10th & 11th March 2018 at The Premier Travel Inn (Fosse Park), Braunstone Lane East, Leicester LE3 2FW

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1 knights Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia Auction including the impressive cricket collections of the late Michael Smith of Kent, the late Rev. Dr Andrew Wakefield of South London and the late Richard de Putron Cohen of Guernsey 10th & 11th March 2018 at The Premier Travel Inn (Fosse Park), Braunstone Lane East, Leicester LE3 2FW 11.00am start on both days Saturday 10th Cricket Memorabilia Sunday 11th Wisden Cricketers Almanacks, Cricket Books, Football & Sporting Memorabilia Viewing: Friday 5pm to 8pm & Saturday & Sunday 8am to 11am Please note from January 2018 our buyer s premium will be 20% + VAT Approximate rate of sale 140/160 lots per hour Complimentary tea, coffee & mineral water will be available. Please bring any items along during viewing times for a free valuation with no obligation A buyer s premium of 20% (plus VAT at 20%) of the hammer price is payable by the buyers of all lots. Cheques to be made payable to "Knight s Sporting Limited". Credit cards and debit accepted. For full terms and conditions see overleaf. Postal bids are welcomed and should be sent to: Knight s Sporting Ltd, Cuckoo Cottage, Town Green, Alby, Norwich NR11 7PR Office: Mobile: bids to tim@knights.co.uk Please note: All commission bids to be received no later than 6pm on the day prior to the auction of the lots you are bidding on. Auction results will be available by telephone from the Tuesday following the auction. Postage and packing will be charged at current rates for all postal deliveries. Packing will be charged at 3.00 (+ VAT) per customer. Live telephone bidding can be arranged by contacting the auctioneer at least two days prior to the day of auction. We have a mandatory minimum lot estimate of 80. Please see conditions of sale and for full details. Please call prior to 8th March Many additional images of lots are available on our website 1 Online bidding Knights Sporting Limited are delighted to offer an online bidding facility at our auctions for bidders who cannot attend the sale. Bid on lots and buy online from anywhere in the world at the click of a mouse with the-saleroom.com's Live Auction service. Full details of this service can be found at In completing the bidder registration on and providing your credit card details and unless alternative arrangements are agreed with Knights Sporting Limited you authorise Knights Sporting Limited, if they so wish, to charge the credit card given in part or full payment, including all fees, for items successfully purchased in the auction via the-saleroom.com, and confirm that you are authorised to provide these credit card details to Knights Sporting Limited through and agree that Knights Sporting Limited are entitled to ship the goods to the card holder name and card holder address provided in fulfilment of the sale. Please note that any lots purchased via the-saleroom.com live auction service will be subject to an additional 3% commission charge + VAT at the rate imposed on the hammer price.

2 CONDITIONS OF SALE 1. A buyer s premium of 20% (plus 20%) of the hammer price is payable by the buyers of all lots. 2. Cheques to be made payable to Knights Sporting Limited. 3. Knights Sporting Ltd, Registered Office, The Thatched Gallery, The Green, Aldborough, Norwich, Norfolk. NR11 7AA 4. Postage and packing will be charged at current rates for all postal deliveries. 4a Postage and packing is subject to VAT at 20%. 5. The seller warrants to the Auctioneer and to the buyer that he is the true owner or is properly authorised to sell the property by the true owner and is able to transfer good and marketable title to the property free from any third party claim. 6. The highest bidder to be the buyer. If during the auction the Auctioneer considers that a dispute has arisen he has absolute authority to settle it or re-offer the lot. 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3 CRICKET EPHEMERA 1 Surrey C.C.C Rare and very early official fixture card for the 1875 season with home and away fixtures for County matches, Surrey Club and Ground matches, dates of meetings etc. By order of the Committee. C.W. Alcock, Secretary. 1st May 1875 to lower border. 3 x4.5. Minor foxing and ageing, otherwise in good/ very good condition 70/100 Official County Championship placings were not introduced until In 1875 Surrey played ten County matches, winning three, losing five and drawing two 2 Surrey C.C.C Rare and very early official fixture card for the 1877 season with home and away fixtures for County, representative, Surrey Club and Ground matches, dates of meetings etc. By order of the Committee. C.W. Alcock, Secretary. 1st May 1877 to lower border. 3 x4.5. Some foxing and ageing, otherwise in good/ very good condition 70/100 Official County Championship placings were not introduced until In 1877 Surrey played twelve County matches, winning six, losing three and drawing three 3 Surrey C.C.C Rare and very early official folding fixture card for the 1884 season with home and away fixtures for County, representative, Test, tour, Surrey Club and Ground matches etc. C.W. Alcock, Secretary to front cover. 