Sheffield Cricket Lovers' Society Year Book 2016

7 Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society Monday 13th October 2014 Once again the Pea & Pie Supper proved to be very popular with our members. After the meal, enjoyed by all, our guest Andrew Gale, the Captain of our 2014 successful County Cricket team answered the many questions put to him. He gave his views on the team ,all the backroom staff and his own performance during the past season. He placed great emphasis on the close comradeship within the Club at all playing levels and considered it to be a great honour to be a member of a well run organisation. It was very apparent from his comments that Yorkshire have a bright future to look forward to. This report by Peter Mason, Vice Chairman Thursday 23rd October 2014 A warm welcome this evening to the Director of the Museum at Headingley, David Hall CBE TD. David has for some time been involved with maintaining the Archives of YCCC. Together with a small group of helpers they developed the plans for the Museum at Headingley. He recounted the struggle to raise the required finance for the project and described the planning process to which he was able to lend some of his considerable retailing skills to plan the detailed layout of the Museum. His research work involved visiting other established museums at various sporting locations. The Yorkshire Cricket Museum is now fully operational and is operated by The Yorkshire Cricket Foundation ably supported by the Yorkshire County Cricket Club and was funded by the National Lottery and the Heritage Lottery Fund. The museum has been visited by quite a number of our members who all recommend it as well worth a visit. Thursday 6th November 2014 It was a great pleasure to welcome our guest this evening, Dan Waddell. Dan, a true Yorkshireman born in Pudsey but now living in London, is still an enthusiastic cricketer but also a Journalist, Author of both fact and fiction, is a keen genealogist and a Military Historian, Dan came to tell us of his latest book ‘Field of Shadows’ which chronicles the emergence of cricket in Nazi Germany. Despite the fact that Adolf Hitler despised cricket, there were some enthusiasts-heartened by the success of the 1936 Olympic Games-who were keen to encourage the development of cricket in Germany and the most enthusiastic one Felix Menzel persuaded the Nazi leaders to allow him to invite an English team to tour Germany. That team was Gentlemen of Worcestershire, led by former Worcester CCC skipper Major Maurice Jewell. Jewell was ordered not to lose by the MCC and the team played two unofficial Test Matches the second taking place in the Olympic Stadium which one year earlier had hosted the Olympic Games. Dan kept our members enthralled with details of the tour and we were delighted to have had www.sheffieldcricketlovers.org.uk Continued on page 16