army along with Maurice Leyland and A. B. Sellers in the early days of the war—about the time that Hedley Verity and Bill Bowes became sappers' in .the Royal Engineers. A. B. Sellers (County cricket leader), now a captain, is stationed in the South, and is as popular with his men as he was with Yorkshire crowds, Leyland, a sergeant, is stationed 'not far from Smailes. Bowes hhs gone overseas, while Verity, along with Norman Yardley, is in the North-west.
There is 'talk of both Verity and Yardley turning out for Middleton in League cricket in . Lancashire this season. Middleton folk know Verity well; in fact, they’ll tell you there that they schooled Verity for his great work with Yorkshire.
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Northern Advocate, 27 May 1941, Page 5
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