3 x4.5. Minor foxing and ageing, otherwise in good/ very good condition 60/90 In 1884 Surrey played sixteen County matches, winning seven, losing four and drawing five. The third and final Test match against Australia (the sixth Test match ever to be played, the third in England) was played at The Oval, 11th-13th August. In a high scoring draw Australia scored 551 in their first innings, top scorers were Murdoch (211), McDonnell (103) and Scott (102). Unusually, all eleven England players bowled including the wicket keeper, Lyttleton, who took four wickets for nineteen runs. England s CRICKET MEMORABILIA top scorer was Read with 117 runs. England won the three match Test series Surrey C.C.C Rare and very early official folding fixture card for the 1890 season with home and away fixtures for County, representative, Test, tour, Surrey Club and Ground matches etc. 3 x4.5. VG 40/60 When County Championship placings were introduced in 1887 Surrey were Champions from 1887 to 1892, including the 1890 season, the first to be officially organised by the Counties. Surrey played fourteen matches, winning nine, losing three and drawing two. Surrey also played the Australian tourists at The Oval, 22nd-24th May 1890 (Australians won by eight wickets) and 17th-19th July 1890 (match drawn). The Oval also hosted the second Test match against Australia, 11th-12th August 1890, which England won by two wickets 5 Surrey C.C.C Rare and very early official folding fixture card for the 1891 season with home and away fixtures for County, representative, Surrey Club and Ground matches etc. 3 x4.5. VG 40/60 Surrey were County Champions in 1891, playing sixteen matches of which twelve were won, three lost and two drawn 6 Surrey C.C.C Rare and very early official folding fixture card for the 1892 season with home and away fixtures for County, representative, tour, Surrey Club and Ground matches etc. 3 x4.5. Horizontal fold, otherwise in good/ very good condition 40/60 Surrey were County Champions in 1892, playing sixteen matches of which thirteen were won, two lost and one drawn 7 Cambridge University C.C Original red leather folding Life Member ticket issued to H.W.G. Betteridge. The card with gilt emblem to front and lettering to inside. VG 20/ Bodyline. Season 1932/33. Original Sydney Cricket Ground ladies membership ticket, with cord attachment, for the 1932/33 season. One lady only, once each day from Oct 1st 1932 to Sept Odd faults, good. Rare 40/60 9 Harold Larwood. Nottinghamshire & England Pair of Test Cricket Centenary blue red and silver commemorative cuff links, by Lega, presented to Larwood when he attended the match and festivities in Melbourne in In original box with handwritten inscription to inside box lid Given to R.P.C. by Harold Larwood Sold with Larwood s Honorary Life Membership card for M.C.C. 1968, Larwood s name and address in Sydney, Australia printed to inside. Good condition 60/90 The cuff links and membership card were given to the vendors father by Larwood, who was a good friend of the family and often stayed with them 10 Stoics Cricket Club. Early List of Matches folding fixture cards for 1879, 1881, 1886, and Also two Rules and List of Members booklets for 1885 and 1888, and a fixture card for two tours, date unknown. Odd faults, otherwise in good condition. Qty 10 60/90 It is believed that the Stoics Cricket Club was founded in 1877, originally for the old boys of Westminster School. Notable players who appeared include A.E. Stoddart, C.J. Kortwright and R.W.V. Robins, but it was while playing for Hampstead against Stoics in a one day match in 1886 that Stoddart scored 485 in a total of 813 for 9, the Stoics not getting a bat 11 Australia. Surrey United Cricket Club, New South Wales. Original printed card with gilt edges announcing the Annual Dinner to be held 7th July To verso are players batting and bowling averages for the 1881/82 season. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good/ very good condition 50/80

4 12 Lancashire v Surrey Original copy of the Manchester Evening News for 27th May The four page issue includes a thirty line report on the first day s play at Old Trafford (Surrey 103, Lancashire 96 for 6). This was the first match of the season and the benefit game for F.R. Reynolds who had been the professional bowler of the Manchester club for a period of ten years. Odd faults and minor loss, otherwise in good condition 50/80 Frederick Reginald Evans (Lancashire ) was manager of Old Trafford cricket ground from 1860 to Wallasey Cricket Club s. A collection of official printed and typed reports, meeting agendas, accounts, averages etc for the period. G 20/30 14 New Brighton Cricket Club s. A collection of official printed and typed reports, meeting agendas, accounts, averages etc for the period. G 20/30 15 Three original Alec Bedser Charts exclusively each week in the Sunday Chronicle, Batting Guide, Bowling Guide and Fielding Guide Each measures 11 x19. The Bowling and Fielding guides in good condition, some wear and tear to the Batting guide 20/30 16 American cricket 1970s. Scrapbook comprising newspaper cuttings, the majority copies, of articles relating to American cricket, in particular around New York and Staten Island including items relating to the centenary of State Island Cricket Club in G 30/50 17 Cricket scrapbook 1870s/1890s. Early cricket scrapbook comprising printed cuttings, scorecards, photographs etc with some handwritten annotations and descriptions, collected by William Wright, Manager of the Cricket Press, publishers of pamphlets and brochures on cricket in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The articles relate to the history and development of cricket and includes a trimmed original scorecard for John Lillywhite s Farewell Benefit match, Gentlemen v Players, Brighton 14th-16th August 1871 in which Grace scored 217 for the Gentlemen in their second innings. Also two real photograph bookplates of W.G. Grace and Alfred Shaw, an original