The Twelfth Man 2014

! 13 special!issue!of! The!Twelfth!Man ,!but!I!might!include!a!few! and!readers!will!notice!the!overwhelming!degree!of! kindness.!In!his!long!career!apparently!there!were!very! few!players!with!whom!he!‘didn’t!get!on’.! However,!right!at!the!outset,!asked!about!the!county! coaches,!he!met!either!at!his!Club,!or!when!visiting! Headingley,!Morris!Leyland,!Arthur!Mitchell!and!Emmott! Robinson!of!Keighley:!a!lovely!gentle!man!and!he!found!it! hard!to!believe!he!had!been!a!top!class!seam!bowler,!he! was!so!small.!“I!wish!I!had!met!George!Hirst”,!he!added.!In! those!days!when!County!coaches!were!moving!around! clubs,!it!was!a!real!thrill!for!everyone!to!meet!them.!“When! I!got!on!the!County!Committee!I!persuaded!Doug!Padgett! to!visit!Clubs.”! “I’ll!never!forget!having!to!miss!one!practice!while!at! School.!It!was!on!the!same!day!as!the!CrossMCountry!race,!I! asked!to!be!excused,!to!no!avail,!but!at!least!I!got!a!note!for! Arthur!Mitchell!explaining!my!absence.!Mr.!McDonald,! my!Headmaster,!kept!in!touch!with!me,!long!after!I!had!left,! regularly!writing!when!I!had!done!well.! “I’ll!not!forget!a!time!when!I!had!just!broken!into!the!team.! Johnny!Wardle!was!bowling,!while!I!was!on!the!longMoff! boundary.!He!kept!appealing!to!umpire!Harry!Elliott,!then!I! joined!in!with!a!quiet!‘How’s!That?’!Looking!up,!I!saw! Harry,!in!his!brown!hat,!striding!maybe!45!yards,!to!tell! me:!‘Don’t!let!me!hear!you!again,!young!man!only!the! bowler!should!appeal.’!In!that!same!match,!he!gave!Harry! Halliday!out!LBW,!when!he!had!stretched!well!down!the! wicket.!At!the!close!of!play!he!stormed!into!our!dressing! room!to!have!a!strong!word!with!Harry!about!the!glares! with!which!he’d!left!the!field.!Harry,!the!hairiest!man!I!ever!saw,!was!standing!on!a!bench!in!just!a!jock! strap!and!told!the!umpire!what!he!thought,!ending!with!“You!even!got!on!to!our!young!un”.!Alas,!so!many! stories:!Glamorgan!(and!a!fierce!Wilf!Wooller),!Sussex!and!Rev!David!Sheppard!and!lots!of!others.!His! WILLIAM!BRYAN!STOTT! Born!18!July!1934!in!Yeadon.!! Batting!style:!leftMhanded! Bowling!style:!RightMarm!medium!pace! Years! ! Team! 1952M63!! Yorkshire! 1955M56!! Combined!Services! ! ! First!Class! List!A! Matches! !!!!!190!! !!!!2! Runs! ! !!!9,248! !!!30! Average! !!!31.4!!!! 15.00! 100s/50s! !!17/46! High!score! !!!!186! ! !!!30! Balls!bowled! !!!!189! Wickets! !!!!!!7! Average! !!!16.00! Best! ! !!!!4M34! Catches! !!!!!91! FLASHBACK 10 years ago – 2004 Words&by&Mick&Pope& The%smiling%face%of%Wombwell’s%late%founding%Secretary,%Jack%Sokell,%filled%the%% front%cover%of%the%2004% Twelfth(Man .%It%was%hard%to%imagine%that%for%the%first%% time%in%53%years%WCLS%had%to%face%the%prospect%of%life%without%Jack%as%Secretary,%% as%Chairman,%James%Greenfield,%commented%in%his%annual%report.%Tributes%and%% images%of%Jack%dominated%the%magazine:%WCLS%would%not%see%his%like%again!%Fred%% Trueman’s%planned%appearance%at%Wombwell%was%cancelled,%but%he%honoured%% the%commitment%later%that%year%with%a%dinner%in%October%and%the%Society%moved%% forward%with%a%busy%speaker%programme%with%visits%from%Geoff%Cope,%Steve%Kirby%% (he%must%surely%be%due%again?),%Steve%Oldham,%Bob%Appleyard%with%Derek%% Hodgson,%young%Yorkshire%cricketers,%Andrew%Gale%and%Ajmal%Shahzad,%Jim%% Cumbes%and%evenings%with%both%Durham%and%Nottinghamshire.%% A'youthful'Jack'Sokell'–' Wombwell'Cricket'Lovers’' founding'secretary:'a'role' that'remained'his'passion' for'a'staggering'53'years,' before'his'death'in'2004 !