The Real Jeeves

Name: The Real Jeeves | "The Cricketer Who Gave His Life for His Country and His Name to a Legend
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"The Cricketer Who Gave His Life for His Country and His Name to a Legend

Brian Halford(Autor*in)

Pitch Publishing Ltd

Erschienen am 1. Juni 2013

176 Seiten

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Intro
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword by DENNIS AMISS (former Warwickshire and England cricketer)
Foreword by MILES JUPP (actor, comedian and writer)
Foreword by KEITH MELLARD (great nephew of Percy Jeeves)
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: A four-in-hand - Prevention of Singing Act - The Grasshoppers spring into life - Superhuman subtlety
2: Jeeves takes eight - Perils of the light railway - Purvis's manly chest - It is resolved to lynch the secretary
3: Poor circumstances - A move to Sleepy Hollow - Under William Appleyard's wing - Featherstone slag
4: "He sent down pure piffle" - The young express bowler - Right-back for Swinefleet - Train trouble
5: "Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth" - The ominous cognomen of Duck - Mr Baker's XI - The Gentlemen bat with broomsticks
6: A wrecked wicket - The 1880 Wild Birds Act - Jeeves ponders his future - Doncaster Plant Works
7: Athletic News - Professional at Hawes - Trial for Yorkshire - R.V. Ryder cuts himself shaving
8: Ground duties at Edgbaston - S. Blanks becomes the first - Jeeves bowls F.R. Foster - A toast is drunk to 'The Press'
9: The Titanic sinks - Jeeves shines for Moseley - West Bromwich Albion right-half George Baddeley is carried shoulder-high from the field - "The young Yorkshireman is to be heartily congratulated."
10: Herbert Hordern stays at home to concentrate on his dental practice - Jeeves make his debut against Australia - Kelleway edges behind - A perfect roar of applause
11: Middle stump a speciality - Seven Nondescripts score nought - Jeeves faces South Africa - Feeble batting, slack fielding, an attack without sting
12: 20 all out - Santall takes all ten against Samuel Talboys's XI - Jeeves fields for five minutes in the County Championship - The Birmingham League champions are routed
13: Cold and wet - The Guller wins the Chester Cup - Championship debut at Tipton Road - "Lifeless and depressing in the extreme"
14: "A most valuable addition to the team" - The disappearance of a donkey in Southampton - Jeeves dismisses the son of a friend of Charles Dickens - Mead bats brilliantly
15: Quaife is barracked - Foster collides with a sideboard - The burden falls upon Jeeves - A ferocious new-ball spell
16: A Turkish bath - Gaily decorated tents - Jeeves too good for Woolley - 16 all out
17: The raucous regulars at Bramall Lane - "Some inspiring cricket was seen" - Jeeves hits Rhodes for successive sixes - A hero's reception
18: Tedious batting from Makepeace - The suffering of Hastings Post Office - "Is Jeeves over-bowled?" - A broken stump
19: 485 runs and 19 wickets in a day - "Deadly bowling by Jeeves" - Yorkshire's players speak highly of Jeeves's batting - To Cheltenham
20: Asquith vetoes Channel Tunnel scheme - A sea of boaters - Gloucestershire crack open the champagne - P.G. Wodehouse takes note
21: A former bricklayer deploys tedious methods - Doll is the 100th - A downpour at twenty past two - Jeeves gets a pay rise
22: An interview with Percy Jeeves
23: Aston Villa - Chaos in Albania - Fender reaches his 100 with an all-run six - Warwickshire beat Worcestershire by an innings and 371 runs
24: Leg-theory - Warner is non-plussed - A sticky dog - Almost unplayable
25: Jeeves returns to his roots - Quaife bores 3,307 paying spectators - Assassination in Sarajevo - A bail is carried 41 paces
26: The finest cricketers in the world - Gunn tests the crowd's patience - A brute of a delivery - Jeeves is the talk of English cricket
27: Four wickets in four balls - "Armies mobilising" - Jeeves and Foster in deadly tandem - War is declared
28: Chapman is commissioned to buy horses - "Your Country Needs You" - 'Punter' Humphries is completely baffled - Jeeves and Jaques
29: Jeeves bats brilliantly - Jeeves bowls brilliantly - Jeeves fields brilliantly - Jeeves joins up
30: Farewell to Edgbaston - Birmingham Pals - Training at Sutton Park - Boldmere Parish Rooms become a lecture theatre
31: Back to Wensleydale - Extricating Young Gussie - Service-rifles are issued - Abide with me
32: A vile introduction to France - Waist-deep thick liquid-mud - Into the trenches - Christmas Day
33: To Arras - "A cold numbness settles upon the limbs" - Jeeves spends his 28th birthday in 24 trench - "Groans and cries were heard"
34: "Murderous fire from the enemy" - A perfect summer's day - Nets strung across the water - B Company is "blown to pieces"
35: 1 July 1916 - Jeeves's last game of cricket - "A vast graveyard with the majority of its occupants exposed to the elements" - "The slaughter going on in Caterpillar Valley"
36: The attack begins at dusk - Two companies 'disappear' - Strung out in still rows - Percy Jeeves is missing
37: A brilliant cricketer - "The summit of fame was death" - The Thiepval Memorial - Reverence and affection
Appendix
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