member s ticket for a Smoking Concert held at Assembly Rooms, Eyre Arms given by St. John s Wood (Hampstead) Cricket Club, 13th April 1877, a full page handwritten transcription of an article copied from the Annual Register of 1827 etc. Some pages loose, generally good condition 80/120 The following six lots were compiled by George Neville Weston who is renowned as being probably the greatest historian and biographer of W.G. Grace, in particular his attention to the detail of minor matches in which Grace played throughout his career. In the forward to Weston s book W.G. Grace The Great Cricketer published in 1973, Irving Rosenwater quotes A.A. Thompson saying Weston knows more about W.G. than any man alive, to which Rosenwater adds, or dead 18 W.G. The First Fifty Years Large green leather album compiled by the cricket writer and biographer, George Neville Weston, comprising photograph cuttings of the Grace family and home at Downend, Bristol, typed scorecards of early matches in which Grace played, a typed list of matches in which Grace played in 1880, a cutting of an article written by W.G. regarding the death in 1880 of his brother, George Frederick, two weeks after the three brothers had represented England against Australia. The album also comprises family history and cuttings relating to cricketers contemporary to Grace. Sold with a further album comprising correspondence relating to Grace from other cricket historians and collectors including Irvine Rosenwater and R.E.D. Rawlins, a mono copy photograph of a miniature of Grace by Louise Townsend which hangs in the City Art Gallery, Bristol. Also postcards of Grace including Rotary Series no. 3801B, the Crystal Palace Cricket Ground, copies of letters written by Grace etc. Odd faults, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2 100/ George Neville Weston. W.G. Grace biographer. Four scrapbooks and two exercise books compiled by Weston. Each scrapbook relates to different aspects of Grace s life and cricketing career. Titles are W.G. James Lillywhite s Cricketer s Annual 1886 comprising summaries of Grace s batting and bowling statistics for in Weston s own hand. W.G. Matchbox labels comprising cuttings, newsletters and correspondence to and from Weston relating to matchbox labels featuring Grace. Dr W.G. Grace Depicted on Cigarette Cards. A Guide comprising handwritten notes relating to specific cigarette cards on which Grace is featured. Coloured Caricature of W.G. Grace at The Cricketers Kingston-upon-Thames comprising correspondence relating to a caricature of Grace hanging in The Cricketers pub and Weston s efforts to establish the origin of and to obtain a photograph of the print. The two exercise books are indexes handwritten by Weston relating to articles written about Grace in Wisden etc. Qty 6. G 100/ George Neville Weston. W.G. Grace biographer. Five scrapbooks compiled by Weston. Each scrapbook relates to different aspects of Grace s life and cricketing career. Titles are From the Thames to the Seine by H. Lawrence Swinburne comprising cuttings of an article published in Black and White on 31st December 1898 relating to a cross-channel balloon trip seen off from Crystal Palace by Grace. The Late Mr Joseph Benjamin Rider ( The last man to have taken W.G. s wicket (c&b)?) comprising press cuttings relating to the death of Rider in 1963 and related typed correspondence from Weston. W.G. Grace and Osbert Sitwell. Sitwell, poet, playwright and novelist, was down down for M.C.C. membership by Grace at birth, but correspondence including a letter from Diana Rait Kerr, Curator of the Lord s Museum can find no record of Sitwell having been a member. Other contents relate to Sitwell s mother s family, the Londesboroughs, and their connections with cricket at Scarborough. Mrs Elizabeth Haley (Grand-daughter of Dr E.M. Grace) also Grace family v Robinson family 4

5 in 1891 comprising typed notes and correspondence relating to this branch of the Grace family. Also notes relating to a cricket match between the Grace and Robinson families played at Ashley Down, Bristol, 20th August Mrs Mabel (Gertrude) Grace, sister-inlaw of W.G. with correspondence from The Solicitors Law Stationery Society and local newspapers relating to Ernest and Mabel Grace including Mabel s original death certificate dated 18th July G 100/ George Neville Weston. W.G. Grace biographer. Six scrapbooks compiled by Weston. Each scrapbook relates to different aspects of Grace s life and cricketing career. Subjects covered include W.G. playing for both sides in a London County v Worcester Park Beagles in 1907, and also his last appearance in a Gentlemen v Players match, played at The Oval, 16th- 18th July 1907, in which Grace scored 74 in the Gentlemen s second innings. The album contains typed transcripts of articles and scores and press cuttings relating to the two matches. W.G. and Bedfordshire comprising details of matches played by Grace around 1899 and 1900, Grace s connections with R.S. Bob Sievier, a notable benefactor of Bedfordshire County Cricket Club in their efforts to establish minor county status. Merchant Taylors School with correspondence relating to matches played by Grace for London County and M.C.C. against the school in 1901, 1910 and W.G. at Buntingford, Herts comprising correspondence relating to a match W.G. Grace s XI v W.R. Gilbert s XI played at Buntingford on 30th April 1875, also a good selection of original mono postcards of Buntigford village in very good condition. Ilmington Stone Carving comprising two original mono photographs and correspondence relating to a stone carving of a bust of Grace over the gateway of a house in Ilmington, Warwickshire. W.G. at Walsall ( ) comprising typed transcriptions of matches played by Grace at the Cuckery Ground, Walsall, also later correspondence relating to those matches and details of a talk given by Weston to the Rotary Club of Walsall in G 100/ George Neville Weston. W.G. Grace biographer. Five scrapbooks compiled by Weston. Each scrapbook relates to different aspects of Grace s life and cricketing career. Subjects covered include W.G. Grace at Home ( Olympia 1887) comprising a lengthy typed transcription and cuttings from an article on Grace which appeared in the magazine, Olympia, a monthly miscellany of sports and pastimes in Also typed statistics of Grace s bowling achievements and centuries scored W.G. The Scots Observer 1889 and The National Observer 1891 including correspondence from Diana Rait Kerr, Curator of the Lord s Museum, Michael Pugh of M.C.C.,and also the British Museum Newspaper Library relating to articles, with typed transcripts and cuttings, that appeared in both publications. W.G. in the Boy s Own Paper with cuttings and correspondence with Jack Cox, the author of an article on Grace which appeared in the paper in 1960, and how Grace had introduced his brother-in-law, W.J. Gordon, to the paper as a staff writer. England v Australia, Lord s 1884 July Sketches from the Graphic etc with typed scores for the second Test played at Lord s and copies of sketches by George H. Cooper, which originally appeared in the Graphic of players who featured in the match, four of which featured Grace. W.G. The Bystander 1906 July 4 to Sept 12 comprising cuttings from The Bystander which appeared in 1906, in which Grace is strongly featured. G 100/ George Neville Weston. W.G. Grace biographer. Five scrapbooks compiled by Weston. Each scrapbook relates to different aspects of Grace s life and cricketing career. Subjects covered include W.G. Result of an advertisement in John O London s February 25th 1960 comprising a cutting of a classified advertisement placed by Weston asking for anything relating to this great cricketer. Resulting correspondence includes six handwritten responses, offering Grace s signature and books for sale etc. G.L. Jessop on W.G. comprising cuttings of Jessop s article on Grace which appeared in the M.C.C. Book for the Young 5 Cricketer published in 1951, also cuttings from Punch, 12th September Lord s 1874 relating to the book, Arlott and Trueman on Cricket published in Correspondence relates to Weston trying to obtain a copy of a picture of Grace that appeared in the book with letters from the B.B.C. Stephen Gree, Curator of the M.C.C. museum, also the Cooper-Bridgman Library. British Broadcasting Museum Today from the South West (Bristol) Good Morning Wales (Cardiff) Oct 22nd 1965 comprising correspondence relating to Weston asking for transcripts of interviews relating to Grace, and a script for the piece broadcast on the Welsh home Service in W.G & Interesting letters and enclosures from my friends... comprising a good selection of handwritten letters and cuttings. G 100/ England tour to Australia 1894/95. Sporting Sketches. Copy of the magazine for 18th March The front cover has a portrait of The Hero of the Hour- J.T. Brown in batting pose, taken from a Hawkins original. Brown s 140 in England s second innings in the fifth Test in Melbourne (1st-6th March) had secured a win in the five-test series by three matches to two. Page five comprises an article by W. Brockwell, Our Trip to the Antipodes, being an account of the tourists visit to Broken Hill and Dandenong in January 1895 where matches were played. Page seven features cameo photographs of the England v Australia- The Victorious [English] Team. Horizontal fold, some tears and wear, generally in good condition 100/ Early Cricket. The scrapbook of Ernest Short. The scrapbook is a copy of E.V. Lucas s The Hambledon Men of 1907 extensively extended with the inclusion of pictures, newspaper cuttings, typed notes etc, much referring to cricket later than the original book, so that the finished scrapbook is 3 thick, and bound in green calf with the spine title of Early Cricket. Ex libris E.H. Short in gilt. The majority of the additions to the original book are magazine and newspaper cuttings accumulated during Short s time in London. Notable contents include a candid

6 sepia photograph of Patsy Hendren, Sydney Southerton journalist and editor of Wisden 1934/35, White, Chapman, Tate and Hammond on the 1928/29 England tour in Australia at a railway station. Signatures of nine of the contributors to a BBC Radio Empire Programme Back to the Pavilion: Recollections of Lord s, mainly professional actors such as Norman Shelley, but also Plum Warner and Arthur Mailey. A two page typed letter from E.V. Lucas dated 4th December 1905, inviting contributions for the Misses Nyren fund. A typed article on Bonner with handwritten amendments written from his home address of 2, Whitehall Court, SW1. A signed postcard dated 10th June 1946 from C.B. Fry at Hamble inviting Short and any others he wishes to his box at Lord s for three forthcoming matches etc. Wear and bowing to covers, generally good condition 250/350 Ernest Short ( ), an Australian, was for a time the London correspondent of a Melbourne paper. He wrote some books from the mid-1920s to the mid-1950s on art, sculpture, etc 26 John Arlott. Blue album comprising a good selection of photographs, scorecards, press cuttings etc from Arlott s personal archive. Photographs include large candid photographs of Arlott with Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie and Leo Harrison on the Isle of Wight. A press photograph of a Guernsey cricket team including Arlott and Frank Tyson. A BBC commentary team at Lord s including Arlott, F.R. Brown, Rex Alston, E.W. Swanton, Roy Webber etc. Arlott with C.L. Vincent of South Africa. Other items include a postcard of Captain Cook s Cottage, Melbourne, sent by Mike Brearley to Arlott during the official 1978/79 tour to Australia, overshadowed by Kerry Packer s World Series Cricket, in which Brearley states That aspect of life, patently, has not improved (tho it did at Sydney). I should not like to lose in Australia. Official invitation from East Molseley C.C. to attend the match against Australia, 26th April 1953, the first match of the Australian tour. Official scorecard for England v Australia, Lord s 28th August to 2nd September 1980, Arlott s final Test match commentary etc. G/VG 150/ Bob Appleyard. A box containing a large collection of correspondence relating to the return of first-class cricket to Bradford Park Avenue, and other Yorkshire C.C.C. committee correspondence. Sold with a box containing a large collection of cricket-related and other newspaper cuttings. All ex Bob Appleyard collection. Two boxes. G 30/50 28 The Australian Cricketers. Team Excellent and impressive rare linen handkerchief with printed cameo images of the Australian players, Manager and the two umpires, each named on stumps and cricket bat design. Printed title to top border The Australian Cricketers. Team 1899 and printed tour fixtures with date, team and venue and various images of cricketing kangaroos interwoven amongst the player images and the fixtures. Players include Darling, Noble, Kelly, Iredale, Trumble, Hill, Gregory, Howell, Worrall etc. The Manager being Major Wardill and the two umpires, C. Bannerman and E. Crockett. The handkerchief was mounted and framed for many years and when taken out of its frame some brown staining has resulted to the borders of the handkerchief where it was mounted 300/ M.C.C. Bicentenary An embroidered cloth badge and embroidered sample for a sweater badge each with M.C.C. Bicentenary detail. Sold with a collection of twelve gold metal M.C.C. blazer(?) buttons, six large, six small. Good condition 30/50 30 Joseph Joe Hardstaff. Nottinghamshire, Auckland & England, Long original cloth players name sign apparently used on the scoreboard of the Sydney Cricket Ground during Test matches when Hardstaff was playing for England. The white cloth printed in black HARDSTAFF measures 107 x18. Some wear and small damage otherwise in good original condition. A rarely seen item. Sold with a typewritten letter from the Librarian at Cricket New South Wales dated 2009 confirming that the name sign had indeed been used at the Sydney Cricket Ground during the 1935/36 and 1936/37 tours 50/80 Hardstaff went on the M.C.C. tours of Australia in 1935/36, 1936/37 and 1946/47 31 England s Champion Batsman. J.B. Hobbs. Surrey & England XI Large linen handkerchief with printed headings and five images of Hobbs in various batting poses plus total runs and average in first class cricket up to Listed to outer border are details of centuries scored by Hobbs. 17 x17, mounted, framed and glazed in modern frame, overall 21 x21.5. Light creasing, otherwise in very good condition 30/50 32 Lancashire County Cricket Club Season Champion County 1926, 1927, 1928 & Large linen handkerchief with printed headings, a photograph of the team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, printed names below. 17 x16.5, mounted, framed and glazed in modern frame, overall 19 x18. Some staining and creasing, otherwise in good condition 20/30 33 Cricket posters. Original posters for the charity match, Brondesbury C.C. v Middlesex C.C.C and for The Forty Club XI (Capt. Sir Leonard Hutton v Coventry & District (Diocese) XI (Capt. J. Hews) played at Courthaulds Sports Ground in Both 15 x20. Horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in good condition 30/50 34 Wisden Autograph Bat. There s a Century Behind Every One. Colour advertising showcard c1960s. The card features an illustration to the top left corner of John Wisden, with a Wisden bat to the centre. The reference to a Century may correspond to the centenary of the publication of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack in x16. Staining and some wear, otherwise in good condition 30/50 35 Hudson s Extract of Soap c1880s/1890s. Excellent large colour advertising lithograph poster with image of a tennis player in red blazer and striped cap. For Cricket Lawn Tennis, Boating Flannels use Hudson s Extract of Soap... Softens 6

7 Water, Lathers Freely, Leaves NO Smell. The original poster, with odd faults and minor loss measures approx x18.5. Attractively mounted, framed and glazed overall 18 x23.5. Rare 100/ Dennis Lillee. Australia 1981/82. Three original newspaper posters each dated 28th December 1981, published during the course of the first Test v West Indies, Melbourne, 26th-30th December The Advertiser, Test Great Bill O Reilly says: I raise my hat to Lillee. Illawarra Mercury, Attaboy Dennis! It s a Record. The Age, Lillee Alltime Test Best. Each poster measures approx 16 x24. G/VG 60/90 During the third day s play in the first Test, Lillee achieved his best bowling figures to date in Tests taking seven wickets for 89 runs. Australia batting first had collapsed to 26/4 before recovering to make 198, Hughes 100no. West Indies also started poorly in their first innings losing their first four wickets for only ten runs. Set 226 runs to win, West Indies were bowled out for 161, Australia winning by 55 runs. Michael Holding had match figures of 11/107 for West Indies, while Lillee s match figures were 10/ Dennis Lillee. Australia 1981/82. Three original newspaper posters. Sydney Morning Herald, 6th January 1982, Lillee: is he the greatest?, Border Mail, 18th January 1982, Lillee Takes on the World, and Daily Mirror, date unknown, C mon Dennis C mon. The dates correspond with tours by West Indies and Pakistan to Australia, each playing three Tests, and a triangular one-day series. Each poster measures approx 16 x24. G/VG 60/90 38 Don Bradman Five original Australian and three English newspapers featuring extensive coverage of Bradman s funeral and tributes. Publications are The Advertiser, The Sunday Mail, The Herald Sun, The Sunday Morning Herald, The Observer, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. Sold with a printed Operational Brief for the funeral procession containing the protocol to be observed by attendees, the route of the cortege and motor cycle escorts, emergency services, communications, personnel etc. Also four colour candid photographs of Bradman s house and the funeral cortege in progress. G 60/90 39 The 150th Anniversary of the Marylebone Cricket Club An official menu, with ribbon tie in M.C.C. colours, for the 150th Anniversary Dinner held at the Savoy Hotel, 15th July Plus an official card informing the addressee of his table number at the Dinner. The addressee was Dr G.O. Gauld, Nottinghamshire C.C.C Very good condition 40/60 40 Orders of service. Four original orders of service for Tom Graveney, Worcester Cathedral 29th April David Sheppard, Liverpool Cathedral 23rd May Bob Appleyard, Bolton Abbey 31st March Brian Close, Leeds 30th September VG 30/40 41 Orders of service. Four original orders of service for Frank Woolley, Canterbury Cathedral 18th November Leslie Ames, Canterbury Cathedral 11th May Stuart Surridge, Southwark Cathedral 16th June Geoffrey Howard, St. Mark s, Kennington Oval 28th March Some staining and creasing to the Woolley order of service, the others in good condition 30/40 42 Australian cricketers orders of service. Three original orders of service for Bill O Reilly, Blakehurst Ray Lindwall, St. Stephen s Cathedral 27th June Also Alan McGilvray, St. Mark s Church, Darling Point 22nd July VG 30/40 43 Lancashire C.C.C. Five original orders of service for Peter Marner 2007, Harry Pilling 2012, Winston Place 2002, Geoff Pullar 2015, and Alan West VG 30/40 44 West Indies tour to England Unusual original 20,000 Mark Reichsbanknote overprinted with details of the West Indies v Norfolk County Cricket Club match, played at Norwich, 22nd-24th August Presumably produced as a fundraising and membership recruitment exercise the overprinted details state New subscribers will also receive free one of these genuine Mark Reichbanknotes as a souvenir (worth 1000 in 1914.). Horizontal fold and minor ageing, otherwise in good condition 40/60 West Indies won the match by 231 runs. For West Indies Challenor scored 101 in their second innings and George John took eleven wickets in the match 45 Historic Bats. Biographical catalogue of the unique collection formed by Charles Pratt Green. J.N. Pentelow. London Original paper wrappers. Some fading to wrappers, minor loss to head of spine otherwise in good/ very good condition 50/80 46 Dr. W.G. Grace. Down Went The Wicket!. Humourous Cricket Song. Written by Rowland Colborn and composed by A.G. Colborn. c1890/1900. Original six page sheet music score with cover featuring W.G. Grace, full length, at the wicket wearing M.C.C. cap. The image, A Maker of Centuries: W.G. at the Wicket, taken from an original photograph by Hawkins of Brighton. Music score to inner pages, with further specimen song The Wolves! or The Race for Life to back page. The music score worn and pages becoming brittle, browning and staining, small loss to edges with repairs otherwise in generally good condition. A rarely seen score featuring Grace 60/90 47 John Arlott. England v Australia. Prudential Trophy Four page original typed manuscript written by Arlott for The Guardian newspaper. The report covers the second one day international, England v Australia, Lord s, 26th August 1972 which Australia won by five wickets to level the three match series. Arlott describes Australia as Playing with far greater determination and technical application that when they lost the first match of the series... England apart from Close batted indecisively; for Australia the bowling of Mallett and Lillee and the steady, well judged innings of Stackpole, the two Chappells and Sheahan were decisive... Lillee, this time, bowled from his full run and in his second over he beat Boycott with a purely straight ball of such high pace that it 7

8 howled through an embryo stroke and whipped out the middle stump... Close played such an innings as is rare in over-limit cricket which simultaneously secured the innings and gave it powerful impetus. Arlott describes the run out of Close and how It can be argued the match was decided in that moment. England s innings closed at 236 for nine. Some wayward bowling by Snow and Arnold gave the Australian innings an easy start... Stackpole thumped off the back foot and Ian Chappell struck with compact power... The younger [Greg] Chappell, who learnt much about the over-limit game while he was at Somerset, now paced the innings with sound understanding, playing his strokes with fastidious ease... Watson - with a runner - and Marsh brought the matter to a comfortable end.... Handwritten alterations and deletions in Arlott s hand. G/VG 80/120 England went on to win the deciding match at Edgbaston by two wickets to win the three match series John Arlott. England v New Zealand Four original typed manuscripts written by Arlott for articles for The Guardian newspaper. The reports covers the second Test, England v New Zealand, Lord s, 21st- 26th June 1973, with one article for play on days one (five page report), two, four and five (each four pages). On day one Arlott describes England, having been put in by New Zealand captain, Congdon, playing some injudicious strokes but five missed chances - all four main scorers were dropped early in their innings - let them escape to a score which their bowlers might yet make respectable. The weather is described as a steamy atmosphere. Boycott is described hooking Taylor for six, a stroke peremptory as the crack of a ring master s whip. Later in the day with wickets falling regularly the English innings became a salvage operation carried out by Greig with the inordinately long tail as his junior partners. England finished the first day on 240/9. At the end of the second day s play New Zealand are now 53 runs behind England with seven wickets left... [with] New Zealand favourites to win. The pitch is described as firm but true... while encouraging stroke making... Snow bowled with pace, immaculate control... Arnold at the other end swung the ball within so precise a line.... Congdon finished on 100no. Reporting after the close of play on day four, with New Zealand declaring their innings at 559/9 and England ending 224/2, Arlott comments New Zealand pressed towards the decision between a draw and their first win over England, England s chance of a win having already been written off by bookmakers. Arlott comments on how New Zealand strove to score quickly in the morning and urged on by some richly bibulous and exaggeratedly Antipodean exhortations from the tavern, bowled with all their hearts and fielded like dervishes. In the fifth day s report Arlott notes the For the second time in successive Tests New Zealand had clear sight of their first win over against England; once more at Lord s yesterday, they could not grasp it... From hour to hour the balance of probability changed. In an atmosphere of dramatic suspense, New Zealand strove to win, England to save the game... Only in the last hour could England feel themselves truly safe. Handwritten alterations and deletions in Arlott s hand. G/VG 140/180 With the first two matches in the three Test series both drawn, New Zealand had the opportunity to win a series in England for the first time 49 John Arlott. England v West Indies Four original typed manuscripts written by Arlott for articles for The Guardian newspaper. The reports covers the second Test, England v West Indies, Edgbaston, 9th-14th August 1973, with one article each for play on days one (four page article), two (five pages), four (four pages) and five (three pages). With the West Indies having won the toss and electing to bat, Arlott described the first day s play with England, with characteristic tenacity, confined West Indies to 190 runs for five wickets in a full six hours play on a fair wicket... Only one West Indian played a significant innings: Fredericks... [who] batted all day for 98. Having dropped a catch off Headley, Arlott states For Essex Fletcher constantly holds all but improbable catches; in Tests he seems a compulsive dropper. Illingworth bowled for three and a half hours, At one point Illingworth had bowled eighteen overs, thirteen of them maidens, for six runs. Day two is summarised by Arlott as being of little pleasure for players or spectators... the standard of play fell from splendour to grim restriction... the possibility of the game being revived to a pleasurable entertainment is now depressingly distant. West Indies has closed their innings 327 all out (Fredericks 150) and England closed on 96/0. Arlott also reports on a dispute before play started when one of the umpires, Arthur Fagg, declared he would withdraw from the match unless Kanhai apologised for his reaction to a decision of the previous day. The Warwickshire coach, Alan Oakman, stood for the first over when Fagg came on, saying that all had been resolved. At the close of play on day four Arlott reports that The harmony of reasonable competition [had] returned... West Indies finished the day 227 in front with five second innings left... a draw is still the likeliest outcome. The report on the final day s play confirmed the predicted draw, which neither side deserved to win. Sold with a five page report on Kent beating Worcestershire to win the Benson and Hedges Cup at Lord s, 21st July Handwritten alterations and deletions in Arlott s hand. G/VG 150/250 West Indies won the three match Test series 2-0 with the Edgbaston Test drawn 50 John Arlott. Middlesex v Gloucestershire, 2nd-4th May Original three page typed manuscript written by Arlott for an article for The Guardian newspaper. Writing at the close of play on the opening match of the 1973 County Championship season, Arlott describes how The perennial uncertainty of Maytime form produced an interestingly uneven pattern of play at Lord s yesterday. Gloucestershire, in a couple of bursts of enterprise, hauled themselves from the brink of collapse to an upright position. Sold with a official match scorecard for the match annotated in hand by Arlott. VG 60/80 8

9 The rain affected match ended in a draw with no play possible on the second day 51 A Cricketer s Song written by Daniel H.C. Nelson, and sung at one of the meetings of the East Surrey Cricket Club, in the season of Rare original manuscript, handwritten in ink in neat copperplate of the song subsequently published by J. Chappell of London. The poem refers to fifteen club members, beginning with the veteran Rich, ending with the umpire Dick and the author, Nelson. The sixth verse is dedicated to Wanostrocht ( Felix ), a model for all, and the Pink of our Club. Owner s signature in ink to the front page of Geo Rich who, as the Veteran Rich, is the subject of the second and third verses. The manuscript has also been annotated in pencil, presumably by the owner, Rich, with the letters A-E, which refer to notes published in the printed version relating to four of the featured players and the church near the Club ground. The booklet is contained in a modern blue cloth slip case. A copy of the printed version was sold by Knights in 2016 for 2,400. Horizontal and vertical folds, wear to spine and some ageing, otherwise in good condition for its age 1800/2500 AUTOGRAPHED CRICKET EPHEMERA 52 West Kent v Australia Official printed sheet for the order of play for the golf match played at West Kent Golf Club on the 29th April Title to top of sheet and players names below in order of play number. All twenty of the touring party took part including the manager Bushby etc. Signed to the back of the sheet by thirteen participants, mainly in pencil, including Arthur Mailey with small self portrait caricature drawn by him, Don Bradman, Fairfax, Ponsford, Ebeling, Brown, O Reilly, Grimmett, McCabe, Barnet, Kippax etc. The sheet with worn fold marks, small hole to centre, nicks to edge of folds, some minor soiling otherwise in good condition. An unusual autographed piece of ephemera from the 1934 tour 100/150 This golf match was played just prior to the opening tour match against Worcestershire. On Sunday 29th April 1934 the Australian cricketers paid a visit to the course to play a team from the West Kent club. The winners for the Australians were L Darling and A Mailey, who respectively, beat E Borradaile by 8&7 and L W Fyson by 3&1. The best golfers of the Australian cricketers were S McCabe who halved with Francis McGloin jun., and Don Bradman. The latter was partnered by C L Leman, a club member, in a foursome and they won by a hole against C Grimmett and B S Farnfield, a West Kent member. 53 Australia Official Australian XI English Tour 1934 Orient Line R.M.S. Orford brochure. The brochure is fully and nicely signed in black ink by all eighteen members of the touring party including the management. Signatures include Woodfull, Bradman, Chipperfield, Fleetwood- Smith, Grimmett, McCabe, Ponsford, O Reilly, Barnett, Darling, Oldfield, Kippax etc. Minor soiling and age toning to pictorial wrappers and rusting to staple area. Signatures good 300/ Luncheon Hosted by The Honourable Bob Carr M.P. Premier of New South Wales & Mrs Helena Carr in honour of the Success of the Australian Cricket Team West Indies Tour Official menu for the Luncheon held on the 29th June 1995 at Parliament House to the Australian touring party on their return from the West Indies Signed to the front cover by fifteen members of the party. Signatures include Bobby Simpson, Shane Warne, Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh, Mark Taylor, Ian Healey, Greg Blewett, Tim May, Michael Slater, Mark Waugh, Paul Reiffel, Glen McGrath, David Boon etc in various coloured pens. VG 50/80 55 John Berry Jack Hobbs. Surrey & England Official menu for The Cricket Match of the Season luncheon held for the charity match J.B. Hobb s XI v Wimbledon & District XVIII, 17th September The four page menu nicely signed in ink to the front cover by thirteen players. Notable signatures include Jack Hobbs, Percy Fender, Andrew Sandham, Herbert Strudwick, Albert Geary, Hugh Dales, Thomas 9 Shepherd, Andrew Ducat, Maurice Tate etc. No record of the match can be found. Small tear to fold, minor ageing, otherwise in good/ very good condition 50/70 56 Lancashire C.C.C Record score 863. Official menu for the end of season Sportsman s Dinner held at Old Trafford, 21st September 1990, the season in which Lancashire made their record score of 863, against Surrey. The menu signed by all eleven members of the Lancashire team including Neil Fairbrother who made his record score of 366. Other signatures include Mendis, Fowler, Atherton, Watkinson, Hegg, DeFreitas, Patterson etc. Sold with a signed mono press photograph of Fairbrother etc. G/VG 30/50 57 Yorkshire C.C.C. Rare and unusual official menu for the dinner held at the Royal Victoria Ground, Sheffield, 24th November The dinner was held to celebrate the birthdays of Herbert Sutcliffe and Harry Genders, father of Roy Genders (Derbyshire, Worcestershire & Somerset ). The menu with decorative front cover and red ribbon tie is in the style of a scoreboard showing Herbert Sutcliffe not out 44 and Harry Genders not out 56, Total for 0 wickets 100. Signed to the inside front cover in pencil by nine attendees including Sutcliffe. G/VG 40/60 58 Len Hutton. One page handwritten letter, dated 7th August 1986, regarding signing books at Trent Bridge You will find me near the press box or nearby. Sold with a signed copyright photograph of Hutton and Arthur Mitchell walking out to bat at Headingley, signed by Hutton and two other items signed by Hutton. G 30/50 59 Sir William Worsley. One page handwritten letter on Sir William Worsley, Hovingham Hall headed paper to Ron Yeomans of the Cricket Society regarding severing his connection as a patron of the Society, taking his name off the official letter head... Signed in ink by Worsley. The letter undated but marked 29th July. VG 40/60 Sir William Worsley captained Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1928 and 1929, his only seasons of